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iiiiS CHAKLOTTE NEWS APRIL 13, 1911
3y LydJa E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Compound
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drew !i lout, hrciiiti.
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>»’ d Hiisiiicion. t W'l "l(i !■ ink it a di-r.p.
laid sfhcnie. aiid sh(* riid Krod silting
a:id ,l:ii>., huiids in a funu.'r s.ome-
wlicr*'.”
■■Hiir a sclu'nu'?" b;u iiad f-ald-
(d lu r l.;mds in her lap, and the et(*r-
Ti'il rin^ ^|ta’kld inali.unrin’I.v.
“'I'lK'y nujri't fiiink I wanted to talk
to y(j!i." I d.
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I’,.; I . . ■ ! V iis iMorhii! iibd.il ilio
ring; it .s:cn; li Lo nu; sbe lilted her
hand and looked at it.
‘T.'m drai'ty in here, don’t you think
so'.”' si;e asked suddenly, looking back
■M l or. i’l obahly she had not meant it,
h'.’t I tf)t ip and closed the door into
When [ came back I took the
( i iiir next to her. and for a moment
wt, v,aicl nothing. The log threw out tiny
r- (I flovil sparks, and the clock chimed
( i.-i ’. very ;-lowly.
■ ffany Wardiop was here last
1 said, pokins down the log
\v;:!i !ny lieel.
‘ fler-
f suppose r was wrong, but I
slid not say you were here.”
S|... invnod and looked at me close-
V'". C-- ! oi the most beautiful eyes I
' ' !• Vi1 w.
'ni not ! aid to see him,'’ she
I (i pvoadl.v. “and he ought not to be
c*ii;tid i() see me.’’
I want to tell you something before
o 1 iiini. l.ast night, before he
 , I Mionglit that—well, that at
" tS' !:(' kii-''\v something of—the
. I ir .:, v '• i; w ant to know."
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! ' !r. ,iiis'iro to him, and because I
! X; fair, I tell you tonight
b' I dm'i Ix'licve he l:nows anything
Ml ait^'r^abi p youi' faibei’’s deatli, and that 1
and scr . i), ii«.\o ||P was robbed Ilia- ni^iit at
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iii;t about the ])earls be sold at
IMoii.'b'.irj;’.’’ she asked suddenly.
“i i!;ink when the ))roper time
‘ 'n'cs, bc’ll tell abotiL tnat too. Mar-
I did not notice my uso of lier
i ai'ic !'uti! i()o late. If she iieard, she
'i.l !o rcscnl it. “After all, if you
!o\^- him. hardly anything else mat-
t*')'.-;. dors it? How do we know but
Ilia- he was in trouble, and that Aunt
.1; '.(• bfU’scif gave them to him?’
;'b'' looi’ed at me with a little per-
pl> ' ii y.
“Vou ph ad his cause very well,” r.
^aii. ‘ Did he at'k you to speak to
I'lU
"I won't run a race with a man
wi .') i.s lame.” I said quietly. ‘Ethically,
( ()';gbt fo go away and leave you to
,\o ;i- dreams, but I am not going to
do it. If you love Wardrop as a woman
oiiL'ht to love the man siie marries,
til' ll marry in'ni and I hope you will
b( happy. If you don't — no, let me fin-
islu 1 have made ui> my mind to clear
bim if I can; to bring him to you with
a ckar slate. Then, i know it is aud^l-
(ioiis. bill I am j^oing to come, too,
f n(j I’m going to j)lead for myself tlien
iinbvs you send me away.”
She .cat w'ith her head bent, her col-
■)r coming and going nervously. Now
she looked up at me with what was a
:;b(,. of n smile.
‘‘it soitiid.s lik(> a threat.” she said in
a low voice. “.And you—I wonder if
you always get what you want?"
Then, of course, Fred came in. and
fell over a hassock looking for match
es. Edith opened the door of the den
and called him to her irritably, but
Fred declined to leave the wood flro,
and settled down in hts easy chair.
After a while Edith «‘ame over and
joined us, but she Bnubbed Ered the
entire evening, to his bewilderment.
■\nd when conversation lag.i;*‘d, during
the evening that followed, i tried to
reuK'mber what ! had sj'id. and knew
I had done very badi\. Only one thing
cheered me; she had not been angry,
and slie had understood. Blessed be
the woman that understands!
