Morning Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 328, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909 Page: 3 of 6
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Indeed, the direct Intensity of bis
(lance added a sudden new percep-
tion to the woman's faculties and for
4 the first time in years she realised
j that she was standing before her fel-
Qows half naked. In one swift mo-
ment convention leaped across the
■bains years and caught her in its
^jMrm. The red flashed into her cheek;
m beneath her rude vest her bosom roae
■ and fell. Her Instinct for the moment
1 was to fly. She wished that she had
I put on those treasured garments which
fjhe had kept for a scene like this In
It cave all those years. It was too
now. She summoned her cour-
age, and realizing that dignity, after
all, Is not made of clothes or conven-
tions, once more addressed him.
"Sir," she said, "my name Is Kath-
arine Brenton. I am not, as you might
[well think, a savage, but a castaway."
"I heg your pardon," said the offl-
cer, a man of wide reading and cul-
. "is it possible that you ars the
[thartne Brenton who wrote 'Fats
Destiny'?"
"I am that unhappy woman."
Unhappy T"
"Tee," returned the other. "I—"
"Madam," said the lieutenant com-
mander, flushing deeply and bowing in
his turn. He had taken off his cap
at her first word. "I beg your pardon,
1 have heard something of your story."
He was very much embarrassed. It
Langford who took up the tale.
(Since you know so much, Mr. Whlt-
ir, you may as well hear the rest
ideed, I am anxious that the world
should hear It. Miss Brenton and I.
we—er—did not believe In marriage,
and ws went away—together."
Every word waa agony to Langford,
wh« was a proud man; It was worse
agony to Katharine Brenton, who
waa a proud woman; and It was wont
•cony of all to the man of tho Is-
But Langford persisted. Hs did
net care how he hurt himself. Indeed,
he rather luxuriated in tho oonecious-
of hla own pain. It was part of
Ms expiation. He realised that he
would have to hurt Katharine, but per-
haps the very koenness of her pain
would make her realize her position,
he wanted to win ber, now Jfeat
found her and seen her, more
ever. Nor was his passion a
one. Again he was ashamed of
what he had already said, so he spoke
more frankly. He gave no thought
all to the other man, but if he had,
would have been glad to hurt him
until he killed him.
"We went on my yacht yonder three
|years ago. I—In short—I behaved
tike a brute on It, I will admit"
*1 discovered that he was a mar-
man," said the woman swiftly at
ils Juncture. She, too, would be
frank. This grave and middle-aged of-
ficer should hear all. "He had pro-
fessed his belief In those views, which,
you have read 'Pate and Destiny,'
realise that I entertained."
ie officer bowed.
'And have you abandoned them
rnow?" he asked.
"Absolutely," was the firm answer.
"I am a Christian woman, thank God!"
"Thank God, say I, too," continued
Langford. "Yet I was not altogether
a sham or a lie. It was true that I
was a married man."
The lieutenant commander flashed a
contemptuous look at him at which
tord winced, but be went on. He
letermined to make an absolute-
lean breaat of the whole affair.
"It is true I was a married man,
but I was under the spell of Miss
Brenton's eloquence and of ber
beauty"
I can well understand that" aaid
officer, gravely, as a matter of
I thought that marriage meant noth
kand that the old tie might be dls-
arded. I hated the woman who
Ire my name, and so as Miss Bren-
n's disciple, aa her devotee, for I
her, I will admit," she smiled
■eerily. "more than her philosophy, I
osed that we should trample upon
Iconventlons she had taught me to
Pleve she despised, and go away to-
tether."
"But you were not free," said the
I woman, "to enter upon such an under-
I taking "
"No, by heaven!" cried Whlttaker.
Now, this conversation had been
f carried on with three auditors, or
t groups of auditors, besides those par-
ticipating; Langford* yachtsmen, the
arines and seamen from the Cbey-
«, for the boat was against ths
s, and the man of the Island
ktttaher first awoke to tho sltua
"I beg your pardon." bo said, "but
1 It not bo botter to continue this
•versatton privately?"
