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Show you were sailing home. Ill wager you the best dinner you ever ate that there more at stake than your grandfather's money. The situation is Inspiring. I grow Interested. I'm almost persuad'-- d to Unger." CHAPTER XIX. A THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND ; CANDLES IBS By MEREDITH NICHOLSON Uthtt i -- main m MNElua rami' u. Triple Alllancs. tarry refused to share ulm M k IHtUm UmrnU CHAPTER XVIII. Continued. 'It pleased tuy fancy to follow him ; and by (be time I had studied your digging her a trifle, thing began to happen below. It Bounded like a St. I'atrU-k'day celebration In an Irish Tillage, and I went down at a gallop to aee if there waa any chance of breaking in. Have you aeeu the room? Well," he gave several turns to hla right wrist, as though to test it, we all had a Jolly time there by the Another chap had got In somewhere, so there were two of them. "Your man I supsise It's your man was defending himself gallantly with a large thing of brass that looked like the pties of a grand organ and I allied In with a chair. My presence aeemed to surprise the attacking party, who evidently thought I was you, nattering I must say, to me!" "You undoubtedly saved Hates' life nnd prevented the rifling of the house. And after you had injured water on Bates, he's the servant. you came up . a lire-plao- my we gazed at each other. he, Hatea. servant, and I, hla master! He hafl' ways addressed me so punct!!ltJy with the "sir of resja-c- t that his laratlon of fealty, spoken with sou-cerand vigorous an air of Indeptfl ence, and with the bold emphasliof the oath, that I stood spellbound, sr ing at lilm. The silence was broPn ! by tarry, who sprang forward e quarters grasM:d Hates' hand.I and chose a room for himself, which Hates tilted up out of the house stores. I did not know what Hates might surmise about tarry, but he accepted my friend In good part, aa a guest who would remain indefinitely. He seemed to Interest tarry, whose eyes followed the man Inquiringly. When we went down Hates waa limping about the library, endeavoring to restore order. , "Hates." I said to him, you are a very curious person. I have had a thousand and one opinions about you since I came here, anil still I don't make you out." He turned from the shelve!, a defaced volume In his hands. "Yes, sir. It was a good deal that way with your lamented grandfather. He always said I puxxled him. Iarry, safe behind the fellow's back, made no attempt to conceal a smile. "1 want to thank you for your heroic efforts to protect the house last night. You acted nobly, and I must confess, Hutes, that I didn't think It was In you. I'm only sorry that there are black pages In your record that I can't reconcile with your manly conduct of last night. Hut weve got to come to an understanding." "Yes. sir." "The most outrageous attacks have been made on me since I came here. "I. too. Hates," said, feeling ay heart leap with liking, even with 1' miration for the real manhood flat seemed to transfigure this hireling-th- is fellow whom I had charged vih Infamous conduct, this servant vtu had cared for my needs in so hutnUe a spirit of subjection. The knocker on the front door soisd-eperemptorily, and Hates turtfd without another word, and admltxd Stoddard, who came In hurriedly. ; Merry Christmas!" he called best-llIn tonus hardly consonant with $ y, troubled look on his face. I Introduced him to tarry and asked him to lit down. "Pray excuse our disorder, v didn't do It for fun; It was oneoi Santa Claus tricks. He stared about wonderingly. "So you caught It, too, did you?" "To lie sure. You dont mean to 1 that they raided the chapel?" ' That'a exactly what I mean to I went Into the church for y early service I found that some one had ripped off the wainscoting Is a half a doxen places and even pried ip the altar. It's the most outrages'll thing I ever knew. You've heard of the proverbial poverty of the church mouse, what do you suppose anybody could want to raid a simple little country chapel for? And more curious yet, here That'a the way of It." "You're a brick, Larry Donovan. There's ouly one of you; and now1 "And now, John Glenarni, we've got or you limit. Aa for me. after a few boura of your to get down to business, enlivening society" You don't go a step until we go together, no, by the beard of the prophet! I've a fight on here and 1'in going to win If I die In the struggle, and you've got to stay with me to the etui. "Hut under the will you dare not take a boarder." "Of course I dare! That will's as though it had never ben as far as I'm concerned. My grandfather never expected me to sit here alone and be John Marshall tilenarm murdered. wasn't a fool exactly!" "No. but a trifle queer, I should say. I don't have to tell you, old man, that this situation appeals to m. It's my kind of a Job. If It weren't that the hounds are at my heels I'd like to stay with you, but you have enough trouble on handa without opening the house to an attack by my enemies." "Stop talking about It. I don't propose to be deserted by the only friend I have In