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IheCowPundier

Robert J. CStead

IRWIN MYERS

nitwf of d«nr**r which no seldom «*»t« iu deaiine with it* own sex. xad I* yet so unreliable a defense from the dangers of the other. Mrs. Hard)

was in the living room.

"Won't yon come up to my work-

shop f Irene answered. without chunge of voice, and they ascended the stair* together. “I draw a little." Irene wna saying, talking fast. '-Oh. yes. I have quite commercialised in» art. such a* it Is. But I haven't loat mj soul altogether. I ilaub in color a little—yes. danb. that* the word. But It keeps one’s soul alive." She trembled, and her voice choked: she put out her arm to a chair. When she turned her fact there were tears on It . . . “Tell me—Edith," she

said. . . . “Ton know" . . . *T know some thing*,' Edith man-

nged to nay. "I know. now. that I do not know all. Have and 1 are old friend*. My father took a liking to him nnd he uaed often to be in our house. And we got to know each other very well, and he told me about you long ago. And last night I found him at his rooms. almo>t mad and sweating to tboot Con ward. And

then he told me that—that—" '•Tea? Yes? What did he toll you

1 am not afraid—"

Edith turned her eyes to where the white crests ot the mountain- cut like crumpled keel through a sea of InBr.lte bine. “He told me be saw Con-

CHAPTER XIV.-ConWm.cd.

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. • -aid Mr*. Hardy, “what way tpcak to Mr. Con ward? Yon ';, L . „f vour head, child! Such u Mr. Cciward! That cow ....-• 1 a!''-ays knew It Would iV .'ut sotre Ime. Oh. 11 the pc

JT ^,,-id lean of thlsT

, r .‘ t , uii yen think of." lr«ae re .. .. a k-ct e. and tin* papera. Yon 6! iroablo <> even wonder what ...orrasioi of the scene. You're ! , ..f the I aliens I'm not. nt ; ■ th v. h'*lc -tnry to them ttwnor- - Ill tell t* at you Insulted him. . icsnl ami ' aw vou stood there. niilns. rap coward unde- the Jr;!, of his g :u. How ; wish I had ograph Itr she excialmetl. luh a httlc hysterical laugh. "It rj-j-i look fin. on the front page." Sir broke into peals of laughter and

ri-itd up the talrv

l la the "'I ig she was very aoiicr tadieli. ru-rk* of di*tre»* and i>rplr*ss*M wete 'ntrowed to her ',w. She greeted her lar^'-er with rii dvility nnd left her breakfast rtnuebed. She gave part of her >twHa« to Charlie; tt was a saving Ic'e tii her io have someone upon .:.m »hp could pour a.Tection. Then > w*at to the telephone. She called [‘■rr'« office. Nothing wa* known of Vr Ddcn: he had been working ther< li< eight: he wa* not down yet. 8hr

aBrd hi- apartmenta. There was no ' nrd here . . . upstairs svtT. Thea she tried a new sum- j and Coaward made a boast. And be br. I would have shot him. but yon rushed -Hello, is that the office of the Call? | Ui«on him and begged him not to. Sail you let me sprak to—" said you v ould have taken the bullet Her mother Interrupted altooa; frwn- 1 yourself rather than U ahould find tlnliy: "In-ne, you are not going to j Oonward.' ttril the jiapers? You mustn't do that. “Oh! oh!" the girl cried. In the pain Tttuk of what meuns—the dls- 1 of one mortally hurt. “How could he

tr.cv—e shooting afialr, almost. In kune. Think of me, your mother— " TH think of yon on or- coasidera»«is—that you explain what happened tight and tell me where Dave

Ed* Is."

