OCR Text |
Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA UTAH Did you bring vhat cliauffeuT Yes, and he leughed at her Mg ernees. Good! I accept because I murt see that famous feur. If youll wait, Ill be ready In a minute. She hurried from the room, a snatch of song on her lips. Gramont smiled as he waited. 3 When Baby Complains. or soldier-bandit-cha- Irregularity. has of expressing any pain THERE ARE MANY WAYS a baby and happiness. A snort digression from its normal condition of health of the head sharp cry. a prolonged irritated cry. Restlessness, a constant turning tells you there u or of the whole body, fretful. In these and other ways a baby, or bowels tnat something wrong. Most mothers know that a disordered stomach, do not act naturally are the cause of most of babys sufferings. A call for the doctor is the first thought, but in the event of any delay there should be ready at hand... a safe remedy such as Fletchers Castoria. Castoria has been used for babys ailments for over 30 yoap and has merited the good will of the family physician in a measure not equaled by any other achieved. babys medicine because of its harmlessness and the good results and not cure-a- ll a And remember this : Castoria is essentially a babys remedy often too dangerous for every member of the family. What mignt help you is when given to a babe. CHAPTER V The Masquer Unmasks. In New Orleans one may find pensions In the old quarter the quarter which Is still Instinct with the pc'se of life. These pensions do not advertise. The average tourist know 8 nothing of them. Even If lie knew, Indeed, lie might have some difficulty in obtaining accumiWMlntiont, for it is not nearly enough to have the money; one must also have the introductions, come well recommended, and be under the tongue of good d e. finis to GRAMONT their work except the dollar Such a dropping into their pouch. man is your relative, Joseph Maillard. AND LUCIE SYNOPSIS. During the height of the New Orleans carnival season Jachln Kell, wealthy though somewhat mysterious citizen, and Dr Ansley, are discussing a series of robberies by an individual known as the Midnight Masquer, who, invariably att.red as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mall-larwealthy banker, is giving a ball that night, at which the Masquer has threatened to appear and rob the guests. Kell and Ansley, on their way to the affair, meet a girl dressed as Columbine, seemingly known to Fell, but masked, who them to the ball accompanies Lucie Ledanois, recently the ward of her unde, Joseph Maillard, is the Columbine. At the ball. Bob Maillard, son .of the banker, again proposes to her and is refused. He offers to buy some of her property. A Francisi an monk interests her He turns out to be Prince Gramont In his library Joseph Maillard and a group of his friends are held up and robbed by the Midnight Masquer. Lude Ledanois, the last of an old family, is in straitened circumstances. Joseph Maillards handling of her funds has been unfortunate. Fell is an old friend of her parents and deeply interested in the girl. Henry Gramont, really the Prince de Gramont, is enamored of Lucie. Luc ie talks with Fell about her affairs and the Masked Masquer. CHAPTER IV Continued. 6 Some of them, yes and all that Smiling as prince stuff with them. he dropped Into English, Gramont glanced about the room, and his e.'cs softened. This is a lovely and lovable home of yours, I.ucie I he exclaimed, graveSo few homes are worthy tiio ly. name; so few have in them the Intimate air of use and friendliness why are so many furnished from bargain sales? This place is touched with repose and sweetness; to come and s:t here is a privilege. It is like being In another world, after all the money striving and the dollar madness of the city. Oh ! The girl's gaze searched him curiously. "I hope youre not going to take the fine artistic pose that it Is a crime to make money? Gramont laughed. Not much ! I want to make money myself; that's one reason I'm in New Orleans. Still, you cannot deny that there Is a craze about the eternal clutching after dollars. I can't make the dollar sign the ldg thing in life, Lucie. You couldn't, either. She frowned a little. You seem to have the European notion that all Americans are dollar chasers I do not wish to offend you, and I shall therefore refrain from sn.ving all that Is in my mind. But you have not hesi- tated to Intimate very frankly thnt you are not wealthy. Some time ago, If you recall, you wrote me how you had just missed wealth through having sold some land. I have taken the liberty of looking up that deal to some extent, and I have suspected that your uncle had some Interest In putting the sale through The gray eyes of the girl flashed suddenly. Are my family Henry Gramont! of firs to be an open book to the world? Do you realize that you are Intruding most unwarrantably into my private matters? Granionts eyes Unwarrantably? held her gaze steadily. Do you really mean to use that word? I do, most certainly! answered Lucie with spirit. I dont think you realize just what the whole thing tends toward Oh, yes I do! Quite clearly. Granionts