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-.r11 .f.,.t..-ij THE ARGUS, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 17; 1908. 10 f. : 1 - I ! ; i. r A LadjrjBeffjr jAcross the Water By C. N. O A. M. WILLIAMSON Copyright. 1906. by MeCtar. TbtlUpj 3fc Co. SYNOFSIS OF PnECEDIXG CHAP TKKS. CHAPTER I The story Is told in' the first person by Lady Betty Bulkeley. the pretty young slater of the duke of Stan forth. She is to visit America in care of Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox- (Mrs. Ess Kay), a leader of American society, and the lat ter's cousin. Jllss Sally Woodnurn. in or der that her cider sister Victoria's pro spective finnce. Sir Gilbert Mantell. may not be attracted bv her. CHAPTER II. On board ship Betty Is attracted by a young American steer age passenger, who saves a child from drowning. Mrs. Ess Kay, who is very "exclusive." objects to Hetty's interest In the young man. Betty also meets Tom Dorcmus, cousin of Mrs. Van der Windt, of New York society. CHAPTER III. Lady Betty gets her first Impressions of America. On the dock she is rescued from reporters by the steerage hero, who tells her he is Jim Brett, employed at the Manhattan club. New York. In Mrs. Ess Kay's splendid New York home Betty meets Lieutenant Parker, brother of her host ess, who is to take them to visit West Point. CHAPTER IV. Vivace, a beautiful and expensive dog, is sent to Betty. Mrs. Ess Kay docs not know who th-i donor is, and Betty does not tell her that It Is Brett. Lieutenant Tarker, whom Betty docs not like, makes love to her. CHAPTER V. Lady Betty has a good time at West Point despite Parker's proposal, which she rejects. CHAPTER VI. In a walk In Central pnrk Sally tells Betty her love story (she had been separated years before from the poor man she loved by her family, the man becoming a monk), and advises Betty to marry only when she is sure of her love. They meet Brett. CHAPTER VII. Betty is introduced to Mrs. Harvey Richmount Tuylour, a typical young society woman. CHAPTER VIII. At Newport Betty falls in love with Mrs. Ess Kay's splen did "cottage," the Moorings. Parker continues his attentions. Mrs. Ess Kay is chiigrined on learning that Mrs. Van der Windt. Newport's leader, has plan ned to "cut" her and her acquaintance, Mrs. Pitchley. Mrs. Ess Kay relies on Lady Betty's presence to maintain her social prestige. She plans an entertain ment to introduce Betty. CHAPTER IX. Betty meets her cou sin, the earl of Mohunsleigh, at New port. Mrs. Ess Kay and Mrs. Pitchley contend for the possession of the earl. CHAPTRE X. Mrs. Ess Kay olans a fancy dress ball, the features of which are to be Aladdin's cave and the Maze. An invitation is sent to Mohunsleigh's friend. Jameson B. Harborougli, a new San Francisco millionaire. Betty is to appear as a frost sprite. CHAPTER XI. At the ball. Parker proposes again. Betty is rescued from him by Brett, who hints that he is there as a reporter. She declares her faith in his future. CHAPTER XII. Harborongh fails to appear at the wedding of Cora Pitch ley and Mohunsleigh. to which he has been Invited. Everybody at Newport is anxious to meet him. Sally, having quarreled with Mrs. Ess Kay. is visit ing a friend in Chicago and has asked Betty to go to Chicago if anything at Newport displeases her. Parker again proposes to Betty nnd is refused again, whereupon Mrs. Ess- Kay tells Betty that her mother, the duchess, plans to have her either engaged to Parker or stay in America until her sister is en gaged. DOX'T know how lout; it was before the thought came to i:u that 1 would take Vivace and a hand bag ar.d run away to Sally, but anyway it was before it had occurred to uie to Bit down. Sally said before she weut away that I was to go to her if 1 felt like it. auJ Sally always means what she says. Now I felt like it so much that it seem ed suddenly the only possible thing to do. so nil L had to decide was the best way and the best time to do it. As for the time, if I didn't escape leforc Mrs. Kss Kay and Totter form ed a hollow square round me to pour their volleys into my heart in the morn all that was prophetic in my squl said I would never escape, but would suf fer great confusion and rout. As for th way, it was more difficult to make up my mind, but the first thing was to pee how mueh money I had in my exchequer, which happened to be a gold purse Sally had given me. I hadn't spent much, and since coin ing over dear old Stan had sent me an other fifteen pounds, which he wrote