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11:00 p. ni. "
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LOG CABIN
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must b* at depots lm time ts lure Baggage lnspacted
- ul rh-?ck3d. luspectlos la stopped 30 mlautes before leavlDg (ton c'
!".3 : <55 V
liO pounds of baggage will be checked free with eacb fuii ».r<
ticket a«d T5 pouad» with each halt fare ticket.
J 1:4l> p. in.
I2;3u p. Ul.
2;f>0 p. iii.
4: IT p. m.
No. 2, S. Bound
1st class
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Leaves 1:45 p. in.
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A DIAMOND
RING
Bv M QUAD
Copyright, 1914, b> Associated Lit
erary 1'ivss
I : ;— 7.
ft uuy one h:i«! told my friends tbat
I was posiexsed ot the slightest spark
of romance ut the age of forty-live tbe
Id forma U< i): >>•• -1 have been received
as a base canard A liachelfti of that
age, who tins drifted about with all
sorts of people and humped up against
all sorts of adventures, Is pretty sure
to have had nil romance knocked ont
of him.
On a certain Tuesday 1 took a train
at Kliuer Junction tor Ixmdon, and as
there were but few passengers 1 had
a -compartment to myself. 1 had been
busy with a newspaper for half an
hour when 1 noticed a small package
lying under the opposite seat I found
It a plain pasteboard bos and was pre
pared to liiid a specimen of free chew
ing gum or a new brand of troches In
side It was something different, how
ever. It was a lady's diamond ring,
made up of live stones of the purest
water, and on tbe Inside were the In*
Itiala-l'B 1'." The ring was a double
hoop of gold and had probably been
made to order. It was lying closely In
the how and the box had once contain
ed steel pens. I argued that It must
have been some careless person who
carried a valuable ring In that fashion.
I am otil.v a fairly honest man. My
8rst idea was to keep the ring to my
own profit, but I remembered that I
was known to the railway porter and
that the | 'port? might be traced to
me.
If not.strictly honest I am prudent,
and I therefore gave up the Idea of
converting rtie ling. 1 would hold It
for a re- isi however. Half an hour
later I fe!t a •urious sensation stealing
over me ! began to feel sentimental.
1 began to connect that dear little ring
with a dear little blond hatred, blue
eyed iriri J got up and kicked myself
three times and called myself a fool,
■ but the "feeling did not go away. To
my astonishment and indignation I
found ii irrowlue stronger, and before
I knew it the grip of romance bad got
me by the neck
1 was a man of leisure, though I bad
no great auiotmt ot money to my cred
it. I would hunt up tbe owner of that
rins. and if a'i things went well 1
would marry her Tor a week 1 watch
"ed all the newspapers, but the ring
was not advertised. This seemed to
prove to me that the owuor was either
rich and indifferent to her loss or that
for some reason the loss hud not yet
been discovered l.omance made me
anxious, and 1 therefore went to the
expense of advertising In five different
papers I simply stated that a dia
mond ring had been found on a rail
road train and asked the loser to cor
respond.
Inside of three days I received about
150 loiters in reply. The 150 wrl'ers
t-i' . r*_ ami liars. and the true
loser hat! nut answered me. i was a
bit nettled at this neglect on her part
I advertised again. This time I ask
ed "I! 1'" io communicate with me In
cast* she had lost anything. There
were just lt»7 "B. P." answers, but
among thetu I selected one which ap
peared to. tie genuine. This "B. P."
had lost a double hoop diamond ring
containing live stones. It had been
lost on n railroad train and was a
birthday gift from a dead mother. I
was jisknl to call at the chambers of
a pertain solicitor to have the ring fur
tiler idemilied. I was on hand at the
j"appoint. .1 luuir So was a stern faced
and sive looking householder, to
gether with a slick looking villain
whom 1 had nuee spotted for a detec
tive ar il a young woman whose hair
w.ms red Instead of blond. The ring
whs s;«edll> identilled by the stern
faced man nrd red headed girl. "B.
