The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1910 Page: 3 of 10
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8YNOP8I8.
Archibald Terhune, a popular and In-
dolent young bachelor of I-ondon, re-
ceive* news that, he haa been made heir
to the eatate of hla Aunt Georgian*, with
an Income of 120,000 a year, on condition
that he become* engaged to bo married
within ten daya. Falling to do *o the
legacy will go to a third coualn In Amer-
ica. The atory opens at Caatle Wyckoff,
where Lord Vincent and hla wife, friends
of Terhune, are discussing plans to find
him a wife within the prescribed time. It
leema that Lady Vincent la one of seven
persona named Agatha, all close girlhood
chums. She decides to Invite two of them
to the caatle and have Archie there as
one of the guests. Agatha 8lxth strike*
Archie aa a handpalnted beauty. Agatha
prat Is a breezy American girl. Lady
Vincent tells her husband that Agatha
I'xth already cares for Archie. He gains
IVom Agatha Sixth the admission that
she cares for him. but will require a
month’* time fully to make up her mind.
Agatha First, neglected by Terhune, re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. Four
days of the precious time have passed
when Terhune Is called to London on
justness. Agatha First, on the plea of
Sickness, excuses herself from a motor
trip planned by the Vincents. Later they
see Agatha First picking flowers with a
strange man. The Vincents discuss
Agatha’s seeming duplicity. The follow-
ing day the party visits the ruins of an
old convent. Terhune continues his at-
tentions to Agatha Sixth, Then suddenly
he transfers his attentions to Agatha
First. Vincent scores him for his appar-
ent fickleness.
CHAPTER VIII.—Continued.
He glanced at me In a half embar-
rassed, half triumphant way, much as
he used to do in the first Castle
Wyckhoff house party days, when he
was about to tell me of his latest clue
In regard to the Identity of the real
Agatha.
"Well, to be quite frank with you,”
he said, “the truth of the matter Is
that Agatha First won’t let me alone!”
"Meaning,” I said, “that she’s In
love with you?”
“Well, of course,” he replied, re-
moving his eye-glass and polishing It
desperately as Is his custom when he
pretends to be embarrassed, “1
wouldn’t like to say that exactly. I
couldn’t say positively, that Is, but
to a man of my experience In such
matters and knowledge of the fair sex,
the Indications are—’’
“O rot!” I Interrupted, rudely, I
fear, but really the old boy la quite
too Insufferably conceited to encour-
age. It’s an old failing of his.
“What makes you think so?” I asked
after a moment’s consideration. A1
though I couldn’t quite believe that
Agatha FlrBt was actually In love
with him, still I wanted to hear his
reasons for the conclusion. I didn’t
want to believe It, that was certain.
I thought we had trouble enough on
our hands as It was, without having
1o reckon with a broken heart on the
part of Miss "ndlcott And as this
contingency assumed an air of prob-
ability to my mind, I Inwardly vowed
egaln never to undertake another
match-making project. Gad, no! Let
people marry themselves hereafter
without any Interference from me.
had had all I wanted of the thing this
We.
“What makes you think so?” I re
peated.
Arch shrugged his shoulders. “Can’t
help it. She’s after me the whole
time! T suppose she can’t help fancy-
ing a man of my—er—If I may so—
my attractions. I daresay I’m a revela-
tion to her in comparison with the
American college youths she has
probably been used to. Experience
and Intellect does count, you know,
Wilfred. Besides, the results show—’’
But I cut him short again.
“The results show,” I said sternly,
“that you’re Just enough of a chump
to heed her mania for amusing her-
self with you—for I can’t think she Is
in earnest.” I had to tell him that
for his own good, though I could have
wished I fek surer this was the fact.
“Her fondness for flirting with you
flatters you so much that you’d run the
risk of losing the girl you care for,
Just for the sake of having that
egregious vanity of yours pleasantly
tickled, as her apparent fancy for
your society undoubtedly tickles It!
Your old falling again! ’Pon my word,
old chap, I thought better of you!
Better of your prudence and foresight!
Why, I couldn’t have had less of an
eye out for my own Interests myself
In the days when you and I were con-
tending suitors for the hand of one of
the Agathas, and you insisted that it
should be the heiress and no other,
and bullied me so because I didn’t
take the same view! And the Lord
knows you made enough fuss about
that!”
