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Show i I UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. rs s-- e Domford Yates Onpriifht W M!n toe. Bales WNV Banrlca. CHAPTER VII Oa. Continued , 11 When I told her what I had which, except that my couMn wan safe, wai little enough "We must make for Yutlrk,'" nlie aid. "Pharaoh's stranded n ml tliat Will jrlve me a eliunce s Itli my hroth-er- , I mean. If Valentine's Imred enough, I may be able to pet him t po away. If I offer talm the I'arlottn, he nmy jsee the point of a month at J'umi Us 11 . Bealdeft, If we w ant jour coiihin, Yorh k U where he will be. licit certain to be watching the rust le- - it's all he can Co. He probably visit IMriii; , ng ku.. tliat you did today. J : when we return, It will be to Yoriik Itself." "Very pood," said I. "1 t.il.e It we drive to the door." "Oh, yes. It's safe enoitch now." "You think you'll pet Valentine off by an early train?" "He keeps late hours. If I let him it bave the t'arlotta, I pet hitn ft tonight. He's a creature of Impube, you know. I'alnt I he toy hripht enough, nd he'll want It at once. My (Jod, John, I've pot to do it. He simply must be gone before l'haraoh conies back." At length "Why not po to I'uininersr" I said. And use. your original plan? We've only to tlnd my cousin, and that should be easy enouph. Let Pharaoh go back to Yorlck. And then one nlht we'll cross the nioat by the foot bridge and do him In." "I'm afraid to wait, my darling. If Pharaoh gets his foot In again, I think he'll play the card In his sleeve. He doesn't want to play It, but after tonight he'll fooJ that the luck's against blm and out It'll come. And the card that he's got In his sleeve Is putting my brother wise." She drew In her breath. "Once Valentine knows of the gold, It's no pood killing I'haraoh, for three weeks later another will reljrn In his stead. My brother will talk right nd left. What's almost worse, he'll never leave me alone, as long as there's 20 pounds left. Ko you see, for that reason alone, Valentine must be gone before I'liaraoh comes back." The miles streamed by In silence, nd I think It was just past midnight when I switched the Rolls off the road nd Into the entrance-drive- . As our headlights Illuminated the gateway, I saw that the curtains were gone and the gates were shut, but a wicket In one of the leaves was open wide, and a servant was standing beside it, shading his eyes. He had. of course, seen our lights from the porter's lodge and had opened for 'Ciip-taiFonlng,' as no doubt he had done before. As I brought the Holla up to the wicket, I saw him start. Then he opened the door for his mistress and bowed to the ground. "Come, John," suld Helena quietly. She turned to the man. "Shut the wicket, Hubert, and wait In the lodge. The car will stay there." In a flash she was In the courtyard, with Sabre and me behind. The doors were open, and Helena ped up the staircase which led to the principal rooms. In the hall the lights were burning, but from first to last I saw no other servants, and we after wards learned that the Count, at Pha tnoh's suggestion, had sent them to bed ten. every evening at half-pas- t Helena's ear was fast to the library door. After a moment she passed to There for a moment the dining-roomhe listened. Then her hand went out to the handle and softly opened the door. A plrl was standing on the table, regarding herself In the huge Italian mirror that hung on the wall. Her dress did not become her It was so much finer than she. The scene was too coarse to be comic. Some plrl from was trying on the streets of Helena's clothes. Champagne was on the table and on the floor. The Count was lying, flat on his back. His condition was most appurent To say he was drunk con nothing. Valentine, Count of ej Torlck, was down and out. The girl had seen us in the mirror, Her hands clapped fast to her cheeks, she was staring at Helena's reflection with starting eyes. To confirm the mirror's report, she shot us one glance of horror; then she crumpled and sank to the table, dragging the dress about her and shrinking as though from some vision which was but waiting to give her the Judgment that she deserved. Helena went to ber quickly and touched her arm. "Don't be afraid." she said quietly "If you do as I tell you, I'll see that you come to no harm." She turned to me, to spenk English. "Can