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Show J 1 f s wak tied s hand and foot by a dead ' No, It wasnt that wretched fortune; but I enjoyed playing the child before you I really love Olivia and It seemed that the fairies were protecting me and that I could play belng-child to the very end of the chapter without any real mischief. coming of It. I wish I were Olivia!" she declared, her eyes away from me. "Thats rather Idle. Im not really sure yet what your name is, and I dont care. Lets Imagine that we havent any names, Im sure my name isnt of any use, and Ill be glad to go nameless all my days If only" If only she repeated idly, opening and closing her fan. If was a frail blue trifle, painted in golden butter- nuns money" pERlA STORV! j a iHE HOUSE OF THOUSAND 1 CANDLES ; By MEREDITH NICHOLSON Jikoc ! "THE MAIN IMtfZBON CHANCE," Etc. ZELDA r flies. CoprlgM 1M bjr bolb-lltrrU- J to, CHAPTER XVII. Continued, here was a sound of mirth and nperlng feet In the hall above and I down the steps, between the line guests arrested In their descent,' ie a (lark laughing girl In the garb Little Red Riding Hood, amid gen-applause and laughter. It's Olivia! She won the wager! 'aimed the spectacled gentleman, the girl, whose dark curls were ken about her face, ran up to us ( threw her arms about him and led him. It was a charming pic-- a the figures on the stairway, the tty, graceful child, the eager, happy as all about I was too Interested ttie scene to be uncomfortable. Tien, at the ton of the stair, her jht accentuated by her gown of ,te, stood Marian Devereux, hesl-ki- g an Instant, as a bird pauses be-- I taking wing, and then laughingly jilng between the lines to where via faced her In mock abjection, the charm of the girl In the wood-d was added now the dignity of lutlful womanhood, and my heart at the thought that I had ever ?ed to her, that I was there be ise she had taunted me with thq k of coming. t. Ibove, on the stair landing, a deeped clock began to strike midnight every one cried Merry Christ-- ! and Olivias won! and there I more hand clapping, In which I Bed with good will. jkme one behind me was explaining at had just occurred. Olivia, the ingest daughter of the house, had n denied a glimpse of the ball; Is Devereux had made a wager fa her' host that Olivia would ap--r before midnight; and Olivia, the plot against her, gained I main hall at the stroke of 12. Good night! Good night! called Via the real Olivia In derision to company, and turned and ran back tough the applauding, laughing V f- 1 mi There are so many if onlies that I hesitate to choose; but I will venture one. If only you will come back to St. or the next Agathas! Not day, but, say, with the first bluebirds. I believe they are the harbingers up there. Her very ease was a balm to my spirits; she was now a veritable daughter of repose. One arm in its long, white sheath lay quiet in her lap; her right hand held the golden butterflies against the soft curve of her cheek. A collar of pearls clasped her throat and accented the clear girlish outlines of her profile. I felt the appeal of her youth and purity. It was like a cry in my heart, and the dreary house by the lake, and Pickering and the weeks within the stone walls of my prison were as though they had never been. The friends who know me best never expect me to promise to be anywhere at a given time. I cant tell; perhaps I shall follow the bluebirds to Indiana; hut why should I, when I cant play being Olivia any more? Why not? You have seen how dull I am; and that note of apology you Hair-pan- t and 1 12 struck on my feet. the started to You wouldnt" 1 staVrwa) NORTHWEST repeated. "I might, you know!" "I must go, but not with that, not with any hint of that, please!" "If you let hifn defeat you, If you fall to spend your year there, well overlook this one lapse," she looked me steadily In the eyes, wholly guilt less of coquetry but infinitely kind, then," JOHNNIE MATHEWS TAKEN FROM WAGON She paused, opened the fan, held It up to the light and studied the golden butterflies. Yes" "Then let me see oh, I shall never chage another rabbit as long as I live! Now go quickly quickly! But you haven't told me when and where it was we met the first time. Please!" She laughed, but urged me away with her eyes. I shant do It! It isn't proper for me to remember, If your memory Is so poor. I wonder how It would seem for us to meet Just once and be Introduced! Good night! You really came. You are a gentleman of your word, Squire Glenarm! She gave me the tips of her fingers without looking at me. A servant came in hurriedly. Miss Devereux, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Pickering are In the drawing-room." Yes; very well; I will come at once. Then to me: They must not see you there, that way! and she stood In the door, facing me, her hands lightly touching the frame as though to secure my way. I turned for a last look and saw her waiting her eyes bent gravely upon me, her arms still barring the door; then she turned swiftly away and passed