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4 8 f 1 ' EDWAR.D .WHITE ? rv,rtt. ikb. br Stewart Bdward , l-r CHAPTER XXXV. rtnORPE f walked through the si-; rrl lent group of men without see III them- -He had no thought 1 Kfor what he had dyne, but for the triumphandlscovery he had. made In spite of himself. It was thereabout, C o'clock' In the morning. Thorpe passed the board ing Tiouse the' store "and the office, to take himself as far as the little open jshed, that served as a 1-ailway station. There he set the semaphore to flag the east bound train from Duluth.. At 638, tne. train Happening oD.ume. uuuir dUboard, Ka dropped heaTUj! into a mat nd - stained straight in front of him until the conductor, had spoken to hliu twice, i' r x-fWbera to, Mr. Thorpe?" he asked. Ohi Mackinaw, qity.M v, -Thorpe descended at Mackinaw City tOv find that the noon train had gone. : He ; ate lunch at the hotel, borrowed 9100 from the agent of Louis Sands, a ,i lumberman of his ' acquaintance, , and seated himself rigidly in the little wait ing room, there to remain until the 9-20 that night When the cars were backed down from the aiding he boarded the sleeper. In toe doorway stood a disap proving colored porter. "Yo'Il fin tie smokin cah up fo'wu'd, safe," said the latter, firmly barring the Li If s generally forward,M answered Thorpe. "This yeah's the sleepah," protested the functionary, "To' pays extry." "I am aware of it" replied Thorpe curtly. "Give me a lower." "Yes, sah," acquiesced the darky, giving way, but still in doubt He fol lowed Thorpe cautiously, peering into the smoking room on him from time to time. A Utile after 12 his patience gave out The stolid, gloomy man of lower 6 seemed to intend sitting up all night" "'y'" ' "To' berth is ready, sah," he delicate ly suggested. Thorpe a&se obediently, walked to lower 6 andt without undressing threw himself on 1 the - bed. Afterward the porter in conscientious discharge of his duty looked diligently beneath the seat for boots to polish; Happening to glance ip after fruitless search he discovered the boots stHl adorning the feet of their owner: r - "Well, foe the land's sake!" ejaculat ed the scandalized negro, beating a hasty retreat Thorpe descended at Twelfth street . in Chicago vithout any clear nation of ' where he was going. For a moment he - faced the lfng, parklike expanse of the lake front then turned sharp to his left and picked his way south up the inter minable reaches of Michigan avenue. -Block after block he clicked along, the calks of his boots striking fire from the pavement n - After an Interval he seemed to have left the smoke and dirt behind. The street became quieter; boarding houses and tailors' : shops ? ceased; here and there appeared a bitof lawn, shrub bery: and Cowers. .. By and by he came to himself to find that e was staring . at the deep carved lettering in a atone - -torse block before a large dwelling. - Hfc.mind took the letters in one after jibe other?" perceiving' them" plainly be foxe it accorded them recognition. Fl ,:iuil7 he bad completed the word fFar I rand." . He whirled' sharp on his heeC , mounted the broad white stone steps 3 and rang the belfcsC ; It was answered almost Immediately J by a clean shavcd,'portly and dignified man with einct;; impassive -counte-rnance jn te worli; This man looked upon. Thorpe with lofty disapproval. .: " i Ia Miss Hilda Farrand at home T he 1 "I cannot say," replied the man. nt yon. will step! to the back doorl will aJkrtam.Mvv&;'f-' v The flowers- will do. -Now see that - - the south iwm is ready, Annie,' float ed a voice from within. ' t WlthputJalvWord but with a, deadly x earnestne, -Tiiorpe reached forward, seized thet nstpnished servant by the collar, yanked blip: bodily outside the door,- stepped inside and strode across ;'i the hall toward a closed portiere whence r :: had comethe voice. Th river win's long pikes cuijiittie triangular pieces from tiie atdwqodj