you get him on to the terrace and bring him round?" "I'll try." said L "But I haven't lot of hope." With that, I picked up the Count and carried him out. But the fellow was too far gone. He would come to his tenses to time, but 1 Ii- ml-l- n . nothing that I could do would hale them back. As I tat bark on my heels "No good?" auld Helena quietly. "Hopeless," mid L "He's all in. He may come round by midday, but be won't be 6t to talk to for 24 hours." As the words left my mouth, the castle clock told us the time. A quarter paht twelve. "We must get him aay," said Helena. "Now, at once. There's a train k at one that leave Las for Innt-bro'cloek. We can't put hiiu atoard at Lhbm he's too well known, but I guess the train stops at JoIa that's ten miles on. The girl will have to go with hiiu sad that he come to no harm." Although I could see that It was drastic, I had then no Idea bow monstrous was the aettou which fclie proposed. Her brother was her liege lord; when he succeeded her father, tdie was the first of his vassals to go on her knees, to put her hands between hi-to swear to honor bis person and ever maintain his freedom and all his rights. And this was no matter of form. For lietter or worse, for more thHn five hundred years the body of the Count had been sacred In the eyes of his house. Times miulit change, t.ut not ifoiick. Its motto held. On that handsome July night Helena snapped the tradition and broke tier oath. Not a servant would base dared help her. After perhaps five minutes our plans were laid. Whilst Helena npo!;o with Mona. the girl from Lass. I scrawled a note to Pharaoh, and boldly signed It "V. Y." Dear l'diiiriK: up. I'v hud enough Sorry, I. lit I'm ionium. I of Yorirk and I'm don't know where, but I'll iro!ri!ly get a train. Hen you uain noma day. . . . I think It looked the no!e of a drunken man. As I laid down my pencil "That'll do very well." said Helena. "He never writes, ro nobody knows his hand. lave It there on the blotting- pad. And now we must go. Mona s a rat i & 2 ..iMM immt .RUB Iftv U .'JL WM I As the Porter Stepped Out of His Lodge. broken reed, but It can't be hejped. I'm not afraid of her talking she's far too scared for that. But I am afraid of her bolting the moment she gets the chance." A moment later our strange procession took shape. Helena led the way and I brought up the rear, with the Count on my back, while Mona minced between us, bearing her shoes In her hand. Six paces awny from the gates, I laid my burden down. "Is your back all right?" breathed Helena. "Yes, thank you, my sweet." At once she turned to Mona, who was drooping beside the wall. "If yon cross that bridge, the porter will see you, nnd you will be chased and caught. In a few minutes' time. however, the porter will leave his lodge. You'll know when he's pone, because then the wicket will open. The mo ment the wicket opens, cross the When you're over the bridge bridge. you can put on your shoes. Then run down the drive until you come to the woods. Wait there at the edge of the meadows, and the car will be down In Ave minutes to pick you tip." "It Is understood, my lady." "You will wait without fall, on the side of the road." "Without fail, my lady. My lady will not be long." "Five minutes," I said. 'Terhaps I shall come before. Hut until the wicket opens, you must not move." "Very good, my lady." With many misgivings we left her and hastened the way we had come, This time, however, we left the postern ajar. We had found her bedroom lighted and left it so an open wardrobe de clared thp rape of the frock; and now we only waited to set wide open the doors of the principal rooms. Then we went down to the courtyard up to the last of the Jumps. As the porter stepped out of his right-han- lodge "Why didn't you tell me," said Helena, "that his lordship was gone? The fellow looked scared. "I I didn't know, my lady. I I thought his lordship was here." "He went this evening. He says so, He's left a note." The porter put a hand to his head. "No one has gone out. my lady, since half-pas- t nine. And at half-pas- t nine my lady, I know that his lordship was here. There was a startled silence. Then Fetch the nlgfct watchman," said Helena. The man ran Into the courtyard and disappeared. flash the wuket was open and In I mn outside. As I heaved him Into the car, I saw bedraggled figure Lurrying on to the I Lild the Couut Cat on the bridge. and put hi coat over his fuce. Then I took my seat at the wheel and ttarted to turn the cur round. Helena was Kakhig. "House the other watchmen and the warden as well. The castle is to be searched. I'nless he left by a postern, his lordship mutt Mill be here. Tell the warden that I have news for his lord.