The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1901, Page 11

. THE GREATEST OF ALL i ROMANCES. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. bedford aod Oavor, two Of resohii ime, and covered during part of the ti gold growth Durmiel, engag in they Ail many! Selenitven, They scatter thelr opponents and make for an SBenine, ta, fhe cara, whence they fancy they calctiert fade the eters and pore to notity Cavor, but cannot find him, Message. ] chilled me. And it was still. Any sound of the Selenites. in world beneath even, had died away. It was as atl] as death. Save for the | : a ue os te i M i ‘moon ae lcrge glass horn “Tey tue’ coat fnclery & dean, wonid lava ranting fest T had an effect of blenk emptiness that the “There were faint pencil marks."’ ling breeze dra something smi It wus a little as though it had deen clutched 1 pleked it up, and on it re and vividly white, of px ame cannot rin or crawl? ie bewan—pretty rout the knee, pushed, and Aiatinotly written lowe. levi “They have been ic only a’ question of seemed to have been writtes here al erased in iz tllextble— “before t y are beating all about me, Then the writing becagke convulsive. “I can hear them,” I guessed the trac- ing meant, and then It was quite un- readable for a space. m came a little string of words that were quite distinct: “a different fort of Selenite altogethe?. who apnearn to be directing the —"" The writing became a mere hasty confunion 12: “They have larger bruin-cases, are clothed, as I take It, in thin plates of gold. make gentle nolses and Move with organized deliberation. And though I'am wounded and helptoss here, their appearance etil! gives me hope"— That was like Cavor. “They have not shot at_me or attempted Injury. I in tend" — ‘Then came the sudden strenk of the pencil acrosa the paper, and on the back And edgee—blood! And as I stood there, stupid and per- plexed, with this dumgounding rele. in my hand, something very, very soft and light and chill touched my hfind for & moment and censed to be, and then a thing, a Mttle white speck, drifted athwart « shadow. was a tin: snowflake. the snowflake, rho first erald of the night. CAVOR’S MESSAGE. eirnieinicirivivicicinininieinieieleininieleleinii-iet faim ottr of the shrubs about me in the little breese that was rising, there was no sound nor shadow of a sound. And i was not warm now; the breeze ‘was even a Nittle fresh. Confound Cavor! I took @ long breath. I put my hands to the aides of my mouth. “Cavor!" I bawled, and the sound was ike some manikin shouting far away. I looked at the handkerchief; I looked behind met the broadening shadow of the westward cliff; I looked under my hand at the oun. It aeemed to me that almost visibly it was creeping down the sky. I feit I must act instantly tf I was to +@ave Cavor. I whipped off my jacket and flung it as a mark on the sere bayonets of the @hrubds behind me, and then set off in & straight line toward the handkerchief. Perhaps it was a couple of miles away —a matter of a few hundred leans and strides, T have already tok! how ono seemed to hang through those lunar leaps. In each suspense I sought Cavor, and marvelled why he should be hidden. T tried to think of it only in that way, an If that wero the only possibility. A Inst leap and I was In the depression below our handkerchief, a stride and [ stood on our former vantage-point with. in arm’s reach of It. I stood up straight and scanned the ronal about emer between lengthen- ing bars of low, rar away, down a jong declivity, was the ies cpenine se of the tunnel up which we shadow reached to- ward ft, fr stretoned toward it and touched it lke a finger of the night. Not a eign uf Cavor, not a sound tn all the stiliness, only that the stir and wa ing of the shrubs and of the shadows {ncrensed, And xuddenly’ and violently shivered. “Cav''—- [ began, and realized once more tho uselessness of the human voice in that thin alr. Silence. The silence of death, Then it was my cye cant something =e ee thing. lying perhaps fifty yardy wn the slope amid a litter of bent and broken branches. ‘What was it. knew, and yot for some reason I would not know. went nearer to it, It waa the little cricket-cap Cavor had worn, I looked up. w! had darkened a start, and the sky ulmost to blackness and was thick with a gathering multitude of coldly watchful stars, T looked eastward, and the light of that shrivelled world wan touched with a sombre bronze—westward, and the sun, robbed now by a thickening white mist of half its heat and splendor, was touch. ng th m sinking out of and Jagged and against tt ina { black shapes. Into arkness weatward Wt (Copyrighted, 1900. by H. G. Wells.) + A infed something into view, ‘umpled