P' was Bertha Perkins, and her fa
ther and her maid were before me.
IVrkitiM was a country squire, and on
t!ie ill- 'it previous to my finding the
ring in~ '.laughter's Jewels had been
*tn;eli I'fle hoop ring was part of the
pliiude'i
Of'course I was ready to hand over
t!-> : ing. lint it wa_sn't to stop there.
The it'll headed nuiId was sure she
[recognized me as the man who was
.hanging about the grounds a few hours
• before the robbery ami that villain of
a dctective whs or.lv too glad to snap
the hand ulTs :i mv wrists and hurry
me f>!T to In if
It took mi- three days to prove my
self respectable ulid to establish an
•alibi. They had to give me my liberty,
but u w.-is grudgingly done, and the
defective «ald he'd have an eye on me
| all the rest of my days The romance
bad departed when I was locked up. I
eami' out ct j:.j, determined to seenre
rep;>Diri ':i Old Perkins had helped
the red headed girl to conclude that
I was the robber, and I went down to
his I'linitry seat to receive an abject
apology or pull his nose. He not only
refilled -in apology. but threatened to
kick me the grounds, and the red
headed girl declared I had a cast In
mv iett eye. and by that cast she
would swear me In any court as a
man who would not stop at murder.
Tie .v > <yie more thing to be clear
I wanted to fiud out abont
' Herself Was she the blond
hi i. Mm- eyed girl of my dreams,
nrr! ir-i« she worthy of my love? I
Dad not long to wait I was walking
from file country feat to the village
when a dogcart knocked me down and
rolled me all over the road, and the
drivci halted to call me a tramp and
threaten tnp with the law. The driver
was. "B P" Fief hair was bleached,
her eyebrows colored and her nose
turned up She had a big mouth, bad
j rpetti and milky eyes, and when she
| firv/ve on she whistled like a man.
-H-H-H-11 Hi t! IWII'HI 1 1 H
t-iOia >11 it*K<
| A Halloween
T i Wi; 3"/( a-V:l t. :: ,
'i Party
i At
; Which There Was an i
Episode
| By ESTHER VANDEVEER |
i; i ;■ i i"i"i' i-i i-h-h-i-i-I1 i"i
"Papa." said my daughter, Helen,
"two week* from today wtU be Hal.
loweeu."
"What'a Halloween IT*
"Ob, papa, bow ignorant yon arel
Halloween la the evening when young
folk hob for apple* blindfolded, strike
at suspended bags full of nuta or can
dy and tbrow peelings over their shoul
ders." ,
"Wbut do they throw the peelings
over their shoulders for?"
"Why, the skins In falling will take
the shape of a letter Tbat letter la
the Initial of the person tbe One throw
ing it will marry. • If a girl looks Into
a mirror she'll see tbe face of ber fu
ture hu-tband." - -v
"Halloween la for girls, 1 presume."
"Not at nil. It's for boys the same as
for girls."
"Well, what about your party?"
"Mamma saya that U you .couseut
we will give It at the Ceilara."
The Cedars is our rouutry camp. We
bad returned to the city after Labor
day. a month before, and now It waa
proposed to go back for Helen's party.
She looked at rne wistfully. 1 remem
bered what sucb things were to me
when 1 was a youngster and melted
before tbat look. Indeed. I always melt
before tbat look. I gave my consent
This la what happened at tbe Hal
loween party tt came under my ob
servation: hut not having woman's
perceptive faculties, I saw nothing In
It The story was told m» by my wife, 1
and I tell It here as she told it to me.
Tho young persons assembled for
Halloween at the Cedars were between
sixteen and twenty-two years of age,
though those above twenty were men.
Some of them being too old to bob for
apples or knock down bags when blind
folded, it occurred to my wife to in
vite a sort of bluestocking clairvoyant
or something of the kind, who was to
tell weird stories suitable to the oc
casion. She was a Miss Somers, thir
ty-five years old and altogether an odd
person.