We broke uj) for the night about
eleven. Mr^. Hnib'r had come down
t(.'i' a v.iiile. and bad even playc^d a
little, somethii'.n oi Tsclriikovsky's, a
.‘^injiing, jilaif.ii\(' ihem^' that brought
sadness back iuio Margery's face, and
made me ‘biiik, for no reason, of a
wet countr>' roaii and a plodding,
back burdened peasant.
[•’red and I sat in the library for
a v.bile after the rest had .gone, and
I to!d him a little of what 1 had
leariietl that aflertuHin.
"A second wife!" he said, “and a
primitive type, eh'? Well, did site slioot
liim. or (lid Sihwarl/,? The Lad.v or
the IH'lr.'H'i'atic ’’I'iger':”
“'rhe 'riiier. " 1 said firmly.
"The i-ady,” Fred, wiih equal as
surance.
Fred closed the house with bis usual
care. 1; ri\;uired the combined efi'oris
of llu' maids, lollowt'd up by I'red, to
lock !be windows it being his conli
(lent as('sr;i('n that in seveii .'ears of
k('epiiig b.ouse. be bad n^ver tailed to
find ;i; b asi one unlocked window.
(M’*4!'a! ;rght. 1 reinombpr. l.e weiu
arc;:iid wi b bi^: usual scrupuious care.
'I'b.cn We woiu ui'i to bed. leaving a
small il.u.bt a; the telephone in ihe
lower iinU; nothing else.
Tiie house was a double one. built
around a square hail belov.’, whicli
served the piir-poso of a general sit
ting room. From the froat door a
short, narrov^' hall led back io this,
with, a room on either side, and from
it d(M')rs led into Die rest of the lower
floor. At or.e side the stairs look the
ascent easily, with two sto])s for land-
ii',t:s, a:;d r » stairs the b?d rooms op
ened froi;: a similar, slighMy smaller
square hall. The staircase to the third
floor went up from somevi’here back
in ;b' nitrsery wing.
My bed room was over the library,
?.!!(! .Mrs. r.iuler and .Margery I'leming
l;;-d c'onnecting rooms, across the hall,
l-’red and Edith slept in the nur
sery wing, so chey could be near the
children. In the square upper hall there
was a big reading table, a latrxp, and
some comfortable chairs. Here, when
they were alone, Fred read aloud the
evening paper, or his latest short
story, and Edith's sewing basket show
ed how she put in what women miscall
their leisure.
1 did not go to sleep at once; natur
ally the rather vital step I had taken
in the bbrary insisted on being con
sidered and almost regretted. I tried
reading myself to sleep, and when
that failed. 1 tried the soothing com
bination of a cigarette and a book.
That worked like a charm; the last
thing I remembered is of holding the
cigarette in a death grip as I lay with
my pillows propped back of me, my
head to the light, and a delightful lan
guor cree])ing over me.
I was wakened by the pungent acrid
smell of smoke, and I sat up and
blinked my eyes open. The side of the
bed was sending up a steady column of
gray smoke, and there was a smart
ciackle of iire under me somewhere.
I jumped out of bed and saw the trou
ble instantly. My cigarette had dropped
from my hand, still lighted, and as is
the way with cigarettes, determined
to burn to the end. In so doing it had
fired my bed, the rug under the bed
and pretty nearly the man on the
bed.
It look some sharp w'ork to get it
all out without rousing the house. Then
I stood amid the wreckage and looked
ru«:fully at Edith's in-etty room. I
could see, mentally, the spot of water
on the library ceiling tl-e next morning
and I could hear I'red's strictures on
the heedlessness and Indifference to
property of bachelors in general and
me in particular.
Three pitchers of water on the bed
had made it an ini])ossible couch.
1 })ut on a dressing gown, and, Avith
a blanket over my arm, 1- went down
to hunt some sort of place to sleep.
I decided on the davenport in the hall
just outside, and as quietly as I could,
I put a screen around it and settled
down for the night.
1 was w'akened by the touch of
a hand on my face. I started, I think,
and the hand was jerked awaj'—I am
not sure; I w'as still drow'sy. I lay
very quiet, listening for footsteps, but
none came. With the feeling that there
was some one behind the screen, I
jumped up. The hall was dark and
qcJet. When I found no one I con
cluded It had been only a vivid dream,
and I sat dow^n on the edge of the
Davenport and yawned.
I heard Edith moving back In the
nurserv; she has an uncomfortable
The Final
The Last Great Slash in the Prices—Prices That Will Alniost
Dead.” The Climax of “Bargain Giving” Now Reached.