htiy. of rel. My eye caught faint penell- marks. I smoothed tt out and saw uneven « ending last in THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, , 190 FROM FICTION, Vast wreath of mist was sinking, A cold wind set all the « shiver- ng. Suddenly, pent J was ina Wt of failing all the work! i 1 1 Inde Over me embracing im ternal, that wht ginning and that w noon me, the shivering erumpted imper crest to take my be: with all the will that w out towart the mark Ih distant now in the v shadow. Leap, leap, seven ages. Before me the pale serpent-girdled se tor of the sun sank and sank, and the advancing shadow swept to seize the) sphero before I could reach It. leap, and each Once, and then again, my foot slipped xs on the’ gathering snow na T lenped, and! Sisters Nein ihe cnurets Burn| they had turned on Anot her, frigerator, phortengt my;leapzionce I fell short into lsacamatatenawunteeas large bargain charcoal lined uushes that da ashed Inte uaty ‘chips and nochininess, and id Novels and Put on Garb ftw ot ong re i lot of these and_ airtight, tu Jed 8 dropped id rolled head ili the i - Svar heats 'into @ ett, ai rons irulan of Humility. [ther ig finch Mshog: Baie ca And bleeding, and confused as to ty. dl- 3. brass hinges; ntion. a, “i *SBut such Incidents were as nothing| ET.AWOOD, Ind, May 9—The ¢ Week on $25 Worth} Tables, signs value $8.00; to the dntervals, those awful jiauses = c. polish rice this week when one drifted throuch the alr to- os eter ttcen tn #e Mts Fast Y round legs Li 0 time in z to thelr ald 3 Larger Amounts in Proportion. Jshelf, made Edith and thelyn Robertson, recent = very oy $ E| converts at a revival in Elwood | ae oer on 4.85 + | Gain eee peau ; "| 8 Railroad Fare Allowed) ws sariecn" No mail orders Glled on apectal o erous readers sister ninete > ner; No ma t They had a iorary of aw “After | Of courte, beau allroad rare Allowe hola nareunsers 2 EE orders filled on speciale. i | PULLMAN’S DAUGHTER ILL. | FITZHUGH WHITEHOUSE ILL.| Out of Town Buyers.! 39c Opel Saturday Brenings. i reine IC | extraordinary Eftorts for Recovery |Mas Underzone ase REOOTOLEGOCOELEOCOOCO00CO0000000000000000000600C000 + of Mra, Lowden, tom, but Te = | GHTICAGO, May 9.—Under Instructions from the Mayor, T'rairie avenue, be- tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, has boon c@sed to trattic Promote the recove: Mrs, Pullman Lowden, a ¢ fof the late George M. Pullma ward that Pourin f fi6e of “Bhall I reaoh hi ht. ven! shall I reach it? "a thousand tlmne repeated| che tx belleved te e heavily 7 ‘ ted | She ts belleved to most heavily Bae eee ee ray SEIS ALSOLL | Tred i womankln arid. She re And with the dbarest margin of time I/eently Increa her ite reached the sphore. Gntiithesenow y Hor Already it had passed imto the chi} nt! at 5 penumbra of the cold. huaband.Coly sured for a sim twenty year and tw ly the snow was thick upon it, and the oold reaching my marrow But I reached it—the snow wan al- ready, banking against tt—and Hellctes, uidie into ite retuge “with the. sowilakes | Will be anannelty of f danoing in about me, as I tried with| Mrs. ¢ n, a sister of Mrs, Lowden chilling hands to thrust the valve tn iW Welcome Fala LoWden and spun it tent and hard. And then: |‘% By ana ‘ with fingers that were already’ th was taken Ill while preparing to go to and clumsy, I turned to the shutter |her sister's bedside. | Ter iliness | w: studs. trifling at first. bi h grown serious As I fumbled with the switches—for 1} He iclans las t recommended had never controlled them before—I street be closed gould aco dimly. through the steaming ———_ jass, the jazing red streamers of the LU sinking sun dancing and MORETTI'S IS NO MORE. Mckering | through the snowstorm, and the K forms of the scrub thickening and broad- ening and bending and breaking beneath the accumulating snow. Thicker whirled the snow and thicker, black against the Nght What If even now the awitches over- came me? Then something clicked under my hands and tn an instant that last vision of the moon-world was hidden from my eyen Twas in the silence and dari ness of the interplanetary sphere. It was almost us though I had been killed. Indeed, I could fagine a man sud- y and violently killed would feel ‘much as I did. moment, a passion of agonizing existence and fear; the next, darkness and stillness, neither ight nor itfe, nor sun. moon or stars, the blank Infinite. Although the th was done by my! own act, although [ had already taste Famous Old Restaurant Sold Out at Anct Moretti's, in ntyefirat rtreet, fa- mous to old New Yorkers for wonderful spaghettl and It ners, was sold out at auction ay. Big rent, Mquor tax a fon of resorts uptown had ¢ the old host's once lucrative Morett! ts old. His rendezy President Art Fawin Boo! Cam of Ife him froin his this very effect in Cavor's company, T could i felt) pataplenen dum founted;andsover.