i can't explain. I don't know. And I d'n't know—” "And you don't want to know. And rmi don’t care, so long aa you tan keep t oitr of the pai>en*. 1 do. Tm going find nut the facts about thL. If •ft/ paper In the country should int them. Hi "o! Ter. I want to •rest to Mis* Morrison." !r a few words she explained Dave’s •■iim (U-a|.|>f>aranee, stripping the • dint of nil but vital facts. Bert V riuMO was all sympathy. “It's a - -t' -y. you know.” *h° mid. “but >• won't think of It that Way. Not > line, -o far as I am concerned. Duncan Is *he girl we need. A - )ri °f adopted sister to Dave. 8he ' a ? know more than any of us." r -=' Edith knee absolutely nothing: "iicg except that her own heart war '^'"n Into a turmoil of emotions. p ut the day and the evening '••rtowa. rotating about the points *t*r. Dave might likely be found. Ami the next morning she called on ' r 'te Hardy. In -iii. ' of all efforts at self control " tr '>• • •led as r' e pressed the LelL ^ l-id never met Irene liar Jr; It fi'-iug to be ii strange ■■'iperlence. strwluclng herself to the woman who | • l«vn preferred over her and who •bpnrentiy proved ao unworthy of ; preference. - •'; A • 1 dlf'-iTlt things to say. and ■ iilie »k.- aaid them she must —' a ba:tle to the death with the "-*y of her nnton.: womanhood. '• i 'he must be very , very careful :t ®ylag thing* which wens hard • *ay nhe did not say hard things, 'td. most ailllcult of all. she must try Hie way to a reconciliation beHave and the women who stood her and happiness. ( ■ H't .' (tended the .loor. a* was her ‘ Her eye* took io Edith's face •Igure «-iih mild surprise. Edith ■ •i!i*cloiis of the process of a intellect endeavoring to classify •■■'—•olid tog, music teacher, bind' girl? And In tost moment of 1 v ' she saw Irene's eye* and a ‘ , ;|J ke commotion of feeling surged ih her. So thl* was the woman ••• had chosen to love! '• one does nor choose whom one J" 11 lo ve; one loves vdthoot choosing. cnfasclous of that: she knew ‘a her own life. And oen as she thl* Ann time upon Irene she 1 ":uiie aware of a subtle attrvUlon ^Uierlng almut her; she f-lt aonu«f that {lower which had helu io a single course through all ‘ year*. And suddenly a great truth was born In Edith l>un«in. • <M'i.-u]y she realised thsi If the steel *’ 11 lime prove untalthfnl to the ■‘-'‘-t the tuolt He* not in the steel i: ‘ 'he megnet. What r. change of ' ' * • »hat r revendon of all accepted 0 -'' <atne with the realisation uf ' truth which roots down Into the u n;,tnrT w, m't you come in?" Irene wa* - Her voice was sweet and muA, ' e! ' but there was a not* of nadne** which set rosponsive chord* * tahle ell through K-iith's heart. 1 Edith Duncan." *b. nMnaged • T—I 'bink I have MHucthlng ‘"y 'hat may totervat yoo." , : - re was a quick leap In Irr^c'* : the leap of that latnttlve fe.wl-

thlnk that? I didn't care for him— lor Con ward—but for Dave. I knew there had been a quarrel—1 didn't know why—and I knew If Dave shot him—It wasn't In aelf-dc-fer.se—what-ever tt was. he couldn’t plead that— und they’d bang him, and that was all I raw. Fdith. that was all I saw. ami I would—yes. I would rather I taken the bullet myeelf than that that

should happen—"

“You poor glrlT' mid Edith. "You poor gtri!” And her arms fouad the

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'Because I Love You, and Would Fellow You At -/where."

other's neck. “You have been hurt, hurt." And then, under her braath.

“more than in-.*'

“What ha* he doner ••He had a'rcady been convinced that he shuuid offer Ida servicoa to hi* country. In these times. He s*i<i be couldn't remain here, and he hs* already left for Englttud. I am afraid I encouraged him to leave at once. You see. I didn't understand." Ire-ie had token n chair, and for some minute* she sat in silence. I don't blame you." she said, at length. “Ton gave him good, adviev. iherv remains only one thing for tne to da -Whatr said Edith after a mo

OMOt's hesitation.