through the hall. half-raise- de-kin- g MAROONED IN SWOL- LEN RIVER. k RESCUERS WORK ALL NIGHT New Jersey Farmer, Foiled Tim After Tim by 8wlft Current In Icy 8tream, Are Finally Successful. Flemlngton, N. J. After laboring all night in the swollen, Ice filled stream of the South Branch river a band of farmers succeeded shortly before dawn In rescuing Johnnie Mathews, marooned on a wagon In the midst of the torrent. The river was rising inch by inch as the men .worked, and the boy was taken off In the nick of time, the wagon having disappeared beneath the seven-year-ol- flood when light came. News of the boys perilous plight was brought to neighboring farmers by the two men wbo were driving with the boy when the wagon became stalled. They were Frederick Rowe and Arbor Marshall. With a team of horses they had started for Flemlngton and attempted to cross the south branch at Packer's Island, they said. The river was in flood several feet deep over the embankment, but the horses kept on until they were close to the bridge Itself. There the current became far swifter and the Ice swept down In great masses. The roar of the stream and the blows of the Ice terrified the team and they balked. The men whipped and coaxed, but the animals only whinnied and shivered with fright and re' fused to advance. We swam ashore to get help. Tho boy still Is on the wagon," Rowe said. One of the farmers leaped on a horse and rode among the neighbors, raising the alarm. Dusk was falling by the time the rescuers came to the rivers edge, and in the thick fog only dim masses of trees and bushes could be distinguished, and the boy and wagon were hidden from sight An anxious halloo from the hank brought an answering cry from the tong. iep he spectacled gentleman was Ollv-- i father, and he mockingly rebuked rlan Devereux for having encour-- d an Infraction of parent! disci-le- , while she was twitting him upon loss of his wager. Then her eyes ted upon me for the first time. She id her brows slightly, but contln-talkin- g placidly to her host. The atlon did not please me; I had not eled so far and barglarlously en--d Doctor Armstrongs house In et of a girl with blue eyes merely jjtand by while she talked with an-e- r man. drew nearer. Impatiently; and was clous that four other young men hlte waistcoats and globes quite 'irreproachable as my own stood fiy to claim her the Instant she was ). I did not propose to he thwarted d the beaux of Cincinnati and. I my host boldly. beg your pardon. Doctor," I t with an assurance for which I sh to this hour. All right, my boy; I, too, have been Arcady! he exclaimed In cheerful dogy, and she put her hand on my I and I led her away. He called me my boy so I must be telng muster," I remarked, not dar-- , t to look at her. Hes afraid not to recognize you. inability to remember faces Is a ad-fcse- At ths Top Her Height Accentuated by Her Gown of White, 8tood Marian Devereux. if the Stair, wrote from the school really fooled me. But I have seen the real Olivia now. I dont want you to go too far not where I cant follow and this flight I shall hardly dare repeat." Her lips closed like a rose that had gone back to be a bud again and she pondered a moment, slowly freeing and imprisoning the golden butterflies. m Joke. "You have risked a fortune, Mr. Ve reached a quiet corner of the Glenarm, very, very foolishly, If you At hall and I found a seat for her. are found here. Why, Olivia must pfou dont seem surprised to see Slie bad seen Jr you knew I would come. I should have recognized you! re come across the world for this, you often across the wall." "But I dont care Im not staying Ar Just this." at that ruin up there for money. My ler eyes were grave at once. to me than TVhy did you come? I did not think grandfather meant more I were so foolish. This is all so that Yes; I believe that Is so. He was Stched. You didnt know that Mr. a dear old gentleman; and he liked me ikerlng Mr. Pickering" Jhe was greatly distressed and this because I thought his jokes adorable. My father and he had known each too came from her chokingly. But there was no expectation other. He JYps; what of him? I laughed. no wish to profit by his friendship. Veil on the way to California, and My name In his will Is a great embarIhout you!" rassment, a source of real annoyance. tNo you dont know you dont The newspapers printed dreadful picabandoned He hes here! of me In connection with the tures tele-lllied (California trip at Chicago; he will.. I say to you, quite frankly, that I me to expect him here of Mr. Glen-armYou must go at once at wouldnt accept a cent offered me; were if it money Jo! and her smile was lAh, but you esnt frighten me," 1 and that Is why, I want you to obey A. trying to realize Just what a meet-- ( a flash of spring, will and earn your with Pickering In that house might the terms of the fortune." ton. She closed the fan sharply and she looked anxiously about, tl. y were to arrive late, he and the lifted her eyes to mine. But there isnt any fortune; Its Hors; they know the Armstrongs