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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
^The Daughter of David Kerr
By Harry King Tootle
Illustrations by Ray Walters
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SYNOPSIS.
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llorla
and ta anxious to prevent hla a*u*"t*r
learning of hla real character. Kendall,
representing 111
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OloHa to Belmont •octet*, and promise*
to help him put through the packers
franchise and Jet him have““ _‘h«
Ip Europe.
Oop/right h/ A. a McClur.eOe., ISU
fy her own f jetty now that she bad
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told him tun. blng about herjeir.
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CHAPTBR IV.—Continued.
"Of course It lan’t our fault." at»*.ed
Or. Hayes emphatically. ‘‘I **111 »ay_.
Rose,” turning to hla wife, "tnat i
have no aympathy for people who use
the bath tub for a coal bln,”
TU tell you about It some other
time," mid Mrs. Hayes to Gloria, not
^ _(,1b^j’'jCipplrlng of making her a worker.
"i'Bi afraid you’ll find me hard to
eon vert.”
"Then I*1J' *%1 to Mr. Wright to
help me.” / ^
"I havr^A .influence with her,"
laugbef^.
"Noe > # you ran away from ua In
* Paris,” y^fted Gloria.
Dr. Hiyee and his wife left the li-
brary convoyed by Mre. Gilbert
For the first time that evening
Gloria and Wright found no cne to In-
terrupt their converaatloo
He was standing In front of the
grate, hi# admiral** for the girl shin-
log honestly forth from his eyes as he
watched her say the last good-byes.
When the others had gone, abe turned
to Wright with a smile. Walking
Across the room to him she held out
her hand, and said simply:
"You don’t know how glad I am to
find you here.”
"Are you?” he replied, retaining her
hand while he spoke. "Since that’s
the case I wouldn’t care to be any-
where else In the world.”
Then they sat down to talk of other
days.
"Only a month or ao.”
”1 think it’a the queerest thing In
the world that we abould meet here
of all place#. What are you doing
here?"
And then Wright lied. He did not
have time to consider what might be
the ethlca of the case. He listened to
his heart, which may have made him a
traitor to hlmaelf, and answered
promptly:
"I’ve been doing some magsstne
writing and an occasional bit of news-
paper and similar work.”
Had he been asked he could not
more. And never did a son owe a
mother more than * owed mine. I
never knew my father. He was a good
man, but not provident. When he died,
mother found she bad to support her-
self and me, an only child. O Miss
Kerr, If you knew the bitterness of
that struggle as I know It your heart
would ache, too, at thought of it."
He paused, but something clutched
at Gloria’s throat She could not
rtf peak.
J 1 HU IIO IfCOU aoivcu saw VW».« —— ~
have explained why he had not replied
Just aa pnmptlj—-rial he was ae own
CHAPTER V.
There was so much to be said that
Ypright and the girl were at a loss to
know where to begin now that they
had an opportunity to talk without ln-
terreptkia, With Gloria there waa an
undercurrent of unrest caused by the
fpet that she feared be had carelessly
broken the promise made on the Rhine
to meet her again In Paris. She had
waited and hi had not come.
Wright was no less Interested In
what they were about to say. In the
first place, after a long absence, he
was again with the girl whom he had
made it a point to meet at various
plains In Europe. To add confusion
... - -
„ of the Belmont* News. What tne
real reason was he could not even ex-
plain to himself. Earlier In the eve-
ning he had talked glibly of a oews-
papei and Its duty, and here an hour
later he was denying his own under
the fire o' a pair of laughing eyes
Gloria, whose Ideas of business were
aa vague as her notions of politics or
esoteric Buddhism, accepted hla expla-
nation as adequate; especially since
she recalled that when In Europe be
had been writing some magazine ar-
ticles about the tariff. Since she never
thought about the matter at all she
never thought It strange that Belmont
should be the place for such labors.
"Have you ever been to Locust
Lawn?" was her next question.
"I have that pleasure in store tor
me.”
This pleased her. Even before he
came there were many little things
she could do to make the house appear
to better advantage. Although he had
not yet made explanation of his fall
ure to come to Paris, she found her-
self anxious to have him once more
on the old footing of Intimate friend-
ship.
"Are you the same as In the mad
old, glad old Paris days?" he asked.
She parried the question with an-
other.
"Are you?”
"In some respects—only more so.”
