The Twin Falls times. [volume], October 15, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

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Mallory Hats—Sun and Rain Proof at Stalkers
H. A. SWAB
GEO. C. TABER
WILLARD WYATT
TWIN FALLS TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO.
Freight, Express and Heavy Moving.
We are better equipped than ever to handle your
draying.
We also handle Rock Springs Coal. Leave your
^orders with us and they will be promptly filled.
Phone 18.
Coal Office 23.
It is wise for people who plant
Orchards on the Twin Falls tract
To purchase their Trees, Vines, Etc,, of the Twin
Falls Nursery and thus avoid the danger of injury in
shipping and unacclimated and something put off on
you that is not adapted to climate. I grow my trees,
and am not a tree Broker. Do the best for your
self and get trees from J. A. WATERS. 'Phone 4-a
One Mile North of Twin Relie, Idaho
^Concrete Sidewalks
Those required by recent city ordinance to place sidewalks
would do well to see us concerning concrete sidewalks. They are
the cheapest in the end. We also make concrete blocks, concrete
foundations.
Idaho Construction Go.
WANTED
Calves, hogs, mutton, poul
try and eggs. We will pay
the highest market prices.
Twin Falls Meat Co.
We Set Your Tire
While you wait with a House Cold Tire Setter
V 7 ,
With this machine we guar
antee that we will not over- <
dish your wheels, and that we
will not burn or beat up your'
and getting them back, and that
the rims of the wheels will not
be torn up getting the bolts
out and putting them back, for
we do not have to take the tires
off nor the bolts out. And we
also guarantee that the tires
jet on our machine will stay
tight longer than the will se in the old way.
Remember that we do all kinds of repair work and we
assure you that you will find our charges very reasonable.
Twin Falls
ALEX WHYTE,
STOVES, RANGES AND
HEATERS
The Best Assortment on the Tract, including Quick
Meal Steal Ranges and Cole's Hot Blast Heaters
Twin Falls Hardware Co
r
General Blacksmithing
All kinds of woodwork
Horseshoeing a specialty
Rock Creek Idaho
/. H. Stillwell.
Barnett Stillwell.
STILLWELL BROS.
Real Estate Bought and Sold. Fire
Insurance Written. North Side Re
linquishments a Specialty. Rentals.
list your bargains with us
"Ôh: Can't frighten you! Perhaps
you think you'll marry Dank when I
get a decree? Do you? Well, you
won't for several reasons. First, be
cause I'll name other corespondents
and that will make Plank sick; second,
because Plank wants to marry some
body else and I'm able to assist him.
Bo where do you come out In the
shuffle?"
"I don't know," she said under her
breath and rested her head against the
back of the chair, as though suddenly
tired.
"Well, I know. You'll come out
smirched, and you know It," said Mor
timer, gazln£ Intently at her. "Look
here. Leila. I diun't come here to
threaten you. I'm no blackmailer.
Pm no criminal. I'm simply a decent
sort of a man, who is pretty badly
scared over what lie's done In a mo
ment of temptation. You know' I bad
no thought of anything except to bor
row enough on my J O U's to make
a killing nt Burbank's. 1 had to show
them something big. so I filled In that
check, not meaning to use It, and be
fore I knew It I'd Indorsed It and was
plunging against It. Then they stack
ed everything on me—by God, they
did, and If I had not been In the condi
tion I was in I'd have stopped pay
ment. But It was too late when I re
alized what I was against. Leila, you
know I'm not a bad man at heart.
Can't you help a fellow?"
manner, completely changed,
had become the resentful and fretful
appeal of the victim of plot and cir
cumstance. All the savage brutality
had been eliminated. The sneer, the
truculent attempts to browbeat the
pitiful swagger, the cynical Justifica
tion, nil were gone. It was really the
man himself now. normally scared and
repentant; the frightened, overfed pen
sioner on his wife's bounty, not the
human beast maddened by fear and
dissipation, half stunned, half panic
stricken, driven by sheer terror Into a
role which even he shrank from—had
shrunk from all these years. For,
leech and parasite that he was, Mor
timer, however much the dirty acqui
sition of money might tempt him in
theory, had not yet brought himself to
the point of attempting the practice,
even when In sorest straits and bitter
est need. He didn't want to do It.
