Show Marked Man tA Romance of the Great Lakes By KARL W DETZER v nj'U Sffvua CopTriht br Tlw CHAPTER Arhe BobUMnll C XI— Continued 3old businesslike vigor had re turned to her voice Norman obeyed He stepi Iminedl After ten minutes he awiik Stely ened screaming and found Sue beside She pushed bis bands hack un him der the blankets “That’s all right" she told him Norman" “you’re home soothingly Sue returned grimly to the parlor and related to her father the events of the day Cspinin Stocking was pacing the green coriet "before she (In tshed At the last word he stalked to and the crank of the twisted hnll the savagely telephone Josliih I’lirlsh?” Sue heard “You “Well If you don't get dmvn blnr cry here quick and take this sarpent of a home sure Baker your man' Aye your number seven man!’’ He returned to the room growling across thp floor and pushed padded Ian window open the uncurtained tern Jiggled np the bench Evidently the coast guard commander was run him met Captain Stocking nlng the door Parish scowled ns he strode In tits a face was hard as curved peaked flgureheau Sue talked to him rnpldlv In h quiet voice only once lifting her hands from her lap T tiit time she The keeper grmn pointed at Baker bled to himself now and then t’ap tain Parish walked the floor ('me he aloud exclaimed “Where's Erickson?” he asked “He’s In bed Captain” Sue an swered “I'on’l squall you’ll wake him” ‘You was drlukln’?’’ Parish turned to Baker “Didn’t take much" “No man o’ mine takes a drink on duty twice Sam’l Hear that Baker?” “Yes eir" And you hear “lie hears It Sutn‘1 this Erlcksot) pitched him overlmard Aye that's wlmt Miss Susan said Well tryln1 to drown a man aln mj In this bust tdee 0’ deceut goings-oness You better get rid of Erick " son Captain Stocking stamped the floor “I'on’r say It Ion say It! No I'll talk If you Go to bed Sue This here Baker he's a don’t mind " thief A a lie!" Baker “That’s answered sourly “Spike your winch I” ordered Cap “He's a thief and I’ll tain Stocking go provln’ It before any Judge you got a mind to ask down Aud he insults And he goes after the boy my girl with a scalln knife like he was s After my hoy trout sny aftei Me get rid of Erick Erickson Him son? Here’s a toad you'd best gel rid If you that! of Joslnh and quick at " don’t Baker cold sober stood up lie glanced dctianily at Sue and her fa ther uncertainly at his commander “It's a put up" he complained I’ll tell you wlmt Capjob tain Parish My word's good as his every bit aod good as a girl’s When It comes to that business about long I see what happened to his p pers Erickson took 'em “I’U tell yon wlmt happened I worked hard all day night Come dark you saw me Cupt n went down to the dock down to get a sleep know it was Erick Bow’d Never son’s boat? lie saw me there waked me up Oul they started with i know what tue abut up lu the cabin em They heard tney planned schemed to dump me over middle 0 he lake and nobody on shore the I fooled 'em wiser fought 'em both!" Parish With nodded' savagely moat dignity he stalked to the cur eidor tipped Ills Captain Stocking in the nead and squinted after them door Parish turned about “No need wakln’ me up In the mid 'i'll lie of the night” he complained he down in the morning Sam’l Good night an Stocking “’Night yourself" weret - CHAPTER If the Wind XII Blows Norman awakened Sunday morning with a fever Three days four Doctor Me week be lay In his bed earthy summoned from across the dunes prescribed rest and forbade auy return to Madrid Buy absolutely for G tfttnl Erickson a fun era In h!g cheerless room otftlie usslstuui Norman side of the house Kyver'8 of! iQr'ted at the celling and fought Wfritim His mind was clouded Hiiilns grief misgivings sell reproach and a miserable sense of futility He dreamed tit logged Ills thoughts folly of GustMf Thut he had died be to un hon lieglng his son unfaithful jlole heritage wag The core of every ilSum Again anil again awakening fnm deep feverish sleep he shrunk inme from the touch ol his red linkcts Like fur they tel! like the wet matted fur of a drowned dog He t'lenmed a dozen times Ihal lie was tie txy flgtitlng Eddie Baker in rlie He remem y road nbove Madrid SIh ut t little girl ered something he dreamed ot named Julie Huully hat stormy day In June when his fath-“Get out there’s loft cried Gel out and inovli Prvrw'v'e In you! yiiwT com ha- ' GARLAND THE GARLAND TIMES 'It Susan talked to him eternly In his rutlnuul “Y’ou’ve proved yourself" she would say again and again “Everybody knows It Now go to sleep Norman” Deep lu his own heart Nonnun reud undher proof Wlmt A he had sturted out to rescue two men In the flood? t H the people