•Follow him! I shi*" follow him and make him understand. If h*' must go Into battle—with all that that mean*—he must go in krowlag the truth. Yoo hare been very kind. Ulan Duncan. You have gone out of Tour way tc do me a great sendc*end vou hare shown more kindness than I have any right to claim fiom stranger. . . • I feel. too. the cal. for vengeance." she exclaimed, springing to her reel, “but first I nm*t find Dave. I shall follow him at once. 1 s..«U readily locate him In some way through the military ervlce." She ai ompauled he; vUltor to the door. They shook hands and looked for a moment Iu each other’s eyes. And then Edith burst away and bur

lied down the street.

Irene had searched '/ondon for two week* The confidence of her earlier Inquiries had diminished »' 1,h *“'' h c-t-aalve blind trail, which. promUlng «t f,r»l led her Into a man of confusion and'disappointment. Her little .tore of moDe; wna fast dwindling ■«•/: looked into the luce of every man In -jnUaem a P-theUc ..m-tn.w* that mu.". ■ mn one* caused her to be

of the military

•—rrice commanded less enthusiasm than sn* fell a month before. Sio*' saw

It struggling with the apparently Im possible: It wa* as though she. In her little studio, had been suddenly called upon to pslnt all the portraits la ih< world. ... In some degree she understood the difficulties; In equal degree she sympathised with those who were striving to overcome them, and she hf.ng on from day to day In her search with a dogged delenuinatl-ui which set Its teeth against admitting that the search was hopeless. At last one great fear had settled on her heart. Suppose Dave should not enlist under his right name? in -uch a case b.-r chance of finding him was the mere freak of accidental meeting; a chance not to he banked upon In a country already swarming with Its citlrea soldiery. . . . And yet there was nothing to do but keep on. She bad sought a park bench where group* ol soldier* were contlrually moving by. The lights shone un iheir faces, and her own tired eye* followed them Incessantly. Always her ear was alert for a voice that should set her heart u-pounding, and more than once she had thought she heart) that voice; more than a score of times she bad thought she had seen that figure wlih Its stride of self-reliance, with strength bulging In every muscle. And always It bad been to learn that she had been mistaken; always tt had been to feel the heart sink Jest a little lower than oefore. And still she kept on. There was nothing *o do but keep

on

Often she wondered how he would receive her. That cold look whlrh had frozen his features when i.be seized the revolver In hi* hand, would It still ait there, too distant and detached to be even scornfulT Would she have It to break down? She could not know; she conld only hope and

pray and go on.

As she turned her eyes to follow a :roup of men In uniform she became aware of a soldier sitting clone in the siiadow a short distance awuy. Some quality about him caught her attention ; Ids face was not discernible, and bis figure was too much la the shadow to mure than suggest Its outline, but she found herself regarding him with an Intentnrss that se* bar pulses racing. Should she dare rlsl- It again? And yet there was something. . . . She had a sodden plan. She would make no Inquiry, no apology; she would walk near by and call him by name. If that name meant nothing to him be woo'd not cv'-n notice her presence. but if ll ohuuid be— "Dave." she said. V He turned quickly 1 bis seat; the Ugh*, fell on her fare cud he saw her; I be v.aa on his feet and had takrei n • step toward her. Then he atoppcU. and she aaw hi* feature* harden as they Lbad on that dreadful occasion which I row seemed so long ago. “Weiir he said. Hi* voice wn* me ' ebanlcol. but In It was somethin;: j which quickened her hope; somethin : I which suggested that be was mating ' mechanical because be dared not Jet it express the human emotion which struggling for utterance. _*t me talk to yea. Dave." stw pleaded. “I have followed yon around the world for this. Let la* <aU;. 1 can explain everything." He stood still so long that she won dered If he never would speak Sin ,In red not reach her hands to him; she could only rtnud and wait. •Irene.' be said, "why did you fo!

low me here?" .

