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COPY firOHT, 1903
If ydu are an old bachelor, this win
ter is tUQ best chance you will ever
kave to mal-e a real man of yourself.
A. hint should suffice. a
Where a wire is nailed to a tree for
a fence does the tree as it grows raise
the wire from the groundV No. It
stays Just where it was put.
The term "horsepower" as applied to
all forms of motors or engines meana
the development of sufficient energy
lo lift 33.000 pounds one foot in height
in' one minute. v.
Thenvomnn who bas raised a bunch
of turkeys this year is going to'• fare
bJtter than if she bad depended on
gffi&S
fHe
froze to death the very first cold
Hilary—mercury only at zero—but hs
was fool enough to go to town and get
full as a tick, and, going home, his
.team ran away and dumped him into
a slotigh. And he was well off—worth
$40,000. There was a big funeral and
some moralizing over the mysterious
ways of Providence for form's sake.
More pains is probably taken to train
and educate the dog than any other
domestic animal, this because lie is ut
terly worthless unless he is trained.
At the same time no animal will re
spond to training more readily than
'the horse. A well trained horso is to
us a most Interesting sight, the best
illustrations of what may be done in
this line being found in the circuses
and in the cavalry branch of the army.
Try furnishing your hired man a
comfortable home to live in, a garden
Ilot and pasture for a cow and a dol
lar a day for every working day In the
year. By so doing you can get $. good
mail and keep him, and he will take
the place of the harum scarum galoot
who makes you keep a horse for him,
whom you have to board and who is
running after tne girls four nights in
the week and makes you milk all .the
cows Sunday night. Try this plan.
One of the pleasing features of iSn
Improved agriculture may be found in a
western county, where there have been
organized local clubs by the farmers—
a monthly meeting at some neighbor's
place, a programme consisting of pa
person live farm topics, a supper serv
ed by,the hostess, assisted by her lady
viritors music, declamations end read
ings by the youug people, thus most
happily combining the practical and
the social side of farm life. It Is an
example well worth following.
From all parts of the country come
reports of an unusual number of field
mice in the orchards and cornfields, do
ing great damage to the shocked corn
flnd girdling the young trees in the
orchards. This is one of the penalties
inflicted upon man for foolishly dis
turbing the naliirat balance of the spe
cies. He wages a useless and sense
'les» war on all kinds of hawks and
owls and has so nearly externnnatud
(them that the Held mice aw l'roe to
Multiply and devastate uflnnileated by
fcheir natural eneutler
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MONDAY, December 7, 19C3.
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ROCKFORD
CORRESPONDENCE JOUCITEt)
A dog may be worth $500, but we hnd
father the other fellow should have his
liopey in the pup than we.
Cheaper corn, hogs and Mred men are
in sight. but the cow and her products
will hold their own, as they always do.
We know of several men who this
fall have saved up plenty of weed seed
Bven if they failed to save any seed
torn.
through the old man's pockets
for speudihg money.
•-The average corn htisker will' crib
about sixty bushels a day in good corn,
tills when he is working by the month
or day but pay him by the bushel and
be "will crowd 100 bushels in the same
torn.
There is always more or less delay,
usually more, in the adjustment of low
ered prices for meat on the hoof, and
the meat consumer buys at the retail
market, a delay never obsarvable when
the price of hogs and steers is moving
up/- -fr'-" *v
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Quba produces this year 1.250,000
tons of sugar, and we wish to say that
with so much sugar producing terri
tory it wight to be possible for the
American .people to get more than
ghteen pounds of it for a dollar when
Kre should. have at least twenty-five
pounds. '•.
The average farmer may be a bit
t-loxr and conservative, but one at
l«ast :]\vai? up to dale, for he went
through bankruptcy With $5,000 liabiii
itesand
$2ii
in assets in the shape of
two
"worthless notes. The millionaire
promoter could not beat that, taking
Into consideration his opportunities.
f,
ill
"Ny
If the strawberry bod is not yot eov
ercddo it at once. It is alternate thaw
ling and freezing which kills the plants.
I Hie state of Texas basiost the large
»im of $21,000,000 within .rear past
by the decline In value of her' 7,(1(10,0(10
bead of cattle.
Tiie fellaheen, or laborer, who does
the work vin producing the Egyptian
cotton crop works for 15 cents a day
and boards himself.
I The cause of the butter product of a
creamery scoring only S3 is quite likely
to be found in a forty dollar butter
maker. What salary does your cream
erypay?
