Salina Call | 1913-12-05 | Page 6

I THE SAUNA CALL SALINA And mine Is "All right ’John’ can I Captain — Nat I mean — how ever thank you?" "Thank me? iWh&t do you want to I me for? thank only banded over somethin’ that wasn’t mine in the first to you all along place and belonged I didn’t know It that was the only KE trouble" JosepkCIdncoln Author of Cu'WHittalcex'a Place Capfn JEri Etc Ellsworth Youri$ Copyrlgtt3f°)iy D AypUtnw -- Comyung SYN0P8IS Mn Kexlah Coffin suppoxed widow lx arranging to mova from Trumet to Boo ton following tno death of her brother ifor whom oho had kept houoe Kyan Pepper widower offer marriage and to Capt Elkanah indignantly refused leader of the Regular church offers Keilah a place as housekeeper for the new minister and she decides to remain in Trumet Kexlah takes charge of Rev John Ellery the new minister and gives (him advice as to his conduct toward Ellery causes a (members of the parish a (sensatlpn by attending Ellery's presence la bitterly meeting leader of the by Eben Hammond for her Grace apologises meeting guardian and Ellery escorts her home in ithe rain Capt Nat Hammond Ebens on becomes a hero by bringing the packet Into port safely through foga and letstorm Ellery finds Keslah writing ter to some one Inclosing money In reBhe Is curiously sponse to a demand of startled when Informed of the arrival Nat Nat calls on Keslah and It develsince ops that they have been lovers Daniels remonstrates with Ellery youth ter" meeting Elfor attending "Come-olery Is caught by the tide and Is rescan Ellery by Nat They become friends meets Grace while walking In the fields and learns that she walks there every takes dinner The clergyman Sunday Annabel the Bunduye with the Daniels to herself exerts captain's daughter make an Impression on him Bha notices with vexation his desire to get away Bhe every Sunday at a Certain time Nat watches him through a spy glass him again Importunee Kezlah to marry He says he has had quarrel with his father who wants him to marry Grace Ellery asks Grace to marry him Bhe confesses that she loves him but zayx Elshe ears to displease her guardian kanah Daniels tells Eben about the meetEben ing between Ellery and Grace declares he will make Grace choose beGrace finds tween him and the preacher him In a faint following the excitement of Elkanah’s visit Just before he dies Eben exacts a promise from Nat ana Kezlah Grace that they will marry breaks the news to Ellery and later he received a note from Grace saying she le to marry Nat and asking him not to try Kexlah tell the xtory to see her again of her own marriage with a man who and turned out to be a who was reported to have been lost at sea and of ner love for Nat whom she cannot marry because the husband Is to Manila for sails alive Captain Nat He says he and be gone two years Grace have decide® not to marry untilIs and tt Nat Is overdue he returns feared that he has been lost at sea Kezlah gets a letter from her husband saying he Is coming back Grace goes on A a visit to relatives of the Hammonds vessel flying distress signals Is discovered off the coast Ellery goes with party to board the vessel A man Is found sufthe of rest the from smallpox fering He Is taken to an crew having deserted absndoned shack on shore and Ellery helps nurse him Before he dies It Is discovered that he is Keziah's husband Elle found in left alone quarantine lery by wandering In a delirious condition She takes him back to the Grace and Shanty and sends for help Kexlah from Grace nurse Ellery who Is suffering The doctor and Kezlah brain fever spread a report that Grace and Ellery are News comes that Nat has engaged The story of arrived safely In Boston the wreck of Nat’s vessel comes out and is arranged a “But your promise to your father ” feel I’m doin’ the right “You needn’t thing and I know It And don’t pity I made up my mind me neither not to marry Grace — unless of course she was set on It— months ago I’m tickled to death to know she’s goln’ to have as good a man as you are She'll tell you so Gracel Hello! Bbe's gone” I told her I wanted to tall "Yes with you alone for a few minutes Nat” Grace tells me that Aunt Kezlah was the one who——” She met me at the "She was I was aettln Narrows depot In the car lookin’ out of the window at the sand and sniffin’ the Cape air somebody tapped me on the shoulder I looked up and 'twas her I was surprised enough to see her I tell you Way up there at the Narrows! I couldn’t have said a word anyway and she never gave me a chance ’Nat she says 'don’t talk now Come with me quick afore the train starts I’ve come here on purpose to meet I must talk with you it’s imyou portant You can go to Trumet on the next train tonight But now must talk with you I must Won't you please come Nat?’ The engine bell was "Well I went beglnnln’ to ring and we had to move I swung her off the lively I tell you as car the begun to move step just So into the waitin’ room we went and And come to anchor on the settee then John we had our talk Seems she left Trumet Wednesday afternoon Got the livery stable man to drive her as fur as Bayport hired another team there and come on to Sandwich Stayed overnight there and took the train which got to Cohasset Nar rows Just ahead of the one I was cornin’ on She’d been so frald of be She must see me in’ late she said afore I got to Trumet “Well she saw me and told me the whole yarn about yon and Grace She tried to break It to me gently so I wouldn’t feel too had She knew It would be a shock to me she said It was a shock In a way but as for feelln’ bad I didn’t I think the wj?d I’d do anything she wanted of Grace me to do but most the way down on the train — yes and long afore that — I’d been dreadin’ my coming home on I dreaded tellln’ her one account that unless she was real set on it she’d better not marry me” “Nat I want to tell you something ' that only one other perSomething Grace doesn’t know It son knows yet Neither does Aunt Kezlah — the whole of It And If she knew I told you even a part I’m afraid she wSAtf as she would say ‘skin me alive’ But I owe 'her — and you — more than I could repay if I lived a thousand years So I'm going to tell and take the consequences after “Nat when — that morning your father died and after you and ” Grace had agreed to —to of us “To do somethin’ neither Go wanted to do? Yes I know I and then There he knocked door whistled shrilly A window overhead was opened a s feminine asked “Who Is voice Grade” re“Don’t be frightened “It’a mo— plied the mah at the door Nat I’ve come home again” Itr CHAPTER In Which the XIX Minister Receives a Letter John Ellery was uneasy Physically he was very much better so much better that be was permitted to sit But mentally up a while each day he was disturbed and excited exactly the condition which the doctor said be must not be In Kezlah and Grace had gone away and left him and he could not understand why Mrs Higgins Ike’s mother was at the shanty and she did her best to She was a soothe and quiet him kind soul and capable In her way but she could not answer his questions satisfactorily He rose from the chair and started He would not toward the living room He would be anbe put off again His hand was on the latch swered of the door when that door was Dr Parker came In opened broadly The doctor was smiling His ruddy face was actually beaming He held out his hand seized the minister’s and shook It “Good morning Mr Ellery” he said Yes sir a bully “It’s a glorious day Hey? Isn’t it?” day answer was a question Ellery's “Doctor” be said “why have Mrs Horne Van Miss Coffin and— and I Has anything happened? gone? has and you must know something Don’t try to put me off tell me what want I or give me evasive answers to know why they have gone" Parker looked at him keenly "I'll have to he grunted “Humph!” You sit get Into Mrs Higgins’s wig No I’m not going to tell you still You sit where you are and anything! If maybe the news’ll come to you Going to obey oryou move It won't Good! I’ll see you by and by ders? Mr Ellery” It He walked out of the room seemed to Ellery that he sat In that chair for ten thousand years before And then the door again opened “Grace!” he cried ”0 Grace! you —you’ve come back” She was blushing red her face was CHAPTER XVIII— (Continued) with quiet happiness but her shouted Ezra radiant “Here she comes!’ crossed the She on eyes were moist “Right Simmons the postmaster room bent over and kissed him on the time too” forehead A cloud ot dust In Sure enough! 