“FUR WILL FLY” From Now Until the Finish.
w
at
Saturday Night, April
All New Easter Oxfords and Shoes Must Go by That Time.
Go, Too. You Had Better “Come on the Run” as Soon as "t
This and Get First Pick—BECAUSE This is an OpportuiD
That Comes Your Way Once in a Life Time.
HERE IS A POINTER: When this Sale Closes; when Forennn
Step Down and Out of the Retail Shoe Business You, Yes Yoii,
Have to Pa^v^ More for Shoes Not Nearly so Good.
Right in Season When You Want Easter Shoes and Slippers This Entire Sto*.
Ofi the Market and Only Marked at: a Mere Fraction o! Its Real Worth. T
Newest Shoes All Included, You Are Not Buying Shoddy, You Are Not Buyin
But the World’s Best Brands of Easter Shoe
Slippers at Unheard
THE FOREMAN & iILL
Prices
Going Out o
ii
La3^ in a Full Year’s Supply Before Saturday Night. Better to be
One” Than a “Wish I Had.” See What You Save,
Buy Now and Bank the Difference.
One big iot of Ladies’
$1.25 "White Canvas Ox
fords this week,
24c
One big lot of all $1.50
White and Gray Canvas
Oxfords,
Another bi.g lot of Men’s! The balance of all new'I Don’t fail to get one off Or.G
and Women’s Sample f Men’s 25c Socics, to goS the new i?3.00 values I and ’
Shoes, worth up to $5.00 j at { tiiat go at f and >
59c 98c 9c
Men's Shoes and Oxfords
Never w^ere such bai'gains offered—never will again—get yours be
fore your neighbor gets them. Another Sample lot to go
at
One big lot Men’s semi-dress Shoes, also Oxfords, worth $2.50,
to go at [
A new lot fine $3.00 Gun Metals
One big lot of the world's best $3.50 and $4.00 Pullman Oxfords,
go down and go out lively at
Not w^hat they are worth, but get rid of them, is the question.
New $4.00 Oxfords, all colors, all sizes
One big lot that sold for $4.50 and $5.00
All Hanan $6.00 Oxfords that «old last w'eek for $3.19, also all those
fine Pullman $5.00 Oxfords now go dow’n to
New $6 French Shriner Oxfords,
Hanan’s finest $7.00 values
It’s not choice; it’s compulsion.
Ladies’ Shoes and Slippe
I .98
1.39
L67
1.89
2.39
2.17
2.89
3.89
4.89
We are going to make one grand final “clean sweep”-
Conie early and often.
A snap for all women:
Ladies’ new^ lot of Samples, worth any old old price ..
One big lot of old ladies' “easy shoes for tender fec-t”
man & jMiller sold for .?2,50, now
One big lot Ladies’ new' tan blucher cuts, wortli .
at ...
Ladies’ Fiimps and Straps, tans and blacks
One big lot of Velvets, Pat^n^s and Gun Metals, Fnmr
fords, all sizes worth $-3.50 at ..
-tiT;.
$4.00 grades now’ go down to.
New tan and black ?5.00 Suedes and Velvets, also Pullmn
just v.’hat you want for Easter
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habit of wandering around in the
night, covering the children, closing
rhe windows and snii'fing for fire. I
was afraid some of the smoke from my
[’ontlagration liad reached her suspi-
•ious no§e, but she did not come into
the front l all. 1 was w'ide-aw'ake by
hat lime, and it was then, I think,
that I noticed a heavy, sweetish odor
in the air. At first I thought one of
the children might be ill, and that
Edith was dosing him with one of the
choice concoctions that she kept in
he bath room medicine closet. VHten
she closed her door, however, and
went back to bed, I knew’ I had been
mistaken.
The swetish smell w’as almost naus
eating. For some reason or other—
association of certain odors with cer-
,ain event.s — I found imyself recalling
the time I had a wisdom tooth takeii
out, and that when I came around I
w'as being sat on by the dentist and
his assistant, and the latter had a
black eye. Then, suddenly, I knew.
The sickly odor was chloroform!
I had the light on in a moment and
was rapping at Margery’s door. It
was locked, and I got no answer. A
))alc light shown over the transom, but
everything was ominously quiet be
yond the door. I went to Mrs. But
ler’s door, next: it was unlocked and
partly open. One glance at the empty
bed and the confusion of the place, and
f rushed without ceremony through
the connecting door into Margery's
room.
