Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Pewsuauei m the Wyoming Valicv PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1891. A Weedy Local and Family Journal. \ * =H!EIR~ mma. 1 nave dreamed 01 it oy night But I never thought wo should meet thus. Louise, tell me what has wrought this change." stroke with his fist that it senthiu rolling to the ground limp and apparently lifeless. form him of this Green matter and urge him to interfere in Green's behalf." matter, you may be able to pet out a little earlier." C'Then I suppose that is all," and as Pearson spoke he arose as if to go, but suddenly stoppingcame over to the girl's side and said: on the watch ana I have had another' person on guard for me, and between us we have discovered exactly how matters stand To-night Pearson is going to take Louise away, and we must prevent him." IVALteABOUT NEW YORK lerea at that tue ciny itscit is so reiinea and so excelsior? The day, I dare say, is not far distant when the sausage making atelier will be as common in Brooklyn is the man with the long divided skirt frock coat is now. Father's Victim. Paul did not wait to see what had been the extent of the damage of his stroke, hut galloped on, leaving Pearson to the care of a couple of men who at that moment drove up in a wagon. "It can't do any harm, at least," replied Scraggs, "so we'll do it. But first give me the name and address of Green's friend." "A good idea," said the doctor. Two or three days passed thus, when one evening the doctor made his regular visit to find Pearson in a terrible fret. He paused for a reply, but none came. She longed to tell him all and show to him that her heart was unchanged, but she dared not. Her lips must remain sealed, and with a great effort she kept down the longing of her soul. Seeing that she was not going to speak, Paul continued: BILL NYE SEES VISITS "He has been wanting to get up all day," the attendant explained, "and I have had hard work to keep him in bed." "Since you are so soon to be mine, Louise, you cannot object to me kissing you. Here, just once before I go." HE ELEPHANT AND BROOKLYN. "I was sure of that," said Scraggs to the doctor. A TOUT OF WESTERN  "Is he dead?" asked one of the men as the other bent over the listless body. "I have it here," the doctor remarked, as he began rummaging through his pockets. "Hum, hum, that is not it. Hum, hero it is. Hiram Blatchford, Day—. Why, what's the matter, Scraggs, what do you mean?" The old doctor ended up in some alarm as Scraggs sprang to his feet oversetting his chair and giving vent to a string of pointed, not to say profane language. "No, no, no," she cried as she drew herself back from him. "Spare me that, please do." rite Great Success of a The red necktie is certainly contending in a spirited manner for the New York and Brooklyn right of way with the frock coat, which has a beautiful sweep of kiltj reaching considerably below the knjecs. Some attribute this imported idiocy to one cause and Kape tO another, but you will find when you come to figure it all out that the ftble and brainy tailor wishes not only to make for you a new style of frock coat, but top coat also, for otherwise you expose your new aud astonishing skirts. "Wanting to get up?" the doctor cried, in astonishment. "Why, what's come over you, Pearson?" "I was afraid of it," replied the latter. "I wish to Heaven the confounded scamp had got a leg broken." Started with Nothing bcf oang Man Who By THOMAS P. XOSTFORT. "I think not," said the other, "but he got a terrible lick, sure, and it will take him a few days to get over it. We had better get him back to town if we can, as there is no place necr here to leave him." "Humph," Pearson muttered, "you'll have to get used to that pretty soon now, and you might as well begin one :tiine as another. Do you think I will let you shun me as you would a snake when you are my own?" ! "No, no, but spare me novv- I have .consented to give myself to you tonight. From thenceforward I am yours, but to-day let me be free. It is not much I ask, and you will surely grant so small a request." College Education—How lie a Common llecame (CONTINUED.) "Yes," said Scraggs, "or his neck would have been better. I don't see why you didn't attend to that while yon were about it, Markham." Rich and Respected. "For God's sake, Louise, say something. This suspense is worse than dfl»th. Tell me what you mean, and why you act as you do. I do not believe you have forgotten your love for me. There must be some secret cause for all this. Tell me what it is." "I'm tired of tying here," Pearson said, "and I want to get out. My limb feels all right, now." [Copyright, 1801, by Edgar W. Nye.] CHAPTER XXIII. THE SERPENT'S VICTORY. New York, November.—Several years igo I had occasion to write a very able article regarding the Herzog teleserve, i scheme for enabling a guest at a hotel io order 150 different things by pressing * button after placing an index point Dver the article wanted. I mention this in order to show the power of the press, for I poked fun at the teleserve in a withering way, as so many able writers 3o when they dislike a new thing. All that day and all the night following there was a bitter conflict raging within Louise's heart. ~ Iler soul revolted at the thought of giving herself np to a man she so utterly loathed as she did Pearson, and she found it hard to bring herself to the great sacrifice. She felt that in joining her life with his she bade farewell tc the last vestige of happiness and hope, and plunged into a never-ending gulf of misery. She realized fully the awful results of the step she was asked tc take, and the whole future rose np before her a picture of the blackest hue. "Does, eh? Do you think it is all right?" "Guess we had," replied the first, "but I wonder who that man is that hit him. I saw him strike." "But, gentlemen," said Paul, "we have no time to lose; we must act and not talk." "Matter!" cried Scraggs. "Why, sir, this is. one of the most outrageous and heartless affairs I ever heard of. IIiram Blatchford is the uncle I just spoke of, and he's a confounded heathen und a blamed fool. Here he is loaning a little money to his own child at thieving "Don't matter anything about how it feels. The question is, is it all right?" "I believe it is." "It feels as though it must be." "Oh, Paul," cried Louise, "do not ask me. I can tell you nothing, nothing. Only spare me, Paul. Go away and spare me the bitterest trial of my life." "So did I. But whoever he is, yon may bet I don't want him to strike me. My! but that was an awful lick, and I'd about as soon be struck