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Show I I STORYS THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES By MEREDITH NICHOLSON I Till NIN CHANCt." Ck. ivftiiitfbt lw CHAPTER Continued. Then they were silent and heard him futilely striking a match, when suddenly the lantern fell, its wires rattling as It struck the ground, and the two exclaimed with renewed merriment ujton their misfortune. "If you will allow me! I called out. 1 ' t for my own fumbling in my matchbox. I have aoiiietlines thought that there Is really some sort of docent courtesy to me. An old man caught In a rough path that was none too good at best! And a girl, even though my enemy! Hut these were not, I fancy, the reflections that crossed my mind at the moment. Ah, It's Jack," exclaimed my grandfather. "Marian was showing mo the the way to the gate and our light went jNK-ke- out." I Devereux," I murmured. have, hoje, an ley bine for persons who have incurred my displeasure, and I employed it then and there with, bo duubt, its fullest value. She and my grandfather were groping in the dark for the lost lantern, and I, putting out my band, touched her ungloved fingers. "I beg your jiardoii." aha murmured "Miss I frostily. Then I found and tern. grasd the a IimI- - un .iu' (hall I . :i, aa a I iik by tlio vagaries of woman a headl.ess. 'I ran'l talk to you here. Mr (lien-arm- ; 1 had nu Intention of eur 1 ii K you again; imt I nui- -l say tins to you I shall "Those notea of Pickering atik Mr. (lleiianu to give them to you a a mark of esteem from me." She stepped barkwaid ait tliuiivli I hail atruek her. You risked much for them -- and I went on. fur him Mr. (llenarni, I have no Intention of discussing that, or any other matter with you It Is tauter Hut your accusations, the things you Imply, are unjust. Infamous!" The quaver In her voice shook my resolution to deal haraWy with her. "If I had not myself been a witness " 1 began. "Yes; you have the conceit of your own wisdom, 1 dare say." "Hut that challenge to follow you, to break my pledge; my running away, only to find that Pickering was close at my heels; your visit to the tunnel in search of those notes don't you know that those things were a blow that hurt? You had been the spirit of this woodland to me. Through all these months, from the hour I watched you paddle off into the sunset In your canoe, the thought of you made the days brighter steadied and cheered me, and awakened ambitions that I had forgotten abandoned long ago. And this hideous struggle here It seems so bile, so worse than useless now! Hut I'm glad I followed you I'm glad neither fortune nor duty kept mu hack. And now I want you to know that Pickering shall not Buffer I for anything that has happened. shall not punish hliu; for your sake he shall go free." A sigh so deep that it waa like a aob She drew away. struggling to free he."ne!f "Why was it. Marian?" I wanted -V.s? I wanted you to come, Squire Iei-auM- Ck-n-- aru.!" j so" ZM-I- Iff fnMwIlirrlU XXVII. "Hut you challenged me to follow I want. to know why you did lie cloak closer ul.i.ut her and nave her tiea , i J j My history of the affair at Glenarm has overrun i he bounds I had act for I', and these, I submit, are not days fur the desk and lien. Marian la turning over the sheets of manuscript that lie at iny left elbow and demanding that I quit work for a walk abroad. My grandfather is pacing the terrace no doubt, those outside, planning, changes In the grounds that are his constant delight, Of some of the jiersons concerned In this aimer's tale let me aay a word more The prisoner whom Larry left behind wc discharged after several days with all the honor of war, and 1 may add without breach of conll deuce i a comfortable indemnity. Larry has made a reputation by hla book on llussla a searching study into the conditions of the Cxar'a empire, and. having squeezed that lemon, he Is now in Tiliet. His father has secured from the liritlsh government a promise of Immunity for Larry, so long as that amiable adventurer keeps away from Ireland. My friend's latest letters to me contain, I note, no reference to The Slid. llatea la In California conducting a fruit ranch, and when he visited us last Christmas he bore all the marks of a gentleman whom the world uses well. Stoddard's life baa known many remarkable changes In the three years that have intssed, but they must wait for another day, and, perhaps, another historian. Suffice It to aay that it was he who married ua Marian and me In the little chapel by the wall, 1 lan- "One moment," I said, "and I'll see what's the trouble." I thought my grandfather took It, hut the flame of my wax mutch showed her fingers clasping the wire frame. The cloak allpied away, showing her arm's soft curve, the blue and white of her bodice, the purple blur of violets; and for a second I saw her face, with a smile quivering altout her lips. was beating the My grandfather ground Impatiently with his stick, urging ua to leave the lantern und go on. I'll go "IjcI It alone," he said. down through the chapel; there's a lantern In there somewhere." "Im awfully sorry , she said, "but 1 recently lost my beat lantern! To I sure she bad! 1 waa angry that she should so braxenly recall the , nighty I found her looking for flolws tag senates Is the passage tit the' TVsvt of Bewilderment I She had lifted the lantern now. and 1 waq striving to touch the wax taiier to the wick, with Imminent danger to my Imre fingers. "They dont really light well when the oil's out," she observed, with an exasperating air of wisdom. 