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PAGE FOUR 4r.\ • THE INLAND - EMPIRE. Thursday, dfowary 29, 1014. , V . ANTS 0 o c o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The following list of want o Ws should be read aVer care- o full—they may suggest some- d thing you want or can supply. o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 For Sallee—New hieating stove and sevenal articles of furniture. Cal at the Moore Studio. 1-22-29. - For Sale—B-flat Clarinet. Just the thing for a new beginner. Cheep if taken at once. Inquire at Empire office. tf B. G. Worden, Lawyer, First Na- tional Bank block, Lewistown, Mont. Botb phones 127. tf We put the \OPT\ in optional. See our ad. Wright Land & Invest- naent Co. lgoticellhe Moore Studio twee he telosed after January 31. 1-22-29. POR SALE Leeper Property in Moore; small house, ilot, fenced, and well, Low price, reasonable terms. ; tr. S. B. PEVERSOIN. For Sale—Old- Trusty 150 EU ILL- culbator, used one season. 2tp. F. W. GRAFF. For Sale—Barred Plymouth Rook cocieereils, also single comb Rhode Island Reid tcockerels . These are shipped in—no relation to anything I've solid befiere. Price 42.50 each. 'Eggs in sea -son, 41.00 setting or $5 per. hundred. Phone 2 long, 1 short Beaver creek Pee or write Mrs. C. W. Baird, Moore, Mont. 1-22tf ' • YOU RIDA:D THESE ADS.—Others will read yours. Try one. , Clean Wall double Good per gel. If you, paper, es in WINDOW L. .. ___ Sale —o— WALL PAPER PAINTS, VARNISHES -- Paper rode up Varishes up __ 0 __ intend Welts, the near BUY NOW —o -- LINOLEUM ETC. — 0 — L. BANNAN _ . . ..... Up 1 OILS, from 10c a from $1.50 using wall ails, varnish- future SHADES Hotel MOCCASIN D. First Livery Judith stop at Moccasin 0. HOLT, Prop. Class Accommodation. in Connection Basin, Montana WILIB ER Catalog ail about Beet A CO. i .• Ali f i;\ i FREE \ApIA Tolls 4y - : ; thellardiest , : ,.., 1 • : ',. ,.,;, . •#?, / and - ' r',1 'HASSEL 1 .' SEEN, TREES 4 SHRUBS . . . A: ., \'\---.\ ..• TRADE MARK• GittOTZTZRED OSCAR BISMARCK, orsasseemee H. WILL & N. D. SETH 0. CARROLL * FUNERAL DIRECTOR lEmbalming done, guaranteed satestackory for shipping, at • reasonable prices. Cans ans- wered promptly day or night. Also dealer In Foreign and American Marble and Granite MONUMENTS See or write me for pieces. Phones 46, 73. H +4 0444. Mr ISLAND Of ME STAIRS Being a True Account of Certain Strange and Wonderful Adven- tures of Master John Hampdon, Seaman, and Mistress Lucy Wilberforce, Gentlewoman, In the Great South Seas. By GYR1JS TOWNSEND BRADY - 1912. by Cyrus Iewnsead Brady 4elsisiMelelselleH4444elleHHH , 4444 , CHAPTER XVII. In Which We Win Light, Life, Liberty and Love. W E went down the cave. To find the water was easy. Sure enough. it led away through a narrow rift in what direction we could not tell, al- though its tendency was downward. and I knew it would come out upon the beach somewhere. It had not seemed to rue as I examined it before the earthquake that the rift was more than eeough to carry the water, but it had probably opened wider now by the shock, and so we followed it. Al- though sometimes the walls closed over the water course, making tunnels, we managed to force our way through them. ' J went in the advance, for I knew that what my bulk could pass would present little difficulty for her. We wandered in and out among the coral - until it seemed to me that we had gone miles, although in reality it could have been but a few hundred yards. At last we came to a place too low and too narrow for me to pass. al- though I might, perchance, have thrust her through. \You see,\ she said, \this is the end.' \No said I. I still had the ax with me and the sword which I had thrust into my belt. The rock seemed soft. • Lying down upon my back and covering my eyes with one hand, I struck at it with the ax. thus enlarging the pas- sage. The water beneath me was deathly cold, the candle in the lantern was burniug lower and lower, but I hung on. Never did I work so in all my life as then. At last I loosened a huge rock, which fell suchjenly upon me. Had I not seen it coming and dropped the ax and stayed its progress with both upraised hands it might have crushed. me. As it was, it fell fairly upon my breast. I could not throw it aside; the way was too narrow. I held It up in my hands and forced my way through, although what I should meet or where I should bring up on the other side