Show TELLS OF IMPRESSION Irving THE Magnificent Structures in Rome Covered With Vines K LE Of THE PLAINS - Pandall Padbish- - uthor Or'My Lady Or The South JV WHEfi Wilde rheas Was Kino EtcEtc m luuaTRATiOfis (Copyright A C McClure By Co DeARMmHcLviC Ifllk) useless It would be to explain a little ashamed of her own fears and thus they rode on In silence He did not notice that she glanced aside at him shyly marking features the outline of bis It was a manly face strong alive full bead of character the broad shoulders the firmly poised squared In spite of the long night of The depths of her weary exertion eyes brightened with appreciation “I believe your story Mr Keith' at last said softly she “My story?” question tngly and turning Instantly toward her “Yea all that you have told me about what happened" “Oh I had almost forgotten having told It but I never felt any doubt but don't think what you would believe I could lie to you" It waa no compliment but spoken with euch evident honesty that her eyes met his with frankness “There could be no necessity only I wanted you to know that I trust you and am grateful" She extended her hand this time and be took It within his own holding it firmly yet without knowing what to answer There was strong Impulse within him to question her to learn then and there her own life story Yet the reticence of the girl somehow restrained him he could tot deliberately probe beneath the veil she kept lowered between them Until she chose to lift it herself voluntarily he Tbs possessed no right to Intrude Instincts of younger gentlemanly years held him silent realizing cleardomly that whatever secret might inate her life It was hers to conceal Out of Just so long as she pleased this swift struggle of repression he managed to say: and confidence “I appreciate your mean to prove worthy Perhaps some day I can bring you the proofs” “I need none other than your own how and 11 8YNOPSI3 now a Jack Keith Virginian der plalneman la riding along the Santa tiail on the lookout for roaming war He notlcea a camp partlea of aavagea fire at a distance and then aeea a team attached to a wagon and at full gallop pursued by men on ponlea When Keith reaches the wagon the raldera have two men and departed He aearchea the victlma finding papers and a locket He reeolvea to with a woman's portrait Keith la arhunt down the murderers rested at Carson City charged with the wurder his accuser being a ruffian named Black Bart He goes to tall fully realisA ing the peril of swift border lustlce companion In hla cell Is a negro who tells him he Is Neb and that he knew the Keith family back In Virginia Neb says one of the murdered men was John the other Qen Willis Waite forKlhley merly an officer In the Confederate army The plainsman and Neb esrape from the cell and later the two fugitives become lost In the sand desert They come upon a cabin and find Its lone occupant to be a young girl whom Keith recognises as a singer he saw at Carson City The girl explains that sho came there in search of a brother who had deserted from the A Mr army Hawley Induced her to come to the cabin while he sought to cate her brother Hawley appears and Keith In hiding reeognlses hint aa Black Bert Hawley tries to make love to the fa There a terrific battle In the girl durkened room In which Keith overcomes and Black Bart Horses are appropriated the girl who savs that her name la Hope Joins In the escape bor- CHAPTER XII— (Continued) have ridden this country for years and there la no ranch pasturing cattle along the Balt Fork Miss Hope want you to comprehend what It is what you are you have escaped from now fleeing from Within the last two years an apparently organized body f outlaws been have operating Oftenthroughout this entire region times disguised aa Indians they have terrorized the Santa Fe trail for two hundred miles travelers in killing small parties and driving off stock There are few ranches as far west as this but these have all suffered from raids These fellows have done more to precipitate the present Indian war than any act of the savages They have endeavored to make the authorities believe that Indians were guilty of their deeds of muider and robbery Both troops and volmteers have tried to bold the gang u) but they scatter swallowed and disappear as though havebeen out twice by the desert hard on their trail only to come back haa baffled Now I think accident given me the clue" She straightened up glancing at him through the dark“No word" i “I don’t believe rors It— you— you do not look like that” she exclaimed “Oh but possibly you are too easily convinced you believed In Hawley” her She looked at him searcblngly eyes glowing her cheeks flushed “Yes” she said slowly convincingI — I was so anxI know “I did ly ious to be helped but — but this is dif- of that scene witnessed near the whole expression that of pure and Clmmaron Crossing womanhood but making suffi dignified She puzzled him and he scarcely knew what to ferent” ciently clear his very slight conneo (TO BE CONTINUED! tlon with it and the reason those who believe or exactly how to act toward were guilty of the crime were tfo her ALAS! THE POOR DUCHESS to get him out of the way She “Our friends back yonder should be few listened asking Intently turning out from the corral by now" Then they both he said finally anxious to break the She Thought Wealthy Couple Were until he ended ness Making Sport of Her Wedding looked up conscious that dawn was silence for she bad not spoken since “This Is what I