1 took It from her hand and shook It dose to my ear. "Yea: of course, it's empty," I muttered disdainfully, and threw It from me. "Oh, Mr. Olenarm!" she cried, turning away toward my grandfather. I heard his atlck beiitlng the rough path several yards away, lie was haatcnlng toward (llenarni House. "I think Mr. (llenarni hna gone home." "Oh. that la too bad!" ahe exclaimed. "Thank you! lie's protmtily at the chapel by this time, if you will me " ' lt "Not at all!" A man In the aixtlca should not tax his arteries too severely. I was quite sure that my grandfather ran up the chapel steps: I could hear hla atlck beatlug hurriedly on the atones. "If you wish to go farther" I be gan. was Indignant at my grandfather's conduct; he had deliberately run off. leaving me alone with a young woman whom I had resolved never to see 1 Main. "Thank you; t shat! go hack now. 1 waa merely walking to the gate with Mr. (llenarni. It Is so fine to have him back again, bo unbelievable!" It waa Just such a polite murmur as one might employ In speaking to an old foe at a friend's table. She listened a moment for hla then, apparently satisfied, turned back toward St. Agatha's. I followed, un certain, healtatlng, marking her defln-ftonward flight. Front the folds of her cloak stole the faint erfunie of violets. The sight of her, the aoitnd of her voice, combined to create and to destroy! a mood with every step, I was seeking tome colorless thing to aay when she spoke over her ahuul der: "You are very kind, but I am not the least afraid, Mr. Glenarm. Rut there la something 1 wish to say to you, now that we have met. I ab-p- ; e should like" She slackened her step. "Yea." "I ant going away." "Yes; of course; you are going away. Her tone Implied that tlila was something that bad been ordained from the beginning of lime, and did not mat ter. And I wish to say a word about Mr. Pickering," I added. She paused and faced me ahrupMy W'e were at the edge of the wood and the school lay nuite near. Sb ITT Ilf VlTiTF 3 NORTHWEST NOTES has passed the house establPeter O'Neill, n well known miner ishing n United Slates assay office at of Dutte, fell a distance of sixty feet Salt Lake City. in the Kim Orin shaft and was inLee Hong, n Chinese truck gardener stantly killed. of Ogden, was struck by a street car Six inches of snow on tbe level ioat week and seriously injured. prevented tbe opening of the baseball The state convention of the Social- season at Butte on May 26. An elabist party was held in Salt Lake City orate program had been prepared for on last Saturday, when candidates for tbe occasion. btate offices were nominated. Amicable relations between tbe lacom- bor unions of Montana and tbe Bell The Newcastle Reclamation pany last week filed articles of incor- Telephone company have been reporation. The company will reclaim stored, after a fight which has lasted lor some time and been a source of by Irrigation lands In Iron county. NephI IJowthorp, of Holliday, waa heavy expense to both aides. found unconscious in the suburbs of Ill health la supposed to have been Salt Lake one day last week, and died responsible for Mrs. Emma C. Larsen, the next day, death being due to apo- a widow, killing herself by banging at Goldfield. She fastened one end of plexy. Frank Campbell, who hired a horse a rope to a window, tied tbe other amj buggv from an Ogden liveryman, about her neck and Jumped into and waa later found in the act of sell- space. Judge Burnett, in the circuit court ing the outfit, will face a charge of at Salem, Ore., sentenced J. Thorn-burhorse stealing. Rocs, tbe Portland banker, to George Tremayne, a mechanic, was found dead In bia bed In Salt Lake five years' Imprisonment and to pay City, death being due to alcoholism of a fine of 8576,094. Ross was recently the heart, Trentayne having been a convicted of wrongful conversion of state school funds in his capacity as heavy drinker. A fight for fewer saloons and better president of the Title Guarantee and regulation of those that continue In Trust company. The plant of the Seimon Lumber business la on In Davis county, the movement having its in- company, on the tide flats at Bellingham, Wash., burned early Saturday, ception