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THAT GIRL of JOHNSON S
By JEAN KATE LVDLVM.
Author of "At a Girl's Mercs." Etc.
Entered Arroidin* to Act of Congress in the Your 1W) bjr Street ft Smith.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Waabincton. D. C.
CHAPTER XVll.—Continued.
When the meal wan over Dr. Dun-
M-hldle arose. and. us wa» his habit,
returned to the house up the road to
see to his patient's condition, and
found that Johnson had slept through
the night scarcely stirring, still as a
baby. Things were going well to help
on his recovery; and though It would
be raonthß before he could be able to
get around, yet there was every hope
and every reason to expect him to
recover.
Johnson moved and opened his eyes
slowly as Dr. Dunwlddte entered the
room. Vacant, hollow eyes they were,
with a stare In them which startled
Dolores.
Dr. Dunwiddie was at his side In
stantly, but without a sign of haste.
"He is used to your voice,” be said
to Dolores, without turning his head.
“Speak to him. Miss Johnson. Say
anything to him—anything you are In
tho habit of saying.”
Dolores came no nearer the bed:
she stood quietly at the window, and
asked in her ordinary voice, slow, un
interested: “Are you ready for break
fast, father?”
The hollow eyes closed weakly for
a moment. Mrs. Allen entered at that
moment with the beef tea, and Do
lores, taking the bowl from her hand,
crossed over to the bedside. John
son again opened his eyes with the
old expression of distrust and dislike
In them. She bent over him. and Dr.
Dunwlddlo raised his head a trifle
gently on his arm as she put tho spoon
to his lips with steady hand and un
moved face. But when she offered
him the second spoonful he closed his
eyes and endeavored to turn aside his
head, with the sullen expression on
his face Dolores bent over the bed
and held the spoon steadily to his
lips, as she said, in a tone that thrilled
her listeners by Its slow, almost stern
sweetness:
"Drink this, father."
He obeyed like a child, and she fed
him carefully according to the doc
tor's orders. Dr. Dunwiddie watched
her movements wonderlngly. When*
did this girl get her womanly tact?
Burely not from this man upon the
pillows, whose face was indicative of
nothing but a brute nature.
It was an exquisite morning. Mrs.
Allen was with the doctor, there was
no need of her there, and she went
out and sat on the door-stone in the
shadow of the pines. Leaning her
head against the door-post her hands
fell to her lap. Her eyes were Intent
on the mountain with a sort of hun
gry look in them. It had meddled so
with her life—or was It the fate of the
stars that crippled her father and pre
vented his going to court where the
men were eager to have him, like the
vulture on the mountain. She knew
little of fate or law, but It seemed to
her that the one possessed her, and
the other was waiting, waiting in a
terrible silence lor her father to go
to prove the malice prepense in the
laming of the mare—a waiting that
appalled her by its dogged patience.
What her neighbors thought she did
not care; she had lived without them:
she could still live without them. Had
she known how roughly they used her
name she would scarcely have under
stood their meaning. Her inind was
too pure and too high above them to
comprehend the evil they would lay
at her door. Lodle, among them all,
was the only kind one. Not one of the
woman had been near her, but the
women never did come; she cared
nothing about that, only there was
something in her life that had not
been there before and that called for
companionship for the sympathy of
Dolores crossed to the bedside.
other women. But Dora would come,
she thought, with sudden brightness
In her heart—Dora and her uncle, and
young Green qb well, until —until the
truth were known. Then, what would
they think or say—Dora and her
uncle, who were honorable people, the
nurse said, and young Green who had
been so kind to them—so kind? Did
he not risk his life for her father?
Yet even then he must have known
about the mare and by whom the deed
was done. Did he not tell her himself
that the man who had committed
such a dastardly deed should suffer
tho full penalty of the law? And tho
law had a terrible significance to her.
Lodle came slouching up the path,
tail, gaunt, angular. In the full glory
of the sunlight. He removed his rusty
hat as he stood before her, bis hands
behind his back.