was part of one night's winnings at bridge unusual for him, if it's true, as Vic thinks that he continually loses. Altogether I had nearly thirty pounds Jn hand, which seemed a lot. only I didn't know at all how much it would cost for Vivace and me to reach Sally . in Chicago, and I couldn't tell until I had got irrevocably away from Mrs. Kss Kay and the Moorings. . Dy this time it was nearly 2 o'clock, and In a couple of hours it would be light I must sneak out of the house Avith a dressing bag before any of the servants were stirring, and meanwhile I must pack ur ail my belongings ex cept such things as Mrs. Ess Kay had given me so that I could write and have my boxes sent on by and by. As soon as I had realized that there wasn't a minute to throw away, the worse was over, for I didn't stop to If you'll only take the Bit ters promptly for Poor Ap petite, . Heartburn, Indiges tion, Costive ness, Ferrals Ills and. Malaria! Disorders, you'll acknowledge it to be the best. . , , n TIOSTETTER' u CELEBRATED STOMACH U U BITTER gribble. I finished getting out of ni' bridesmaid's dress in which I had danced so gayly a little while ago. dashed a thin frock, a dressing gown and a few other things into my fitted dressiug bag (which was almost too heavy to carry, but not quite), and then stuffed everything else, except a traveling frock, into the boxes that were stored in a huge wardrobe built into the wall. I made all the haste I could, but Tin not clever at packing, so I heard some clock striking 4, when I had slipped on my thin gray canvas coat and skirt, and was putting on tny hat, with cold hands that trembled so much I could hardly stick lu the hatpins. I had been excited enough the day I heard I was to come to Mrs. Ess "Jllsp 1 felt W;e a runaway elephant. Kay, bui I was twice as excited now when I was going to leave her. I felt rather frightened, still I couldn't help smiling when I said to myself how lit tle I had thought when I learned the great news about America and Mrs. Kss Kay, in what circumstances I should part from her. Each step Vivace and I took in the corridors and on the stairs seemed to make such an incredible noise in the quiet house that I felt like a runaway elephant elopiug with a hippopotamus, but either it wasn't as bad as I thought or every one was lying charmed in a magic sleep, for we gDt out through a window iu the dining room, down the veranda steps and across the lawn without being stopped, as I half ex pected. I knew the way to the railway sta tion very well, for 1 had often been there siuce I arrived (the last time was when I saw Sally off), but the question was, When would there be a train? And a good deal depended on that question, for, though Mrs. Ess i Kay and Potter might not exactly have the power to drag me back, I wanted I to get as far away from them as I could before they discovered that I had gone. j I was horrified to find when we ar rived that, as the Americans say. there was "nothing doing." Not a soul in sight, and there I was, very hot and hysterical, with Vivace and my dress ing bag looking like an escaped bur- glaress. I had been so nervous while I was packing that I'd been afraid of ev erything, even the soap in the soap dish, which had two great blinking bubbles at one end, like a pair of goblin eyes that watched me move, but I was much worse uow. and I could have fallen on the neck of the first official person I saw moving about the station after 1 had waited for perhaps a quar ter of an hour. I dou't know what he was, but when I appealed to him for news of a train for New York, instead of calling the police to give Vivace and me in charge as a dangerous pair, ho scratched his head and said there was a milk train due presently if I was mighty anxious. A milk train sounded innocent and suitable to a girl traveling alone, but even if it hadn't I should hare been thankful to go In it I couldn't buy a ticket, it appeared, in the ordinary way, but when the milk train came my man introduced me to another. Perhaps he was a milkman; anyway he seemed to have authority and he said as a favor Vivace and I could be taken. He was a nice person, and he talked a great deal after the train had given several false starts and at )a3t had got off. I sat on my bag, as I had on the docks, in a bare, curious car, which really belonged to the milk, and sometimes when we bumped I should have fallen on the floor if it hadn't been for him. He told me all about klmrir ,1 . ..... ,1 1 , ..1.1 nl ' about me, but