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Show By HENRY K1TCHELL WEBSTER Co. Copyright byThe Fobba-Mmfi- fcctiun iviili which she piayeu her part, ltut when at last the proprietor left them, with a hell to ring when they sliuuld he ready for their tinul course, she turned straight ha'-to their own affair, and in uu even voice lore his hope to pleees. If no good. Joe." she sold. "It will never happen that thing you've been talking about. 1 know you had spoken shout It before about the time coining when I'd he ready to go Break my own life away with you altogether, nnd try to hold on hy yours. I've let myself dream sometimes that I would, hut It's never been auythlng hut a dream never can he. I suppose if I had any real courage hut I haven't, Joe; not a scrap.'' He contradicted her roughly, trying to put a conviction behind the words that was not there. It was her tone that told him the truth, not the things she had leen saying. I am in love with you, and I'm not with John never was. 1 guess. All the same, love Isn't the only thing in the world not for me. Her voice CHAPTER VIII Continued. -1- 7Be had yielded to her arms again, we wanted," he said, jf that' what shouldnt have to depend on uunt Vesuvius. It cun be managed ire handily than that. Rut it'll he to die. lonp while before I'm ready thle. There' too much left like fin lived through. Id like to sail g, be ,to the Bay of Naplea with you. fur and hare a look at that old pit thins, Do you retneuiher sotne-p.In- c Volcano you aald the first time we talked De fogether, about wlaltlns you could first H,err with me when I had my at all that? It'a solus to work come time, you know. Ive known ful, In a way. ever alnce you uuld It fi't could do It, at that. Tomorrow. Ibne'i a Dutch boat callins for I.ls-,- i Oh, It's all rlfiht to laugh, but ft's going to happen some day." i There Isn't a city In Euroie, Joe rolce was somber enough now cohere we wouldn't be running into weple all the time who knew me. And vbo'd know what I'd done. Oh, it'a lovely dream, my dear, but It will ever come true." 1 Again, and thla time bruakly, he l.senguged hlinself from her arm. lie giddily to his feet, pulled up s hair, and sat down on it. "You see," we cun't set away from It e said, ft keep coming hack. Weve got to fulk It out; decide what we're going I i want to talk !" she said n at tire end of a Talking won't get us tight-draw- any-jher- e. 4 I guess you're right about that," e agreed. "That's the way I feel It's always simplest to ghoul It, too. n a thing first and save your talking fill afterward. This is what we'R do, Violet. There's a Chilean liner sailing far Valparaiso Saturday. Tliut'll give g fa time to get our passports and we need. Tliey know me down faere, and they'll take you for grant-f- a as my wife without a question, there's nobody who'd think of asking question. We'd leave nil this clean fahlud. Start fresh, both of us, on a fae that was worth living. Something We've never had a chance at. I've farer had a wife I haven't even a Ifcal one now and you've never hud V husband, either. That's the truth. bu know It, yourself; found It out nny-fain- I last. He'd divorce you If you asked i to, and then we could make It all mix go anywhere we liked. And b the meantime It's better than tucking around here in this. There be hard about It, !n't Not anything after youve once said you'll fa It. And you will. It's written down fa the hooks that you will !" That's a crazier dream than the I Joe," she said, uneasily. di you wouldn't talk like that. not a thing In It," he her, that Isn't plain coin-f- a sense''; end he went on for a faille to enlarge upon the practleal-fcf it. lie hud a thousand dol-fin his iocket, and ten thousund wc which was almost us accessible. I'-'been keeping It handy, for years, fa tlie off chance of some emergency fast would chII for It. That would fa enough to give him a start, and a fairt was all he had ever wanted, anywhere. Down In that part of the World opportunities fur a man of Ids Bofessinn were thick as dandelions. J1! went to seed faster than you fauld pick them. I'd never ask you fa take a chance with hardship. he fa'Urrd her, earnestly. "I can keep fau as safe from the meannesses of fae us John Williamson can." flier restlessness as fa talked, her frantic attempts to turn m aside from the theme, served only fa his elation. For that hour lie as fully himself again. The Win coii'i'u-red- , In the tortured fane, the gnawing, obsessing need of facoliol He reveuh-i- l the forgotten. famg l.e a :mled her to see, not In fa'ue ileserljillve generalities, lull In of concrete reality, fragments fa Ids own Iliumliintivr experience. le most minute detail, she now who resisted Ids faom. hut he won her to tliem at lust