he well. They may come at any all a myth, a Joke." Mr. Pickering doesnt seem to ibicnt now. Please go!" be"Hut I have only a few minutes my-I- , think so. He had every reason for was a very Glenarm Mr. that you wouldnt have mo Bit them lieving There rich man." Iln the station I down town? "But nssumlng that there s money have come to say, things 8 Arthur by the lnke like a pirate's Pickering and I are not burled there Pickering's If he finals It Isn't t wld of treasure, each other!" to protect even the laws are There It it you must not meet him here. from robbery!" I concluded hotly. ;. )Uluk wlmt that would mean to me! dead Suppose difficult you are! "How aro very foolhardy, Mr. Glcnarm. fall front a boat, or be shot I had no Idea should you como would you t6 accidentally then I might have Mr. Hut you wished to try me, you and after all; fortune i take the longed me." That wnsnt mo, It was Olivia." Pickering might think of an easier way 1 I of getting It than by more at ease, laughed, f night" "Stealing It! Yes; I know what you but you wouldnt 1" meau; I "Yes, what did you think that - un-fsta- to-Ji- t! 's rt' rtf' 1 V ! I Outside I found my hat and coat, Rowing with All Their Strength and wakened my sleeping driver. He Againet the Current drove like mad into the city, and I swung myself upon the north-bounfog, however, and the farmers knew train Just as It was drawing out of the there still was time. station. Three of the strongest at once started out together In an effort to ford CHAPTER XVIII. their way as far as they conld and swim the rest The distance was not I Meet an Old Friend. but they soon were forced to When I reached Glenarm House the great turn back by the swirling rapids and next morning I found to my astonishcakes of Ice. ment that the window I had left open great rescuers knew It all was over The ub I scrambled out the night before with the lad If he fell asleep, so they was closed. I dropped my hag and calling to him frequently through crept to the front door, thinking that kept The seven-year-olboy If Bates had discovered my absence It the night nerve to held his and his prekept was useless to attempt any further carious seat, while the flood roared deception. I was amazed to find the the trees and structure of the main of entrance the doors flung through great and the Ice cakes struck and bridge wide, and In real alarm I ran through shook the wagon. the hall and back to the library. All the while the water rose slowly The nearest door stood open, and, as I peered In, a curious scene disclosed but steadily and drove the rescuers Itself. A few of the large cathedral back. The cries of the boy spurred candles still burned brightly In several the men on to further efforts,' and at atplaces, their flames rising strangely In Intervals through the night fresh were to made swim to the tempts Books had the gray morning light.been taken from the shelves and scat- wagon. In each case tho rescuers tered everywhere,' and sharp Imple- were driven back exhausted. It was long after V.idnlght when a ments had cut ugly gashes in the was brought up on a wagon rowboat drawers The containing shelving. sketches and photographs had been and launched. Two men got In It and pulled out and their contents thrown with a lantern aboard rowed out The sweep of tbe racing tide and the bufabout snd trampled tinder foot ' The house was as silent as a tomb, feting of the Ice caught them and their but as I stood on the threshold trying boat was driven down stream, away to realize what had happened, some- from Johnnie, whose cries had grown thing stirred by the fireplace and I feebler. Tbe boat was driven ashore a mile crept forward, listening, until I stood by the long table beneath the great away from tbe bridge. More precious chandelier. Again I heard a sound as time was passed In transporting the of some animal walking and stretch- little cr ft to a point a mile abrive the ing, followed by a moan that undoubtbridge, so that it could float down In edly was human. Then the hands of a the center of the stream, Rowing man clutched the fi rther edgo of the with all their strength against the table, and slowly and evidently with current, tbe men In the boat slackened Infinite difficulty a figure rose and the Its speed as they neared the bridge. dark face of Bates, with ryes blurred There the man in the Btrn leaned and starrfig strangely, coni voted me far out ami, catehlng tho half frozen He drew his body to Its tortght and boy by the shoulder, pulled him leaned heavily upon the ;ablo. 1 aboard. While tho ice crunched snatched a candle and ben. toward against It the boat was swept on, but him to make sure my eyes were not a landing was made safely, and, ns tricking me. dawn was strealUn.i the sky Johnnie (TO BE CONTINUED.) was restored to tils mothers arms. . d d - NEWS SUMMARY Senator Nlxou has Introduced a bill Fire destroyed 2,000 Bhacks In Sam. authorizing a public building at Gold- ploulc district of Manila. Tbe dam-g- o field, Nev., at a cost of 1100,000. Is estimated, at 