The atmosphere w’as reeking with
chloroform. The girl was in bed, ap
parently sleeping quietly. One arm was
(brown up over her head, and the oth
er lay relaxed on the white cover. A
All Boys’and Girls’Shoes Literally Given Away,69c, 89c, 98c, $1.24, $1.39, all We-t
Sale Closes Saturday Night, April 15th at 10
Money Attend This Sale of Sales—THE GREAT FAREWELL SALE.
1 he New*Slioes IlOU Want for Easter. The One Shoe Event of Charlotte.
PRICES THAT MAKE COMPETITORS “Shake in Their Eo:
Look jor the Big Blue Sign
Foreman & Miller Co.’s Old S?
42 East Trade Street, Cor. College. COBLE SHOE CO. in 
STORE OPEN AT NIGHT
folded tow^el had been laid across her
face, and when I jerked it aw-ay I
saw she w^as breathing very slow'ly,
stertorously, with her eyes partly op
en and fixed.
I threw' up all the w'indows before I
roused the family, and as soon as Ed
ith was in the room I telephoned for
the doctor. I hardly remember w’hat
I did until he came; I know we tried
to rouse Margery and failed, and I
know that Fred went down stairs and
said the silver was intact and the
back kitchen door open. And then the
doctor came, and I was put out in the
hall, and for an eternity, I walked up
and dow’n, eight steps one w’ay, eight
steps back, unable to think, unable
even to hope.
Not until the doctor came out to me
and said she was better, and would I
call a maid to make some strong, black
coffee, did I come out of my stupor.
The chance of doing something, any
thing, made me determine to make
the coffee myself. They still speak of
that coffee at Fred’s.
It was Edith w’ho brought Mrs. But
ler to my mind. Fted had maintained
that she had fled before the intruders,
and was iirobably in some closet or
corner of the upper floor. I am afraid
our solicitude was long in coming. It
was almost an hour before we organiz
ed a searching party to look for her.
Fred went up stairs, and I took the
lower floor.
It was I w'ho found her, after all,
Ij'ing full length on the grass in the
little square yard back of the house.
She was in a dead faint, and she was
a much more difficult patient than
Margery. i
could get no story from either son
of them that night. The two rooms
had been ransacked, but apparently
nothing had been stolen. Fred vow^ed
he had locked and bolted the kitchen
door, and that it had been opened
from within.
It w'as a strange experience, that
night intrusion into the house, wi.h-
out robbery as a motive. If Margerv
knew or suspected the reason for 1'ic
outrage, she refused to say. As for
Mrs. Butler, to mention the occurr
ence put her into hysteria. It was
Fred who put forth the most starciinc
iheory of the lot.
“By George,’’ he said the next morn
ing w^hen we had failed to find tracks
in the .vard, and Edith had reiiorted
every silver spoon in its piace, ‘•by
George, it w-ouldn't surprise me if
the lady in (he grave clolhes did it
herself. There isn't anything a hys
terical w'oman won t do to rouse vour
interest in her, if it begins to fia.g.
How did any one get in through iha^t
kitchen door, when it vcas locke.d in
side and bolted? I tell you, she open
ed it herself.’
I did not like to force ^largery's con
fidence. but I believed that tiie out-
1 age was directly for the purj)osp of
searching her room, perhaps for i)a)^ers
that had been her father's. Mrs. Butler
came around enough by morning to
tell a semi-connected story in which
she claimed that two men had come
in from a veranda roof and tried to
chloroform her. That she had pretend
ed to be sleep and had taken the'
first opportunity, while they w-ere in!
the other room, to run down stairs
and into the .vard. Edith thought it
likely enough, being a credulous per-
As it turned out, Edith’s intuition
was more reliable than my skepticism
—or Fred's
(To Be Continued Tcmorrow.)
About one woman in a thousand
can hit the nail on Jie head. The
other 000 hit the nail on the finger.
^’eJl—“Do you think that is all j
her-own hair?” j
Helle—"Xo, part of it is her si.s- [
ters: at least, I sa'.v her sister buy-;
ing some just like, it."
A lie never dies from lack of cir-
cu I a Lion.
You ne^.cr 1 :■
is going to
meet him, Ipi.' 1
The girls >
ccrtnin .voit
cause he ha^^ k
T n.s fs Cyrus O-
Bates, the man
ad%'ertiscsMothr'.-
Joy and Goose
Grease IvinitTl*:^
two of the Rreatc ‘
thn:gs knov,a
humanity.
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FOR FLETCHER’S
C A S T O R I A
Children Cry
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the same diseases with
out inconvenience.
Mothers
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