|(borthan is ‘modern resorts I seemed to be borne upward {nto an| more to their eno rots darkness eee ngera floated over the studs, 1 “y 33, waif T were ann and'at} RAT “RUBBERED,” THEN— inter), soft and came ——_— ngatnat. the by 1 the oli E and atherecoe mane ahaen hain Panto Among Musle Teachers as the middle of aphero. (To Be Continued.) Jent Fell at Their Feet, NEW HAV . Conn., May 9,—Pretty A PRESC Said to Be the Shortest and One That Can't Be Broken. CHICAGO, May 9.—The will of the late Col. Francis BE. Rigby has caused nearly as much talk as that filed by the late Samuel J. Tilden, but for a differ- {ent reason, Mr. Tilden's was volum!- |nous, When he found time to write tt was a question that puzaled many, and on account of his skill and of his great legal attainments tt was supposed that the man was not vin 9 could find a Maw In It. And ¥ tit caused a laws 4 ‘hopelens: ‘gby 1s one of the sult that was nearl, The will of Mr. brifest on record, It wan written hy. his friend, Dr. C. Pruyn Stringfleld. Mr. Rigby was a ‘retired real-estate dealer. It {s the opinion of good lawyers that this will cannot be set aside by any amount of lithgation, THIS WILL WRITTEN ON at ding a convention 1 Opera-Houre, Miss Kitne was musle teachers, here, filed was a ¢ Th singing A fat “rubbered’ fe was all about He sippet and fell w at the feet of a row of r the top gallery lng to see what RIPTION BLANK. ha thump right six pretty teach- ers. Six little shrieks tnterrupted the solo, Women degan climbing up on the seats, The audience soon was in a pante. The rat, dism iy the commotion, fled to the seclusion of . box. Then ne concert was resumed. BID FOR THE STURTEVANT. Syndicate Rendy to Buy Nroadway Landmark for $1,500,000, Preliminary contracts for the sale of the Sturtevant House corner have been price to be patd for the $1,200,000. Details of the big deal are withheld unt!l the final contracts have been de- lvered, It ly understood the buyers {n- tend to demolish the present old six- atory hotel at the expiration of present leases and erect a seventeen fice building. ‘The property 1s owned by Te lerow | +4 Fuel’ yf Leet Yura hare fe bo ap, afer | It was written when Mr. Rigb: le red that he had ‘only a short’ time to n\aceurate copy of the dying man's dictation waa taken by the physician, and for brevity and legal Ughtness, not affording ono loophole for a contest, q the E. rp and J.D. Sturtevant estates, of Boston, ‘The plot fronts 158.1 feet on model testament was the result. It haa| froadway and e200, Scningh been curlously Inspected and examined | atroct, the woutheast corner, an by many attorneys, who pronounce !t a Tequtal ayemen tri r interla Hin was written on a prescription It blank, WHO GAVE THIS $5,000? One Woman Philanthropist Who In Five tnousand dollars as the nucleus of an endowment fund was the hand- somo birthday gift to the American Female Guardian Society and Home for aaw chen that the scattered branches about it had been forcibly smashed and trampled. 1 Bealtas ed, stepped Torward and picked it Tatvod with Cavor's cap in my hand, paring: at the trampled ground Besa On some of them wore little iemearsio ye dark, aomething thee I Gare yy aly uci desea yards away, perhaps, the ris- tho Friendless, No, 29 East Twenty-ninth street, on the occasion of Its aixty-sev- enth anniversary yesterday. was a member of the Board of Man- agers, who desired her name withheld. The business meeting in the morning retained Mrs. George B. Watts is the Tho donor |, suit |SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Presidency, with her entire staff un-| <Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powter. It changed, save the assistant treasurer, | cures painful, swollen, smarting, ner- Aliss LC. Holmes replaces Miss A. B.| vous feet and ingrowing nails, and Harmon in this office. the| Instnntly takes tho sting out of corns Mrs. Margaret Sangster speaker of tho day. and bunions. It's the greatest com- was Among the many who attended were sco ; 5 Bra. Joneply W. Howe, Aire. W. ip Bil- forthdiscoveryy ef jthe see.) /Atlon's ber, Miss Mary F. Reuter, M Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes h Dunning, M. O'Neill, . ington’ Wilson, Ho Miss Lillian “H. Pock. Miss Helen Gould, who !s one of the ard, was absent on account of tines. feel easy, It is a certain curo for sweating,callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all drng- In order to] sertous o RAG-TIME AND JEWELS, DEPNER US. Blood polsontny the Ife of W. 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