cool, level tone conquered her I see thnt you are orIndignation. phaned, and that your uncle was your guardian, and executed questionable deals which lost money for you. Come, thats brutally frank but it's true! I came here to New Orleans and became involved in some dealings with your cousin, Bob Maillard. I believed, and I believe now, that in your heart you have some suspicion of your uncle In regard to those transactions in land. Therefore, I took the trouble to look into the tiling to a slight extent Shall I tell you vvlmt I have discovered ? Lucie Ledanois gazed at him, her She liked this new lips compressed. !" He shrugged his shoulders slightly. In a sene, ves; why not? he anI am "I am an American. swered. a dollar chaser, and not ashamed of it. I am going into business here. Once It Is a sutep'S. I shall go on; I shall see Ameriia. I shall come to know this whole country of mine, all of it! I have been a month in New Orleans do you know, a strange thing happened to me only a few days after I arrived here!" With her eves she urged him on, and he combined gravely: In Frame I nut a man, an AmeriIt can sergeant named Ilammond. We Was just at the close of things. had adjoining cots at Nice Ah! she exclaimed, quickly . "1 remember, you wrote about him the man who li.ul been wounded in both legs! Did he get well? You never said. T never knew until I came here. One nig! t. rot answered Gramont. long after had got established in my pension on I'.urgundy street, a man tried to rob me. It was tins same man, Hammond; we recognize! each other almo't at once. I took him home with nm and learned lil- - story. He had com hack to America onlv to find his wi'o d ad from inilmii 'a. his home brok"ti up, He di 'ed I" his future destroyed. New Oile. ns, cau' ess of vvh t h to him. H flung him If d i i ' " a career of buig', rv and pillage." v, ,11. I gave Han,i","1 a ' " fi job ; he is my chauffeur. Yo sn Hie as mu' him never reco- -' v now! I am uuy proud of hi- - i Hm! Memphis Izzy Gumberts, Eh? What Kind of a Crook Is He, Sergeant? manner of his, this firm and resolute gravity, tills harshness. It brought out his underlying character very well. If you please. Henry, she murmured very meekly. Well, then, 1 have discowed that your uncle appears to he honestly at fault in tlie matter Thanks for this approval of my family, she murmured. And, continued Gramont, Imperturbably, that your suspicions of him weie groundless. But, on the oilier hand, something new lias turned up about which I wish to speak hut about which I must speak delicately. Has Bob Maillard oifered to buy your remaining land on the I.ayou Terrebonne? So it was to She started .slightly. this that lie had been leading up ail the vv bile ! the subject He broached last 1 dismiss', it night. she misueied. for the time. Good! lie exclaimed with boyish Good! I warned you in time, vigor. then! If you will peimit me, I nms( ship. led advise you not to part with that land Lucie n That v s v il said not even for a good offer. This ..!l I shan't you her head q ii hiy. iinmediatelv Mardi Gras is over, more-un- i," M. I.e yu week, prime any I am going to inM cct that land for offend ngn'ii the company; it is Boh M.iillards comI He smiled, reading her thmgiit know. Is iny unwarrantable t to he a 'noli, eh? Weil, what pany, you try intrusion forgiven? " I'l'n know to I want driving at is this: You aie put Sbe nodded brightly. this countiy of mine, to see it "hh You'ie in Bob's sir. on ' our d piohation, h clear, tinnreiudiced eyes. We real shames and exalt otir false ones. coinpanv? Gramont fiowned I inYes. Why should vvr he ashamed of (bas-n vested no too but hastily perhaps ing the dollar? So long as (hat is I have the car outside. now. matter all means to the end of hnpplnr.s it's who Lucie; may 1 have the pleasure of right. P,ut there are some men ee it a up end alone, who can set do taking you driving? 1 - . i 1 Gramont had obtained a small apartment en pension a quiet and severely retired house in Burgundy street, maintained by a very proud old lady whose ancestors had come out of Canada with the Sleur dTberville. Here Gramont lived with Ilammond, quite on a basis of equality, and they were very comfortable. The two men sat smoking their pipf,s before the fireplace. In which blazed a small fire more for good cheer than It was Sunday through necessity. evening. Gramont stared into the flickering fire ami sucked at his pipe. Suddenly he roused himself and shot n glance at Ilammond. You seem to have a Sergeant! pretty good recollection of that night at the Lnvergne house, when I found you entering and jumped on you. A ou bet I have! Hammond chuckled. AAhen youd knocked the goggles off me and we recognized each other h ! I felt like a boob. Gramont smiled. How many places had you robbed up to then? Three, wasn't it? Three Is right capn, wns tlie unashamed response. We haven't referred to it very often, lmt now things have happened. Gramont's face took on harsh lines of determination. Do you know, it was a lucky thing that you had no chance to dispose of the jewels and money you obtained? No chance? snorted the other. No chance is right, cnpu ! And I was sore, too. Say, they got a ring of crooks around this town jou couldn't bust into wit li grenades! Listen here, and I'll tell you something big. Hammond leaned forward, lowered his voice, and tamped at ills pipe. When I was a young fellow I lived In a little town up north I aint say in where. My old man had a livery stable there, see? Well, one night a guy come along and got the old man out of bed, and slips him fifteen hundred for a rig and n team, see? 1 drove the guy ten miles through the hills, and set him on a road he wanted to find. Now, that guy was the biggest crook in the country In them days still Is, I guess. He was on the dead run that night, to keep out o Leavenworth. He kep out, all right, and hes settin in tlie game to this minute. Nobody never pinched him yet, and never will. Why? Because Irs gang runs hack to politicians and rich guys nil over tlie country. Aou ask anybody on tlie inside if they ever heard of Memphis L.zy Humberts! Well, cap'll, I seen that very identical guy on tlie strei t the other day I never could forget his ugly mug! And where lie is. no outside crooks cun get in, you believe me ! 11m! Memphis Izzy Humberts, eh? What kind of a crook Is he, sergeant? The big kind. Aou remember them Chicago lotteries? But you don't, o' course. Well, thats his game lotteries and sticli like. Gramont's lips clenched for a minute, then lie sjoke with slow di.st.net-ue-- Children Cry For '1.11 ttfl -I i tin the Lets Think It Over. ji h L 1 s : Sergeant, I'd have given five hundred dollars for that information a week ago! Gra mim t shook his head. Why? Never mind. Forget it! Now, this stunt of yours was clever. You showed brains when you got yourself up as an aviator and pulled thnt stuff, sergeant. But you handled it brutally terribly brutally.' It was a litlle raw, I guess, conI was up ceded Hammond. against it, that's nil. When you took over tlie costume and began to get neross with tlie Baffles stuff why, it was a pipe for you, cap'll! Look what we've done in a month. Six Jobs, every one running off smootA as glass! Your until, n of going to parties rindy dro-si-- d vvilli some kind of loose robe over the (lyin duds was a si ream! And Mien me rmming that motor with tlie ent-"ii- t on all hem birds that never hi nrd an aiipiane think you come ami go by air. fur eorleii, ! Nobody will ever find u out. Giaimmt nodded thoughtfully. A'os? But. sergeant, how about the quiet little mail who came along last tiight at llie Maillard house and asked about the car? Perhaps he had you had been running the engine. Him?" Hammond sniffed in scorn. He w asn't no dick. I dare not risk it. man Fell is too smart. (TO BE CONTINUED.' That ALCOHOL-- 3 PER CENT Avertable IYeparatian&rAs similaiinthcFood by Regulaof 5 toma&s and Bowels Therebyftomotl11 Dilior Cheerfulness and RcslGontauvs n0 neither Opium, Morphine Mineral. ecyvf 1 Not Narcotic OldDcSAffLUirOllS. Jumpkin d" " W Fletchers Castoria Is aU it3 advertising has claimed for it Scrutinized . y the microscope of public opinion and used for over thirty yeart it stands without a peer in the hearts of thoughtful, cautious, discerning Mothers. And once used, mother love there is no substitute for mother love win scorn to try a substitute or a Senru bcMAStto Avv md Wart t irrd CUrrfttd Sugar Y&ibryrwe A hel pf I t There is such a thing as saying too much on any subject, and the grand-stantalker sooner or later becomes a bore. The truth is always welcomed, and the truth reiterated and confirmed is more than welcome it reaches your innermost souL frvor just-as-goo- Remedy for and Diarrhoea d. Masquerading under many names drugs that are injurious to the tender babe have found their way into some households, but the light of experience soon casts them out. Are they cast out before it is too late? Constipation and and Feverishness Loss OF SLEEP restritinherefronHnmfany-facsimil- MOTHERS SHOULD READ THE BOOKLET THAT IS AROUND EVERY BOTTLE OF FLETCHERS Signature OL GENUINE Tne CevtaurCompaw. newjwrk Exact Copy oi Wrapper. TH wire. BRIGHTENS, CASTORIA C.NTAUB COMPANY, Finally Got Results. Was that unti-fa- t treatment jour wife took any good? No, it was a fake. But your wife looks thinner, Sbe Is. She worried so over losing lier money that she lost flesh," Judge. ALWAYS NKW YORK CITY. " .hum- - ..myr-- i REFRESHES, ADDS NEW DEUSHT TO PUTNAM FADELESS DYES CASTORIA i OLD DRAPERIES dyes or tints as you wish A Spring Game. Hard to Catch Up. Do Tlie clock you play Iut anil Take? Wnyback only registers one dollar and you want two. Yes, I put on my light underwear Taxi Driver That clock Is slow, and and take it off. I have been driving very fast. Judge. But He Cant Go. Most nnjltody can be peaceful, but Kaiser Busts to Go. Headline It takes grit to fight. lie can bust for aught we care. The sun is the largest but you can hold the cent so close to your eye that youll lose sight of the sun. Dont let a clies) gaiec c? a Mg can baiting jpowdear malts ya lose sight o& quality Is the quality leavener for real economy in the kitchen, always use Calumet, one trial will convince you. BEST BY TEST The Worlds Greatest Baking Powder |