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Show Tr:K I'TAII THE PAVSONIAN. PWSON. SIX' 1 toe """I clear. m a ifcr.riee iaftcl tov.aH i'-- 4 w i ijIfVrr, ir if .wiIJut till' i:. ilc tiH ml. -- w It h::- cut on. - Ii' 's:!' t leal -- '! j 0 Mm.-d- well In f U ' i. mi. ' i j '1 ' tic -1 ''! li ' !1 Kef I''11 I i ... pari &?MAPY ROBERTS AUTHOR Crl'TtL CCPYPOCoT -ivRYr.rtT.-Tj AMrHRT CHAPTER X Continued. Inst I urn p'-nWent, oil, "you Knur-to- n end ( j.lj.-i-- vail. If -- for himsilf; -- i tie- to his ta-a tru.-- t h fe liver. hi-- i ', '.- , ipl, I V,, i - . A SS ) . A - s , lig-ur- o . of the behind a , 111 j i planned and carefully carried out." And you knew?" I had forbidden It. You hud forbidden It? Jle went to her and caught her hy the shoulders, foil ing her to look up Into his face. You? Then nil this time that you have seen what you must have seen in lay eyes, you have been " At tht head of a hand of thieves," Elinor said slowly. Ward released her, und turning took a slow survey of the room. "Then I suppose this Is a trap?" he ss CHAPTER XI. The chief sent for I.oroday early the next morning. You've turned the trick all right, lie said, grimly smiling. l.uroday, as immaculate as ever, settled his tie. Yes? Sit down, said the etilef. Now that you knmv you're going, I suppose youre not in any partieular hurry. I.ornday ran his hand over his si Iky beard. I should like to get to a barber. 'There Is no great hurry, nmv," said mild. It Is not n trap." Iter voice was the chief, when lloroday wus comfortI opposed this this plan from ably settled und smoking one of his (lead. start. the That Is the reason one of the men of my friends suspected I" .tlikSsS (Jo on. Wliut (lid he suspect?" That I but that doesnt mutter, m: lie burned the parish house and planned Tonight he meant to get the money from you, and I wus desperate. I could think of no other way." Wards faith In tier was slow to die. He took a step toward her. Ills hands out. then dropped them at Ills sides. Then the night the parish house burned, when I came down in the dawn and found you sitting there" he clenched his bunds "ull the time you You knew! knew. And I bad thought lie went to the talde nnd, opening the box, slipped the notes anil money n couuilned Into his poeket. Then he buttoned Ills coat about him. Elinor watched him stonily. You are going taiek down the hill?" 1 am going home. He did not even look at her. If you would only go some plane To the dub, else, she said pitifully. or to Mrs. Pryaut's. Please believe I pie. Whatever I am, and I have told Shall Tell My Confreres." you the worst, I am trying to think of eternal Iltisslau cigarettes, "I wish you you tonight, not of myself." I am going hack to my house," said would tell me why you disposed of the assistant rector of Saint Judes, that pearl the way you did. It wasnt lie got us far ns the door on to the ter- quite up to our agreement, you know. race, and there he turned. It was as It was to he given to me and I was to If be dared not look at her, us If he return It. Instead of that I had to chase out into the meant to carry away with him soma , Make n tenderer memory than of this white- - country." Ah!" said lloroday, Into the counlipped, guilty wonmu before ldtn. If I Seem hard, lie said unstead- try I The chief, who was imsistomed to ily, It Is because I am suffoiing. You are quite safe, of course. I stialt not reading faces, lloroday closely. go to the police," Had he ouvd less Hut If there was a tighter fug about the Kusshms eyes, it tins very faint. lie would have been more merciful. You know blamed well," said the Old Henrietta watched Ms figure as be went down the garden steps and chief peevishly, "just where 1 had to Into the road. go to get that thing. And you know Strange things !n tills house" she I. lamed well also that on Sunday afternoon I always play poker. It was mumbled, shaking her head. Trenchers coming and going at all hours, and well. Inconsiderate, to say the least." Elinor in a church this morning. lloroday smiled. T ant exceedingly sorry that you Strange things, Hilary Kingston, since were put to any trouble about It," he you went away." She shuttled along the terrace nnd said. Hut us ymi may understand, 1 Into the house, her thin Muck shawl, have not yet seen my friends, ami of drawn about ber shoulders. In the course-- " library Elinor lay face down on the lie shrugged Ms shoulders. The chief lhxir. Old llenrlette heat over her. was skeptical of his ignorance, newr-th- e "My lamb, my pet. she so.uh.'d her. less. He