The Walters Journal. (Walters, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1912 Page: 3 of 4
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Vi
Hi Chalice
of Courage
A Romance of Colorado
CYRUS TOWNSEND
BRADY
(Ogjyilfht 1911 bpW O fl-r— )
I YNOP8IS
CHAPTER I— Edith Maitland a Mae
fN ltd una polled roun PhlladW4
flrL la taken to tha Colorado motntaote
ar her uncle Robert Maitland Janf
MtrOTdMaHMnd’a protete fallal
II— Hla Pereletent waehef
Virllla the lrl but aha healtatea an
Armatronjr (oea eaat on bualneaa Mr
a dednlte anawer
! CHAPTER HI— Enid haara tha atorp
anaineer Newbold wboM
iyi nil eft ft cliff and wu m Mrloninf
ihnrt that ha waa comptlUd to shoot lr
prevent her bains aatea bp woM
while ha want tor help -
! CHAPTER IV— KIrkby tea eld lutdd
who telle tha atorr atvaa Enid a paokava
of lattara which ha aaya were found
the dead woman’a body She reada tha
tettara and at Klrkby'a raquaat keepa
- CHAPTER —While Enid If batMaf
in the river In fancied solitude a bid
bear appeara on tha bank and la about
to plunfa Into tha watar to attaok tha
firl whan a ahot rlnaa out and tha eat
ualia klllad by a atranga men
CHAPTER VI— Enid le eauaht In
atom which wipes out her partra eanp
he la dasned upon the rocka and In
lured Tha atranya man who (hot tha
h h!fibr unconedoua and carried
CHAPTER IX— Enid reyalna conscious
neea In tha hut of the man who bad
rescued' her from the bear and ha
'e her foot which had been severely
Injured
CHAPTER X
On tha Two Side af tha Door
The cabin contained a larya and a
mall room In the waU batwaaa
them there waa a doorway doled by
an ordinary batten door with a wood
en latch and no lock Cloiad It served
to bide the occupant of- on room
from the view of tho other otherwise
It was but a feeblo protection Kvea
bad It poaaeaaed a lock a vtyoroua
man could have bunt it through la a
moment
These thought! did not coma vary
dearly to Enid Maitland Paw
thought! of any kind came to her
Where ahe lay aha could aae plainly
'tha dancing light of tha glorlou Ira
She waa warm the daftly wrapped
bandage the healing lotion upon her
foot had greatly relieved the pain In
that wounded member Tho bed waa
bard but comfortable much more eo
than tha aleeplng baga to which of
late ehe had been accustomed
- Few women had gone through rack
experience mental and physical aa
had befallen her within the laat few
houra and lived to tell the atory Had
It not been for the exbauatlve atralna
of body and aplrlt to which aha had
been aubjected her mental faculties
would have been on the alert and the
CLUB MEETING
There will be a meeting of the
Roosevelt for President Club on
:r - s
Friday night March 1st at 8 p m
' A J'
in the Court Room 1st door north
of Post Office
All members are urged to be
present and all other Republicans
who favor the nomination of The-
odore Roosevelt for President
e
Important business will come
up for consideration
Elliott P Hook Chairman
F C Maxwell Secretary
trangeh— i n ur osique position
would have made her so nervous that
lie could n'ot have slept
For the time being however the
phyalcal demanda upon her entity
were paramount ahe waa dry aha
waa warm aha waa fed she wae free
from anxiety and ahe waa absolutely
unutterably weary ' Her thoughts
Ware vague Inchoate unconcentrated
The Ire wavered before her eyes ahe
closed them In a few momenta and
did not open them
Without a thought without a care
ahe fell aaleep Her repoee waa com-
plete not a dream even disturbed the
profound slumber Into which she
sank Pretty picture aba made bar
baed thrown backward her golden
hair roughly dried and thickly plait-
ed la long braids one cl which fell
along the pillow while the other
curled lovingly around her Back Her
face In tha natural light would have
looked pallid from what she bad gone
through but the Ire cast rad glows
upon It the fitful - light flickered
across her countenance ? end some-
times deep shadows ‘unrelieved ao-
eentuated the paleness horn of her
offeries
There Is he light that plays so
many tricks with the Imagination or
that ao atlmulatea the-fancy aa tha
light of an open fire In ill auddfen
outburst it sometimes aeema to add
Ilf touches to tha aleeplng and tha
dead- Had there beak any eye to aeo
this girl aha would have made A de-
lightful picture In the warm glow
from the atone hearth- There were
ne eyes to look however save those