HI stilled her protests In tliem; 1 faicr, "Tlit-re'- s a' ar . . s ' n fc-ili- qul-fa"- her t retiild lug, f Afler nil." , said, whi-- lie had l her for the llrst lime that day Is what liiiilters." Ilia volee. os It was with passion, subdued jtMf to jin, nir t1u, was so near Ids "'ourc In love with me. Y u"ve fami'l out what It mean at lust. Von B guess w, hi H W lr Hke. fa'e with ymt. Anil I know wind It mean. n not n green hoy. guess-fa- g -- nor an ox who has forgotten, ft'ti can't go hark, now. Violet I" lsie did imt return Ida kiss, hut she fa' unresisting, uequlcseent In his n Bs-o-i- em-fse- 1 trunk-check- s, slow-burnin- r - : Bst-cl'-- com-plctel- y Ishe may jlave thought, during a fanrtfai of minutes, that she would go him. IU sensed vletory In the w. at least. Rut when they heard fao Innkeeper coming heavily toward e iloor to tell them their lunch waa faly. site struggled erect like one l farth-i- out of a dream. Before their host, while he was wait-f- a uon them, ahe amazed Joe wuigh tt was a faculty of hers he had Ocu wondered at before by the per- - r.ilii'd up Sheridan road, him und held his hand: : r,- he Three or four miles fr-'io!d her he Imd Margar.-lo look afler her Hnd slaw nw::li that she mightn't want to "That's all right If she d n't si.iw .will off," Violet said, w :h a si: aP nervous laugh. As long us she's there" n a moment later, I l'.l toil now. i,e you something 1. v. hat makes it hard, somehow I meant just now for me to mik to I you. Well, that's all It -. don't want you staved mf. Jo! n, hy l I don't wuni to anybody son alone. To go my own way. of thing. I know I've made you ihink I did. That's a trick tool women mean liuve, I guess. But they it. At least I don't. Not mi more. I'll like to have you with me all the lime. Hay and night. lie looked at her gravely; almost If that had been possible for "Violet," he Hski-- "have you been frightened hy anything? or anybody? Are you afraid of anything now?" Un-rShe met Id look steadily. isn't n thing. There's only one thing. And that Is that some day you may get tired of me. At the look thix drew from him she uttered a sobbing laugh an-Hang herself upon him. "It isn't a night wutcliuian I want yon for, she si.--i- thill. be said. ''Yuu'vo been a lot kinder to me than I deserve. ' "But I'm unhappy, too," she sobbed 'Oli. I wish I knew what to do!" He pulled her up then in Ids urms und kissed her. and she. with a deep drawn sigh, relumed the kiss. We've still got an hour," lie said, ami for a long while after that they spoke of nothing more to the purpose than the sailing gulls and the sheets of silver left by the receding tide. She asked him, though, at the end of u protracted silence, what he was thinking about. "Ive been trying not to think about it. lie confessed. But I am u beast, anil I cant get It out of my head. She ne'ther spoke nor stirred until lie went on. "All you'd have to do tomorrow-woId he to kei p your Sirs. Wentworth from pairing you on the train. You mine down to the same station, hut you take our little train instead. And I'm on It. Ami we come nut here und have our little holiday. Two Oil. know day out of a It's Impossible. But you asked what I was thinking about, mid that was it. "lo you want me to do if. .live?" The simplicity of the question. and the intensity of the emotion that propelled It. literally, for an ins'ant, His slopped the heat of hi heart eyes filled with tears, lint through the blur he could see hers, wide with a sense of great adventure, gazing up ut him. I don't know," he said. "I don't know whether I want you to or not." Her arms tightened uhout him anil I love she uttered a shaky laugh. you for saying that. I'll come, Joe. I'll give you those two days We've got to he starting back now. You go He'd betfind the man nnd tell him. ter not see me like this. Joe nmde his arrangement, and they caught the train and contrived, very tidily, how her meeting with Alice Wqntworth ut six should he made plausible. Violet managed her meeting with Lot Dream Sometimes lvs Myself Alice Wentworth with entire success. That I Would. But Alice made her Jump, though, by ran thin, betraying an almost hysteri- saying holding her off in both hands cal note. Why, down In that country for a good look, "You've been deceivwherever It la those ing John, Violet. I've never seen you Valparaiso, people would all be foreigners, talking hsiklng prettier, or any younger, harda language I don't know a word of. ly, since 1 was your bridesmaid. Have I wouldn't have anybody but you. I your redcap give your hug to Wrcnn ; too. want people around me that like me. and give him your Joe, It Isn't thinkable; that's all. Its By tlie time they arrived at the big simply frantic to talk about asking brown house on ltlverslde dr! vs Violet John to divorce me. John! Then whs near enough to her natural self. I didn't wnnt There was nothing the mutter with there's Dorothy, too you to talk about It. I knew you'd her, except sbe couldn't sleep. 