Nearly every willow post set for
fencing last summer took root and will
make a live and thrifty tree. This be
cause of the excessive moisture of the
past season.
It is easier to kill off the sparrows
during the winter than any other tiijie.
They may then be slaughtered by the
wholesale by spreading out poisoned
grain on the roof of some shed.
We saw a pair of Clyde yearling
mare colts lately for which the owner
paid the large sum of $025. They came
from lie very best stock in the country,
and he will find them a good invest
I rnent.
It is of interest to note that one of
the largest oleo manufacturing con
cerns in the country Is uow buying up
all the creameries it can get hold of.
The steer as a butter producer has had
its day.
When a ton of butter is made and
sold from the farm the smallest possi
ble amount of fertility is thereby re
moved. far. less than with any other
product of,the farm. This is a fact well
worth remembering.
The gasoline engine is waging a
steady light on the farm windmill and
Is gaining ground all the time. The
constantly Increasing price of gasoline,
however, may bave the effect of check
ing the demand for these engines.
For genuine deliberation in manual
labor commend us to the railway ac
tion hand. We watched one of these
men move some dirt the other day. and
he was a study. He certainly bad ac
quired the art of gauging his work to
his pay.
It would not be a bad thing for thp
country if It were so that a man knew
he would die ,1ust as soon as he got
hold of a million dollars' worth of
property or that when he got over 320
acres of land he would not be able to
raise any crop.
One common form of cruelty to ani
mals is in permitting them to live and
suffer when afflicted with some incura
ble ailment, extreme age and injuries.
Under these circumstances It is just as
much a duty to kill such animals in a
they are your windbreak will be tweu^
The man who took advantage
square with the world is now iu good
shape to weather a period of slack busi-
it to the limit will have to walk the
floor.
If you have a cow in your herd
which does not make over 125 pounds
of butter a year she simply pays for
her board and does not bring In a cent
of profit.
A
cows would remain everlastingly poor
Catalpa is one of the most durable
woods grown, almost equaling red
cedar, with the greut advantage over
Thi?e cannot be much happiness as
•oqiated with poverty, hunger and rags,
though occasionally some rare soul
finds it in spite of these things. For
this reason it is every one's moral duty
to lift himself out of such a condition
to one where he may secure the ne
cessities and comforts of life. When
a man is content with insufficient food
and clothing and lives as a sort of para-
the inaiti spang ii to a watch.
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ty feet up in the air when the trees are l!®ther' and the second man used his op
twenty-five years old.
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the
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prosperous times of the past four years, ^ree ^-"Otild use only as much wa
paid all his indebtedness and got Iter
as hc
mallc,®us,y
man with twenty such
In the dairy business, and the worst of stalks—cornstalks—in the field after the
it is that there are more 125 pound corn has been husked. Something de
cows kept than any other kind.
the cedar that it can be grown in one- hushel of corn left for the stock on each
fourth the time required for the cedar. acre. The stalks themselves after being
As-«: railroad tie it will do good service frozen and dried out are at best indif
for twenty years and as a fence post ferent food and not infrequently prove
much longer. Wherever this valuable
Bite the sooner he is removed to make the spring of the year is a sight to
way for a better man the better. start a little enthusiasm on the good
I roads question. Then there are the
A short sermon with the silo for a rural mail carriers who will have to
text follows: A progressive dairyman
in Minnesota built a silo five years ago
and was rated as half daft by his old
fashioned neighbors. He filled his silo
and fed his cows and was thus able to
so far distance these scoffing neighbors
of his in the returns which be received
from the creamcry, which tbey all pat
roniwd, that be can now count ten silos
on the ten farms adjoining his. It has
come to this that where land Is worth
?80 to $100 per acre, where corn will
grow and stock is kepi, the silo Is Just
as absoiut^y iiitlispe4iable lu the ecu
lioffiical a^fninistration of the farm
as
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A WORD FOR OLD BI»»Y.
