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Show changed lo me? be. Why ri vo" What have I done?" "You MOW be t." "You distrust me?" THE MISSING MAN 1HUS. CHAPTER XIII. No Indictment. "Tou, as grand jurors for the body of this county, do solemnly swear that you will diligently inquire and a true presentment make of all such matters and things as shall be given you in charge; the state's counsel, your fellows, and your own you shall keep secret; you shall present no man for envy, hatred, or malice; neither shall you have any unpresented for love, fear, favor, affection, or hope of reward; but you shall present things truly as they come to your knowledge according to the best of your understanding. So help you God." The above oath, taken verbatim, which is administered to the grand juror, is a bar to any questioning or real knowledge of the proceedings incident to the case of Vane Hamilton, which was presented before them. The result only was known; and as it would have awakened great excitement to have known that an indictment had been found against Vane Hamilton, it occasioned equal stir to learn that none had been brought. "I am glad very glad," said Mr. Hamilton to the bank president. "The matter was beginning to wear upon me." "Yes, you do look thinner than You must not when you returned. work too hard." "No, I shall try to keep from that. I handle no money nor notes, though," he said, smiling gravely; "I would not risk it. It is a terrible thing, Mr. Hartwell. to feel hanging over you always the sword of impending insanity, or something as bad." "It is, It is, Mr. Hamilton," said the president, seriously; "but for that some of the bank directors" and he paused in an embarrassed manner. . "I know, Mr. Hartwell. I was told of it, and It did me good to learn that they would have liked me in my olden But the capacity, some of them. others were wiser. I could not have accepted had the wish been unani-moie- . as it was not. Still, do you a er- i M mm Le and Shepard "Mrs. Hamilton is more prudent since her husband's return. She does not go to the Frys now, so Mrs. Taylor says." "I am glad of that. Perhaps that i6 the reason Edes looks so doleful. If he does." "Oh, he does. There is no question about that. Mrs. Taylor's hired girl's sister, Mrs. Green, who lives next door to Mrs. Fry, says she told Mrs. Fry herself about Mr. Hamilton's return when Edes was combing his hair by the little glass in the kitchen. They were so excited at first that they did not notice until he started to go up to his room. His face was as white as a sheet, Mrs. Green said, and he looked more like a corpse than a living man. He never came down that night, she found out by asking Mrs. Fry, and the next morning when he went to his work he looked glummer and stiller than ever. Mrs. Fry worships Mrs. Hamilton, and she laid it to a bilious attack said he was sub ject to them." Serious, indeed, was the state of affairs to Constance. The relations with her husband were of the most constrained order and her interest in Edes unabated augmented, indeed; for she knew he was miserable on her account, and pity was so ingrained in her nature that she could feel for his woes as though they were her own. One day she chanced to meet him face to face as she was going down the street and he was returning from the mill. When he saw her he put out his hand with an eloquent gesture to stop her. "Constance Mrs. Hamilton, has he come back?" "Yes, I suppose so." He did not notice the strangeness of her reply, but turned away his head with a groan, seemingly wrung from his very heart. "I thought it seemed as if you to me." "Belonged to you?" "Yes; my heart claimed you from the first, and now O God!" His form d " 3TJE by " '" ' '" 8 m PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT "No; but I feel it. No one else me, Constance. All treat me kindly but you What is the reason Has any one come between us?" Who could come bet Wee us?" "I don't know. Constance," he said rapidly, coming to her side and clasp ing her cold hand in hi.--. "I think understand you. I went away and did not return when you expected me You thought something had happen, to me that I was dead, perhaps. You mourned for me truly. Then I came back. It was like one coming from the dead to claim you. You though you could not resurrect your dead love and cause it to blossom afresh Do not try, Constance do not try any more." She looked at him wonderingly. "Let us begin afresh. Let us be married again, put the past behind us and be happy." "Why put the past behind us?" "Because it will be best. You can never love me again If you try to recall your old affection. Let us begin anew, be married again, secretly if you will, but throw off the old bona and begin a new life with all the shadow of past distrust and suffering left behind us. Will you, Constance, will you?" His voice was low and pleading, his hand still clasping hers. But she drew it away. "You talk absurdly," she said. "As if