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SYNOPSIS,
Mrs. Keziah Coffin, supposed widow,
arranged to move from
ton, following the death of her brother,
for whom she had kept house. K
Pepper, widower, offe ; marriage, and is
{ndignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah Dan-
fels, leader of the Regular church offers
Keziah a place as
new minister, and she decides to remain
in Trumet. Keziah tales charge of Rev.
John Ellery, the new minister, and gives
him advice as to his conduct
members of the parish E llery
sensation by attending a ‘‘Come-outer”
meeting. Ellery's presence is bitterly re-
sented by Eben Hammond, leader of the
meeting. Grace apologizes for her
guardian and Ellery esc
the rain. Capt. Nat
Bon, becomes a hero by bringing the
packet into port safely through fog and
storm. Ellery finds Keeiah writing a let-
ter to some one, inclosing money In re-
sponse to a demand. She is curiously
startled when informed of the arrival of
Nat. Nat calls on Keziah, and it devel-
ops that they have been lovers since
outh. Daniels remonstrates with Ellery
EB attending 'C
Hammond,
ome-outer’” meeting. El-
tide and is rescued
ome friends Ellery
walking in the Raids
t she walks there every
clergyman takes alr nner
Danlels. aabel, tl
exerts it
him
s desire to get i
tain time
spy glass
to marry
ery is caught by the
¥ Nat They be
meets Grace while
and learns th:
Bunday 'h
Sundays with t!}
captain's daugh
make an a mn
h
on
avery
He
confesses y
she fears to disg
kanah Danlels
ings between I
declares he will
tween him and t
him in a )
of Elk anah visit.
CHAPTER XI. (Continued)
“Well, do¢ he asked an
The stout, gray-haired old ph
—he had practiced in Trumet for near-
iy thi shook head.
“Not a single cl
“He may
but I doubt if
his heart.
Hime
Captain
xiously
tor ™ s
ysician
his
rty years
ance,” he whispered.
till morning,
an hour. It's
ted it at any
live
lasts
expec
possibly
he
I've
Nat was
door of the bedroom
drawn and he had seen
years older since noon
standing at the
His face was
ingly grown
“He's come
whispered.
it happened
wants us all
you here?
to himself, doc,” he
“He don’t remember how
or anything. And he
Why! , Keziah! are
You can come in, too. |
know dad likes and I guess-
Wait a minute; I'll ask him He
stepped back into the bedroom. “Yes,”
he ed, returning, “you come, too.
He
The little room,
was more like
a chamber on land
stood the captain's
oilskins hung about
day cane was there also
bureau was a wi
Dr. Parker b
and bent over the
“Well, cap'n,”
“how's she headed?
ing now?”
The
feebly
“She's
why
You
nodd
wants you.”
Captain Eben’s own,
a skipper's cabin than
In the corner
boots and his
His Sun-
And on the
rn, heavy Bible
rushed by
bed.
he
big
them
the others
sald cheerily,
How are you feel.
old face on the pillow smiled
headed for home, | guess,
doe,” said Captain Eben. "Bound for
home, and harbor light broad
abeam, I cal'late.”
“Oh, no! you'll
voyagea yet.”
“Not In this hulk, I won't, doctor. I
hope I'll have a new cammand pretty
soon. I'm trustin’ in my owners and |
guess they'll do the fair thing by me
Halloo, Gracle, girl! Well, your old
uncle's on his beam ends, ain't he?”
Grace glanced fearfully at his face.
When he spoke her name she shrank
back, as if she feared what he might
say. Jut he only smiled as, with the
tears streaming down her face, she
bent over and kissed him.
“There! there!” he protested. “You
mustn't cry. What are you cryin’
about me for? I'm fit and ready for
the sea I'm goin’ to safl” His eyes
wandered from his son to Mrs. Coffin.
For an instant he seemed puzzled.
Then he said
*“'Evenin,’ Keziah. 1
why you're here, but-—"
“% heard that Grace was alone and
that you was sick, Eben. So I come
right down, to help if I could.”
“Thank ye. You're a good-hearted
woman, Keziah, even though you ain't
seen the true light yet. And you're
housekeeper for that hired priest—a-—
a" He paused, and a troubled look
came over his face.
“What is it, dad?” asked Nat
“Jel Where's Gracie? She'g here,
ain't she?”
