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Show t. .UBiv (' entirely guiltless of sunburn, did not shine. The air of jollity which had distinguished our little impromptu feasts seen ed to me lacking on this more formal occasion. It was as though our guests had put on another personality with their evening clothes, and I found it unfamiliar and hard to tolb'-in- F'V A GJA B NT L L j In deali3 wth a jewely store you want a iiceral supp.y of reliability with each curchase. Our goods are absolutely guaranteed and fifty years successful business fias establ shed our reputation for reliability. erate. Ladv Edith, to be sure, was a joy to behold, and t liked with unusual btilhancy. Her white shoulders and golden hair were strikingly accentut black gown, and ated by her the color came and went in her cheeks like the fitful spaik of an opal. Mr. Blake, the quiet, the self contained, beside whom site was plated, let his soup grow cold as he looked at her, and had evidently fot gotten the prepuce of any one else long befoie the appearance of the salad. By the time coflee arrived I decided he was hopelessly lost, and felt a sincei e sympathy for him, for in the lace of her bodice gleamed the little gold key, and I knew it locked all men but one out of her heart. I felt very soiry for them both, in the hght of my neently acquit ed in formation. There were shadows beneath Iter eyes, and a lepttssed restlessness of manner which I attributed to ovo taxed nerves, for I knew she felt it incumbent upon her to make a special effort to be agreeable, since the dinner wax given m her honor. Pei haps, I reflected, the aniuveisary broir-h- t with it i ainful mommas of other days, and for her sake as well as my own, wished it weie over. Well, it was ovtr, .aid our gue-dhad Ikvii gone tor tin hour, though it was now but II o'clock imagined Gordon Bennett ard his fiiend arriv us ing a' t heir island and dHCiH-inover their cigats, with doubtless a coi ling and stimulating beverage to rcfie-- h them alter their exeitions, would have liked to hear what and they said. Gain idle often remaiks that she never hears ice clink in a glass and smells a good cigar tl.at she does not wi&h she weie a man, and suet ly 1 sy ni uthize with inn, although 1 al wavs make a point of disagtecing in a slightly superior manner, as though such things were beneath contempt. 1 was thinking of this now in a dreamy, half conscious way, when I suddenly became aware that I actually smelled a cigar and a veiy good one. Moreover, the odor came fiom beneath. and as the steps led directly to the slip the conclusion was forced upon me that some one was down there. Ctniously enough, I was not Lightened, blit decidedly indignant. Some one was taking a great liberty with piivate property, thought, and I wished I were brave enough to go down and order him or them away, forthwith. There was, as I said, no moon, and I could not positively distinguish anything as I peered down into the darkness, but thought I saw a point of light like the end of a cigar, and certainly heard a subdued murmur of voices. In another instant the slip and everything upon it stood out against the darkness with the clearness and accuracy of a picture thrown upon a scieen, its eveiy detail distinct and visible. After an incredulous moment. understood, for I recognized the btoail beam of white light which fell across the water with dazzling brilliancy. Our friend the searchlight had paid us many visits since that first night upon the slip, and we had come to regard it with an amused toleiance, and to watch for it, especially on dark nights or in bad weather. We seldom watched in vii'n, for it was a persistent and hard working light and exploi ed the island, or at least our end of it, with . painstaking thoroughness and low-cu- Salt LAKe HARRY J. cut ROBINSON ATTORNEY Juigt 304-30- 5 NOTES utah. AT LAW Building, Salt Lake City FROM ABROAD. From Brussels and for Amencn use the bureau of manufacture.:; Washington, D. C., has icceivej new application blanks and additional literature relating to the international to be htdd in Belgium in exposition 1910. A new' steamer, the Vasari, intended for mail and pasinger carriage, has been put in service by the Lamport and Holt line, between New' York and Brazilian and Argentine poits. During 19PS the 3)8 furnaces in Booth WuP's. England, had an average pig iron production of flo.fini) tons, against 27, led in 1907 and 15,000 in 1882. 