1 spoil this one little day of ours If you guess you hud better telephone did." John, If you feel equul to It, Alice "What did you wnnt this dny for? told her, when she had gone up to Joe asked. Violet's room, lie's been trying to get She dried her eyes, and echoed his yon all day. g words with a sture and a There was a long silence. Finally blush. Violet said. 1 see whut happened. I wanted to see you, she stam- John thought I wus coming on the mered. I was, hut I missed It. Brondway. 1 knew you were unhappy, and I And he always laughs at me for misswas miserable, ami I thought She ing trains, so I didn't call him up and I suppose I ought to telebroke off here, and after a moment's tell him silence finished with a flash of anger, phone him now "There's something beastly about you "My dear," said Alice, you can't sometimes, Joe. talk across the room to tne, let alone "I guess that's true of most of us." to Chicago. I'll wire John that you've he said, dully, hut I didn't mean to got here all right or telephone, If be beastly then.'' you'd rather." No. Wire Is hotter," Vloli-- t tnur Her response to h'.s humility was another lightning chnnge of mood. mured. Her hnnd darted out across (he table Iexp!te tlielr protests, she did come down to dinner uml played bridge fuand resl-'upon hi. I'm sorry, Joe, she said. 1 wish we could he a little riously all the evening. It was her last night mil. slic told them, nnd the liappy." Down In the hurled recesses of hi only tiling In the world she dreaded lau-toBrown could xjdlit there laid been a shattering was going to lied. make her do It, hut nobody e'se could. hurst of laughter nt himself for a foul. II was I hat And, Indeed, when she klioikod on caress'lig loiii li of Violet's hand t lint Alice's door, iiliout live In the morna to have limuirlil ing, she was not undrossi-seemed somehow down the whole house of cards. It had lii'gllgoo. nor had she lain in her bed. lie Innkeeper had She mm boa ton by llien. While happened before wlmt Joe might do ill Ills rage hack to make a suggi-s- l inn I hat disappointed she resulvod to they I'oiiie und live here n few days, III or he would have been siirprlsi-i- l hy go back to John. And so sin- told the moiiieiitary gleam In Violet's fare Alice that Mho iiiilsl lake the first witli which she responded to it. lie train hack to Chicago. hud looked for It in her face, know in-Pie gave John, who met her In the II would he there. Wluil u fool be St reel station ill seven o'eloek with his chivalry and hts I In- - next morning, the most had since Well, I hey under-Ktimi- l precious Ideals! surprise ho each oilier, now! she liad told him. twenty years before, They finished their Imirli In silence, that she would marry him. The sort after tlielr host had withdrawn once of hug and kiss she bestowed upon still without a word, him on the platform was unusual more, and llii-n- . reuinicd to the veranda. When she enough, hut noihing to wlmt followed. had seated herself upon the davenport She made light of her Il'ness ns they he sat hostile tier, but not very rinse, walkcd through the station to Die ear and with Id hands between In which he'd driven down from Bake hi knees. She asked him what time Forest tn meet her. She'd had a silly It was, and lie told her quarter to attnek of tlie flutters, Imd got over It, three. suit hud come home us quickly as she Just n little more than un hour could to reassure him that she whs nil she left. commented, forlornly. right, lle'd have found this rather "Will that he long enough, do you sup- hard to believe had not her looks borne her out. pose, for you to forgive tne in? I don't think I can bear It If you don't. After they were seated In the ear. "There's nothing to forgive, ho said. with the chuuffenr watting to be told "You're perfectly right shout It about where they wanted to go, he asked the craziness of my plan, I mean. I've her Jocularly, so that It would he been a" fool. And I've times of being easy to refuse If she'd like to have breskfaet at the club with him before what you call a beast." 1 don't call you that! Except .she drove home. when I'm so frightened I don't know rCsnt yoa come home to breekfaet what I'm saying. Of myself, Joe, with me. John?" she asked. "Just for I'm the worst the ride sad the visit? more than of yon. And behind coward in tho world; that's tho truth Jeffrey's statuesque back, as they lif-ti- fa do." 1 I don't fiercely, fllence. But 1 wish 1 didn't uiu.,i unhappy. "Yon don't need o worry about about me. you so i . , i -- tiii-.'