The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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* SYNOPSIS* I The conclave laatad far Into the
— ' sight. The feminine contingent vent
Jam#* Wilson or Jimmy as hs la called t* bed. but not to sleep. Some time
t* Itri^tanT, iSi? «u ^ midnight, Mr. HarbUon and Max
loualy,
ao. hi*
illy
ambition In Ilf* *la to be taken aerl
but people steadily refused to do ao
art Is considered a huge Jolt*, eacept to
himself. If he aaked pe*.ple to dinner ev-
rryona eapected a frolic. Jimmy mamas
Bella Knowles: tliay live together a year
d ara divorced. Jimmy a friends ar-
celebrate the drat annivafaary
and are
range t
range tp celebrate the nrat gnniv™-»*7
of hla divorce. The party la In full awing
whan Jimmy receives a telegram from me
Aunt fiellna, who will arrive In four hours
to visit him and hla wlfa. He neglects to
tell her of hla divorce. Jimmy tak«# JJJ*
Into hla confidence. He suggest* that Kit
play th# hostess for one night, be lira,
wllaon pro tern. Aunt Selina arrives and
the deception works out *• b‘*£nn.'
jlm'a Jap servant la taken lit He'**-
Jimmy's divorced wife, enters the house
and asks Kit who is t>e!ng taken away In
the ambulance? Belle Inaleta It la Jjm-
Kit tells her Jim la well and la In tha
house. Harblaon etep# out — —- -.
and discovers a man tacking a card on
the door. He demand# an eaplanatjon.
•use. Harblaon etep# out on the porch
nd d
The man points' to the placard end Her-
blann see* the word "Bmallpoa pllnted
on It He tells him the gueala cannot
leave th# house until the quarantine la
lifted. After the lifting of the quarantine
Several letter* are found In th# malt bo*
Undelivered, one la addreeaed to Henry
Llewellyn. Iqulque, Chile, which waa
written by Harblaon. He deacrlbe* mi-
nutely of their Incarceration, also of hla
Infatuation for Mr*. Wllaon. Aunt Bella*
I* taken III with la grippe. Betty act* aa
burse. Harblaon find* Kit sulking on the
roof. Bhe tells him that Jim haa been
treating her outrageously. Kit atarta
downstairs, when suddenly ahe Is grasped
In the arms of a man who klease her sev-
eral times. Bhe believe# that Harblaon
did It and la humiliated. Aunt Bellna tella
Jimmy that her cameo hreastpln and
other articles of Jewelry have been atolen.
Bhe accuses Betty of the theft. Jimmy
#11# Aunt Bellna atl about the strange
mppentngs. but she persists In suspecting
deity of the theft of her valuables,
darblaon demands an explanation from
fit aa to her conduct toward* him. she
ella him of the Incident on the roof, he
does not deny nor confirm her accusation.
Aunt Bellna la awakened during the
bight; ihe find# Jim making love to
Bella; rhe demands an explanation
from Jim. Bella reveals the whole
plot to Aunt Bellna. Bhe forgive# both
Of them, hut calls Kit a Jeaehel. Bhe
tella Jim to reveal th# true situation to
Harblaon. Jimmy Is taken 111; Bella tella
the guesta that apota have broken out
an hla body. They are convinced that
Jim has th* dreaded disease.
CHAPTER XXI.
A Ba» of Soap.
Late that evening Betty Mercer and
Dallas were writing vereea of condo-
lence to be signed by all Of ua and
put under the door Into Jim's room
when Bella came running down the
■taira.
Dal waa reading the first verse
when ahe came. "Listen • to this,
Bella,” he said triumphantly:
There was a fat artlat named Jaa,
Who cruelly called hla friends naa.
When, altho' shut up tight.
He broke out over night
With a rash that Is maddening, he claa.
Then he caught sight of Bella's
face aa abe stood In the doorway,and
■topped. •
"Jim la delirious!” she announced
tragically. “You >hut him in there
all alone and now he's delirious. I’ll
never forgive any of you."
“Delirious!” everybody exclatmed.
“He was sane enough when I took
him hla chicken broth,” Mr. Harblaon
aald. "He waa almost fluent”
“He la stark, staring crazy,” Bella
Insisted hysterically. “I—I locked the
door carefully when I went down to
my dinner, and when I came up
it—It was unlocked, and Jim was
babbling on the bed, with a sheet
over his face. He—he says the house
Is haunted and he wants all the men
to come up and sit In the room with
him.”