I thought nice as he was, It would be safer not. He asked leading questions which it was hard to keep from answering unless I hurt his feelings, but I think he somehow got the impression that I was going to see a sick relative, though I never ex actly said, so. : I don't know , what time I should have got to New York if I had had to' travel all the way with the milk, for milk, it seems, objects to speed, but after we had jogged along for a couple of hours, we crawled Into , a station where a real train was ready to start There Wore Just five minutes to say farewell to my friend and buy a ticket when, all flushed And panting. I found myself and Vivace and the bag' in a car different from any I had seen yet. It had no nice easy chairs and plate glass mirrors and wire nettings in the i windows, like the one in which I'd traveled to Newport, but there were two rows of seats, and when the train j moved a cloud of coal smoke poured ! in through the door at the front end. j Babies squalled, children whined and I their faces grew black and damp with mingled dirt and heat while grownup ' people scolded, but a dear old lady got , into my seat before long, and Just be cause I helped her with a bandbox, she made me a present of a huge peach. I was thankful to have it, for by this j time I was "collapsing with hunger, having been up all night without any ( thing to eat The peach made me think of Mr. Brett and the little basket he had sent me on the docks. Then this thought suggested another. He had said he would do anything for me that was In his power, and If he were still in New York It was in his power to help me a good deal. He cnild tell me how much it would cost to go to Chicago, and he could show me how to get there. I really believe that at first I hadu't had a thought of seeing him, but once It had got into my head I welcomed It, begged it to sit down and make itself at home. I could have clapped my hands with Joy when I saw the Grand Central sta tion and the delightful cafe au lait porters with their red caps. It looked as familiar and comforting as If I'd passed through a 'hundred times in stead of once, and I had the nice feei- Ing that uow something pleasant was sure to happeu, which one has when one first arrives in Paris. Vivace brightened up, too, and he took me out, rather than I him. I was in such a hurry to get away, for fear rotter might have come after me by a quick train and be looking somewhere, that I flew along with my bag and Vivace without waiting for a porter. I followed other people out of the sta tion, with the intention of finding a cab and driving to the club where Mr. Brett was employl; but, though there were dozens of hansoms drawn up by the pavement, they had the air of being private ones. It did seem queer that so many people should have private han soms waiting for them at this particu lar hour (it was half past 12), but the drivers, with their tall shiuy bar smart coats and bright, clever faces, the glitter of the harness, the newness of the cab linings and appointments all forbade any other thought. I wan dered wistfully along the line, wonder ing if there were no public conveyances of any kind at the Grand Central be sides the trams, which were as appall ing as a procession of African lions. When I came to the end I caught the eye of a well groomed young man In a pale gray topcoat looking down from his high scat at the back of a dark green hansom with great round port holes kuocked in the sides, and it struck me that there was pity kindling in his glance. I snatched at the ray as if it had been that everlasting straw which always seems to be bobbing about wheu an author is drowning one of his characters. "Do you think there is anybody who could drive me?" I inquired meekly. xvu uet, miss, saw ue. im en- gageu myscu or i u te oniy toopieaseu, out jou jusc speaK xo xuai ouier gen - ueman mere, witu an encouraging mo uiai veuicie. lie n tae you anywuereyou nfei and ,)C i00ke(1 so stroug and hand want to go." 