“There Is only one answer, Dave Because I love vou snd would follow you anywhere. No one can atop me doing that; no one. Dove—except you.' And again he stood, and she knew that he was turning over In his mind things weightier thsn life and death and that when he spoke again hi> course would be set. Then. In the partial -hadew. she saw his arm* slowly extend; they rose, wide and strong, and extended toward her There was a quick step, and they met about her. and the world swooned and

ent by.

of'the hooked fish— nnd l-aeklashes — I* an en'dle** repetition of throwing out from 50 to 100 feet, of line nnd reeling It lo. 'to tl* O'*' roust run freely from anil to the reel through the guides and tip. Friction ofaW* tirr l*u**C*re' tlon and lnefliclem-y and dflrange. Kric--1 lost moons lost effort In . -the cn*4. , greater. siralP on the rod» more wear on line, and mnylsr the Ido* W a fl*h—the biggest. onq always —and of a fnVttrlle

lure.

Possibly the mo*t Important part of machine—becau*e It

TE of the beneficial results of the war was the Stimulation of American manufacturer* to provide substitutes for countless products which formerly had been imported from other countries, notably Germany. In the majority of ease* thenp home-mnnufaetured products were Just as good a* the Imported product* had lieen. while In not a few Instances they excelled them by a wide margin In point of roerli and the ch.*npnes« and speed with which they could lie turned out. One of the latest illustration* of what American enterprise and Ingenuity ran accomplish ha* just come to light Iu the announcement that a Chicago lapidary ha* perfected a method of manufacturing ligate guide* for fishing rods which are not only far Miperioi to those which formerly rauie from Germany— that being practically the only country to make th«tn before the war. hot which can be turned ont In a fraction of the time required by the German

method*.

Flslilng rod guide* made of agate have long been considered by expert fishermen to be the be*! for the purpose; they give a fine appearance to the rod. are practically Indestructible, and permit of such smooth finish that the wear on the line Is reduced to a minimum. The Germans were the ' first to discover these merits of the j agate guides nnd soon had a virtual

monopoly of the trade throughout the j fas| . ned the lr|H whIrt , uld th e bor- J the halt-caster * machine—because world. Once having established this. | lnr wLlle ^ uprior of th . spool i Is the connecting link bit wren the n and after creating the lielief F .t good I ;l bo!e ln , horizontal gler and Uie flub—Is the Hue. Thl* urate guides could not be mane In any plece of wood thr ^> fm | onc and two line I* a beautiful and delicate thing, other country, they grew leu* panic-1 | Dciws square. This piece of wood It Is made of braided silk because It ular about the quality of the goods „. a|( clalnpod >t one end to another t must be small, supple, smooth and they ned out. A* a matter of fact. . apriKfat and Rlat ionary piece of wood. : strong—small and supple, to, He comduring ie last decade they were an- u . h , le lh e other end was held by. the partly In the reel; smooth. t<> run with able to keep pace with the demand , ef[ Lan<1 ot t i, e p^on drilling and ; the least amount of friction through In tills and other countries where fish- preaMHl acallist hi, chest. With his tip and guides—and leave the skin on tog is much In vogue, brenus- of the : r , ffht han( , |,e worked the bow In such your thumb; strong, to bold one of very slowness of the methods they | f aa hlon a* to cause the *po<H to rotate Dixie Carroll's old “he-whop*." employed hack and forih. a few turns at a •.Ime. This beautiful delicate line must The guide* were all made up to the thus working the drill and eventually be cared for by the angler—not so mountain country of Germany, where (raking a hole through the piece of much because It cost* good money a* It wa* really a family proposition, n ncn te. Only through long practice because rare U the price of safety, whole family drilling and grinding rt>U (d a perfect hole !>e drillvd In this The halt-raster who knows ,hl* busl guide* during .he whiter monih* hy manner, and the prooes*. a* may In* ness and attend* to it does riot let th» crudest band methods and then imagine.! wes very tedious und In- his line dry on the reel to mildew’ and In the spring selling their winter * out- V o!ved much labor. tiecome rotten: be dries it in the air. pot to the commercial buyers, tlirough | Agate Is an exceedingly hard rain-1 He turns his line every few days, end vhom It finally reached Atn>ri<:\. eru i an d the hardest variety come' for end. He carefully testa the castDnlformliy of size and style, and uni- I from certain volranlc region* in ing end each day for stnngth. The formlty of fiulsh and degree of ac- i Uruguay. It Is Imported to thl* conn- enthusiast even Wrep* hi* pet lines la eurao could not be maintained by so i tr} - by the Chicago lapidary through air-tight cases during the closed sea-