the wurld when Im up to my ryea In trouble. Let's go down and get some coffee." We found Hates trying to remove the evidences of tho night's struggle. He had fastened a cold pack about hla bead and limited slightly; otherwise be waa the same silent and Inexplicable. Daylight had not Improved the appearance of the room. Several hundred hooka lay scattered over the floor and the shelves that bad bold them were harked and broken. "Hates, If you can give ua coffee T Let the room go for the present." Yea, air." "And Hatea " ... lie paused and Larrya keen eyes were lient sharply upon him. "Mr. Donovan la a friend who will be wltb me for some time. We'll fix up hla room later In the day" He limped out, Larry's eyes following him. "What do you think of that fellow?" asked. Larry's face wore a puxxled look. What do you call him, nates? He's a plucky fellow." Larry picked up from the hearth tho big candelabrum with which Hates had .defended himself. It was badly bent sad twisted, and Larry grinned. "The fellow who went out through the front door probably Isn't feeling Your man waa swingvery well ing this thing Ilka a windmill." "1 can't 'understand It; 1 muttered. "I can't, for the life of me, see why ho should have given battle to the enemy. They all belong to Pickering, and Dates la the biggest rascal of the bunch." As we ate breakfast 1 tilled In gain I bad left In my hurried narrative, with relief that I can not describe filling my heart as I leaned again upon the sympathy of aia old and trusted friend. I dismissed Hates as soon as possible 1 to-da- that we might talk freely. "Take It up and down and all around, what do you think of all this?" I asked. Larry was silent for a moment; he was not given to careless speech In personal matters. "There's more to it than frightening jroa off or getting your grandfather's money. It's my guess there's something in this house that aomeluidy Pickering aupimscdly la very anxious to And." "Yes; 1 begin to think so. He could come In here legally If U were merely a matter of searching for lost assets." "Yes; and whatever It Is It must be well hidden. Aa I remember, your grandfather died In June. You got a letter calling you home In October." "It was sent out blindly, with not one chance In a hundred that It would over reach me." "Certainly. You were a wanderer on the face of the earth, and there was nobody In America to look after your Interests. You may be mire that the mlace was thoroughly ransacked while MINES AND MINING UTaII STATE NEWS TAKE NO CHANCES I In buying Jewelry. Ge where you know the In the region about St. George al- Seller Is raliakla. Our rsyutatieu Is establishes by a forty years test of reliability- monds are In bloom. The Beaver woolen mills are to be reopened, a new company having purchased the plant. Work Is now under way on the power plant to be erected at Willard, Box Elder county. Lehi citizens will soon have fish for the market, that being the latest SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. Industry Inaugurated there. It la announced that the Salt Lake Mail orders a syeeialty Ogden railroad will be completed to Ogden by the first of June. The board of education of Ogden bas decided to Install fire escapes In every school building In the city. Yerlngton Is aaid to be proving Its claim to the largest mineral area of any of the mining camps of Nevada. Oil company at The Virgin City baa drilled down 900 feet and have a Aowr of gas. The drill Is till going down. An oil strike baa been made near Goodrich, San Juan county. Oil waa found at a depth of 200 feet and stands 140 feet deep In the well. The United State Smelting, Refining Mining company last week declared a dividend on lte common stock and 1 per cent on Its preferred stock. Development work la to be resumed in the Gold Eagle mlue at Neal, Idaho. It le the Intention to thoroughly explore the property, and to that end work will be pushed vigorously. The Elk Coal company, whose property Is located about six miles from Kemmeror, Wyoming, la planning to begin marketing coal from its mines In the near future. The property Is said to be n big one. The camp of Rhyolite, Nevada, la wild over Ladd mountain discoveries. Men ere sacking ore on Holt and tamle leases running fl a pound. An eight-inc- h streak on Holt's is averaging 350 to the ton. The New York TImea says: The demand for copper has so Increased that have companies copper producing sold ahead to the extent of 100,000,000 pounds. This marks a vast Improvement in the copper trade. Good values have been found In the Celtic mine, according to the Boise The vein recently unStatesman. covered Is eight feet In width, and an average sample of the entire eight feet showy a value of $17 In gold. The Holae Ore Testing company has completed its plant A small teat waa made on some ore from the Lubkln put property, 500 pounds being through. This ore was low grade, assaying $3.50 a ton. An extraction of 94 per rent waa effected. Cumberland Ely Interests have recently summarized all of the samples ever taken In its Veteran workings. They find that the average of the assays la 3.49 iier cent