If you or .vo-.iv good, wife are not get
ti:)ir at least a yea:* from the poul
try wliic'h you keep on your farm there
lis something wrong, and there is no
one little thing which it-will pay you
better to look lip. It may lie and quite
likely is that your wife is getting from
$50 to $00 a year from the liens which
lead a free, wild life o:i your place,
roosting in the sheds or in the trees,
stealing their nests and all that—the
common way. you know, just farm
scavengers. 01' course what you get
from them when so kept conies easy
and seems like clear gain, but it is not
the best way by a good (leal. This
sort of care is about all the average
farm wife can give, and as she rarely
receives any help or encouragement
from her good man to do better the
poultry business runs this way on
nine farms out of ten. The better way
would be for the man to take an inter
est with bis wife in the poultry yard,
provide proper houses, pens and coops
and suitable food rations and thus
quadruple the income from the poul
try yard. A few men do this and tind
that the egg money comes in a steady
stream every week in the year, while
during the holidays .a lot .of fat fowls it?
are ready for the market at a good
price. Any man with a farm so poor
or whose mode of farming Is so anti
quated that he has to be content with
twenty or twenty-five bushels of corn
or oats to the acre can well afford to
go into partnership with his wife in
the poultry business and let her boss
the job. There are two farm products
which are practically unaffected by
economic changes whicli make what
we term hard times or good times,' and
they are butter and eggs. Kj,
THREE CODES OF LAWS.
There are three codes of laws which
the farmer must observe to make a
success—the civil law, the moral law
and the natural law. Any number of
men observe the two first named and
attempt to do business in utter disre
gard of the last, when the penalties for
the violation of the moral and civil law
are no more certain than for violations
of natural law. We give a few in
stances. common ones, of the violation
of this last named"Jcode-sowing poor
seed and expecting a!good harvest, the
continuous taking from the soil and re
turning nothing, the use of grade sires'
which are just aslla'bl« to transmit :the
inferior qualities'of their ancestors as.
the good qualities, tryting to grow two
crops on the same land'at the same
time (grain and Weeds), a total failure
to recognize the fact1 that all choicei
breeds, whether of: vegetables, grainfc or
animals, are the result" of careful and
long continued selection and if not con
tillua,J.v
humane manner a^ it .is. to, ^carq for, Interesting case -has recently been
them when well. decided «by. tcbo tourtS.'* A'man liiitt a
fine in'ti'feiaii well whioti 'ktnply fctip-
If you have ail -evergyeen grov^ of his' fafnl ueedK I-Ils 'iieighSbdr,'
young trees out not over cignti feet I
re-enforced lay the best of their
kind- will inevitably retrograde to the
common stock from which they were
originated the failure to properly
study the laws of supply and demand,
the weather, the seasons, the markets,
the mission of clover. The code of nat
ural laws demands not only a negative
acquiescence, but a positive recognition.
as to water rights:
tv'llos(!
apart each tyay. the best thing you can down -three, wells arid by ^jgriirittlng1
do is to take out every other one and to flotv entirely tut off tho tiow it*
sell them for Christmas trees. Left as rtbe
farm was ton a' lower levels fnlt?
we"
neighbor on the hi&lier
liioai'wcre out with ea«i*
portunity to harass the'other by leav-
his wells open.
rSuit
!."*•$
being brought.
f^But'tlio man with the'
cut
pI}'-
IsoW| lf tllis is
neas and close money. Those who have 'nference that if a man is the own- a cook, you know.—N. Y. Sun.
during the period named run their crcd-
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pends upon bow clean the corn was
huskecl. Taking nubbins, down ears,
partially spoiled and cars which are
overlooked by the huskers, there is in
the average field not less than one
a
tree may bo grown it does seem a pity death of the animals fed on them. We
to fool away work and time on willows, should regard 50 cents an acre a good
box alders and such almost worthless
varieties.
very costly ration, as they cause the
price for such feed. It is a wicked and
wasteful manner of utilizing 33 per
cent of the whole value of the coin
plant at best. Some day a better way
will be practiced.
DAIRYMAN SPECIALLY INTERESTED
No class of njen are more interested
in the improvement of the highways
than the dairymen. The milk has to go
to the creamery every day, rain or
shine, and the wallowing of a four
horse team through hub deep mud in
be kept in mind, saying nothing about
tho fellow with the automobile who is
just waiting for the chance to go
scooting over the country at twenty
miles ail hour. What is needed is the
same sort of conviction and splendid
enthusiasm on this question which the
people exhibited during the civil war.
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actually needed and could not Houselotts—Dift you own your Iowa
neighbor's sup- house? "'fV
wet farm which it is not possi-
ble to properly drain without crossing
his neighbor's land then he should have
the right to do so. This question will
receive much attention this coming
winter in the legislature of more than
one western state.