"Not on your life,” Max said. "I am
young, and my career has only begun.
I don’t intend to be cut off In the
flower of my youth. But I'll tell you
what 1 11 do; I’ll take him a drink. I
can tie It to a pole or something."
But Mr. Harbison did not amlle. He
waa thoughtful for a minute. Then:
"I don’t believe he Is delirious," he
said quietly, "and I wouldn’t be sur-
prised If he baa happened on some-
thing that—will be of general lnter-
eet. I think I will stay with him to-
night"
After that, of courae, none of the
others would confess that he waa
afraid, so with the South American
leading, they all went up-stalrs. The
women of the party sat on the lower
ateps and listened, but everything was
quiet. Now and then we could hear
the sound of voices, and after a while
there was a rapid slamming of doors
and the sound of some one running
down to the second floor. Then quiet
again.
In an hour or so they sent for Flan-
nlgan, and he went up-stalrs. He
came down again soon, however, and
returned with something over hla arm
that looked like a rope. It seemed to
be made of all klnda of things tied
together, trunk straps, clothesline, bed
sheets, and something that FTannlgan
pointed to with rage and said he
hadn't been able to keep hie clothes
on all day. He refused to explain fur-
ther, however, and trailed the nonde-
script article up the stairs. We could
only gaze after him and wonder wnat
It all meant.
went down-etalre end I could hear
them rettllng around testing win
dowa and burglar alarms. But fin
ally every one settled down and the
rest of the night wae quiet
Betty Mercer cams Into my room
the next morning. Sunday, and said
Anne Brown wanted me. I went over
at once, and Anne waa sitting up In
bed, crying. Del had slipped out of
the room at daylight, abe aald. and
hadn't come hack. He bad thought
ahe waa asleep, but abe wasn’t, and
sb*# knew he was dead, for nothing
ever made Dal get up on Sunday be-
fore noon.
There waa no one moving In the
house, and I hardly knew what to do.
It waa Betty who eald ahe would go
up and rouse Mr. Harblaon and Max.
who bad taken Jim's place In the
studio. She started out bravely
enough, but In n minute we beard her
flying hack. Anne grew perfectly
white.
“He'a lying on the upper etalre!”
Betty cried, and we nil ran out. It
was quite true. Dal was lying on the
stairs In a bath robe, with one of Jlm’a
Indian war-clubs In hie hand. And he
was sound asleep.
He looked somewhat embarrassed
when he roused and sam us standing
around. He eald he waa going to play
a practical Joke on somebody and fell
asleop In the middle of It. And Anne
said he wasn't even an Intelligent liar,
and went back to bed In a temper. But
Betty came In with me, and we sat
and looked at each other and didn't
I fell asleep.
When I wakened Mr HarbUon was
standing by the table, and be held my |
book In bis hands In view of the
armed neutrality between ua, I es
peeled to see bltu bow to me curtly,
turn on hla heel and leave the room
Indeed, considering hi* state of mtud
the night before. I should hardly have
been surprised If he had thrown tied
da at my head (This la not a pun
I detest them.) Hut Instead, when he
heard me move he glanced over at me
and even smiled a little.
"Bhe wasn't worth It,” be said. In
dicatIng the book.
"Worth what?”
"Your tear*. You were crying ever
It, weren't you?”
"Bhe was very unhappy," I asserted
Indifferently. "Bhe waa married and
she loved some one rise "
"Do you really think she did?” he
asked. "And even so. wu that a res
eon?”
‘The other men cared for her; he
may not have been able to help It ”
"Dot he knew that ahe was mar
rted,” he said virtuously, and then he
caught my eye end he aaw the nnalogy
Instantly, for he colored hotly and put
dowo the hook.
"Most men argue that way.” I aald.
“They argue by the book, and-they
do u they like."
“You are perfectly right," he eald
at last. "I deserve It all. My griev-
ance la at myself. Your -your beauty,
and the fact that I thought you were
unhappy, put me—beside myself. It
Is not an excuse; It la a weak ex-
planation. 1 will not forget myaelf woznettiln* about a alorui coming up.
►r.rjf (.'ant we be trlenda. after
all?”
“ When we do not have Inenda we
can not lone them.’” I replied with
cuo! malice And the Beat lustaut tha
door closed behind me
U was tLit night that the really
serious event of the quarantine oc-
curred
We were gathered in the library,
and everybody was deadly dull. Aunt
Setlnc said ahe had been rt-an-d to a
strict observance of the Babbath. and
she refused to go to bed early. The
cards and card-tables were put away
and every one eat around and quar-
reled and waa generally naaty. except
Bella and Jlui, who had gone Into the
den Just after dtuner and firmly closed
the door.