humored what le chose lies n fine man. but there are many j to consider Horodays wh.m. others. And when one is young and gave him tin nolo which le lovely reived h,v special dclivvsy th S nee Elinor made no response hut lon. (Jttiek as he was, t; old llenrlette ms from could not quite conceal Ins only moTitn-dher knees end -- huhlcd oui of the room, meat. took but cautiously, i:S she passed, "In the aims box!" said the from a table drawer old II. Ians reSomebody with a sense of ham volver and carried It out under her charge of this little affair. Hr; shawl. senior warden, it seems, in this She was very wise, was wrinkled! It vv as elevi t" llenrlette, and she knew the Kingston lloroday passed the letter h Mood. him. "I shall tell my confreres. It is (pnt Ward came down the road rapidly. There was a faint moon, ('tie part of or dna I." The chief was smoking a larr.i ign Ids mind had ceased to work ; his higher faculties were dormant with mis- Inlike the police chief of fiction rn the drama, he did not sponk arm', ery, with the anesthesia that Cota.-for a time after great grief or shock. the cigar, hut carefully removed it, m Physically be was entirely alert ; his out of respect to his visitor, but on' e ull this. H: 'i-ASi'T wild-goos- j : j . , s J s frC f T IP f. ,- --' it '.Ksh i I , i: - cigarefe and rj d think Jou tell Mol. imt j meed eonep te. ,, f i' ' Th. ilanuii y ICiO l'eet long and of apno '..as capacity, wineli Aiati Macdonald is building at 3 French soldier htrg.- -i ami most fame s hiniilung airplane. Iage, (Ireat Hritain's foreign way. "I fear you give ne great credit. 1 do not deserve it. Why yen fi Hows." the chief went on resolutely, "waited to do this job until tin rector, who is old and ialiria, had gem away and left a husky young nsdstunt in his place. And that isn't all I want to know. "In any way that 1 can assist you" "What the devil do you mean, yelled the chief, "hy -- hooting a man down and then going away and leav- ing the money in his pockets? Its its crude its wasteful!" The Russian's lingers twitched in spile of Mm. The chief saw it and smiled under his heavy mustache. Do you mean that somebody shot this er assistant you speak of? That Is rather sad. Was there much money? Seventy-eigh- t thousand dollars, said the chief, and put his cigar back in his mouth. Then! is a story behind It, lloroday, and its that story I mu going to get. Tin warning you you've played pretty square with me. I needed that pearl In my business." lloroday rose. All right, chief, he said. "I am sorry about young Ward. I hope he wasnt killed. "He wasnt killed, replied the chief. "And I havent said his name was Ward. If you havent had your breakfast yet, we might breakfast together. An Australian oltieial photograph showing a stretcher case being attended to in an advanced dressing station I overslept and havent had time for close to the fighting line during a recent forward movement of the allies In France. These dressing stations are often anything. shelled hy the Hermans. -' I Ward came hack to consciousness In bedstead in the great which old Hilary Kingston had lain in state. He felt very little pain and no curiosity at all as to Ms surroundings, only an overwhelming lassitude and weariness of life. Something something that mattered very much had gone out of existence. He could not remember what it was. There was a uniformed nurse hy the bed. He had a curious antipathy to asking her anything. Ho had made a promise of secrecy to someone about what? Toward evening lie Iwiil managed to evolve out of his reviving consciousness some faint memory of what had happened to him. IK remembered that lie wus walking down a hill and that he had fallen forward. For quite a late in the afternoon, he struggled to remember why he had gone down the hill. Then he got it. He had been up at the hall to see Elinor. It was Elinor who had gone out of his life. Elinor! Elinor He slept very little during the night, and as his fever rose, he called the nurse Elinor, and lugged her frantically to toll him that something not true. Of course It is not true, said the nurse, who was accustomed to being called various things. "You did not mean It at nil?" lie eyed her wistfully. The nurse was large and plaiu, with a wide, fiat face. "You, with the eyes of a saint." said poor Ward, "to try to tell me that you are wicked. I see that It is impossible. I think I can sleep now. The nurse put her hand, which was but very light and large and tender, on Ills head. And so lu went to sleep. When In was quite settled, the nurse went out Into the hall where Elinor "as sitting on a straight chair. .She had sat there almost all of the time since Ward was carried up the night before. four-post- CAMOUFLAGED ARMORED TRAIN ON THE WESTERN , F V r -- 4 J FRONT -- 'Sf.'I'-- 14. li f-r-- half-hou- I the llnes U tlie FrenC frM,,t sh0'vinK camouflaged to hide it HELMET SAVED HIS LIFE ' (TO HR CON'TINTF.D.) t j fro: ii:eiv.