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Show - .r r r nl undent, i r Inside, that you were ruined! IT cede that a seifi, , , peering to hear every day to draw my swenTa had had to give up the fight" a Jiisbei motive i ago, "Oh that passed long were mne, ciuue u llut you never told me." be ti m eraaunc none minded me. "And I'm glad you dtdn t, selves; ethers th , Not knowing savqd me reckless vhethei she added i from doing something very foolish. or gulh' I did t smiled agreat a She (reddened little, Pnb !' mam difdeal, dazlingly, was altogether t e 8cut befor ferent from the Ice locked Anita of ized combat. short time before, different S Juo In m i any lhr ao from January. And her hand preparln ; the p., tebely alive seethed extremely com- fitting f'cept!oi fortable In mine. wboie beini; .Kven as my blood responded to my resentannt ayan of cynical I a that touch, had twinge the new array bitterness. Yes, apparently I was at bonds. Roebuck (dbt getting what I had so long, ao ranged with the vainly, and, fatterly, so hopelessly fake four tlm. craved But why was she giving it? Indorsed by the iso . until herself withheld Why had she houses la the s:i,i-- t this moment of material happlnesa? oftentxied and aiw,n. I have to pay the rich man's price," refused to h, , publlO thought 1, with a sigh. verestlmai u It was in reaching out for some been no move unnl i m. made sweetness to take away this bitter began f up, an If., t nan. ul retaste in my honey that I said to her, an (J?r where "When you gave- me that money from porter not actually lu tl . jav nt th. your pnele, you did It to help me out?" h,u,- , u,nic,,i that, How silly you Blip colored deeply ln spite of tit. ii. ,! i, i,s must have thought me!" she an,ita kx from the nnitiM-.- t ,lt th, , t,w swered. 1 t.y the took her other hand. As 1 was securities tr. public at prices .1,1,1111x1111. itinp Hi. ir diuwng hei tow ,u d me, the sudden valu Iheh B ii j im! (Hum my pallor of liei fae and' chill of her ti. r.i, IUorn hands halted nit once more, brought invefetorf sickening!) befoie me the early days ing: aim vcstculav nineof nij- - courtship when she had Infuritwenty-eighto he exact St.', nt ated my pride by trying to be "subMalyftlu,. of the National Indiisti far I hacked iottnd the rdom missive that room into whicli I bad put so Bank, loaned six hundred tnousand an much thought and money. Money! dollars. He ,kaned it u, Bill "The rich man's price! those deli- Nest, as ex gambler and proprietor of footnf, now silent partner in Hoe cately brocaded walls shimmered pool A Wlttekind, brokers. ou the New mockingly at me "Anita, said I, do you care, for York Stock Exchange and alsu In I'll bort k Jonas, curb brok.-- i s le loaned me?" She murmured Inaudlbly. Evasion! It to, Van Nest without security Vin Neat used the money jester-dato push up the price of tho new coal pectirltles b wash Bales which meats, by making false purchases and sale of the stock In older to give the public the Impression of eager buying Van Nest sold to himself and bought from bltaelf 317,060 of the 352.681 shares haded in Melyflle, in addition to bong president of one of the hugest banks In the Jworld, Is a dheetor In no loss thtt Bewnty-thregreat Industrial railways, telegraph companies, savings banks and life BUI Van Nest has companies doni tike la the Nevada State Penitentiary for That has all. '4&d it was enough-q- uit I was a national enough. figure, as yi uck so as If I had tried to assassinate tte president indeed, I bad exploded a bomb nnder a greater than t under the chirrs of. the Vgnmehl'of the United States, -- ee x , . . Sa DAVID MELWE GRAHAM PMLLIRS, Author of "7SFOOS2TMc J90S tv tfo AMBvrmrr OQSZJVKJ KOCf-'UlZV- CHAPTER XXVIII Continued. ply friends I braced myself for the worst. "She my words Is about to tell me that she Is leav- She looked strangely at me. lng, thought I. 15ut I managed to would be content with that" say. I'm glad to hear of your luck. asked I though I fear my tone was not espe ausweied what I dull) joyous. "So. she went on. I am la a posl to pay Lack to ytfu, 1 think, what my father and Sam took from you It won't be enough. I'm afraid, to pay llut 1 havb what you lost