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Show t o i r THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSYIU.E, FTA1I ,rTI Mini yRichard Washburn Child ItS Almost -B- "Because you haven't the money to , be fYNOM t the .Uorm. Ue raa r? p lf. j? m.:u and family. r4EasUah x.Akr Jkw. lie ef BMt b4 0 " A - tl .haul wfcomth.r. B ,TtTylrJrv4 Zr.rZU urUl - h.-a- CroV !fVuh Feier. but U esly la the mysterious k. U. of ! leYUmP- k4 k- 5 -" , fcer. Martel urges warning fet ahouU Mb Mr "- U U - - U . f rtr 1k" ?? trcm J! imU the 1 ilThe aa a of .troa formation After a few ptr k. fallBK Brena kter ..A kr ripens m.rry irTa Ska coaf eases that trfiST-k..- -- that kar hu.baad I,. M saaiehed." CHAPTER V 1 Continued aaw Brena an moraine a ben I baa b fint tlm pi (ufrom iZUcl . of w"r1 ranch among tba pecan lZm at Coleman. Hi tacaUona had L, to other young men all that appeared employed; tert to go Jim for Uwary and tell him Bhen he aacribed to hla (,14 to back. It Some of peranaalom t quality and amlled tkai it Hennepin man breathlea hla Inviting, la them would be no gurprlae to find United State jit tto president of the 4 allowed him to take the whole of ' Alaska ander tbe Homeatead act And then thoegh no one In Dalla Wf JL thlawaathe. man of un- ?"? u 1 i youth, w Bo bad beaten almost llfeleaa In tba conductor nil Baltimore atathm and bad killed hla bis rtffleg horae with a atone beld In band. itnog young Brcaa was sitting at an early break mt wbea be came In. lie did not ited wild her: be merely atared After qaat i without taking hla eyea away whSa, fma her, be put hla gun, bit coat u4 kls bag Into a chair behind him. n (tin gated at her and ahe, aaton-ht- oi He auggested gated back. Ap oH; be suggested vaguely the and appearance of the fairy prince. Ik wu giving an exhibition of hla an rudeness hi almost majestic pm u4 memorable Insolence; but It was tlw a supreme compliment the best to knew boar to bestow. bell, sold be at laat Its spring li time. r as if be had been a from Ietlny. aa If spiring were hri'a time and that time had come, ft aa like a sentence of a court With a quirk about the comers of k mouth, he walked boldly toward brand looked down Into the dish of wntU on the table beneath her eye. N "thing but milk," said he. -- No, jeu almnt have milk on your r,f! l!' outrage. You are tbe sueea and I am the captain of guarde And Tm off in a "croed motorcar to get you the rlcb- thickest pint of mam In the city, ,6 the speed lawa can't atop me." This absurd young man, with hla In smiit, hla athlete's body and hla mentary hunger, leaped out down T I1 new touring car In uh he had come, cut out the muf d sit goD. Hs rtm back with cream. Ill aunt m. Jla, yon are craxy." Hut he was Be had an loatinct for ere g romance; be made the Illusion ihed because he hai Venture, particularly tom Wo,1Mn. failed or succeeded c the distance from the iBni, orld be could lend B trotlral and gaudy-flo, Be spoke r mea-wge- I! jPlo 1 u" mail f Change. a. L m sm, He .aid He ,wid ber that for her u S',ln t0 ,IUPrapriety like feed-.,ra-n Beauty rose to army ogbed and went to 7 b-l- ilZ m k Jr. morning;. but Jim ruck tbe right note t',d bpr b wnl be ber id- d like k night ba1 mL C,a,'. "KC.E. W. T . Iw 1 .m v . li MW. . b"r1 tT fhcad, her throat, mj dlatraction." UiEht bctnM re kUrt-11- lt .. 