1 next The Japanese year send commercial agents to Europe and America for the development of Japanese trade. Leading Jap tnese provision merchants have agreed to dispose of 7,5o-bags of Bia..Iian coffee during the next three years. A new electric railway is to be built from Morrisburg, Ont., to Ottawa, Ont. The power plants will be at Morrisburg and Billings Bridge, Ottawa. The company lias $1,000,000 corporate capital. Another line contemplated, called the Belt Line Electric (railway, covers practically the same route, and whichever line begins work first will get the right of way. Out of 20G railway charters granted by the Canadian parliament in the twenty years ended 1909 only twenty-eigh- t have resulted in any construchave lapsed ana the tion, eighty-siothers have received extensions of time. Exclusive of the Canadian Pacific, Grank Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern, the charters granted called for 63,809 miles of construcgovernment will s 1 g j 1 US One of Them Knelt Before the Door, MIDDLETON) TYBOUf copYmcr for er joiiPPwtorT co tion. Denmark exports to Great Britain over $48,600,000 w'orth of butter yearly. Dairying in Denmark is mainly In 1907 the 1,085 assohad 158,170 members, bound ciations as a rule to the enterprise for ten years. The creameries in 1908 num- Evidently Trying to Unlock It. 1 IZAUSTPATSSn BY BAY WsiATI?R$ e. bered A New Story of Old Virginia. Thou Art the Man. Didn't some idiot propose to you "before our mairiage?" Certainly. Then you ought to have married him. Thats just whatfl did. Bon Vi-van- A t. Patent Fire Alarm. Week-Ende- I r shay, you, Johnwill you, ny, gimme nother bedroom, theres duck. The Hotel Clerk Well, sir, No. 45, next to yours is vacant, if youre not comfortable where you are. r Thatll do nicesh-4y- . The fire. Sketch. 44 on old Ive set Week-Ende- When He Takes His Fruit. Does your The Patrolmans Wife husband eat fruit la the morning? The Roundsmans Wife No; hes Yonk--eronly on duty in the evening." Statesman. On the Nile. "I notice the same characters carved on all the pyramids. Maybe its the name of the firm that furnished the stone work. Kansas City Journal. Poser. (after listening to jthe tale It serves you right, Tommy. A Auntie of woe). ,A11 little boys who play marbles on Sunday always lose them. Tommy AVell, how about .lies won them all Three girls Elizabeth, Gabrielle and started for Canada to spend the there. On boanl steamer tht.v by an apparontlv demented stianser, who. finding a bag belonging to one of them, took enjoyment in s. a photo of the trio. Elise shared her stateioom with a Mis Graham, also bound for Canada. The young women on a sightseeing tour met Mis. Graham, bad anxiously awaiting her husband, wliointro-duied a mania for. sading Tliev were to Lord Wilfrid and Lady Edith. cottage by the ocean was rented. Two men called They piovcd to be John O Blake and Gordon Bennett, one a friend of Elizabeth's father. A wisp of vellow hair from Mr Giahams pocket fell into Ike hands of Ehse. Mis Graham's hair was blaek. Bearing for tie safety of some gems, bad v Edith left them in a s ife at the cottage. Mr Goidon Bennett was properlv intioduced. explained ins notions on board slap and retained the lost bag Exploring the collar, one of the ttie exact gul.s found a sphinx nt which both Gordon Bencounteipart nett and Ladv Edith weie found to possess, also Ehse, alone, explored the cellar, overhearing a conversation there between Marv Anne and a man He proved to he her son. chained with murder. Ladv Edith told a storv of a lost love in connection with the sphinx kev. At a supper, whii h was held on the rocks. lost Elizabeth lather mvxteriously la i ring, causing a search by the entire a witnessed Gabuollo stormy partv. scene between Ladv Edith and Lord Wilfrid. red roses being the cause of the latters anger Marv Anne in ought back Elizabeth's ring Elise went sailing with He tried to persuade Gordon Bennett. her to return the lew els left in the girl's care by Ladv Edith. He told her he found the sphinx scarf ptn. the counterpart of which Lady Edith owned. Kliee Irene of the Mountains," a romance of old Virginia by George Eggleston, has recently been issued from the press of Lothrop,' Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. As the title indicates, This is a romance, plentifully grounded, however, with historical facts, written iu a manner which can not help but captivate the reader. Politics plays an important part in the action of the story, the heroine being a power in the mountain section in which she lives. The heroine is later transplanted to the fashionable circles of Richmond, where she seems to have carried the spirit It is a story well of leadership. worth the reading. The SYNOPSIS. 