whloh belonged to tho man on the
other aide of the door
On tho hither aid of that door la
the room where the fire burned on tho
hearth there we net In tho heart of
the occupant on the farther aide
where the fire only hunted In the
heart there was tumult Not outward
and visible hut tawcrd and spiritual
and yat thera waa no lack of apparent
manifestation of -tho turmoil U tho
man’s soul
Albeit the room was smaller than
the other It was atfll of e good also
He walked nervOurty up end down
from one end to the ether aa cease-
lessly aa a wild animal Impatient of
captivity stalks the' narrow limits of
hla contracted cage! The even tenor
of hie life bed suddenly been diverted
The ordinary stquiiac of hla days
had horn abruptly changed The pit
vacy ef five years which he had hoped
end dreamed might exist aa long aa
ha had been rudely broken In upon
Humanity whloh he had avoided
from which ho had led which he had
eaat away forever- had found Mm
AbUt axe aa alt evaslt erupltl And la
hla doparturoe wore all In vain! The
world with all Its ymndeur end tta l
algntfieanee with all Ita powers and
Its weaknesses ugth all Its opportu-
nities end Ita obllgaUona with ell lta
Joys and Ita sorrows had knocked at
hla door and thai the knocking hand
was that of a woman but added ta
hie porpleatty and to hie dismay
Be had cherts hade dream that he
eoeld live to himself aloes with hut a
memory to hear Mm eompeay a
from that dream he had been thaw
dorooaly awakened Everything wee
shaaged What 'had once been easy
had new become Impossible Be
might send her away Put though ho
wore her te secrecy she would have
to tell her etory end something ef hlet
the world -would learn some of it and i
seek him out with Incatlable curios-
tty to know tha raat I
Eyes aa keen aa hla would present-
ly search and scrutinise the moun-
tains where he had roamed alone
They would aee what he had seen
find what he had found Mankind
gold-lusting would swarm and hive
upon the hills and fight and love and
breed end die Orest God!
He could of course move on but
Where ? And went he whithersoever
ho might he would now of necessity j
carry with him another memory J
which would not dwell within hla !
mind in harmony with the memory
which until that day had been para-
mount there alone
Slowly laboriously painfully ha
had built hla house upon the Band
and tha wind had blown and the
floods had coma not only In a literal
hut In spiritual significance end In !
one day that house had fallen He
stood amid the wrecked remains of It !
trying to recreate It to endow once
more with the fitted precision of the '
peat the shapeless broken unite of the !
fabric of hla fond imagination ' i
While he resented the fleroe sav-
age passionate intensity the Interrup- I
tion of this woman Into hie life '
While he throbbed with equal Inten-
sity and almost aa much passion at
the thought of her
Have you ever climbed £ mountain
early In the morning while It waa yet
dark and having gained some doml-1
nant crest stood staring at the far
horison the empurpled east while the
"dawn came up like thunder?” Or
better still have you ever stood with-
in the cold dark recesses of some
deep valley of river ' or pass and
watched the clear light spread ita
bars athwart the heavens like nebu-
lous mighty plnlona along xthe light
touched creat of a towering range un-
til all of a sudden with a leap almost
of Joy the great sun biased In the
high horlxon?
Ton might he horn a child of the
dark and light might sear and burn
jrour eye halls accustomed to cooler
deeper shades yet you could no more
turn away from thla glory though you
might hate It than by mere effort of
will you could cease to breathe the
air The ehock that you might feel
the audden surprise la only faintly sug-
gestive of the emotions In the breaat
of this man
Once long ago the gentlest and ten-
derest of voice called from the dark
to the light the blind And it is given
to modern science and to modern skill
sometimes to emulate that godlike
achievement Perhapa the surprise
the amazement the bewilderment of
him who having been blind doth now
aee It we can imagine It not having
been In the caie ourselves will be a bet-
ter guide to the understanding of this
man’s emotion when this woman came
suddenly Into hla lonely orbit
eyea war
not know it He fought down hla new
consciousness and would have none ol
It Tet It waa there He loved her!