1 J knlgbt ,tlf SotMbody haa told 'It Never Occurred t He That Arthur or aorae owe Might Lev Yeu," He Said. j, Come w ith U.S as tbe pyramid, for ber reading had E- .1 08 rtd to Waco." w 7wbere and his made her appear aa related to tbe past at More than anything else some fundaJu. mental part of her declared that sbh JkJaJT cMtecn." Mrs. was as nothing, that whatever no ty five," he sn might do or become there could be created wan nbe no that loss; disaster, Et It nowhere" .said the to be given away. t0 ,ro5L On day Jim came home at the yon rnlair feA "X Hennepin yawn- - hour. He did not usually come tLn, ' A! piffle! A man and evidently be bad not com to Lav around for the lunch there, for he stood outside the aunt piggy tye could tUrrtB,t J11 011 c r - v door where h!aand beckoned to Brena J. 5 hd U especially not nee him, hr'Aaf Jc by some mysteriously. b".. r When ah bad come out onto the ef cne'a te I,!5? her rijtt thing. If porch, he took her hand and led Sh houe. around the corner of the t a could always remember tie heat flattened Its L"tXg glibly blazing sun of noon which J0 k At 1 sJ,., Cvnfct i hurutg uptu k C S V Dutloa i as CW.) ,u) IX It w great wrath "l '"'k here"- of i! lo " r,nei,a Scl.'o Te'urt'.od today ,s! j ahe had errand there There la a frightened look In ter eves." A Cnqi of ink fell anV spattered out M.e t lotted It and left the in. re cf a Ultle blak fiend wha, h dan vd up. n the page It teen true that Brena had r .vr great dark eyea a frig! tened . look it ere was Doth'ng to show let conduct For a g'rt who Pa,1 was m t ,( e.hiovn ah exhibited a She went gre. i ml f common rto Utcsn hop and for !' n l! wh, g.veti her ere some I1, T re ao I . mme. Jim" l.ul the tune has ai.f If uu love kiiurt aLi to 1 ' ci of J hgnn in a pul !lg',tlv a.,!,Hl e vu'gniitv to I'.r, na a li.fin lelv . d ilnn of a i a the , rS. s cf .l,in,v!c .mi i.i ' i a tirt of thl du'l I i ,W u a.. . p r ' ' - tf "'N cl f nil ,!. il Ide.i oi In am h ta-l- e ! that In ' fast j ! the dust marks made by her suitcase whew ahe had thrown It up to pack six on those day before. She put It back marks as If a round of life had been Then she got, up to cross the picture of the Arropo-libbe- r room to lie father's picture, the last possession of the family. For a long time, ta l!a too, ahe looked at this engraving Deframe a relic of c i .jpleted. travel-battere- d , metrius Relcoaa. "He aald not te be afraid." she told "He aald something would come if I were In danger" 1 about that Mine Downstair was writing In her Wilkie Mr. la ber life ahe had Lm one At diary. memoirs acquired the. fancy thst the be were lmportant-tof women often and facts historical of source original of period tle mirror of society and tbe diary habit kept its grip upon to sty bee long after ahe had ceased have would what "Think herself. to had meant If Madame de Malntenonto the wrote she Now kept a diary!"ottf-o- breath style wLb tame hasty, leaving life all which she conducted and out pronouns jnlUrijen "Went shopping. - - her husbands berwelf. mo-me- f " IS JoUTer feuau3 would go ou for- USKBDE j SOLES Tbs VYasJar Sole fee VYaac haaClaartasf Naara IbIm m -- sad fee a Beffee Heef n. sesiAc aue Nms United Statet Rubber Company r In tbe form of t'ompton . ht Brena hud been wrlttlie In her room under the to. f p u av bot, i tie IVvs fall lad oiiieand r Im with ber alcove, ro!o d hack frciji her ktiHpcii jouiii anna with tx m colored tbe.r ak'n tool been v et ber tittle lutoe trjlng to bending n in the form of a written e d drums the a'orv of the one other girl who worked nw m the I'orto Ithan Bn broidery at re Tbe atorv waa not aa drttmallc a atorv at It may have Nor p Wired to Brena at aeienieen could Liens have written a play bo cause ahe had no knowledge whatever of the craft of writing pla.va, which he later found out Is a matter of (t 1 I m a r mud tlalngv a straw vhN, Hew hi.l pink cellu roc. hers. Sundnv newpa a. ctud i ounda of ch.Holal IVofer for Morocco City M.miui", yUtliU In I lie titan tif IihiiiI- - 41 tin- - fur tlic IiUIi Ihim atout in le time In its N a viiih Peru Spatiiarila fur more w fir-v- t put in wiiii-- r il pro-viv'c- iila-inr- y supply, now ngngei to Bring the lu to tnn liMin-pipi-water f i mu