6
8
SYNOPSIS.
Howard Jeffries, banker's son, under
tli.- evil influence of Robert Underwood,
n fellow-student at Yale, leads a life of
dissipation, marries the daushter of a
gambler who died in prison, and is dis
owned by his father. lie tries to get
work and fails. A former college chum
makes a business proposition to Howard
which requires $2,000 cash, and Howard
Is broke.
CHAPTER ll.—Continued.
"You know I wouldn't, Annie," he
said earnestly. "Not one second have
I ever regretted marrying you—that's
honest to God!"
A faint flush of pleasure lit up the
young wife's face. For all her as
sumed lightheadedness she was badly
in need of this reassurance. If she
thought Howard nourished secret re
grets it would break her heart. She
could stand anything, any hardship,
but not that. She would leave him at
once.
In a way she held herself respon
sible for his present predicament. She
had felt a deep sense of guilt ever
since that afternoon in New Haven
when, listening to Howard's impor
tunities and obeying art impulse she
was powerless to resist, she had flung
aside her waitress' apron, furtively
left the restaurant and hurried with
him to the minister who declared
them man and wife.
Their marriage was a mistake, of
course. Howard was in no position
to marry. They should have waited.
They both realized their folly now.
But what was done could not be un
done. She realized, too, that it was
worse for Howard than it was for
her. It had ruined his prospects at
the outset of his career and threat
ened to be an irreparable blight on
his entire life. She realized that she
was largely to blame. She had done
wrong to marry him and at times she
reproached herself bitterly. There
were days when their union assumed
in her eyes the enormity of a crime.
She should have seen what a social
gulf lay between them. All these
taunts and insults from his family
which she now endured she had fool
ishly brought upon her own head. But
she had not been able to resist the
temptation. Howard came into her
lile when the outlook was dreary and
hopeless. He had offered to her what
seemed a haven against the cruelty
and selfishness of the world. Happi
ness for the first time in her life
seemed within reach and she had not
the moral courage to say "No."
If Annie had no education she was
not without brains. She had sense
enough to realize that her bringing up
or the lack of it was an unsurmount
able barrier to her ever being ad
mitted to the inner circle of Howard's
family. If her husband's father had
not married again the breach might
have been crossed in time, but his
new wife was a prominent member of
the smart set, a woman full of aristo
cratic notions, who recoiled with hor
ror at having anything to do with a
girl guilty of the enormity of earning
her own living. Individual merit, in
herent nobility of character, amiabili
ty of disposition, and a personal repu
tation untouched by scandal—all this
went for nothing—because unaccom
panied by wealth or social position.
Annie had neither wealth nor position.
She had not even education. They
considered her common, impossible.
They were ever ready to lend an ear
to certain ugly stories regarding her
past, none of which were true. After
their marriage, Mr. Jeffries, Sr., and
his wife absolutely refused to receive
her or have any communication with
her whatsoever. As long, therefore,
as Howard remained faithful to her,
the breach with his family could never
be healed.
"Have some more stew, dear," she
said, extending her hand for her hus
band's plate.
Howard shook his head and threw
down his knife and fork.
"I've had enough," he said despond
ently. "I haven't much appetite."
She looked at him with concern.
"Poor boy, you're tired out!"
As she noted how pale and dejected
he appeared, her eyes filled with
sympathetic tears She forgot the
appalling number of cigarettes he
smoked a day, nor did she realize
how abuse of alcohol had spoiled his
stomach for solid food.
"I wish 1 knew where togo and get
that $2,000" muttered Howard, hia
mind twui preoccupied with Coxes
proposition Lighting another ciga
rette, he leaned back In his chair and
lapsed into silence.
Annie sat and watched him, wtsh-
InK she could suggest some way to
»«ilve the problem that troubled him.
She loved her husband with all her
heart and soul tils very weakness
of character endeared him the mora
to her She was not blind to hlx
faults but she excused them. Hl.i |
»'ce«. Ilia drinking, cigarette smoklhK
and general shlftleasiieH* were, she
argued, the result of bad associates |
UmstMOTOVE CM?