With what joy did Selkirk welcome
the savage sharer of hie solitude! Sup
pose the had been a woman of hla own
race had aha been old withered hid-
eous he must have loved her on tha
Instant much more If ahe were young
and beautiful The thing waa inev-
itable Such pasalone are born God j
forbid that we should deny it In the ‘
busy haunts of men where women are
aa plenty ee blackberries to useFal-
staff’s simile and where a man may
sometimes choose between a hundred '
or a thousand such loves are born for-
aver i j
A voice In the night a face in the ‘
street e whlapered word the touch
of a hand the answering throb of an-1
other heart— and behold I two walk to- ’
gather where before each walked
alone Sometimes the man or the worn-
aa who la born again of love knows It
not refuses to admit It refuses to
recognise It Some birth pain must
awaken the consciousness of tho new
life I
If those things are true and possi-
ble under every day conditions and
to ordinary men and women how
much more to this solitary He had
seen this woman white breasted like
the foam rising aa the ancient god-!
dress from the Paphlan sea Over that
recollection as he was a gentleman
and e Christian he would fain draw a
curtain before it erect a wall He
must ' not dwell upon that fact ht
would not linger over that moment
Tet he could not forget it
Then he had seen her lying prone
yet unconsciously graceful In her aban-
donment on the award he had caught
a glimpse of her white face desperate-
ly uptoiaed by the rolling water he
had looked Into the unfathomable
depth of her eyes at that moment
hen aha had awakened In his arms
after such a struggle as had taxed his
manhood and almost broken hla heart
he had carried her unconsciously
ghastly white with her pain-drawn
face stumbling desperately over the
rocka In the beating rain to this his
home There he had held that poor
bruised slender little foot In his hand
gently skilfully treating It when be
longed to press his lips passionately
upon It Last of all he had looked
Into her face warmed with the red
light of the fire searched her weary
eyea almost like blue pools In whoa
depths there yet lurked life and light
while her golden hair tinged crlm-
aon iy the blase lay on the white pil-
low— and he laved her God pity him
fightleg against fact and admission of
It yat how ceilfl he help It?
He had lovtd aaee before In hla Ufa
with the fire of youth end spring but
It wee not like thla H did not reo-
ognlae thla new passion In any light
from tha past therefor he would not
admit It Hence he did not under-
stand It But ba saw and admitted
and understood enough to know that
the peat was no longer the supreme
eubjeot la hla Ilf that the present
producing an illusion? Was there In
truth any woman there? He would
raise the latch and open the door ahd
look Once more the hand went stealth-
ily to the latch
The woman slept quietly on No thin
barricade easily unlocked or eaBtly
broken protected her Something in-
tangible yet stronger than the thick-
est the most rigid bars of ateel guard-
ed her eomethtng unseen indescrib-
able but so unmistakable when It
throbs In the breast of those who de-
pend on it feel that their dependence
Is not in vain watched over her
Cherishing no evil thought the man
had power to gratify hie desire which
might yet bear a sinister construction
hould It be observed It was her pri-
vacy he wae Invading She had trustr
ed to him she had said eo to his hon-
or and that stood her In good stead
His honor! Not In five years had he
heard the word or thought the thing
but he had not forgotten It' She had
not appealed to an unreal thing upon
that her trust was baaed His hand
left the latch It fell gently be drew
back and turned away trembling a
conoueror who mastered himself He
wasb&wake to the truth again
What had he been about to do? Pro-
fane uninvited the sanctity of her
chamber violate the hospitality of his
own house? Even with a proper mo-
tive imperil Ms self-respect shatter
ito" hla lonely orbit Hla her trust endanger that honor which
opened although he frourd" k eo1 suddenly 'became a part of him ion
demand? She would not probably
know she could never know unless
she awoke What of that? That an-
cient honor of his life and race rose
Uke a mountain whose scarped faoe
cannot he scaled'
I He fell hack with a swift turn a
feeling almost womanly and more
men perhaps if they lived In fern-
lnlne Isolation as self-centered aa
j women are so often by necessity
- would he as feminine as their sisters —
Influenced him overcame him His
i hand went to his hunting shirt Nerv-
higher hulked larger end hid
and more of hla far-off horizon
He felt like a knave end a traitor
M If he had been base disloyal false
to hla ideal recreant to hla remem-
brance Was he indeed a true manT
Did he have that rugged strength that
abiding faith that eternal conscious-
ness that lasting affection beside
which the rocky paths he often trod
were thlnge transient perishable ev-
anescent? Was he a weakling that he
fell at the first sight of another
°an?
