Fairview Republican. (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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BY W©MRT LOUIS STEVlLMtONT
INTEWMATIONAt MSimATION
"W*n. Ju»too,"thought he; "I’ll hav..
killed my father! And) this la Christ-
um as-day!”
If 'Mr. NKholaon died, lit was do nr.
this same road he must’journey tc th«
grave; and flown this; rofid, on the sam-
errand, his >w!fe ba!d preceded him
years before; and many.wjther leading
citizens, with the proper: trapping* and
attendance Of the end. VAnd, now, In
that frosty. 111-smelltng, straw-car-
peted, and ragged-cushloned cab, with
' his'breath eongeUltng antth* glasses,
where elae was Jdhn himself advancing
'IOT
The thought attired tali'Imagination.
Which began 'to maadtacture many
thousand pictures, bright -and fleeting.
:ltke 'the shapes In a kaletdosoape; and
now he saw htmseif, ruddy mid eom-
fortered, si Id tax !tn the gfettor; and.
;agdfu. a little, vrsoitasg—hated ur-
chin tricked north In crape and weep
ers, descending this same hill at the
rfeot’s-pace of i mourning coaches, hi*
mother’s body:Just preceding him; nnr
jyet again, hla fancy, i running far Ir
front, showed ihlm 'hla destination—
now standing solitary In the low sun
-Shine, with the -sparrows '-hopping or
(the?threshold asfithr'Aead.man wlthlr
staring at the rwof—and .now, with t
f«udden change, thronged about wttk
White-faced, hand-uplifting -neighbors
and doctor bunting through thel*
jaltdit and fixing Iblawtothoaoepo as h*
wont, the policeman shaking a saga
Clous haad beside 'the body. lit was tt.
this he feared that: ho was .driving; It
ftho: midst of this,he saw himself arrlr*
heard himself stammer ;'faint-*oxplana-
tlons, and felt the'badd df therconaU
Hl« upon hla shoulder. ' Heavens! hoa
tm -wished he hafl -played the mantle*
part; how he despised' himself that hi
haflifled that fatal meighborhood wbei
all .was quiet, and Should now bt
tamely traveling hack -when it wat
thronging with avangert!
Any .-strong degnModf. passion'tends
even to the dullest,-theftorcea of knag-
Inafton. And now Mltao dwelt onwhtt
wae probably awaltteg' hlm at the< sni
of his. distressful drive—'John, wbftjs-av
things 'little, remembered them tess
sad maiMd not have Aeserlbed them al
all, ibebeld In hla talnfl’s eye the gar
dm stfiths Lodge, de«*tt«d as In a m»P
ha nmt to and fro :in lit, feeding hit
terrors; -he spw the ttfllln, the snowj
borders, :tbe paths wheaehhethad souk*1
Alaa, the high, conventual walls, th*
shut door—what! was 'the.'door shut'
Ay, truly, he had shwt ilt-rshut In hit
money, ittle escape, his .future: life—»hul
It with rtbeee hands, and none couK
now open it! He heard -the snap of th»
eprlng-lodh like something bursting It
his brain, and sat as st-mmdS.
And then he woke again, terror Jar-
ring through his vitals. 'This was nc
tImetobelfite;he must be'up-and doing
ho must think. Once at tawend of this
ridiculous .cruise; once at tbe Lodgi
door, there .-should be nothing for 11
.'but to turn the cab and trundle back
ragaln. Why, then, go so far? why
radd another feature of swrpidtan to »
•case already ao suggestive? Why no)
forn at once? lit was easy to soy. turn
but whither? He had nowhere -now tc
go to; he couHtl never—he saw it it
letters of blood—he could never paj
that cab; he was saddled with that cat
forever. Oh, that cab! Ms sou.
yearned and banned, ancf his boweli
sounded to be rid of It. He forgot al
other caree. He saust first quit bimsel.
of this 111-smelling vehicle and of th<
humtsi beast that guided It—first dc
that; do that, at least; do that at ounce
And Just then the cab suddenlj
stopped,, and there was his persecute
rapping an the front glass. ' John W
it down, and beheld the port-wlni
countenance inflamed kith intellectual
triumph.
“I ken Wha ye are!” cried the huskj
voice. "I mind ye now. Ye’re a Nuch-
olson. I drove ye to Hermiston to s
Christmas party, and ye came back ot
the box, and I let ye drive.”
It is a fact John knew the man
they had been even friends. His en-
emy, he now remembered, was a fellow
of great good nature—endless good na-
ture—with a boy; why not with a man'
Why not appeal to his better side? He
grasped at the new hope.