"I think so." returned Longford
"No," said tho maa of tho Island,
f oddresslag tho Iteuteoaat commander
1 far the first time, "you and those man
i the world. I want tho story told
nil the world any hear "
' Whlttahor's surprise at this remark
L.waa scarcely loss than hs had asps-
whan the woman addroesed
Who was this spleadld. godlike
i of maa standing glooming by tho
a'e slds, a silent, anger listeaor
I* *11 that transpired? Whet M he
to do wl'h the question that he as-
sumed this tone and manner of au-
thority? The officer turned toward the
woman.
"I think," said he quietly, "that the
lady should be allowed to decide."
"My wish Is my friend's wish," said
the woman laying her hand softly
upon the man's arm.
Whlttaker observed tbat the man
shook It off nervously, but the point
being settled, there was no further ap-
peal.
"Pray proceed with your story, Mr.
Langford," he continued.
"No, let me take up the tale," cried
the woman. "Believing that I was
right, believing that the education
and training which had made me
what I was were sound, believing that
this man was as free aa I to choose
his oourse and order his life, knowing
nothing of hlB wife. I yielded to hie
pleadings. I thought it was a noble
and splendid opportunity vouchsafed
me and. In a measure, vouchsafed him
to show the world that we did really
believe what we said. Had I believed
in Ood then I should have said his
meeting with me, his conversion to
my theories, bis passion for me, his
willingness to abide by my decision
were Providental. I wan glad to con-
secrate my life to the truth, with his
aid to take the final step in attesta-
tion of my belief, to convince the
world that one woman at least had
the courage of her convictions. It was
a mistake, a frightful mistake, an Ir-
reparable mistake, for which I sup-
pose that I must suffer to the end of
time."
"No," cried Langford, "I am here
to repair the blunder."
"There Is no power on earth," said
the woman, passionately, "that can
put me where I was; that can give me
back that I have lost."
"Kate, Kate!" cried Langford, "yon
don't understand!"
"I understand too well. Why con-
tinue the sorry story? Mr. Whlttaker,
and you that are men beyond, that
have wives and children and sweet-
hearts, that have been taught to love
God, to believe in him, and to observe
his laws, that have submitted your-
selves gladly to the conventions of so-
ciety—or If any be among you who
have outraged these and gone against
them, taken the law into your own
hands—you will understand sooner or
later what cams to me. I discovered
that there was nothing high or holy
in this man's regard for me; tbat hs
persuaded himself thst he believed as
I simply to get possession of me. I
awoke to a dreaded realisation, alone
with him on that yacht. He was not
kind to me. He acted according to
his lights."
"I will confess It," said Langford.
"I was a brute to her. I drank; I ac-
knowledged that I had a wife; 1 said
she was in my power; I called her
vile names."
There was a low growl, a muttered
roar from the men behind Whlttaker.
Even Langford's own men, in his own
pay, shrank back from him. The man
was frightfully pale, yet he went on
resolutely, Whlttaker stilling the tu-
mult with upraised hand.
"No one," he cried, "can think more
hatefully of a human being than I
think of myself now. I have not
learned her philosophy; I have learned
another and a better. In some sort
of a way at least I know tbat I can
never be bappy until I have made her
bappy. I know that I love ber now
as I should have loved her then;
tbat I have bunted these seaa for ber
without ceasing slncs she left me In
a drunken stupor one night"
"Left you how?" asked the lieuten-
ant commander.
"I am not quite clear. I must have
descended very low," said Langford.
"I remember some sort of a scene at
supper, and when I nwoke In the
morning, or I didn't wake for six
months, they found me In the morn-
ing with h fractured skull on the cab-
in floor, and tbsy took me back to the
United States. It waa a year or more
before I could begin the search for
her."
"He said things to me that night,"
said the woman, "tbat no woman could
endure or forgive. He came toward
me. I threw him from me with such
force and violence—I am a strong wo-
man—that he lay senseless In the
cabin. The motor launch had been
got overboard for a trial and waa
trailing astern. I got In It drifted
away, started the motor and run It
until the gasoline was gone. I brought
food and water from the cabin table.