'Tve come fYes John’’ she said the distance rising on the spring back Yes dear I’ve come back to wind and the rattle of rapidly turn- — to you" The reception committee ing wheels side on the the shanty Outside Captain Elkanah prepared for action farthest from the light and Its group descended from the carlage and moved the doctor and Captain of buildings In stately dignity to the tront of the Nat Hammond were talking with Mrs post office platform The latter was wildly excitHiggins The stage Its four horses at a trot ed and bubbling with joy swung up to the platform “Ifs splendid!” she exclaimed “It's “Hurrah!” shouted the committee Now we’ll almost too fine to believe Its uninvited guests and the accom- keep our minister won't we?” crowd ot Bayport msn and panying Mrs Higgins turned to Captain Nat boys which had gathered to assist In “It’s kind of hard for you Nat" she the welcome' “Hurrah!" “But it’s awful noble and added A passenger or two peered from the and everybody’ll say so Of window coach The stage driver course there wouldn’t be much satisIronically touched his cap faction in havin’ a wife you knew “Thank ye “Thank ye” he said But still cared more for another man very much” It’s awful noble of you to give her up” Captain Elkanah frowned his disapThe captain looked at the doctor proval and laughed quietly “We are cheering Cap’n Nathaniel on weigh "Don’t let my nobility Hammond of Trumet” he explained Mrs Higgins” he said your mind “We are here to meet him “I’d made up my mind to do this very haughtily W’here is he? and escort him home to Trumet I ever got back thing afore Where’s Cap’n Hammond?" That is If Grade was willin’ And “Well now I’ll tell ye I don’t know when I found she was not only willin’ Where he la” but Joyful I— well I decided to offer “You don’t? Isn’t he with you?” tip the sacrifice right off” “No he ain’t And be didn’t come You did? “You did? Why how He was on it on the train nuther you talk! I never heard of such a see told him me conductor and he The in my born days" thing set along with him between stations Grace?” "Oh well I— What Is But as fur as Cohasset Narrows In the doorway She was standing after that he never see hide nor hair antf beckoning to him Her cheeks Here’s the were crimson Oh that’s so! of him was the breeze tossing mall bag Ezry” her hair aheut her forehead and she Cartain Zeb stepped beside the made a picture that even the pracstage and put one foot on the wheel tical unromantlc doctor appreciated “la that “Say That” he whispered The captain went to meet her all you know? Where did he go to?” “What is it?" he asked “Well" the driver’s voice dropped “will you "Nat” she whispered “Well” he whispered “I did come In? He wants to see you’’ lower hear this much A chap I know was John Ellery was still seated In the on the train and he said he see Cap’n chair by the window but he no longer Nat get off the cars at the Cohasset looked like an invalid There was no Narrows depot and there was a wom- worry or care In his countenance an with him” ' a wondrous now merely Joy and A woman? What wom“A woman? serene happiness an?” He held out bis hands and the capAnd he didn’t tain shook them "Blessed If I knew! heartily nuther So long! Git dap!” “Mr Ellery” he said “as they used The reception committee and Its to say at the circus 'Here we are escort drove slowly back to Trumet again’ And you and I have been doThe Daniels following was disgusted ing all kinds of circus acrobatics since and disappointed I'm glad you’re we shook last hey? Trumet spent that evening wonder- pretty nigh out of the sick bay— and ing what bad become of Nat Ham- the doctor says you are” mond Captain Zeb Mayo wondered “Captain” began Ellery Hammond was interrupted him most of all Yet his wonderment of by vague suspicions "Hold on!" he said accompanied "Belay right the truth And at eleven o’clock there If you and I are to cruise in when tbo village was In bed a horse the same family — and that’s what I and buggy moved down the hear Is likely to happen — I caliate the Hammond we’ll heave overboard the cap’ns and red stopped before A man alighted from the buggy Misters 'Nathaniel’— prae My name’s to the side ’Nat’ for short” grr’ walkeJ brlsxly up ahead" “That home to news to morning Aunt Kezlah came and broke the the parsonage me She did It as' only she could do such a thing kindly and pityingly and I made a fool of myself I expect refused to believe her beand at last when haved disgracefully I had to believe It threatened to run away and leave my work and Trumet She made me forever like a coward stay" "Did hey?” She showed me It was my “Yes I When duty to face the music about she my troubles whimpered Then I told me her own story why” the note and The minister took Within was tore open the envelope a single sheet of paper He read a few lines stopped and uttered an exclamation (TO BE CONTINUED) it ' UTAH one of the special Providences that's been helpin’ along this last voyage of My second mate was a Hyan-nlmjne man name of Cahoon One day on that peaky island when we was eatln’ dinner together he says to me ‘Cap’n' he says 'you’re from Trumet ain’t you?’ I owned up ‘Know anyI body named Coffin there? says be owned up to that too ’Well’ he saye husband met her 'I last trip I was la the Glory of the Wave’ I stared at 'Met his ghost you mean’ I him ‘He’s been dead for years and gays a good thing too Fell overboard and not bein’ used to water It killed him' “But he wouldn’t have It so ‘I used to knew Anse Coffin In New Bedford’ 'Knew him well’s I know be says And when we was In port at yeu Havre I dropped In at a gin mill down water front and be come up by the and touched me on the arm I thought same as you that he was dead but He was three sheets in he wa’n’t the wind and a reg’lar dock rat to look at but’ twas him sure enough We bad a long talk He said he was cornin’ back to Tramet some day Had s wife there he said I told him sarcastic that she’d be glad to see him He laughed and said maybe not but that she knew he was alive and sent him money when he was hard up Wanted me to promise not to tell any Cape folks that I’d seen him and I ain’t till now’ “Well you can imagine how I relt when Cahoon spun me that yarn First I wouldn't b’lleve It and then I did It explained things Just as you say I could see now why Kezlah John gave me my walkin’ papers I could see how she’d been sacrificin’ her life for that scum” “Did you tell her — Aunt Kezlah — when you met her at the Narrows?” But I shall tell her when I "No see her again She shan’t spoil her life — a woman like that! jy the Lord! what a woman! — for any such crazy I swore It when I heard the notion story and I’ve sworn It every day That’s what settled my mind since about Grace Kezlah Coffin belongs She always has belonged to to me me even though my own In lost her the old days” He Was pacing the floor now his face set like granite Ellery rose his own face beaming Here was his At last he could pay to this chance man and Kezlah a part of the debt he owed Nat Btopped In his stride “Well!” "I almost forgot after be exclaimed I’ve all Kezlah sent a note to you got it in my pocket She gave it to me when she left me at Cohasset" “Left you? Why! didn’t she come back with you on the night train?” That’s funny too and I don’t "No It yet understand We was together all the afternoon I was feelin’ so good at seeln’ her that I took her under my wing and we cruised all over that town together Got dinner at the tavern and she went with me to buy At myself a new hat and all that first she didn’t seem to want to but then after I'd coaxed a while she did She was lookin’ pretty sad and worn out when I first met her I thought hut she seemed to get over It and we had a fine time It reminded me of the days when used to get home from a voyage and we were together Then when ’twas time for the night train we went down to the and She gave me this note depot told me to hand it to you today ‘"Good-bNat’ Bhe says 'We’ve had a nice day haven’t we?’ “ “We have for a fact’ I says ‘But for?’ what are you say in’ good-b“'Because I’m not goln’ to Trumet ’I’m goln’ to the with you’ says she I’ve got some business to see city to there “I was set back with all my canI told her I’d go to Bosvas flappln' ton with her and we’d come home to Trumet together tomorrow that’s toBut she said no I must come day here and ease your mind and Grace’s So at last I agreed to I must do It sayln’ I’d see her In a little while She went on the up train and I took the Hired a team in Sanddown one wich and another in Bayport and got That’s to the tavern about eleven the yarn And here's your note Maybe It tells where she’s gone and “Yes John" She Back Said You” to ’ve Come "A Mighty Msn Was He” At a concert for charity In a country town Miss Carter obliged by reciting At the “The Village Blacksmith” conclusion of her recital the rural au’’Ancower!” cheered they dience Miss Carter was "Ancower!” cried about to grant the request when a burly fellow very much out of breath tapped her on the shoulder 'Tve Just from In front” whiscome around "I want pered this man excitedly what yer to do me a favor” “Well Is It?” queried Miss Carter "It's this" whispered the intruder ”1 happen ter talkin’ been fellow