inditeitly told the lawyeis to make tt all over ' to y ou I could have laughed aloud It was too ridiculous, this situation Into 1 hail got myself which did not I could hardly kuow whit to say keep out of my face how foolish this collapse of my craftv conspiracy made me feel And then the ful 'meaning of what she was doing came over me I the revelation of her character trusted myself to steal a glance at her; and for the first time 1 dldn t see the thrilling azure sheen over her white skin, though all her beauty was before me, as dazzling as when It compelled me to resolve to win her. No; I saw her, herself the woman wjtbln. I had known from the outset that there was &n altar of love within my temple of passion. I think that was my first real visit to it. Anita' I said, unsteadily. Anita!" The color flamed In her cheeks; we were silent for a long time. "You your people owe me nothvoice to say. ing, I at length found Even If they did, ' I couldn't and wouldnt take your money. But, believe me, they owe me nothing. You cannot mislead me," she anWhen they asked me to beswered come engaged to you, they told me tlon 1 ' about it I had forgotten. The whole repul-Ivrotten business came back to me. And, changed man that I had become In the last six months, I saw myself as I had been. I felt that she was looking at me, was reading the degrading confession in my telltale e, ; features. I wUl tell yon,, the whole truth," said I; 1 T did use your father's and your brothers debts to me as a means of getting to you. But, before God, Anita, I swear I was honest with you when I said to you I never hoped or wished to win you in that way! I believe you, she replied, and her tone and expression made my heart You she thought lad Us make the best of please her our bad bargain." said I. You can trust me now, (Jon t you think you can'1 She nodded without speaking, we were at the door, and the servants us ,weie hastening out to receive Always tlie servants between us Seuants indoois, servants outdoors morning, noon and night, from waking to bleeping, these servants to whom we are slaves As those Intel rupting servants sent us each a sepaiate way, her to her ntald; me valet, 1 was depressed with the chill that the opportunity that has not been seen leaves behind It as It departs. Well," said I to myself by way of consolation, as I wab dressing for dlnner, she Is certainly softening ard you, and when she sees the new house you Will be still better friends to-m- i i - leap with indescribable Joy. Love is sometimes most unwise in his use of the reins he puts on passion. Instead of acting as Impulse commanded, I said, clumsljy: And I y from what I am very different was last spring. It never occurred to me how she might Interpret those words. "I know, she replied. She waited several seconds before adding- - I, too, have changed. I see that 1 was tar more guilty than you. There Is no excuse for me. I was badly brought up, as you used to say, but " No no," I began to protest. You She cut me short with a sadneed not be polite and spare my feelings. Lets not talk of it. Let us go back to the object I had In coming to-da- r - for you You owe me nothing, y I repeated. "Your brother and your father settled long ago I lost nothing through them. And Ive learned that If I had never known you. Roebuck and Lang-do- n would still have attacked me. 1 PUSHED THROUGH THEM." "What my uncle gave me has been to transferred you," said she, woman But, when the great day came, 1 was thought I, and suspicion sprang on fashion, not hearing what she did not not so sure. Alva went for a private .guard, bristling I cant make you ac- view with care to heed young Thomley; out of Anita," I cept It; but there it Is, and there It her enthusiasm she telephoned me care for me?repeated sternly, do you stays from the very midst of the surroundI am you wife, she replied, her I cannot take It. said I. If you ings she found so wonderful and so head drooping still lower. And hesiinsist on leaving It in my name, I beautiful thug she assured me, and she drew away from me. That ball simply return It to your uncle. her voice made it Impossible to doubt. tatingly seemed confirmation of my doubt and 1 wrote him what I had