I lived a week in the hoot, bearing
southward all ths time by moons of
n soil whleh I laaprovised from n boat
clonk. One night mK was
n storm. At the height sf It t wes
thrown upon this Island. Tho-"
"I hope*." sold Longford, taking up
the tale, "that that might bo the saea.
and with that end la view I hove
sserehed the 1 hove tended
epoo many unohartod lolanda. I have
ssplored others little, if ever, visited,
praying to Ood that she might ho
alive, that I might gad hsr and maho
'mparettee, and aow I have found bar
at last wheo I hod tfvea eg all hope,
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"This feller Cook," began Undo
Ooahall Hemlok.
"Oh, let np on the North Pole."
'' I don't blame him about the North
Pole part of it, bat I do bkms him
for scattering around a lot of low
temperature figures and patting all
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"I Know That I Love Her New."
stand here confessing my fault before
men, ready to do anything and every-
thing that a man can do to make
amends for the past."
"But you have a wife," said Whltta-
ker, coldly.
"No, she's dead these two years,
thank God. I never loved her. It
was a boyish infatuation for a de-
signing adventuress who wanted a
hold upon my father's money. I am
free, free to make her my wife. I ask
her, I beg her to take me. to give
me a chance to show that I feel what
I have done, to devote my life to ex-
piation."
He stopped, wiped the moisture
from his forehead, stood for a moment
in the silence that followed his words,
his face downcast. Then he lifted it
haggard, worn, sad. the humiliation of
the last few moments having entered
into his soul.
"Kate," he said, softly; "your an
swer!"
CHAPTER XVII.
The Woman's Pies.
"Miss Brenton," said Whlttaker,
with the deepest gravity he could in-
fuse in voice and manner, "you have
been a most unfortunate, a most un-
happy womaa. Allow me to assure
you of my slncerest commiseration,
my dcepeat respect, my most profound
admiration. Tou have suffered, hut
innocently. If I may speak the voice
of society. If I may stand for ths
world as yonr companion bas said, I
ean only szpress uiy reverence for you
and my homage to you In this way."
Mr stepped nearer to- her. he seised
hsr band. Hs wss an old-fashioned,
humble-minded, quixotic sort of a
sailor. If you will, for before amta
realised what hs was about, be bent
his bsad low over it and hissed It. Aad
the sailors behind him and the ma-
rines In rank broke Into a hearty
cheer.
"There, madam." said Whlttaker.
"you have ths approbation of society
for my act. As for you, sir," he
turned toward Langford. "I should bo
untrue to manhood If I did not say
what you yourself have said; that yoa
aeted not only like a brute and a
coward, but, sir, when I look at the
lady, I am constrained to add like a
fool."
Langford started forward, bnt the
lieutenant cheohsd him.
"Having said all that I must admit
that you have conducted yourself since
that time as a man of honor and as a
gentleman. I have no doubt that
your offer will he accepted; that the
world will forgive yon aa It will ad-
mire and respect you* wife."
"No!" cried the man of tho Island,
suddenly.
He had hept silence, nooived to
hear It alt out without latefrupttoa. He
had suffered as the mlserabls story
had been unfoldsd to such aa extent
that all lhat he hadgons through with
bsfore.aeomsd liks child's play He
hag heard Longford's noble confession,
Ms fffcaefous offer to repair his wrong,
but without the appreelatloa of It
whleh tho etiwumatanoee and lu Intrin-
sic tunllty might hnve evoked. He had
heard the woman's defense, her splen-
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ter repentance that had followed It
but without that appreciation of what
justification there was for her and the
value of her remorse which the ac-
count should have brought to him. He
had observed Whlttaker's prompt and
touching expression of confidence and
reverence, but without understanding
Its force and power. Indeed, he had
Instinctive shrewdness enough to
realize tbat even though the sailors,
touched by the act of gallantry and
moved with pity for the young woman
who stood there lovely In her sadness,
had cheered, yet the world would be
very slow to the same expression.
He saw that the woman was face
to face with a crisis; tbat she
would either have to accept or de-
cline Langford's offer to marry her at
once.
His heart was filled with bitter rage.
He knew that he loved the woman;
that he never would love any person
but the woman, but nevertheleee the
resentment against fate which had
placed him In so awful a position, of
whose malign purposes he had been
the blind. Ignoble victim, was so
great that for the time being his love
was In abeyance. He pitied himself,
he loathed Langford, he was contemp-
tuously indifferent to the world, and
for the moment he almost hated the
woman. The sub-consciousness that
he had that this was as ungrateful as
it was unwarranted added to his
wretchedness and misery.