"That’s a riddle. I hate riddles."
As he made no reply to this, she went
on after the pause of which he had not
taken advantage. “I hope we meet
accidentally as often as you met our
party abroad.”
"Was It accident?” he made bold tx>
ask.
to their friendship, which he had high-
ly prized, nad Just come the astourid-
revelation that she was David
Kerr's daughter. How could he be
friend of the daughter and an enemy
the father? Then, too, what did
tfaftiae*
"Wasn’t It? You pretended it was. reBjftai,iy drawn to him and put forth
Then the mischievous little spirit that ■ ^ hand and laid It on his sympa-
‘lf mother could have a fault, It
was her pride of me. I suppose wnen
all the things she had planned for her
self came to naught at my father's
death she centered everything on me.
It wasn’t right, of course, because I
wasn’t worth It, but I tried, always
tried to be worthy o? that pride. And
whan she came to die—she wrote--
He couldn’t go on. and Gloria, re-
specting Ills grief, was silent, too.
■Tm so glad she lived to see Jl all
>BM true," Gloria said finally in
low tone. "It makes me think of what
sacrlflcaa my father has made for me
Just because he loved me and wanted
me to have everything, he has given
up what Joy 1 might have been to him
Your story has taught me what I oWe
to him
At this a sudden pain shot through
the man's heart. It made him pledge
himself before heaven to protect her
from the truth.
"My mother died when l was
baby. Just as your father did,' 'he ex-
plained wistfully. "And, as 1 tola vou.
I envy you your mother. I wish you
had written me. I could have at least
sent my sympathy.”
Now Gloria understood. All that
year her thoughts had presented him
other than In the true light. ^
"I wrote to you," he said gravely,
“as soou as I wrote to anyone. 1 didn’t
know your address, and ventured let-
ters at Brown, Shipley’s In London,
and the American Express company In
Paris. I had heard you speak of both
places, I thought. Both letters came
back."
"Give them to me. 1 want to keep
them We left Paris before you
wrote, and hurried to Japan. Our mail
was sent In care of Cook's. What did
you do—afterward?"
“I took a long rest. There waa not
a relative to share my sorrow with
me. Now that I've come down out of
the mountains and taken sto- ’ of life I
find I haven’t a soul in th,. 1—”
Don’t say that, Joe.” She wit lr-
„w knew of her father's methods, and
of his own attitude toward the boss of
Belmont? And If she knew, what did
she think? These things made com
venation rather an exhausting mental'
exercise.
“Well?” Gloria smiled. Inviting him
to begin the story of all that had hap-
pened since they had shaken hands
and parted, he to go to London and
she back to Paris where she was to
in him Inter but where disappoint-
ment awaited her.
"Well,” he anewered. He wanted
her to begin, and thus give him the
cue to her line of thought.
"This Isn’t much like Paris."
“You’re here."
"Yes," she laughed, “and you’re
here, too. That's why It Isn’t like
Parts when 1 saw It last.”
At any nte. I'm glad we’re both
here.” He was anxious to have her
Interpret the present.
“For me It Is the first time In twelve
years."
This came as a glad surprise to
Wright. Then she cannot know much,
he thought. Her remark emboldened
him to say:
“Didn’t yon tell me your father was
a real estate operator?"
"Yes. Didn't you know that?"
had almost forgotten. You see,
am practically a stranger here. You
and I are alike In that respect, If you
have not been here for a dozen years."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that,” she re-
plied quickly. “My father knows every-
body end everybody knows father. I
•ball know every one In a week.”
"Ytm, that's true," he sold cautiously.
"How long have you been In Bel-
mont?" asked Olorla, seeking to satls-
wlth pride.
ruled her tongue forced her to say, "I
don't blame you; I think Annabel
Hitchcock is a beautiful girl. We al^
know you were crazy about her."
"Was I?” Rising Inflection.
"Weren’t you?” Also rising inflec-
tion.
"I’ll admit I followed your party.”
he conceded.
"Now we’re getting at the truth of
matter,” she replied triumphantly,
tjhe felt she was teasing him, snd she
enjoyed it “But why didn’t you come
on to Paris as you promised us? I’d
like to know why we suddenly lost
you. Was It another girl even prettier
than Annabel?'
He did not Join her when she
laughed at the picture she had painted.