by lightning as that man's arm." "That's so," replied the doctor; "we must act—we must do something. Scratrcrs. what do vou suCrCrest?" "1 am lost," and Scraggs shook his head, doubtingly. "I don't know what to do. We could save the girl by force, but we can't do it without putting Green in for it. I wish old Blatchford was here. That would settle the business in short order." It is rather a pretty custom for those who have trim hips and a natural and beautiful sweep of iournure, but for the pumpkin seed order of architecture with jlopin'g shoulders and broad, intellectual hips, together with a gait which occupies the entire breadth of the sidewalk, the long frock coat simply emphasizes the ;ccentricity and advertises a doubtful attraction. The doctor laughed heartily, then said: "See here, Pearson, do you know how long it takes a broken limb to heal?" "No." "Ah, yes, I suppose so," Pearson replied with a coarse laugh. "Be your own mistress to-day, for after this you are mine. Be ready at eight to-night, and meet me at the fence below the stable yard." The girl's tone was piteous. It was as that of one pleading for life. Paul was struck by it, and forgetting the pangs that were wrenching his own soul, ho felt his heart go out to her in pity as well as love. "Wonder what it was about, anyhow?"Interest and allowing her to starve to death, while he keeps this viper, Pearson, at the head of his business and furnishes him with the means to work the ruin of Louise Green. Great God Almighty, doctor, some people are too hard and mean to be human, and old Blatchford is one of them. He's a fool; he's a scoundrel; he's a brute." "I don't know, and I guess it don't concern us what it was about. Let's get this chap in the wagon and haul him to town- He needs some sort of attention.""Well, it takes weeks. You must lay right there for a long time yet. And you," turning to the attendant, "must "Louise," no said, "I would spare yon all pain possible, but I cannot leave you like this. I love you to-day more than ever I loved you before, and I feel, I know that you love me. I must know the cause of your action. I will not leave you until I do know." Louise said this so calmly and so freely that Pearson was constrained to gaze at her in wonder, and as he watched her quiet, immovable countenance he beg-an to doubt her intentions. "Very -well." "Perhaps he will come this evening," the doctor suggested. And yet, she reasoned, the step must be taken. The saci ifice must be made. It was not only her duty to save her parents, but she foil that it ought to be a pleasure. She felt that she ought tc be glad to suffer anything for the sake of those whom she so dearly loved. She tried to persuade htrself that being able to serve them so well, at even this great cost, was a blessing for which she should feel thankful. Reasoning 'thus she would almost succeed in reconciling herself to her fate, when there would come up in her mind recollections of - Paul, and she would lose all the resolution she had gained. They raised Pearson up to put him in the wagon, and he opened his eyes and looked about him. "Perhaps," replied Scraggs, "but I hardly dare hope for such good for- I met several days ago a bright specimen of the college graduate. He is an old friend of mine, and a living illustration of the of a collegiate education. He is very prosperous, though not in the line of any profession. This is, of course, a disappointment to his parents, but not to him. He always bated the professions, but admired other avenues for obtaining a livelihood. He earned his first money as a child by returning a valuable Maltese cat on which there was a reward of twenty dollars. tune." "Where am I, and what has happened?" he asked in a weak voice. "And you'd like to cane him, wouldn't you?" the doctor said when ho had slightly recovered from the effects of Scraggs' tumultuous and unlooked for outburst. ijMli' D■ "Then I'll tell you what," said the doctor; "well wait until the train comes in. It will be less than an hour now, and if Blatchford should happen to come we're done with the matter easily enough, and if Blatchlord don't come, by George! we'll proceed against Pearson by force, We'll waylay him as he goes out to-night and threaten to shoot or hang him if he doesn't leave the country inside of six hours." "Look here, Louise," he said, "I want you to bear in mind that I am in earnest, and that I will brook no foolishness. You fail me to-wight in one particular and your father will pay for it" "I cannot tell you, Paul. I must not. You must go away from me and never see me again. That is all 1 can say." "You're right here," said one of the men, "and it looks as though that chap who hit you come nigh taking your head off. lie gave you a terribly black ej-e, sure." "Be reasonable, Louise, and remember that I have a heart. Remember that I can feel and that every word you speak pierces me like a knife." "Wouldn't I?" repeated Scraggs. "Well, I just would, and I'd give him guch a caning as no man ever got But here, this sort of talk is not to the point. We must act. We must hustle ourselves to get old Blatcliford out here. I'll send him a telegram at once," and then and there Scra?gs penned the message, which Blatcliford received the day of Aunt .Mitchell's explosion, and which has been mentioned in a previous chapter. Calling his clerk, Scraggs sent the message off; then turning to the doctor, said: "I shall not fail you," Louise replied, in the same calm tone and manner. "I have decided to follow your wishes, and i snaifenot turn oacR. Save no xeara Slowly Pearson began to recall what had happened to him, and he gTew anpry and tried to spring' up. But he found that he had sustained a greater injury than he had thought. One of his limbs had caught under him when he fell, rod had been thrown out of position. With a cry of pain he sank back to ths ground. "Then leave me and do not make me say more. God knows I would spare you the agony of this meeting." of me." Seeing the advantages to be derived from this branch of trade, he soon returned other valuable cats for which there was a reward offered, and soon after that he added to his trade that of "Very well, then. Be ready for my coming at eight to-night, and then for the far west and a happy life—happy at least for me," he added, under his breath. "Good-by for a few hours." "We'll do it, doctor!" Scraggs exclaimed, "and we'll mean business, too. I can get up a dozen men on five minutes' notice to go with us, and yon may bet your boots we'll not be slow about giving the deuced scamp a dose of western law and iustice if he don't come