I knew not. I thrust hard and harder with my feet and presently my way was clear, and I shoved my- self through the opening. With one great final effort I rolled the rock aside and then lay on my back on the sand, breathless, exhausted. She dragged herself over my body and through the passage I had thus made and then knelt by my side, kissed me, murmuring words I did not dare to listen to lest I should go mad with Joy. And, indeed, I was so exhausted that I could scarcely credit that I had heard anything real. Presently, how- ever, I staggered to my feet again. She, had forgotten the lantern, but I went back after it. We were in a more spacious cave. The stream, fed by other brooks, had become larger. The descent was much more rapid. The cliff wall was, I be- lieve, barrower at the treasure cave than anywhere else in the island. It was, perhaps, not more than half a mile wide. We stumbled rapidly down the long vaulted passage to the other wall. As we approached it I half fear- ed that the rock might be solid, and that the brook might plunge beneath it, but fortune did not do its worst for us. There was a rift in the wall, around which the brook ran. A long distance away appeared to me a spot of dimness. Recklessly we clasped hands and ran to the opening. Alas, when we reached the light we found that the entrance was closed by a huge stone. It did not exactly St the opening, and the light filtered around it. I stood panting, staring at it. \Are we to be ended now,\ I cited, \after having come thus far? Stand clear,\ I shouted, - not giving her time to answer. Then with all my strength I swung the ax and struck the rock fair and square and by good fortune upon some fissure, foi it shivered and a crack started. Once again, this time with tremendous force, I swung and struck. The ax sank into the stone, the helve shivered in my hand. It was a right good blow, if I - do say it myself, for the rock was by this time fairly split In two, the pieces falling to the right and left. Still it was well in the en- trance. We had not yet a clear pas- sage. I was mad now, as mad as I had been in the inner cave fighting for her. the blood esthed to my face, a mist to illy eyes. I stooped down and with Lily hands I seized one piece of that rock and, with such strength as Her- eales'neight haee ueedr thrust it aside. My mistress stood staring , at we' in 1•awe, also in terror. The way was opened. . We stepped out upon the sand. My clothes were torn to rags; blood was clotted in my hair and . on my fore- head; my face was black with sweat and dust. There were wounds on my arms and legs. I was a gory and hor- rible spectacle. Mistress Lucy bad suffered no wounds, but her clothes were rent and torn. Her face was grimy and beneath the dust ad earth stain it was as white as the cap of a wave. \Thanks to God,\ she said at last. \and you, we have won!\ I thought she would have fainted. I caught her by the arm, sat her down upon the island and sprinkled the we - ter from the brook in her face until presently she revived. \We are not safe yet,\ I urged. \There were hundreds of savages upon the island. They could not all have been in the cave. We must go warily. We cannot rest now.\ \I am ready,\ she said with great spirit, getting to her feet and stretch- ing out her hand; \if you will help me I can go anywhere.\ I still had my sword. 1 drew it and led on, keeping well under the shelter of the cliffs. We walked up the end toward the giant stairs. There were men, islanders, at the top of the wall, but my first glance told me that we had nothing to fear from them, for the stairs were gone. They wete but a scattered heap of stones. The earth- quake had crumbled the work of the builders of bygone years, and as the stairs had fallen away they had left the' cliff sheer and bare for a hundred feet. They couldn't come at us. \It is an act of God,\ said 1, \that has broken down the stairs.\ \But there may be another way of descent,\ she said after a moment. \Oh let us leave this dreadful island!