“Yes, uncle, I'm here. Here 1 am,”
sald the girl. His fingers groped for
her hand and seized It
“Yes, yes, you're here,” murmured
Captain Eben, “I—I-—for a minute or
80, 1-1 had an awful dream about you,
Gracle. 1 dreamed-—- Never mind.
Doe, answer me this now, true and
honest, rian to man: Can you keep
me here for just a little spell longer?
Can you? Try! Ten minutes, say.
Can you?”
! “Of course | can.
what are you—"
“Belay, I tell you. Yes, 1 guess "twas
dream. . It had to be, but "twas so
sort of real that I-— How long have
1 been this way?”
“Oh, a little while! Now just"
“Hush! Don't pull your hand away,
Gracie. Not. give me yours. That's
the
make a good many
don't know
Cap'n Hammond,
ft. Now I put them two hands to-
gether. See, doctor? See, Keziah?”
“Don’t, uncle, don't!” pleaded Grace.
“Don’t Think of
worry about me.
‘S-sh-sh! Don't put me off.
will—say it now, so’'s I can
on
Grace would
hand, but he would not let her.
all his falling strength.
“Will you, Gracie?” he begged, "It's
the last thing I'm goin’
I've tried to be sort of good to you,
in my way, and"
“Don't, don't!” she sobbed
think a minute, uncle, dear
let me think!
“Let me
Oh, do
pleaded Captain Eben.
no longer,
“Yes, uncle,”
tears, "if Nat
me."
she ans
wants me he can have
Keziah clasped her hands Captain
Eben’s face lit up with a great joy.
“Thank the Almighty!” he ex-
claimed. "Lord, I do thank you. Nat,
boy, you're consider’ble older than she
is and you'll have to plan for her. You
be a good hushand to her all her days,
won't ? Why, are you waitin’
for? Why don't you answer me?”
Nat groaned aloud
“A minute dad,”
“Just give me a min
sakes! Keziah—
“Keziah!" repeated Eben
What are you talkin' to
knows coul
ye what
he stammered.
ute, for Heaven
“Keziah?
her for? She
be
You do know
th be no tter
it,
ere an t
match in the world
don't ye.
“Yes,”
—[ guess you're rig
Coffin,”
you
Keziah?
wily. “1
Eben.”
Nat
to
sald Keziah sl
1 *
cried
tell
Ham
marry
“Keziah
mond, “do
Grace?
me
“Yes, Nat, I—I think your father's
righ
Then—then— difference does
All right, dad. Just as Grace says.’
“Thank God!” cried Captain Eben
“Doctor, you and Mrs. Coffin are wit
nesses tot There! now my decks
ready to
Good Book's
Read me a
wr }
what
ua
and I'd better get
Gracie, girl,
on the bureau
on't you?"
y ur later Keziah sat alone In
sy dining room. She had stolen away
when the re ading 8 began Dr. Parker,
walking very , came to her and
s hand on her shoulder,
‘He's gone,” he said simply.
are clear
land
over there
the
pter, w
soft!
f hi
laid
CHAPTER XIil.
In Which Keziah Breaks the News.
It was nearly five o'clock, gray dawn
what was be a clear, beautiful
summer morning, when Kesaiah softly
lifted the latch and entered the par
sonage. All night she had been busy
at the Hammond tavern Busy with
the doctor and the undertaker, who
had been called from his bad by young
Higgins; busy with Grace, soothing
her, comforting her as best she could,
petting her as a mother might
a stricken child The poor girl
was on the verge of prostration, and
from hysterical spasms of sobs and
weeping passed to stretches of silent,
dry-eyed agony which
witness and much more to be feared,
“It is all my fault,” she repeated
over and over again. “All my fault!
i’
of
io
i
anda
pet
“Keziah Coffin!” Cried Nat Hammond,
“Do You Tell Me to Marry Grace?”
I killed him! 1 killed him, Aunt Ke
ziah! What shall I do? Oh, why
couldn't I have died instead? It would
have been so much better, better for
everybody.”
Dr. Parker was very anxious,
“She must rest,” he told Mrs. Cof-
fin “She must, or her brain will give
way. I'm going to give her something
to make her sleep and you must get
her to take it.”