All the light Joyousness, the first
which had been his since he had come
td Belmont, dies out of his face aa he
answered:
"After the Rhine I had hoped to
meet you in Ptuts again I looked
forward to It aa the beginning of an-
other happy lima. And then. In Lon-
don, I received a cable—my mother
was dying."
“No," protested the girl, her eyes
wide with pity.
"I had Just time to catch the express
for Liverpool that would put me
aboard a liner an hour before she
sailed. Miss Kerr, I know I thought of
Paris, but things all seemed blurred
to me, and so the message I had
planned to you—not to Miss Hitchcock
—was never sent.”
"My poor friend."
“I reached America too lata."
‘Tm so sorry,” she sighed.
He had told the whole story. There
was nothing more to eay.
Both sat gazing into the open fire,
busy with the thoughts of life rind
death. At last Gloria said quietly,
with no more movement than If her
thoughts had of themselves become
vocal:
"Tell me of your mother. I never
knew my mother, aud eo I envy you.
You loved her?"
”1 loved her,” he began. Of his
own affairs he seldom spoke, yet here
was one who by her very presence
made him glad to tell his story, and
glad that It was a story he could tell
"lion never loved mother
her hand and laid it on his sympa-
thetically. He turned his own and let
hers nestle within tt.
"You’re still the same Gloria."
"A year Isn’t so long a time."
And so they sat, with never a word
to say. Just that hand clasp of silent
sympathy as they gazed into the fire.
CHAPJER VI.
In the drawing-room. Kerr anil Gil
bert were Just beginning a convcrsa
Had Hoped to Meat You In
« Again."
tlon which had for Its theme the new
turn xlfuiia had taken, when Dr.
Hayes passed through the hall oo his
wsy out with his wife. Ham Hayes
was a member of the ring's I mer
shrine, and when the opportunity arose
for what was termed a quick clean-up
he was always a member of the syndi-
cate. Therefore, the die having been
cast, the Judge called him In snd an
nounced the determination to push the
franchise, s desl with which tins coro-
ner was already familiar. Tar mors
than for any other reason Kerr was
always willing to include him becuse
his Belmont connections were so
strong that b* really lent an air ef*r*
spectablUty to any undertaking.
"We are going to put a line to the
•took yarda down Maple avenue, Sam."
began the attorney.
"So it's settled, la It?”
“Yea. You remember that vacant
tract beyond Benton Park? The one
that the Belden Brothers are thinking
of cutting up for a residence addition?
Well, you can’t build a house in a
mile of it when the road’# through
there, but It’ll be worth a great deal
more for factory sites.
"You’ll have railroad connection#,
tee?” explained Kerr.
“What's doing?” asked Sam. always
keen for a dollar.
"Get an option on It," continued
Gilbert, "and we’ll cash In big."
"How long an option?"
The attorney looked at Kerr.
"81xty daya,” said the latter.
"In that time we can ram the fran-
chise through the council, and when
that’s done any bank’ll lend ua the
money to take over the property.”
Hayes went out to rejoin bis wife,
after promising to take the matter up
;n the luc’-'ing.
Gilbert wws Just on the point of be-
ginning a discussion of Gloria's future
when a reporter from the Banner was
announced.
"I’ll come out to see him,” said the
lawyer, rising.
“No," objected Kerr, “have him In. I
want to see him, too.”
So Mr. James Wlnthrow, the young
political reporter for the Belmont Ban-
ner, was admitted.
Wlnthrow. like the usual run of star
reporters In a town the. size of Bel-
mont, was not only a shrewd young
American, but be was also well aware
of hla great shrewdness. He had
made as many political prognostica-
tions as any young man In the coun-
try, and they were quite aa misleading
In the main aa were any of the others
Being on the machine paper and i
loyal reporter, It followed as of course
that he was a loyal machine man. Old
Jerry Wlnthrow, the editor, was a dis-
tant relative, but friendly enough and
Interested enough In the youth to ex-
plain to him somo of the turnings of
the political wheels.
When Wlnthrow saw Kerr closeted
with his legal adviser he could not
suppress a whistle of surprise.
"Evening. Judge. Good evening, Mr
Kerr.”
“How are you, Jim?” said Gilbert.
The boss merely nodded an acknowl-
edgement of the greeting. “What can
1 do for you?”
