The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1913 Page: 8 of 8
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STORY
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STANTON
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Author of "The Gama
and the Candle." "Tha
Flytn* Mercury." etc.
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frederlc Tharabargk
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SYNOPSIS.
At th« U'KlnnliiK nt Kifut automobile
race the tin olmnli iun <>^ the Mercury,
tJt«iiton' niaolilne, drop* <l«*uii HtruiiK''
youth. Jmse Floyd, volunteer*. and 1h ao-
i optmi In the rent tlurlntc th<~ twenty-
four hour race Htunton in -*'tn atruiigt-r.
Ml** Carlisle. who Introduce* he me If The
Mercury wins raoe Stanton receive*
flnwera from Mia* CarlUle, which he Ik
norM Stanton maata Mlaa f'arii*ie on a
train They all (fill to tnUe walk, and
train leave* Stanton and Miss Carllale
follow In auto Accident I'v Which Stan-
ton I* hurt Is myaterloua. Floyd, at lunch
with Stunt hi. tell* of hi* boyhood Stan-
ton attain meet* Mlaa Carlisle and thev
(Una together Stanton cornea to track
alck, hut nuikra rnc«. They have acci-
dent Floyd hurt, hut not *erlounly At
dinner Floyd tell* Stanton of hi* twin
alater, Je**lca. Stanton heoom<*a very HI
and lo*e« con*ch.u*ness On recovery, at
hi* hotel Stanton rwelve* Invitation and
vtalta Jeaalca They gn t" theater togeth-
er and meet Mis* Carllale Stanton and
Floyd meet aKaln and talk bualnes*
They asrcc to operate autorr,,.b!!r factory
a* imrtners Floyd tiecome* auaplcloua of
Mlaa Carlisle
CHAPTER IX—(Continued).
"Jesalca ha« the right to a chance,"
he ngre«d. "I'm not goln' to meddle
with things beyond my underatandin'.
An' I'd rathe'1 have her your wife than
have anything else In the world. Only
—you've Feen her Just ouc«—you can't
tell If you want her, yet."
Stanton ahot him one elraight, ex-
pressive glancj
"She is like you," slipped from him
Involuntarily; then, furious at Mb be-
trayal of sentiment, he dropped the
other's hand "We had better go, or
■we'll miss the train," he bruskly re-
minded.
"Oh. she is like me," confirmed
Floyd; he turned to look again at the
factory. "We aro pretty close chums.
Yes. you bii' I had better be gettin' to
the train."
They walked back to the nearest
trolley line, both silent.
The subject was not touched again,
until the following morning, when they
left the train in New York.
"When shall I see you?" Stanton
questioned, as they exchanged fare-
wells In the no'sy depot. "To-mor-
row ?"
"I'm going to be out of town for the
next two weeks, Mr. Green tells me,"
Floyd replied. "Tbey want me at the
Mercury factory, and there are some
other trips, too. I believe. Jessica ia
going to be rather deserted; if you
happen to look her up, no doubt she
would be glad to speak to some on®
besides her nurse."
"Thank you." accepted Stanton, aa
carelessly. "Take care of yourself."
He bad not reached the exit when
IHoyd overtook him.
"Here are the entries for the Cup
race," he panted, thrusting a folded
newspaper into Stanton's hand. "There
are two Atalanta cars to run against
us It's you who need to take care
of yourself, until afterward."
"Floyd, wait! What <10 you mean?
Do you really think—"
But his mechanician evaded the
question.
"Some people are hoodoos," he
laughed "Keep away from them,
please. Good-by "
He bad not spoken Valerie Carlisle's
name, yet Stanton knew against whom
be warned And the melodramatic
absurdity of the Idea did not prevent
an odd thrill of discomfort and iritse
curity, from which he took his usual
refuge in roughness
"I'm not in the habit of hiding from
people, hoodoos or not. Good by."
"Oh, very well." acijulesced Floyd
oddly. "But If you won't take care of
yourself, StantoD—"
"Well, what?"
"Never mind."
four o'clock and ! can offer you hos-
pitality.