to time in a hurry." "Poor Paul, poor Paul," she would groan, "what will you think of me after such a base deed? You will never, sever know tnat l am it lor the sake ol my father and mother. Oh, God, tc make the sacrifice and lose Paul forever is enough to kill me, but to know that I am misjudged by liim, and believed by him to be false and heartless, is more than I can beat-. And yet 1 must bear it." "Must we part, Louise?" "Yes, yes; and never meet again." "Is it your wish?" "It is." "And yon will not tell me why?" _3 TIIE BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS^1 the valuable clog. He has been very successful in the cattle industry in the far west, he says, and with nothing to start with but a tired steer, a tireless branding iron and nobility of purpose. Coupled with his college training, he has made out by the natural increase and geometrical progression, as we call it in mathematics, to own a large and very fine herd of eight thousand head of good cattle. "CVrse Paul Markham," he muttered, "lie has put me in "a nice pickle, and (aid me up for a week, perhaps, when there is not a day to lose." The sun was not high as Pearson galloped back toward Magic City, but hung suspended in the distant western sky but a little way above the edge of the earth. "No, I cannot do that." I had a great deal of fun with this tittle machine, on the dial of which yon could find anything from the morning paper to a pair of horses. Yesterday I met Mr. Herzog, looking as well as he did before my attack on him, and I was rarprised to find at my hotel and in many other hotels since, the little machine which I used several years ago in dusting off the streets. "Then it shall be as you wish. I will go away, and I promise not to see you again. But Louise, I will never forget yon. You have this day broken my spirit, destroyed my happiness and wrecked my brightest hope, but I will love you still. IMttle thought that the great purpose ME?t has cheered me on to the greatest efforts I was capable of making should come to this. For your sake and in the hope of one day claiming you for my wife, I have applied myself well to my studies, and I have graduated with lion r. I have done everything for your sake, and the guiding purpose of my life has been to gain a home fit for you. But now, that is all at an end. My hopes are blasted in one short hour and my castles havo fallen down. You say that you will never be mine?" "Now, I think Blatcliford will come, and it will be nearly a week before he gets here, and, in the meantime, we must manage in some way to delay Pearson's plans. Wo must save the gin from him and we must keep Green out of the clutches of the law." TI1E DOCTOR LAUGHED HEARTILY. The men got him in the wagon, and within an hour left him in bed in his room at Magic'City. see that he does. The soreness is leaving his limb and he is getting on splendidly, and we can't afford to take any chances on having a relapse." "I'm afraid," said Paul, "that wouldn't save John Green from Mills' vengeance." "There is no time to lose," he mused, as he rode swiftly on, "and I must move rapidly to make connections all around. I have my arrangements well fixed, thank goodness, so there need be no delay. I've got old "Yes, it would," promptly replied the old doctor. "It wouldn't take us long to serve Mills with a dose of the same kind of medicine if he got to cutting around too much." Thus long the conflict between love and dtity raged, and at last duty prevailed and Louise for once and for all decided that the sacrifice should be made. She would surrender everything and become Harry Pearson's wife. Having formed this resolution, she tried, to put away all thoughts of Paultried to become reconciled to the inevitable, and even attempted to persuade herself that in time she would learn to be happy in her situation. She tried to hope that she might learn to love Pearson. CHAPTER XXIV. A BROKEN IJXa During the next two days the doctor managed to spend a great part of his thne with Jris patient, resolved to keep him in bed If he had to do it by force. But the next day he was called out of town, and it was nearly night when he returned. Dr. Bascom had not forgotten his promise to aid Green in getting some money if possible. He had tried every means in his power, visited all the money lenders and everyone else from whom it seemed probable the money might be obtained, ne paid several visits to Scraggs' office, before Scraggs' return, and again he went there on the day that Pearson received his injuries at haul's hands. On this last occasion he found Scraggs at home, and at oilce made known to him his errand. "That's so," replied the doctor; "that's so. But I don't just see how it's to be done. Perhaps, though, Pearson will not bring matters to an issue at once. Perhaps wo will have plenty of time, if we only succeed in keeping our schema quiet" "And do yon attribute any measure of your success," I asked him the other day, "to a college education?' "That's what it wouldn't," said Scraggs. "The country wouldn't be any the worse off if it was rid of both of them." This shows, as I say, the power of the press, and how a fearless writer with a good command of language may often accomplish great good by attacking a meritorious thing. "Not to the college education as yon V regard it, perhaps, but to the stimulation which natural genius receives at college." lie repaired immediately to Pearson's room, and found Pearson gone, and the attendant staring about in wonder. "Not a bit," said the doctor. "So we'll wait for the train, and if Blatchford don't come we'll take the matter in Our own hands." "I think not," said Scraggs. "I believe from what information I hare been able to gather that he has already made his proposition to the girl. I know this much: He has purchased two tickets for Denver and has arranged for a livery rig to drive into the country to-morrow night I am confident his intention is to drive out to Green's at night and bring the girl here in a close carriage, and with her take the train for the west." "Ah, and how so, pray? There is a good deal of discussion going on all the time over this question of a college education versus practical education. Wherein now do you regard a college training as especially stimulating to genius?" Whenever I come to New York, even for a few weeks, I like to fall into the hands of an old New Yorker who knows the ropes, for it gives me a feeling of comfort aud confidence which nothing else can. Day before yesterday I started to go up town with an old resident of the city, and as we went up the elevated railroad stairs I