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T H E G I R L A T T H E H A L F W A Y H O U S E A S T O R Y o r T H E P L A 1 N S B Y E . H O U G H . A U T H O H O F TH B S T O R Y O P T H E C O W B O Y C o t r r i f k t t d . I i 0 » . i 9 J D . A t i l * t o n & • C t m t * * y , N t * » Y * r k CHAPTER XVIII. .* ' V\l:; M '• The Way of a Maid. v The Halfway House was an oasis in the desert. To-day It was an oasis ! and a battle ground. Franklin watched Mary Ellen as she passed quietly about the long, low room, engaged in household duties wtiich she performed deftly as any servant He compared these rude necessities with the asso­ ciations amid which he knew this girl 'liad been nurtured, and the thought gave htm nothing but dissatisfaction And rebellion. Presently he rose, and " excusing himself, went out to join Buford at the corral. "Come," said the latter, "and IH •hoW you around over our lmprove- jpents while we are waitln' for a bite to eat ' If ever this land comes to be irortli anything at all, we ought to £row into something worth while." "Yes," said Franklin, "it will make jfou rich," and as they walked about vie pointed out with Western enthusi­ asm the merits of the country. The "bite to eat" was In time duly announced by a loud, sonorous note that arose swelling upon the air. Aunt iiucy appeared at the kitchen door, Iter fat cheeks distended, blowing a conch as though this were Tidewater Over again. The long table was spread in the large room of general assembly, this toom being, as has been mentioned, excavated from the earth, so that, as . they sat at table, their heads were perhaps nearly level with the surface «f the ground. The short side walls, • topped with a heavy earthen roof, taade of this sort of abode a domicile ^tade and clumsy enough, but one not jacking In a certain comfort In the Winter it was naturally warm, and in the summer it was cool, the air, •aught at either end by the gable of the room, passing through and afford­ ing freshness to the somewhat cellar­ like interior. Cut off from the main toom were three smaller rooms, in­ cluding the kitchen, from which Aunt Lucy passed back and forth with mas­ sive tread. The table was no polished •a&hog&ny, but was built of rough pine buggy for the return home her face had lost its pink. One of the mys­ terious revulsions of femininity had set In. Suddenly, It seemed to her, she had caught herself upon the brink of disaster. This tall and manly man, she must not yield to this impulse to listen to him! She must not suc­ cumb to this wild temptation to put her head upon a broad shoulder and to let it lie there while she wept and rested. To her the temptation meant t> personal shame. She resisted it with all her strength. The struggle l3ft her pale and very calm. At last the way of duty was clear. This day should settle it once foik all. There must be no renewal of thl\ man's suit. He must go. It was Mary Ellen's w\sh to be driven quickly to the houset-&ut Bhe reckoned without the man sudden crunching of the wheels the buggy turned and spun swiftly on, headed directly away from home. "I'll just take you a turn around the hill," said Franklin, "and then we'll go in." "It isnt the way home," said Mary Ellen. "I cant help it," said Franklin. "You are my prisoner. I am going to take you--to the end of the world." "It's very noble of you to take me this way!" said the girl with scorn. "What will my people think?" "L«et them think!" exclaimed Frank­ lin desperately. "It's my only chance. I can't do without you! It's right for us both. You deserve a better life than this. You. a Beauchamp, of the old Virginia Beaucbamps--good Qod! It breaks my heart!" "You have answered yourself, sir," said Mary Ellen, her voice not steady as she wished. "I live out here on the prairies, far from home, but I am a Beauchamp from old Virginia." "And then?" "And the Beauchamps kept their promises, women and men---they al­ ways kept them. They always will." "I know," said Franklin gently. "I would rely on your word forever. I would risk my life and my honor in your hands. I would believe in you all my life. Cant you do as much for Ls-W'- Br 1 As though" this were Tidewater again. s, and along it stood long benches instead of chairs. ' "You will oblige me, captain," said • Buford as they rose from the table, "if :< , fou will be so good as to drive Miss ^ Beauchamp over to the claim shanty ",,'j.