copjier. This Includes many samples taken in drifts which extended beyond the limits of the ore body and contained almost no Star-Cresce- SO-ce- te Strike-breaker- s Will Stand by You, John You know what I mean well enough. Mr, Glenarm never Intended that I should alt down In hla house and be killed or robbed. He was the gentlest being that ever lived, and I'm going to light for hla memory and to protect hla property from the scoundrels who have plotted against me. 1 hope you follow me." He was re"Yes, Mr. Glenarm." garding me attentively; Ills lips quavered. perhaps from weakness, and he seemed distressed and III. Now I offer you your choice, either to stand loyally by me and my grandfather's house or to Join these scoundrels Arthur Pickering has hired to drive me out. I'm not going to bribe you, I don't offer you a rent for your help, but I won't have a traitor In tho house, and if you don't like me or my terms 1 want you to go and go now." He atrulghtened quickly, hla eyes lighted und the color crept Into his face, I had never before seen him appear so like a human being. Mr. Glenarni, you have been hard on me; there have been times when you have been most uujust " "Unjust, unfair my God, what do you expert me to take from you! Haven't I known that you were In IrBgue with Pickering? I'm not as dull aa 1 look, and after your Interview with Ihckering m the chapel iorch you can't eonvlce me that you were faithful to my Interest at that time." He started and gaxed at me wonder Ingly. I had had no Intention of using the chapel porch Interview at this time, but It leaped out of me uncontrollably. 1 suppose, sir. he began brokenly, that I can hardly persuade you that I meant no wrong on that occasion." You certainly ran not, and It's safer for you not to try. Hut I'm willing to let all that go as a reward for your work last night. Make your choice now; stay here and stop your spying or clear out within an hour. lie took a step toward me; the table was between us and he drew quite near but stood clear of It, erect until there was something soldierly and commanding In his tall figure. "Ily God, I will aland by you. John Glenarm!" he said, and struck the table smartly with hla clinched hand. He flushed Instantly, and I felt the blood mounting Into my own face aa Glenarml" church plate waa untouched, though the closet where It's kept vas upset, as though the miscreants had looked there for something they didn't the And." Stoddard was greatly disturbed, and gazed about the topsy-turvlibrary with growing Indignation. We drew together for a council of war. Here waa an opportunity to enlist a new recruit on my side; and after I had told my story fully and conducted tarry and Stoddard through the tunnel, the better to prove that I waa not romancing, they declared their purMwe to stand by me to the end, no matter what that conclusion might be. The next morning Hates placed a letter postmarked Cincinnati at my plate. I opened and read It aloud to y Larry: On Hoard John Olenarm, K., tilenarm llouae, the Helnlw. Herein her S, 1301. Annnndale. Wulmna tu.. lnillmw: Hear Blr- -I have pint learned fnHn what I believe to be a trustworthy source that you have already violated tho terms of the aicrrcmciit under which you entered Into residence on the property near Annandale. known as Glrnarm House. The provisinne of the will of John Marshall (llennrm are plain and unequivocal, as you undoubtedly under- stood whrn you them, and your absence, not only from the estate Itirlf but from Walwiia county, xlolatei beyond question your right to Inherit. I. aa executor, therefore demand that you at once vacate said priqiertr, having It In as good condition as when reived by you. Very truly y,)v,ri, Arthur Executor of the Estate ,.f j,v,n t llennrm. "Very truly Larry, snapping the devil's." Marshall growled hla cigarette case viciously. "How did he And out?" 1 asked lamely, but my heart sank like lead. Had Marian Devereux told him! How else could he know? "Probably from the alar, the whole universe undoubtedly saw you ping off to meet your lady love ' n.i. these women!" tv. (TO HE roXTINl-Ep.- Also ) the Worst "A woman always gets the best ot a maq la an argument." Ye, and In a marria6e."-Houi- ton Posts the post- LAUGHTER NOT ALWAY8 GOOD. card. J. Black, a teamster, was probably fatally Injured aa the result of hit team running away in Salt Lake. Black fell under the wheels and was Injured internally. While attempting to beat hla way to Denver on a passenger train, Daniel Matthews, a trainman, fell beneath the train and was ground to pieces, the accident happening in Salt Lake City. Moses Jones, who hod hla skull fractured with a beer bottle while In a .row with Duane McCandlaaa at Lehi, la dead. At charge of murder in the first degree will be preferred agalnat McCandlass. A good many dry farmers" have left Lehi and surrounding towns for Cedar Valley to prepare their lands for fall planting. The several thousand acres of wheat planted last fall Is up and looking fine. Ten thousand acres of sugar beets have been contracted for the Lehi factory, and the condition of the soil and abundant anow fall