floor.. Thorpe did not notice! that He thrust aside the . . portiere. - - - Before him he sawa young and beau-; nrui gin. ; ene was seated, and ner lap was filledcwith flowers. At his sudden mpparitiod her hands flew to her heart, ana ner Hps rsugntiy parted. For a second the twa'stood lookini at each . . r other; just as. nearly, a year before their eyes had rroesed over the old pole trail. ToJChotpetherl seejnedjmore beau tiful ?tb;ever :-The red of this ; "vlo - l8nt '.unexpected , encounter , rushed I to her -face, her besom rose and fell in fluftertngj datch : for breath " but - her eycar,wer aieacyzano nyjuirlni. Then tek butler .nounced on Thorn fmhfndf wlth the intent to do great "o;x?Mcrjrisi' 4mmanded Hilda sharply. :Twxat arpyotrdoinffr - L.y$.&pk?cntZ9b0Ti''thlM ; heroism In a t-e -us go.' concluded Hilda. Vtttfjsttoi Straight and unwinklnir i . , . f b..vAM!r n moment n - i vuuic ioxeu . you tnat you -werKmM.andXJvai,wrpng,sald he steadily. ia me mew fT nothing Vetter than love. In the prs of my strength I told you this ai not so. 1 vras wrong." .. He stood for another instant looking directiz at her, then turned sharply md, head erect, walked f rom the room. Before he had reached the outer door the girt was at his side. ' "Why ore you going?" she asked. "I have nothing more to say." "Nothiur?' "Nothing at all." She laughed happily to herself. ' "But I have much. Come back." They returned to the little morning room, Thorpe's calked boots gouging out the little triangular furrows in the hardwood floor. Neither noticed that "What are you going to do now?" ihe catechised, facing him in the mid dle of th? room. A long tendril of her beautiful corn silk hair fell across her eyes; her red lips parted In a faint, wist ful smile; beneath the draperies of her loose gown the pure slender lines of her figure leaned toward him. "I am going back," he replied pa tiently. . "I knew you would come," said she. "I have been- expecting you. Oh, Har ry," she breathed., with a sudden flash of insight, "you are a 'man born to be much misunderstood." He held himself rigid, but in his Veins '.was creeping a molten fire, and the flre was beginning to glow dully in his eye. Her whole being caUed him. v - And still she stood there before him, saying nothing, leaning slightly toward him, her red lips half parted, her eyes fixed almost wistfully on his face. "Go away!" he whispered hoarsely at last The voice was not his own. "Go away! Go away T Suddenly she swayed to him. "Oil, Harry, Harry." ahe whispered, "must I tell you? Don't you seer The flood broke through him. He seized her hungrily. He crushed her to him until she gasped; be pressed his lips against hers untiLshe all but cried out with pain of it; he ran his great brown hands blindly through her hair until It came down about them both Id a cloud of spun light "Tell me!" he whispered. Tell mei" "Oh, oh!" she cried. "Please! What teltr 1 "I do not believe It" he murmured savagely. . She drew herself from him with gen tle dignity. "I am not worthy to say It" she said. soberly, "but I love you with all my heart and soul.' - Then for the first and only time in bis life Thorpe fell to weepdng. while she, understanding, stood by and comforted him. The few moments of Thorpe's tears eased the emotional strain under which perhaps unconsciously he had been la boring for nearly a year past. The tenseness of his nerves relaxed. He sa vored deliberately the joy of a luxuri ous couch, rich hangings, polished floor. subdued light warmed atmosphere. He watched with soul deep gratitude the soft girlish curves of Hilda's body, the poise of her flower head, the piquant half wistful, half childish set of her red Hps, the clear starlike glimmer of her dusky eyes. It was all near to him his. '' . "Kiss me, dear," she said. ' She leaned her cheeks against her band nnd her band against his shoul der. . "! .; ;.. "I hnve-been reading a story lately,' said she, "that has