VALUE! OF CORNSTAUKS,'
We are asked as to the value of
sood law it is a Townsitea— ^.
IflE OTTUMWA COURIER •l*s
sE£i:v$,is
IU:lieyi.\Q.
||§|P^%lg
Snodkins—I told her I'd gladly
down my life for her.
Bodkins—And wouldn't she believe
Snodkins—Shq said she only wished
she could. Told me to prove my
words and come for my answer then.
—N. Y. Sun.
W AS TAKING NO CHANCES
•Waggs—Can you cook.
Miss, Wiggs—Yes.
Waggs—bo you play the'ptAntffand
sins': ''iii#
Wiggs—No.
wjaggs—Will you be my ht
ea^j tIo^rnal.
POWER BEHIXD THE I'HllONE.
Townsites-OtH* nominally. We keep
DRASTIC OMFARISOX.
"John, don't stand there as spirit
less as an empty champagne bottle."—
Fliegeude Blaetter.
SAD STATE.
Hewitt—6i'«vity Is the »oul of wit
JeWltt—1 caa't sse anythlsg funny
about being: short.—N. YJ Herald,
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"By Hotvard
Fielding
Copyright, WW,
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She fell in love at the age of sixteen,
and could not fall out again. The im-'
ASHAHKD Ol'
ABOUND
doing so.-'She ^artlcnlarlV tetdembw*
one of
the ovenin)? whfejjn he Bade her
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CAHOUNE WAT,LACK
was a yut!i:g woman who had
a false view of life through no
fault of her own. She did not
know that this is a humdrum world
whore the very fates tin selves doze
with the dullness of their task. She
thought it a place full of adventure and
change, crowded with incidents, like a
sensational novel.
As an orphan without a penny she
Had been handed about from one rela
tive to another during her childhood,
lay I girlhood anil .voting womanhood. Un
cles, aunts and cousins had provided
Cor her in turn, according to their va
rious means, and the difference had
been almost as broad as the whole
scale of human fortunes. At twelve
years of age she was the pet of an -ncle
who gave her every luxury and a spe
cial maid to wait upon her at fourteen
she was washing dishes for poor Aunt
Auianda. who subsisted upon the in
come of the little cud, of nothing whit
tled out to a sharp point.
BEINO
PASSED
age of Henry Stephen Fiske was Im
printed upon her heart indelibly, as she
verily believed.
Steve Kiske was a very handsome
goitfjfcif-
"I am going outiYAJst to make a|}6tt
of money," s»ud he."'"When V^ine
'back, I. will give half of it to yxiu
wiU 3 0X1 do
rnnu .nn e„r, run away to Europe," she re
plied.
She had letters from him at long in
tfervals after he went west. They were
full of impersonal description, under 1
which she detected a deepening tone of
discouragement. "I am afraid you will
never go to Europe on your shore of
my fortune," he said iu one of them.
"The half of it today wouldn't pay
your fare on it merry go round."
When Carol was twenty-one, there
dawned upon her for the first time a
I true realization of the fact that she
had been an object of charity from her
early youth. It had always seemed
I perfectly natural to her that some one
should take care of her.
For the last three or four years she
bad lived with a silly old aunt who re
garded all women who worked as es
sentially degraded thereby. This theory
was invalidated in Carol's mind by a
slowly growing conviction that her
a.uht was mistaken upon nearly all
(subjects of human thought. The sin
gular result was that Carol was led to
learn stenography and typewriting se
cretly as a protest against her aunt's
views.
"I am ashacieil of being passed
around among my relatives like a con
tribution bos," said Carol. "I am go
ing to earn my own living."
Deaf to protests and entreaties, she
went to New York, trusting serenely in
the luck which had never deserted her.
It was a firm of lawyers that ob
tained Carol's services, Harburg &
Wrenu. Carol did uot like the appear
ance of either Mr. Harburg or Mr.
Wrenn. They were little fellows, both
of them: tierce, intent and scowling.
Carol would not have taken the posi
tion except that their offices were high
up in a great building and had a splen
did view of the bay. Upon her first
visit she saw a big steamer going out
would be an agreeable form of torture
to watch these vessels filing by upon
their way to all those lands which she
so longed to see.