told him how glad I was to be as often as possible in the hands of an old citizen of the place, for then I did not have to worry over details."Where's my patient?" the doctor demanded."I don't know," said the attendant "He sent me out a few minutes since on an errand, and when I returned just now he was gone." THE WRONG MAN. After settling the question so, Louise became calm and quiet, but it was a ■alien calm that comes with defeat rather than conviction. She went "Yes," said Scraggs, in reply to the old doctor's statement, "I will let Green have some money. He might have had it before this if I had known he was in such desperate straits. Have you been out to Green's within-the last few days?" He Wanted No Lightning Rods and "Well, I will admit that I was not a success from a collegiate standpoint. I was practically blackballed and sent bome several times to my parents, but they had a pull and I was returned. My genius did not lie in the direction of the classics or of higher mathematics or rhetoric or" the lauguages, but in the direction of invention and evasion of arbitrary rules. For illustration, it was found after I had been in college two years that every examination had in "I can never marry you, Paul." "The devil!" exclaimed the doctor, tearing out of the room and off to Scraggs' office, and astonishing that gentleman by bursting in on him with: "Scraggs, the devil's out." '-'What devil?" asked Scraggs. "Why, Pearson, man." Wanted No Talk. "Then good-by, Louise," and as Paul spoke he advanced and reached out his hand. A Wall street man who was returning from Buffalo three or four days ago wandered through the train until he came across a farmer, and then sat down beside him and said: Louise could almost feci his presnce, and she longed to throw herself n his arms and cry her heart out. But ne restrained herself, and never so much as looked up. "No, not since nearly a week." "Then what can wedo, Scraggs?" the doctor asked. "How can we prevent this thing in so short a time?" "I asked because I wished a little information on a certain point. I have understood since my return that young Pearson has been going' out there frequently of late, and I thought perhaps you might know if it was true." "There seems to be every promise of a bountiful crop this fall." "Yaas," dryly replied the fanner. "Wheat has been harvested in good shape, I see." "Yes," he said, "it must be a good deal of a comfort to one who has not always lived in the city to be with one who is perfectly familiar with New York, as nothing but time-flad years can make one. Now, for instance, the man from the west or from the country may flatter himself that he is entirely at home here after a week or two, and begin to take it easy. That is the time he corks himself, and the first thing he  when he experiences this feeling of false security is to climb the elevated stairs humming "Comrades"' softly to himself, only to find when he gets here to the ticket office as we are that he has come up those tedious iron stairs on a hot day only to know after he has his ticket that he is on the down town side when he wants to go up, or vice versa. It is mighty humiliating and makes him look pretty foolish, I think. And so—by thunder! that's just what we have done now! If you'll agree not to say anything about this I will pay for the lunch." "What!"' cried Scraggs. of bed?" "Yes, and gone." "Is he out "Won't you tell me good-by. ouise?" Paul asked. "I don't know, I'm sure." At that instant the office door was thrown open and a man came breathlessly in. "The devil! And Blatcliford has not come yet. I'm afraid he'll beat us after all." "there's no time to lose." '•Good-by," she murmured. "Yaas," was the reply, as the fanner sized him up out of the coraer of his eye. He said nothing more, but after looking at her a long time he towi his eyes "I know nothing of it. I have never met him there on the occasion of any of my visits." "Doctor," ho cried, "come quick. Pearson has received a severe injury and needs immediate attention. I have been all over town in search of you." "Eh? What's that?" the doctor cried, starting up. _ Blatchford's money all safe here in my pocket, and our tickets for the train are there, too. The carriage is arranged for, and I have a driver who knows what is expected of him and who can be depended on, so there will be no trouble on t&at score. Then the man who is to officiate as a otergyman and go through the part of marrying us is all right and can be depended on for promptness. I've got everything in ship-shape and will come out successfully, notwithstanding the delay caused by old Bascom's want of sense. Bah! the idea of a man practicing medicine when he hasn't sense enough to know whether or not a limb Is broken. By George, if I was in a position to do so, I would sue the old fool for malpractice, but I can't bother about that now. Louise and forty thousand dollars of Blatchford's money safely in my possession is pay enough for all the inconvenience I have suffered. By Jove, though, I did get terribly worked up yesterday over this affair. I was afraid old Scraggs would get wind of matters and telegraph to Blatchford and get him out here, and I knew if he did it would be all day with me. But that fear's past now, and I've got clear sailing." rom her and strode rapidiy away. Bhe icard him pass through the gate, and "I kept him there as long as I could, I hold him down for a week." "I never saw abetter crop of «orn, and oats are magnificent." "I suppose such isjthe case, however, and some steps ought to be taken to break it up— He has devilish designs on Green's girl, and I'm afraid he has Green in his power, and if he is permitted to go on in his own way he will bring the girl to ruin. Something ought to be done at once to thwart him if possible."moment later heard his horse clatter a-way across the prairie. Then she lifted her head from her hand, and with longing eyes looked after his retreating form until it faded out in the distance, and when 6he saw him no Longer she placed her hand oa her heart and moaned in the deepest anguish."Yes, and Blatchford ought to have been here yesterday. I think he'll surely come to-day. ne telegraphed me that he wtis on the way."