“Great Scott! and so you did;” he
cried, as if In a transport of delight,
hfs voice sounding false In his own
ears. “Well, If that’s so, I’ve some
thing to say to you. I’ll just get out 1
guess. Where are we, anyway?”
The driver had fluttered hts ticket In
the eyes of the branch-toll keeper, nnd
they were now brought to on the high-
est and most solitary part of the by-
road. On the left, a row of fleldslde
trees beshaded It; on the right It was
bordered by naked fallows, undulating
down hill to the Queensferry road; In
front, Corstorphlne Hill raised its
anow-bedabled, darkling woods against
the sky. John looked all about him,
drinking the clear air like wine: then
bis eyes returned to the cabman’s faoc
as he sat, not ungleefully, awaiting
Jo’hn’a communication, with the air ol
one looking to be tippdHi
The features of that face were bard
t* read, ddcink bad --ao swollen them,
drink 'li*l to paintdd them In tint!
ttaat varldfl from brlbk red to mulberry.
The smdll gray eyes>bllnked, the Mpt
moved,’Wtlth greed; greed was the rul-
ing '.pasMon; and though there was
some goUd nature,-oome genuine kind-
liness, a'-true human touch. In the Old
toper,'Ms- greed was-new so set afire by
hope,'that -dll other'traits of character
lgy dormant. He - wat there a monu-
ment rdf /feluttonous-Meislre.
John's heart slowly fell. He had
opened Us lips, but he stood there and
uttered wrought. : He-sounded the well
And auddefily he was aware that ha
warn hungry; say, even through the tor-
tures of the scold, even through the
frosts of dwspalr, a gross, desperate
longing after food, no matter what, no
matter how, began to awake and
spur him. Suppose he pawned his
watch? But no, on Christmaa day—
this was Christmas day—the pawn-
shop wouffi be closed. Suppose he
went to the public house close by at
Blackball,-wind offered the watch, which
was wortfa ten pounds. In payment for
a meal of’bread and cheese? The lfl-
congrulty was remarkable; the good
folks wrfiKd either put ta'-n to the door,
or only let’ him In to send for the po-
lice. He : turned his pockets out one
after another; some San Francisco
tram-car checks, one cigar, no llghta,
the pass-key to his father’s house, a
pocket-handkerchief, with Just a touch
of-scent;''no, money could be raised on
none of these. There was nothing for
It‘but ■‘to starve; and after all, what
mstterdd' It? That also was a door eT
exit.
He' crept close among the bushes, the
wind playing round him like a lash;
his clothes seemed thin as paper, -hi*
Joint* burn* .. his skin curdled on .hie
bones. He had a vision of a .high-ly-
ing cattle-drive in California, and the
of his courage, . afidUM was dry. He , _ ^ 4
gwmeUfta'hts treasury'of words, and it a'dried stream with one mufidy
was vacant. A drWl-of dumbness had P*». *>y whleh the ▼■fiueroe had *en-
him 'by ’the throat;' the devil of terror aplendld sun over all, the big
bfibbWd tin his csss; and suddenly, bonfire blazing, the strips >of cow
wtthout 'a word uttered, with no con- bnowalng and smoking on a skewer of
setous purpose formed in his wilt, John how warm ,tw|w“- how “arory
whtppe'd 'hbout, i tumbled over the road- lhe -■’•team of scorching
aids well, and began, running for hi*
llfc memos the fallow*.
Belbfidu&ot.gone far, he was not past
the midst Of the fimt field, when his
wksOe hahln thus dared within him,
“Ftodl! >You:have pour wateh!” Th*
shack -stepped ihlm.jand he faced once
mare toward the cab. The driver was
leaatag'ixver.tfce wall., brandishing his
whip, hlefface oapugfiUd, roaring like
wofiU 'pseclfy the man's resentmeat
now; fee .would , cry tor. vengeance also.
John wultd be had under the ey« of
the pfiUae;)felB: taU would be unfolded.
Ms seoeet ififewnbed, ibis.i destiny would
close <on «l*natllaat..afid forever.
Ho uttered, a deep sigh; and Just as
tho csfeman.staking heart, of grace, was
higllag rlT.........the wall, hte
defaallfl— wtamer'fell-agaln to ru»-
mlng, aanfi 'disappeared lain the furthet
fields.
(CHAPTER ?«_
HERE he ran at
first, jjohn nevar
very clearly knew|
nor yet,bow long a
time elapsed ere ha
found himself la
the byrnoad near
the; lodge of Ravel-
^s,bo:n, propped
-against the wall,
his lungs -heaving
Hike bellows, his
legs leaden-feeawy, this mind psrssessed
-I by one eoU.-dedlre—rtollie down .and be
tanseen. He remembered the thick
verts round the qusrry-hole pai d, an
untrodden corner of the world where he
might surely find concealment till the
Might should fail. Thither he passed
down the lane; and when he .tame
there, behold! he had forgotten the
frost, and the pond was alive with
young people skaitlng, and the pand-
slde coverts wore thick with lookers-
on. Ho looked on awhile himself.