“Be yer feyther gettin* on tol'rable,
D'lores? I kem up hyar from the
tav-’n ter hear. We 'lowed he orter
be Improvin’, an' wes waitin’ ter
know.”
"Who are waiting to know?” she
asked, sharply. Tho tone was new to
her, and tho man was disconcerted by
It, A vague fear had entered her
mind in spite of Mrs. Allen's assurance
that they would not come for her
father until be was able to go to
prove—
" Why, Jes' we uns," Lodle replied,
clumsily. "He were a good un ’mong
us, was yer feyther, D’lores, an' wes
J<*Bt waitin' ter know ef he is im
provin’.'’
"Thank you. Jim lam Ho. You can
toll those who wish to know that my
father will get well."
A flash came into Lodie's eye. a
deep red rushed to his sunburned face.
“1 be powerful glad ter hev ye say
His face ghastly In its pallor.
thet, D’lores,’ he said, gravely. “An'
ther rest of ’em’ll be glad of et,' too.”
She watched him shuflle down the
path and along the road to the tavern.
Presently two light hands were laid
on her shoulders, and a soft, low voice
exclaimed:
“Dolores, Dolores, tam Dora. Ix>ok
up and tell me you are as glad to see
me as I am to have found you. I am
so glad, Dolores."
Dolores' Angers closed tightly as
she looked up at the girl before her—
the cousin who had come to claim her.
the only one in all tho world who
had ever loved her since Betsy Glenn
died. She was a small llttlo lady, and
neatly dressed from the wide-brimmed
white hat with its drooping gray
plume, to the blue ribbon around her
throat, and the soft gray costume and
delicate gloves. Her eyes were wide
and gray, dark with excitement. Boft
with a touch of tears; her mouth was
gentle and sweet, but tho lips were
colorless; her small oval face was
white as death, save for a faint trace
of feverish color upon either cheek.
Dolores knew nothing of tho .nature
of Dora’s disease, and to her the girl
was a picture—something to look at
and love and admire, but too fair to
touch. Her eyes grew luminous as
she looked at her. The brown eyes
and the gray met. Dolores’ lips part
ed in one of her rare smiles that
transformed her face for the moment;
her eyes were like wells of light,
beautiful, unfathomable.
Young Green was standing behind
Dora. During the time he bad known
Dolores never had she looked like
that; It was a revelation to him of
what she was capable. She did not
s'e him; she saw nothing but Dora,
and it was uncommon for women to
show such marvelous depth of soul to
another woman. Dora saw no one but
her cousin. They did not kiss each
other; they offered no endearment
common to women, but Dora sat down
on the doorstep beside Dolores.
“I am so happy!” she said.
Dolbres said nothing. Her eyes
talked for her.
Young Green, with a feeling that he
had no right to be there, passed un
noticed around to the rear of the
house and entered through the low
door of the pantry.
Dr. Dunwiddie greeted him with a
smile, but he did not speak, as ho was
busy with tho bandages on Johnson's
arm. On preparing one of the band
ages he stepped aside, and at that
moment Johnson slowly opened his
eyes upon young Green's face. He was
conscious, and his eyes had the old
look In them excepting that it was
intensified by their hollowness. His
face grew ghastly in its pallor, then
livid with fury; the close vet eyes
under the narrow forehead were wild
and bloodshot; instinctively the An
gers of his right hand were feebly
clenched as ho endeavored to lift him
self from among the pillows, unmind
ful of the pain, as he cried In a hoarse
whisper, between panting breaths:
"Ye hyar* Fool, with yer—lamin’
an’ yer b00k... I sweared I'd get even
—with ye—for te—ef ever—ye—kem
hyar —agen. a settln’ —my gal up—ter
thenk—herself better'r -her feyther
a turnin' her head —wltn yer—foolin'
an'—yer soft words—as though— ye’d
look et— a —smith's darter fer—no
good—”
Young Green started to speak, but
Dr. Dunwiddie, with a stern expres
sion on his face which bis friend had
! never before seen, said, with quiet
! authority:
j • , Ba quiet. Johnson. Not anolhet
' word. Charlie, go Into the other
room. Mrs. Allen, help me at once;
j his excitement has brought on hemorr
j hage."