tin-- InMtiiu. and It Is lioM'l t tint ttljlun a ktiort tltin ito autlioritic will ho able to furnUli the Itiliiililt Kill a with sufficient water for ilfluking am) li.iglctuc pur-puai- il.inga of worker Hre I mu-lihip- -s 1 7o matterftew iv:U your car runt now k must have perfect lubrication to keep the good work up I ManaMslxr Oil is perfect lubrication. Its Mr. rannale !" resists heat, resists dilution, and f It Brena stiffened. She sskedi "Whet lists friction thora effectively than any 4oee he went te see me for?" nil you can buy. MsaaKslsi- - Oil ia ervlca insurance. "I dont know," Mrs. WUkl admitted. "I certainly wish I did. He has If you want long tima aerricn from oodles of money I He speculated dur- your car at th minimum upkeep cost. L Aak a ing this year and he's mad Mvr.aWglef. customer. For a Long Tima tba Loohad at This I" fur-tu- n Engraving r It nt F rams I don't want any," replied Brena. She went up to her room under the roof where, upon the bedspread were -- Them Out! skilled carjwntry and Inspired, sa Buna had conceived It. For all of thi- - ahe Uuw asks tu be forgiven, since everyone, usually In tstrem youth, wrrttea s play and nearly everyone, ss Brena, startled and surprised st tbe secret labor, thrusts tbe manuscript Into a drawer when s knock comes. It was Mrs Wilkie Well I" she said, exploding usual astonishment. Inquiry sad disapproval In one puffed word. Brens smiled. "To better put yourself to right P aald the landlady, bolding the edg bf tba varnished yellow door. "Ton better dress your beat I Iouva got a caller." "To see met" "Tea, to see you. And such s caller I CHAPTER VI Brena Relcoaa returned from Rt. Louis on the sixteenth of the month. The train arrived in Dallas In the early morning when the night prairie wtnd waa atlto cool, but ahe epent the last dollar In her purse to be driven to Mrs. Wilkie's In one of the old city station hacks Well!" aald the round landlady, exploding the breath from her little mouth to express astonishment. In qulry and disapproval all at once. Yes, I came back," Brena replied, lifting her aultccae up the atop wear ily. I thought I waa going to lose all my nice young people," Mrs. Wilkie aald, turning on the disk record of her false "Jim Ilennepln went good nature. with hardly a thank you. There' been no end of mall for him. I didn't know where he'd gone; he made such a mystery about It, ao I sent the letter to hla office. They probably know about him more than I do. He didn't tell you where he went?" "No," aald Brena, "he didn't tell me." And not a word from him. Not much aa picture post card." Brena was trying to pans around the bulk of the older woman. "And you went off yourself without much explanation," Mr. Wilkie complained, putting berself in the way. "and without knowing whether or not you was coming hack." She looked all over the girt from bead to foot with an expression In her beady eyes Indicating thst it would have been better If a legal guardian bad been appointed for Brena. "Well, Im here." "So I aee. Have you had break- I came lH rll,a'oe - y u(o It , ment. "Tell me, Jim." Ive bad a call," be aald craftily "If I can tell you when I come for you In St. Louis youll say that it Is all tbe Well, Pve had a call." strangest Brena went to St. Loul She had not marked the date on her little calendar on the bureau ; It was not necea-aarbecause ahe waa not rendy to forget, and besides some one might ask ber a question. Some one might have asked why she went. And ahe could not have told. to Wear - Wlth'n a!ght there was nothing which lii'gM break Into It and ahe I. id no iwiiifc because of that. Rhe set hr ?Me toward tomorrow e. Rhe inly! t isve hw n exiwsted therefore, to te ktai'.id when tie past broke 11, r,.then j,,.,,., inline wrl'.t.ti on that c.ml