old married people could not do better than cover themselves with Say ridicule by a second wedding! no more. I distrust you. I feel that there is something false about you. I have from the first." "Do you doubt my love for you?" "Not that, perhaps," she said, faltering, for she could not doubt It, looking into his face so full of love's emotion; "but I do not feel at ease in your presence. What of Lenora?" she asked, suddenly, wheeling about and facing him again. "Lenora," he feebly repeated. "Yes, Lenora." "There is no Lenora." "Is she dead?" "She may be, for aught I know. on- stance, as heaven is my witness,! she is nothing to me. Your husband. Aas been true to you always, in thought and deed. Look at youyself pointing to the mirror set between two panels, and reaching from flor to ceiling; "do you think I could ever forget you for any other woman? Is there any other half so beautiful or good in the wide world? If there Is, I never saw her." If this passionate assertion moved Constance in the least she did not evince any emotion. She put up her hand, merely, as if to stayiurther MYar the words, and mid calmly children. They have finMMM their game, and it is. time for I'flWAw'arter. too." d Clare and Perley entere A;; and rosy from their game. MM echo "Such fun!" said Perley, al to the late game, unwilling (MMt the sport drop. "Oh. yes; why didn't you co H out, papa?" "I was talking with mammal my little Clare." said Mr. Hamilton, fondly stroking her curls. She clasped his hand and held it. "I love you, papa, almost better than I used to." "You are the only one who does, my Is it really, truly, for mydarling. self?" he asked her, as if yearning for some acknowledgment. "Of course, it is. But," she continued, thoughtfully, "you never hear me say my prayers now." I "Would you like to have me? thought it was to God you prayed." "Yes; but I want you to pray, too, in your heart, as you used to." (To be continued.) 1 I "Yes, my heart claimed you from the first, and now know, Mr. Hartwell, I doubt that ever presented that note to Low, for the reasons stated at the examination." "You think it was some other man?" "I do, and so must have thought the grand jury." "Could it have been Ashley, do you think?" "The man is dead and nothing can ever be proved, but I wonder that Low and Hull are retained without an examination." "Why, you don't suspect Low?" "No, but I do not think he is careful enough for a bank officer. Still I would not make the statement in public. No; I think Low is honest, but how he could have been deceived so easily is a wonder." "Why, he says you appeared natural, and so does Tory, you know." "Tony could not judge in a moment of time even If it were myself, which I do not believe. Well, it is a dark matter; I only hope time will explain It." "Detective Swan at one time, I fancy, thought Primus Edes might be Ashley." Doesn't he work "Primus Edes! in our mill?" "Yes. Oh. he gave up the idea lone ago: no grounds at all for thinking so. MM Isn't a fool, but he Isn't up to the ayerage." thoneh. "An excellent machinist, they tell me." "Haven't you noticed him?" "Only at a distance." "Well, he Is a stranee man," MM the bank president, walking away and wondering whether Hamilton wanld i (r hear what had been said about Edes' devotion to his wife. That he had not yet, was evident by his total lack of Interest in him. Edes himself looked very despondent since the cashMr. ier's return, or so It was said. Hartwell was superior to gossip when rhnn-nels- , passing through the ordinary but told to him by his sweet M.ired wife it was a different matter. Her information was usually gained through Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Taylor's from her hired girl, whose sister lived But no doubt It was i. ear the Frys. correct naough I O It Is expected that the umelter at Ogden will be in operation in the sear s By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of "The Bank Tragedy" Copyright. MINES AND MINING 00--0000"CKCHC0- God!' shook with emotion and his face was convulsed. "Hush! you must not say such words. It Is wicked; you forget where We have talked too long you are. already. Good day," and she walked hastily away, hoping no one had seen them. Edes walked slowly homeward, but the effect of this interview did not end it. It was destined to grow and expand and fructify. That evening Constance chanced to be standing at dusk by her sitting-roowindow, looking out into the dim street, up which Mr. Hamilton was walking toward the house. Behind him. not far distant, she saw another man, stealthily, It appeared to her, following him What was his object? Was it Edes? Why should he follow her husband on a public thoroughfare, even though deserted as It was now? Kdes did not follow him inside the gate. Her husband did not see him at But as he came slowly up the all. walk to the house Constance saw the man stop an instant and shake his That fist threateningly in the air. threatening, uncouth gesture