in Kaysville. a loss of 8120,000. Tbe fire entailing Alonzo Watson, n Salt Lake boy, while riding his bicycle alongside a started in the engine room and street car, bolding to the car, slipped spread ao rapidly that the watchman and fell, bin band being thrown could do little to stay the flames with the equipment in the across the rail and cut off. mill. The state board of land commissionThe people of La Grande, Ore., are ers has completed its purchase of land on which to locate the proposed elated over the assurance that a 865, forthPiute reservoir, sear Mnrysvale, at a 000 federal building will bn coming next year. In it will house coat of between 30,000 and 135,000. the postofflee and tbe land office. Four cases of smallpox have devel- Should this city be selected as the two oped In Ogden within the past of this division of tbe headquarters weeks, but It Is believed a rigid encourt, the building will be supreme law of will forcement the quarantine Its home. prevent a further spread of the disSheriff Alfred Bath of Laramie, ease. was killed thirty, miles west Wyo., The state organizer of the National of Laramie by a man named SumenHumane society la endeavoring to from Walden, Colb. Summers mers, list the efforts of the school children bad held up and robbed his employer throughout the state in a warfare at Walden, and Sheriff Batb had against the mistreatment of dumb been advised of the fact and was In animals. pursuit of Summern when the murder It Is estimated that there will be occurred. 5.000 uniformed men and 100 floats In Ontario, Ore., ships more livestock line In the parade to be held In Salt than any other point between PortJjike City during the convention of land and Denver, it ia claimed. Cattle, the Commercial Travelers, June 18, horses and sheep are driven therefor 19 and SO. a distance of 150 to 200 miles to be Leonard Doutwell, who says he is a loaded onto tbe cars for transportason of the late Governor Doutwell of tion east and north. It ia not uncomMassachusetts, has been arrested In mon for 2,000 head of cattle to be Halt Lake for attempting to get money shipped from there in one day. on a cheek Issued on a bank In which Francis Clddeo waa found guilty at be has no funds. Greenwood, B. C., of the charge of The senate passed the bill granting murder, and was sentenced to be a perpetual leasement and right of banged July 31, Clddeo was charged way across the Fort Douglas military with dynamiting the Canadian hotel to tbe city of Salt Lake which resulted In the death of the t reservation ifor the purpose of laying conduit and : proprietors daughter, Miss King. He,' - .water pipe lines. made good bib escape, but later was The fruit growers of Weber county captured In Salt Lake City. have organized an association which Colorado may emphasize the franwill take care of the fruit shipments chise for women in that state ' by from that county, and In future It Is sending two women delegates to tbe expected that fruit will be shipped in rational Democratic convention. Foltrain loada Instead of carload lota lowing tbe movement In Denver to Salt send Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, it is Frank Gilbert, a Lake boy, waa accidentally shot and announced that Mrs. Margaret Howdangerously Injured by a playmate ell Jefferson Davis Hayes, the only who pointed a target gun at him, living daughter of Jefferson Davis, thinking it was not loaded. The bul- may be a delegate. News comes from- Billings, Mont., let struck the Gilbert boy in the neck. Not only In Utah, but In southern of tbe death of William T. Hamilton, Idaho and western Wyoming the wool aged 86, well known throughout the growers are Joining in the movement state as "Uncle Billy. and probably started in Salt Lake for the storing the greatest Indian fighter and Indian of the yenr's clip until the present sign reader and talker the west has low prices are broken and better ever produced. Years before Buffalo Bill" Cody was born, Hamilton was prices offered. emof Henefer, Denjamln Hopkins fighting Indians on the plains and In ployed as foreman of a repair gang the Rocky mountains. at the Devil's Slide plant of the Union The Rev. Mr. Lewis J. Duncan, pasPortland Cement company, near Og- tor of the Unitarian church of Butte, den, waa Instantly killed by falling recently Invited Emma Goldman, the from an elevator a distance of fifty anarchist, to speak in his church, on feet to the ground. ler visit to Butte. Because of this, a One immediate result of the meet- committee from the local Grand Army ing of the good roads advocates in of the Republic waited upon Mr. DunSalt Lake was the appropriation last can and requested him to retire na week by the Salt Lake city council orator of tbe community In the local of a sum of money to assist in the im- Decoration day services. provement of the road leading out of George B. Mecbem of Denver, who