Thaw was one UlTI, graceful maiden,
skating hand In hand with a youth, «n
whom she bestowed her bright eyes
perhaps too patently; and it was
strange that with sages-.John beheld
her. He could have broken forth In
curses; ihe could have stood there, like
a mortified tramp, and shaken his fist
and vemted his* gall upon her by the
hour—or so he thought; and the next
moment Ibis heart bled for the girl.
“Poor creature, It’s little she knows!”
he sighed, “Let her enjoy hersell
while she can!” But was It possible,
when Flora used to smile at him on the
Braid ponds, she could have looked so
fulsome to a sick-hearted bystander?
The thought of one quarry, in his
frozen wits, suggested* another; and he
plodded off toward Craig Leith. A
wind had sprung up out of the north-
west; it was cruel keen, it dried him
like fire, and racked hie finger-joints. It
brought clouds, too; pale, swift, hurry-
ing clouds, that blotted heaven and
shed gloom upon the earth. He scram-
bled up among the hazeled rubbish
heaps that surrounded the cauldron o(
the quarry, and lay flat upon’the stones.
The wind aearched close along the
earth, the stones were cutting find
ley. tho bare hazels walled about him;
nnd soon the air of the afternoon began
to be vocal with those strange nnd dis-
mal harplngs that herald snow. Pain
nnd misery turned in John’s limbs to a
harrowing impatience and blind desire
of change; now he would roll In his
harsh lair, and when the flints abraded
him, was almost pleased; now he would
crawl to the edge of tho huge pit and
look dizzily down. He saw the spiral
of the descending roadway, the steep
crags, the clinging bushes, the pepper-
ing of snow-wreaths, and far down
the bottom, the diminished cran».
Here, no doubt, was a way to end U.
Rut (t somehow did not take hts fancy.
CALIFORNIA
AND THE:
NORTH PACIFIC COAST
Very Low Rates In Effect
Daily, March 1st to May 15th
L
MANY ROUTES FROM WHICH
TO MAKE YUR CH ICE
Fur luforiuiitionoa request
GEO. H. LEE, G. P. A. J. S. McNALLY, D. P. A.
Little Rock. Ark. Oklahoma Oitt, Okla.
meat? Ini
then agtfifi be remembered bts mndfold
calamities, and burrowed and wa’l-
loweaitn lhe sen** of hie disgrace and
shnme. AAnd next he wm entering
FruHtta ^restaurant In Montgomery
street, '■’Sen Francisco; he had arfiered
a pan-stew- and venlabn chop*, of -Which
he vwas> Immoderately fond, and am he
sat availing, Munroe, the good attend-
ant. ibnought him a whisky punfik; ha
saw tfae'-atMwberrle* float on the dfilee-
Pr* M. M. SMITH
Solicits Your Drug Trade
The best quality of pure drugs kept
on hand and prices always right.
Your patronage is appreciated. :
Dr. M. M. SMITH
Fail-view* Okla.
IMIWI
ihe stnaws. And then he nwoke again
to hie-detested fate, and found himself
sitting, dumped together. In a windy
rondhe of -quarry refuse—darkness
thick fibout.hlm, thin flake* of mow
flying %ere and there like rags off pa-
per, unfl the strong shuddering eff ihle
body dlelhtng hla teeth like a hlcoongh.
W,e her* .seen John In nothing .but
the nhaanl—t conditions; we have oem
him * reckless, desperats, tried beyond
his moOerate powsrs; of his daily etlU.
cheerful, iregular. not unthrifty, we
have .seen)nothing; and It may the* fee
a surprise to the reader, to learn Chat
he was.-etudlosisly careful of his health.
This favorite preoccupation now
awoke. Ilf he were to alt there and
lie of imllfi, there would be mighty lit-
tle gained; ’better the police cell and
the chanoes .of k Jury trial, than tfee
miserable certainty of death at a dike-
side before tbe most winter’s dawn, or
death * lltttle Hater In the gM-llghted
wards eft an Infirmary.
He rase -on aching legs, and stumbled
here and ttbese -among the rubbish
heaps, still circumvented by the yaws*-
tng cra,er of the quarry; or perhaps he
only thought sq, for the darkness was
already dense, the snow was growing
thicker, and he moved like a blind
man and with a .blind man’s terror.
