Randlett Progressor (Randlett, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1917 Page: 6 of 8
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The DESTROYING
HOW THE STORY GOES
Hugh Whitaker le told after a dlagnoele by eminent surgeons that he cannot live longer than alx months
Hla aweetheart Jllta him The double blow etuna him Peter Stark hie friend propoaes a 8outh aea voyage
on 8tark’a yacht Whitaker consents but runa away to a country hotel with the Intention of committing
suicide He aurpriaea Mary Ladialaa daughter of a rich and hard New Yorker In the act of drinking polaon
and atopa her 8he haa been deaerted by the man with whom ahe had planned a clandeetlne marriage
Whitaker marrlea the girl to aave her good name glvea her money and Immediately pute her on a train for
home He turne— and walke Into Peter Stark’a arms "No more foolishness" aaye 8tark "You’ve got to go
aalllng with me" The alck man ahrugged wearily: "All right" he replies "Have your own way" What
happena next la told In thla Installment You’ll And It mighty Interesting
CHAPTER IV— Continued
Beyond drawing heavily on his bank
and sending Drummond a brief note
Whitaker failed to renew communica-
tion with his home He sank Into a
State of seml-apathetlc content The
Adventuress was five months out of
port before he began to be conscious
that he was truly accursed There
came a gradual thickening of the
shadows that threatened to eclipse his
existence And then one day as they
-dined with the lonely trader of an
Isolated station In the D’Entrecasteaux
Islands he fell from his chair as
poleaxed He regained consciousness
only to shiver with the chill of the
wind that’s fanned by the wings of
death It was impossible to move him
The agonies of the damned were his
when with exquisite gentleness they
lifted him to a bed
Stark sailed in the Adventuress be-
fore sundown of the same day purpos-
ing to fetch a surgeon from Port
Moresby Whitaker said a last farewell
to his friend knowing In his soul that
they would never meet again Then he
composed himself to die quietly But
the following morning brought a hap-
chance trading schooner to the Island
and with it in the estate of super-
cargo a crapulous Scotch gentleman
who bad been a famous specialist of
London before drink laid him by the
heels 'He performed a heroic oper-
ation upon Whitaker within an hour
announced by nightfall that the pa-
tient would recover and the next day
sailed with his ship to end his days in
some abandoned Australian boozlng-
ken — as Whitaker learned In Sydney
several months later
In the same place and at the same
time he received his first authentic
news of the fate of the Adventuress
The yacht had struck on an uncharted
reef In heavy weather and bad foun-
dered almost Immediately Of her
entire company a solitary sailor man-
aged to cling to a llfe-raft until picked
up a week after the wreck by a tramp
steamship on whose decks he gasped
gut his news and his life In the same
breaths
Whitaker hunted up an account of
the disaster In the files of a local news-
' paper He read that the owner Peter
Stark Esq and his guest H M Whit-
aker Esq both of New York had
gone down with the vessel There
was also a cable dispatch from New
York detailing Peter Stark’s social
and financial prominence— evidence
that the news had been cabled home
To all who knew him Whitaker was
as dead as Peter Stark
t
"There is a world outside the one you
know
To which for curiousness ’Ell cant
compare
it Is the place where wilful missings
o
As we can testify for we are there”
Kipling’s lines buzzed through bis
head more than once In the course of
the next few years for be was
"there” They were years of such
vagabondage as only the South Seas
countenance neither unhappy nor
very strenuous nor yet scarred by the
tooth of poverty Whitaker had be-
tween four and five thousand dollars
In traveller's checks which he convert-
ed Into cash while In Sydney Me-
mory of the wreck of the Adventuress
was already fading from the Australian
mind no one dreamed of challenging
the signature of a man seven months
dead And as certainly and as quietly
as the memory Whitaker faded away
Hugh Morten took hls place and Syd-
ney knew him no more nor Hid any
other parts wherein he had answered
to hla rightful name
The money stayed by him handsome-
ly 1 Thanks to a strong constitution In
a tough body (now that Its malignant
demon was exorcised) he found It easy
to pick up a living by one means or
another Indeed be played many parts
In as many fields before joining hands
with a "young Englishman he had
grown to like and entering upon what
seemed a forlorn bid for fortune
Thereufter he prospered amazingly
When nt length be did make up hls
mind to go home he was In Melbourne
with Lynch hls partner Whitaker
passed old friends In the street They
were Georgo Tresbury and hls wife—
Anne Forsythe that was— self-evident
tourists looking the town over between
By Louis Joseph Vance
steamers Presbury with no thought
In hls bumptious head of meeting
Hugh Whitaker before the day of Judg-
ment looked at and through him with-
out a hint of recognition but hls wife
was another person altogether Whit-
aker could not be blind to the surprise
and perlexlty that shone In her eyes