On Halloween after dinner the young
folk assembled in the large apartment
used for o living room, at one end of
which was an enormous fireplace. The
night was raol enough fw a blaze, and
lops in plenty had been provided. The
room was sealed, the rafters above be
ins 'eft bare. On the walls were the
heads of animals which I—something
of a Nlmrod—had slain, while several
skins from the same source covered
the pine floor
M18S »«•< hani#lf in th©
center of the group before the lire,
whicb gave th# only light In the room,
and began aer stories. They all pur
ported to have come under her own
observation and were Intended to show
that for every boy and every girl there
was somewhere In the world a mate.
It did not seem to matter to her or
to the youngsters, especially the girls,
that this was Impossible unless the
pair wore bom at the same moment
There were soveral other big gaps
which were not filled, bdt this did not
seem to trouble any of the listeners.
Miss Somers had an eye on her lis
teners and observed on her right a
young man. Joel Harker. In whom a
love for the marvelous. Judging from
his features, was strongly developed.
On her extreme left partly In shadow,
sat a girl. Marjorle Wlnthrop, one of
those feminine creatures made espe
cially to love and be loved. Barker
was tweuty-one years old; Marjorle
Winthrop was uot quite eighteen.
To a close- observer it was evident
that .Miss Sooiers was casting or try
ins to cast a spefl over these two. This
was uotii-ea ble slue®, while telling her
yarns «.lir would first look at Joel,
whose eye*- as Indeed the eyes of all—
wore fixed Intently upon her. and then
turn to Marjorie. It seemed that she
was aiti'OMitinR i).v will power to draw
these two together. At times, willed
l>\ hoi, «<>uld look from her to
iiarjorle; Uivit after au iuterval Marjo
i-io would loiik at Joel and always with
someihlng of the expression Indicating
rhat she regarded him as her owd es
pecial property.
The young people listened to Miss
vomers' stories and chatted till 9
o'clock, when they separated In orde?
that each might go off alone In search
of a Halloween experience. The camp
was situated on the margin of a lake,
surrounded by hills, the latter being
part wood and part pen The young
fellows, to whom the Halloween part
of the affair appeared ridiculous, went
into a room where thsra was a billiard
table to play and to smokfc Joel Har\
ker disappeared, and it was not known
where be had gone. As for tha girls,
some of theui went to their rooms,
some out In the boats, while others
scattered themselves on the shore
Where Miss Somers went was not no
ticed. ■ > ■>
This roving about by nignt was fa
cilitated by a full moon, which gave
ample light.
From time Immemorial there has
been evidence of a power possessed by
gome persons to will others to do cer
tain things. Most of these case# ot,
mental domination bave been either,
disproved or not proved. Nevertheless
among the great amount of chaff there
have been a few grains of wheat. Cer
tain It to that Mtas Sobers wai no
where near Joe! flacker or Marjorie
Winthrop on that Halloween eve atter
9 o'clock.^ Joel after the breaking up
went out on the veranda and sat down
In the raooullgtit. Thru tie felt im
pelled to walk down a road that bor
dered the lake. At a place where the
sheet of water was wider than else
where he came upon a boat. hat
Induced him he did not know, but he
felt a desire to step into the boat. A
pair of oars were in the bottom, and,
taking them op, he pulled out into the
lake. There were two other boats on
the water, one near the camp, the oth
er directly across from the point at
which he started. He felt no inclina
tion to go to the former, but was
moved to pull to the other.
Joel's mind was during this time fix
ed upon Marjorie. He did not know
where she was and had no Idea'of find
ing her. Marjorie was thinking of Joel
and admitted afterward that she could
not help thinking of him, though on
looking over the young men she had
met at the camp she had been favora"
bly impressed with miother. She chose
the lake on which to receive her Hal
loween Impressions and carried a hand
mirror with her.