you've the be about and I want you to put In a verse this time saying how I let yit bi- learned what trouble was and what pluck was too She told me about and — excuse her marriage me for speaking of what Isn't my business yet It Is mine in a way— she told me cycles" about you" Ox Made Investigation Captain Hammond did not answer sale In Echt At a recent auction face clouded and he His Scotland a good deal Aberdeenshire shifted in his chair “She told me of you Nat all about of amusement was occasioned when a And she told me large ox which the auctioneer was you — and herself something else which explains why trying to dispose of took into It head she felt she must Bend you away why to walk Into the auctioneer’s box she thought your marriage to Grace and after he bad cleared the office would be a good thing’1 of officials made aminute Inspection She told you that that of thd books and retired from the ros“I know darn scamp Anse Coffin was alive” trum evidently quite pleased with the conducted and minister The started violently He way the sale was being It also with the state of the books gasped in surprise “You knew It? You knew It?" he Is needless to say that the officials stammered were much more excited than the ox “I know It now Have known It for Bnd made a quick exit whl'e the ox over a year Jly findln’ It out was walked with the utmost " U 'Himimnn' For Infants and Children Tho Kind You mho ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT XVfcfctable Preparation for As simitattng ihtFoodandRegula-Unthe Stewarts and Bowels of Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest Contains neither Opium Morphine nor Mineral llavo Always Bought Bears the A) I Signature Not Narcotic Arjer tfOU DrsimUrTKfM iuiw fmd frmmmmi Bitmdmrnb In Use Cimrrtd Afr w A perfect Remedy forConslipa-lioSour Stomach Diarrhoea Worms Convulsions Fever i and LOSS OF SLEEP The Centaur Company NEW YORK JXF TP Over For Signature of facsimile Thirty Years “’ITT? guaranteed under Exact Copy TIPS ROYALTIES’ Crowned for of Heads the Foods Wrapper ARE NNnill TNI VOM OtW LARGE Expend Large Sums Those Who Them Gratuities to Have Served When a man begins to grumble at tipping habit in New York says the Times he should thank his stars he does not belong to the nobility The sums paid out by royalty In tipping servants while on a visit would families for a year support several For Instance the late King Edward’s tipping bills ran into the thousands each year He made It a point that when visiting a friend even for a few behours never to leave without stowing notes among the servants It Is said that when he visited for the he seldom left less than $1000 to be distributed as tips When the king went to a shooting each beater received $5 and the party head keeper $25 or more according to the duration The of the visit said to be the most liberal kaiser It tipper among royalty of Europe Is said that every servant In a house which he visits is sure to be remembered The day before a visit comes to an end a secretary hands the chief the steward an envelope containing amount to be distributed and he makes sure each servant receives his allotted share Even the employes of the stable are remembered the Wheel Within Wheel “I hear Wlgley made his pile through the manufacture of stogies" But he started on the road “Nope to wealth in that way His subsidiary company was what really brought him his fortune” “What’s the subsidiary company?” “The match factory” Waiters' tips are not the only things in the world that are won by waiting Husband V r Neuralgia sufferers find instant relief in Sloan’s Liniment It penetrates to the painful part— soothes and quiets the nerves No ly lay it on LiriBlEMT Kills Pain For Neuralgia " I would not be without roar Liniment end praue it to all who suffer with neuralgia or rheumatieir or pal n of any kind”— Mn Kuwy Buhop Mtltma JfuMurl Pain AH Com suffered with quite a severe neuralgic headache for 4 months without I used your Liniment for y relief or three nights and I baren’t MrJ Ban with my need LouuvilU ky "I it CU Treatments for and Croup ’My little girl twelve years eld severe cold and I gave her caught three drope of Sloan's Liniment on sugar on going to bed and ahe got op in the morning with no signs of a cold A tle bey next door had croup and I gave the mother the Liniment She gave him to bed and he got three drope on g - 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