lie tl ere ou triilm, Ke rutlitl, ,.f the month I'll he there nt f nr o lo a ou belter come the d.ty t t fore t.et a room and don't he frightened "No. Jim ' ""by do you look Mt me so?" "Because 1 have no money now " "That' all rigid. Here, take tills It's plenty eh? lmn't let any one aee And y ou a on t av "t tf course Dot, Jim -- not anything" "Your hand on Mini " She put her hand In hi ""by are you going away. Jim?" He looked Into, her eyea. and If Brena had known the world better, aha would have seen something of the brutality of Jliu Hennepin at that mo- the Impossible the friend of certain ever t'-n- t rounded In vlr'u.ot in u !,o ll'e.1 iMiitenl bewuttful ha) grosn a'cutoioed to this loneli nesa abd waa nearly convinced r, - "What dogs aoJ rata which lived in houses Rh along the way home from work t- - rtnew, (tint UHM la the world akd . said. Cowers Tlioy'r like wax!" Broi.a at the piano .that evening felt as ahe alwaja felt, that ahe was alone lve tall Jim. w'th a klud la Lia viUce uj ey- I tu if CoiLjtoU I'aru.alee in t !u Ii.i as auj I've an errand to !to persocs fror m t lit ui wrote 1 W StASi Jim," she said, moving her mouth over so that It looked like a newly punctured pink owning. She liked to live near Immorality; to gave her vtcarioul pleasure. She had a magaxlne picture of a certain Ureueh actress tacked up beside her hn.k ng glass. Sbe would have been aorrj if Hrena had suffered misfortune from iflrn, but !ao alie would base been glad Juat aa one, though kvrr to of a distant acquaintance djlug has a thrill of interest in finding a famhlsr name In the obituary notice. Ilenneydn was whimsical enough to repeat to Brens, word for word, tl. a conversation. They were sitting in the mo' on hi looking out over the undulating Tex.( rairie. In the hollow the red hud was n bloom and the air of dusk was hke the light, velvety. "It never occurred to her thut might love you," he said. Brena said uothlng. -Dont you love me a littleT" he asked. "I don't know. Jim really. I don't know. I don't know what love N e only read about It, and It la juat like reading about some place you've never been. I wouldn't know when had arrived there and stood on the very spot." "My O tl, youre like a new flower, opened up for the flrt time and wet with dew I" As If he could not conceal haste, he seised her hand and squeexed It until sbe said, -- Oh, Jim!" "Well, you're fond of me?" Tea, I am. Jltn. I'm fond of you "Perhaps lt'a because you have no one else to be fond of." he auggested. "I don't know," she told him. "I don't know yet" lie looked around at the yellow horizon in the west and shivered. We arent by ourselves," he ex"Not here In claimed with Dallua. We ought to take a trip." "A trip!" said Brena. "IJow could we take a tripT "Tou mean because of money? Well, I'm going to fix that." He smiled -craftily. Ive a strangle hold on some money, Brena. I suppose that when I turn up with some reel money people will say that I dipped Into tbe till or bad a rich uncle die. It will be such a novelty to have a roll. But they'll be wrong. 111 get It my own way. And It's coming." "Oh. Jim!" "Money or no money, I want you," he said. "Soma day I'll make you say you lovo me." Brena lay awake under a hot roof wondering whether ahe loved Jim Hennepin. There was no on to tell ber that she did not As the week went on ahe found heraelf asking where the end would be of day after day of showing perfumed wives of Dallas business men embroidered linens at the Porto Itlcan store, of walking home, sometime with men staring at her, of trying to find Interest In tbe chocolate fudge minds of girls who did not like to have ber around because she talked like a professor and wore the beauty they wlabed waa their. It waa not clear that Jim waa not the one man of