1,345. Billy? summer were fi cuff-hutn- CHAPTER XIII. How well Lady Edith looks In remarked Elizabeth, evening dress! as we discussed the events of the evening after the depaiture of our guests. Mr. Blake evidently thought so He had eyes for returned Gabrielle. no one else. And Lord Wilfrid looked awfully continued Elizabeth. distinguished, His quiet, reserved manner is very impressive, don't you think so? The Americans simply were not in it with the English. Blood will tell, said Gabrielle, who poses as being very democratic, but is at heart a thorough aristocrat. And Mary Anne's entiees were perfection, resumed Elizabeth, with great She is a treasure. To satisfaction. think of cooking and serving that dinner all herself! What does it matter o such a genius if she has ja. dozen worthless sons? What indeed?! acquiesced, yawning, and proposed bed, but the others objected, saying that it was not late and they were very wide awake. Lets have a prowl, suggested Gabrielle, who loved to wander about the cottage and look at the ocean from all points of the compass the last thing before retiring, as though she expected it to vanish during the night and must make the most of her time. Not in thin slippers, I protested, and good clothes. There is no grass up her, she replied, and we can hold up our skirts. Do come, Elizabeth, just for a little while. I was sorry I had not gone also as soon as they turned the corner, and, picking up my long skirt carefully, started in pursuit. I saw, however, that they were deep in one of the heart to heart conversations in which they sometimes indulged, and decided not to interrupt them, but to wait until they came back to eaith and remembered my existence. So, after a moment's hesitation, I sat down on the steps leading to the slip, knowing they would certainly visit it before they went in, as it was Gabrieile's fawhen vorite view. Even there was no moon and the outlook was therefore limited, I was sure she would not desert it. Resting my chin m my hand, I reviewed the evening, which, from my own private and particular standpoint, had been a failure. Elizabeth had mentioned Lord Wilfrid's 'reserved maimer, but to me he had seemed distinctly sulky, and I had more than once seen his sister look at him appealingly, and at last with an indignant sparkle in her brown eyes, after which he roused himself and conversed in a perfunctory manner with his neighbor who happened to be my unfortunate self. Now, I had fully intended to impress Gordon Bennett with the fact that he was still under the ban of my displeasure, and in the privacy of my own room had rehearsed a dignified bearing and certain imaginary speeches I thought would be very effective. It was therefore somewhat disconcerting to be politely ignored by the gentleman in question, who, beyond a civil bow and smile, bad appeared unaware of my existence and had devoted himself exclusively to Elizabeth, who looked especially pretty in her pale blue princess eovvn, and whose nose. t, 1 regu-laiity- Bo sat in the sheltering darkness on the top of the steps ar.d looked down upon the illuminated slip, while my heart thumped audibly and I wished most ardently I bad never venI tured out. For there were two men upon it, and an unlighted steam launch waited beside it. One of them knelt before the door of the boathou.xe, evidently trying to unlock it, while the other watched with interest, and finally produced a bunch of keys from his own pocket and selected one a.- he handed them to his companion, with appaicnt directions how to apply it. And I saw plainly that the man who supplied the keys was Gordon Bennett, who, with his friend Mr. Blake, was tiymg to force an entrance into our boathouse. Another instant, and I sprang to my feet and fled incontinently, my fingers in my ears and my progress sadly hampered by the long trailing skiit over which I tripped and stumbled, and which, I will remark in passing, was irrevocably ruined. I do not know why I ran, nor why I stopped up my ears, since I had not heard a word of any kind, and was certainly in no personal danger; but I rushed wildly on and finally cast myself breathless upon my bed, my pulses throbbing painfully and my whole being quiveung with a sense of shame. For I had so nearly loved him. I knew it now, even as I knew his Had he not lied to me that afternoon? Lied about so sim - matter that I sio.dd tinn ht understood he had soim-'g to cun cf whn h to be ceal something ashamed. Ami