But when I reported the result of
my remonstrance to Dearest, she said
I hadn’t been half severe enough with
him, and It was with difficulty that I
persuaded her that speaking to him
herself would only make matters
prorae and Terhune more obstinate.
CHAPTER IX.
It was the very last evening of the
time that had been alloted Terhune
In which to select a wife. The fol-
lowing day was to see Solicitor Ilarnea
at luncheon with us at one o'clock
precisely, Dearest having Invited him
in accordance wt'h Mrs. James’ re-
quest that ho should bo the referee
present at the house when the last
minute of Terhune'a ten days of grace
should expire, and his expected pres-
ence at the meal brought It home to
us what a decisive one It must of
necessity be. Decisive was Indeed the
right word to use In connection with
that meal! For If old Arch was still
free and unaffianced when he sat down
to it, he might as well never have
been nephew of his aunt as far as In-
heriting that aunt’s property was con-
cerned.
Dearest was Inclined, being optimis-
tic enough to hope for a consumma-
tion of his engngement to Agatha
Sixth before that time—to make of the
luncheon a sort of marriage-feast In
honor of that event, and was already
planning famous Ices and cakes of a
hymeneal nature. But Arch seemed
not to view the approach of the cru-
to consider, a favorable answer, from
Agatha Sixth on the morrow.
We had all gone to bed, and the
night was well advanced, when I was
awakened from the rlpplngest kind of
a sleep hy the loudest kind of rf bang
you ever heard In your life. It came
from the big drawing-room, which we
did not often use, directly below my
room, and woke me at once. It sound
ed for all the world as tf some one
or something had knocked over one
of the endless number of statuettes,
heavy vases or little tables that make
a regular auction shop of the place,
and I struggled Into my bath robe Id
a minute to go and see what It was.
Dearest’s room adjoined mine and 1
listened at the door to find out If she
had been awakened, and bearing noth
ing from her, went on my way down
stairs.
I didn't much believe It cowld be a
burglar; 1 had a hazy notion that It
might be one of the dogs who had
gotten In there somehow. There are
no end of the big brutes about the
place and sometimes one gets into the
house for the night In spite of Dear
est. So I wasn’t In the least alarmed
or apprehensive, and was Just about
to lay my hand on the drawing-room
folding doors, which were at the foot
of the stairs, when I heard the lightest
possible tread on the stairs behind
me and a soft hand clutched my arm.
It was Dearest, of course. “O Fred-
dy!” she gasped, “what Is It?”
“One of the dogs, I expect,” I told
her. “What made you come?”
“Why,” she said In an Indignant lit-
tle whisper, “I came after you, of
course! Do you think I’d let you go
all alone?’’
“Why not?” I whispered. “I’m a
V/e Turned to the Folding Doors Again.
cial day with such a light heart. His
thoughts at dinner that night were so
absent, In fact, as to force one to con-
clude that the spectre of his aunt’s
third cousin seated upon the veranda
of the house in Australia with pos-
sessive feet on the railing had be-
come his familiar spirit.
It was this apparent anxiety 61 his
and his feverish devotion to Agatha
Sixth that utterly unprepared me for
the unfortunate denouement later.
The evening had ended at last and
Dearest and I had succeeded in start-
ing a general move toward retiring
for the night. We had been playing
bridge—that is, the two Agathas had
with Terhune and the inevitable
Fr«er, while my wife and I stood by
and cut in now and then. We had ob-
served with pleasure that the party
of four had divided Itself exactly as
we would have arranged it ourselves;
Terhune and Agatha Sixth were part-
ners, as were Agatha First and Freer.
Better still, Agatha Sixth seemed quite
to have forgotten the unhappy epi-
sode of the waterfall, when Arch had
so obviously missed his cue, and was
openly basking in the return of her
admirer’s devotion. And Agatha First,
too, seemed quite contented, not a
whit disturbed by this attitude on my
friend’s part and mildly amused by
the attempted gallantries of the rec-
tor’s son from Wye. It was, In fact, a
thoroughly happy little foursome, and
as a spectator of its content I felt
particularly pleased when I thought
of what Arch had confided to me Just
before dinner. That he intended to
obtain a definite, and what he seemed
man. Besides, there’s nothing to be
afraid of!” ,
“O, but there Is!” she assured me,
“it’s burglars—I know it is! They’ve
come to steal the Wyckhoff emeralds,
I know they have!”