As'Green closed the door behind
him he caught a glimpse of Johnson's
face that he never forgot. It was
pallid as death and ghastly with the
hollow eyes. Horror and amazerix-nt
mingled In his face as ho noiselessly
crossed the room and passed out of
the house through the pantry at the
rear, without disturbing the two on
the doorstep, and struck out among
the pines beyond toward the summit
where the winds were soft and the
sky blue and still. He saw nothing
around him clearly; his thoughts. In
a tumult, were In the little bare room
of the house below where the strong
man. who had Just been brought hack
from death, lay in his repulsive fit of
passion; and with the mare In the
stablea at home,, the beautiful, Intel!!
gent animal, ruined forever through
u cowardlyfact of malice; the two
blending so closely that he could not
separate them, mingling with the
stray words ho had heard In the town
of other and darker things than be
had dreamed.
Then, like a touch of peace, came
the thought of the two girls on the
door step, two such lovely. womanl>
girls, each with a noble soul, yet
totally unlike, the one wIiorc life had
been set In among the grand moun
tains touched with their grandeur and
noblnty of thought and life, and tu
him tho purest, most tender of worn*
en, the other proving her tenderness
through all her life In the heart of
the big city with its tcmp.ations and
Its ©vlfs.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Dolores and Dora.
“And you found Uncle Joe when
every one else had given up th«
search," said Dora, softly, her eyef
full of loving admiration. “How
brave you are. Dolores. I would novel
have had the courage to do It, but
then I'm not bravo anyhow.”
"Why shouldn't I do It?” Doloref
asked quietly, turning her large eye*
wonderingly upon her companion
"He Is my father."
"Of course he is." Dora replied, with
a nod of her bright head, untying the
broad ribbons of her hat and swinging
it around upon her knees. "Papa Is
my father, too, Dolores Johnson, anc
I love him; but I would never have
enough courage to go off on n lonely
dangerous mountain to find him II
he were lost—no not if 1 hail a dozen
men to go with me. Suppose you hac
slipped over one of those terrible
ledges Mr. Green told us about. 01
walked right off into a chasm when
you thought you were In tho path? No
I couldn't do it, ever, but I wish 1
were brave like you."
Dolores said nothing, because sh«
had nothing to say. Dora must he g
coward If she would not do that fat
her father; any of the women of the
settlement would have done the same
"Mr. Green told us all about you,"
Dora continued, "and I wished sc
much to get at you, but you would nm
come to me, and I could not come tc
you, and then tho rain—oh, ‘the rain it
raineth every day,’ and I begun t(
think I would have to wait a weel
at least, and the things Mr. Greeu tolc
me about you when he returned fron
hore made me ull the more rest lest
and anxious to get at you, you poof
dear.”
“He saved my father.” Dolores said
presently. She said It slowly, a*
though she were forced to say It.
Dora nodded.
"I know It." she said, "the man whe
came over for the doctors told us
about It, but you saved him more than
anyone else, Dolores, and you cannot
deny it. They’d never have thought
of going over there to look after th«
deputies gave up the search had II
not been for you."
(To bo continued.)
COLLECTING FARES IN CANADA.
Method Is Practiced, But Hardly Up
to Date.
"There are all kinds of ways foi
collecting fares on the street cars,
but one that 1 saw recently In Canada
was certainly unique If not particu
larly up to date," says G. M. P. Holt
"I was taking a ride on the four
mile trolley road running between
Sherbrook and Lenoxvllle, In Canada |
The Arst thing that mot my eye on
entering the car was tho sign, 'Noth
ing changed over s2.’ I don’t see ex
actly why they were so particular
about the matter, as it didn’t strike
me that the class of passengers the> I
were carrying was that which make* '
a practice of carrying 10-dollar aud 1
20-dollor bills only.