in the mountains Indicate the biggest tonnage this season in the factorys history. At the preliminary hearing at Bingham Junction In the case of Mace Cockran, who fatally shot Mat Zoraph while the latter, was stealing coal, Cockran was bound over to the j district court on a charge of murder In the second degree. a carpenter, Samuel Mulholland, was struck by a street car in Salt Lake City and fatally Injured. stepped from behind a pole In front of the car, and the motor-macould not atop the car In time to prevent the accident . The gold mines of the Transvaal produced la 1907 $130,750,000 wortu of gold, which, with the exception of the $5,000,000, was obtained along reef upon which la situated the city This Information of Johannesburg. cornea to the state department from the United States consul at Victoria, South Africa. The litigation affecting the Dromedary Hump Mining company at Fair-- ' view, Nevada, has been dismissed, giving the company an absolute clear title. The company shaft Is down 245 t feet, and will be continued to the level before crosscutting la be-- , gun. It la equipped with a power hoisting plant. A report covering the operations of the Carlas Mining company In the Tin-ti- c district during the year 1907 has been aent out to shareholders from the eastern offices of that corporation. The net earnings during the period acounted to $7,649, representing the proceeds from 7,481 tons of ore shipped to the smelters. Attorney Thomas J. Barry, of Bosstock' ton, representing dissatisfied holdera of the Bingham Consolidated Mining company, haa Issued a circular letter to all stockholders of the company. In which he saya, "1 have no plan at present to propose. My object la to organise all dissatisfied stockholders and to endeavor to obtain what rlghtfnlly belongs to us." Representatives of moat of the large steel companies of the United States met In New York last week to discuss trade conditions and prices of iron and steel. The necessity of an understanding aa to the prices of pig Iron la said to be one of the causes of the meeting. It la announced there will be no change in the price of teeL 300-foo- I taking against the objectionable picture copper. "By God, are places of the striking machinists in the Denver Rio Grande shops In Balt Lake. Citizens of St. George will hold a mass meeting Monday evening, March 30, to consider question of prohibiting the sale of liquor in that city. The problem of eradicating measles la one which la giving the health department and the board of education of Ogden considerable trouble. Grantavllle la again enthusiastic over the prospects of a railroad. The plan Is to have a spur from the Western Pacific built Into the town. Members of the Salt Lake branch of the Womens Christian Temperance union have undertaken a crusade Mul-bolla- n James Jensen was shot and Instant-!killed in n saloon in Mt Pleasant y Evidences of Merriment Sometimes by No Means Satisfying. "Of course, you have heard, said the man with a sensitive ear, "a laugh that Jarred. I don't mean," he continued, "so much a laugh at an Inopportune time I Imagine we have all heard such laughs as a laugh the quality of which Is unpleasant There Is something contagious in laughter of the right kind, even though you may be the object of It It bubbles from the well of good humor; there is no hidden thought, or arriere pensee, as the French say, behind It It is ths essence of frankness; it la spontaneous and wholesouled, and It cleanses the system of the laughter, and, too, of the hearer, like a spiritual bath. But there are other kinds of laughter. Tbe sneering laugh Is perhapa the moat familiar. Then there la a quiet laugh a sibilant secretive sort of laugh that is quite as certain to mean mischief. Another laugh, disagreeable in Ita nature, la the nervous cachlnatlon that comes either from embarrassment or la a mere vocal habit. The worst Hugh of all, however, to my mind, is that mirthless sound provoked by the distress or embarrassment of others, and it rasps, naturally, most of all, the object calling It forth: A person laughed at and hurt never forgeta the experience." high-pitche- d, Some New Fiction. Besides The Great Secret" by E, Janet ot Phillips Oppenhelm, and the Dunes, by Harriet T. Comstock, already published. Little, Brown Co.'s early 1908 novels include The Reaping by Mary Imla'y Taylor, author of "The Impersonator," etc. "Ths a detecHemlock Avenue Mystery, tive story by Roman Doubleday, a new writer, The Supreme Gift, by Grace penlo Litchfield, a new novel by Alina of the Chapin Ray, "The Weight Name," by Paul Bourget, translated by George Burnham Ives, "The Heart of the Red Firs," a story of the northwest, by Ada Woodruff Anderson, The Adventures of Charles Edward," by Harrison Rhodes, and "The Five Knots." a new mystery story by Fred M. White. by Archie Burns. Ill feeling had ex--' Isted between tbe two men for some lime. Burns waa the aggressor In tbe quarrel. It la said, and fired alx shots, four of which took effect Lawrence O. Craeroft, aged 18, was run down by n bicycle rider In Salt Lake and fatally Injured. Tbe rider escaped. This Is