“Burglars nothing!” I answered.
“It’s one of the dogs, I say. Besides,
if it were a burglar that’s all the
more reason why you should go back!
“And leave you to be killed all
alone? Never!”
Sometimes, I admit it with a sort of
fond regret, my wife is unreasonable
“It wouldn’t help any If you were
killed, too!” I told her. “Besides,
you’ll catch cold. It’s chilly down
here, and I want you to go back.”
She caught the tone of authority In
my voice, a tone I seldom use toward
her, and fell to pleading with me.
“O Freddy, oan’t I stay?” she
begged. “It’s so exciting! See! I’ve
brought you a pistol and here’s an um-
brella for me!” She came close up to
me as she spoke and the gleam of
starlight from *he hall windows fell
upon her supplicating face and the
old blunderbuss she had taken down
from some wall and carried In her
right hand, and the other weapon of
defense she had mentioned in the
other.
I laughed, if one may be said to
laugh In a whisper, and hugged her
for her spirit, armament and all. Then
we turned to the folding doors again
Beneath them and through the crack
between a faint light showed.
“Making himself pretty much at
home for a burglar to light the lamp,”
I remember thinking. And I slowly
and cautiously widened the aforasaid
crack until a ipace of eoma two or
'hreo Inches wlda waa obtained, the
doors rolling back softly on each aide
without any noise at all. Then wo
looked In, my wife making It possible
for ue to do thia at one and the earn#
time by kneeling on the floor at my
aide, and thua obtaining a chink to
look through all to heraelf.
It waa lucky ahe waa ao near the
floor, I thought afterward, or aba
would certainly have fallen upon It
with surprise when ahe beheld the
thing our eyes naked of ua to believe.
For there at the far end of the draw-
ing room dimly distinguishable by the
light of & lamp on the table, turned
low, waa Agatha First We recog-
nized her even In that light without
fall, dressed as she had been that eve-
ning for dinner, and standing with
his back toward ua and his arm around
her waa a man In an attitude unmis-
takably lover-like and possessive. And
through the hush of that late hour
the low murmur of their absorbed
voices penetrated the Inmost recess of
our staggered consciousness. Agatha
First and a man meeting in secret at
that hour!
What could It mean? Who could It
be? The surprise of my discovery In
the woods'the day of our trip to North-
bury was as nothing to this! But
alas! We knew only too well this
time who the man was, and without
requiring any further proof such aa
we had had on the other occasion
when we had waited until the discov-
ery of the checked coat before we felt
sure. In this Instance we neither of
us doubted for a moment the Identity
of Miss Endlcott’s companion In her
equivocal position.
Freer had said good night and gone
on down to the village at ten o'clock
when the party had broken up. It
could not be he. Then It must of
necessity be Terhune. Indeed, what
other man would have the opportu-
nity for such a meeting? Who else
was staying at the castle?
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
LEWI8’ “SINGLE BINDER.*
A band-made cigar fresh from the
table, wrapped In foil, thus keeping
fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar
made of good tobacco la the ideal
i moke. The old, well cured tobaccos
used are so rich In quality that many
who formerly smoked 10c cigars now
smoke lewis' Single Hinder Straight
5c. Lewis Single Hinder costs the
dealer some more than other 5c cigars,
but the higher price enables this fac-
tory to use extra quality tobacco.
There are many imitations; don't be
fooled. There Is no substitute! Tell
the dealer you want a Lewia “Single
Binder.”
Where He Fell Down,
Mr. Crlmsonbeak—I see Budapest
has a school where the students are
taught the art of eating.
Mrs. Crlmsonbeak—You ought to ar-
range to go there, John.
“What for?”
“And take a course In spaghetti eat-
ing.”—Yonkers Statesman.
There are times when the still,
small voice of conscience seems
tongue-tied.
ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
GREYHOUND JOINS COYOTES
Pet of an Oregon Farmer Responds
to the Call of the
Wild.
A once tame greyhound, owned by
Martin Smith of Sandy, has become
wild and now lives with the coy-
otes it formerly chased In the sur-
rounding hills.