mean Miss Hope Present In the east Keith's he ended his tale gray “It will not be becoming I suspect that cabin to be the renwas one of relief — the long until flrst thought discover Hawley’s they when the wealthy Mile de and I half dezvous of those fellows and perhaps the welkin R Recently bright sky showed him they were rid predicament was to be married one of our good believe Hawley to be their leader” north That ing straight already rings with profanity duchesses bad to jngke her a present “Then you will report all this to the may even account for the blue haze The duchess authorities T" just a little present out yonder" CHAPTER XIII It would be useless to expend his Ups comHe smiled grimly She turned her eyes toward him thought much money for a person eo rich She pressed and of smile the trace a apslightest The Ford cf the Arkansas thought If the would look through her “I hardly think so at least not for peared from out of the depths of their vast mansion she would be able to find They were still In the midst of the weariness not blood thirsty the present I something some trinket to which the or enamored but I yellow featureless plain but the weary of “If they would only remain satisfied addition of her card would give suffhappen to have L personal Interest in horses had slowed down to a walk with that Will they follow us do She finally found In her this particular affair which I should the heavy sand retarding progress (t you think? Aad are we far enough icient glory was a gloomy depressing scene In the writing desk an insignificant cameo prefer to settle alone" He paused away by this time to be safe?" had once worn that she of wide a light) circle gray spectral circumstances the swiftly reviewing "It Is hardly likely they will let us The following day she received from unbroken by either of their short acquaintance and as Intense loneliness escape without a chase” he answered her young friend a letter of enthusdetermined to trust her dis- dwarfed shrub or bunch of grass a slowly suddenly "We possess too much inforiastic thanks: "Oh you have been very cretion Deep down in his heart he barren expanse stretching to the sky mation now that we have their ren- foolish) This la too too beautiful" rather wanted her to know “The fact Vague cloud shadows seemed to flit dezvous located and ‘Black Bart’ will etc of the matter Is that Neb and here across the level surface assuming fan- have a private grudge to revenge I “She Is making sport of my little were the ones that particular posse tastic shapes but all of the earns dull wonder if he who attacked duchess suspects the good thought unfinished and present” Imperfect coloring were traPlng” him! But don’t worry Miss Hope Then came a second letter this time “You!' her voice faltered “He Nothing seemed tangible or real but we have miles the start and the wind husband who was to be: picture of de- has been strong enough to cover our from the said those men were under arrest rather some grotesque “How can we thank youT We are delirium ever merging Into another yet for murder and bad broken jail” Do you see that dark irregularThe very silence of trail lighted This will spoil us” more hideous “He also said It was easy to conity ahead?” “The Impertinent fellow” said the burseemed aastes IboBe surrounding if you only vict men in this country “Yes la It a cloud?” duchess “be wants me to understand to the densome adding Immeasurably knew how It Is true we broke Jail I “No Arkansas sand dunes the I have been niggardly” that They were but specks crawl- am but only in order to eave our lives tt horror to to the horses going keep try Nevertheless she went to pay a visit the sky— the only livwas the only way we ing underneath Technically moving until we arrive there Then to the R's before the marriage There In all that Imare outlaws and now run the risk of ing moving objects we will halt and eat whatever Neb In the midst of the presents exposed mense circle of desolation and death immediate returning' by has packed behind him and rest for In a most prominent place she saw the Keith turned In hla saddle looking We came to north of the Arkansas an hour or two You look tired An card her cameo very little placed upon In bis was charged with back past Neb— who swayed you fugitives but hope you can keep up for that old gentleman approached her He murder So seat with head lolling on his breast distance the negro with assault We shall be safely out of was a member of the Academy of InMiss Hope the desperate as though asleep— his horse plodding sight then” you see scriptions and Belleslettres after the others along the alight trail class of men you are now associating am tired the strain of “Indeed “What a wonderful present you have So they bad made across the desert with” In that cabin and all given these chlldreu Madame la duchfar as eye could reach nothing moved waiting alone The slight bitterness In his tone tried have that last happened be said For forty years we have ess” night existed nothing apparently Fronting me — but I But can It She stung the girl into resentment severely go been seeking for this very cameo again to the north he looked upon the was looking straight at him but In same and this trinIs of the era of Trojan grim barrenness only that far through" the gloom be could not discern the off Her voice proved her weakness ket is valued at two hundred thousand of the lighter background against of her eyes ezpreesion distant sky there was visible a faint though It was determined enough and francs" “I