** ' The farmer didn't reply to this, tat looked uneasy. The man recounted all he ftnew of Pearson's meeting with Paul and the encounter that followed, and ended by saying: "It is also a good fruit year," continued the Wall street man, "and when fruit is plenty money is plenty." "He'll probably get here to-night then, and all we can do is to wait." "Yes, wait and watch. Wo must find Pearson and keep an eye on him. You have no iclea where he has gone?" "Yaas." "I'm sure his leg is broken, besides other serious injuries." "Take it all in all, the farmer has little to complain of. You are a farmer, I suppose?" "That's true," said the doctor, "that's true. But this is all news to me. I have had no intimation of anything of that sort, and never dreamed of such a thing, or I certainly should hare taken some steps to stop it. But how has Pearson managed to get Green in his power?" That meeting had been a sore trial for the poor girl, but she steeled her heart against itself, and with the greatest effort withstood its pleadings. She felt more than once that if the interview was prolonged she must break down and give way to her love. But 6he had come through it safely and the worst was passed. "I wish to Heaven it had been his neck instead of his leg," cried Scraggs. "Aye," said the doctor aside to Scraggs, "but a leg is bettor than nothing, and if we can't have what we want we must take what we can get." "Are you going to him?" Scraggs asked. "Not the least, but he is no doubt somewhere about town." The agriculturist stood up and looked around the car as if in search of some one. TH1C CONFLICT BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY RAGED. "Then we bitd better look him up." The two men went otft and began a quiet, unostentatious search for Pearson, and they k ept it up until they had assured themselves perfectly that he was nowhere about There had been no train out of town that afternoon, so they knew he had not gone away by rail. about her duties with a light step, and a smile lurked about her features. She had one source of genuine satisfaction, and that was the knowledge that she was saving her parents such untold suffering and misery. "What's your average yield of wheat?" queried the Wall street man, as the othei sat down. "Yaas, wheat's purty fair," was the absent reply. "Easy enough," replied Scraggs, and he went on to tell about Mills' loan and John's sale of the wagon and team. "I 'have kept a watch on this affair, and by the aid of my clerk have kept posted on the proceedings from first to last. Green has laid himself liable to a term in state prison, and as I have just today discovered, Pearson is all that stands between him and the law. If Green's girl will submit to Pearson's desires Green can go free, but if 6he does not then Green is to be prosecuted. So you see how the matter stands, and how nccessary it is to take immediate steps to thwart Pearson." "Yes, indeed. You wait here an hour or so and I'll see you again." So I will not say anything about it. All through the morning' hours she kept a watch for Pearson. She dreaded, yet wished for his coming. She would have given worlds to know that she should never see him again, arid yet since she must give herself to him she wished to have it done and over. Slowly the morrting hours wore away, and as often as Louise gized out across the broad expanse of prairie nothing1 greeted her vision s.tve the par"'ied plain. "What do you figure on for potatoes this fall?" Last evening I visited Central park for » stroll along its quiet walks in order to rehearse a spontaneons after dinner speech for the Lambs' club and also to commune with nature and the child wonder, the baby hippopotamus. 1 am very fond of wild beasts born in captivity, and often spend hours in front of their cages contemplating -their singular habits. All day she watched and waited for Pearson's visit, but night came on and Pearson failed to appear. Was it possible, she wondered, that he had changed his mind, and that after all she would escape him? But Pearson had not changed his mind. He remained away for another and a more urgent reason. With that the doctor went out and down the street to Pearson's room. He found Pearson in a semi-unconscious condition, and proceeded to make an examination of his injuries. At first he was inclined to treat them rather lightly, but on second thought he changed his mind and his face took on a grave air and he shook his head dubiously.After considering the matter for a few minutes they decided to inquire at the stables, and from the first one they visited they learned that Pearson had got a horse and rode out in the country. The old maa stood up and beckoned vigorously to a strapping young man at the far end of the car. The latter at once came forward, and as he reached the seat the old man said: "He's gone to Green's," said Scraggs. "I'd bet a sheepskin on that." "Tom, 'tain't the same feller, but he's beginnin jest as the t'other one did." THAT NEW FBOCK COAT. "Yes, he's gane to Green's," replied the doctor, despairingly. "He's got the best of us after all." " What's up—what's the matter?" asked the New Yorker, as Tom began to push np his sleeves. fact been a farce, for I had worked the printer so that we had advance sheets of the exam questions, but at that time all was discovered. * • As Paul galloped back in the direction of Magic City he met Pearson on his way to Green s. Pearson recognized Paul and stopped to speak to him. He rightly guessed where Paul had been, and he knew full well from his looks what had been the result of his visit The baby hippopotamus is, I may safely say, as plain as Senator Peffer, of Kansas, the hirsute wonder of the boundless plains. She has a loosely fitting habit and chubby legs, and is now about half the size cf her mother and one-third ts large, perhaps, as her proud father. 3he eats quantities of hay and then goes into the water. Her life is not an exciting one. After being in the water for a time she may be seen by the observing student coming out again, rhis constitutes her life work. Instead )f having a purpose in life, she does no mere for her race CDr for history than a foung lady at a summer resort. "Is he badly hurt, doctor?" some one asked. Thus, confident of the final and complete success of his plans, Pearson continued his way in high spirits, congratulating himself on the clever manner in which he had worked his schemes, and felicitating himself on the bright prospects the future opened up before him. At last near noon she saw a horseman approaching. lie was far away, but she was sure it was Pearson coming for her answer. "Maybe he has," said Scraggs, "but well see." "The matter is that you git whar yem belong or I'll break you in two!" repliat Tom. "Two weeks ago a feller who looks about as you do got hold of the old man and began to talk crops, and the first thing we knew dad had signed a contract for 400 feet of lightnin rod, su patent gates and a washing machine, and on top of that cum a thousand feet