Her old time dreams of travel were
reawakened not only by the gateway
of the oetan, which was lii view froiii
Harburg & Wreon's windows, hut la a
moiv teujarkable maimer by a letter
from Stephen Fl»l£e, the tint »hjit
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to cross the ocean, and she thought it ately called for Carol. He was Jta au
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11,'-'! received in tienrly two years.
csinc -with iif other address than the
general post'office. She called there for.
letters oecRsionally during th» .first tw$
weeks Uecauie there were a few friends'
whom she had iiii inned of her inten
tion fore le.iving her aunt's hoii!'1 ii
I Ohio and when she l:U'"w not where
she W'iu!.1. :i:i' 1 a roof to ^heller her in
the great city.
"t learned by- telegraph from your
aunt that you were in New York."
wrote Mr. Kiske, "and I seud this iu the
hope that it inay find you. I shall be in
that Oity from the 21st to the 25th of
this mouth, and 1 must see you. On the
latter date 1 sail for Europe."
Then followed a timid reference to
the old jest, from which the writer has
tened on to tell of recent successes. He
had been very fortunate in some min
ing property and had become associated
with uiea of such importance that he'
spoke of them by their last names only,
as if they had been Shakespeare and
everybody was bound to have hoard of
them.
The really essential fact about the
letter was that Carol received it oil the
24th of the month about 1 o'clock in the
afternoon, and Stephen Fiske would sail
next day. Having read the letter in the
postoliice. Carol returnei] to llarburg &
Wrenn's In a state of high excitement.
Mr. Kiske. had mentioned the' hotel
where he would stay, and Carol called
it up by telephone. It appeared that
the gentleman was a guest there, but
was not in. Carol gave her name and
address, with some very earnest admo
nitions, and every time that the office
telephone rang during the afternoon
she had great difficulty in restraining
herself from, rushing to the little booth
where it was kept.
She read Mr. Fiske's letter several
times, to the detriment of lior work, and
once Mr. Harburg caught her staring,
entranced, at the envelope, which bore
the name of a mining company printed
In bold red. She whipped the letter out
of (dghi. but: not in time to escape the
keen eye of the lawyer, and slia felt her
face burn when he looked at her. It
was a peculiar look that he gave her.
The man seemed lobe startled. He held
an open letter in his hand at the time,
and she had supposed that lie came to
dictate a reply to it. but he returned to
his private roan'without haviiig said
a word.
The day's work closed at 5 o'clock,
but Carol waited in the hope that Fiske
qiiglit come.. By a quarter past 5 she
watj alone in the offices. The day was
fiwjiiig in a dtill sky without. The room
where
(§Iie
Sh,c, ibaned 'iiack in'a swinging chair
a^iil Rested her heatT against the wall,
falling into awaking lrea.ni.
It must have been near to 6 when she
heard Mr. Harburg enter the outer of
fice hurriedly and accompanied by sev
eral men. Their voices came to her quite
plainly when they had entered Mr.
Harburg's room, which was upon the
other side of the partition against which
she leaned. The voices (boned on for
ten or fifteen minutes, and then sud
denly Mi-. Harburg came out into the
room where Carol sat.
wont
te in
^earcs
home."
"Don't go till you're ready,'' respond
ed Harburg cheerfully. "Always glad!
to have you in the shop. Wrenn and 1
ou were with us
that you were not only the handsomest
girl we'd ever seen, but the cleverest
too. Yot we never did you justice. We
will, though."
"You arc very kind," replied Carol in
a tone of frozen rage.
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the
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She put ou her wraps hastily and left
the office, going at once to the hotel
where Fiske lodged. He Jiad no*, re-
"YOU HEBE HE CBIED.
turned. She left word for him to call
upon her in the evening, but he did not
come, and she shed tears of disappoint
ment as she lay down to sleep.
The next morning as soon as she
reached the office she telephoned vainly
to tho hotel. Then she sat idle for near
ly two hours. Neither Harburg nor
Wrenn had appeared, but the former
came in about 11 ftdock and ihunedi-
excellent humor, and his conversation
sparkled with wit.
It
was usually con­
fined strictly to business, yet so long as
the man attempted no mure compli
ments
Carol cared llftle what he talked
about.
"I want to iitsk a favor of you." said
he at last. "There's a rather delicate
in a tar which. I'd like to have you at
tend to for me oupide the office, one
of our clients, a Mrs. Redding, sails for
Europe today, and she's very "nlttch
worrieditecy^se we have not been able
to bring cerfijjn affairs of hers to a
kuc-
cessfnl termination as, yet. But they're
all right She's merely impatient. Ntftr,
1 want you to take this note to her
aboard r.ie Xaridia. Don't ask for her
about the ship, because she's sailing on
the quiyt: not booked under her own
name, you know, .iust go to her room,
Xo. 12-1, a lid knock. Give her this note
and talk to her in such a way that
she'll know that everything is all
right."