\ I had no hope that the dinghy had been spared, but its place was not far away, and we walked to it in silence. It was gone. A tidal wave had follow- ed the earthquake. The canoes in which the islanders had come had been dashed to pieces and their keepers kill- ed. The survivors were prisoners on the island unless their friends came to their help and even then until they could devise some way of getting down the cliff. And we, too, were prisoners. Some of our gear, the compass. some provisions which I had stored in -the crannies of the rock were still there, but they were useless to us. Some- thing else had happened. The earth quake had broken the vast barriei reef. Before us was a practicable pas sage to the sea! If we only had a boat! I turned to the canoes hopeful of finding one sea- worthy, and as I did so my little mis- tress caught me by the arm. \Look!\ she cried, pointing far up the horizon. I turned, and there, bottom upward. floated the dinghy. The sight of hem - was like a draft of wine. I turned and ran up the sand, followed by my lady. When opposite the boat I kicked oft my shoes—I had on little else but shirt and trousers—Jumped into the lagoon, swam to the dinghy and towed her ashore. Assisted by Mistress Lucy, I turned her over. I then hunted Iffilhe few things we had saved, with a little • store of cocoanuts which we had ac- cumulated in one of the eaves, shipped the oars, which, being tied to the row- locks, had not been washed away, and shoved off. The mast was still lashed to the thwarts, and a boat cloak had been caught under the forward thwart. The painter was still fastened to a ring bolt in the bow, and as soon as I had rowed through the narrow entrance : stepped the mast and improvised a sail with the boat cloak and the painter The breeze blew softly. We passed the island and then set our course by the compass to the eastward, headed for the great South American coast so many miles away. We had gone through many perils but had sustarned them all. Fortune as if ashamed of her allotted trouble, made it up to us in the end, for in a few days we fell In with a Spanish ship of war in the service of the vies. roy of Peru. which had been exploring the south seas and had been driven far out of her course by the same storm which had wrecked the Rose of Devon. Commander Don Antonio Re We Fell In With a Spanish Ship in War. cede was an officer and a gentleman There was no war between our Eng 11,0h•:tdmig_ and the Spanish monarch i then, and. he treated us courteously, gave us food and raiment. assigned a spare cabin to my mistress and berthed Me aft With the officers. He was bound ter Valparaiso. which in due course, without mishap, we reach- ed. There we took ship for the Portu- guese possessions on the other shore o f the contleeut and thence we got * ship from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, and so at last' we came to England and to Plymouth herbor, weenee we had set forth uearly a year ago. I paid the captain of the SpaRish frigate which had picked us up with an emerald of great pr - ice, which -he was loath to accept, but which we pressed upon him. We bad little dif- ficulty, through his kind offices, in sell- ing another stone or two for ready moue) . at Valparaiso, so we experi- enced no difficulties which could be avoided by the expenditure of money upon the way. I took my mistress to the house of the devoted Master Ficklin, who, with that kindly woman, his sister, greeted us as if we had risen from the dead. and, greatly rejoicing in my lady's good fortune, gave us the warmest of wel- comes. There I had what I expected would be,my last Interview with her. We had been thrown constantly to- gether during the six months that had elapsed between our great adventures upon the Island of the Stairs and our arrival in England. We had discussed everything else, I think. but I had said naught of my love. Indeed, each league of sea over which we passed on our way homeward seemed to re- move her farther from me. We were alOne. Good Mistress Fick - fin had given us her parlor for the aft- ernoon. I took from my pockets the canvas pouches filled with her treas- ure and laid them on the table. \These Mistress Wilberforce,\ said 1, formally enough, although my heart was beating rapidly, \are yours.\ She waved her hand as if they were of small moment. \We have discussed that before.\ she said. \What of yourself?\ \Last night,\ I replied. \1 went down on the docks. A company's ship sails for India next week. They want a chief mate, and if my references serve they will engage me.\ \And you have these references?' \I thought, madam, that your friends In the city might give them to me when they know.\ \But I have no friends in the city,\ she said. \These said I, pointing to the table, \will buy them for you.