^after a while." Jf*v Franklin assented to this propoei- ' Won with such eagerness that he f^ flushed as he saw how evident had 1 ,",:ieen his pleasure at this opportunity .S'V' ia*" a moment's speech alone with the vgirl who sat so near but yet so unap- . V proachable. "I'll be delighted," said Mary Ellen said.nothing. The pink !; ' ^sipot In her cheek was plainly deeper, •'ft did not lessen as she stood watch- the struggle the two men had in ~4|gain hitching to the buggy the wild ir jUaek horse. Seiging the tug with * :4ine hand and the singletree with the #ther, Franklin fairly swept the ob- %•, Curate beast off its balance as he , " forced it to its place at the .pole. His <»'. "„js#trength was apparent IS/W "Ar® you afraid to ride Uehind^th^t v.' f jKHve!" asked he. ^ 5' "I don't think so," she replied aim- '#ly, and her uncle helped her In, while % franklin steadied the team. Yet how ' ^Franklin hated the wild black horse now! All the way across the prairie r /during the short drive to the shanty ;y.. (he beast gave him plenty to do to V -keep it inside the harness, and he " vtaa no time tor a single word. The |fir! sat silent at his side, looking . J - atraight ahead. At the shanty he V helped her down. Ignorant, he saw ' V ' .pot the tale of a bosom heaving, nor rtead correctly the s'ory of the pink "'In the cheek. He believed rather the > $nport of a face turned away, and of ' features set In a mask of repose. Jrhere had aa yet been no word. }f* * The claim shanty was Indeed In vt. ' fome need of repair. One corner of ^ ' roof had fallen in, carrying with It jl portion of the sod wall that made (he luclosure, and spilling a quantity •Af earth in the bed customarily occu- w. pied by Aunt Lucy when she "resided" "tiero in company with her mistress In f their innocent process of acquiring one hundred and sixty acres of land £*," Apiece by means of a double dwelling I y ̂ In order to make the needed repairs pv '-y t [ \ p - t o the roof, it was necessary to lay tip again a part of the broken wall, »;v c "fhen to hoist the fallen rafters into ' place prior to covering the whole ,^igain with a deep layer of earth. i'Yanldin, standing upon a chair, put it* ,tiis shoulders under the sagging beams r ?iuid lifted them and their load of dis- 1^./^arranged earth up to the proper level .> ^n the top of the wall, while Buford /built under them with sods. It was ^ < »o small weight that he upheld. As 1he stood he caught an upturned tell- ;. <tltale glance, a look of sheer feminine riad miration for strength, but of this ?"' jhe could not be sure, for it passed j: Jfleotlv as it came. He saw only the If•-«ook of unconcern and heard only the •. Conventional word of thanks. As Mary Ellen stepped Into tbs me? There is no stain on my name. I will love you till the end of the world. Child--you don't know " "Ah, you have your answer! Now, listen to me, Mr. Franklin. I shall keep my promise as a Beauchamp should--as a Beauchamp shall. I have told you long ago what that promise was. I promised to love, to marry him--Mr. Henry Fairfax--years ago. I promised never to love any one else so long as I lived. He--he's keeping his promise now--back there--in old Virginia, now. How would I be keep­ ing mine--how am I keeping mine, now, even listening to you so long? Take me bAck; take me home. I'm going to--going to keep my promise, sir! I'm going to keep it!" Franklin sat cold and dumb at this, all the world seeming to him to have gone quite blank. He could not at first grasp this sentence in its full effect it meant so much to him. Yet, after his fashion, he fought mute, struggling for some time before be dared trust his voice or his emotions. "Very well," he said. "I'll not crawl --not for any woman on earth! It's over. I'm sorry. Dear little woman, l wanted to be your friend. I wanted to take care of you, 1 wanted to love you and to see if I couldn't make a future for us both." "My future is done. Leave me. Find some one else to love." "You were the only one," iaid Franklin slowly, "and you always will be the only one. Good-bye." It seemed to him he heard a breath, a whisper, a soft word that said "good­ bye." It had a tenderness that set a lump in his throat, but it was fol­ lowed almost at once with a calmcr commonplace. "We must go back," said Mary Ellen. "It is growing dark." Franklin wheeled the team sharply about toward the house, which was Indeed becoming indistinct in the fall­ ing twilight As the vehicle turned about, the crunching of the