100,000. W. W. McKay, a citizen of Teulo, A bomb exploded In tbe central hhurston county, Wash., killed hts market place at Barcelona, Spain, oa wife snd three children and then shot Sunday, severely Injuring a woman. himself. Another bomb was found near by. Warden Conley, of the Montana At tho first automobile race held In ntate penitentiary a't Deer Lodge, who Egypt, at Heliopolis, on March 1, & was seriously stabbed while frustratpoliceman and two spoctators were ing a Jail break, is improving, and killed and fourteen persons were Inwill live. Mayor F. P. S: Lindsay of Helena last week announced that he would alnot be a candidate for though serving only hts first term. He Is a Republican. Secretary Taft has signed an order for tbe abandonment of the military post known as Fort Keogh, Mont Tbe post Is not needed for the accommodation of the troops In that section. Another tract of land has been withdrawn from all forms of disposition under the public land laws In connection with the Truckee-Carso- n project. There are several sections included. Chancellor James R. Day of tho Syracuse university cannot be convicted under the discipline of the church tor his attack upon the president of the United States, say Seattle Metho- dist ministers, William E. Dodge, Jr., city editor of the Dally Mlssoullan, died at Missoula, Mont, after an Illness of three days, from ptomaine poisoning. Mr, Dodge came to Missoula six months ago from Minneapolis. W. J. Bryan has accepted an Invitation to he the guest of tbe Bryan club of Denver at a banquet on April 6 next Tbe banquet will be given in the large dining room of El Jebel Temple, and It Is expected over 1,000 diners will attend. It Is announced that Emma Goldman will spend three months on tbe Pacific coast, beginning next month. She will deliver lectures and enter into San debates In Portland, Seattle, Francisco, Goldfield and Salt Lake and other cities. After a trial lasting several days, a jury in the United States court at Helena, Mont, returned a verdict of guilty in the case of E. Cardwell, a prominent Yellowstone county stockman, on a charge of illegally fencing of the public domain. Near the town of Buford, Wyo., a carload of dynamite exploded from some unknown cause, wrecking several frame houses nearby and destroying a number of freight cars. The car was standing on the Union Pacific tracks near the town. News' of the purchase of the Elko and Wlnnemucca, Nevada, telephone systems by the Utah, Nevada and Idaho Telephone company, la made known, and within the next month the service will be connected up with tbe Salt Lake system.. Fire, supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wires, destroyed the coke washer, tipple, engine house and chemical laboratory of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company's mine al Soprls, five miles weBt of Trinidad Colo., entailing a loss estimated al 1150,000, and throwing 300 men out ot t lie- - NOTES employment W. S. Buncker and Herman Hanlfen engaged In a pistol duel in a hotel at Sheridan, Wyo., both men being dead when entrance was forced to thelt room. Tbe men had Just arrived in town from Iowa, and announced that they intended securing work at a tie caqip. It is not known what the quarrel was about The state auditor has made public a report showing the business of life Insurance companies In Montana last year. It shows that 6.040 new policies were written, Involving f 6, 949,664, making the total In force 149,126,271. Losses of 413,681 were paid last year A heavy by tbe various companies. gain over last year Is shown. Mortimer Moore, a mulatto, shot and Instantly killed Mrs. Lou A. McCoy, at North Yakima, Wash., and then committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. McCoy had the appearance of a white woman, but It Is said she had some negro blood. Some years ago, It is asserted, she lived with Moore In Arkansas, but left him. It hi announced that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and a number of capitalists have purchased 35,000 acres of land at Three Forks, Gallatin county, Montana, where rich beds of natural cement deposits have been discovered, and that engineers are now engaged in drawing plans for a cement plant which will cost 1,000,000. Try .dent P. J. Duffy of the Butte Miners' union stateB that circulars pOBted In other mining camps and In leading cities of the northwest, to the effect that 10,000 men are wanted In Butte, are misleading. The supply ol labor now far exceeds the demand. Moreover, unskilled labor Is not employed in the mines of Butte at any time. Charles D. Cuny, a Great Northern car Inspector, and his wife, were victims of an attempted assassination, when an unknown man entered tbeli bedroom at their borne In Spokane, and shot both In the head, neither - fatally. No motive Is known for the attack. David Moody, foreman at the Rarue mine at Butte, is confined to his home suffering from the effects of a serious assault received at the bands ot a mob which Is said to have attempted to throw his down