He wished to get along without it,
partly because of native Inertia and
an aversion to the mental nimbleness
that he would he required to show as
a lawbreaker, partly because the word
"blackmail" stood for what he did not
dare suggest that he had come to. even
to himself. Ills distaste wns genuine.
There were certain thlDgs which he
didn't want to commit, and extortion
was one of them. He could at a pinch
lie to his wife or try to scare her Into
giving him money. He could when
necessary "borrow" from such men
as Plank, but he had never cheated at
cards, and he had never attempted to
blackmail anybody except his wife—
which, of course, was purely a family
matter and concerned nobody else.
His policy of alternately frightening,
dragooning and supplicating Leila had
carried him so far, and though It was
true that this was a more serious situ
ation than he had ever yet faced he
was convinced that his wife would
pull him out somehow, and how that
was to be accomplished he did not
very much care as long as he was pull
ed out safely.
"What this household requires," he
said, "is economy." He spread his
legs, denting the Aubusson carpet with
j his boot heels, and glanced askance at
his wife. "Economy," he repeated,
furtively wetting his lips with a
heavily coated tongue, "that's the true
solution. Economical administration
in domestic matters. Retrenchment,
Leila, retrenchment. Fewer folderols."
Leila's head was lowered. He could
not see her expression, but be had al
ways been confident of his ability to
talk himself out of trouble, so be ram
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Leila Mortimer.
bled on In pretense of camaraderie
currying favor, is he believed, ingra
tiating himself with the coarse blunt
Mgs that served him among some
min, even among some women.
"We'll fix It somehow," be said reas
suringly. "Dont yon worry, Leila.
F vs confidence In you. little girt.
we*
You've got me out of sticky nicSses
before, eh? Well, we've weathered a
few, haven't we?"
Even the horrible parody on wedded
loyalty left her silent. umgoved, dark
eyes brooding, and he began to grow
a little restless and anxious as his
Jocularity Increased without a
ment In either response or nverslon
from his wife.
"You needn't be scared if I'm not,"
he said reproachfully. "The house Is
worth two hundred und fifty thousand
and there's only fifty on It now. If
that fat Dutch skinflint. Plank, shows
his tusks we can clap on another fifty."
And as she made no sound or move
ment In reply; "As far as Plank goes,
haveu't I done enough for him to
square It? What have we ever got
out of him except a thousand or two
now and then when the cards west
against me? If I took It, It was prac
tically what he owes me. And If he
thinks It's too much—look here. Leila,
I've a trick up my sleeve. I can make
good any time I wish to. I'm In a
position to marry that man to the girl
he's mad about—stark, raving mad."
Mrs. Mortimer slowly rnised her
head and looked nt her husband.
"Leroy, are you mad?"
"I! Not much!" >.e exclaimed glee- j
fully. "I can make him the husband
of the most ran after girl in New
York—If I want to. And at the same
time I can puncture the most arrogant,
the most cold blooded, selfish, purse
proud, inflated nincompoop that ever
sat nt the head of a directors' table.
O-ho! Now you're staring. Leila. I
can do It. I can make good. What
are you worrying about? Why, I've
got a hundred ways to square that
check, and each separate way is a
winner."
He rose, shook out the creases In his
trousers and adjusted the squat gold
fob which ornamented his protruding
waistcoat
"So you'll fix It won't you, Leila?"
he said, apparently oblivious that he
had expressed himself ns nble to ad
just the matter In a hundred equally
edifying and satisfactory manners.
She did not answer. He lingered a
moment nt the door, look!; t buck with
nn ingratiating leer, but she paid him
no attention and he took himself off.
confident that her sulkiness could not
result In anything unpleasant to any
body except herself.
Nor did It ns far as he could see.
The days brought no noticeable change
In his wife's demeanor toward him.
Plank, when he met him, was civil
enough, though it did occur to Morti
mer that he saw very little of Plank
In these days.
"Ungrateful beggar," he thought bit
terly. "He's toadying to Belwether
now. I can't do anything more for
him, so I don't Interest him."