stopped his ceaseless pace fo
?ard ani backward and stopped hear
that frail and futile door-- She was
there and there waa none to prevent
Hla hand sought the latch
What was he about to doT God for-
bid that a thought he could not freely
hare with humanity should enter hla
brain then He held all women sacred
he had ever done and this
woman In her loneliness in her help-
leesneea in her weakness trebly ap-
pealed to him But he would look
upon her he would fain aee if she
were there If It were ell not e dream
the creation of hla disordered Imagin-
ation Men had gone mad In hermitages In
the mountains they had been driven
Insane In lonely oases In vast des-
erts and they had peopled their soli-
tude with men and women Was this
some working of a disordered brain too
too much turned upon Itself and with
too tremendous a pressure upon ft
' He Stared From One to the Other
ously ho tore It open be grasped
bright object that hung against hla
breaat As he did so the thought came
to him that not before In five years
had be been for e moment uncon-
scious of the pressure of that locket
over hla heart but now that thla oth-
er had come he had te seek for It te
find It
The man dragged It out held it In
hla hand and opened It He held It ao
tightly that It almost gave beneath
the strong grasp of hla strong hand
From a nearby box he drew another
object with hla other hand He took
the two to the light the soft light of
the candle upon the table and stared
from one to the other with eyes brim-
ming Like crystal gasera he aaw other
thlnga than those presented to the
casual vision He heard other aounda
than the beat of the rain upon the
roof the roar of the wind down the
canon A vole that he had aworn
he would never forget but which God
forgive him had not aew the clearness
that It might have had yesterday
whlapered awful words to him
Anon be looked Into another face
rod too with no hue from the hearth
or leaping flame but red with the
blood of ghastly wounds He heard
again that report tho roar louder and
more terrible than any peal of thun-
der that rived the clouds above hie
heed and feade the mountains quake
and tremble He wee eonaoious agatt
of the awful stillness of death that aw
pervaded He dropped on hla knees
buried hla face In Ma hands where
they rested on picture and locket on
the rude table
Ah the paat died hard for a mo-
ment he waa the lover of old— remorse
passionate expiation solitude— he and
the dead together— the world and the
living forgot! He would not he
false he would he true there waa no
power in any feeble woman’s tender
hand to drive him off his course to
hake hla purpose to make Mm a new
another ' Aanj "Oh Vanltas Van-
Itatum! On the other side of the door 'the
unconscious woman alept quietly on
The red firelight died away the glow-
ing coale sank into gray aah Within
the other room the cold dawn stealing
through tha unshaded window looked
upon a field of battle— death: wounds
triumphs defeat— portrayed upon one
poor human face upturned as some-
time victors and vanquished alike up-
turn stark faces from the field to the
God above who may pity but who haa
not Intervened
So Jacob may have looked after
that awful night when he wrestled un-
til the day broke with the angel and
would not let him go until be blessed
him walking forever After with haltr
Ing step ee memorial but with hla
blessing earned Hath thle man’ bless-
ing won or not? And must he pay
for It If he hath aohleved it?