"What ahull I talk to you about?" he
doubted. "1 am letter at listening. I
think "
"Oh, anything everything Suppose
I were Jea; I like what he likes, rac-
inr, factories, motor-cars"
Although the season was early, a
fire burned In the tiny hearth, on
either aide of which they were seated,
facing each other. In the ruddy light
Stanton contemplated the stalling girl,
In her pale-blue gown with Ita luce
rufflea foaming around her full young
throat and falling low across her
hands.
"Your brother h)u told you of the
business partnership that we plan for
this winter, Miss Floyd?"
She nodded her bronze crowned
bead
"Yes: 1 am very glad."
"I)ld he." a sudden fancy prompted
the question, "did he tell you that I
was coming here to see you, If I
might ?"
"Did he know of it?" abe asked In
counter-question.
Floyd had kept the confidence given
him, then, although no formal re-
aTrulnt had been made. The expres
slon that crossed Stanton's dark face
was warm and very gentle
"He knew, yea I wish 1 could have
met your brother years ago; I might
have been less hard a man, more fit to
know him, and you, now."
"You hard!"
"Has he not tnught you that 1 am
so?"
In her earneatness she leaned for-
ward, her eyes fearlessly on his.
"Never Do not Imagine he thinks
you that, do not so w rong bis memory
of your kindness. A rough word—what
la It? The first gentleness cancels It;
what Is a friend worth who does not
understand ?"
Stanton bent his head, looking at
the fire.
"I have not had much gentleness
shown me." he said. "My mother died
when I was born; when I was thirteen
my father married again. My step-
mother was a good woman, whom I
loved as well as my father did. But
within the second year after the mar-
riage. the horses they were driving
ran away, drugging the carriage over
an embankment, and my parents died
within a tew moments of each other
while being taken to the hospital.
Have I said that my father was
wealthyT He was so. He had made
his will, a year before, leaving every-
thing to his wife; well knewlng that
she In her turn would pass all on to
me She was much younger than be,
almost certain to outlive him, and
entirely to be trusted. But she had
never made a will, delayed by chance
or forgetfulness, I suppose. When he
died five minutes before her, all his
fortune passed <0 his vife; then, upon
her death without a will, again legally
I passed on to her relatives. I was left
with fio share or claim."
"But It was yours by every right!
Surely, surely, your step mother's rel-
atives did not take It?"
"They took every penny and every
inch. Miss Floyd. And I, at fifteen,
was sent out Into the world, a beggar
ed orphan. They had no Interest In
on his firm profile with Ita llnea of
lehtless strength
"You meant to punish them," ah*
faltered
"Hevenge? No; It was not wortfc
taking I will not deny I thought of
that as a boy; as a man I was too
practical to waste my time. What 1
decided to have was money. I found
in my aptitude for this automobile
racing my best and quickest way to
secure a starting capital If 1 killed
myself in doing it. very good; that was
better than poverty. 1 was poor for
six years; poor for a lifetime I will not
be."
"No, you will not be," she agreed,
her voice quite low and agitated. "You
were born to bend circumstance, for
good or 111."
"Circumstance l>ent me, when It set
your brother in my path." ho cor-
rected. "I never before hud a friend,
or cared He shook his head Impa-
tiently, turning fully to her. "Bah.
what dead history am I boring you
with! Forgive me; I only meant to
say there might be Bome small excuse
for my savagery. It Is after four
o'clock I was promised tea"
Jessica rose to cross to the little
tea I able, but lingered for an Instant.
"Jes once told me that he hud been
guilty of the Impertinence of saying
ills driver bad the beat disposition and
the worst temper he had ever seen. 1
think that If he were here, ho would
apologize for the lust part "
"Perhapa he may yet retract the
first." he warned lightly, yet touched.
When she summoned him to take
his cup. Stanton looked at the brown
beverage, then In quizzical surprise at
his hostess.
"Yes." she laughed, coloring "With
three lumps of sugar In It. Jes told
me that whenever he was out with
you, you drank chocolate syrup and
sweet 1 thought It wns only girls who
liked sweet, syrupy things"
"And do you always give people
what they like?" he asked, amused
and oddly pleased.