even though' he pretended to be blind
to her uncertain nod long after hls
back alone was visible to her he could
feel her Inquiring stare boring Into
it
The Incident made him think and
he remefnbered that he was now a
man of Independent fortune and of
Idle hands as well After prolonged
consideration he suddenly decided
told Lynch to look out for hls Inter-
ests and expect him back when he
should see him and booked for London
by a Royal Mall boat — all In half a
day From London Mr Hugh Morten
crossed Immediately to New York on
the Olympic landing In the month of
April — nearly six years to a day from
the time be had left hls native land
He put up at the Rltz-Carlton pre-
cisely as any foreigner might be ex-
pected to do and remained Hugh Mor-
ten while he prowled around the city
and found himself Now and again In
the course of hls wanderings he en-
countered well-remembered faces but
always without eliciting the slightest
gleam of recognition circumstances
that only went to prove how thor-
oughly dead and burled he was In the
estimation of hls day and generation
Nothing indeed seemed as he re-
membered It' But hls ultimate and ut-
ter awakening to the truth that bis
home had outgrown him fell upon the
fourth afternoon following hls return
when a total but most affable gentle-
man presented himself to Whitaker’s
consideration with a bogus name and
a genuine offer to purchase him a
drink and promptly attempted to en-
mesh him In a confidence game that
had degenerated Into a vaudeville joke
In the days when both of them had
worn knickerbockers - Whitaker pri-
vately admitted that be was out-
classed that It was time for him to
seek the protection of hls friends
He began with Drummond The lat-
ter of course bad moved hls offices
Whitaker found him Independently
tabllshed In an imposing suits In ths
Wool worth Building— found him an
ashenfaced man of thirty-five who
clutched the side of hls roll-top desk
as If to save himself from falling
"Whitaker t” be gasped "My God T
"Flattered" said Whitaker Tm
sure
He derived considerable mischievous
amusement from Drummond’S patent
stupefaction It was all so right and
proper— as It should have been He
considered hls a highly satisfactory
resurrection Seldom does a scene
pass off as one plans It but Drummond
played up hls part In a most public-
splrlted - fashion— gratifying to say
the least
It took him some minutes to recov-
er Whitaker standing by and beaming
He remarked changes changes as
striking as the Improvement In Drum-
mond’s fortunes Physically hls ex-
partner had gone off a bit the seden-
tary life led by the average successful
man of business In New ' York bad
marked hls person unmistakably Only
hls face seemed as It bad always been
—sharply handsome and strong Whit-
aker remembered that he bad always
somewhat meanly envied Drummond
hls good looks he himself had been
fashioned after the new order of archi-
tecture — with a steel frame
He discovered that they were both
talking at once— furiously — and not
without surprise that he had a great
deal more enlightenment to Impart to
Drummond than he had foreseen
"You've got an economical streak In
you when It comes to correspondence”
Drummond commented offering Whit-
aker a sheet of poper he had just
taken from a tin document-box That's
Exhibit A”
Whitaker read aloud:
Dear Dt I'm not feeling well so off
for a vacation Burke has just been In
and paid glMN) In settlement of our claim
I'm enclosing herewith my check for your
hare Yours
H M W
"Far be it from me to cast up" said
Drummond “but I'd like to know why
the deuce you couldn’t let a fellow
know how 111 you were”
ANGEL
“That’s so And you never heard — 7"
"Merely a rumor ran round More
than that nothing— until we heard that
the Adventuress bad been lost half a
year later”
“I’m sorry” said Whitaker contritely
“It was thoughtless ”
'But that isn’t all” Drummond -objected
flourishing another paper "See
here — Exhibit B— came In a day or so
later”
"Yes” - Whitaker recognized the
document "I remember insisting on
writing to you before we turned In
that night”
He ran through the following com-
munication :
Dear Drummond: I married hers to-
night Mary Ladialaa Please look out for
her while I’m away Maks her an allow-
ance out of my money— live hundred a
month ought to be enough I shall die
Intestate and she’ll get everything then
of course She has your address and will
communicate with you as soon as she
gets settled down In town Faithfully
Hugh Morten Whitaker
"If It hadn’t been so much In char-
acter" commented Drummond “Td’ve
thought the thing a forgery— or a poor
joke Knowing you as well as I did
however I Just sat back to wait
for word from Mrs Whitaker"
“And you never heard except that
once I” said Whitaker thoughtfully
“Here’s the sole and only evidence
I ever got to prove that you had told
the truth"
Drummond handed Whitaker a sin-
gle folded sheet of note-paper stamped
with the name of the Waldorf-Astoria
t
Dear Sir: - I Inclose herewith a bank-
note for 1600 which you will be kind
enough to credit to the estate of your
late partner and my late husband Mr
Hugh Morten Whitaker
Very truly yours
Mary Ladlslas Whitaker
"Dated you see the day after the
report of your death was published
here"
“But why?" demanded Whitaker
dumfounded "Why?"