wheels started a great gray prairie owl, which rose almost beneath the horses' noses and flapped slowly off. The appari­ tion set the wild black horse into a sudden simulation of terror, as though he had never before seen an owl upon the prairies. Rearing and plunging, he tore loose the hook of one of the singletrees, and in a flash stood half free, at right angles now to the ve­ hicle Instead of at its front, and strug­ gling to break loose from the neck- yoke. In a flash Franklin saw that he was confronted with an ugly acci­ dent He chose the only possible course, but handled the situation in the best possible way. With a sharp cut of the whip he drove the attached horse down upon the one that was half free, and started the two off at a wild race down the steep coulee, into what sedmed sheer blackness and immediate disaster. In some way, stumbling and bounding and lurching, both horses and vehicle kept upright all the way down the steep descent, a thing which to Franklin later saemsd fairly miraculous. At the very foot of the pitch the black horse fell, the buggy running full over him as he lay lashing out From this oonfuslon, in some way never quite plain to him­ self, Franklin caught the girl out In his arms, and the next moment was at the head of the struggling horses. And so good had been his training at such matters that it was not with­ out method that he proceeded to quiet the team and to set again in partial order the wreck that had been cre­ ated In the gear. In time he h*d the team again In harness, and at the bottom of the coulee, where the ground sloped easily down into the open valley, whence they might emerge at the lower level of the prairie round about He led the team for a distance down this floor of the coulee, until he could see the better going in the Improving light which greeted them as they came out from the gullylike defile. He did not like to admit to his companion how great had been the actual danger just In­ curred, though fortunately escaped. Franklin was humiliated and ashamed, as a man always is over an accident. "Oh, it's no good saying I'm sorry," he broke out at last "It was my fault, letting you ride behind that brute. Thank God, you're not hurt! I'm always doing some unfortunate, ignoble thing." It wasn't Ignoble," said the girl, and again he felt her hand upon his arm. "It was grand. You went straight, and you brought us through. I'm not hurt. I was frightened, but I am not hurt" You've pluck," said Franklin. Then, scorning to urge anything further of his suit at this time of her disadvan­ tage, though feeling a strange, new sense of nearness to her, now that they had seen this distress In com­ mon, he drove home rapidly as he might through the gathering dusk, anxious now only for her comfort. At the house he lifted her from the bug­ gy, and as he did so kissed her cheek. "Dear little woman," be whis­ pered, "good-bye." Again he doubted whether he had heard or not the soft whisper of a faint "Good-bye!" But you must come in," she said. No, I must go. Make my excuses," he said. "Qood-bye!" The horses sprang sharply forward. . He was gone. In her own little room Mary Ellen sat, her face where it might hare been Keen in profile had there been a light or had the distant driver looked round to see. Mary Ellen listened--listened until she could hear hoof and wheel no more. Then she cast herself upon the bed, face downward, and lay mo­ tionless and silent Upon the little dresser lay a faded photograph, fallen forward also upon its face, lying an* noticed and apparently forgot. (To be continued.) WAY TQ ACQUIRE ELOQUENCE. Former Governor Black Did It Try­ ing to Sell Sewing Machines. Ex-Governor Frank S. Black became governor of New York through his eloquence. When he took the gavel as temporary chairman of the repub­ lican state convention of 1896 his name had not even been suggested for the nomination. After his open­ ing speech, however, the whisper went around among the delegates, "What's the matter with Black for governor?" The following day the regular candidates were dropped and Mr. Black was nominated. After the convention Mr. Black told some friends how be acquired his elo­ quence. "When I was a young man," he said, "I went down from Troy to New Eng­ land to make my fortune. I soon found that fortune was not running after me, and, when my funds ran low, I took the. only job in sight-- that of agent for a sewing machine. I traveled through the country dis­ tricts selling machines, and In that way built up whatever eloquence I possess. You have no idea how hard it was to sell a machine in the back­ woods in those days. Some of the farmers thought they were inven­ tions of the devil, while others re­ garded them as swindling devices. Holding a convention spellbound is a cinch compared to the difficulty I had in convincing a farmer that a sewing machine was a good thing."