msny different hands of morv or less ,], e Americr.n consul, who has it boxed »„n.

exuerienre. especially ••nder pressure an( j dipped to Chicago, the raw stone. How. then, shall a bait-raster, with of ». larg" demand, un- lie result was traT eltog sorae.d.tW miles hefioev they a Joy-forever bamboo ro-1 and a reel that much inferior work began to be n-jcl. the end of their Journey. One bull: like .-» watch and a pet line and a foisted upon the American market. will contain ten thousand dollars favorite lure, put up with guide* nnd To hide the Inferiority of their work- : worth of agate. lip that are open to suspicion? He itinnsh'p and :ho many blemishes In When a shipment arrive the guide j U s, can’t be expected to do It. I hat’s

their galdus. the German makers maker examines each piece «f stone n ||.

dyed them n deep dark red color hy through a magnifying gluss to locate “Other groyffes the angler may not boliinr them iu an iron solution. Tills any Haw* and determine the host and have.” writes Dame Julianna Bcrm-ra. practice also enabled them :o slip must economical way of cutting It Into -suvynge but yf ony fl-^he brake away through many Imitation agate guide*, slabs. A revolving circular "teri knife n f,«. r he Is take on tl.e link.- or ellre which were innde of nothing but hard I* then us-d to cut the piece of agate that he catehe nought, why.die hen

Ida as. and this ws* the more enrily into slabs about one-fourth of an Inch not grevoua."

done lierause buyers had ben led to „ thlrkoess. There slab* i.re then No; If Is not grevous" to •ratebe believe that genuine agate guide* cut up Into smaller pieces about an nought" for "catching fish Is not all shoo'd be red la color. inch square. Hie small piece* are „f fishing.” And iwrt of the other Thl* was the situation when a Cbl-i ih-u fl*t«*l Into tl.e machine for drill-1 drflglits f fishing Is using a rastln*rago lapidary of many yen:.-’ vxperl- >g. the size of the drill used depend rud-wlth perfect guida*. enec. whose father und grandfather Ing u|kki tiie size of the guide to to* j — ——- had lieen lapidaries before him In made. Have Faith and Ftar Not. Amsterdam nnd familiar with the Oer- When a t-.le Is finally bored through This world is largely what we make man method* of making guides, turned n piece of nsuie It I* next ground Into it. Destiny, euvlronraem, heredltsry lita atte.iiion to their manufacture on a circular shape on a grindstone by . tendency these things sink Into Inslga ro»Vm scientific basis. The result : hand. Thl* grinding takes but a few nifirance beneath the power of our of Ids efforts was Uie development of second* nnd the circular ring Is then ■ wills and the possibllUes within our r. remarkable cutting drill by means given a more exact shape on another souls. The universe, with all Its of which he Is enabled to turn out grinding machine. The next step i* to riches, all Its privilege*, all Its Joys, I*

large quantltlM of mt-chanlral'y ja-r-fwt guice* In a comparatively short time, each guide being left tl» natural

color of the raw agate.

This drill not only works with nb-

Ul ho e a hole

“I can explain everyJhtog.” she said. I solute precision, but

when she could talk.

“You need explain nothing." ne re turned. “I have lived the torments ol ; the damned. Edith Duncan was right; she said If It were real love it would never give up. •Endureth all things, she ax id. 'All things.’ .'he said. . .

There Is no limit.”