"No," he cried, "before any answer
is made, let me speak!"
"Tour pardon," said Whlttaker.
"may I ask who you are?"
"81r," returned the man, "as to who
I am and what I am, I do not know,
nor does It greatly matter."
'Tour pardon again." retorted the
lieutenant commander, coolly, "but It
matters vsry much. Unless you have
some right to Interfere. I do not com
cede that any suggestion from you la
this erlsts which seems to conoern
these two people, this lady and this
gentleman, Is at all In order."
"But It dees concern me," returned
the man, Impatient of this ohscklng.
"for I lovs this woman myself, and she
has done me ths hoaor to say that she
lovsd me. I had Intended to mahs
her my wife should Providence ever
bring us to elvlllsntton again."
"Had Intended!" szelalmed the wom-
an, under her breath, but no one n
tlced her words. and the lieutenant
spoks again.
"That being tke cose, some in-
formation aa to who yen nee an* h_.
you eame here la the mere evidently
in order."
TO CONTINUED.
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Bartlesville State Bank
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
CAPITAL STOCK
$25,000
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Notice Calling for Oity Warrants.
Notice is hereby given that the
following numbered warrants, drawn
on the following funds, will be paid
if presented and registered, or if
registered heretofore, if presented to
the undersigned. Such warrant
numbers and funds upon which are
drawn being as follows:
Contingent Fund—Registered Nm.
371 to 430, inclusive.
Salary Fund—Registered Nos. 167
to 230, inclusive.
Street and Bridge ftaad—Register-
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The holders of all sash warrants
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City Treasurer.
TIME TABLE
BARTLESVILLE - INTERUR6AN
RAILWAY
DEWEY
First Oar Leaves at la.
Last Oar Leaves at .... 12:30 p. m.
BARTLESVILLE
Last Oar Leaves at 12 p. m.
first Oar Lsavss at Ill
Cars leave at 1I:S0 aad 1 o
for power heaae fair.
Cars leave starting points oa the
hour «nd half hoar, makiag a half
hour ssrviee from each piece
First car for Smoltsrtown lsavss
Santa Fe depot at 6 a. m., every half
hour until 12:30 a. m.
Leave Smeltertown 15 to and after
hour.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
Effective Sunday, September 20
M., K. and T. trains will arrive
at Bartleeville, Okla., as follows:
SOUTH BOUND. '
23. Stops 8:00 p. m.
25 10:48 a. m.
20 1:13 a. m.
433. Through Freight .. 8:30 a. m
529. Local Freight ....12:50 pi m
NORTH BOUND.
22. 12:23 h! m.
24. Stops S:35a. m.
20 4:52 p. m
434. Through Freight . .12:50 p. mi'
530. Local Freight ....10*8 a m.
Following change in Baste • W
train, elective Ssftsmhsr 28, 1909«
SOUTH BOUND.
203. Pssseager 0:30 a. *
221. Pssseager 5:15 p. m
263. Loeal Freight .... 1:30 p. m
NORTH BOUND.
204. Psseenger 10:05 p. m
122. Passenger 10:05 a. m.
164. Local Freight .... 12:40 p. m.
H. ?. WINN. Agent
MM I M
Condensed Report of the Condition of the
First National Bank of Bartlesville
November 16th, 1909
RESOURCES.
pass
LIABILITIES.
1 "
Loane and discounts
... .9324,240J9
Capital ;
. .8 50,00$00
Overdrafts
501.78
Surplus
.. 58,000.00
Real cetate, furniture and flxturee
.... 17,800.00
Undivided profits (net)
. 8,25394
United States bonds
.... 50,000.00
Cimilatiea W.IV„
.. 49,590.00
Five per cent fund
.... a.ooaoo
Deposits
...336,0*5.*?
Premium on bonds
.... 1,000.00
" .
Cash sad eight exchange
.... 104,096.53
• V
Total
....•188,789.30
Total «•••f#•••••<•• •<••«••• <
...9488,700.30
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