tbe second fatality in the Craeroft family within a fortnight Lorenzo Craeroft a cousin haring committed suicide. Fifteen carloads of cattle were shipped from Utah last week to Los Had Feast of Oystsrs. Angeles, to be used in feeding the "Ta Ancient, Honorable and Nobis sailors of Admiral Evans fleet upon their arrival. The cattle are all Utah Order of Oyster Gobblers" has Just products and will be aent aboard the held an annual gathering at Blackshlpa on their arrival at San Diego burn, In England. A party consisting harbor. vf 23 members consumed 1,300 oysters. Mrs. Ann Clemons, a pioneer, who More Than Hs Wanted. arrived at Nauvoo on April 13, 1844, "Sometimes ladles thank ms when In company with 200 Mormon conIs dangerously 111 ! give up my seat to them, the young verts from Several sensational strikes have at her homeEngland, man said, "and sometimes they do In Santaquln. Mrs. Clembeen made recently In the new gold ons will be 99 years of age on August not, and than occasionally something fields In upper Bull valley, about 28, and Is probably the oldest woman unusual happens. This morning when miles north of SL George, In the state. forty-fiv- e .' gave up my seat to a lady she Utah. Some of the discoveries am Before another year. It la hoped thanked me effusively. a ton, showing up ore worth $3,000 "'Thank you very much, she said; of Ogden will own a watthat the while surface showings everywhere erworks city very acceptable. I assure you. This and electric lighting plant. are very 'promising. In the district attracted the attention of all Hundreds of men have gone Into the It ia probable that the power plant speech and really I think I would around, near located be Fork will South the district In the past fortnight. to be thanked at all rather not so would be It prefer that canyon, possible on old the resumed Work la to be town of Hunts- than to be thanked so generously. to the furnish easily Sunshine Gold Mining companys ville with power. "If It would be polite for me to Inproperty at Mercur. The Sunshine dicate next The be Jo up brought just how I'd like to be thanked subject la an ultra gold proposition, and In in the Ephraim Commercial club will for giving up my seat I should say the early days was one of the lead- be the changing of the plans of the that Just a little smile with a slight its ores being mines of the district, new school house so that the beating Inclination of the head, would be the Bad management htah grade. ing the building. acknowledgment that would please me caused a shut down. The people who plant will be outside In best of all are to take hold of the mine now, Since he great school house fire acare Ohio the make to the demanding proppeople Mere Warehouses. confidently expect tion in that direction. erty earn dividends In a short time. Many men are mars warehouses full At a meeting of the directors of the of merchandise the head, the ; la announced that there la a great heart, last are stuffed with goods. . . . There over the Gold Utah State Fair association 1 of excitement waa all to close decided and that week. It are apartments in their souls which cle camp, in Nevada, re automobile lines are plying be- week. It waa decided to close all en- were once tenanted by taste, and love, en the railroad station at Gol- tries of exhibits on October 3, five and joy, and worship, but they are all ds and Gold Circle, and four stage days before the opening 5.of the fair, deserted now, and the rooms are The fair filled with are also doing business between which will be October earthly and material things will continue to the 11th. e two points. Ward Beecher. Henry A protest is going up from Utah dispatch from Modena, Utah, aaya Causes Unplsasant Reflections t an Important gold strike la re- against the effort of James R. Mann, congressman from Illinois, to bring Don't step hard on a struggling morted to have been made on the group In Bull valley, about tbe passage of a bill requiring tal because hla grandfather once alfalfa seed be absolutely pure robbed a stage coach. None of vs can e gold In a gangue of ferric ma-la- that free from foreign substance. It go too far back in the family record and of nature of the principally over la claimed It la Impossible jto raise without a ahlver of nnd in spots assaying apprehension. alfalfa seed without clover. ' 100 Pr ton, la the report Manchester Union. The first steps toward the decoraYlthln the last month or alx ska several of the better managed tion ot the temple wall In Salt Lake Sorry Ha Spoke. re-- 4 with atatues waa taken recently with "I thought you were born on the per companies have either or discontinued their dividends the placing of an order for a life-siz-e 0rst of April," said a benedict to his Prophet Joseph Builtu lovely wife, who had mentioned the iporarlly. not for the reasonm that figure of the M. the with Mahonri Young, a Balt Lake twenty-firs- t Most as bar birthday. re was not enough money eta sculptor. The work of preparing the saury, hut because V would think ao from the choice statue la progressing rapidly. rople of a husband. she replied. rket haa been unsettled. L , |