tho shaft of the mine because he would not Bive the men employment. One of tho most disastrous fires Montana In the history of enstorn of the town of wiped out three-fourth- s Big Timber, about 150 miles east of Butte, on the Northern Pacific railfamilies are road. Three hundred rendered homeless, and the loas Is estimated at more than K0,000. jured. . John Hays Hammond, tho mining engineer, who has beon ill In San Francisco for several months and whose sickness finally resulted In an operation, has fully recovered. Fifteen hundred operatives were affected by the closing at New Orcotton leans of the mills. A poor demand for cotton goods was given as the cause. John L. Smlthmeyer, the architect wbo designed and superintended the construction of the Congressional library, died In Washington on March He was born In 12, aged 76 years. Austria. A special dispatch to the Dally Mall from Berlin ways that the emperor sent warm personal congratulations to President Roosevelt on the arrival of the fleet at Magdalena bay, ahead of schedulo time. Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who attempted to shooot Attorney 8. R. Jtamlll during the trial of John R. Walsh, at Chicago, has been committed to the general hospital for the insane by a commlssslon. The senate haB ratified two more of the Hague treaties. They relate to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise to right to capture in naval war and prohibit tbe discharge ot project from balloons. Instructing them to "vote for any proposition favorable to tbe candidacy of William IL Taft for the presidency, the Oklahoma Republican state con- ventlon elected four delegates at large to the Chicago convention. Charles J. Glidden, of Boston, and Mrs. Glidden arrived In Jerusalem on Match 13 In a motor car from Hafia, Syria. It was the first motor car ever seen In Jerusalem, and created a sensation among tbe populace. John Brown's antiquated wagon, in which he made many pilgrimages during his crusade against slavery, was destroyed by fire at Iowa City, Iowa, last week. The wagon was left there by Brown forty-eigh- t years ago. President Roosevelt has directed Herbert Knox Smith ot the bureau of corporations to Investigate the methods of stock trading, with a view of furnishing the basis of possible future legislation regulating such practices. The jury in the trial at Jackson, Ky., of John Abner, charged with aiding In the murder of Town Marshal James Cockrlll during the Hargis-Cockrl- ll feud In 1902, reported a hopeless disagreement, and have been discharged. N. T. Anders, president of the bank of Jackson, Miss., and former director of the Central Bank ot Mississippi, has been indicted by the Hines county grand Jury on the charge of embezzlement of 25,000 from the Lane-Maglnnis- s Com-mercl- latter bank. The Supreme court of the District ot Columbia has dismissed the proceedings Instituted some months ago by George W. Austin of New York to compel Secretary Cortelyou to Issue to him 3,000,000 worth of Panar ma canal bonds. News has been received from Italian Somlland to the effect that a local tribe, helped by soldiers of tbe Mullah, attacked another tribe under the protection of Italy and killed thirty of their opponents. They then drove off a number of cattle. The spectators at the cycle races at the Galleries des Machines, Paris, enumraged over the decision of the the to fire set and wrecked pires, grandstand. Police reserves to the number of 300 had to be called out before order was restored. The revenue cutter Thetis has been ordered to proceed to Unimak Island, one of the Aleutian group, to rescue the survivors of the American schooner John F. Miller, which was wrecked tn a severe storm at Boar Harbor, near Cape Pankoft on January 8. Application for a new trial for J. It of the Chicago Walsh, National bank, convicted of Illegal use of Its funds, has been made. One hundred and fourteen reasons for the granting of a new trial were presented by the attorneys for Mr. Walsh. An unknown young woman, well dressed, Jumped Into the Monongabela river at Pittsburg and was swept away by the swollen river. Nothing Is known concerning the woman, and it Is probable her body will not be recovered until the high water subsides. William Adlx, a mining Inspector from Nome, Alaska, who was said to have been addicted , to the use ot opium, crawled unde the sidewalk In an Francisco and died. The body was found several days later In a horrible state having been attacked and partly eaten by rats. The health of Sir Henry Campbell-BannermaEngland's prime minister, has caused renewed anxiety. During the past week there has been no Improvement whatever In hla condition, rather there has been a weakening cf his vitality which Is regarded as a serious symptom. Representatives of the most Important shipbuilding and armor manufacturing concerns of Great Britain, Germany and France are at present In Pekin looking for contract's. This activity Is Induced by tbe belief that China la about to expend 150,000,000 In naval eoulpment. . |