"I would like to," she retorted,
"Then I would like very much to
have you go to the theater with me.
to-night."
"As you like." she conceded, her
heavy lashes sweeping her cheeks.
T..e flr-"t step was made For the
next two weeks they saw each other
frequently. Twice Stanton brought
one of the Mercury cars and took Jes-
sica for sedate afternoon drives Sev-
eral rainy days she gave him sweet
chocolate and sat opposite hint before
the bright little hearth, listening or
talking with the equable Bunnlnes* so
like Floyd's. Indeed, Stanton soon
came to feel with her the sense of
companionship j<nd certainty of being
understood that he felt with her broth-
er. But he never was rough to Jes
slca.
During that Interval he did not
meet Floyd. Jos was busy thirty miles
up the Hudson valley, at the Mercury
factory, Jessica said, and as Stanton
of courae knew from his mechanician's
own statement. Only it impressed him
aa rather strange that Floyd could not
get away even once or twice to aee
his a!ster
Meanwhile the Cup race was ap-
proaching On the last evening before
J. L.-WILBARGER &. CO.
LUMBER DEALERS
BASTROP. TEXAS
WE HANDLE EVEJRYTI11NG IN
LUMBER-
m, A
V ;£
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and freep fn ftoek both Loaf Leaf, Yellow Pine and Short Ijaaf Pine; Cftjhw Sldrifflee,
Cypress I Aim bar. Bulkier*' Hardware, Gerruffated Roofing, Galvanized and Painted; Lime.
Brick, Oment, Window*, Biinda, Doors and Moulding; Pickela, Latha and Bed Stala, iu;d
Fencing, Cedar Poets and Biodta; Painta, Chi and Window (Jlaaa.
COME AND SEE US AND GET OUR PRICES BEFORE BUYING
J. L. WILBARGER & COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LAWYERS
B D Orgatn W t Ifaynard
Orgain & Maynard
Attorneys-at-l^w
ilastrop, Tex.
VT11 practice la all the Richer and
Inferior Comrta
JACK JENKINS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Bastrop, Texas
District Attorney 21st Judicial
district. Will practice iri all the
higher courts.
CHAPTER X.
An Interval.
It was on the second day after hi*
arrival In New York that Stanton
called upon Jessica Floyd. This time
he went more confidently up the aUlrs
of tfie quiet apartment house, sure of
his right.
Ab before, the little old Irlahwoman
clad In black allk waa waiting to ad
mlt him; aa before, he could have
cried out In the wonder of seeing this
girl who tinned Floyd'a candid face
to him and smiled with Floyd a gn.
eyes Only, this afternoon Jesslcla
did not rise from the piano seat to
greet him, but from a chair near a
window
"Jea Is away again," ahe regretted,
giving hlrn her hand.
"I came to ae>e you, by his i>ermls-
slon," Stanton returned
The rich 'color flushed under her
marvelous skin, that was like no other
woman's he had ever seen Floyd dlf
fered there, man from girl, his com-
plexion being much darker and less
translucent
"It la too early to give you tea and
cake," ahe told him. with a piayfulneaa
partly *hy "Hut if you will talk to
me for half an hour, It will be after
"Will You Sing It to Me Now?"
me, and 1 was old enough to support
l myself. One of them offered to Ret
mo a position as office boy."
"Oh! You—"
"I lived," he grimly answered. "I
1 naked them for nothing What per
! sonal trinkets belonged to me I sold.
I for the first needs; then I set to work
My father had wished me to be a
mechanical engineer, and I meant to
fulfil his plan. Perfect health I did
have—for six years 1 regularly worked
twenty hours out of each twenty four,
until I was graduated from college
For six yeara I waa always tired, oc-
casionally hungry, and took Just one
recreation: every night I walked
through the avenue where my former
home stood, and looked ut It. I saw
the i eople who had robbed rne go
I handsomely clad and sleek, I saw
their carriages and servant a pass and
repass. I watched, and 1 concluded
that there was Just one thing In life j
worth while "
The girl shivered slightly, her gate
V
GU8 FISCHER
GEO. V01GHT
Fischer & Voight
General Merchandise
RF.D ROCK. TEXAS
Whrn in need of all kinds of Muline and Oliver
PIowh and Wa^ona, nee lis. ^Courteous Treat-
ment and Fair Dealing is Our Motto.