an, the prince who stepped out of nothing and held out his hands to her In some kind of miraculous tableau. No one reminded her that ahe was only seventeen ; she felt that the waa as oid nan-led- In Its of Dsmatrlua Travsl-Battsra- a Rallc d tal-cos- games, etiquette, napkin rings, the domestic lives of actresses and royalty, souvenir spoons, picture postal cards, talking machines, baseball scores, spiritualism, and decorated sentiments or vulgarities framed for the wall, waa an anomaly like planting a ;eouy among the cabbages. But Brena, conscious of this, found herself wondering whether every human being did not have the feeling that he or the was a gem In an inferior setting. Her mothers sense of humor was la her and she aaw her escape not by fluttering at the walla but by climbing over them. Even at seventeen, no doubt her face had begun to take on that calm of centuries with Its tendernewa and patience and wlstfulnesa and understanding a If she carried eternal hopes and bore tbe sufferings ef ail mankind; It was only her mother's sense of humor that thrust Its light through this mountainous and heroic expression. Later the punctuation ef fear, expressed only through ber eyes, had become a characteristic Interruption. Mr. Wilkie often mentioned the journey to SL Louis. Rhe would have given Brent n week's board to know why the girl had gone, but even Mrs. Wilkie sensed some quality In this leautlful child which mad ber n creature f a different species and filled others with a sense of swe from which only Jim Hennepin hedkbeea exempt; sbe never pressed her questions beyond a point where sbe found looking Into the wondering, dark Relcom eye. Brena kept her own knowledge without an effort; it was done with a magnificent restraint and with the suggestion thst site who until that year had navigated life not at ail would hereafter navlgste It for a long time without another! hand upon the tiller. Brena even asked twice whether Hennepin had written. She cboae moments wbea the two ether women boarder and the accountant -- of the Southern Pacific were at the table. "Written." Mid Mr. Wilkie, puck, ering her little mouth as If she were going to whistle her sentence. "Written? Not be! But I might expect that V 1 have never found that I could expect gratitude from anybody." She looked at each face at the table severely. "But that's nothing," she added. IV own father, who 1 dying of Bright, hasn't besrd from him not for three months." "Oh," Mid Brena a If reflecting and weighing tbe matter. She left Hi table, and going Into the front room, she played la lively time upon the piano there a piano with a sheeny red case and with a tone Intended te be the startling ppolte of the tinman attributes ef old piano. Thia on had tone extravagantly round like the softness of an elocutionist reading poetry. Brena had remembered thia piano and described 'll affectation. It waa nothing te that those wbe Sh fccard her play on It tail Oh her-so- lf -- tr I U t0T 1 HiniHzln Oil Ctozffa "I will go down Just aa I am," Mid Brena calmly and firmly. "I do not care stout hla fortune, Mrs. Wilkie. I want to find out what he wants of as yrasctaoo, Cat MonaMotor toe." Compton Partnale did not appear at all anxious to say what be wanted. II was a small, wiry man, careful of his dress, who above everything els was He thrust his Relcoaa Brena cam In As glances. the door he thrust a gisne at hsr and then looked up at th celling as if hla mind pas digesting thst which bis As ah gray eyes had photographed. cam toward him inquiringly, b roe, thrust another glanr' at her and looked out th window considering. When she stopped be thrust one more and Mt down looking at th carpet. Everyone who ever knew Compton Panna lee will remember the characteristic Inspection of