frightened her, it was so instinct with sonlng fury. With a dull, heavy dread at her heart she turned to meet her husband, whose face seemed paler than usual, and his manner somewhat shaken. "What. Constance! alone and with no light?" He spoke tenderly, though his words were matter of fact enough hut her purpose seemed to be to Ignore everything like tenderness. "It Is not late, and the children am finishing their tennis game In the yard behind the bouse." He said rothlng, hut sank down in a chair as If In deep thought. "Constance," he said at length, "how long must this go on?" "Go on? I do not understand you." "This wearing anxiety on my part, this seeming Indlffererce on yours." "Seeming?" she repeated, haughtily "Yes, seeming. No womnn could he really Indifferent to the fact of her husband's presence, as you seem to ; HOODOO FAILS TO CONQUER. Pluck and Persistence Win After a Long Struggle. Superstitious folk and unsuprsti-tiou- s ones, too, are interested just now in the dingy London building. 13 Friday street. Friday street is one of the narrow, crooked thoroughfares of Ixmdon's ancient "city." It would seem, of course, that there could be no address more fatal than this to business success, and up to a comparatively short time ago 13 Friday street realized all its possibilities as a "hoodoo." Several business en-tprises in succession failed there, and then the building stood vacant for a number of years. Finally it was reopened by a firm of bedding manufacturers, but they soon came to grief and everybody in the neighborhood was finally convinced thai no under-- i taking could possibly resist the com-- j blned influence of No. 13 and Friday. Everybody, that Is, except two young men who had been assistants in the Their ill fated bedding business. names were Haines and Stroud; they didn't beliew in omens and they made mm tVir.tr mttwlL. In talre nvnr til. min ed concern. They had little or no capital and at first the luck set In dead against them. The struggle was a long one Finally, however, despite the fact that they refused to employ even the ordinary safeguard of keeping a black cat, and work to on hard only depended ehange the luck, the partners won out and they are now one of the most flourishing firms In the locality Pluck and persistence had conquered the "hoodoo." Business i. luture. )0000X))OOOOOCK)KK)0XK)0000 have just been Two new veins in the Talisman company's opened AMBASSADOR Beaver county mines. There is a report in circulation to The announcement of the coining of James to this ambassador British effect that the big fissure for which country as the the Bryce meets with the unanimous approval of the people the tunnel on the McDonald Ely propand the press. One of the three great liberal lead- erty, at Ely, 'is heatled, has been MoiU-and Bryce ers Canipbell-Banneruiareached. leaders who kept their colors flying during the During the week a total of 365,051 years that their party was out of power, that long, of stock, with a selling value shares it when season appeared dreary and disheartening that liberalism was suffering from what Justin ol $272,471.75, changed hands on the McCarthy called "dry rot:" when toryism and floor of the Salt Lake Mining Stock who refused to Exchange. jingoism were in the aacendcnc admit that a losing cause was a lost cause, but Three new strikes of importance fought on valiantly, compelling attention to their were made at Vernon, Nevada, last principles in the house of commons, and who, and dis- week. In one mine assays show valwhile other liberals were to consider the straggle useless, kept on ues of from $745 to $1776 in gold per posed until rewarded in the victory which came with the ton. successful formation of the present British cabinet. The Bleak Pearl mill in Boise coun" With at its head, Mr. Bryce was made secretary for Ireland, and has arranged for the Instalit is said that his hesitancy in announcing his acceptance of the most Im- ty, Idaho, electric power from tha of lation portant diplomatic post in the gift of the English people was caused by his power plant, and is exto be presented by desire to have charge of an Irish home rule bill, which is be again in operation any the party now in power. He has always been an Irish nationalist, a steady pected to and consistent supporter of the demand for Irish home rule, and it is not un- day. natural that, with the party which is pledged to that policy in power, he The Tunnel Oil company, of Vernal, should have cherished a desire to round out his parliamentary career in work- which owns oil placer claims in Gar ing for the passage of the measure to which he has devoted so many years. and proposes to defield Colo., county, in Mr. Bryce is one of the most noted students and writers on history of incorporaarticles filed the world and is highly versed in international affairs. He is best known as velop them, of state of the with tion secretary author of "The American Commonwealth." He was born in Belfast on the 