-hl- p which will not wait, that I've cone to Ijiss hi earch him in ca.se he or tt rrr "Your ladhlp will be returning?" "Within the hour." I had the ear well In the shadows and Helena'- door was open before she left the w! ket to take her seat. And (die was so piick that, though the porter made to escort her. I was able to have the car moving before he was out of the light. As I whipped over the drawbridge, I heard her high with relief. j j ;' e Atlanii,- CarterField j - Ji'" Farley's Itoosevell-th- at j v' e we sat In silence. Then "Mona." cried Helena. "Mora." The girl did not answer, and after a frantic moment I flung myself out of the car. "Mona." I cried, "where are you?" A figure rose out of the night. She's hopped It. ,s:r," stiid Barley. I. tit nil '( nt through the woods. tlmnkfiil to see you, sir. And that's the truth." It was twenty minutes latilr, on the skirts of Annabel village, that Barley stood bv the Bolls' and told us his tale. We dared not return to the castle before ten minutes past one, for Lass was 12 miles from Yorlr l; and not even (lie Bolls1 could have done the double Journey In less than .V minutes, no matter how much she was pushed. We had, therefore, ten minutes to spare much against our will, for that Pharaoh was racing for Torlck we had not shadow of doubt. Still, to be un easy was foolish ; that day I had done the Journey as Pharaoh was doing it now. If Pharaoh had the luck of the devil, we might expert to see hitn nt half paft one; but I would have laid a fortune that he would not arrive before six. So. as we had time to spare. Barley stood by the Bolls and told us his tale. "A wire come on Monday, sir. a lit tle later than usual, about ten o'clock. Upturn at once,' i said and It bore your name. Well, we left as sharp as we could for Villuch, of course; but when we got out at Villach, there ain't no car to meet us. lot alone no Bolls. 'That's queer,' says Mr. Bohun. 'I don't understand It.' he says. 'If Mr. Spencer could wire, he could send a car. It may be all right, hut we'd better go careful. Parley, from this time on.' Well, we 'ired a car at Villach, and stopped four miles from the farm. Then we enters the woods on font. It four when we was Just about half-pas- t sights the house. Everything looks as usual sleepy an' peaceful, you know, sir, an' no one about. But Mr. Bohun's uneasy. "Mustn't rush in,' he says. 'You slay an' watch out,' he says, 'while I go round to the back.' He hadn't hardly spoken before Bush conies out oi. the apron, as bold ns brass. "I give you my word, sir, that shook us. We made sure they'd got you all right. But of course we couldn't do nothing until It was dark. Then we He drew crept In and 'ad a close-up.In his breath. "Those two Bush and Bugle they're simple, that's what they are. They're like a turn on the 'alls. You could walk rltzlit In between them, before they'd know you were there. For 'nlf nn hour that evening we listened to what they said, nnd of course we very soon knew that Pharnnh'd gut his foot In the castle and you was away. Then Mr. Bohun goes for the farmer's wife, but she knows nothing at all. except that hi lordshlp'c hack nnd civen special orders that BuL'le and Bush Is to have your rooms at the farm. been Uoinyr claims as to what he as orgumza- ltoosevelt In building up Ions' Mre sound. I'reslJ'arlev Us been telling the buih had he dent for some time that iu un- (ctate every organizations which would get "e l'i,: und counted that ne u.n. Ihtered, ca -for the country In did up 'wi he "hat eve and i:."'J. sta'-n 1! New Ymk bcf. l figures What this means, Farley for as that n anv s'ntes in the Union, been Wvoming. had alwas as' so hopelessly liepublican r,'..,-,:- . I did not make any Inmocrats that the and real h'.ht. Sometimes, as in l'.'ld on In i: ;'.'