“But I must tell you. dear." she said. “so that you may understand." And then she patched together the story, from what she knew aud from whst Edith Duncan had told her. and Dave filled to what neither had known. In <-luding t*as Incident earlier ou that fatefb*. evening. She could see hi? jaw* harden as they pieced the plo! together and she knew what he was

thinking.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

First Moving Picture. The firs res! moving picture was produced by C. Frauds Jenkins a Htenographer at the treasury depart meat. Washington, and shown by him at Richmond. lad., his home town, on June 6. 18SM- The portrayeo R butterfly costume dznee performed fcy a vaudeville artirt named Anna beHe. who received *5 lor her work.

or any desired size through ■ 0| iefourth Inch slab of acute to from fifteen to twenty minutes. A* against thia. It took the German guide maker* from fifteen to twenty hours to bore n similar hole through n piece of genuine spate. iRlng for this purpose a so-railed "bow" drill. This drill was operated entirely by hand nnd’conKlsted of a stout piece of wood l -ent into the shape of a bow- by mean*

el the Khnrp Inner and outer edges | ours for the getting. Il wait* to be of tli-' agate ring. Finally the rings ! conquered, but it waits for the master are polished and mounted to metal . hand. Formidable I* everything worth holders, either a- guide* or tip*, ready while to the fearful, to the doubtful, to

to be fitted to fidilng ri*ds. The fin- the weak in spirit

fished product is a delight to the on- To there every obstacle Is magnified gler'* eye. ; To the brave In heart there art- no obTbe guide* on a rod. a* all ball- 1 stncle:. They wade through them and costers know, are an important part u*e them as mopping stone*. They are of Us makeup. Fishing, ns balt-cm*t- j Impelled uy hope begot of their faith: era fish. 1* in no small part a matter I they ere sustained bv courage begot of c-' mechanic*. Uod. red. line, leader, their hope; they have strength and eolure and hook are nil es*eatUl parts durance. 1 got of thler courage. Thereof a delicate machine whlili the angler from emanates success and therein handles according to his skill—and , lies the antidote of worry.—Exchange.

lock. This delicate machine Is no more efficient tlian Us poorest pari. Subject and Story.

And rough, untrue, undersized guide* Redd—They say that a fish never

. f a leather thong, which In

wound several tlroea around a wooden ] ran play the mischief with the effl- stops grow ing.

«,r>o1 four nr five Indie* in length and j dency and durability of tbl* Intricate Green—Well, it hasn't anything on kxlf an inch In diameter. nraebtoe. ! a ft*h story a: that.—Yuokera State*-

!a the lower part " f th» * -»ol was 1

r the spool was Balt-rastlng, aside from the playing n

President McKinley

I tw ck. The chief events of McKinley's . mlnotlon always to keep up the administration were the Spanish- j standards lu thought, or to whatever American war and toe acquiring of | we do iu life, whether it >s hoeing corn, the l-hitipplnes. Porto Klco. and I mending shoe*, or making law* for a Guam, the annexation of Hawaii, and ! nation—eoroethlng that give* an upthe expedition under General Chaffee J ward tendency—an Inspiring quality. In the Boxer larurrecttoo. i that Is lacking to the diameter of the | groveling man with low Ideals Then Pay# to Giva One’s Best. , Is. to the upward struggle Involved io

There Is a great difference between ,! giving one’s best to what ace l* doing. anarchist. The president dlud ! going Just right and a UUla wrong- j something that enlists and derdupe tha eight days Inter from a wound made >etweeo superiority and mediocrity— , highest faculties nnd calls out the tro-

lly a bullet which penetrated his atom | between the fairly good and the best, ach ais'l lodged iu Lite musclea of his , And there t* somethin*

On the 21>th of January. In 15A3. William McKinley, twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born at Nile*. O. It was during McKinley’# second term a* president, on September C. 1001. that he wa* sbo. at the Buffalo exposition by Leon Cro-gust

and noblest qualities.—Orison

the deter- I Swett Muni .-a. la Chicago News.