“Some stock yard terminal rumors
In the air, Judge; Just rumors, and 1
can’t find out a thing.”
"I haven’t beard a thing about It,'
the lawyer assured him. Then to Kerr,
“Have you?”
"Not a word," answered the boss.
“Where did you get It?” queried Gil-
bert.
'Floating 'round town. I met Mr
Kendall Just now going to the sta
tlon, but he wouldn’t talk. 1 know
that the surveyors have been out
When Mr. Kendall said he’d been hers
to dinner, Btlby, he’s our city ediioi
told me to see you.”
Gilbert turned to Kerr. The leader
was a man of few words. He disposed
of the matter under discussion with
one sentence.
"Tell Bllby. Dave Kerr said no* to
print a line; he’ll understand.”
That was all. It waa an orden. and
the reporter accepted It as such.
Things In Belmont were so well regu-
lated that there was no danger from
any source which would cause Kerr to
think twice before sending his order
to the city editor of tho Banner by the
reporter of that paper.
As Wlnthrow rose to depart, Kerr
asked: "You have anything to do with
the society columns?"
"Occasionally stumble on a story."
"Tomorrow put In that Miss Gloria
Kerr has returned from a trip around
the world."
Wlnthrow put It down, and then
asked with pencil poised: “Is she al
Locust Lawn?"
“Yea," Bald Kerr.
"Don't write the item until I tele-
phone you later In the evening," Inter-
rupted Gilbert. He had been plotting
and planning along Boclal lines ever
since Kerr had told him of Gloria's
return. Several things he had already
thought of flashed through his mind.
The Impossibility of locust Lawn as
a social center was one of these, and
Gilbert had something to suggest be-
fore having the Banner write the story
which would herald her return. "You
can add this, though. Say that Judge
and Mrs. Gilbert will Issue Invitations
next week for a dsnee to Introduce
Miss Kerr.”
No sooner had too reporter gone
than Kerr turned to Gilbert and said
with what was for him unaccustomed
warmth:
"That's mighty good of you, Amos."
"Not at all." Then the lawyer went
on In an lujured tone, "I'm only sorry
that you put the franchise up to me as
a trade. I'm uot doing It for that "
"1 knew you'd do It for the glrl’e
sake, but I want you to get whsl you
can out of it, Amos. 1 owe you that
much."
(TO HE CONTINUED. I
William Bayard Hale has been a
good deal In the public eye of late be-
cause (’resident Huerta of Mexico ob-
jected to his presence in that repub-
lic. Dr. Hale was a clergyman, but is
better known as an editor and writer.
He Is forty-four years old, and comes
from Richmond. Ind. He was educat-
ed at Harvard, and was in the minis-
try from 1896 until 1900. Then he
became editor of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine In 1901 he waa made editor
of Current Literature. He gave up the
magazine field in 1902 to become a
special correspondent of the New-
York World. Then for Beveral years!
he waa managing editor of the Phlla-J
, delphla Public Ledger letter In- was/
^ ^WfiW one of the editors of the New York
Times, and hi 1909 he went to Paris aa
jfiMWjgV correspondent of that paper. He Is a
brilliant writer.
< '"SSsmhh* IL Various foreign governments have
_1 Hha,._ honored him. He is a Knight Com-
mander of the Imperial Order of the
Rising Sun of Japan snd an officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium. He
has been quite a student of history. He wrote the "Making of the American
Constitution," which is a standard publication. He > is associated with Mr.i
Wilson in some of his historical writings.
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WRITES POEMS TO ORDER
Handmade verse. Instead of court-
made law, has been handed out by
Representative Edward T. Taylor of
Colorado In many an instance where
he believed he could serve his clients
better with common sense than Juris-
prudence. Taylor is one of the big
characters of the mountainous state
from which he cornea, and in addition
to hla knowledge on the subject of ir-
rigation, public lands and law, he Is
considered to be a shrewd and far-
seeing citizen worth while knowing.
Ho had a law case once in which a
ranchman named Greenough rode 25
miles one hot day to find Taylor In hla
little office at Glenwood Springs.
Greenough’s complaint lay In the fact
that a neighbor's hens would stray
across the dividing line and scratch
up Greenough’s garden sans.
"I’m tired of talking to that fellow,"
said the ranchman, "and I want to get
out a court injunction against the
hens—not the owner—the hens! Do
you understand?"