that city to Ogden. been mining in Cripple Creek, has The fifteenth annual convention of Colorado Springs and other placet for the Commercial Travelers will be held years, has filed suit against L. L. PatIn Salt Lake City June 18, 19 and 20. rick, president of the First National Rates have been granted by all the hank of Goldfield, for 8285,000, claimrailroads, and it is expected the great- ing that he grubstaked Patrick eight est crowd of the year will be in Salt years ago, and that Patrick made a Lake on those dates. fortune in Goldfield without accountL. U. Colbath, one of the most to him for hla half. widely known mining men in the ing The government will bring proceedcountry, died at his home in Salt Lake the Southern Paon Tuesday of last week. He came ings to dispossess western In Oregon vallands of cific to Salt Lake In 1870, and had been s desecure and to at 83,500,000, connected with the Ontario Mining ued restorand the cree grant 1872. since annulling company The movement recently taken by ing tbe lands to the public domain. given to the Southern tbe Utah woolgrowers to store this The lands were decades ago to Induce several Pacific years dip until the market becomes more satisfactory to them Is said to the construction of railroad lines, but The it is claimed the road has failed to be meeting with great success. total amount booked for storage Is live up to all its obligations to tbe said to be 900,000 pounds. government A dead man was found on tbe Tbe board of railroad commissiontracks near Echo, bis pockets being ers of Montana has ordered a public empty, nothing being found about bin bearing on June 10, In Helena, for the person that would serve to identify purpose of determining ore rates. Behim. Two tramps ssy they saw tbe cause of the unusually heavy traffic man riding on a baggage car a few in these shipments, the outcome of hours before hla body was found on the meeting la awaited with much Interest. tbe track. William Hay has been sentenced to Trackmen and other laborers on the Utah division of the Union Pacific be banged at Deer Lodge. Mont., on are being laid off dally in order to July 3. Hay is the second convict to keep down expenses on the system be given tbe extreme sentence for until the beginning of tbe new rail- the murder of Deputy Warden Robinroad year. July 1, after which. It is son In the recent attempt to break announced, the men will be put back prison there, and one sent np for life. to work. M. J. Harrison wan convicted at Gus Glastos, an employe at the to bled Red at mill Garfield, Lodge, Mont., of murder In tbe sampling death after having his arm torn oft second degree for the killing of John by a belt Glastos was working at Norma at Belfry in April last, and the machinery when his arm was aentenced to the penitentiary for fifty caught and torn off at the elbow, and year. The shooting affray In which before n doctor could be summoned Norma lost his life waa decidedly dead sensational. 1m ' A bill to Como, 8qulre Glenarm? broke front her. She thrust forth her and that when he conics now and then to visit us, we renew our Impression hand eutrcntlngly. of him as a man largo of InhIv and of with him to your don't go you Why soul. Sister Theresa continue at the generosity? You are so ready to 111 of me! And 4 shall not de- head of St. Agatha's, and she and the comfend myself; but I will say these other Sisters of her brown-cla1 had no are PicGlenarm: Mr. pany neighbors. delightful fo you. things Idea, no thought of seeing him at the kering's fnilure and subsequent disapIt was a surprise to me pearance were described sufficiently Armstrong's, when he telegraphed In the newspuimrs. and his name Is them to and he was routing. And when I went In- never mentioned at Glenarm. As for myself Marian is tapping to the tunnel there tinder the wall the floor restlessly with her boot and that night, I had a puriawe a I must hasten I may sny that I am " "Y'es?" She paused and I bent for- no Idler. It was I who carried on the ward. earnestly waiting for her words, work of finishing Glenarm llouiq knowing that here lay her great of- and I ntanago the farms which my grandfather has lately acquired in this fending. lint belter still, from "I was afraid I waa afraid that neighborhood. Mr. Glenarm might not come tn time; my own point of view, I maintain In that you might he dispossessed lose Chicago an office as consulting rngt the fight, and I came back with Mr. neer. and I have already had seven Pickering Is'eanse that was the lniKrtant commissions. Glenarm House Is now what my easiest and quickest way and I dreadful some might thing grandfather hail wished to make it, thought beautiful and dignified mansion. He hapiion here to you" She turned and ran front me with insisted on filling up the tunnel, the speed of the wind, the clonk flut- that the Door of Hewildci incut !i w tering out darkly