It has been three years since this
greyhound heard and responded to the
call of the wild, and it has never ven-
tured back to his old home In Candy
except to ccyme to the outskirts to
steal chickens from hen roosts.
The companion of this greyhound Is
a coyote and they have frequently
been seen together running through
the outskirts of Sandy. Several per-
sons have tried to get photographs
of the strange couple, but have failed.
The greyhound has lost all desire
to return to his former home and has
become even more wild than hls com-
panion. The animal has quite a his-
tory, having been raised from a puppy
It is perhaps better to build air
castlos than to have no ambition at all.
44 Bu. to the Acre
I* a heavy yield, but that’s what John Kennedy of
Kdmonton, Alberta, Wostern Canada, got from 40
acres of Spring Wheat in ifllO. Reports
from other districts in that prov-
ince showed othor excel-
lent results—such as 4,-
000 bushels of wheat
from 12(1 acres, or 881-8
bu. per acre. 26,80 and 40
bushel yields were num-
erous. As high as 182
bushels of oaTs to the
acre were threshed from
Alberta fields In 1010.
The Silver Gup
at the recent Spokane
Fair was awarded to the
Alberta Government for
Itsexhlbitof grains,grasses and
vegetables. Reports of excellent
yields for 1010 come also from
Saskatchewan and Manitoba In
Western Canada.
Free homesteads of 160
HHOB) nisi* nu,j«iiuiiig
emptlons of 160 acres (at
S3 per acre) are to be had
in the choicest districts.
hchools convenient, cli-
mate excellent, soil the
very best, railways close at
hand, building lumber
cheap, fnel easy to get and
reasonable In price, water
easily procured, mixed
farming a success.
Write as to best place for set-
tlement, settlers’ low railway
rates, descriptive Illustrated
‘‘Last Best West” (sent free on
application) and other Informa-
tion, to Sup’t of Immigration,
Ottawa, Can,,or to the Canadian
Government Agent.
J. S. CRAWFORD
No. 125 W. Ninth Strait, Kansas City, Mo.
(Use add'esi nearest you,) 88
Headache
“My father has been a sufferer from sick
headache for the last twenty-five years and
never found any relief until he began
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the headache. They have entirely cured
him. Cascarets do what you recommend
*rAl sasisrt gsss
flnnAnreH frnm h,a hnma on'1 c“”“ro, H20 Resiner St., W. Indianapolis, Ind.
appeared from his home and several
weeks afterward was seen with the
coyote which has been his constant
companion ever since.—Portland Ore-
gonian.
Art Leads Language and Science.
The fact is that art is working far
ahead of language as well as of sci-
ence, realizing for us, by all manner of
suggestions and exaggerations, effects
for which as yet we have no name;
nay, for which we may never perhaps
have a direct name, for the reason that
these effects do not enter very largely
into the necessities of life. Hence
alone Is that suspicion of vagueness
that often hangs about the purpose of
a romance; it is clear enough to us
in thought; but we are not used to con-
sider anything clear until we are able
to formulate it In words, and analytical
language has not been sufficiently
shaped to that end. ... It is not that
there is anything blurred or Indefinite
in the impression left with us, It is
Just because the Impression is so very
definite after its own kind, that we
find It hard to fit It exactly with the
expressions of our philosophical
speech.—Robert Louis Stevenson.
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10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold in bulk. The gen-
uine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money bade. 925
A Sparkling Novelist,
A New York editor, at the Century
club, told a story about Robert W.
Chambers, the well-known young nov-
elist
“Chambers went one summer," ha
said, “to Sunapee with hls brother. At
the Ben Mere Inn the arlstlcratic old
ladles in rocking chairs, seated on the
cool piazza that overlooks the lake,
were very much stirred up by Mr.
Chambers’ arrival. Whenever he ap-
peared they gathered about him and
talked books.
“Chambers was always ready for
them. He had always on hls lips some
w’itty 6aying to double them up.
“ ‘Oh, Mr. Chambers.’ cried an old
lady one day, ‘I admire “Lorraine” so
much! I’ve read It eight times!’
“ ‘Madam,’ answered Chambers, with
a bow, ‘I would rather hear you say
you’d bought eight copies.’ ”
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is a clay pipe. When you drop It you
never have to pick It up.—Figaro,
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