So Keziah tried and, at last, Grace
did take the drug. In a little while
she was sleeping, uneasily and with
moans and sobbings, but sleeping, nev-
ertheless,
“Now ‘it's your turn, Keziah” sald
the doctor. “You go howe now and
Paps
more just now, Mow you go home.
You've had a hard night, like the rest
of us.”
How hard he had no idea. And Ke-
ziah, as she wearily entered the par-
sonage, realized that the morning
would be perhaps the hardest of all
For upon her rested the responsibility
of seeing that the minister's secret
was kept. And she, and no other,
must break the news to him.
The dining room was dark and
gloomy. She lighted the lamp. Then |
she heard a door open and Ellery’s |
voice, as he called down the stairs.
“Who is 1t?" he demanded. “Mrs.
Coffin?"
She was startled.
softly, after a moment.
lery, it's me.”
“It's morning,”
“Are you sick?
pened?”
“Yes,” she answered slowly, “some
thin’ has happened. Are you dressed?
she sald
Mr. Elr
“Yen,”
“Yes,
minister.
hap-
sald the
Has anything
He replied that he would be down
in a moment. When he came
ing for him
the lamplight shocked him.
* “Why, Mrs. Coffin!” he exclaimed.
“What 18 it? You look as if you had
been through some dreadful experi
ence.”
Her heart went out
held out both her hands
“You poor boy,”
ing to tell you
to him. She
she eried, "I'm try-
one of the
but that ain't all. Eben Ham-
mond, poor soul,
Hammond! Eben?
Dead! Why, why—"
“Yes, Eben's gone
sudden and died
o'clock last night. I was
“Captain Eben dead!
as well pa—as
must go! I must go at
He was on his way to the de
he held fit
“Eben Captain
He was took
about
and
he was
Oh, 1
there
Why,
said
yor
once.
shut
gravely, “you mustn’
mind me callin’
{ ty nigh,
mother, an ye come to
almost John,
stay here with m ‘ou can
that he go to
s sald
you won't
1 Tet
be
to your
feel as if you've
got to
go to use
ya saying?
1 know
and
ust me and
pines
Oh ww}
ll me? If
been so much belts
He looked at her yu
ment. The blood rushed to his
You know that?’ he whispered
“Yes, I know.”
“Did she tell
No, nobody That
little. 1 got a hint and I
somethin’ afore. The rest
my own eyes.”
AMaze
face
only
suspici
1 saw with
told is, a
ned
He was now white
forward and his teeth closed
if you do know,” he sald, "you
realize that my place Is with
Now, when she is in trouble—"
ain't congregation, John,’
“Nor Trumet, nor your min
hat means more'n think
now. but it ain't You
go to her because be
must
her
“It the
he sald
T
does,
®
istry you
that
ant
mustn't well,
“Doesn't want me? 1 know better.”
‘She Bhe
She
sar
doesn’t want you, John
wouldn't see you if you Went
would send you away again, sure,
tin sure. She would. And if
didn't go when she sent you,
wouldn't be the man I hope you
John, mustn't see
She aln’t yours
one else
“John, Grace Van Horne is goin’
marry Cap'n Nat Hammond
that's the livin' truth”™
She led him over to
chair and gently forced
obeyed, although with
realizat
with
went
you
are
you Grace again.
to
There!
the rocking
him Into it. He
no apparent
her
on speaking. She told him of
Come-Outer’s return to consclousness.
slick room and how Nat and Grace had
troth. He listened, at first
then with grow
"So you see,”
she said. “It's settled;
Parker will
It wan't any great sur
Those who have been
‘twas the natu
Eben's heart was set on it
years. And she'll have a good
He's
a good man and-—"
“But 1 know"
“Do you suppose she would come
to you if she knew it would be your
He hesitated. The last time they
met, ages before-—no, only the previ
ous afternoon--she had told him it
was his happiness and his future only
that she thought of. He choked and
drew his hand across his eyes,
“Mrs. Coffin," he sald, "you tell me
it will be her ruin. You tell me so.
You say she doesn’t want me. I tell
you that the only thing that will keep
me from her is hearing that from her
own lips. When she tells me to leave
her I will, and not before.”
“She'll tell you, John; she'll tell you.