"But what tickled me the most wad j
the fare-taking that occurred soon j
after. The conductor came down the |
aisle carrying in his hand a curious •
looking arrangement that resembled
r largo, square 'dark lantern.' It had
r handle attached which tho cod '
ductor grasped, and when he shoved
It toward my face and said 'fare' 1
perceived ’ that It had a glass front
and a slit in the top where you drop
ped your nickel or ticket, and then
you could see the same go down tc
tho bottom."— Springfield, Mass.
Union.
Pittsburg Industries.
The Pittsburg district has more In
dustrial superlatives than any othei
similar area on earth It lias the
greatest Iron and steel works, the
■ Raciest electrical planß, the lurgest
glass houses, Arebrlck yards, potter
ies and at the same time Is the center
of the world's greatest co*l aud
coklug Acids.
FOUR MEN MOST AFFECTED BY THE
RECENT CHANCES IN BRITISH CABINET
AASAIV
km rrcJtj r.*} ««
Alfred I.yttleton, who succeeds Jf
the colonies, has been recorder of Oi
barrister and was legal private seerot
to 1886. Mr. Lyttloton Is a noted univt
champion for thirteen years, from 18 f
Ixml Stanley, who takes the post
by the promotion of Austen Chamberlt
has been Ananclal secretary to the ws
press censor In South Africa for a time
of the lords of the treasury from 1891
of Derby and is 38 years ol«L
H. O. Arnold-Forster, the new seer
Brodrlck, who is made secretary for 1 1
tary to the admiralty. He Is the autt
leal and political nature. Including a hi
Graham Murray, who Is made sec
lord advocate of Scotland since 189 C
der the government in Scotland since
noted golfer.
KING OF FORGERS FREE.
Notorious Criminal to Be Paid SSOO
a Month to Be Good.
Charles Becker, called "king of the
forgers.” has been set free from San
Quentin, Cal., prison. Although it is
denied officially that the American
Bankers' Association has agreed to
pay Becker a pension of SSOO a month
to "be good” from now on the detec
tives say that some persona have
undertaken to hire him at that Agure
to refrain from further forgeries.
Becker Is perhaps the ablest crimi
nal living. His known forgeries
amount to at least $300,000. He was
the head of tho gang that stole
the Gainsborough portrait of the
Duchess of Devonshire, which was
restored years after the theft to Its
owners, the Agnewß, dealers, of Lon
don. In Becker's gang at that time
were Joe Riley, alias “Little Joe;”
Joe Chapman, Carlos Suskowitch, a
Russian forger and bunco man:
James Wllmont and Adam Worth. It
OV4J !b£CX£P
(King of Forgers. Freed and Will Re
ceive fuoo a Month to Bo Good.)
was through tho men last mentioned
that the painting was delivered upon
payment through a gentleman gam
bler” of a $25,000 reward.
Enter Harvard Law School.
Two young Englishmen, Frederick
John Pollock, son of Sir Frederick
Pollock of and Harry Gorell
Barnes, son of Sir John Gorell Barnes,
entered the Harvard law school. Pol
lock is 24 years of age and a graduate
of Cambridge. HU father is one of
England's greatest jurists, author of
many bookß on legal matters aud me
diaeval Institutions which are quoted
as authorities everywhere. The un
derstanding is that Mr. Pollock Is to
stay hore a year, or as much longer as
ho thinks necessary. Mr. Barnes, his
companion, is 21 y«ars old and was
graduated from Oxford last June.