. i:iey would go Hcinocratie din-ta tb'al 'wave, but this was always and the broad general current, work had actually any organization nothing to do with the results. to be Thi, year, he claims, is going Ixtno-cratidilTorent. There Is an active councounty chairman in every He normally these of one ty of ecry There Is to he a publican tdntes. worker, or workers, and a watcher, or watchers, at every precinct. The d Tammany in getting the ctMciency ,..,.. ..,,, u,i ,..,t ,hev don't ... ith Tamman.v on ,,, .romp ,,,,;tl - to he nation' Uir i'"""!",.) wide so far as the Democratic party Is concerned. ltoosevelt knows perfectly well what Fnrlev did In New York state. Inei (tontall v the President believes very n nn v that he Is going to carry New y ))rjj state. He disclosed this In a riltt,r remarkable comment to a per s.,n.. fri,.n(i about a bet the friend bad made. But he had been a little dubious, to say the least, as to Farley's conlideiice that this organization he had built up In short, he would he very effective. knew Farley was a genius at lining up delegates, but he was not so sure of his ability to project his organization methods all over the country. - my ' j moving rl doth not adopt the viee, Jecta. Helding. U-i- u al- it-b- Uood in 3 be l'.nt tliis ar.".:ment could hardly Louisiana the to expected to appeal ...,. .ors or the MissiPld "'alwr8' a,,;' more :,an the argument that the r ;.:nt r.'i e n grain to i;osioii, oi.'ia or Baltimore from !.. I'l.'.kn t is n.iicii i"" Northv v:;;or ro'.'ie 1:011, reas :ia ,i,.u'i ...the. . St. ....L:iwe;h ca" i.a lutoss the Atlantic ret.ee ner ' v. om! be nivch cheaper. sai.'! ' . . i ttut Co! hi It (Miecti'l to ntipe.ii New Massachusetts, fretii sen t' I Marvland Yolk, 'ei.csaiiki tin e, m.m coincniem stramte a bv And fiot:: each of the suites menof iinst ratibcation tioic i ...... o v. I.en it was st nmiiieii .1,, Farley's Efficiency Then came these two striking demonstrations of Farley's efficiency, for the political experts here regard them as almost nothing else. In New Hamp- shire, whore there was not enough Roosevelt sentiment to swing the electoral vote in VXY2, the Farley created organization won handily. In fioorg'm the friends of Governor Talmadge were repulsed by a vote so overwhelm lug ns to make the Talniadge strength Remedy You Ask Your Doctor and Find : -- . person piIE nrenaration i 1 V.-ht In ii" t. M.ly one of :J llamp-hir- e South line Carolina for voted the the Ccorgia senators, treaty. hawt'g Sa'.anrah in mind, voted folagainst it, though normally 'hey almost on everylow the President Kvcti thing. !s well known this two-third- s Big Mystery The biggest mystery In Washingt on is what happens to treasury esti- ites between the time they are made reach the .I the tiiti" the figures Interest In this President's desk. problem, which became acute last year and then dud away, ls revived by the disclosure President that Flaw Somewhere Roosevelt grossly Model men end women are thekM hat nobody wants to be like. CHAPPED one-thir- To quickly relieve ehoDDind. roughness. cracking. apply soothing, cooling Mentholaium. Have you tried the i ' - LIQUID MEMTHOLATUM MEW for head cold ? Like MenthoUtum ointment It bring soothing comfort f.rrataat Art Tht greatest art Is to be jut seeming so. bnsy Wife l Wins nre n- - " .VO '"' Back Pep I . Herniwnen"a' soothed. Shetay thai tiicu" feelingmchts. ac t.m W youthful color-res- tful all becsuse she rid her system ot S King wastes mat weresaDDiriK mi.a. the Lal)lets (Nature's Remedy) laxative worked the uansi" lion. Try it for constipation, biliousness, i5 acnes, oizzy spells. colds. See :i,a jrT WK'.S'k i w how refreshed ffS vou feel. At all 25c druggist He Won't Be BALD! He uses Glover'i Mange Medicw followed by Glovers Mediated Soap for the shun poo If YOU tretfflire td with Bsldoeu. Dtndrutf or Excessive Filling Htir. top worryinf sbout ii. Surt unntGloTaitodiyiodkeep t n. Sold M ill Druggiits. Or hrveyour Btrberf icyoo wA mm Glovet'scicstmentreguliily. f ' wntfcsf ii.. Hrti'iii'-- WNU W HELD BACK BY ' A 111 t. wl Tired . . Nervous - two-third- s ...... f.i- - Bayer Aspirin as to the misinformed probable amount ot money that his tax on undistributed cor proposed poration earnings would produce. The gap between what the Presi dent was told on authority, which he obviously accepted without question, mil the estimate of the men in the treasury who do the computing, is In the hundreds of millions of dollars this year. But at least the President's Information was only about to one Inlf greater than the real fig ures. But last year, when he first pro posed