- v . - : . T!-:- : i 1. e said. CHAPTER IX Below the Falls. the ninth of October, when Joe telegraphed Jennie for information on the totals of the drafts that were coming In, his office heard no word of him until within a week of (he expiration of Williamson's offer. It was an anxious time for Jennie, saved from being desperate only hy a continual asseveration of her faith that Joe would turn up in time, bringing some sort of means of salvation with him. But on Tuesday, the second of November, just as she was getting ready to leave the office at the end of the afternoon, a boy from the Stratford hotel brought her u note written In In a hand so Utile like Joe's that momentarily she doubted the signature. It asked her simply to come up und see him as soon as she could, telling her tlie number of the room he was in. He hnd scribbled the words, "Its all right," after signing, but this she took a referring merely to the propriety of her visit. Willi a premonition that everything that muttered hud utterly gone wrong, she went nlong with the bellboy to the hotel und had him show her up to Joe's room. He called In answer to her knock, "Come In, Jennie, If that's you." It wus then nearly six o'clock, fully dark long since yet his room wus unlighted save hy a small nlght-lain- p Joe, upon the all alone, was silting In nn easy chair that had been drawn up to one of the windows, a rug across his knees. He looked round nt her am! nodded toward that shared the emanother brasure. but made no oilier move. It was all she eould do not to weep. It did not seem possible that the six week since she had lust seen him. In Fargo, could have made such devastating changes in the man she knew. He wus shrunken, chilly huddled under Ills rug; tlie hand he finally offered tier was slack and his voice spirtlie pilinhle effort he itless, iimde at his familiar manner. She stood speechless, holding' the limp Imnd he hnd given her in hath her own. till, let's t II over with!" he exclaimed at last. Sit down. You want to know whal's Imppcni-il- , 1 suppose. I'm licked - that's the short of It." "You're sick," sin- resorted. That's I lie main trouble." "Sis- Hint in Hie dark, can you?" he I'ski-d- . willi n drawn grin. "Well, you're wrong Wlmt you see I only a i of I lie drunk I ever From lead-penci- l, heart-sickenin- g hed-stun- who li:ul gone east aud brought him hack lo Chicago, lie wound up hy the end admitting that lie hud l iff his und ineiil.il power--- , aud thal Jennie would have to lake Ids to power of attorney and emic.ivi-save wlmt she could of Hie wreck He wound up, "You'll Jui lime to do the best jou can. Jcuiiie. I'm through. For (his round, al least.-- ' She caught cugcrlv at the hint in that lust phrase. Doctor ltcnneit, she supposed, hud the cure in charge. Hcimi-it'"Oil, yes, he said. gut a place in mind where they've got n system for treating my complu'iit. Doing down there with me tomorrow. Turns 'em out as good as new, tiny say." There's Presently lie spoke again. one thing I was forgetting. want some money. About u hundred und tiny dollars In currency. Bring it around tomorrow morning early, will you? Bring It yourself and sec that I get It." Evidently It was a relief to him that he'd aueiwded In rciiicinheriug tills. Tills concluded the business, anil now he relaxed. He didn't want her to go. lie wunled to talk. Bet Jennie ring up the diiiing-rooii- i and order herself some dinner. He had Ida own meal ut nursery hours. Nursery t no. But these weren't reasons for starving her. She didn't feel milch like eating, tint slip did a he asked, und wus rewarded hy the pleasure he took In the convivial atmosphere which her tray, when It arrived, ereated. lie mocked himself, hut not bitterly. "I never thought I'd be uKking a lady to dinner with me like this," he observed. She tried desperately to think of to nay, hut something 2'ound herself speechless. I know whut you are thinking about, he went on, in a darker tune. "You're thinking that If I'd taken your udvlep, another time we hail dinner together, about a teller I wunled to write to Pusadens, 1 wouldn't have been wandering around the street, seeJug red. Well, I give It to you. You were right about that, Jennie." She gathered up her courage and 1 don't think you'd KHy plunged. that, Joe, If you could see Beatrice us she Is now, "You been seeing her?" he asked. Once In o while. Not oflen. She came Into tlie office two or three weeks ago, on her way through Chicago." "Hasn't hedn coming to you for money, has she? Jennie, If you've given her any " "She' never asked for any. Fin going to tell you soiiielhlng, Joe. I guisa I ought to have done It long ago. She sent buck that thousund dollars you gave Ceorge when you discharged him. He insisied on It, she suld. She sent a check for It in that letter you hnd me tear up, unopened. Rut when I told her we'd torn up the letter, she sold let tli.