I think It waa Just after Mai pro-
posed to tue Yes, he promised to me
again that night He said that Jlm'a
illness had decided him; that any of
ua might take sick and die, abut In
that contaminated atmosphere, and
that if he did be wanted It all settled
And whether I took htin or not ba
wanted me to remember him kindly If
anything happened 1 really hated to
refuse him -be was In aucb deadly
earnest. Hut It was quit* unnecessary
for him to have blamed his refusal,
aa he did, on Mr Harbison I -am
sure I bad refused him plenty of times
before 1 bad ever heard of the man.
Yes, It was Just after he proposed to
me that Flannlgan came to the door
and called Mr. Harbison out Into th*
ball.
Mr. Harbison went out, muttering
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
Cures all humors, catarrh and
rheumatism, relieves that tired
(cclinj;. restores the appetite,
cures paleness, nervousness,
builds up the whole system.
(let it today in usual liquid form on
chocolated tablet* called IsrsatSb*.
again.”
Ho wan aa abject as any one could
have wished. It wns my minute of
triumph, but I ran not pretend that I
waa happy. Evidently It had been
only a passing Impulse. If he had
really cared, now that he knew l was
free, he would have forgotten him-
self again at once. Then a new i#-
planatlon occurred to me. Suppose It
had been Bella all the time, and the
real shock had been to find that she
had been married!
'The fault of the situation was real-
ly mine.” I aald magnanimously; "1
‘Vki
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Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief—Pfi
CARTER S LITTLE
UVER PILLS never
fail Purely i
ble — act si
but gently i
the liver.
Stop after
dinner dis-
tress cure*
indigestion,*
Improve the complexion, brighten the eyea,
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICB.
Genuine must bear Signature
Fait Vary Mournful.
The situation was beyond
say much,
ua.
The doctor let Jim out next day,
there having been nothing the matter
with him but a stomach rash. But
Jim waa changed; he mooned around
Bella, of courae. aa before, but he waa
abstracted at times, and all that day—
Sunday—he wandered off by himself,
and one would come across him un-
expectedly in the basement or along
some of the unused back halla.
Aunt Selina held service that morn-
ing. Jim said that he always had a
prayer-book, but that be couldn't find
anything with so many people In the
house. So Aunt Selina read some re-
ligious poetry out of the newspapers,
and gave us a valuable talk on Decep-
tion versus Honesty, with me as the
Illustration.
Almost everybody took a nap after
luncheon. I stayed In the den and
read Ibaen, and felt very mournful.
And after Hedda had shot herself, I
quite blame myself. Only, you must
believe one thing. You never fur-
nished us any amusement.” I looked
at him sidewise. The discovery that
Bella and Jim were once married
must have been a great shock.
“It was a surprise." he replied even-
ly. His voice and his eyes were in-
scrutable. He returned my glance
steadily. It was Infuriating to have
gone half-way to meet him, as I had,
and then to find him intrenched In his
self-sufficiency again. I got up.
"It is unfortunate that our acqualn
tance has begun so unfavorably,” I re-
marked, preparing to pass him. "Un-
der other circumstances we might
have been friends.”
"There Is only one solace," he said.
“When we do not have friends, we
can not lose them.”
He opened the door to let me pass
out, and as our eyes met, all the cold
ness died out of his. He held out his
hand, but I was hurt 1 refused to
and seeing that the tent was secure
Hetty Mercer went with him Bhe had
been at hla heels all evening, and
called him "Tom" on every possible
occasion.
So Hetty went with him. She wore
a pale yellow dinner gown, with Just
a sophisticated touch of Mack here
and there, and cut modestly square
In the neck Her shoulders are
scrawny. And after they were gone—
not her shoulders; Mr. Ilarblson and
she—Aunt Bellna announced that the
next day was Monday, that she had
only a week's supply of clothing
with her. and that no policeman who
ever swung a mace should wash her
undergarments for her.
She paused a moment, but nobody
offered to do It. Anne was reading
De Maupassant under cover of g
table, and the rest pretended not to
hear. After a pause, Aunt Bellna got
up heavily and went upstairs, coming
down sooi* after with a bundle cov-
ered with a green shawl, and with a
white balbriggan stocking trailing
from an opening In It. Bhe paused at
the library door, surveyed the In-
mates. caught my unlucky eye and
beckoned to me with a relentless fore-
finger.