done, she And, ihe evening before the great day, I said to her satirically, You are willHis answer came yesterrejoined. I going for a final look, round, could ing to be my wife out of gratitude, to It. He approves day. find no flaw serious enough to justify put It politely?" I exclaimed. Approves It the sinking feeling that Came over me 8ho looked straight Into my eyes You do not know how eccentric be every lime I thought of what Anita answered. "! can only say .there is la,". she explained, naturally misun- would think when she saw my efforts apd no one I like so well, and I will give She to realize her dream. I set out for derstanding my astonishment. ou all 1 have to give. took a letter from her bosom and home half a dozen times at least, Like I" I exclaimed contemptuous1 banded It to me read: that afternoon, before I pulled myself Dear Madam. It was yours to do together, called myself an ass, and, ly, my nerves giving way altogether. And would be my wife! Do you with aa you pleased. If you ever find with a pause at Delmonlcos for a want you me to despise you? I struck yourself in the mood to visit. Gull drink, which I ordered and then re- dead my poor, feeble hope that bad House Is open to you, provided you jected, finally pushed myself In at the been all but still-borI rushed from bring no maid. I will not have female door. What a state my nerves were the room, closing the door violently servants about Yours truly, In! . between us. "HOWARD FORRESTER.' Alva had departed; Anita was waitSuch was our housewarming. r 1 , When You will consent now, will you ing for me In her sitting-roo1 not she asked, as I lifted my eyes she heard me in the haU, Just outside, XXIX T she stood In the doorway. "Come in, BLACK LOCK OPENS FIRE. from this characteristic note . I saw that her peace of mind was she said to me, who did not dare so For what I proceeded to do, all j much as glance at her. sorts of motives, from the highest to at 8 take. Yes I consent She gave a great sigh as at the lay- - j I entered. I must have looked as 1 the basest, have been attributed to lng down of a .heavy burden "Thank felt like a boy, summoned before the me. Here Is the truth: I had already you, was all she said, but she put a teacher to be whipped In presence of pushed the medicine of hard work to world of meaning Into the words the entire school. Then I was con- Its limit. It was as powerless against She took the first homeward turning. scious that she had my hand how this new development as water We were nearly at the house before she had got It, I don't know and that against a drunkard s thirst. I must I found words that would pave the she was murmuring, with tears of find some new, some compelling drug Oh, I cant some frenzy of activity that would way toward expressing my thoughts happiness la her .Voice: it! say swallow up myself as the battle makes my longings and hopes Glad you like your own taste. aald the soldier forget his toothache. This You say yqu have forgiven me." 1 "You know, Alva told confession may awkwardly aid I. Then 'we can be friends? chagrin many who hSve believed In roe. My enemies She was stlept, and I took her som- me a to one "But Its dream, and will hasten to say: thing ber expression to mean that she Aha, his motive very different thing to do, she an- - was even more selfish and petty than feared I was hiding some subtlety "I mean Just what I say. Jraita, I swered Then, with smiling reproach: waa alleged. But those who look at And I ve been thinking all summer human na'urrTionegtlf, and from tha tastened to explain. Friend aim- - -- 4- -- 1 -- y f MONEY Ju e hoise-gtealln- g thei-tfpaen- cf tjierwwffmrrogr'fWiaany'ppon u . , i i ii t'u n i,i' i tin - t i fail o i! tin n n it h i to al in v i tin- ifli-i- l Mnitt i - i i i U i Jus-i- niukit ii li lit! mot o in I'luiiil tin- - Mai v i eii-clio- i - 1 1 ie''id for piodui-leitul (list Insures thdt hive bun made in the I.ost Pack r oon Creek. iiiinpiiivs projertv ai in that por Idaho I;. Mining thing. tlon of Custer eouulv the A ndurtlon of $1 a nhaie in quartiilv dividend of t.u- Calumet & lleela Copper Mining company was ail iioiinccd mi the 10th The dec land a dividend of $13 a share against $2d