Interested me very much. It was about a man. who re nounced all he held most dear to Bhield a friend." -"Yes," said Thorpe, : ) "Then he renounced all his most val oable possessions because a poor com mon man heeded the aacrlflce.' " "Sounds like a mediaeval story, said he, with unconscious humor. r - t, "It, happened recently," rejoined Hil da. T read it in the papers.' . ,yweu, he biased a good trail," was Thorpe's; sighing comment- "Probably "Qo awayP' he whispered. ne naa nis chance, we don't all of us get that Things go crooked and get tangled up, so we have to do the bes we can: I don't believe I'd have done It" ' 'v..:.-v:-"Oh, you are delldousr sho cried. After a time she said rery humbly: "i want to beg your pardon for mlsun A . - . MTBianarag you ana causing you so much sufftrlng. I waa very stupid and oion t see why you could not do as I wasiadyootOv . Tiat la nothing to forgive. : I acted uxearooi.". . . ' T have known about yea." aha west en.- "it nas all eomg c?t In the pnv1: IS. it nas oeen very exciting. Poor ooy. you look tired." , He straightened nimseu buuucmij. "I have forgotten actually forgotten," he cried, a little bitterly. "Wby-I am n pauper, a bankrupt I"- " T ' vr "Harry," she interrupted gently, but very firmly, "you must not say ;wu you were going to say. ircannoi amw it. Money came j ueiwwu u 7 It must tiot do so again, aid 1 ui right, dear?" ! t She smiled at Dim wuu iue p child and the eyes of a woman. "Yes," be agreed after a struggle. "you are right. But now 1 inus uc gin all over again. It will be a long time before I snail do.uuw-w v.- . ; malra " you. l nave my wuj . w "Yes, said 6ne-aip.omauvtti.jr. "But you!" he cried suddenly. "The papers remind me. How aDOUt xnax Morton?" J - f, . . . : "What about him?" askea me guru astonished. "He is very nappiiy j- Thorpe's face siowiy nueu wiuj blood. . .,.,-" . ; : : "You'll break ! the engagement at once," he commanded, a little harshly. "Why should I break the engage ment?" demanded Hilda, eying him with some alarm,! r "You actually i don't think he's - en gaged to me!" she burst out finally. "Isn't be?" asked morpe. "Why, no. stupid! He's engaged to ElizabethjCarpenteF. Wallace's sister. Now where did you get that silly Idea?" '.-' : --j, 7 . "I saw It in the paper." ' -"And you believe all you see! Why didn't yov ask Wallace? But of course you wouldn't 'Harry, you are we most Incoherent dumb oia brute 1 ever saw. I couia snase you. iou uwu a wife to Interpret things for you. You speak a different language from most people." She said this between lsugb- tng and crying, between a sense or tne ridiculous uselcssness of withholding a single timely word and a tender pathet ic intuition of the, suffering such a na ture must endure. V : Suddenly she jumped to her feet with an exclamation. "Oh. Harry. I'd forgotten utterly r she cried In laughlqg consternation. "I have a luncheon here at half past L It's almost that now. I must run and. dress. Just look at me; Just look! You did that" "I'll wait here until the confounded thing is over." said Thorpe. "Oh, no. you Iwon't!" replied Hilda decidedly. "You are going downtown right now and get something to put on.. Then you ' a re coming back here to stay." ; "j Thorpe glanced In surprise at his driver's clothes and his spiked boots. "Heavens and earth!" he exclaimed. "I should think so! , How am I to get out without ruining the floor? Hilda laughed and drew aside the portiere. r "Don'ryou think you have done that pretty well- already?" she tasked. "There, don't look so - solemn. ' We!re not going to be sorry for a single thing we've done today, are we?" She stood close to him, searching his face wist fully with her fathomless dusky eyes. "No, sweetheart we are not" replied Thorpe soberly. - TO BE CONTINUED. Maddened Man Attacked Dentist. New Yotk Dispatch U Baltimore Sun. For days Benjamin Riling has been suf fering from an .c . ; , ulcerated tooth. He dreaded visiti ig a