10 i | || | This Space Belongs 1 ffl , ffl $ to the | OLD RELIABLE | j DRUG STORE jjj s $ B ki| I l 25ii58585 25ii58585 as aSHBHSHB HS j The Bargain] [ Store i } Fruits -- Vegetables < X Arriving daily and going at s the lowest possible prices. < \ r Pine Apples, ) \ ? Cucumbers, Cabbage, s j i New Potatoes, > X Bermuda Onions. s | i Remember I am handling j s Presh and Smoked Meats of all > ! \ kinds. Bacon, Hams, Boiled \ j C Ham, Bologna. s | Fine Line Groceries j i Free delivery anywhere. : | 112 Phone your orders. c I {T.W.WELSH! \ Chas. Diehl's Old Stand,V/est Ward \ Il ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE •jl HERE 9 C. B. HOWARD & GO'S General Store, * WEST END OF FOURTH STREET, EMPORIUM. PA. NOTICE. i Strictly pure goods. Conform with the pure food ||| J - law in our Grocery Department. All firms are required ,Jj j; ;■ to give us a guarantee on their invoices. GROCERIES. jjiji . , M Full line of all canned goods: Tomatoes, Peaches, raJ m Pears, Cherries, Corn, Meats of all kinds. Our line of v - ! Cookies and Crackers cannot be surpassed for freshness, rf||] 112' t •: them every week or two. Sour and sweet pickles lip by the dozen or bottle. Fish of all kind. Cannot be Mjj beat 011 No. i, sun Mackerel. Hams, Shoulders, \'M If; Bacon and .Salt Pork or anything you desire in the line. 1 > | CLOTHING-, Complete line of Underwear in Ballbriggan, natur- jljj! ' al wool and fleece lined, Shirts and Drawers, Overalls, f;^j ||j Pants, Dress Shirts, work Shirts, Over Jackets, wool lj;J| ffi] and cotton vSocks, Gloves, Mittens, etc. >:^ SHOES AND RUBBERS. i m . D \.'4\ Have all sizes to suit the trade, for ladies, men, •;&> ®l boys and children. I if If DRESS GOODS. gjj Anything in llie line you desire. Come look our £#< cts, Axes, all kinds, Handles and nails, from a shoe pj il nail to a boat spike. CONCLUSION. ji We appreciate your past patronage and shall en- !js!| (Mp deavor to give you the same service and same goods in w the future as in the past. Phone orders receive our M jf'M prompt attention and delivered promptly by our popu liip lar drayman Jake. js|j , Yours truly \\M * C. B. HOWARD & CO lien. J. Mar Furniture T abourettes. The Set to Set Before You Is waiting for you in tlie'shape of a nice set of crockery. We are now showing a splendid stock of good sound Crockery, every single piece warranted free from I fault or blemish. The finest as j sortment in the county at rea | sonable prices. Undertaking licit..). liiiilar CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909 and the law of England punishes fraudulent conspiracy very heavily. The links in the chain are quite complete. They even include our possession of a letter to you from a certain firm of brokers stating that they bad failed to discover the genuine proprietors of the com panv." "Eh?" cried Dad, looking at Schwartz. "What is this? Are you sure of your facts, Warden ?" I once read in a paper that some man who was fighting another man "went down and out." I didn't know what it meant, but it seemed to lit Schwartz's case, lie went limp all at once. "Quite sure, Grosvenor," said the solicitor. "You can thank your daughter for putting me on the track of a very discreditable and un savory business. I have prepared the necessary documents, Schwartz. Will you execute them without further explanation?" "Where is the ju-ju?" demanded Schwartz, pulling himself to- gether and glaring at me with eyes like flint marbles. ~ '#!/•"* of my pocket. 1 / I 11° took it, held it in his left ) Imdand signed the papers placed .(; before him by the lawyer. Dad * \« If signed, too, and Mr. Warden wit- jiessed the signatures. Not a word was spoken. Schwartz went out. of the room, and Dad rang for (Evangeline to tell Jim to get the victoria ready at once. When Schwartz drove through our gate on his way to the station the mob cheered him. I expect he felt like being cheered. Bob told me afterward that he said a naughty word to our lame porter when he wanted to carry the small bag in which the ju-ju was placed, I sup pose, because gentlemen's pockets are not like mine. Still, from what I heard later he must have taken it out of the bag when he was safe in the train. It was then nearly 8 o'clock, and Dad sent Mole with a note to to say that the negroes ought to be liberated at once. Jack, who has plenty of brains, brought his uncle with him to congratulate Dad and Mam about me, and they stayed to dinner. Jack and Dorothy sat together, so matters looked all right in that quarter. They did not say a great deal. Just as in Schwartz's case, silence was eloquent. Dad brought mo once to see a plav at Drurv Lane, and I imagined all sorts of terrifying things when the villain crept nearer the defense less heroine. If either of them spoke it, was not half so thrilling. I had just the same feeling when Mr. Warden kept waiting for Schwartz to admit he was beaten. Prinee John rang our bell exactly at 9 o'clock. "Wah!" shrieked Evangeline when she opened the door. Then she fled. I had to rush and grab Dan, hut I smiled sweetly at my dark visitor and asked him to come into the morning room. I knew that .Mr. Warden and Uncle Stanhope were telling each other that every motorist should be sent to penal servitude 011 a second conviction, so I had 110 trouble in beckoning Dad to join me for a minute. He was rather surprised at meeting the negro, but he apologized quite nice\y for the Christmas eve incident and also for any inconven ience which the other might have undergone owing to the action of the police. I was wondering if Dad meant to put his hand in his pocket and produce some money, but he told mc afterward that he felt exactly the same as I did with regard to Prince John. The man looked every inch a king, and I have reckoned up that he was at least seventy-four inches high. But before T could stop him Dad nearly gave me away badly. "I ought to tell you," he went <>ll, "that from circumstances which have come to my knowledge I now sympathize deeply with you in your search for the—er—curious West African—er —god which you wish to recover, and I must say that if my—er —daughter Millicent had consulted me"— So Dad was just beginning to tell the Kwantu chief in his best J. P. manner that Schwartz was again the proud possessor of the ju-ju when 1 broke in: "One moment, father, dear!" I cried. "You will understand things ever so much better when you hear what Prince John and I have to say to each other. Have you kept your part of the bargain?" I asked the black man quickly. lie took from his coat pocket a small bundle tied with pink tape. "Here are fifty Bank of Kngland notes for £IOO each," lie said. "Then here is your ju-ju," I answered, diving into my skirt pocket and holding him the original piece of ivory, beaded kilt and all com plete, "and you may now know what a trouble it was in London to get a fair copy of it made for Schwartz during the; few hours I had at my disposal." Dad looked awfully severe after his iirst gasp of amazement had passed. "Millicent," lie said, "what have you done?" "I have served Mr. Schwartz as he tried to serve you, father, dear, ' I replied. "As for Prince' John, he offered the man who stole the ju-ju £IO,OOO il it were given back* so 1 saw no harm in arranging that half the amount should he paid to you. In any case, 1 always meant the poor black people to have it. It was a very great shame for Mr. Schwartz to take from them the thing which they thought so much of." V; iwrn For a little while he could say nothing. Like jkj|®| me, he was watching the black prince, who really IjM treated that absurd—l men 11 that extraordinary— u.' /l|f^ scrap of carved ivory as if it were the most pre cious article in the world. It might have been all one blazing diamond by the reverent way he Wj , handled it. When he was quite sure that it was («[ S his own ju-ju—and he did not take for granted, ■ * like Schwartz, that it was the genuine thing until lie had looked at every mark—he pressed its funny monkey face to his lips, his fore head and his breast. He paid not the least heed to us or what we were saying. It was not until he had produced a small, finely woven mat from the poekel in which lie kept the notes and wrapped the ju-ju in it before putting it away that he gave us any attention. Of course Dad started a second time to talk as if he were at a Conservative meeting. "It has given me the greatest pleasure to observe that my—er —- daughter Millicent has restored to you the—er—interesting object which you seem to value so highly, but I need hardly say that—er— the payment of anv such —er —astounding reward as £.">,000 is utterly out of the question." "My people pay the money gladly," said the negro prince, draw ing himself up in the grandest way imaginable. "I toll you, too, that your daughter's name will be honored in my country, and when I and my friends return home we shall not fail to send her other tokens of our regard and good will." "We cannot accept this money," sard Dad firmly. '"lt is quite essential that you should," said the other with equal coolness. "If you refuse it lfow I shall simply be compelled to send it to you through the post. We lost our ju-ju owing to the remiss ness of its guardians. We must atone for that, and the payment must) be made in treasure—or blood." You can have 110 idea how he uttered those last two words. 110 spoke quietly and in a low voice, but somehow I could feel in theni the edge of one of those sharp, heavy choppers called "machetes/' Polly says, which the maids in the Marquis o' Granby saw in the negroes' bedrooms. So it ended in our shaking hands with Prince John and in Dad bringing the notes into the drawing room to show them to Mam and the others before 110 put them away in the silver safe. Everybody made a tremendous fuss over me, and Poll sang "The ilan Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," but I was only too delighted that we had had |j \ / y '' such a. jolly Christmas and were all good friends 1 / again, though it looked rather glum at one time. •» They made me talk nearly all this story before I went to bed, and 1 heard old Mr. Stanhope growl ' that if Dorothy was in such a hurry to get married he didn't see why* she shouldn't. 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