"Mrs Whitaker may have desired to
marry again immediately' Ifrm any
judge of human nature she argued
that repayment of the loan wiped out
every obligation Feminine logic per-
ha pa but—"
Whitaker nodded In somber abstrac-
tion "You may not" continued Drum-
mond with light malice "have been
so generous so considerate and
chlvalrlc after all”
"Oh cut that!” growled Whitaker
unhappily "I never meant to come
back”
SEEK GOLD IN CEMETERY
Murderer Believed to Have Hidden
Large 8um In Burial Ground
at Pomona Cal
One morning recently there was
found a hole In tho ground under a
gigantic sycamore tree In the east end
of the Pomona (Cal) cemetery The
Incident reopens a mystery which
puzzled the people of this community
ten years ago and was never solved
The mystery seems deeper than ever
One morning about ten years ago
the cemetery caretaker discovered that
somebody had dug a hole' five feet
long and two feet deep under a huge
limb of the sycamore When the In-
cident was Investigated It was learned
that a man who bad Just finished
serving 80 years In the penitentiary
had been seen strolling through the
cemetery a few days earlier Hls His-
tory was traced and It was learned
that the ex-convict had served time
for killing an old miner from
whom It is alleged he bad stolen
150000 In gold
The Incident caused great excite-
ment During the next few weeks the
cemetery was honeycombed with holes
which were dug by treasure seekers
The Penalty
Little John Is a confirmed sleepy-
head One morning when be was more
than usually averse to getting up hls
mother reasoned with him by calling
hls attention to the flowers
"Why the little flowers have been
awake for hours” Bhe told him "and
here you are at eight o’clock still
In bed” 1
"Oh well” was the reply "look
what awful dirty beds they have and
how nice and clean mine Is I”
Then why did your
"Oh I don’t know Ohlefly
because I caught Anne Presbury’s
sharp eyes on me In Melbourne — as I
said a Mile ago At the worst— If
what you suggest has really happened
— It’s an open-and-shut case no one’s
going to blame the yeoman and It
ought to be easy enough to secure n
separation or divorce—” v
"You’d consent to that?” Inquired
Drummond Intently
"It’s the only decent thing I can
da”
Drummond laughed quietly "If
that’s how you feel” he said “I can
only give you one piece of professional
advice" -“What’s
thatr
"Find your wife”
After a moment of puzzled thought
Whitaker admitted ruefully: "You’re
right There’s the rub”
“I’m afraid you won’t find It an
easy job I did my best without uncov-
ering a trace of her”-
“Did you try old Thurlowr
“Her father died within eight weeks
from the time you ran away He left
everything to charity by the ' way
Unforgiving blighter”
“Well there’s her sister Mrs Pettit"
’’Address” observed Drummond
dryly: “the American Embassy Ber-
"Whltakerl” He Gasped "My Godl”
lln Pettit’s got some sort of a
minor diplomatic berth over there”
“O the devil 1 But anyway
I can write”
He moved to a window and stared
rudely at the Post Office Bqlldlng for
a time "Pm going to find her Just the
same— If she still lives” he announced
turning back
And when Whitaker does find
her what do you suppose hap-
ponoT— considering that ahe may
have remarried
(TO BB CONTINUED)
8hlngle Roof a Menaoe
The ordinary shingle roof la a tre-
mendous fire hazard which la not ful-
ly appreciated by most persons After
a shingle has been exposed to the
weather for a time It becomes so In-
flammable that It will burn as quick-
ly as paper and they are so light that
an ordinary wind will carry these burn-
ing brands from one building to u
other some distance away This was
clearly demonstrated at the conflagra-
tion which took place a short time ago
at Paris Ky Of the total number of
1440 buildings destroyed over 1000
had shingle roofs Perhaps no more
convincing example of the' danger lu
the use of untreated wooden shingles
In a closely built up community could
be found than that furnished by this
latest conflagration Practically the
only residence In the path of the flames
which was but little damaged was
roofed with Incombustible material? In
the reconstruction of the city the use
of wooden shingles without fire-retardant
treatment should be absolutely
prohibited
Neleon Not to Blame
Once an old lady was being shown
over Nelson's ship Victory As the
party approached the spot where Nel-
son met hls death the attendant point-
ed to the brass plate fixed In the deck
and said:
"That Is where Nelson fell”
The old lady was Impressed but not
In the right way
"No wonder I” she said "1 nearly
tripped over that thing myself”
Buslnese Is Buslnesa
Guest— "I must take the next train
It means money to met How soon
does It go?” Clerk (country Inn)—
“I’d lose my Job If I told you I It
means money to us to keep yoq here!”