don’t believe It" she exclaimed blur a bluish haze which he believed Keith yielding to sudden impulse put Ah the poor duchess— Le Crl de out his hand and permitted It to rest Paris decisively “you— you do not look like to be the distant sand dunes borderthat!" upon hers clasped across the pommel The Intense dreariing the Arkansas but there was no Primitive Canadian College may be sufficient to ness of It all left a feeling of depression Her eyes drooped “My appearance convince you" he returned rather dryA great Institution In embryo la the His eyes turned aDd regarded the girl change of posture “Your nerve Is all right” he said remarkable Emanuel college at Saskaly “but would weigh little before a riding silently beside him The same have shown court Western the look of depression admiringly toon “you yourself Unfortunately in the diocese of Saskatchewan visible was upon was strong against me or her face and she was gazing off Into a brave girl" evidence At the present time sixty young men “I could not be a coward would have been had the case ever the dull distance with lack luster eyes and be are being trained there under Princicome to a trial The strange thing her slender form leaning forward her my father's daughter" she replied pal Lloyd to meet the rapidly growwith an odd accent of pride In her ing demand for young clergymen about it was that both warrants were hands ir across the pommel clasped have been afraid worn out by the same complainant Canada the vast territory of The long weariness of the night had choking voice “but and— and I am still" and apparently for a similar purpose — left traces on her young face robbing A picture of this college shows a lot not ”Of those Black Bart’ Hawley" what? Surely that of wooden lints of the simplest speit of some of Its freshness yet Keith on the open prairie "What purposef” cies standing found it more attractive In the grow- fellows will evfer catch up with us?“ "No “To keep us from telling what we ing daylight than amid the lamp shadhardly know what only there Two tutors live In shacks also cannot seem to shake off In ows of the evening before knew regarding a certain crime He bad Is a dread A Boaton Casuist as If some evil Impended the coming which either he or some of bis intinot previously realized the peculiar mate friends were deeply Interested” clearness of her complexion Mrs Kawler— But how Id the world the rose of which can feel but not see Have “But U would all come out at the tint showing through the olive skin any such pre- did you manage to hire this flat when you ever experienced trial wouldn’t Itf” the landlord is so set against families or the soft and silky fineness Of her monition ?" He laughed his band with children? withdrawing “There was to be no trial Judge hair which disarranged was strangeam far too prosaic “I think not Mrs Smart— f told him my children Lynch settles the majority of such ly becoming under the broad brim of It Is ex- the hat she wore drawn low until It a mortal to allow dreams to worry me were all underground eases out here at present K— But that was er — sufficient Listen and I will tell shadowed her eyes Mr It was not a face So far I have discovered tremely simple Mr a S— Ob tt waa quite true You to be easily associated with frontier trouble In real life to keep my brain you the story" Even now I cannot forget bow see at tbe time told him I'd sent He reviewed or any surrender to active halls briefly those occur- concert am" the children riding through the sub rences leading directly up to his ar- evil the chin round and firm the lips rtungry She did not answer way— Boston Evening Trannrripu rest sating little regarding the hor- - full yet sufficiently compressed the comprehending OF NOTED STEERS CAPTIVES FOR YEARS Herd Grows From a Few Animals Which Fell Into a Deep Ravine Long Ago Large Meeker Colo— By theli risking lives a company of Uncle Sam’s regulars has rescued a large herd of Texas long horn mavericks from the bottom of a deep ravine A number of years ago a large bunch of cattle was turned on the A stampede range occurred and hundreds of the animals fell ovei from a precipice The flrst one were killed but the remainder alightof their coming on the carcasses survived panions And there they their existence unknown to stayed the cowmen who supposed that they had all been killed The survivors Increased growing largo and becoming wild The war department finally detailed the soldiers to get them out The rescue was thrilling The huge beasts proved more than a match for the soldiers’ horses In speed and their rescuers They over charged turned many horses and attacked the K riders SNAKE In the Gardens St Peter’s In of the Vatican the Distance at the present day physical proof of the pontiff’s former obscurity This proof lies with his two sisters Lucre-cland Teresa unobtrusive peasant women who have followed the pope from his humble home Lucrecla the cook in particular Is keen and critical in the interest of the pontiff It was she whom he called from Riese when he was flrst attacked by the rheumatic gout that has proved so painful and so dangerous during his later years And it is she assisted by her sister Teresa who now supervises the pope’s meals and tends him In his illness Another Interesting figure of the Is his brother Anhousehold pope’s who gelo Sarto a humble postman spends what time he may In company with the pontiff and his sisters If is his brother upon whom the pope relies for that masculine companionship that is a part of every