of wire clothesline and a patent hayfork. You jest obscondurate or there'll be a fuss!" "I now began to fear that I would Dever graduate and even my college friends who had been so deftly assisted bv me began now to desert me. All looked dark. It looked to me as though I'd have to really learn all that ribt out of the books or fail of my graduation entirely. "Bad enough to keep him in bed for several days, sure," the doctor replied. •'We must splint and bandage this limb and he must be kept perfectly quiet for the present." "Yes, I see. The good-for-nothing rascal has got the whole Green family in his clutches, and the girl must sacrifice herself to save her father and mother, and she'll do it, too. She'll do anything and suffer anything to spare them. It must be prevented, Scraggs." CHaPTER XXV. SOME COUNTER-PLOTTING. •'It shall be as he wishes,"she mused, "and our interview shall be a short ona Thank God the worst will soon be over." Accordingly the limb was duly arranged, the bruises about the face dressed, and, after again repeating his injunctions in regard to keeping the patient quiet, the old doctor withdrew and returned to Scraggs. Pearson had indeed gone to Green's, Never for a ir oment during all those days that Dr. Bascom kept him in bed had thoughts of Louise escaped him. Besides, he was haunted with a terrible fear. He had the uneasiness natural to a guilty conscience, and every hour he was in dread lest his purpose and actions leak ou t and become public. Louise, in the meantime, set about the preparations it was necessary she should make for going away. There was not much to do aside from writing a letter to her parents, whieh was to be sent back to them on the morrow from Magic City. But writing this letter required a long time, since it was hard to word it so as to make the shock as light as possible to those loved ones she was leaving. She wished to make her conduct appear to them in the most favorable light, yet she could not inform them that she had taken the step to save her father from state prison. She realized that the knowledge of her sacrifice being made for his sake would be a bitterer source of regret to her father than a term in prison. The minutes passed and the horseman drew near. Louise, who had rested her face in her hands, looked up again, and as her eyes reached the approaching figure she received a shock that took her breath away. Her heart ceased its beating and her form trembled so that she could hardly support her weight. The man she saw was Paul. Paul come back to her with all his great love beaming from his eyes. But how different was his coming from what she had thought but a few hours before. Then she looked and longed for it as the happiest hour of her life, but now she would rather have seen anyone else. She had hoped, after making up her mind to accept Pearson's offer, to be spared the pain of a meeting with Paul. "One day I thought of a new scheme. This i3 what makes me favor the college End hnrrak for my alma mater, on whose render bosom I have been more than once Dbserved to lie. "It taust if it is possible, but I am at a loss how to get at it. Of course we could pay off Mills' (or rather Pearson's) note, but that won't let Green out. He would still be as open to prosecution as ever. I don't know what we can do." "Now, Scraggs," he said, as he entered the oflice, "we've got a good chance to carry out our plan. We've got Pearson laid up with a broken leg, and if we can get old Blatch ford out here before he gets up and about we're all right." The Wall rtreet man returned to the parlor car and left the crops of the country to be eaten up by grasshoppers.—M. Quad in New York Evening World. Not only was he in fear of losing Louise, but a greater calamity overhung him. IIC; had discounted to an eastern speculator all of the farm mortgages held by the Buckeye Loan and Trust Company, and had the proceeds then in his pocket. In going away with Louise he had arranged to take thousands of dollars of Blatchford's money. The giraffe always strikes me as a sort if a Redfern brute, somehow, while the hippopotamus child and baby elephant have the air of getting their clothes made at home. Look for one moment it the elephant. The seat of his trousers basasagtoit which takes one back to the first experiment made by one's poor mother in draping a narrow and bony boy. I have passed through that myself. [ went away to the academy wearing a pair of trousers like that, and I can still fsmember how popular I was with the town boys who hadn't had anything to tickle them for a good while. "The cast iron rule now was that ivery sheet of examination questions should be counted before and after print.ng, like the rule for voting by the Australian ballot or the custom in the United "I know one thing I can do," said the old doctor as he arose and angrily paced the floor. "I can cane Pearson, confound his impudent picture, and it wouldn't take me long to do it,either." Bright Prospects. "Great heavens, man! we can certainly do that. Blatchford ought to get here inside of six 'lays, and I should think it would take a broken leg several weeks to heal." States treasury printing establishment. So I resolved if possible to beat this jame, and I did. That is where I got the discipline which has made me a success in the stock business. That is why t xlav I owu eight thousand head of fat rat on the Colorado hills, where I •tai led in with a rusty branding iron and i melancholy steer, whose celibacy was i matter of gossip all over the state." "I'm afraid that wouldn't help matters much, though," laughed Scraggs. "Perhaps not, but it would do me lots of good. But have you no plan, Scra^crs?" "Yes, ordinarily it does take several weeks, but in this case it won't." "Won't? Why not?" During liis confinement he was weighed down with the fear that this embezzlement should be discovered and himself apprehended. Every day this fear grew stronger upon him, until at last he felt certain that the secret must "ome out. and he resolved to lie still no longer. So sending his attendant away he aroie from liis bed and was surprised to find his limb intact. With a curse on the doctor whom he put down as an ignoramus, he linn led from the room ou.1 was soon on his way to John Green's house. "Ao, l naven t. i nave thought, However, that it might be a good idea to find out who and where Green's friends are, and to write to them stating his condition and asking them for some assistance. I don't know that that would do much good, but it might do some. I suppose he has friends in the east somewhere, and we could learn from him who they