dtn.ia!, hut was finally persuaded to g i to a man whosename Is blazoed forth u every billboa in Broot tyn as the painless wonder one -who has pulled more leith than any other person in the world. KHing went to a branch establishment of the dentist in Fulton sliest .Nervously he waite.l until his tarn camr, when he went lut, a glass protected booth, one of severa in the c ffice, DrJ 8. R. Adams, the opera tor, assured him it wouldn't! hurt. "Iis a wisdom tooth," remarked the dentist, as he reached for his pinchers. "Yery easy to extract. Sit still, you'll never" ' ! ;. The sentence was never finished. With the extraction of the tooth, . followed by a severe hemorrhage, KUng, with a yell, bounded from the chaii . With eyes ablaze he dashed for the" painless pupil : of the painless dentist." . Seizing the dentist by the throat Kling bors him to the gr jut.d, barking and suap plDg and fiotbing at the mouth. Then he dashed into the reception room, where there were a dozjn patients, many of them' wo meu, who fled in terror. In tue ad joining booth was a woman patient. She fainted with fright as the maddened Kling smashed the glass partitions. Dr. Adams grappled with the frenzied man, and, although thelaaer bit him, clung to him until the arrival of two polireuien, was overpowered, placed in astraightjacket and taken to a hospital . - The doctors there said he was temporarily insane. . Death Last Night of L. F. Sorrells. A message was received here today from the state hospital at Morganton announcing the death there last night of L. F. Sorrells of this city. The remains will be brought to Asheyille and the interment will occur at Gash's Creek. 1 V Mr. Sorrells was well known in Ashe vilje aud Buucombe eounty where he had many friends. He was at one time a mem ber of the police force of Ashevil?e and while thus in the service of the city was taken ill and subsequently taken to the hos. pital at Morganton during the early spring where he has slnco remained Gazette News. " Mr, Sorrels was once an overseer in" the Pink Bed Valley for Mr. Vanderbilt, and was well and favorably, known throughout Western North Carolina, To The Public. Mr. Editor;-. . Please allow me space to correct an erroneous report, which baa been cir culated by.8ome one-reither maliciously or tbrougli ignorance of facts that I am golngj to move my business from Hendersonyllle to Asheville; this false report possibly gTew out of the f got that Armour & Co. , (the people I represent) have bodght out the Armour Packing Co., in Asheyille, N. O. and have made Asheville 1 a;i distributing point, lor Western j North Carolina, instead of Lynchburg, Va,, as heretofore this change went into effect on Oct .1st, 1904, and since that time there has been no Armours Packing Co., in Asheville, TJ. C. I hare no .Intention of leaving HendersonvUle my business here has been beyfmd my expectation and the mercbant.have shown their apprecia tion, by tapir libera) patronage, of hay ing the bgt and largest Packing House Amount, tne World has in it, in their midst, which has enabled them to buy Packing,. Bouse products from 1 10 1 cts per pound cheaper than, 'they were do ing prior ip my coming here. Which not only benefits them individually, but enables them to give their customers cheaper prices aa well.. For the" first 42 months, after I came to Henderson- ville, I had au the combined forces of out side competition to contend with they fought hard, with hope of driving me from the field, In order that they might have the opportunity of getting the averages, wbloh had gotten to be such a sweet morsel, but I am here to stay, and will be here when you hear from me again and shall always take pleasure in keeping my customers cloee- ly posted In regard to, all the changes Id the market, which no other competi tor has ever done, for them, and I am truly glad to say that with very few exceptions, the merchants have shown their full appreciation of same. A Thanking