three months ago. lie hi-ii- u and - ditt-Cor- , 17v . Roebuck-Langdo- n credited. As my electric whirled Into Wall Street, I saw the crowd In front of the Textile tfulldlng, a dozen policemen keeping It in order. I descended amid cheers, and entered my offices through a mob struggling to shake hands with me and. In my Ignorance of mob mind, I was delighted and Inspired! Just why a man who knows men. knows bow wishy-wishthey ars as Individuals, should be Influenced by a demonstration from a mass o( them, la bard to understand. But the fact is Indisputable. They fooled me then; they could fool me again. In spite of all I bare been tbrough. There probably wasn't one In that mob-fo- e wboe opinion ! would have y had the slightest respect had he corns to me alone j yet as I listened to those shallow cheers and those worthless assurances of tlje people are behind I felt that I was a you, Blacklock, man with mission 1 Our mala office was full, literally full, of newspaper men reporters front .rooming papers, from afternoon papers, tom out-o- f town and foreign papers. I bushed through them, saying aa I went: My letter speaks for me, gentlemen, and will continue to speak (of me. I have nothing to say except through it" But th public urged one. It doesn't Interest me, said I, on my guard against the temptation to cant 1 m a banker and Investment broket. 1 am Interested only In my customers, And ! shut myself in, giving strict orders to Joe that there was to be no .talking about me or my campaign. 1 dont psrpose to let the newspapers make us cheap and notorious, said I. We munt profit by the warning In the fate of all the other fellows who have sprmsg into notice by attaching these bandits. (To be ContlnuedJ t - iTv (1:1 r ttev i TopHn'ht tll'TtTd AKF ericjin Fork. Utah, district makes It none and more apparent that tbe old diMrh t whlih has received such scant ai tent ion fot years, Is going to rank it p with the best of them tn the near fill til e ) T.ie recent oil excitement along the Virgin liver has attracted attertiou to all partita of Utah which is rich In oil and coaf. anil the Escalante section Is said to be one of the most rlihly blessed localities for the touch of up-- " talent. Reports from a recent shipment of ore made by the Wheeler Gold Mlpes company, whose properties are In the Yerlngton, Nevada, district, show that the shipment was a satisfactory one. netting $140 gold to the ton, or $4,000 net tot the car. The action of the Amalgamated company to curtail cbpper production from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000 pounds of copper per month will throw about 8.000 When the men out of employment mines will again resume at full blart Is problematical. , miles The Alta district, twenty-fivnorthwest of Mackay, Idaho, la again coming to the front The ores from there are a copper, and., lead proposition. It Is an old district, but th people have Just come to recognize the fact that It Is wonderfully productive and are flocking there at a surplslng to-da- BACK TO HILLS. French and Spanish Forces Make Successful Move. Franco-SpanlsCasablanc a The allied a made on Wednesday atmy sudden and successful move on Tad-derwltete the Moors were massed in force The camp of the latter was destroyed by bombardment and the enemy was put to flight, leaving many dead on the (lc Id. The French lost one man killed and six wounded. The attack was carefully planned and waa baaed largely on the observations of the Moors position from a military balloon. After the bomhurdment of Taddert by the French artillery, as well as by the guns of the French cruiser Glolre, which fired seventy-fivshells, the allied Infantry advanced on the Moorish camp, where the enemy was making a last desperate stand. A short engagement followed and the Moors fled In wild disorder, pursued for several miles by the Iregular Algerian cavalry in the French service. The Moorish camp was completely destroyed. The exact loss of the Moors Is not known, aa they away many nt their Allied t, e rate. It Is estimated that there are anywhere from 250,000.000 to 600,000,000 pounds of copper stored away In the country awaiting disposition by the producer. Tbe general production of the