-i-l settle It." lie surprisis Jennie by laughing et , he remarked. this. That's She had plenty more to ay now, but phv-dca- t Look-f-or the Cross and Circle hinted in like-Trix- Instead ofKalsomine or Wall Paper Became only gnome AUburine will in you ihote wh d elicit, aitne AUwtaa colon, wIulB add ao nuch lo the beauty uf you borne. Good dncoialon me Alabaitine. Neatly all riarea arOine paint cany h ta Mock. Aik youi deala of decantor to ihow you lamplet end explaia the Alahaftin. Opaline Piuctae the neweat aod bkmI bcautilul method oi atferior decoration. The Alabastine Company Grand Kapida. Mich. No Chance for The grout Increase In the vultie of platinum during the last two decades hu led many Investigator to seek Milistituic therefor. It appears that the son rdi hax been partly successful, l'liitiniim-clui- l nickel steel wire In In l lamps; wire of nickel are now making the ehenper grade of artificial teeth; asbestos llircad are now tuklng the place of phitlninn wires in gns nullities, nnd fused quartx ware lma come Into general use In chemical lalmriilorlcs In the plni-of platinum utensils. Yet the lnt rodiici Ion of these substitutes has not affected the price of platinum. Tha demand fur the nieliil seems steudily lo have Increased In aplte of them.- - Too Late Adhesive lmsliige stumps were lt vented hy James Chalmers of Dundee In IKM. After the passage of the uniform penny imstnge bill hy the English parliament In 1840, envelopes heaping tin impressed stamp, or mark, for postage were Introduced at the suggestion uf Rowland II1I1, but failed to find favor with the public. The adhesive postage stamp of Chalmers was thereupon subsiiiuteil und did much to Insure tlie success of the penny postage scheme. I'oxtnge stamps were lntro-dueo-d Into America In 1847. An wen having and it discussion "Success Is life. Said the former: pnsler limn most people think. Why, when 1 was ii young man I knew n youlh who got a Job lu a big city hotel, ml It wasn't long hefore lie iiwned I lie The Scotsman sagely whole place." noddl'd hi Aye, no duot, lie said, "hut since then they've Invented cash registers." Thinking Is very far from knowing. 1 have hci-he sinrt. till after it was all over, lint that's my best Judgment on it." guess It lu ii- -l ' "Celebrating she asked, keeping sumi-lldiig- . were you?" tears. You might say I was, in a way. It wasn't over having sold our flax, I the money to hough, nor borrow pay fur it. Not a poi.nd nor a' dollar. But celebration hn't a had word for it. at t Imt. They've really beaten us, then, have they, Joe?" There was a long t niched silence, It wasn't they that heat me," lie said at Inst. "They couldn't have done It. I guess you It wu the other thing know that, don't you? Didn't you see anything queer wln-- you came up to Fargo in September? Not about them; about me?" She nodded. "WIiNky, you nienn?" Then slowly anil carefully Joe told how thing! hnd seemed uhout to break right for him In New York, only ut the laat moment he had taken drink nd that had led to a big drunk, at the end of which he found himself In New York World. Invention of Stampa They Cant Put You in Jail After your sleepless night from coffee drinking and your friends say its all imagination, remember die sleepless I brick the c Tm here! n :il ul-lo- ys Cant, eh? said the man, Well, - 1 a XeoUmiui on success In ciindi-si'i-n- for That! - wasn't there, Platinum Subatitutea the Bandita An armored minor ear. In which tin Imaginary paymaster anti two Imaginary assist tint a were passenger, wus bullets nt pepcred with , Brooklyn, Olsegii and Burralne slrei-tsthe other iifiermHin. Several policemen were in the vicinity, hut mine iimilc a move, fur (he three bandits who lln-t- l at the car were Imaginary, too. The shouting wu arranged n a tci fur un iirumn'd motor ear ih'slgmal for use In transporting large sums uf money from hunk to hnsliieas houses. The bullets hail no effect, even the glass windows being hull cl proof. The ear la equipped with two tanks, emit iilning tear gas and gas. If bandits should force the chauffeur to slop they would he gassed us they approached tho ear. gi-- hnd, on Every Package of Genome Ala&as&e Atabastme iin-nl- light-hearte- d Red He Was Shrunken, Chilly Under Hu Rug. Huddled derided to wail and let the silence work. Afler a while he said, 1 suppose siic's got n hahy hy now." "No." she told him. "No sign of one .vet. But Trix has developed e I said she wu lot in th's last year. happily married, and I think she 1. hut even if it doesn't work out any loo well, she won't be smashed by It. 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