Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1906 Page: 2 of 14
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CHAPTER III—Continued.
"So they met before sundown in
jie park, and the colonel had me hid-
den away among the bushes where I
could see it all. As he was the chal-
lenged party and had the voice of
weapons, his second, Mr. Denver, un-
wrapped two large clubs. I think
they were of the stuffed species I
have seen them use on the stage. A
consultation was held, and finally the
two men stripped off their coats, and
in their shirt-sleeves dropped on
their knees and began belaboing each
otier. Oh! Miss Pauline, you would
have died laughing to have seen
them—the professor was so hot tem-
pered and earnest, the colonel so
cool and making the most of it.
"They kept it up until almost ex-
hausted and covered with dust, then
the seconds solemnly declared the
first round was a draw. After that
came the terrifying part; but Co'onel
Cob had warned me. I saw them
walk fifteen paces—they turned and
at a given signal from the seconds,
who had retired behind trees at a dis-
tance, flung at each other round black
balls that I knew were dynamite
bombs."
"What?" almost shrieks Miss Paul-
ine.
"Nothing more, my dear lady, than
large harmless torpedoes; but they
made a loud report; the little profes-
sor fainted from fright, and they took
him away in a carriage. He had sat-
isfied his honor. It was the most
comical thing I ever saw—that col
onel from New Mexico, he is so bold
so handsome, so amusing—he has car
Tied by heart by storm."
CHAPTER IV.
At the Office of the Great Mogul.
Miss Pauline laughs a little, but
evidently she is not in a merry frame
of mind—even the ridiculous descrip
©ftnewyc:.k
I have exhausted every means of fine,
ing Beulah."
It is time she dressed for dinner;
after that she will have company, for
the gentleman who rendered such
good service on the preceding night
will call, and bring his friend, this
ridiculous colonel, whom Dora has be-
witched, and with whom she may yet
divide the sad remnant of her heart;
in his keeping it may find a snug har-
bor after .passing through many
storms.
Dinner is over at last; how the time
drags while she awaits his coming; it
seems strange that the man over
whom the black-eyed Mexican senori-
ta raved, should be coming to see
her. She feels an eagerness to meet
him again that almost alarms her.
"Mr. Richard Denver and Colonel
Bob Harlan," announces Dora, grave
ly, ushering in the two gentlemen.
Miss Pauline confesses to a certain
amount of heart fluttering, as she
looks into the face of this man whom
she has secretly admired ever since
their strange meeting of the previous
night, when she was brought into
trouble through the decoy letter pur-
porting to come from Dora at the
Hospital la Charite. Her life In New
York has made her a girl of the nine-
teenth century, and as such no one
man can daunt her; she becomes her-
self, and that means an exceedingly
agreeable companion, chatting and
laughing and meeting the colonel's
sallies with a zest that quite charms
that worthy, who pronounces her "a
bully girl, equal to gold, twenty-foui
carat fine."
As for Dick, he has less to say, but
proves himsell' so well informed on al
subjects that Miss Pauline is nettlec
and even lays a trap for him, utter
ing some phrase in Latin, when to het
amazement he gives a correct reply
in the same tongue. The colonel
laughs heartily.
"Thought to catch Dick—eh, Miss
Westerly? Cowboys, don't generally
know Greek and Hebrew and Italian
and old time dead languages, but h€
does—he's been to college, I'm proud
to say, and I've heard him get of!
Sanscrit or Choctaw or some such
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tion given of the strange duel in the
great park fails to arouse her. Some-
thing weighs heavily upon her mind,
something that may have a bearing
on her mission to Paris. She turns
again to the window—turns with a
figh as she contemplates the numer-
ous lights that mark the boulevards
and the world-famous Champs Ely-
sees, where crowds throng the pave-
ments and gayety abounds, and al-
most whispers:
"Will I ever find her—is my quest
a. quixotic one—only Heaven knows;
fcut this night I shall see him. and
who can tell what may come of It?
Hope still buoys me up. I shall not
(row France tor Mexloe unf
stuff from the grave, by the yard."
"Really, this is astonishing; it must
have been a singular freak that sent
you to the plains, Mr. Denver," sh(
remarks.
He laughs pleasantly.
"A notion of mine—I was always
fond of horses, adventure and travel.
Besides, I hard'y think it is any more
singular for a cowboy to have a col-
lege education than for a young New
York lady to manage the greatest sli-
ver mine in Mexico."
The evening passes pleasantly, they
grow to know and respect each other
better, and quite an advance is mi de
In the friendship that will become a
Bet tied tfilnf ia $9 future,. As for
the irrepressible Dora, she has been
entertaining Colonel Bob in a quiet
way that does her credit. One would
never imagine this demure creature
could take pleasure in wringing the
heart of an admirer, or coolly tor-
menting him. -Perhaps she has found
her master at last.
The gentlemen prepare to go. They
have passed a pleasant evening, and
Dick has heafd many little things that
interest him. He has asked ques-
tions about the El Dorado, and learns
much considering the short time he
has "known Pauline. On the way to
their lodging-house his comrade takes
him fo task.
"What d'ye mean, my boy, asking
all those questions about the El Do-
rado, just as though you had never
been there yourself?"
"I had my reasons, Bob. Perhaps
I wanted to see if there had been
any changes since last I was at the
mine—perhaps still another motive
influenced me. It may be I shall
soon see the old Spanish mine again."
"Hello! I heard Miss Pauline
say—"
"Of course you did, old fellow—
that she meant to soon leave Paris
for Mexico. I do not expect to ac-
company her, but we may meet there,
by chance, you know, the usual way."