you, I beg to remain, Aery truly, j J.D. BOYD. The fact that the administra tion has made its self the backey of Great Britain, and a pajriisan of Japatt iu the Eastern (war, hab undoubtedly lost this country the friendship of Russia. Are terms of amity with that great nation, our friends iu time, of need, of no consequence? s -Workingmen are unable to 'un derstand what the President mean when hei says, ' "the purchasing power of the wage-earner's dollar has grown faster than the cost of living.' The Federation of Lab or is angry, and insists that the President don't know what a wagt earner's dollar looks like, nothav- ing earned his salary, skice he be gan to draw it IS OROWTH OP THB. Wachovia Loan .and Trust Company j SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION'. JUNE is, 1893 CAPITAL, - - S600.000.00 DEPOSITS. ASSETS. DEO. 16, 1893, " 37,708.93. 159,367.29 : 369,026.17 Do. J5, 1895. Jy),184 73. DEC 15, 1897, 327,859.44. ' - . dec 15, 1899, 781,018.11. DEO. 15, 1901, 1.043,282.04. - - - - DEC 15, 1903. 469,75L16 937,156.48 1,180,265.70 5,w,uvo.l4. ,2,863,997.18 April 14, 1904, $a.954;S98.i4 $3,589,376.46 Ahevlllc Branch - 34 Pat, Ave - i Asheyille, N. C. YOUR . BUSINESS SOLICITED "ao Dixie 1. Plner and Matcher. Manufactured by " tj-i Wi4 Jj n a 1 - - w IM4 WlNMTOFr-MArLBa, w.c. POSITIONS S $5-,000 Railroad Fair P&M , ' MOFREE Course 1 1 - Board at Coat. BeoTEla-AlaHaiiia Business CcUca Macoa Sa CHARLES C. LESLIE .y WHOLESALE DEALER IN , Fish and Oysters Etc artfully Solicited, poultry, . j t. Fish packed In barrTXa Bni 1 ' f; a, qknnett, v CherEee EinHLEoGRANITE &a - ' " Everything in Marble ' Catalogue free. , Mail orders jven prompt attention The Golden Glory of Autumn SOON FADES; BUT OUR NEW FALL CARPETS AND RUGS Will Retain their Beauty Brilliancy and Brightness Till they are worn out. We have a large stock covering styles and patterns, and ou will ers Sawy Phone 228. Asheville. N. C. P.- G. WHITE;, -Broker. coiTONSTocKsf Bonds and grain Telephone 769. 10 Church Street, - Asheville -K C -Direct Wire from New York, pastime; AND as? t --r Ill-Til! IJI - Kilfyre! Kilfyre!! Kilfyre!!! That U exaotly v hat i: is 8 F.ner. DenionWioh every day at the tm Lair 9hnwiDs.it. f-r- fiyhtin bnalitios. Ever y Farmer, OH -Miy, Qrnutrj them. " - ' For Sade By Columbia Supply Co., Columbia, S.C, The machinery miply brnise of the state. WEAVER JrianLo IN CAR LOAD LOTS. Direct From Factory to die Homo. T -You can't afford to be without a good Piano or Organ in your home. It is incomplete withbut one. Among many other advantages. , If you purchase from uslor a limited time in addition to a nice stool a,.d instruction book, we give free one of Campfields scientific music tables; the price of which is S300.;' This inventions very helpfufto beginners in music, especa j I .They are endorsed by the leading musicians in the south.. If you have an instrument already-write us' for special price on the above invention ' .- - " vo NrZlS yT time- Don,t let your neighbor get ahead of you.,. Call and ee or. write us and we will lull and see you. We guarantee entire satisfaction to air our customers. ' TV7. ' . .. Yours Very Truly. ; Michel:l)ros& Go. Spec Factory.,. . ; ',. w. w. wnnrZ: Marble " - -n m stfeel' is"iiie. 1 -. ; . The most thoroughly equipped marble manu factun'ng plant i the State;. -From the p)ain . slab tombstone to the CU pant mnniifncnv . paper-weight to a huiHin front. find.reliable goods at reliable pricey House 18 6 20 Ch.St Three Times the Value off any Oilier OQIE-THRD EASIER, ONE-THIRD FASTER Agents wanted in all unoccupied Territory. ml i any one owning property shoul bax Carpet s ;&-'. Organs As above statcd.we have just open ed UP a car-load of Pianos and Organs in the Toms brick building; with J. V. BROWN, the undertaker No. 30 N. Main St Hendersonville, N. G. Caroleen. N. C countrytrade a special." Ior Henderspnville, - -
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