mortal And these two old men both handsome and with thick white hair alike and yet not alike are the closest companions Setting Hens Disturbed Y — Yonkers amateur Yonkers N poultry fanciers have appealed to the to stop blasting street commissioner because it disturbs their setting hens While KILLS HER TWO SONS Mother Goes to Rescue of Children Baby Falls In Tub and Drowns N C — The attention of Raleigh Mrs George Adams living in Pitt county was attracted by the cackling of a hen andshe sent her son to the barn to drive the hen from the nest A scream from the lad that the hen had pecked him caused the mother to send her younger son to ascertain the cause and a similar outburst from him led the mother to In- vestigate She found that both boys had been bitten by a rattlesnake tliat was colled in the nest IIurrylDg with her little ones to the house she found that her babe had fallen Into a tub and drowned The hoys lacking medical attention soon died In agony The three children will be buried in the same grave Chicago Women’s Feet Beautiful of Chicago Chicago — The women have been exonerated and vindicated from all over the counChiropodists In session there a and noted extry pert stated that Chicago women have the most beautiful feet and ankles Hu said It was an outrage the way New York and the world libels the feet of the Windy City’s fair residents Y A: r tendon— The last beams of the day were now faintly streaming through the painted windows in the high vaults above me the lower parts of the abPalace Llea Apart and Distinct From bey were already wrapped In the obRest of Rome Not Removed The chapel and scurity of twilight but Through aisles grew darker and darker by Isolation The effigies of the kings faded into shadIts Atmosphere ows the marble figures of the monuments assumed strange shapes In the — been Columns Rome have Italy written regarding the personal ap- uncertain light the evening breeze pearance of the pope his part in the crept through the aisles like the cold of the consistory and the breath of the grave and even the ceremony pomp and splendor that surrounds the distant footfall of a verger traversing the had something poets’ corner papal court yet relatively little Is known oi his intimate personality strange and dreary In Its sound I endeavored to form some arrangeThis In part m4y be explained by reason of the ceremony that sur- ment In my mind of the objects I had but found they rounds the 6ntiff and by reason ot been contemplating the care that has been taken to guard were already fallen Into indistinctness and confusion Names Inscripof him from the approach tloned plebeians The Vatican Itself is & magnificent old pile whose spires roofs and gables rise high above an fnclrcllng grove of ancient trees that decorate its gardens The quiet serenity of the masonry the peaceful majes ty lent by the hand of ages and the that seems to surround atmosphere the hallowed spot through Its long association with the ecclesiastical hisarchitecture tory make its imposing most the prominent In Rome This feature Is all the more accentuated after a visit to the ancient amphitheater and the great aqueducts and mausoleums of the Roman These In truth are lm emperors posing but they contrast sharply with the buldlings that house the pope and form the font of the Roman Catholic church The Roman buildings are Inanimate in their and magnificent death while the Vatican Is animate and doubly imposing through the soul Westminster Abbey that lives within The Vatican indeed lies apart and tlons had all become controphies distinct from the rest of the city It founded In my recollection though I Is not removed through Its isolation Jmd scarcely $akea my foot off the but through Its atmosphere On the threshold What thought I Is thl3 one hand Is the magnificent of vast assemblage of sepulchers but a palace King Victor Emmanuel busy with treasury of humiliation a huge pile of the toll of war and feeding the count- reiterated homilies on the emptiness less avenues that lead to the Ghetto of renown and the certainty of oblivand pn the other is the palace of the ion! It Is Indeed the empire of Death set pope vast silent and Imposing hla gjreat shadowy palace where he In an atmosphere of Its own and as sits In state mocking at the relics of much apart from the busy city as human glory and spreading dust and though it were surrounded by a deson the monuments forgetfulness of ert How Idle a boast after all princes Of the pope himself his rites and Is the Immortality of a name! Time character there are a thousand sto-- ‘ Is ever silently turning over his pages rles current Plus X the son of a we are too much engrossed by the poor peasant Is hailed everywhere as story of the present to think of the the Father and to his people he has characters and anecdotes that gave retained those simple manners Interest to the past and each age Is a always and customs that marked hla novitiate volume thrown aside to he speedily foras pariah priest and 'teacher of the gotten The Idol of today pushesthehero peasants of yesterday out of our recollection besides mere anecdote and will in turn be supplanted by his Something however forms the foundation for successor of tomorrow “Our fathers” these stories of simplicity and nobll says Sir Thomas Browne “find their There Is in Rome graves In our short memories and sadIty of character ly tell us how we may be burled In our survivors”— "Westminster Abbey” re X ABBEY Calls Sepulchers In Westmln-steNothing but a Treasury of Humiliation |