JtlJxzJ PEmMCTIIOTTAM [LQFOL
third DCGOT
KLEIN * y
ARTHUR O HORN BLOW V
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAY WALTER^
COPYRIGHT, 1909, OV G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
He was self-indulgent. He made many
good resolutions and broke them. But
he was not really vicious. He had a
good heart. With some one to watch
him and keep him in the straight path
he would stili give & good account of
himself to the world. She was con
fident of that. She recognized many
excellent qualities in him. They only
wanted fostering and bringing out.
That was why she married him. She
was a few years his senior; she felt
that she' was the stronger mentally.
She considered it was her duty to
devote her life to him, to protect him
from himself and make a man of him.
It was not her fault, she mused, if
she was not a lady. Literally brought
up in the gutter, what advantages had
she had? Her mother died in child
birth and her father, a professional
gambler, abandoned the little girl to
the tender mercies of an indifferent
neighbor. When she was about eight
years old her father was arrested. He
refused to pay police blackmail, was
indicted, railroaded to prison and died
soon after in convict stripes. There
was no provision for Annie's main
tenance, so at the age of nine she
found herself toiling in a factory, a
helpless victim of the brutalizing sys
tem of child slavery, which in spite
of prohibiting laws still disgraces the
United States. Ever since that time
she had earned her own living. The
road had often been hard, there were
times when she thought she would
have to give up the fight; other girls
she had met had hinted at an easier
way of earning one's living, but she
had kept her courage, refused to listen
to evil counsel and always managed
to keep her name unsullied. She left
the factory to work behind the coun
ter in a New York dry goods store.
Then about a year ago she drifted to
New Haven and took the position of j
waitress at the restaurant which the
college boys patronized.
Robert Underwood was among the
students who came almost every day.
He made love to her from the start,
and one day attempted liberties which
she was prompt to resent in a way
he did not relish. After that he let
her alone. She never liked the man.
She knew him to bo unprincipled as
well as vicious. One night he brought
Howard Jeffries to the restaurant.
They seemed the closest of cronies
and she was sorry to see what bad
influence the elder sophomore had
over the young freshman, to whom
she was at once attracted. Every
time they came she watched them and
she noticed how under his mentor
Howard became more hardened. He
drank more and more and became a
reckless gambler. Underwood seemed
to exercise a baneful spell over him.
She saw that he would soon be ruined
with such a man as Underwood for a
constant companion. Her interest in
the young student grew. They be
came acquainted and Howard, not
realizing that she was older than he,
was immediately captivated by her
vivacious charm and her common
sense views. They saw each other
more frequently and their friendship
grew until one day Howard asked her
to marry him.
While she sometimes blamed her
self for having listened too willingly
to Howard's pleadings, she did not
altogether regret the step she had
taken. It was most unfortunate that
"Not On* Second Have I Regretted Marrying You—That's to
God I"
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1911.
there must be this rupture with his
family, yet something within told her
that she was doing God's work —sav-
ing a man's soul. Without her, How
ard would have gone swiftly to ruin,
there was little doubt of that, ills af
fection for her had partly, if not
wholly, redeemed him and was keep
ing him straight. lie had been good
to her ever since their marriage and
done everything to make her com
fortable. Once he took a position as
guard on the elevated road, but
caught cold and was forced to give
it up. She wanted togo to work
again, but he angrily refused. That
alone showed that he was not entirely
devoid of character. He was un
fortunate at present and they were
poor, but by dint of perseverance he
would win out and make a position
for himself without his father's help.
These were their darkest days, but
light was ahead. As long as they
loved each other and had their health
what more was necessary?
"Say, Annie, I have an idea," sud
denly blurted out Howard.
"What is it, dear?" she asked, her
reveries thus abruptly interrupted.
"I mean regarding that $2,000. You
know all about that $250 which I once
lent Underwood. I never got it back,
although I've been after him many
times for it. He's a slippery customer.