arc." "Because," and the doctor advanced and sunk his voice to a whisper, "because, Scraggs, there ain't any broken leg in this case." For near two hours she wrote and rewrote letters, and at last for want of more time signed and sealed the last one produced. It was far from satisfactory, but she gave up all hope of making her conduct appear excusable to her parents without explaining the cause of it, and resolved not to do that. She attempted to run away and hide somewhere from his eyes, but her limbs refused to bear her, and with shame,remorse and grief gnawing at her heart she awaited his approach as a doomed man awaits the end of his sentence. "good-by" she murmured. "Well, how did yon pass?" and his nature was such that he could not resist the temptation of slightly exulting over his vanquished rival. Paul would have passed on, but Pearson prevented him. I came to them like a ray of sunshine on the storm tossad ocean of life. I larded among them like a large, juicy tenderloin steak in a crowded den of hyenas—hyenas suffering with tapeworm. Oh, how joyfully they hailed me, with tny fresh and tanzy scented atmosphere' How they took hold of me and wanted to know who made my dejected trousers with the deep seated melancholy! "Pass? Why, I got the job printer, a ;oon named Orlando Taylor, to wear white linen trousers while doing his college work, an«l after he was done and had delivered his printing, and'before he had washed the forms, to sit down in the entire 8x6 page accidentally. "What?" cried Scraggs. "I don't catch your meaning." "I mean that Pearson's leg is not broken. lie has sprained it pretty severely, that is all; but as the people up there thought it was broken I decided to let the impression prevail, and so I splintered it up anil left it so. Don't you see, if we can keep him in bed under the belief that his limb is broken it gives us a chance to save the girl until Blatchford comes." Paul sprang from his horse and with a smiling face came forward to greet his love. He opened his arms expecting her to nestle within them, hut she moved not, and looked not at him. He came up quite close to her and stopped. He spoke her n amc softly, but -she made no reply. "It is better," Bhe said with a sigh, as 6he placed the letter away, "that I bear the blame. If poor papa knew how I was driven to this action he would never forgive himself, and would die of a broken heart; but as it is they will pity me and mourn for me, and perhaps think much worse of me than I deserve, but they will live over it." "I did not know yon had returned, Mr. Markham," Pearson began, "and I suppose you have been back but a short time." "It is not necessary to go t'D t.'iut much trouble," said the doctor, "as I already possess that information, so far as Green's wife's father is concerned." "Then I gave" him five dollars for the "I returned last night," Paul replied "Only last night? You have been out to your father's, I suppose, to-day?" "Thank my stars," he muttered, as he cantered across the prairie, "I am not too late yet. I have only to give Louise notice to be ready, and to-night drive out for her, and inside of six hours we shall be rolling to the westward as faBt as steam can take us." trousers. The elephant is much like a country boy, it seems to me. He has an air of outward stupidity which is often misjudged, for the elephant has gentle and tender spots in his nature by which you may reach him without running a hot pitchfork into him. He also has a way Df expressing himself at the proper time In such a manner as to win respect and ssteem after he lias stood about enough funny business. At such times he maniges to make those who have reviled him before beg to know the name of Ids trouser maker so that they can get a fit like his. "Oh, there's nothing like a college education for developing a boy's talents." "1 don't know that it is anything particularly to you where I have been," Paul answered a little angrily, for he was in no mood to have his affairs meddled with, and especially by one who was little more than a stranger. "Do j Now t!i thinkin an unC- of war 'Buek which' Pearso pany. n ? Then that's soon arranged, mis another thing I was ' il Ding. This Pearson has Ohio of whom he is a sort lis uncle is the head of the :n and Trust Company,' ,-resent, and he and this ■ all there is of the comi ie uncle furnishes the capi- "Lionise," he said again, "do you not know I am here?" "I 6ee, I see," cried Scraggs, as he 6lapped himself and fairly roared with laughter. "By George, doctor, but that is the best thing I ever heard of, and you deserve a medal for it. I'll put you against the world when it comes to Gcheming," and again Scraggs' feelings got the better of him and he burst out into another roar of laughter. "Doctor, how am I coining on? Dc you think there is any hope?" said a very Kick man to Dr. Blister. Is Still she neither spoke to him nor looked at him, but sat with her face buried in her hands while the tears streamed through her fingers. Paul was aonplused completely. He knew not what to make of this reception. Having completed all her arrangements, Louise went in and under a pretense of performing some service for her mother, found an opportunity to kiss both her parents, and then, feeling that she was going to break down, hurried from the room, never, as she supposed, to enter it again. She seated herself by the little window, and gazing out into the gathering evening shadows waited for the coming of Te arson. Louise had, of course, been informed of Pearson's misfortune. Pearson, through his friend Mills, had taken pains to keep her informed on his condition, and she was aware that he would come again soon to claim her answer to his question. So she waited day after day with calm resignation for the time to come for the completion of her misery and shame. "Your chances are the best »n the world. The statistics show that one person iu ten recovers," replied the doctor."Oh, of course not," said Pearson with a light laugh. "Though I think I could guess where you have been were I to try. How are the Greens coming on?" A Humble Parent. Gus De Smith—Do you know my father, Miss Birdie? "Then there is not muth hope for me?" "Louise," he continued, after a short silence, "what does this mean? Have you no welcome for me? Will you not speak to me?" tal i fear rson gets the profits. I am .-it it won't avail much, but I "Oh, yes there is. Yon are the tenth case that I have treated, and the othei nine are dead. I don't see how you can help getting well if the statistics are to be relied on."