now he wa-- , tiying to force an entrance to the b a'hoHe. But why? Was he a crinint u thief? no, not Oh, no, I cried, aloud; that! Then 1 sat suddenly upright, for I remembered the safe in the diningroom, with the jewels loeke in it the pearls which belonged to Lady Ediths mother and I remembered aloO my indiscreet disclosures regarding it, and the questions he had asked even while professing his disapproval keen, searching questions as to the exact location of the safe and the form of lock upon it. And I had told him everything he wanted to know willingly. I ciied again. Oh! Im a fool, and lie knew it, and used me for a ple a 1 tool Theiein lay the chief sting He had used me as a tool, and my womans vanity was wounded to the quick. Going into the next room. I leaned out (if the open window, looking toward the ocean and vvatel.ing for something, 1 was not sure what. The searchlight was at woik again, and by its light 1 saw a little dark boat steal away from our slip and make its way toward the point of the island. I could see two figures in its st'rn, so I knew the kev La i not been successful and I supour bo.it house was still closed that the piesenee of the posed a -- Midlcl.t an had frightened them away, felt grateful fot it I bend the voices of the giil. and ret u: ned to my own room, hn Li re muviir' my dress and sl; :ug u u lied. To morrow I would t 11 to. m, but not to in dit 1 could not tn !c could not even think 1 t. 1 She's sound .'hippoivd Ga biit lie, after an inquiring pet p over It must be later than we (he bed. thought. Its awful the way we forget the flight of lime when we get to talking, returned Elizabeth remorsefully, and they lowered their light and moved softly, in order not to disturb me. But I lav with widely opened eves, stating into the dantness, long after their quiet breathing told me they nad gone peacefully to sleep. How hot the pillow was! I turned it restlessly, hoping the other side might contain a soporific influence and I could get away from the toimeuting, ring question, what did he want in there? So far as we knew, the place was empty; why, then, should any man want to force an entrance? Perhaps, after all, it was nothing that could not be explained. I would write him in the morning and tell him quite frankly what had seen, and ask for an explanation. And he, of course, would answer promptly. Then I remembered the scarf pin of the Sphinxs head, and knew that any explanation, no matter how plausible, would always be accompanied by a doubt in my own mind. I remembered something else also Mrs. Bundy's emetalds, and the supposition that the one who took them had departed without waiting for breakfast. Had he not by his own showing loft the hotel very early indeed the morning after the storm? I tried to put this thought away from me, but it retuined again and again with hideous pertinacity, until, after a long time, my senses became dulled and I fell into an uneasy dose, wheie I heard Lady Edith demanding her mothers pearls of Gordon Bennett, while he insisted he was having them set into for me, and could not, therefore, comply with her request. ," ever-ree- u 1 side-comb- s (TO BE CONTINUED) A Noiseless Room. For many physical researches a perfectly noiseless room is a desideratum. If such could be devised it would open out new possibilities of research. At the Univesity of Utrecht the problem has been apparently successfully solved by the room designed by Zwaardemaker. The walls and ceiling of the room are 11 inches thick, and are formed of six separate layers. The first consists of a feltlike material of horsehair, known as tricho-piese- , this is followed by a layer of pot ous stone isolated fiom the floor by sheet lead. An air space of about tut inch is followed by wood, and then a course of ground cork and sand. The final layer is of specially piepared giound cork, known as lorkstein. South American Inns. A traveler who recently returned to Philadelphia was narrating some of his experiences in South America at a banquet of globe ti otters. He had the entire coast of South America and had found the inns or hotels in most sections very poor. So bad were they in Peru, he said, that one American who had been thrown into jail pending some dispute over hi? papers and after his release had s' ught the hotel of the town, returned the next day to the jail and begged that he might be taken in. The most curious sign he had seen was in the window of a restaurant in Buenos Ayres, which read: American cafe champagne and fried potatoes. Philadelphia Record. |