'some and dependable that I couldn't Are you sure it lsut a private nan- som?" I breathed up to him in a low, confidential voice, for the cab he indi cated was even finer than his, and Stan doesn't look as smart on his coach on a coaching parade day in the park as did the gentleman I was recommended to address. "Sure pop," said my friend, grinning, but not in a way to hurt mv feelimr" Said there was a milk train due pres ently if I wus mighty anxious. so I thanked hTm.'una we both "bowed ! very politely, and the new man, who', na-a nearu auer a... saui mat none ot lU uausuuis ei nivaie. auj uouy might bare them who could pay. but I needn t. be afraid: he wouldn't charge me too much. When he asked where I wanted to go. after all I hadn't the courage to Id ' mention the club. The only other place I could think of was the Waldorf-As- toria. where Potter bad said any stran - ger who liked could walk in and sit ' down. I told the man to drive me ; there, so he did, and only charged me 50 cents, which he hinted Was a verv special price. "We don't want you English young ladies to think bad of us." he exiIaLued. and. assured hjnj there was no danger of that if I could I judge by myself. ' They wouldn't let me go into the Turkish room which I remembered very well with "Vivace, so I had to give him up to be fed and taken care of, and I was obliged to part with my bag too. Then I wrote a note to Mr. Brett, just a few lines, saying that 1 was alone in New York, iu a little diffi culty, and, remembering his kind offer. I ventured to ask if he would come to the Turkish room at the Waldorf-Astoria to help me with advice.' A messenger took the letter such an aggressively brisk child I was sure he wouldn't waste a second on the way and as soon sis he had gone I was beset with fpars lest Mr. Brett should have left New York or lest, if still in town, he might be surprised or shocked at my taking him at his word. I was past being hungry now, but my head ached and I felt dull and stupid. There was hardly any one In the Turkish room, for all the world of the Waldorf-Astoria was lunching. I sat watching the door, watchiug the door until I seemed to, have been iu that place doing that one thing and nothing else for years. My eyelids would keep dropping and my thoughts slipping away as if they flowed past me on a slow stream. 1 caught them back again and again, but at last I forgot and let them go. The uext tbir.g I knew I was raising my head with a jerk and opening my eyes to look straight into those of Mr. Brett. It was he, there was no doubt of that, and yet he was different In my dreamy state I couldn't think how for an instant, but as I came, to my- Opening tny cjrs t look stratyht into thnyc of Mr. Urctt. self I saw It was all a question of dress. He had perhaps been making money in journalism, for he was no longer good looking In spite of his clothes. He had the most excellent gray flannels or something of the sort, ' Just the right kind of collar (I know ?t must be right for Stan always wears 'it) and a waistcoat. Potter himself might have envied. I didn't exactly 'think of these. things, then, but I must ! have unconsciously taken them all in : in a flash, for I knew them afterward. By the time the flash had passed we . were shaking hands, and he was say j ing In his nice voice how awfully sorry ,he was to have kept me waiting. He had been at the club, but owing to etupid mistake there had been some deiay ln his getting my letter. j x was eveu nlore pjeasej to see him than l bad thought I was going to be. felt as u t u(ut kn0wu him all tuy ber to take mv eves off his face lest I should wake up and find him gone because I'd been dreaming him. ''I'll tell you all about everything if you'll sit down," I said, but instead of doing as I asked he inquired with a queer, worried expression on his face whether I had had lunch. 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"I have been doing pretty well late ly." said lie. "I can almost call my self rich. Please have some lunch. I can afford it. and if you refuse I'll know it's because" I guessed what he might be going to say. so I stopped him. "Nonsense!" I exclaimed. "But I've run away from Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, and I dou't want to be found. If she or her brother should have come to New York or if .anybody else" "I've' thought of that," said he quick ly, "but we've no time to waste. You're starving. If you wouldn't mind my getting you a private diniug room and sending you in some lunch" But I want you to be with me." I Insisted. He evidently hesitated, but only for a ininuto. I don t think he s the sort of man to hesitate long about any thing. "Very well, that's what I'd like best. of course, if you don't mind." he said. "I'li go and see to everything, and bo back before you can count sixty, if you do it slowly." I didn't do it at all, but thought how thankful I as that he had come to me, for I was sure everything would go right now. In two or three minutes he came