And for awhile he wore either a
truculent, aggrieved air in Plank's
presence or the meeker demeanor of a
martyr, sentimentally misunderstood,
but patient under the affliction.
Then there came a time when he
needed money. During the few days
he spent circling tentatively and ap
prehensively around his wife he learn
ed enough to know that there was
money to be had from her at present
No doubt the money she rnised to pla
cate Plank—If she had placated him In
that fashion—was a strain on her re
sources, whatever those resources
were.
One thing was certain. Plank had
not remained very long In ignorance
of the check drawn against his bal
ance, If Indeed, as Mortimer feared,
the hank Itself had not communicated
with Plank as soon as the check was
presented for payment. Therefore
Plank must have been placated by
Leila—how, Mortimer was satisfied not
to know.
move
"Some of these days," be said to
himself. "I'll catch her tripping, and
then there'll be a decent dlVislou of
property or—there'll be a divorce."
But, as usual, Mortimer found such
practices more attractive In theory
than In execution, and he was really
quite contented to go on as things
were going. If somebody would see
that ht had some money occasionally.
One of these occasions when he need
ed It was approaching, ne had made
a "killing" at Desmond's and had used
the money to stop up the more threat
ening gaps in the tottering financial
fabric known as his "personal ac
counts.'' The fabric would hold for
awhile, but meantime he needed
mon
ey to go on with. And Leila evidently
had Done. He tried everybody except
Flank.
He had scarcely the Impu
dence to go to Plunk Just yet, but
when completing the vicious circle he
found his borrowing capacity exhaust
ed and himself once more face -to face
with the only hope. Plank, he sat
down to consider seriously the possi
bility of the matter.
Of course Plank owed him more than
he could ever pay—the ungrateful par
venu!—but what riank had thought of
that check transaction be had never
been able to discover.
Somehow or other he mast put Plank
nnder fresh obligations, and that
might have been possible had not
Leila invaded the ground, leaving
nothing, now that Plank waa secure In
chib life.
Of course the first thing that pre
sented Itself to Mortimer's considera
tion was the engineering of Plank's
matrimonial ambitions. Clearly the
men had not changed. He waa al
ways at Sylvia's heels. He was seen
with her in public. He went to the
Belwether house a great deal. No pos
sible doubt but that he waa as tnfat
nated as ever. And Qnnrrler waa go
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wans!
THESE ARE BARGAINS
40 acres, 1 mile from Twin Falls, at.
80 acres 1% miles from Filer.
40 acres 3*4 miles from Twin Falls.
240 acres 3*6 miles from town.
320 acres 2% miles from town.
160 acres South Side land.
320 acres South Side land.
40 acres 3 miles from Twin Falls.
40 acres 5 miles from Twin Falls.
.... 1100.00
.... 85.00
.... 67.50.
.... 45.00
.... 65.00
.... 35.00
.... 40.00
...'. 40.00
.... 45.00
S. T. Hamilton & Co.
W. Q. WAN N,
Commercial Orchard
Planter
Circulars Explain Best Methods at Least Expense
H. A. STROUD & CO.
Exclusively Real Es
tate and Investments
We always have clients for land listed with
Office in St. Regis Block.
us at the right price
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO
A QUICK TRIP
And a sure one is assured you if you get your
rigs at the
Farmers' Feed Corral
D. A. SEAMANS, Proprietor
Stock Boarded by the day or week. West 14th
Phone 35
street, Twin Palls, Idaho.
TW!» FULLS BESTOW
Meals Served at All Hours.
Good Service. Good Cooking.
Alfred O'Brien.
George Winder.
James A. Martin.
O'Brien Real Estate Co.
We do a straight real estate business, you pay for
what you get, you get what you pay for.
commission paid to Boosters, Street Grafters or
would be Friends of the Purchaser
good values for yourmoney.
No
See us for
Up stairs in Boyd Block, Corner Shoshone and Main street.
BLUE LAKES
PURE APPLE CIDER
For Sale at the Following Named Places:
Idaho Department Store.
Flory 6c Co.
Geo. H. Brundage.
Moore 6c Walmsley.
Petrine Hotel Bar.
Majestic Pharmacy.
Sprague's Pharmacy.
Blue Lakes Wholesale Fruit Store.
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