And 1 know Grace. She's made up her
mind and won't change it. But I do
ask you this: I ask you not to go now,
Walt a little while, do. 1 left her
asleep, worn out by what she's been
through and under the effects of the
doctor's sleepin’ medicine He sald
{
brain would give out. For her sake,
then, walt a little. Then, if you don’t
hear from her, maybe | can arrange a
meetin’ place where you can see her
without anyone's knowin’ it. I'll try.
But do wait a little while,
9
At last he
tating.
*W on’t you?’ begged Keziah.
he answered slowly. “I'l
I 11 walt until noon, somehow, 14
can. I'l try. jut not a minute
ys Not one. You don’t know what
| you’ re talking about, Mrs. Coffin.”
“Yes, 1 do. I know well. And I
thank you for her sake.”
But he did not have to wait until
noon. At six o'clock, through the dew-
soaked grass of the yard, came the
Higgins boy. For the first time in his
short life he had been awake all night
and he moved slowly,
The housekeeper opened the door.
Ike held up an envelope, clutched in a
grimy hand.
“It's for you, Mrs.
“Gracie she sent It
answer
Mrs
open
other
ing,
entered
was listening and hesl-
he
Keziah,” he sald,
There ain't no
"
Coffin closed the door and tore
the envelope. Within
addressed, in Grace's
Mr. Ellery The housekeeper
the study, handed f(t him
was
handwrit-
an-
to
to
Grace
has told you
of my promise
am going to marry
“Dear John,” wrote
sume Aunt Kez
uncie’'s death
Nat. It is true. I
him. I am sure this Is right and
the best. Our friendship was a
take and you must not me
lease don't try.
“GRACE VAN
Was another
iah
and to
for
mis-
El ) again
HORNE."
Beneath
“D irry
‘stayin’ here,
yur duty to others
yO iu
you think
to others?
self?”
that's
nk about
to be
we've heard ¢
How
enough
t duty about my
to my
“1 guess
ought to thi
we do try
rch
the last thing we
in the world, if
and squ Your
thinks a heap of you, John
They build on you. You've done more
the little while you've
than Mr. Langley did in his last fifteen
years.”
“You've never
quietly by and
more th
one
fair are
chu
in been here
been asked to sit
the
the worid
love
some
gop One You
1 y
Marry
an all
€ lao "
“How do you know I ain't? How do
you know I ain't doin’ just that now?”
"Mrs Coffin!
“John Ellery, you listen to me. You
think I'm a homely oid woman, prob
my ways as an eight-day
I guess 1 look like it and act
ut 1 ain't so awful old—on
of forty, that's all And
when | was your age I wa’'n’t so awful
homely, either. 1 had fellers aplenty
round and I could have mar
ried any one of a dozen. This ain't
boastin'; land knows I'm fur {rom
that. I was brought up in this town
and even when I was a girl at school
there was only one boy | cared two
straws about. He and 1 went to pic
nics together and to parties and every.
where. Folks used to laugh and say
we was keepin’ comp'ny, even then
“Well, when 1 was eighteen, after fa
ther died, 1 went up to New Bedford
to work in a store there. Wanted to
earn my own way. And this young
feller I'm tellin’ you about went away
to sea, but every time he come home
from a voyage he come to soe me and
things went on that way till we was
promised to each other. The engage
ment wa’'n’t announced, but ‘twas so,
just the same. We'd have been mar
ried in another year. And then we
quarreled.
clock.
kind gen'rally are.
ae his and as much his as mine, I cal’
late,
thought we was, and neither would
give In. And he says to me, ‘You'll be
sorry after I'm gone.
back, then! And says I, bein’ a fool,
‘1 guess not. There's other fish In the
son.’ He satled and 1 did wish him
back, but 1 wouldn't write fust and
neither would he. And then come an
other man.”
She paused, hesitated, and thon con
tinued,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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JAPS PROTEST
They Object to Proposed Leg-
Jislation in California.
DELICATE QUESTION RAISED.
Considers the Contemplated Law Pro.
hibiting Alien Ownership Of Land
As Being Aimed Against the
Japanese.
shingt
as lodged
ate Depar
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“@
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formal
in govern
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rried
ape
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Was
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C. F. WARWICK DIES.
Was Of Philadelphia
18985 To 1899.
Charies |
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Warwick,
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here after an
He was four
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Mr. Warwick was 63 years old
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188%, died at his
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