—Texas Siftings. Birdie—1 have never met him, but I believe he is a very modest, unassuming sort of man. The tone in which this question was asked together with the leering manner of the speaker implied a direct insult, and Paul took it as such. He had, moreover, had an intimation of Pearson's visits to Green's, and he now associated him in some way with Louise's conduct and felt inclined to hold him responsible for it. He was sensitive, and it required but little to raise his temper, and it was not strange under the circumstances that Pearson's words stung him, and that he should reply shp- "Now, if I can keep Pearson in bed for a week," said the doctor, "you think you can accomplish your work, do you?" Gus De Smith—Right you are. You can get seme kind of an idea of how un • ostentations he is when I tell you he does not brag about having me for a son. —Texas Sittings. "Oh, Paul, Paul," Louise cried. "Why did you come? Why do you stay to break my heart now? Oh, God! oh, God! this is more than I can bear'" Her words were so impassioned, her manner sC vehement, that Paul was struck with awe. He could not understand her meaning, and was at a loss to account for such irreconcilable conduct. She showed plainly by her tone and actions that her love for him was not dead, while by her words she only too plainly manifested a desire to escape him. 1 knew not what to think of her —what to make of the change in her. After a short silence, he said: "Louise, I cannot understand you. There is something wrong with you, When Pearson reached Green's, Louise received him quietly, and whatever her feelings were she had mastered them so well that she betrayed no emotion, either of sorrow or pleasure. When Scraggs and Dr. Bascom left the livery stable, whither they went to inquire after Pearson, they bent their steps toward Scraggs' office, where they decided to go to consult on the affair and try to devise some means of holding Pearson in check. When they arrived at the office thqy found Paul Markham there awaiting Scraggs' return. Paul was quite well acquainted with both Scraggs and the doctor, and he knew what their sentiments were toward Pearson, so he had no hesitancy in speaking out in the presence of both men, though he had come to see Scraggs alone. Central park is a very valuable and beautiful strip of woods, but it does not touch the parks of Chicaso. excent that It has the rugged beauty of rocks and bills which the Chicago parks do not. Few Eastern people realize that Chicago is quietly and with a timid and almost shrinking modesty, which is almost painful, sailing on toward the top of the list, and I have often wished that she would attempt at least to assert herself through the columns of the press in such a way that her greatness and her wonderful and uninterrupted growth might be shown to the people of the satisfied East. Why doesn't she speak of it? "Yes, like a top. You just hold Pearson down on his back for six days, and I'm sure we'll come through all right." Mortal After All. He traveled all through Africa, and expeditions led to hunt the lion in hit lair, the tiger in his bed, to get from natives ivory tusks and give them beads instead, and his name was known to all folks far and wide. "Well, I'll try to do it, Scraggs, and I think I can succeed. So long." ProgroM of Modern Refinement. "Louise, I have at last come to learn your decision," Pearson said, when they were alone. "I have given you more time than I promised, and I suppose you have your answer ready." "And now, children," remarked the Sunday school superintendent, as he brought his review of the lesson to a close, "if the boy. who honors his father and mother is to dwell long in the land, what may wD conclude as to the boy who does not?" Dr. Bascom was assiduous in his attentions to Pearson, and every day called to see him. lie made it a point to speak of the case most seriously, and his face was always grave and thoughtful when he was in his patient's presence.He could tell you where the north pol« in its secret regions lay, explain the reason why the night was darker than thC day, but he couldn't find his collars, which his wife had laid away, though he tried and tried and tried and tried and tried.—Boston News. "I have," she replied, quietly. "And it is—" "As you wish." "1* the Greens are anythi: said he, "and you are anxio to you," to lenow "He isn't in it," responded the children, with one voice.—Chicago Tribune. how they ait coming on, I s i Dose you have the privilege of goinfrt'i v to find out for yourself." "Do you think I am in a serious condition?" Pearson asked •w dav. "Then to-night be ready for going away. I shall come at a couple of hours after dark with a closed carriage, and by moving promptly and losing no time we can catch the night train west, and before our escapade becomes known we will be far from here. You understand that there must be no delay?" "Oh, not particularly so," the doctor replied. "You will be up and about in a few weeks." A Hint. Papa (up stairs)—Maude, is that old man gone yet? "Mr. Scraggs," Paul began, "I am acquainted with your actions relative to Louise Green and that scoundrel Pearson, and I know you to be a friend of the girl, and I came to consult you about her. Something has to be done to save her from that scoundrel, and it ha« .to be done promptly. I have been Forced to It. Miss Emilia—My sister fell and broke her limb. In Brooklyn last week 1 saw the most refined barber sign that I ever came across, I think. It was called but I am unable to account for it. I "Thank do as you : replied Pearson, "I shall Test, and I ho; «, in fact I ion there will be differ- "A few weeks?" Pearson repeated with a groan. "Can't I get about sooner than that?" never dreamed that I should receive such a welcome as this on my return to think m Maude—Whom do yon mean? Papa—Cholly Hicks. you. Never a day, 6ince I left you, has ent f' "HERE IT IS: HIRAM BI.ATCHFOBD, DAT- Old Mr. Jones—Which limb? THE BROOKLYN HAIR CUTTING Cholly Hicks—I'm not an old man, passed without thoughts of you and tMs meeting thronging through my The i I.istant Paul had lost all self-com Di, and with all his strength put into his arm he gave Pearson such ft TON." "Well, that depends, young man. If you keep perfectly quiet and lay flat on your back foy ten days; or suck » "Yes," Miss Emilia (blushing)—Well, if I must tell you, it was her left walker.—Har per's Bazar. STUDIO. Papa—You weren't when you arrived, I know—but time flies, Mr. Hicks, time flies.—Neiv York Sun. propose to write to the uncle and in- "And you will see that there is none?" "Yeq." Where the barber has such high and sloud piercing notions, is it to be won