"We can put them to soak tonight,"
sho confided to me, "and tomorrow
they will be quite simple to-do. There
is no lace to speak of"—Dal raised hla
eyebrows—"and very little flouncing."
Aunt Selina and 1 went to the laun-
dry.
It Is strange what big things d»
velop from little ones. In this case It
was a bar of soap. And If Flannlgan
had used as much soa* as he should
have instead of washing up the kitch-
en floor with cold dish water,. It
would havo developed sooner. Tha
two most unexpected events of the
whole quarantine occurred that night
at the same time, one on the roof and
one in the cellar. The cellar one. al-
though curious, was not so Berlous as
the other, so It comes first.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Unawed by Royalty.
To Illustrate that royalty does not
Inspire awe in American children, says
a New York letter, a woman who re-
cently returned from a long trip
abroad related thl Incident: “We
were at Bad-Nauhelm when the czar
was a guest there. My little boy at-
tracted the attention of some mem-
ber of the Russian party, and he waa
present by Invitation one flay when
the czar, the grand duchess of Hesse,
Captain Drentelen, the czar's military
secretary, and Baron Wassenbach
played tennis. When the boy returned
one of the young people, a tennis en-
thusiast. asked him: ‘Well, how did
Ihe czar play?' ‘Rotten!’ was the ex-
pressive but shocking reply.”
Culture.
Thus there is a climbing scale of
culture, from the first agreeable sen-
eutlon wiilcb a sparkling gem or a
scarlet stain affords the eyes, up
through fair outlines and details of
the landscape, features of the human
lace and form, signs and tokens of
thought and character In manners, up
to the Ineffable mysteries of the Intel-
lect.
Wherever we begin thither our
steps tend; an ascent from the Joy of
a horse and his trappings, up to the
j -irceptlon of Newton, that the globe
on which we ride Is only a larger ap-
ple falling from a larger tree; up to
tho perception of Plato, that globe
and universe are rude and early ex-
pressions of an all-dissolving unity—
the first stair on the scale to the tem-
ple of the mind.—Emerson.
Wm* today lor prioa# aed Agaato' <
DRY CLEANING
AND HAT WORK
Biari —J B#e i* S.*Awt
Tbs Basel** Claaalae eefi Dye Werhe
211 •.Lawraaca WIcMte. Keesee
if emiefse .ua | Thtupitn'i Eyi Water
tor# •/•*,(
Your wife, as well as your sine, will
find you out.
Trll the denier you want a Lewis' Single
Binder straight 5e cigar.
lay down on the divan and cried a Ut- ueu It
♦'* _<«rer Hedda; ahe was young aAd ! "Kit!” be said unsteadily. - T—I’m
Remember, there Is a limit to hu-
man endurance. The friends who
stand up for you may tire In the
course of time and proceed to all
down on you.
formal
A Formal Gardan.
Knlcker—Have they got a
garden?
Docker—Yes; no chickens allowed.
Hugging a "Lamb."
Parson Johnson had been caught
hugging one of the finest "ewe" lambs
of the congregation who happened to
be a very popular young lady and It
created quite a stir In the church. So
“Brudder Johnson” was brought for
trial.
"You have seen these great plo-
turea, I suppose, so you know dat do
great 8heperd am always pictured
wld a lamb In his arms,” aald "Brudr
der" Johnson.
“Yes, sah. pahson, dat am eo," ad-
mitted Deacon Jones.
"Den, Brudder Jones, wbat am
wrong In de sbeperd of tbla flock
having a lamb In hla anna?"
This was too much for Brudder
Jones, so he proposed that the people
have a called meeting that afternoon.
After the point waa discussed at the
afternoon meeting the following reeo>
lutlon was made:
"Resolved, Dat for the future peace
of this congregation, dat de next
time Brudder Johnson feele celled on
to take a lamb ob de flock In bin
arms, that he pick out a ram-lamb.”
Woman's Way.
One woman with her nose turned
up can ruin a reception.
Breakfast
A Pleasure
A
when you have
Post
Toasties
with creem
A food with map and
zest that wakes up the
appetite.
Sprinkle crisp Post
Toasties over a saucer of
fresh strawberries, add some
cream and a little sugar—
Appetizing
Nourishing
Convenient
“The Memory Lingers”
Sold by Grocers
POSTUM CEREAL CO., UA,
Battlo Crook. Midi
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