The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1903, Page 1

s the third installment { The Leopard’s Spots, berein the author, Thomas xon Jr., has taken up the tale of h man’s burden” in the ing the awful carnage of eat civil strife in 1860, and ing period since, and re that is heartrending e very best part of Mr. rkable book is the fact written merely to no striving af- writes very quietly of T and were, but remendously por- he has written in book, the tenderest the most wvirile, tense created by modern mediately af the completion The Leopard’s Spots” you will et “THE THIRTEENTH DIS- T,” by Brand W This vel has created a tr ose of e-like effect of iel life in Wash- noral and political re drawn into novel fol- om Indiana,’” The Mississ- Hough; C. N. wWil- e House,” by Tainted Gold amson: “The T ther announcements to will be right in did literary policy already outlined, get the best fic- day without any extra : ” ecay. Page & Co. seeme him sm! ar hing ke o o r dreaming and . enes dered not frame - v ne. He stao@~by the [ e world this ght as he gazed. ou -~ A ¢ 2ks, whose veung. léaves P : at the touch of the - rhing his eye downw saw the n loading th for the me WORTH ng ras t note a did. Com time k bim rer messages. by . g steps, his be L giing ger tips with the enue Jeading the full gene: e it reac v a gate. 1t seemed ¢ e cool shade of v ing hide and a4 crooked mble to its top- larghed at wiftly after s just reach- ver, and then leaped tree and another until the forest ing to be my turned into beauty of that on the hill with nd swept his soul with eemed a different shade of saw it with the sun at the soft sheen of creamy velvet.: He paused and sighed, be so poor! Why should y a house lik: t 1'd turn that big banquet hall on the , and I'd ask ne higher heaven.” to wondering y the having without the face and volce of the girl who was there within waiting for him. N of it this morning for the f i The certainty of brought to his heart a hcnn‘ of lonelines:- and despair. ! he was sure t time in his struggle before him, and of that beautifui accomplished young woman, rich, petted, the belle of the city, the gulf that sep- their lives seemed Impassable. with fire,”” he said to him- jooked up at the graceful gr( with their carved and fluted capi- Let me live to its dn(—n(n depthe and its highest reach. s better to love and lose than never And he walked into the self as he let it be so. to love at all.” cool hall with the ease and assurance of its master. Ballle greeted him with the kindliest m so glad you stayed to-ds M ston. 1 should have been really chagrined to think I made so slight an impression on you that you could wali ST1ILS IJ'/‘/Y 7 prearranged T am not used to being treated But if vou're es why haven't He tried 'to make some.answer to this haif serfqus banter, but was so absorbed in just looking at, her he said nothing. “Have you no apology, sir, for pretend- ing that you were golng home this morn- she sald seating herself by’ the woman And you haven't found he: she said archly, * “You didn’t ask me to stay with fervor. ”ll ought not to have been neces A7t “Didn’t you really know I was not going?” ir dreams de- What kind of a creature must Yu you see I'm twenty- otten the dreams of your ane years old. things happen belore purred this slowly and burst into_laughter. “Now, Miss cruel ro throw me down in 1 dogs I don’t even know ‘Since when?"” “Thanks, We are getting on beautifully, your timidity in . looked down at the pattern Four legged ones, ve: peak for some friends alive.” t and did not minutes fled in her “Mrs. Durham, m course. B tion of our fa cedents. I c that I hav “And that say something t perfectly ridicu in_time “T wish yo “Mrs. Durl those lov But Im the v cus “Let me be th She was loc had_opened the [ “T'llplay for there in that big tired you so ear chatter. And before- he were. touching the pi of the born musicia He sat enraptured sinuous grace with answering cry of her v She touch harm that indefinable gave lumi OW e He had no knowledge ¢ musie, but now he kne improvising. The plan of her own I pulsing with a him to Sudde e ceased, rned her fac on_his sbef e uld brush away a big tear that rolled flushe losed th i things morning. cranky s fellow. I was afraid say a lot rr( mean things about you papa says you swallowed him who “Did you wish him to say kind thing about me? “Of course,” she = and then look of mischlef came k i “Were you not our guest? felt like whipping him if h nice things. “Then I'll tell vour playing spoke a_me you impee Such must seems to me the the infl and bringing it with of matter t 2 kindred sou sphere ar star lips - qui ooked awa acress the v and mads no_answer her intently ready now for our driv here in ten minute the porch »ounded oy the ntfl T am ecret dreams known but twenty-four hours. Nonsense down in his so knew he had kngwr Ler forever. Before the world was mad ages and ages H knowr by a resistle ard the s could talk that known of art a the deep tr leaping forth words. P nlig “Don’t you can do to mana The twilight was d the house, and sring when the n angry, anxious h up on the stoc mother a word. a th and prett \eard befor ted him arching | Again it was reached the h The next morning Bob St. Clare broke in cn him bef was out of bed Look he ng slipping og, what are ye ling around he: Eob, you're I want fo s Tell me all you I »>w about the Worths “The Worths Which ¢ “There's only or see.” “Well, you ma two if cu should happes the he cnt He's all right he turns on y hen you want nd sheiter.” 3 ever run up against him? N ot that He's hai fellow-well-met wf{th every yvoungster town. He will laugh and joke about hi daughter until he thinks she is in earnest about a fellow, and then he swoops down on him like a hawk. [l bet a hundred dollars he’s playing you now for all u're worth against the latest favorite. But Miss Sallie—she's an angel!” “Look here, Bob, you're not in love with her? ““Well, I'm convalescing at present, my boy. Every boy in town has been there, but I don’t believe she cares a snap fo a man of us unless it's that big red-head ed McLeod. I can't make his position ou exactly.” “Did she_jolt vou hard when you Hhit the ground? “Easiest thing you ever saw. She ha a_supreme genius for painless cruel When the time comes she can pull you eve-tooth out in such a delicate, friendi way you will have to swear she hasn hurt yot You still go?” “Lord, yes: we all do—sort of congres: of the lost meet down there. They a hang on. She keeps the friendship of ev ery poor devi e kills.” “You know vou make the cold chills run down my back when you talk like that ““Are vou i love with he To tell thé truth. I “Then what in thunder Gaston?"