"How many hens are there?” asked Taylor.
"About a thousand.” replied Greenough.
About a tnousana, repneu urenuuusu.
Taylor figured up the number of eggs that a thousand hard-worklag hens
might produce, and then. Instead of giving words to a long Hat of legal advice,
he scribbled down a four-line verse and handed it to Greenough. This was the
"If the poultry of your neighbor man
Into your yard should chance to stray,
Don't let your angry passions rise,
* iff**
But find tbe hen® a place to lay!'
THIS IS J. W. BRYAN
Paris
Secretary Bryan and Representative
J. W. Bryan of Washington are not re-
lated, but they are much alike In that
both are great public speakers.
The secretary of state got his
early training in school "bforator-
ing” out In Nebraska, while .he rep-
resentative learned to talk while sell-
ing books down in Texas.
Bryan was sole agent for northern
Texas and other parts for the works of
Dr. De Witt Talmage. He had a six-
teen-pound oration and a twelve-pound
book that he Just fairly threw at the
natives for several summers, while
working his way through college. They
do say down there that once he got
the front door open and his foot be-
tween it and the threahhold the hon-
est housekeeper had as well dig Up
$1.75 for a set of half morocco Tal-
mage works and save time. He near-
ly always made a sale.
During tho first summer out Bryan
had several peculiar experiences. He
traded books for lodging board and most everything else. Finally he became
lo affluent that he bought himself a hor.e and buggy and went scurryln,
around the countryside on wheels-a thing no book agent In those parts ever
had done before.
SENOR MANUEL DE ZAMACONA
The tobacco of New England gener
ally commanda a higher price thao
the average of the othor slates.
COMING CHANGE IN CLOCKS
Aerial Waves, Instead of Springs, as
•t Present, May Mevt Hands
on Dial.
■* of wireless teleg-
we live In That Is to eay. Instead mt
onob clock trying In Its own small
way to keep exact step to the march
of the minute by means of Its own tit-
tle paraphernalia In pendulum, spring
sad cog wheel, there will exist a sys-
tem of master clocks, one In every
-real center, taking the time from
h observatory, minute by
** "•'-oiais antennae.
like as leaving word with Greenwich
observatory to call one at 6: *0 o'clock
The Immediate question Is rather that
of the extent to which a spark sent
out to »11 points simultaneously would
benefit the keepers of accurate time
If It ’were worth while, a studer^ of
the subject nays, It would be perfectly
feasible to regulate any number of
clocks within the wireless radius by
v -on« of half-minute spark Impulses
-Rah clockmaker has already
the scheme on a small
'>wn home. All the clocks
In the house of F. O. Read of Chis-
wick are run by sparks from a mastel
clock. Tbe responding clocks sh* uld
rather be called Indicators, for tne)
are notblug but dbtle and "ads
moved by one wheel, which Is actual
ed by the spark Impulses.
Manuel de Zamacona. once Mexican
minister at Washington, arrived In
this country a short while ago on a
mission from President Huerta. His
mission was said to boar some sem-
blance to that of Ex-Governor Lind,
who was sent to Mexico by President
Wilson, It Is understood that Zama-
cona was Huerta's personal repre-
sentative. and did not posseas an
official status.
There Is some ground for the belief,
however, that Zamacona had the sanc-
tion of the so-called dictator of Mexi-
co for an endeavor to reopen the ne-
gotiations which had been st a stand-
still since the last note of Foreign
Minister Gambon, turning down the
proposals of President Wilson,
When ho left Maxlco City, en route
for Washington, It was said he was
going to see the several members of
President Wilson's cabinet In an at-
tempt to negotiate a loan to put Huer-
ta’s government on a substantial
financial basis, and to make a desperate effort
In Baftton.
Visitor—Put mqfjff at tbe muxt cot
ner, please, condjfttor.
Conductor— MkPam, I shouldn’t fik*
to do tharijbu#! will stop the mt
aud help you *to get oB,—Judge.
V
to raise at least 16,000,000 la
the Interest on the National railway bonds, which tell due
gold to pay
October 1. . .
President Wilson snd his cabinet members, however, refused to open
egotist ions with Senor Zamacona as a representative of the Huerta admln-
»t rati on snd iberefore, It la amd, hla mlsalon, so fur as the loan is concerned,
iip ii ft ilur*.
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