Marjorie pulled Into a cove, dropped
her oars and, taking up her mirror,
looked Into It for the face of her "fate."
The only face she saw was her own,
and she had no reason to be displeased
with it, softened, as it was, by moon
light. She kept her eyes fixed on the
glass for some time, but no face other
than her own appearing she dropped
it to enjoy a view of the water and
the surrounding hills
Occasionally a light breeze would
ripple the water, breaking the rays ol
the uiooii Into innumerable particles,
but only for a few minutes, when the
zephyr would die away, leaving the
surface of the water and the leaves of
the trees on the shore as motionless as
before Over the face of the moon far
up In the sky passed the silhouette
of a bird.
The stillness was broken close beside
her by a fish, which jumped above the
surface, possibly lor a glimpse at the
uiooii, possibly to see who was out at
that time of night, wheu humans
should be in their beds.
Presently there came a distant sound
of oars—plunk, plunk, plunk: Marjo
rie ou leaving the cainp had seen most
of the young meu in the billiard room,
and a couple of girls were getting into
a boat at the landing. She inferred
that the boat she heard contained these
girls or at least some of her own sex.
The plunk of oars grew nearer and
seemed to be coming in her direction.
It occurred to her to turn her back
to any one who might be approaching,
raise ber glass as If expecting to see
the face of a lover, then turn and feign
to be surprised and disappoiuted at
seeing a girl. Facing the shore, she
looked straight before her. When the
coming boat drew near and the sound
of onrs ceased she looked into the mir
ror to enjoy the expression on the face
of the person approaching.
A little shriek indicated that she had
been surprised. Instead of seeing the
fnce of a girl reflected In the glass she
saw that of a man. There was searce
'r sufficient light to recognize in-r re
flected features, so she turned about
and faced him.
He was Joel Harker.
This is all that Is known of the story
in detail Whether Joel anil Marjorle
came back to the camp together or
separately, whether they remained out
late or early, they never told. Neither
was In the group that gathered about
the dining table for a supper and to
compare Halloween experiences. Those
experiences were invtnted and were
proportionately marvelous. The only
real one was that narrated here, but
not then. The absence of the two per
sons conerriud in It was noted and
commented iiikjii. but there were sev
eral oihci absences, and nothing more
was thought of theirs than of the oth
ers. indeed, on this occasion it would
not have been proper to make minute
Inquiries.
The party did not break up for sev
eral days after Halloweeu. and during
the remainder of the time there was a
drawing together between Joel darker
and Marjorle Winthrop They not only
became inseparable, but did not take
any pains to'conceal the fact that they
had suddenly become lovers. With
this part of their mutual enthralIment
Miss Somers snreiy bad nothing to do,
for she lett the Cedars the morning
after Halloween—that Is. unless she
worked upon tbein from a distance,
which Is not very likely. Indeed, it
was not necessary.
Some months elapsed after Helen's
Halloween party before an engage
ment was announced between two of
our guests—Joel Harker and Marjorie
Winthrop. Miss Somers was accused
by my wife with having bewitched
them, but she would not admit that
she had exercised any influence what
ever on either of them. »
But my wife does not believe her,
and I am of the opinion that my wife
is correct. Marjorle has confided to
Helen that while listening to the sto
ries by the fireside she was under the
thrall of Miss Somers. She felt im
pelled to go out in a boat and to re
main where Joel found her. She also
confessed that her shriek at seeing a
man's face In the mirror was not gen
nine, but a bit of feminine affecta
tion, for she felt all the while that she
would see Joel's.
After the marriage between the two
I questioned Jorl. hut ent no satisfac
tion as to his having been affected by
Miss Somers. Rut a man will admit
to a woman some things that he will
not admit to another man. He bad ac
knowledged to my wife, feeling Im
pelled to do what he did, but when [
asked him about It he said that there
was nothing In It. So there is no abso
lute solution to the matter.
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