But under the circumstances I think
it's worth another determined effort.
He seems to be better fixed now than
he ever was. He's living at the As
truria, making a social splurge and
all that sort of thing. He must have
money. I'll try to borrow the $2,000
from him."
"He certainly appears to be pros
perous," replied Annie. "I see his
name in the newspapers all the time.
There is hardly an affair at which he
is not present."
"Yes," growled Howard; "I don't
see how he does it. He travels on his
cheek, principally, I guess. His name
was among those present at my step
mother's musicale the other night."
Bitterly he added: "That's how the
world goes. There is no place for
me under my father's roof, but that
blackguard is welcomed with open
arms!"
"I thought your father was such a
proud man," interrupted Annie. "How
does he come to associate with peo
ple like Underwood?"
"Oh, pater's an old dolt!" exclaimed
Howard impatiently. "There's no fool
like an old fool. Of course, he's sen
sible enough in business matters. He
wouldn't be where he is to-day if he
weren't. But when it corner to the
woman question he's as blind as a
bat. What right had a man of his
age togo and marry a woman 20
years his junior? Of course she only
married him for his money. Every
body knows that except he. People
laugh at him behind his back. Instead
of enjoying a quiet, peaceful home in
the declining years of his life, he is
compelled to keep open house and en
tertain people who are personally ob
noxious to him, simply because that
sort of life pleases his young wife."
"Who was she, anyway, before their
marriage?" interrupted Annie.
"Oh, a nobody," he replied. "She
was very attractive looking, dressed
well and was clever enough to get in
troductions to good people. She man-
aged to make herself popular tn the
smart set and she needed money to
carry out her social ambitions. Dad
wealthy widower —came along and she
caught him in her net, that's all!'"
Annie listened with interest. She
was human enough to feel a certain
sense of satisfaction In hearing that
this woman who treated her with such
contempt was herself something of an
intriguer.
"How did your stepmother come to
know Robert Underwood?" she asked.
"He was never in society."
"No," repiied Howard with u grin.
"It was my stepmother who gave him
the entree. You know she was once
engaged to liini, but broke it off so
! she could marry dad. He felt very
• sore over it at the time, but after
- her marriage he was seemingly as
- friendly with her as ever—to serve
, his own ends, of course. It is simply
- wonderful what influence he has with
her. He exercises over her tho same
■ fascination that he did over me at
I college. He has sort of hypnotized
I her. I don't think it's a case of love
■ or anything like that, but he simply
i holds her under his thumb and gets
her to do anything he wants. She
■ invites him to her house, introduces
him right and left, got people to tako
him up. Everybody laughs about it in
society. Underwood is known as Mrs.
Howard Jeffries' pet. Such a thing
soon gets talked about. That is the
secret of his successful career in New
York. As far as I know, she's as
much infatuated with him as ever."
A look of surprise came into An
nie's face. To this young woman,
whose one idea of matrimony waß
steadfast loyalty to the man whose
life she shared and whose name she
bore, there was something repellent
and nauseating in a woman permit
ting herself to be talked about in that
way.
"Doesn't your father object?" she
asked.
"Pshaw!" laughed Howard. "He
doesn't see what's going on under his
very nose. He's too proud a man, too
sure of his own good judgment, to be
lieve for a moment that the woman
to whom he gave his name would be
guilty of the slightest indiscretion of
that kind."
Annie was silent for a minute. Then
she said:
"\Y hat makes you think that Un
derwood would let you have the
money?"
"Because I think he's got it. I
obliged him once in the same way
myself. I would explain to him what
I want it for. He will see at once
that it is a good thing. I'll offer him
a good rate of interest, and he might
be very glad to let me have it. Any
how, there's no harm trying."
Annie said nothing. She did not
entirely approve this idea of her hus
band trying to borrow money of a
man in whom his stepmother was so
much interested. On the other hand
starvation stared ,them in the face.