about her. At the more. The passage in the wall and door, under the light of the lamp, I the strong box In the paneling of the Wanted You e pur-ims- e wns close upon her. Her hand was on the vestibule latMi. "Hut how should I have known?" I cried, "when vou had taunted me with my Imprisonment at Glenarm: you had dared me to follow you. If you can tell me If there la an answer to that" I shall never tell you anything more! Y'ou were so eager to think 111 of me to accuse me!" "It was because 1 love you; It waa mv Jealousy of that man. my boyhood enemy, that made me cateh at any You are ao beautiful you doubt! are so much a part of the peace, the charm of all this! I had hoed for spring for you and the spring together ! "Oh. please!" Her flight had shaken the toque to an unwonted angle; her breath canto quick and hard as she tugged at the latch eagerly. The light front overhead was full upon us. but I could not go with hoi and belief struggling unsatisfied In my heart. I seized her hands and sought to look Into her cyca. rhlmney-breas- t remain, though theU(. ter we use now as a hiding place hr certain prized bottles of rare whisky which John Marshall Glenarm ordains shall I taken dowu only on Christmas Eves, to drink the health of Olivia Gladys Armstrong. That young woman. I may add. Is now a lHle U her own city, and of the scores of youngsters all the way from Pittsburg to New Orleans who lay siege to her heart, my word Is, may the best mu win! Marian the most patient of wnm is walking toward the door, eagm for the sunshine, the free ;iirs g spring, the blue vistas lakcwar-1- , at last I am ready to go. Tha End. Warning Against Cigarettes. In order to deter hoys from smoking cigarettes. It was suggested al n mem. Ing of the education commi:). g the London county council that the dingrams of cigarette antokers' handwriting which appear in the medico officer's report should be enlarged and dlsulared In schools. may be ibsoutsly safe in your Jewelry purchases if you buy of the o!d reliable 1862 house. 170 ft IAIN SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. Mail Orders promptly handled. CHILD, COLE CO. BROKERS SOLICIT YOQR PATRONAGE Our facllitlBB for handling your account unexcelled. We make liberal advances on all Utah Stocks. n 100 Atlas Black, Balt Lake City. 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It is estimated that ii million yards of bunting will be used in decorations, the work having already begun, ' while countless thousands of electric lights will literally turn night into day. All of the many resorts will be running at full blast at that time and will keep open house for the Commercial Travelers and their friends, special programs of entertainment being prepared by the management of Baltair, Lagoon, the Salt Palace, and the difa ferent resorts. There is to I parade, the greatest in the history of the state, in which 6,000 uniformed men nnd hundreds of floats reprevent-lnthe progress of western development will play an important part. Fifteen brass bands will furnish mu-tithere will be baseball games, . : Wan-daiuer- bicycle racing and other sports, feast ing, social entertainments and a ree newal of It ia friendships. expected that this meeting of the Com mercial Travelers will be the event oi the year in a city noted for its hosold-tim- pitality to the visitor and pleasure seek ar, as thousands from all over the country will no doubt take advantage of the reduced rates' announced by the railroads to visit Salt Lake in the most joyous season of all the year. HIE TROUBLE WAS NOT ORGANIC. Official's AHment One Comparatively Easy to Cure. Gen. Jouuert Pienaar waa talking to a Washington reporter about a West African official. "It la in that mana territory." said Gen. Pienaar, "that the blacks aVe still branded. Tha man neglects his work. Well Intentloned, but lazy. In hla lg norance he suffers all aorta of iniquities to go on among hla people. "Yea, he la lazy and neglectful. In the last heat he was taken sick and a physician was sent for. " I want you to tell me frankly,' he said to the physician, what is the mat- ter with me. "Tbe physician frowned at the fat, flushed face and, frankly enough, replied: "The trouble with you, sir, is that yon are suffering from underwork nnd over pay.' Lost to Uo by Incredulity, Knowledge of divine tblngo for (he most part, as Heraclitus says, la lost to ua by Incredulity. Plutarch. Nearer tha Boll. Mr. and Mrs. Egg nnd their ten children escaped the burning house with the greatest trouble. All were In tbelr night clothes and were crowded into the lower hall when found by the firemen. Los Angeles Record. Slbarla'a Many Minerals. Foremost among the minerals, etc, which Russians regard as the source of Siberia's future wealth, are gold. Iron, copper, platinum, emeralds, topazes, asbestos. Glauber's salt, rock alt, nnd. In all probability, naphtha . |