his tax on bigness the sliding scale tax on corporation earnings It developed that tiie figures he had ac cepted were about four times what the treasury experts thought the rates would produce. Meanwhile It seems certain that there will be drastic revision of tha plan on Capitol Hill. Treasury ex erts, producing tables built on the President's plan, have argued In vain that even these will not produce the required revenue. They beg congress not to write in a lot of exemptions, which they say would make the new law a sieve. But congress Intends to write In exemptions that will take care of banks and Insurance companies. It Intends to in exemptions that would protect little corporations. It Intends to permit even big corpornrtlons to carry considerably more into surpluses against rainy day wage payiiieuis, u not dividends, than the Roosevelt plan contemplated. was .... von or vmu are taking .for the i. !:cf d headachi . V is ovi-i- i iuA use ic'Miariy is yot Ask lum particularly doctor. family about Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN He will tell you that befort tk discovery of Bayer Aspirin most "pain" remedies were arfviwH against by physicians as bad for the stomach and, often, for the heart Which is food for thought if yoi seek quick, safe relief. Scientists rate Bayer Aspiria methods m ii. amongI the fastest U t luvrrcu iui iuc ieucif oiI neaaacnei and the pains of rheumatism, ne. ritis and neuralgia. And the experience of millions of users has Droved it safe for the average person tous regularly. In your own interest i member this. You can get Genuirw Bays simply Aspirin at any drug store by asking for it bv its full name, BAYER ASPIRIN. Make it i and see that you point to do this gel what you want . to the White House, and though it is claimed that several votes have been gained since the last test, it ls privately admitted that the gains are not enough for the majority. necessary Incidentally, neither the White House nor the senate Is anxious to take up the time a debate on that treaty would require in the upper house. All to ask whether fk A B....seeit two years !lgo. senator from New the senators from Atlantic seaboard Mates down to the j'n Your Own or Your Family's Well - Being to Unknwn Preparations - ' Out Don't Entrust . w-i- te - Use -- .... ... r is SAFE? a Joke. So now the New Dealers think that maybe Jim Fnrley has not been exaggerating in his claims as to what his 'hoys and girls" can do In Wyoming, or California, or Oregon, to name three of the most dangerous states, according to Farley's confidential electoral vote tables. Hand in hand with this Farley-bui'- t organization lias been a nationally organized women's movement, extending Into every county and every pre cinct. Inspired by Mrs. ltoosevelt. Site first developed the plan In l'.K!2, giving women workers "gasoline money" lor malting ineir rounds, urging women to register and vote for Boose velt, of course. In fact. It Is these two elements on winch larley and Kmil Ilnrja have based their supreme confidence in liooseven s despite tne Literary Digest poll nnd various other Indications that the country was in dined to go Republican. Most of the Republican leaders figure privately that there will eithe Word From Home oe an anu i.ooseveit tidal wave ot The answer Is that congress Is hear there won't. If there Isn't, the dec Is worried nlwoit tlon, they think, will be very dose ing .from home nnd .. w lien "...ii ooiinii i nappen But In making that calculation they ,.1... the rainy are liguring on carrying some of tic. day comes. It Is particularly worried Western states, and nil the Northeast about the second blast of William .1 nil the Northeast, right out ('.'imer.in, Henry Ford's radio spokes Carrying "Well, we had to have quarters to the Mississippi I. in, tne necessity for einuitasizing river, will not bt somewhere, so Mr. Bohun comes here. enough. corporation surpluses to prevent un. The last place they'll look,' he says, inch gives some pertinence to usual hardships In bad times. 