10th day of May, 1838, the eldest son of Utah last week. the late James Bryce, LL. D., of Glasgow. He attended the high school of At a meeting of the directors of tho the latter city and also its university, but was graduated from Trinity college, United Slates Smelting, Refining & Oxford, after a distinguished career, in 1862. .Mining company, ield in Boston reAfter studying for the bar Mr. Bryce was appointed regies professor of it was decided to place the comcently, civil law at Oxford in 1870 the date of his first visit to America and held of the company on a 7 per that office until 1893. After several unsuccessful attempts he was in 1880 mon stock dividend-earninbasis. cent of elected a member of parliament, and in 1886 was appointed under secretary state for foreign affairs. In 1892 he obtained a seat in the cabinet as chan"For 1906 the United States produccellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and two years later he became president of tion of copper will aggregate 975,000,-00- 0 the board of trade. pounds, an increase of only about 4 per cent over 1905, which compares with an increase of 10 per cent in 1905 FALL OF A POPULAR IDOL over 1904," says Daniel Guggenheim. Senator Clark, of Montana, makes Attorney General R. V. Davidson, of Texas, who has made sensational charges against Senator the prediction that the figures for 1906 Joseph V. Bailey, disclaims any political motive will show an increase in copper probehind his action and says he is not seeking the duction of probably less than 4 per The people of Texas have cent. The senator's position. average price will probably heard his allegations againsl Bailey with bowed cents. the be in neighborhood of 19 heads. The senator was a popular idol. Many of on the There is a disposition part of his supporters say they will stick to him, right or who have taken In a has Devils serious Seven the miners, wrong. split consequence, Bailey is now heretofore done all their railroad busiplace in the Democratic party. fighting for reelection. Should he win or should ness at Council to wait for the comhe lose, should Davidson or someone else be named ing of the Huntington road down the in his place, so Intense Is the feeling that It will Snake river, and cut Cuncll cold, as be several years before the party can be reunited. this road will bo much nearer to them. In his investigations into the Waters-PiercLemhi county, Idaho, has suffered Oil company, said to be a branch of the Standard Oil company, which he is seeking to drive out of much through mining inexperience. the state, Attorney General Davidson says he found vouchers of papers made There are today about 600 stamps in payable to Senator Bailey. They had been audited and approved by the the county, of which only aoout 100 Standard Oil company. are in operation. The others have The feeling among the people of Texas is that Senator Bailey has not been put up on mines where the ore been honest with them. In his campaign for vindication he did not tell the to be too base for stamp mill proved people that he had accepted loans from the oil company. Now he says these treatment. items were loans, and that they have been repaid. But he does not say how. Lemhi county is one of the most Oil comThe contention of the attorney general is that the Waters-Pierc1900. to in for the counties in Idaho, or in the state in readmission aid favored their fight pany securedpolitieal AtnW3eneral Davidson is generally reegarded throughout Texas as whole west, in its coal deposits, it is oneHPnate's shrewdest politicians. He affirms that he Is truly pained claimed. The deposits are known to fhadSmey should have fallen, but that it was absolutely necessary for the be very expensive; probably they success of his suit against the oil company that he bring in Bailey's name. will prove even far larger than now anticipated, when the country is propGAVE UP HOME FOR CHURCH erly developed. By virtue of a compromise effected Cardinal Richard, prince of the Roman Cath- last week In Salt Lake City, between olic church and archbishop of Paris, who vacated James McGregor and the directors of his Episcopal residence, the property of France the Silver King Mining company, all at the order of the government, belongs to one of former differences existing between the noblest of the families of Fiance, and is con- these interests are buried, and a new sidered a man of great learning and remarkably era dawns for all Park City within the strong character. He was appointed to the great very first week of the newly born year. see of Paris in July, 1886, in succession to the late Blast furnace slag is piling up in Cardinal Joseph Guilbert. At the extreme age of at all of the smelt86 the celebrated French ecclesiastic possesses a vast quantities western in the mining worKS mind almost as alert and healthy as it was 25 ing beyears ago. He has been of late the most prom states. It cannot be said to have the for of cardlnal as in come nuisance