FISCHER & VOIGHT
UED ROCK, TEXAS
sal D. Page
j g joow
Page & Jones
Attomeys-at-I^aw
Bastrop, Tax.
Cttfeena State Han* Building.
W1M prii i In aU the Courts.
1 r. rowua
j r rowutH. ik
FOWLED & FOWLER
irramts ti-uw
SALLIE YOUNG
THE HAIR DRESSER
Manufacturer of Fine Hair Goods. Will work tip your Hair
in any style. Cleans Hraiils, Weaves Combines into
Braids, Massages the face. I make a specially
of Dyeinjf Hair on the Scalp. Also Dye
Switchi h and Braids.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. GIVE ME A TRIAL
CHARGES LIBERAL
BASTROP, TEXAS
Bank Building. Baetrop, Tex*
Will practice in all the
higher and inferior coMrt*.
'I
Stanton went out to the !/>ng laland
course, he called on Jessica.
"It la possible to come Into New |
York, of course." he said to her "But |
I shall stay out there until after the
race After that, after Kloyd and I
come back, shall I aee a* much of
you? Or won't you want me around
when you have him?"
Startled, she met his eyes, then
turned away hurriedly to the piano, j
(To HK CONTINUED.)
Woman Bootblack.
London is to have Its first womnn
bootblack. A woman baa Just com
pleted arrangements to set up a boot*
blacking stand at one of tho busiest
corners in the West End. She be-
lieves herself to be the pioneer womnn !
bootblack in Knglund and declares |
that the men In the business need not J
fear her competition, since she In j
tends to devote herself exclusively to j
polishing the footwear of women and
children.
PHYSICIANS - SURGEONS
II. P. Luckett
Physician and Surgeon
Bastrop, TazajL
Office, W J Mlley's Drug 8tore
I'hone 24
J. Gordon Bryson
Phynician and Surgeon
Bastrop. Texas
Office. Krhard ItuUdlng, Upstairs
Phonea, Itea.denro 41, Office T.
H. B. COMBS
Physician and Surgeon
Bastrop, Teraa.
Office. C Erhard t Bon a Drug Store
Kftsldesce Phone 68.
Freeman's' Place
PHONE NO. 83.
CLEANING, PRESSING
AND DYEING
When you want a nice job of work done on that Suit, Pants,
Coat or Skirt, take it to Freeman's Place, where
you cart get it done to please you.
Ladies' Work a Specialty. All W^ik Guaranteed
BEN mflRTIN.
(THE OLD RELIABLE)
Blacksmith and Wheelwright.
None bat Skilled tod Flniabed Workmem
Employed The Mtfcf*otion rfiren petroaa
for naeoy 7*11.1 u my beat advertiemeot.
The MHOitlNO of t^ery borae rec«Mr«a nay
periKUiaJ attention. WU1 appreciate jout
continued petrouae*.
BUN MARTIN
« BABTEOP, TEXAS
W. J. MILEY
DRUGGIST
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J. R. Nichols, M. D.
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Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
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LODGE CARDS
Gamble Lodge No. 244, A. F. and A. M
Ui'KUlar meelitiK fourth Saturda'
ni^ht in each month. VIhIHiik broth
ri'ti ('(irdlitlly lnvltcl to attend tho
ini-f tlngB.
Paul I). PttRf, VV. M
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Bastrop Camp No. 79, Woodmen of the-
World.
Itopilar mootlni!* H«oond and fourth
Wfdrif'Hday night* In each month
VlHititiK SovemiKnH ar« most cordial
ly Invited to attend tho meeting" of
ItaMtrop Camp N'd 79.
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W It. Price, Clerk
Don t Overlook
that «ofat r%*V If ytm
are in arrcan ranccnh*/
fhaf ww ran alwan find
rood aaa fur
the MONEY
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