At last he climbed a fence, thinking to
drop Into the road, nnd found himself
•taggerlng among tfee Iron furrows of
a plowland. endless. It seemed, as a
whole county. And next he was in
the wood, beating among young trees;
and then he wm aware of a bouse with
many lighted window*, Christmas car-
riages waiting at the door, and Christ-
mas drivers (for Christmas has a dou-
ble edge) becoming swiftly hooded with
enow. From this glimpse of human
cheerfulness, he fled like Cain; wan-
dered in the night, unpiloted, careless
•f whither he went; fell, and lay, and
then rose again, and wandered fur-
ther; and at lMt, like a transformation
acene, behold him In the lighted Jaws
of the city, staring at a lamp which had
already donned the tilted night-cap of
the snow. It came thickly now, a
‘‘Feeding Storm;” and while he yet
stood blinking at the lamp, his feet
were burled. He remembered some-
thing like It t* tbe past, a street-lamp
•rowned and oaked upon the windward
aide with eaow, the wind uttering its
mournful hoot, himself looking on, even
m now; but the cold had struck too
sharply on hie wits, and memory failed
him as to the date and sequel of the
reminiscence.
His next conscious moment was on
the Dean Bridge; but whether he was
John Nicholson of a bank In a Cali-
fornia street, or some former John, a
clerk In his father’s office, he had now
clean forgotten. Another blank, and
ho was thrusting his pass-key into tho
door-lock of his father’s house.
Hours must havq passed. Whether
crouched on the cold stones or wan-
dering in the fields among the snow,
was more than he could tell; but hours
had • passed. The finger of the hall
clock was close on twelve; a narrow
peep of gas In the hall-lamp shed shad-
ows; and the door of the back room—
his father’s room—was open and
emitted a warm light. At so late an
hour, all this was strange; the llghta
should have been out, jhe doors locked,
the good folk safe In bed. He marveled
at the Irregularity, leaning on the hall-
tuhlo- and marvoloA *r> bJi'isalf there.’
GENERAL FEED STORE.
Mill in connection. Chop all kinds
of feed at reasonable prices.
HAY, FLOUR AND FEED
For sale and delivered in all parts
of the city free of charge. Next
door north of the Enid Lumber
Company,
Faimev, Oklahoma.
and thawed mad gnw oat*' more hun-
gry, in the warmer air off th* house.
The clock uttered Its premonitory
catch; In five minutes ChrlstmM day
would be among the days of the past—
Christmas!—-what a Christmaa! Well,
there was no uee waiting; he had come
into that house, he source knew how;
If they were to thruet him forth again,
It had beet be done and at once; and
he moved to the door of the back room
and entered.
lT<> be continued.)
Adjourned Supremo Court
pn one occasion Wayne MaeVeagh
succeeded in adjourning the supreme
court before the usual hour. Mr. Mac-
,Veagh never remained in Washington
over night If he could help It, and on
this occasion he greatly desired to
take the 4' o'clocl* train for Philadel-
phia. Although talking to the court,
he kept his eye on the clock and at
3:45, giving himself just enough time
to reach the station, he ceased his
argument an<? said: “May It please
your honors, I move that the court do
now adjourn. I want to catch the 4
o’clock train for home.” The cool
audacity of the request seemed to
paralyze the justices, but the chief
justice made the customary order
without a protest and Ur. MaeVeagh
got his train.
Water!
Good, Clean, Fresh, Soft
WATER.
Delivered fresh to all parts of the
city every morning.
Barrel, half barrel or one-fourth
barrel lots if you want it. tjpit way.
W. N. VENABLE.
BO YEARS*
EXPERIENCE
The Casuistry of Sydney.
Sydney is a slx-ye^r-old of pene-
trating precocity. He always has not
been six years old, and previous to
that time hts mother took him along
with her on the street cars of their
city without paying any fare for him.
After he had become six It dkl not
occur to her especially that he was
so old. and she continued not to pay
his fare. One day ho went on the
cai'3 with an aunt who was visiting
his mother. She paid his faro.
“What did you do that for, auntlo?"
he Inquired anxiously. “Mamma
never does.”
“Never pays your fare?” exclaimed
the aunt. “What does she do?”
“Oh. she ju3t lets me pass for an
Infant.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
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Designs
Copyrights Ac.
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Patents taken through Munn A Co. receive-
special notice, without charge, in the
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New York, May 10.—Whitelaw
Reid was the guest of honor at a din-
ner given at the Lotus club Tuesday
night by his co-directors of the Asso-
ciated Pres3 in commemoration of hla
appointment as ambassador to th*
court of St. James.
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