Back' to take me into a charming little dining room, where there was no dan ger that Mrs. Ess Kay or Potter could pounce upon us, as it was for Mr Brett and me alone. I shuddered to thluk what It must be costing, but his clothes were so exceedingly good I hoped he hadn't exaggerated about the luck that had come to him. Naturally I couldn't tell the part of my story which concerned Potter Parker, but I said that Mrs. Ess Kay wanted, me to do things which 1 dldu't think it right to do. and I couldn't stay in her hou.se even a day longer. I should like to go home." I went on. "but I can't yet. and the only other thing is to join Miss Woodbura in Chi cago, iou remember awss Woodburu, don't you?" He said he remembered her very well, had read In the newspapers that she had left Newport for Chicago and thought tt was a wise idea of mine to join her. "I'm glad you thluk that" said I, for I want to start today, and I hope jou'll tell me how to go, how much money it will be, how long it takes to get there and all about it." He didn't answer for a minute, but sat looking very grave, staring at his brown hand on the white tablecloth as if he'd never seen it before. Then he said: Curiously enough, I am going west this afternoon too. Would you object to my being in the same traiu? I wouldn't suggest such a thing, only. you see, as you re a stranger In the country I might be able to help you n little." "How splendid!" I exclaimed. "It seems almost too good to be true. You can't fancy what a relief it is to my mind." He looked pleased at that and said I was very kind, though I should have thought it was the other way round. "I'll get your ticket, then," he went on. "If you'll give me twenty-five dol larsfive pounds, you know I'll hand you back the change, but I'm afraid it won't be much." "Change?" I echoed. "Why. I sup posed it would be ever so much more than five pounds to get to Chicago, which Is almost in central America. isn't ur; "The people who live there think central," said Mr. Brett, "but they ... make tl' railroad nen keep prices down so that dissatisfied New orkers K'an afford to go and live there. It ta't a bad journey, you'll find. I think will Interest you. You sleep an$ t in the tram, you know." , ; 'WJiat fun!" I exclaimed. "I've nev- et sle.)t Jq a traln eveu on lh tinent" . .if von nad it be different fr0Dj this one," said he. . "Can you be ! ready lu tweuty-flve minutes? The train which we call the Twentieth Cen tury starts at 2:43." 'I'm ready uow." said 1. "The soon er we re on the way the better. But oh. about Vivace! Will they allow him to sleep and eat too?" "I expect I can arrange that." Mr. Brett answered in such a confident way that I felt sure he could do It or anything else he set out to do. It real ty was lucky for me that he happened to bo traveling west that same day. ind such an extraordinary coincidence too. 'Are you going on journalistic busi ness?" I asked. . "No: it's business I'm undertaking for a friend." he explained, "but I hope to get something good for myEelf out of it in the end." "Oh, I do hope you will," I replied. "I'm sure you deserve to." "I'm sure I dou't." said he. laughing, "but I shall try hard for it all the same. You know you told me to be ambitious." "I know I did," I answered. A moment later ho said that he must hurry off and attend to the tickets, and I had only time to glance through some papers the waiter brought me. with columns full of Mohunsleigh's mar riage, when he was back again with a cab. While I read an account of the wed ding aad gushing paragraphs about me I wondered if there mightn't be thing.? not so flattering in the same papers to morrow. "If it got out that I had run away, would there be a scandal?" I asked Mr. Brett in the cab. But he said that I ueedn't be afraid. Mrs. S tny versa :U Knox was tjo clever a woman to li t anything she wouldn't like get Into the; papers. She would send a paragraph to the effect that Lady Betty Bulkeley had been suddenly called home or had gone to visit other friends or something of that soi't "But she will almost cer tainly cable to your people." he went on. i "Yes, but she won't know where I've gone till afterward, and anyhow they can't object to my beiug with Miss Wood burn," I answered him. "You don't think they'll send for you to come homo at once?" I shook my head. "They won't do that They don't want that is. they think it wiser . for me to stop on this side longer, now I'm here." 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