present year Is expected to fall very little below last yean But there ihe buylng aettvlty that there was last year. , ... . .. n. . In the Mlnne Haha copper properties in the Clifton mining district of Utah, in tbe deepest shaft there is fourteen feet of ore. , Of t'olq there is three and one-hal- f fee( carries 20 per cent copper, H to 22 ounces silver and from $1 to $14 In gold pef ton. There are teverfl carloads of this character Of ore os the dumps., It is said that the oil fields on the San Juah Tler cah be traced a distance of fifty tulles and at one point 08 the river's bank there Is at least barrels pep day flowing Into twenty-fiv- e the water which impregnates tho stream and renders the water useless for culinary purposes for over a distance of three miles. While doing seme- - open - trenching along the vein system of the Columbia Wedge property at Alta, Utah, an or vein was found that averages two feet tn width for tbe distance opened along Its strike. Assays made upon this ore Silver discloses values from 160 to 380- - ounces; lead, 40 to 70 per cent; gold, $11 per ton. The Goldfield Mining Stock exchange and the Goldfield Stock and Exchange board will consolidated,' Committees from each exchange appointed full power to act have made a unanimous snd favorable report -- on consolidation. The handsome new stone building of the old exchstige win be the future home of the association The directors of the old reliable Utah mine, the biggest little mine In the United States, last week declared the regular monthly dividend of 3 per cent, or $3,000. With this distribution the company will have paid out during the present year 27 cents a share, or $27.-00while the total disbursements ou dividend account to date amount tn la-u- ot- . WILL TAYLOR GOT naHuoal Mel-vtll- 1 - was tilt- easier money maikt-iprospect 1st setTin- - slialU of Ihe SipU-lnlntlements, which vvete unusually large, proved much less set vert than was ex, The cull mom maiket did not get above 4 per cent at - an time and promptly relaxed, tthlli- In the tatea for time loans there was nothing like) a collapse This wa-- considered an the widening effect of the relief measures of the United States treasury, the an nouncement of which led to an almost immediate relaxation in foreign money markets and in forel-- n exchange rates here. CHASED k at oil w 1 1 lo-r- c MOORS the 11 i - 1 mi-il- In " n. to iimr sliotta an l Mi t i In 'p- ii on t M'in pi ii i i i inntii ions in lht- - in, ii lot must In- takIn t'u- i climating of en aiiordiiiKo of tin- iml'nmimnt null tho in pin on atol l tin in it, moir-hat thorn ttio, a ma.koit siiltsidoni in the prtsMiie silling uml a do tit-hlu tho fin ing of appi lionslon totild be lnfoiieil Horn this an liiui h txis- - not as anything else v c lacking some positive ik lopmonts, of a favorable cb.iiurtii .is oll A pnncijwl Lua.n-- . uv ilui - ;ii-r- v tin- - h - '1 I 'In-ov- MB d i it ir i ions tin. i n M , nt i i appti ' ti ,1 s t! .ii nt tt am-i-'- - I t "as vli c a vii nt l B ii- 'i l la Hiinoieii that Imvo, Utah, li hiv.- a mining xthangc Mi pf'",) j Sli i.lnme. of Rhyo-- 1 Ni I Its output la lH I, in live or ;0o tona It la ai l if ' to cu in mint poll 11 m vi ifl, hi pun 111 lluii is ft w II it tuu-- rumor in i ( nl.i'iimt pi th eft ! t vat the Mason .1 h ( up.t r of Vvr.ngton Nevada, of a Mii-- 't has 111 mind the toi ihe ti oat intuit of its on s a 10 a 1 MINING M1XESANI Distinct Cnmc.e in SenUmpnt NoticeCenters. able in Eas't-t- evy fcitizen, and that had state end and th principal municipal governments In Us strong box. I ojifess I was as much astounded at tet effect of my bomb as old o musk have been. I felt that I bad been obscure, as I looked at the newepapera, with Matthew Blacklock appropriating almost tbe entire front Jiagoof each. I waa the isolated, the conspicuous 'figure, standing alone uposthe steps of the temple of Mammon, where mankind dally and devoutly comes to offer worship. Not that the newspapers praised me. I recall none that spoke well of me. The nearest approach to praise was tbe Blacklock squeals on the Wall Street gang In one of the penny sheets that strengthen the plutocracy by lying about It. Soma of the papers