\ \And so,\ she said, without looking at me, \and so it is goodby, then. May you be happy.\ She extended her hand to me. and I caught it. I kissed it passionately, but when I made to let it go she would not. \ \Master Hampdon,\ she said, looking at we, her eyes brighter than the dia- monds and bluer than the sapphire upon the table. \you are a fool.\ \Right well do I know that, mis- tress,\ said I, striving to fetch a smile to match her own. \And a blind man as well.\ Whereat I was a blind man indeed, for my eyes misted up, but not with the blood as in the battle. And 1, as strong and tough as a mountain oak, was as like to faint as any lovesick girl. \John John,\ came the sweetest voice in the world to me through the darkness, \don't you see? Don't you know that I love you and you only, that yen have all my life, and that my life, which is yours a thousand times on sea and shore, is not worth living without you?\ \But your friends, your world,\ I protested as she came nearer. \I have no other friends, I want no other, and you are my world.\ Well, it is not in me to resist after that, and for the third time in my life I held her in my arms, where since that hour she has often been again, and for the third time I drank the sweetness of her lips. \Do you remember that night on the Rose of Devon when first you kissed rue?\ she asked, laughing. \If I should kiss you a million times, sweetheart, as I mean to do,\ L an- swered boldly, \I should not, forget a single one of them, much less that.\ \And to punish you for your pre- sumption, although my heart went out to you, I confess, I struck you; and to teach you to be a dutiful husband, lov- ing, devoted to me,\ she paused and laughed again. \I strike you once more.\ Whereat she laid her hand once again, but in tenderness, upon my cheek, fol- lowing it with a kiss. I have had his majesty's sword laid upon my shoulder' after I had led one of the king's ships to victory in the French wars. and I am now, if you please, Sir John Hampdon. We live at Wilberforce Castle, and our children play on the sward, but the royal ac- colade meant not so much to we as that light blow upon' my cheek with which my dear mistress sealed our plighted troth. THE END. W. T. SHARP Contractor & Builder ALL KINDS OF CEMENT WORK Csment Block, Brick and Concrete Houses a Specialty A FINE LINE OF CEMENT MACHINERY ARCHITECT of the latest up-to-date modern building. Plans and specifi- cations furnished on all kinds 92,, public buildings and dwelling houses, with supervision if desired. ALL 'WORK GUARANTEED Moore, - - - - Mon** If You 'Wish TO SELL YOUR FARM THIS SEASON LIST IT WITH US. WE ARE RECEIVING INQUIRIES NOW FROM EASTERN BUYERS AND WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR PLACE IN OUR NEW LIST. When in the Market TO BUY LAND LET US SHOW YOU SOME BARGAINS WE HAVE LIKE THE FOLLOWING: 160 acres, W e miles from Mocchsin—$42.50 per acre; all fenced, small( cabin and *barn, 120 acres ready for spring crop; water. Must be said soon or price will go higher. Terms. 160 acres, 5 miles from eteenford—$35 per acre; can all be plow - good ed but 10 acree; small buildings; fenced; 15 acres broke; on a good road and excellent soil. Land adjoining held $10 higher. Terms. 320 acres, 3 miles from Moccasin—S55 per acre; all plow land.; good house and 'large barn; fenced; 250 acres under cultivation. S. E PETERSON Real Estate, Farm Loans, Insurance, Surety Bonds, Notary and Land Office Work. Collections. Clary Bldg., Moore, Montana Motion Pictures T THE— MOORE OPERA HOUSE Every Saturday Night T. & H. AMUSEMENT CO. WM. HEINECKE, Manager. Bran, Shorts and Mixed Feed will fit your stock for heavy work Montana Elevator Company D. 0. McGDINN, Agent MOORE, MONTANA TrI l Ar e Montana umber Co. puridup.;Coal 00°001 Payment Farm Loans We loan our own funds. Interest and principair paid in Lewistown. Money can be had same day applied for. Everything explained and square deal assured. We did not put the \OPT IN , OPTIONAL,\ but we took the \STUFF OUT OF STUFFING.\ MONTANA LOAN INVESTMENT CO. Phone 496 Next to Bank of Fergus County on 3tdAvenuta Lowlitown, Montana St diaey GasolineEn LiE.36 A Verdict , The Innocent prisoner hinted by a jury of his neighbors. The verdict of your neighbors who ' have gontiried the Stickney Engine is # 1 qtra tree yoa o/ft.twm troubles if you buy one. &mu Poetizer CO. RUMMY& AGENTS Emil Felenzer Co. More, Mont. es es' es •