-;- i r,M -- Your father?" "lie Is dead. I eannot talk of Min. This much I can tell you. The parish house was hurtled deliberately; It was h I. now. If you n't, jL Yesterday morning tremendous eolleeiiun va tai.cn uji at a to hud-the church of Saint .Eeh-'new pan li house ill place of the on that burned down. The rector has i rector look: rwAVrsi been hwii.v; the charge of the money. ! I see. s n i Of course ymi see. What I would like to know Is why vmi f spread cut his hands in h'S I y had been t - noi-ele- , tie- - foot t Then nil tile time that I have been telling you I did not hear. I was watching the time." Personal feur Ward hud none. He did not even follow Klinors eyes us they glanced onee more at the dock, Mrs, liryunts venomous Insinuations dime haek to him, all the village tall; of the girls strange rearing. Fearful thoughts Hashed Into Ills mind, to lie dismissed, shaken off doggedly. I shall never believe anything that you do not tell me yourself. Hut it Is only fair to me that now at last there lie frankness between us." There ure others," minor said, with dry lips. f . that ihck.-- the in his was poLh !y now. Ward he was had been with l.iinnr. HutT, coming up the lull had In ird his short goodnight to Henrietle in the garden, had heard him come do", n ihe bill. Th-r- e were oiily two e plana ions. Either tln man was in hue w.tli her and had gone up that night of his own volition, or Elinor had sent for him. (trie was ns Imd as Ihe other. Ward did not lime a chance. As he came abreast of tin wall, the hoy fired and he pitched forward on his face. With In- rc ei lining of the shot among tin- lulls, Huff's madness died away. Murder was not his game; violent and sudden death perhaps, hut never, before, a hot from behind. 11 nl the wealth of a city h. en in Ward's pockets, ,e mild not lane touched It. He thrust his revolver Into his pmkel, and breaking away through the shrubbery eoinmeneed a swift hut a -- cent of the lull. The assistant rector of Saint Jude's lay on his face In the road, with the morning offering of his congregation safe in his pockets. vvi-- that si v b ? i ham tender," ELn.r me. I uni nil that is had and w icLel, to have been Everything. You rolitied tonight. I brought you here lander false iiretense." Ytaril was ns white as she. Ills stralghtem-d- T K&&A& si ( 'e s' : i o!T. yi.ij say ' - ik - Las hap- - TIM," ETC. r to o l:ei ,1 ey, s i.. l.rubi.i le l il: that he up i, i life was holer but le iiiiiid pockets, that la- would Hu!!' Il- l- MSiid.. Something in In r 1; Inly drawn v.,io. wus familiar. I Hen, Wnnl sal.! aim !v. It wa; yon who telephoned me and then ran.; rl Yl.:, l ri Whi PLNF.HART r.Aii'iLCWLR 'm .h Kidney Diseases. Nearly nil diseases of the kidneys ere due to -- ait. If you are suilYring "with" or from your kidmys, the tiro thing to do js to smash all your medicine hottes; cut out salt and "gar from your locals nnd go on the Si earned (111. aragus s the he- -t thing in the world for your & -- W ; f C i v-- o-i 1 ts T Itl. tk 4' -- vpm b A , hi'Iin os am! Iar-lc- y is good '.or victims of kidney disca-- o s; so also Is water n s in the form of salad Lu! no -- :m une should not eat ioo 'r.s-tof paisley. Parsley will aid the cv es; glit hy the kidneys to Mir prog. a teacrion ; hut overdoses oi par-dy I'nu'u'ge tin vision. Hears are the u ry 1. st of fruit for victims of k .incy d:scne. Hat. no matter the c:'''.nc or the name of y.mr kidney h sense, you get over it hy follow. :x I 3 - - cn hid ructions. Los This photograph shows Private P. who was shot twice by tin Heimnn- -. The fact that lie was wearing the Mvt-tlmt he is holding m the reason that he is still alive. The I'nodage on his head shows he did not t -- cape injury altogether and the dent and the lnde hi the helmet show tli FFcc't of the Herman bullets on tho "life preserver." iawho, -- 'he Times. j ff.v 233 (lernian liner Yiiterland made sinc thp 'or and rechristened her Leviathan. The i can waters. The Sturs and Stripes a ..(vp-'- l n of in,. A Water Mining. water power method for breaking rock in masses of crutn-- ; King it has been Invetiicd in Europe. |