insinuated that I had gone mad; others that I bad been bought np by k rival gang to the clique; still others thought I was simply hunting notoriety. All were inclined to accept as a sufficient denial of my charges Melville's dignified refusal to notice any attack from a quarter so dis- IMPROVED. OUTLOOK Warrant Suspended 80 Ha Can Return to Kentucky and Testlf1 Fof Powers. , T Lexington, Ky Circuit Judge. Stout has suspended warrants Issued against W. 8. Taylor, former governor of Ken- tucky, who Is charged with complicity in the mnrder of William Goebel, and who la in Indiana. The action U for the purpose of allowing Taylor to ?e turn to Kentucky and testify tn beha'f of Caleb Powers, who Is soon to be tried the fourth time for the Goebel murder. The prosecution desire to get Taylor to .make a statement In court, even though he comes as a demad on fense witness the Governor of Indiana were refused. Vast Amount of Coat Required for Trip of Battleships to Pacific Coast Two hundred and Washington thousand tons of coal, exclusive of that to be shipped in government colliers, will be required to get the Atlantic battleship fleet to the Mare island. according to the estimates made by the equipment bureau of the navy department, which has called for protbe necessary posals for "supplying fuel Of this aggregate, 133,000 tons and the remalnd are er Welsh coal. fifty-thre- e CLERK STEALS 9100,000. Third Defalcation Within 8!x Months In Louisians Tax Department A $100,000 shortage New Orleans was discovered on Wednesday In the accounts of the state tax commissioners of this city, and the police are searching for Charles E. Letten, cllef clerk to State Tax Collector John Fitzpatrick. of the First district, who Is This charged with the defalcation. Is the third defalcation In six months In ihe Louisiana tax department The two previous shortages totalled nearly $100,000. Francs Advitad to Send Troops to Fez Rome. A number of the newspapers of Italy advise France to settle th troublesome Moroccan question by La Tribune ! marching on Fez Roma and others refer io. Frances, precarious situation." and declare she ought to clear herself at any cost The of- - the Pop.ilo Romano, the ergau Triple alliance, advises France to march straight to Fez, and .adds that no member of tnc alliance would disapprove an act so necessary to ter mlnatlng this unbearable situation. Senator Srroot Interested in Railway Enterprise. Denver David H. Moffat, builder ol the Denvr, Northwestern & Pacific railroad, flow In conrse o construction who. returned Tuesday from Salt Lake City, announced that be had mad B'rangements with a syndicate of Utah capitalists, headed by Jesse Knight nd United States Senator Reed Smoot, to build a line of railroad from 8alt .ake to Verna!,TTtah, to connect with the line wtricb Mr. Moffat la building kebtTroui Denver. $279,000 Latest advice from the Wonder district, of Nevada, are that a rich strike has been madq.,lu tbe shaft of the Nevada Wonder companys property. Ata depth orSOS feet ,w Kite drifting on an ore shoot, a cross vein was encountered measuring eighteen Inches The at the point of Intersection. new rock, tt Is claimed, will average $2,000 to the ton. It is probable that a syndicate will soon acquire the alumlnnm, marble and other deposits owned by local parties near IetaL Utah. Th properties coib tain mammoth clay' beds, whkh assay!. 38 per rent aluminum and of whica there are thousands of tons ready for shipment Also black maible quarries, onyx beds, deposits of calclte and a big hematite Iron blowout, which assays 60 per Cent Iron sad carrl.s values In lead, sliver anJ'snLL- - ' -- :: Three Tlntic mining compan'os posted dividends for the September month last week, namely, the May Dav, Brand Central and Colorado companies T-- e met expect, Beck Tunnel-compatlon s ami passed, while the CuloraJ company did not Im reaa-- t Jis rate, athe brokerage talent vnd others pr . 1 , dieted. t The surprise mine.'' -- Hr" U Fork Canyon, Vtah, making regular shipments to the suttUers 'of high grade "carbonate tr,whlrh chat u ter-lzU uLtc.d' Ih.i the Miller I t, 3S. cihu! Ubn, over have, at the metal $100,000 worth tf th - blocked out. ny 1 - Ara-'rira- 1 |