"That suits me, so -long as that
charming and delightful Dora is with
her. I make no bones of it, my dear
boy, I'm head over ears in love, and
willing to wade through seas of gore
in order to win her."
"I'm not as deep in the mire as
you, at the same time I confess to ad-
miring Miss Pauline. She's a fine
girl, and l believe as Drave as sue is
piquant, which is saying a good deal.
I wonder what brought her to Paris.
She hinted at some mission. Can
it be in connection with the mine?
—does she contemplate reorganizing
the company, and freezing out those
chaps? It would serve them just
about right if she did, the rascals,
to plot against a young girl."
"I might give a guess, Dk:k," says
the Sheriff of Secora County, as he
stops to light a cigar. "She's here
'ooking for some one."
"How d'ye know that?" quickly.
"My charmer let fall a hint that I
grasped. I've a faint idea she is on
the same track that I had engaged
myself for—hunting the missing own-
er of those ten shares. I hope she'll
have better luck. Then again it puz-
zles me; for Dora, when she inad-
vertently let fall this hint, spoke as
though the object of their search
might be a 'she.'"
Dick laughs at this; he appears tc
take precious little interest in the
subject, anyway.
"I wonder what Senor Lopez and
those he controls will be up to next?
They seem to have no scruples about
what they undertake, and Paris is a
wicked city when you try to find it
out. I'm afraid this Mexican, who is
so used to carrying things with a
high hand in his own country, may
have to be taught a lesson over
here."
"See the head of the polico force
about it," suggested Bob, who, as a
sheriff from the West, has a great
idea of his own influence, and be-
lieves all manner of favors will be
granted to them as soon as the pre-
fect knows the circumstances of the
case, and realizes the importance of
the position he holds.
"Quite an idea, though, perhaps,
it wouldn't do to let Miss Pauline
know; she might- object to having
her affairs put into the hands of the
police.
"Why not go there, now? He it
easier found in the night than during
the day, they say."
Dick stops short.
"Jove! you hit the nail on the head
that time. To the office of the pre
feet it is, then."
"That's business, Dick, just like
you."
They reach the office of the pre-
fect; ascending a long, narrow flight
of stairs, passing through a corridor,
and then an anteroom, where sevp-sl
men are busily engaged with bundles,
of opere, operators Beading re-
ceiving telegraphic messages, and an
air of business reigns—finally being
ushered into the presence of the great
head of the Paris police force.
With this gentleman they spend
nearly half an hour, and are sur
prised to find that he already knows
much of what they desire to tell him,
which goes to show the wonderful
resources of the Hireau over which
he presides.
When they finally leave, it is
throneh another door, an attenrlanl
showing them the way. The peculiar
Bmile on the face of the prefect puz-
eles Dick, but not for long.
A little ctevious winding and they
emerge from a door farther down
the street, at least fifty feet below the
one at which they entered.
"The duse!" exclaims Colonel Bob,
when they find themselves alone
again, "this beats the Dutch! They
hedge him in with mystery, it seems.
Why in the world are we turned out
this way?"
"I've an idea," says Dick, quiet-
ly.
"Oh! you have; suppose you share
it then, my dear fellow. I'm all Im-
patience to hear it."
"Come, we will move along a little
—walls have ears in this region, you
know. Link your arm with mine.
Now, I'll tell you what I suspect.
Give me a light first, my dear fellow,"
as he draws a weed from his pocket
and lights it.
"Now, pay attention and I'll ex-
plain. As we passed along the cor-
ridor I had a glimpse of the anteroom
where we waited the prefect's pleas-
ure. Something—common curiosity,
perhaps, caused me to g'ance that
way. Several people were waiting an
audience with the prefect, am* upon
two my eyes fell with particular in-
terest.
"They were ladies, modestly dress-
ed and veiled, but you know I lay
great stress on my ability to dis-
cover a friend even when disguised,
and I am almost ready to wager a
good sum that I looked upon the
graceful figure of Miss Pauline, wait-
ing the anteroom of the prefect's of-
fice."
The Sheriff of Secora County gives
a low cry.
"There were two of them, you say
—then of course if Miss Pauline, then
my adorable Dora, the brightest gem
of all. To think she should be so
near and I not suspect it. What are
you good for, old battered heart, that
you couldn't warn me of her presence
—a nice barometer you'd make, I
reckon."
"Come, come, hold up, colonel! I
wouldn't like to take my affidavit
about this, you know, but I feel pretty
certain. Now, I'm going to prove
it."
"You are—how?"
(To be continued.)
Remarkable Escape from Death.
Running across a field in the dark,
a Belfast boy named Murphy fell down
a disused pit, the covering of which
had somehow got removed. The lad
had a miraculous escape. Although
he descended GO (Ireland) feet he
sustained no other injury than a
wrenched ankle, for two days he
was confined in the shaft, crying at
intervals for help, which did not come.
His parents having reported his dis-
appearance, search parties were
formed, but the mystery was not
solved until workmen who had been
engaged in filling up the shaft return-
ed to work after an interval of some
days. They were astonished to hear
piteous cries for help coming from tfro
bottom of the shaft, and with some
difficuJty they got the boy to the sur-
face.
A Bad Break.
"I hear that English nobleman has
discontinued his attentions to Miss
Nuritch."
_ "Yes, he queered himself with old
Nuritch; the chump asked the old fel-
low if he ever followed the hounds."
"Well?"
"Well. Nuritch wag n dogcalcher be.
fore I10 mads his pll^/'^-CVhollo
Stwtard and Tltuea
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Shaw & Parham. Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1906, newspaper, February 22, 1906; Pauls Valley, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110290/m1/2/?q=burch: accessed May 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.