First Boer Student at Cornell.
rir»i duci o-uuvm, »> —-■ ■
The Arst Boer student who ever en
tered Cornell university, and one of
the Arst delegation sent to this coun
try from the universities of South Af
rlca. has taken up graduate work at
the Ithaca Institution. His name i„
Leopold Reinecke and be hails from
Wellington. Cape Colony. He is of
Dutch descent, with a slight admixture
of German blood, and has spent all
his fife so far in South Africa. Until
this year no student from that re
i glon has ever entered an American
university.
Inseph Chamberlain as secretary for
ixford univeislty since 1895. He is a
i tary to the attorney general from 1882
■erslty athlete, and was amateur tennis
182 to 1895. He is 56 years old.
it of postmaster general, made vacant
lain to be chancellor of the exchequer,
ar office i.ince 1900, and was the chief
ib during the Boer war. He was one
1 5 to 1900. He is the heir of the Earl
: rotary of war, succeeding St. John
ndla, has for three years been secre
hor of a number of books of a histor-
Istory of England.
cretary for Scotland, has served as
6. He has held various positions un
c 1888. He .is 54 years old, and is a
TO RID COAST OF SQUIRRELS.
California Farmers Will Spread Dis
ease by Inoculation.
The farmers of Contra Costa coun
ty, California, have hit upon a new
plan to get rid of the squirrel pest,
and through their representatives in
the board of supervisors have appeal
ed to the University of California tc
aid them. The new scheme will re
ceive the backing of the university.
It consists of the spreading of a
plague thal already exists among the
squirrels by artlAcial Inoculation. The
farmers of Contra Costa county have
lately discovered that the squirrels
have been dying off from some new
disease which has attacked them
But the pests have not been dying
fast enough to please tho farmers,
who think they have found away tc
assist the disease.
Some bright mind recently suggest
ed that tho malady might be spread
by capturing a few of the diseased
animals, extracting the plague germs
and inoculating hundreds of others,
which would in turn Infect those
among whiqh they are turned loose
The plan so.ems to be a perfectly feas
Iblo one and may solve the problem
of the squirrel pest, which has annoy
ed farmers for a long time in Cali
fornia.
SOMETHING HAD CHANGED HIM.
Privileged Darky Makes Cauatlc Re
mark to Gen. Longstreet.
Gen. James I-ongstreet, the "grand
old man of the Confederacy," though
now eighty-two years old, enjoys ex
cellent health and is in full posses
sion of all his faculties save hearing.
He Is very deaf and uses an ear tube,
which his wife carries. Ho lives In
a hotel at Mount Airy, Ga.. and Ands
his deafness useful as a buffer against
uncongenial company. Not long ago
the general’s old negro nurse called
on him, as he frequently does, with a
view to drinking his health. "Marse
Jim." he asked, "do you belong to any
church?" "Oh. yes,' replied Gen.
1-ongstreet, "I try to be a good Christ
ian.” "Something must have scared
you mighty bad to change you from
what you was when I had to care for
you," was the response.
What Farm Life Can Do.
John McAleese, former superintend
ent of police and a leading politician
of Pittsburg, has forsworn politics
forever and is devoting his energies
to farming. On- a recent visit to tho
scenes of his former activities he
offered a reward or a carload of pump
kins and a barrel of sweet potatoes
for any case of Insomnia. Indigestion,
paresis, political helplessness or gold
brick ague which he cannot cure. Said
cure Is to be effected without the use
of knives or surgery and by simply
living three months in every year on
a farm.
Marriage Long Concealed.
Eleven years ago Mrs. Jessie
Burbank of Oakland, Cal., entered
into a contract marriage with George
Wick ware Galloup.' Galloup has been
dead for several years and It was not
until laat week that the marriage was
recorded at San Rafael. The contract
was drawn up In Ix>rin and dated
Feb. 16. 1892. but was not acknowL
edged by a notary until Nov. 1, 1893
Dr. JL JH. Dearvey,
Physician and %
Surgeon, ,
Office at Drugstore. - ELBERT, COIA
Dr. W. FoWler,
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