civil a dumps affairs affecting inent yet, Kurope government in its relations to church institutions. cover only a very small area, and they Cardinal Richard has had his own differences are not the menace to agriculture He excited great with the French government. and other industries that tailings piles the indignation among officials by denouncing are. Their worst feature is that they Paris world's exposition, when it was proposed, on the grounds that it would for whicn as represent a lead to scandal and immorality. He has strong sentiments no use has been found, says the yet ind earned the disapproval of the government by the attitude of open symMining Reporter. pathy he assumed for the Assumptionist Fathers, whose order was dissolved Thirteen cars loaded with Goldfield for their alleged interference in politics. It is said the government on that occasion requested the Vatican to remove the prelate from his post In Paris. ore, valued at $7,000,000, arrived in In the recent difficulties the cardinal was prepared to obey the law of v'allejo Junction, Cal., on the ilth. will be treated in the reducseparation, when he was ordered by the pope to take no action. Even lay- where It and turned into shining works tion from were be to associations for aphis forming order, prohibited men, by of gold and silver. Each car conbars plying for use of the churches. tained 100,000 pounds of ore, carefully sacked. ROSTAND IN FAIRYLAND A mine opened In an absolute wild erness that In about two years pro Some of the most noted Parisian artists have duces approximately $2,500,000 worth contrived to transform Kdmond Rostand's country of ore from less than 10 per cent of an expenditure of home, Arnaga, Into a fairyland. The walls of his its whole area at merit the confimust $225,000, only whose windows look out magnificent apartments, a mine Is Such of Investors. dence of the Pyrenees, are covered with over the cre.-itthe Nlpissing. tales which Hans Christian the The mining district surrounding the Andersen and the Grimm brothers have immorlittle old town of Lida, Nev., is com talized. But the gem of this poet's dwelling Is his wife's ing to the front with rapid strides, days of boudoir. Familiar stories of "Cinderella'' and "The and in spite of the former at Llda, when the camp was greatness are Beast" the told and with a again Beauty one of the most active in the west, wealth of color and fantasy by the famous decora- the future bids fair to hold still greater tor, Jean Weber. things. In this artistic retreat, which is a happy com Quartz shot full of free gold, rock lunation of Myzantine palace and Masque chalet. which would un Rostand lives part of the year, with his wife and picked samples of into the thousands Bp assay doubtedly son, In a retirement only broken to receive some of dollars per ton, has been encounorotiier poet or an arti-- i friend who is requested never lo mention Paris and tered In an entirely new vein on the t Its strenuous ways. level of the Cedar company's Star district. To escape from the continual excitement of life In Paris and the feverish mine in the North search for amusement found at fashionable resorts, and als .o be able to de- Beaver county, Utah. vote himself entirely to work, the creator of "Cyrano" fled eight years ago to of A great amount underground and wholly picturesque fastnesses of the Spanish frontier. work Is the on at the Fairvlew going First he rented a tiny cottage, nestled against a tiny church, but his view Eagle, says the Miner. Three shifts lacked the traditional poesy and splendor of Basque landscapes, so he built are wornlng levels. A timbering crew Arnaga. It Is not constructed along conventional lines ol the French chateau, has recently completed the 75 foot stabut, standing on a high hill surrounded by parks and terraces. It at first gives tion, and are well along the the second. In tho meantime the sinking has the impression of a Mxirlsh palace. Those who wonder secretly how Rostand's earnings as a dramatist sulllce reached a depth of 190 feet. to keep up such a pretentious establishment forget that he married Will J. Dooley. a Silt Lake mail Gerard, the daughter of a Paris banker. Her millions are the magic who Is developing a group of claims at wand which called into being this fairy castle. Reveille, Nev., has just received word Rostand Is principally famows as the author of "Cyrano de Hergerac," that the men employed In sinking which was first produced In 1897. His only other dramatic work since that new shaft have encountered fine ore feet. The time Is "L'Alglon,"' In which Mme. Bernhardt has been eminently successful. at a depth of sixty-fivMarseilles li LMt, asyi ta 1903 was admitted a mitos first samples went M OMOM silver Rostand wai ton i.nd $2.50 per ton In gold. of Ute FreBOk acadsmj NEW BRITISH faint-hearte- "C.-B.- Boise-Payett- g e e ever-delightf- 225-foo- half-savag- Rose-mond- Kaiser Owns Eight Autos. 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