15 CHILD CROSS
FOSSICK
Look Mother! If tongue it
coated give “California
Syrup of Figs” -
' Children love this "fruit laxative”
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach liver and bowels so nicely
A child simply will not stop playing:
to empty the bowels and the result Is
they become tightly clogged with
waste liver gets sluggish stomach
sours then your little one becomes
cross- half-sick feverish don’t eat
sleep or act naturally breath is bad
system full of cold? has sore throat
stomach-ache or diarrhea Listen
Mother 1 See If tongue is coated then
give a teaspoonful of "California
Syrup of Figs” and In a few hours alt
the' constipated waste sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the sys-
tem and you have a well child again
Millions of mothers give “California
Syrup of Figs” because It Is perfectly
harmless children love It and It nev-
er falls to act on the stomach liver
and bowels
Ask at' the store for a 50-cent bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs” which
has full directions for babies children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle Adv
Wolfe’s 8asK to a Museum
A new and valued addition has just
been made to the museum of the
Chateau de Ramezay It consists of a
cabinet containing a portion of the
garnet silk sash worn by Gen James
Wolfe on the day he became the "vic-
tor of Quebec” In 1759 In addition to
the sash are the original letters that
prove unmistakably the authenticity
of the relic— Montreal Star
THE BLUt THAT’8 TRUE
Red Cross Ball Blue gives to clothes
a clear dazzling white whiter than
snow not a greenish yellow tinge Ilka
cheap bottle blue Buy Red Cross Ball
Blue for next washday You will be
happily surprised Large package at
your grocers 6 cents— Adv
' A Bit of "Old” Canada
There exists at Unlonvllle Ontario
a pioneer house 124 years old This
Is probably a unique record for a Ca-
nadian log house and It Is said to be
the oldest log house of similar dimen-
sions In the Dominion Some of the
logs are from 80 to 86 Inches In diam-
eter It Is still occupied and It Is In-
teresting to note as a testimony to the
comfort of the house that its occu-
pants numbering IS took first prize
In 1912 at a political picnic as the
"heaviest family attending the event”
DON’T GAMBLE
that your heart's all right Make
sure Take “Renovlne” — a heart and
nerve tonic Price 60c and $100— Adv
Customer Had Change Coming
A man bearing a small basket of
potatoes on hls arm went Into a gro-
cery store to make a purchase He
could not produce enough change by fi
cents and handing the clerk a medium-sized
potato started out The
clerk called to him saying "You have
forgotten your change” and walking
back to a sack picked out two lima
beans and passed them to the custo-
mer — Cleveland Plain Dealer
CUTICURA HEALS ECZEMA
— i —
And Rashes That Itch and Burn— Trial1
Free to Anyone Anywhere
In the treatment of skin and scalp
troubles bathe freely with Cutlcura
Soap and hot water dry and apply
Cutlcura Ointment If there is n nat-
ural tendency to rashes pimples etc
prevent their recurrence by making
Cutlcura your dally toilet preparation
Free sample each by mall with Book
Address postcard Cutlcura Dept L
Boston Sold everywhere— Adv
0
Candles High In Paris
Candles have risen In price In
France since the adoption of numer-
ous measures respecting the consump-
tion of gas electricity and petroleum
for Illuminating purposes Retull gro-
cers throughout Paris generally now
charge seven to eight cents for tallow
candles that previously sold for three
or four cents each Small solid can-
dles five Inches long which formerly
retailed at two cents ench now cost
the consumer six or seven cents
The Principles of Big Business
First Surgeon— Do you think $1000
Is too much to charge for taking out
Bulger’s appendix?
Second Surgeon — No But why
don’t you wult? lie's making money
so fast that you can get $5000 out of
him in six months — Life
THIS 18 THE AGE OF YOUTH
You will look ten years yoifngev if you
darken your ugly griisly gray halre by
Being "La Creole” Hair Dressing — Adv
Many good-looking people are not as
good os they look
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