thst daring speculator. Are you Miss ScIcom?" he asked, ss if now that he was able to fasten Lis gate upon her, be found It Improbable that th girl he mw In all her freshness of youth wsa th girt h had com to aee. "Tea," b Mid. Parmale had com to Texas from tba desert country of southern CaliII fornia when bt waa twenty-six- . knew that country welL In hla years In Dallas, acting as a cotton commission man and commodity gambler, he had collected a large and valuable library about tbe whole historic Southwest. Its Indian tribes, tbe Pneb-lethe strange customs and aeqrvta of savage asco carrying some ef tbs traits and traditions of prehistoric Aster. and th Jesuit missionaries. It wts ssld by some persons that hla quiet ways wert n veneer put on by some studious years in Berkeley at tba university, but rumor had It that Parmale with his rather pale, young far that made him look thirty instead bis small, of forty-threha ad a hla Immaculate linen, his soft voice, had ones shot a man cross n roulette table which he himself ewned e, e, well-ahape- Los As ales. Cab d and operated. maa violence was ever a ef That hs Is very doubtfaL He was aa unquiv-erin- g gambler, but sot with his personal Mfety; hla personal safety was hla principal concern. He wore glove on all occasions ta keep th germs off hla hands; b had his massive. mahogany desk, la th office building across from the a nr hotel, wiped down every morning with aa antiseptic; long year before th practice had become a worthy fashion be had him self examined periodical! y by .spqtL 1st. II was always fearing glon. He gargled. He snuffed. Hs sprayed. He read medicsd Journals. He feared cancer above ail other thlngv n loved hla Ilfs s much that he had loved no woman for many year; the monopoly of thia fievotlou excluded competition. II loved hla Lis III with an unending paaalou ; ha ruined It by fearing to low IL Oils & Greases Foolith F tart French Consul Antonin Barthetmy . Mid at s reception In Chicago: "There Is no dnoger of a bolshevik Those who revolution In Franc. quake and wall over such an absurd danger as that remind me of the little boy who ran to hla mother bed la th middle of the night and sobbed : "Ob, tnuvver, tnuvver, I dreamed I was s stick of candy and eated myself opT" . All things come with tbe waiter who serves an order of bah. ALL WORN OUT? Are you Line and stiff; tired, nervous end depressed; muwrabls with Have you suspected your kidneys? Good health depends upon good shnuhaUua. But sluggish kidneys allow impurities to eecumuiat and apart tbe whole system. Backache to apt te follow; stabbing pains, depressing headaches, dizziness and other annoying experiment! why not harmless stimulant diuretic. Used the world ever. Ark pour neighbor back-aebt- ? A Utnh CtM John Plmblait,, 1S K. Bacon IL 1 North Legab.' Utah, says: "A cold settled ta m y kidneys, g Inianaa pains i dart ad across my Wj, kidneys and the mescias ware stiff and sore and I had no control over the action af my ktdneyn I kad to gat up tbrousk the nightI to pass the used Dona's kidney secretion a Filla and they cured in a. DOANS STWUIAHT DIURETIC TO THX CDNEVS Ca. hUs-CBufbU. N. Y. Use Guticora Soap And Ointment To Heal Sore Hands c He Owe Hij 40 Years Good Health, wja of Constant to Deechami Pills (TO BU COXTXXUnD.J Tbe present year mere tn so hundredth anniversary ef the orgasV xaUon of th UnlversBy ef TlrglslA. "I ass sod rnat mud to he wuh soasttpauoa when 1 waa la 14 1 mrced tsklnf Vwdaa'l Tffls, heetoe Lad. Ihsvsacthad ether 7 sears old Wuubetd S film ck day ta all he Si) i F. Louts Loe&a, fUidieatat, N. Y. FaamEX tAMm-arr- ttu B. F. ASaa Co, 4t? CaacI Straat, Naw York her Awes your druasLt ia and foa koaae tf kkuua, Sd idadtuhei Far caufUpcUaa, t h ha Wwa A U keadoJua ad - -- i- J u. |