Carol trembled at the thought of leav
ing the office when it might cost 'her
the chance of seeing Stephen Fiske,
and yet she could not refuse the er
rand. After'all, if he came for her. he
could follow her to the ship. She left
word where she was gone with the
small boy who opened and closed the
outer door, and she bribed him liber
ally for both fidelity and secrecy.
It was but a little way to the Nari
dia's pi or. There lay the ocean giant,
liPlSii
SHE DHAXK A ar,A82FCTh
huge and black. Carol's hnud swaml
atUlj
sat was already quite dark.
dreams as she walked abparii thai
ship. She fancied herself sailing, away.
However, it was necessary to remem-r
her the prosaic task in haud. Sha
seemed strangely at home upon this
vessel,, though she had never seen ono
like it. Without tho slightest difficulty.'
she found room Xo. 121. The \looty
opened promptly to her knock.
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She btlield a large, stout/' rather
course, looking woman standing be^lqj
very .small table, upon wliich was ai|
ojien battle |iat seemed' 'io contain'
wine, Init a second glance showed Car?
ol it was a sort of unfermented fluid
made from grape juice. She liked it
very much and sometimes had a bottla
of that brand with her luncheon when
she ate In the office. Yet the innocent
child saw no coincidence in the pres«
ence of a bottle, of it in this place. She
readily drank a glassful at Sirs. Red.
ding's invitation after she had deliv.
ered her note and her message.
Then, she waited in the stateroon^
.while Mrs. lledding went out to sp«al
1 word with friend, a nd^omehow sh!
happened sit down upon the berth!
and to put her head upon the plllovv."
-.It seemed to her that Mrg.' Iteddiiif
was a long time away. The air of.thi
cabin was close. It was affectliig he»
with headache and nausea. She would
open tin port: she would go,out upot»
deck. But she did neither, of thesf
things. Instead she settled' herself its
the berth with a deep sigh that bpcapo*
a groan, repeated overwind over, again,
louder for some minutes, then gradual
ly fainter, until she lay perfectly still.
She was conscious .at Inst of a greaf
confusion—the murmur of voices an^
the crowding of a narrow space. The
some one cried out in a .strangely fa*
miliar tone:
"I toll you she must bo taken ashord
I will-pay any sum"—
"We're half way down the bay," re*
plied some one. "Everything that cai
be done .for her in the world can
done here. She'd better stay."
Her tongue seemed to lc swollen t4
twice its size and to be paralyzed. She
could open her eyes, yet she could see
nothing.
"I must speak to him! I must spcaU
to him:" her brain kept repeating. And
at last she'spoke aloud:
"Is that you, Mr. Fiske?r.
"Carol: Carol'.'' cried the Voice,
"You know uieV"
"Yes. Why did they do this to mel
Why arc you here?"
She felt the warmth of his breatb
close,to,her face.
"Did they see my letter?" he asked
"The. envelope?"
She. murmured, "Yes."
•r),
1
"They are dishonest people—ehy
sters," said he. "Tliey are in a bij
suit against our company. They tool
you for a detective. Tlvey thought that
you had trapped some of their rascallj
secrets. So they put up'this plan
get you out of the country. It hasbeei
a desperate gamg from the start. Thej
have tried all sorts of tricks with out
people, in New York. The lioy told m«
where you were. Thank heaven thai
you gave him the number of youi
room 1"
"Is this your ship," she asked—"th«
one you were to sail in?"
"It's the one we both must sail in
now," he answered, "though my bag
gage is in another. But I have plentj
of money in my pocket, by the blesshi|
of tea yen. and. Carol, I told you lonf
ago'that the half was yours."
"So go to Europe," she said, with
little laugh.
The rest is conventional-^the girl**
recovery, the strange voyage, -the -lov
softies on the wiiid swept decks undei
the moon, the marriage in a far land,
the travel, the return and, least Impor
tant ol' ail, the ultimate retribution for
the guilty persons iu ibis conspiracy,
whl9h, like much other evil la th«
Wijtld. accoio$li&h$l much good la the
end. ....
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