If Howard could get hold of this $2,000
and start in the brokerage business
it might be the beginning of a new
life for them.
"Well, do as you like, dear," she
said. "When will you goto him?"
"The best time to catch him would
be in the evening," replied Howard.
"Well, then, go to-night," she sug
gested.
Howard shook his head.
"No, not to-night. I don't think I
should find him in. He's out every
night somewhere. To-night there's an
other big reception at my father's
house. He'll probably be there. I
think I'll wait till to-morrow night.
I'm nearly sure to catch him at home
then."
Annie rose and began to remove the
dishes from the table. Howard non
chalantly lighted another cigarette
and, leaving the table, took up the
evening newspaper. Sitting down
comfortably in a rocker by the win
dow, he blew a cloud of blue smoke
*ip in the air and said:
"Yes, that's it—l'll go to-morrow
night to the Astruria and strike Bob
Underwood for that $2,000."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Smugglers' Ruse.
An Ingenious method of smuggling
saccharin has been detected at Bre
genz, Australia, where seven men
were arrested for importinglarge quan
tities of contraband. When the Geneva-
Munich express arrived at Bregenz the
station master had a coach containing
seven travelers uncoupled from the
express and detained for examination.
Hi had been warned by telegraph
from Zurich that seven smugglers of
Geneva were in the train with a large
quantity of saccharin. After an ex
haustive search the officials failed to
tind any contraband and were about
to apologize to the seven travelers for
their detention when one customs in
spector accidentally kicked a hot
water pipe in a first class compart
ment and the secret was revealed.
All the hot water pipes in the carriage
were in duplicate, differing in no d®
tail as to length, breadth and color,
but one set was of metal and the
other set made of papier mache con
taining saccharin, which is about
nine times as expensive in Austria as
in Switzerland.
For the Scandalmonger.
The Orleans museum baa Just been
enriched with a.curious relic of the
past which some workmen In making
excavations In the city caine across. It
Is a stono representing a grinning
figure, showing the teeth, the coun
tenance being repellent enough. In
this way the loquacious woman, the
scandalmonger, was brought to her
seuses The stone, suspended by a
chain, was pluced round her neck, and
so accoutred she was compelled to
walk round the tuwu In which aha
lived. The stone is supposed to date
about the sixteenth century.
1 BLAME PHYSICIANS FOR
GROWTH OF DOPE HABIT
Druggists Say Prescriptions and Not
Patent Medicines the
Cause.
New York.—illume for tho prev
alence and growth of the morphine
habit was placed on the shoulders of
physicians, who proscribed the drug,
at a meeting of druggists here to
night to protest against the recently
enacted city ordinance prohibiting the
sale at retail of any preparation con
taining morphine or its salts except
upon a doctor's prescription.
'I he ordinance is aimed primarily
at paregoric and at stomach remedies,
according to members of the board of
health who were instrumental In ob
taining its passage. Caswell Mayo,
one of the druggists, said he had
made a canvass by mail of several
sanitariums and the replies convinced
him 90 per cent, of the victims of
drugs formed the habit as a result of
using prescriptions given by physi
cians and only 8 per cent, from using
proprietary medicines.
A LOST ART.
V
"It seems to me that our new maid
ought at least to know how to serve
water, if she was six years with her
last employer."
"Well, it's not surprising, dear. I
know her last employer."
ECZEMA GONE, BOILS CURED
"My son was about three weeks old
when I noticed a breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a eatery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also, and in a few days became a solid j
scab. I became alarmed, and called j
our family physician, who at once pro
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tle fellow was under his treatment
for about three months. By the end
of that time, he seemed no better. I
became discouraged, and as I had
read the advertisements of Cuticura
Remedies and testimonials of a great
many people who had used them with
wonderful sucpess, I dropped the doc
tor's treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in a few days noticed a marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet- i
ter. When he was about seven
months old all trace of the eczema j
was gone.