--Success. Prayers for a Racehorse. Among the stories that John Wes­ ley Gaines, congressman from Tennes* see, brought back with him from England, is , one that Dean Hole, the witty divine, tells of an unsophisti­ cated curate who went to a Yorkshire parish where the parishioners bred horses and, in addition, frequently, raced them. This innocent curate was asked to invite the prayers of his congregation for Miriam Hawkins. So, for three successive Sundays, prayers were of­ fered up for Miriam Hawkins. On the fourth Sabbath the clerk advised the curate that further prayers in this respect were unnecessary. "Dear me!" exclaimed the innocent man, "Is Miriam dead?" "Oh, no, sir!" was the startling re» sponge, "she won the ten furlong race!" Women as Manufacturers. Mrs. Cecilia I. Yale of Merlden, Conn., and her two daughters, Cecilia M. and Ethel L., have filed articles ol Incorporation for what is the first manufacturing company in Connecti­ cut to be composed entirely of women. In gay defiance of the old adage that one should not put all his eggs In one basket, Mrs. Yale Is to be president and treasurer. Cecilia Is to be the secretary, and lithe I and the other two will compose the board of direct­ ors of the new company. It la to be hoped that no crucial variation o! opinion will ever bring the president into collision with the board of direct ors, and that the latter will never so far forget themselves at a board meet­ ing as to address the president of th« company as "mummer." The Yales own between them all the capital stock, amounting to $56,9*0. * Distilled Spirits. The spirits distilled in the United States for the fiscal year amounted to 141,000,000 gallons; aa increase of 13, 000,000 gallons over the prpvieas year, although the number of distilleries dl- mialshed «•?. Free to Twenty-five Ladles. The Defiance Starch Co. will ghre S6 ladies a round trip ticket tp the St Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis­ souri who will send in the largest number of trade marks cut from a ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Defi­ ance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, any­ where in the above named states. 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CouoUpatlan, heart­ burn, nick headache, disatMsaa, bad breath. »<>re threat, aad 'every Ill- Ben artdnic fr >m a dhmmd 1 Tabah <A stamanh are relieved <>r cared bjr Rtpaos Tabalea. • «1U federally rt*« relief wltMpt OMsur mta* » TheSra-oaat paekata Is aaOaga MONiun Moat. Alldrscslauaelltbsau Miss Hapgood fells bow she , escaped an awful operation by using Lydia E. Piokbam's Vqp* table Compound. " Drab Mrs. Pixmam :--I suffered for fbur years with what the doctors called Salpingitis (inflammation of tha fallopian tubes and ovaritis), which la a most distressing and painful ailment, affecting- all the surrounding1 parts, undermining the constitution, and sap* ping the life forces. If yon had seea me a year ago, before I becran taking Jjydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and had noticed tha sunken eyes, sallow complexion, an<| general emaciated condition, and eon>» Ja red that person with ma as I am to-ay, robust, hearty and well, yo» would not wonder that I feel tbankftd to you and your .wonderful medicine, which restored me to new life ana health in five months, and saved ma from an awful operation."--Miss Ip.esb Hapgood, 1022 Sandwich St Windsor, Out. -- 95000 forfeit tf original of dUBBiettt* proving gtnulMiHta cannot fra pwsuemf. Ovaritis or inflammation of tha ovaries or fallopian tubes which adjoin the ovaries may result from sadden •topping of the monthly flow, from inflammation of the womb, and many other causes. The slightest indication of trouble with the ovaries, indicated by dull throbbing pain in the side, ac­ companied by heat and shooting paina^ should claim your instant attention. •It will not cure itself, and a hospitaik operation, with all its teiroca, easily result from neglect. 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