And all the while the woman alept
quietly upon the other side of that
door "
(To be continued )
Poet meets Poet
A North Missouri farmer whose
hog was killed by a train wrote to
the company’s claim agent for a
settlement says a writer in the
Columbia Statesman Ho pinned
his communication thus: ‘Dear
Sir My razorback strolled down
your track a week ago today Your
twenty-nine came down the line
and 6nuffed his life away You
can’t blame me the hog you see
slipped through a cattle gate so
kindly pen a check ' for ten the
debt to liquidate”
He received the following reply
“Old twenty-nine came down the
line and killed your hog we know
but razorbacks on railroad tracks
quite often meet with woe There-
fore my friend - we cannot send
the check for which you pine Just
plant the dead place o'er his head
‘Here lies -a foolish swine”’—
Kansas City Times
' Good farm for rent close to
town See J A Wollam
Irbey Smith of Ahpeatone was
in Walter last Tuesday on busi-
ness Embroidery 3 in wide for 5c per
yard F D Davis
Mrs A C Lines who has been
here on a visit went to Marlow
last Thursday
Torchan iaces good edge at lc
per yd -Ever thing else in propo-
ticn F D Davia
W A Houck of Junction City
returned the first of the week after
spending a few days here visiting
his brother G L
If you want a farm loan without
waiting all summer to get your
money see Geo W Graham at the
First National Bank
Found — A bunch of keys Owner
may have same by caking at this
office and paying for this notice
W H Dyer and Allie Musgrove
went to Lawton Monday afternoon
where they unloaded the three
Ford automor iles that were ship-
ped there from Oklahoma City for
G W Graham B S Coleman and
J Jerome of Randlett
If you want to secure a farm
loan without waiting all summer
for yoUr money see Geo W Gra-
ham at the First National Bank
Car of OkUhomo grown Seed
Oats and Corn very best selected
seed stock foJ delivery Feb 10th
—Oliver & Son
A W Maxwell of Lawton was
down last Friday and Saturday and
spent some time taking subscrip-
tions foi the News and Star and
visiting the Journal editor and fam-
ily The Ngws and Star is a first
class paper ard its subscription
list is growing rapidly-
Friday night at the opera house
the Walters boys will meet the
Temple boyl in a gams of Basket
Ball It wilt be a fight from start
to finish School children 10 cants
adults 15 cents
Rooaevlt Men Are Dominant
Muskogee Okla Feb 24 — By
a vote of 88 to 47 the Roosevelt
forces secured control of the Re-
publican county convention here
Saturday afternoon in electing
Judge W G Robertson for tem-
porary cha rman and thereafter
th meeting was absolutely in the
control of the Roosevelt men who
put through a program which was
not altered in any respect by reas-
on of protests on the part of the
Taft forces
Ninety delegatee will go to the
congressional convention to be
held in Tulsa March 24 instru-
cted to work for the indorsement
of Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidential nomination and Geo-
rge C Presthy for national
committeeman
Attempts to substitute the
names of William H Taft and Jim
Harris for those of Roosevelt and
Priestley were voted down by a
vote of 95 to 47
Negro delegates made one or two
attempts to secure a better repre-
sentation in the convention but
these attempts failed Their com-
plaint was that the call -stipulated
that the basis of representation
should be one vote for every fifteen
cast in the election for secretary
of state in 1 9 1 0 The “grandfath-
er clause” prevented many negroes
from voting and it was claimed that
under the terms of the call the
negroes had only one delegate for
every hundred voters
The eighteen delegates to the
state convention are also instruct-
ed for the renomination of Roose-
velt Former territorial Governor
Frans Frantz waa present as a del-
egate and was called to the plat-
form for a speech by the conven-
tion Jim Harris was also present and
by vote of the delegates occupied
a seat on the platform The re-
sult did not surprise Harris as he
had anticipated a close battle and
even looked forward to a defeat of
his cause in Muskogee county
BUS RIDES 15 CTS
The Walters Bus and Baggage
management in talking with tha
customers of Walters hear them
say that times are so close that
they cant pay 25 cents for riding
Now to show you that my heart ie
on the left side and that I want to
do what is right so the rate will
be anywhere in the city limits 15
cents or the round trip 25 cents
Trunks 25 cents as usual Where
ieyuur heart? Always phone 17
at barn at least thirty minutes be-
fore train time Morning train
comes at 7:25 noon train 12:17
evening tiains 2:30 and 6:52
I am making a new effort to ac-
commodate the public-
Qeo TJones Prop
For Sale or Trede
Will trade two story brick build-
ing in town of Walters Okla rent-
ing for $4500 per month for farm
— Address T F H this office
To Ice Customers
Wa desire to announce to' the
public that we have located in
Walter and during the coming sum-
mer will handle ice manufactured
in Anadarko We will at all times
endeavor to give the public prompt
service honest weights reasonable
prices and courteous treatment
We are here to make our home
and become your neighbors and
respectfully solicit a share of your
ice business
Yours truly
BENTZ a RENNER
FOI QALK
Good work mules and mares at
Dr Greens Stables Walters
Mr Zeller of Adelaide was in
Walters last Friday
John Williams of Dallas was
here the first of the week visiting
his brother Mort who lives north
east of town
This is your chance Just re-
clived a big shipment of Laces and
Embroideries at F D Dav is
Don’t forget to go out and vote
on Saturday afternoon
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