"During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in !
boils which I cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been a great sufferer. During the
time of teething and from the time I
dropped the doctor's treatment, I used
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint
ment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health, i
His complexion was soft and beauti- j
ful, and his head a mass of silky curls.
I had been afraid that he would never
be well, and I feel that I owe a great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies."
(Signed) Mrs. Mary W. Ramsey, 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs,
Colo., Sept 24, 1910.
The manly man makes altogether
the best woman's man.
When You Think . ffj
Of the pain which many women experience with every I
month it make 6 the gentleness and kindness always associ
ated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle.
While in general no woman rebels against what she re- B\
gards as a natural necessity there ia no woman who would
not gladly be free from this recurring period of pain.
Dr. Pierce'm Favorite Prescription makca
weak women strong and alck women *
well, and Gives them freedom from pain. „
It establishes regularity, subdues Intlam•
matlon, heals ulceration and cures te» ~ ■
male weakness. iljj I jf"
Sick women are invited to consult us by letter, fret. Ja '
All correspondence strictly private and sacredly con
fidential. Write without fear and without fee to World's Dispensary Med
ical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. Y.
•If you want a book that tells all about woman's diseases, and how to cure
them at home, send 31 one-cent stamps to pay oost of wrapping and mailing
only, and we will send you a free copy of Dr. Pierce's great thousand - page
illustrated Common Sense Medical Adviser— revised, up-to-date edition, ia
handsome French cloth binding.
Weak? Tired? Run-down?
These conditions come from overwork, a weak stomach, overtaxed nerves
or feeble When you feel "all In"—hardly able to drag about, no
energy, no ambition, easily exhausted and can't sleep—take
BEECHAMS PILLS
and note -what a difference they make in your condition. The stomach ia the
lirst to feel the good effects. Food tastes good, the digestion is strengthened;
bowels and bile work regularly, the blood is cleansed, and the nerves rested,
Ihe whole system responds to the tonic action of Beecham** Pill*. Soon
there ia the buoyant feeling of returning health.
Fresh Strength and New Life
Boxe* I Qc, and 25c., with full direction*.
; wisely directed, will cause her to
give to her little ones only the most
wholesome and beneficial remedies
I and only when actually needed, and
I the well-informed mother uses only
j the pleasant and gentle laxative rem
edy—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
I Senna—when a laxative is required,
| as it is wholly free from all objec
| tionable substances. To get its ben
eficial effects always buy the genu
ine, manufactured by tho California
Fig Syrup Co.
is not a "food"—it is a medicine, and the
only medicine In the world for cows only.
Made for the cow and, as its name indicates,
a cow care. Barrenness, retained afterbirth,
abortion, scours, caked udder, and all similar
affections positively and quickly cured. No
one who keeps cows, whether many or few,
can afford to be without "Kow-Kure,
It is made especially to keep cows healthy.
Our book 'What to Do When Your Cows
Are Sick".sent free. Ask your local dealer for
Kow-Kure, "orsend to the manufacturers.
Dairy Association Co., Lyndonvllle, Vt.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief--Permanent Care
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS never
fail. Purely vrget- -
Slop W
gestion— improve tho complexion brighten
the eyes. Small Pill, Saull Dssc, Small Price-
Genuine nuuibai Signature
DR. J. D. KELLOGG'S
ASTHMA
Remedy for tho prompt relief of
Asthma and Hay Fever. Ask your
druggist for It. Write for FREE SAMPLE.
tiORTHROP tt LYMAN CO. Ltd.. BUFFALO, N.Y.
H PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Clesneee and beautifies the hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
If ©we* Falls to Bestoro Gray
Hair to Its Youthful Color.
Cores scalp dunsies a hair tailing.
fell CANNIN6 FACTORIES FOR SALE
F»r Firms, UirttCaininuiil.
rwßflll fl««rT»wn». 15 size*. Prices
gmmi sßs to SBSO. Capacities as high a a
9.000 cans tomatoes or 20.000 cam
*7 . _ FROITA in 10 hours. TERMS: A P«r