'and the best I know.' Then we starts Meanwhile thp showing by ti,e troas Farley's claims. In wntchln' the castle and vlsltln' . nrv l'otl;a (lint n.., n ran tar 'or rsuinaics Plumage nt night. And that was all Pigeonhole Seaway short of providing the revenue needed we could do, for to look for you was The St. Lawrence seaway treaty will is a terrible blow to the hopes of hopeless we didn't know where to be- remain many legislators. Congressmen, wor. until after dec pigeonholed gin. But we knew where Pharnnh was, rled about tax reactions nn the the or clamor tlon, of despite the part to our grange minds we made up and get him, nnd other Interests that wnnt to force their constituents as these reactions for once he was out of the way, all may nrtect November election returns a vote In the senate. roads were clear." "..u o.peu iu go very easily ()n the President ltoosevelt knows It Is lm Barley closed his eyes and pushed i....,m,.-excise raxes those to take possible to obtain a ma back his hat. me place of the outlawed AAA or ravor in tne from nroc tin treaty jonty (TO BE COyTIMED) "m,s ,aeS. ,n Tacti n).)ny hm) present senate, unless there are at least half a dozen changes of heart hoped to eliminate them altogether. Blackbird Composer "mi nope seems now to have gone Man's power of creating music Is on me pan ot individual senators, and n in uu'i my. that Is not likely In the near future Prof. Fn lares Fduard dt( challenged, t or It must not never be forgotten In before election. certainly one other llv cel. of Potsdam, by only me president is very stron"lv In nppniNing this mixed up tax situation lnt rretitnrp In the world thp litncW mat the object f the administratim, his In bird. This bold assertion mav arouse fnvor of th'' I'"".'01''- - nhhoegh was not to balance the lo In .... fnr.cl n..f.,nl!.. n.,f ' " ' "l or i"e budget, but seaway those who helieve the canarv night "f h tt ,,IP ',,;,n"" " "'Pt for any relief nn-ti ls "at give Inca'e to je supreme amongst bird ',,inse ' 11 11 ' """ "'ai i" ay no made. No ""1'cuis in tne .Middle West musicians. But. whereas these birds . .v ... l nn.t Vorftivvewf !... .t... vet known just how mud. me eiectnc "" pour rortn tnetr nerennary songs witn they "HI be. but (hey will i ne .'resident's hear nut blemish, the blackbird, the profes poer puase. hardly be less "ue miuon. nor more tiom sor alhrnn, creates music of Its own. yearns tor more goverutnentallj owner "' Improvising "strophes" on the spot. eiectnc generation plants, The bitter opposition to the plan, on all short m revenue producing A tireless Inventor of new harmony power f fie figure, me otner nana, tins no connectlo' the has ,he President stnted-n- ot also Mrd true, art!st' the what the whatever with the privately ownn, When Inspired hatred of repetition sngmfed schedules will -the Heciric Interests, it has to do bring red Ink figures. It sings from 300 to ."00 different meto r ty wim tne seaway phase. dies in a single day. Tit Bits Ma; It Com?s nwint th- - government goes further Into deb, next year, win be t irom states wnich have ports otid line. rRProads lending to those oon wU'cfa might be hurt by the : diversion lief appropriations! Servtr. " i Whether the"Pain" Divergent Interests ,...:..,, 4 Do You Ever Wonder M.ould move the and then Lakes, ;rcat the Dl,rth into Atlantic the to the St ion n-t direct Hue, he pointed out. as against going round barn. . f the down vnus tl,en i,elh Nf , , !.;:.. movlcj down to and then Into the of Lon- in order to get to Ju-- f : UWhere::S, New Returns from .i ... M,.t.,r, proani Georgia Hampshire ,.r.,e to the entire a.is-"- "And now for Mona," she said. The time u.is now half past twelve, which shows that much inay be done In a quarter of nn hour. Indeed, I would not have h Heved It If the clock had not been chiming as we passed over Dip bridge. As we left the meadows, I set a foot on the brake ami switched out lights. For a moment St. Louis, Mils -- i pi NATIONAL CAPITAL j l'one" .,. rtlrl i tentionally bestow our teT? the unworthy, it doe, tT the merits of the act. J.fZ HEARD around the floor-boar- ... contention sound. way L economically as a subsidy gnhsed reco It U frankly ... , and " ' n to the farmers once The NortWt. wide-re.:- ! his own Uca of how ' told He this l.er,er, would be. Hano. of of the absurdly !TJnt we may Thocgb ! uTeS-liulerca- i ana j CIVINC OF CHARirV the channels to of traffic from present Don't be disheartened. ObtoJ Lh. real relief from pnr'cst n ness, rashes, burning ja inp of eczema and otnfy url-outbreaks of eJternmi oriRinemollients nni mpmraniysoothe, cumin" (i!t properties Becm t,n" c oi" tnote heslinr. ' oruJ treatment toda. Soap . ,-- O . rlr,M..'istS C1" I |