around Madrid Bay ilKI mu consider him a coward anv longer? lie still wua unproved to The gieat test had not yet come the test on the wide tumbling waters ol Luke MiihlguD In storm U'Lui would lie do then? Fishing folk buried Guriaf Erick son In the little cemetery ou the hills buck of Madrid Buy Julie who stood close to James Delong listened unhappily to (lie words that were read over Norman Uriel sun's father Her tears when they fell we for Normnn'a hen sake faithful Jim Nelson stepped fm wind at the end and pul " a tiuiiilful ut stones in the box with his shipmates body Julie exclaimed uniitile tu uiiih‘1 tiinii and drew closer to James IMiing Delong's Hie tew faie hud become leaner in water Eha wanted my I could farm father to farm Julie" The words burned In his mouth “Farm?" she spoke Incredulously still “Is Henri Ptuninndun'i forty II a hy the vacant?" Erickson!" She atood on “Njinint the rocks struggling for balance "You must not think of that!" I “But in n't ask you to live by the Not since you have cried water was going to Julie here now out on I was going to ask you these If yood ever love me enough to live " here al the light “You must uot ak met I can anNo Norman swer without that This I am from the land Is aot for roe It Is In me and back to Hie land go It la In sand and trees and bills nty I go back I cannot help It blood Norman where belong “Then I go tool" au cannot- - There la wind "No In Wind and tbe broad youi Mood Here la your home here by waters It is not for us to talk the shore about ll was decided for us" “It tai uot I don’t believe It I" tils voice faltered he khew In his heart that for him at lenst It hnd aeen decided “I con make you hapfarm I” py on Plamondon's “Don't Nnnnun would not he If knew you were bnppy anywhere d s Idi tips were drawn lighter Julie hud recovered from her uverslopto Jhe Jjiwyer She even ‘’trill ed with liini wlun UTAH With something like rage but more like paralysis be read It twice Should he show 4t to the keeper or not? He should not he decided Nor to Sue Wlmt was the use? They bad told him often enough that be didn’t be long here at Blind Man's missive Norman Instructed Erickson keeper ot the lighthouse at Blind hian's Reel lo pre sent blnmelf at district depot on October flrst for is to his Alness of character Reports of conduct unbecoming the service could be Ignored no longer It was signed by Cat eye McGoogan All the rest of the week while he worked with grimy face and hands about the fog slgnuL two visions re nml ed hla before eyes constantly They were McGoogan'i letter and Julie Richaud's handsome flushed face when she said: “You must not ask me I" He bad been too aura of Julie Friday night the wind shifted All afternoon - It touched the lend with warm sticky flDgers shaking ever so slightly the leaves of the blrcb trees baik of the dunes In weary singsong cadence swaying the tope of old hemlocks upon the higher ridges After sundown it swung Into the north abruptly cooled strengtlamed became Vigorous and argumentative burd fell Night swiftly dear as blown lake wind Norman rowed out In his father's skiff to- the- gasoline boat floating In Blind tnndwnrd-of deep water Man’s With her hatches Teeth closed and battened and deep enough water under her Gustafs boot would weather nearly any gale He poked about her deik pumped her out and let the waves Vs skiff ashore He slept soundly In spite of tbe clamor of rl (ng gale Captain Stocking woke him at one o'clock Norman realized Si he puwed out sur bed become of that the house had Wind cleared his mind prhdngly cold of sleep when he was dressed and out In the alr ne climbed to the top of the tower made his Inspection cautiously and ran back down the stairs lantern moved rapidly a hundred yrds up the beach from the direction of the coast guard station Sky clear not a vessel In sight off shore there was uo apparent cause Norman wait fot any one running fed disturbed by curiosity It wns not a patrol The fat man the who to lighthouse panted up proved to be Doctor McCarthy of He carried an emergency Copperhead case In one hand Ills pudgy black bug In the other "hello “Hello there" he shouted Erickson Thought I’d find one of you fellows np The old man here?” “He's asleep Just gone to bed” “Wake him" bndp McCarthy Two bells? Hate to Doe “Now? lor” His eyes “Got to" said McCarthy shone Bngrlly “Snap to IL young man" he ordered Norman rapped softly on the keep er's door Captain Stocking descended to the parlor at once gulping hard one boot and wearing his breeches and a blanket “Well?" he asked McCarthy turned from the window ' “Got a boat?” he demanded "What for?" "To ride In Stocking I To go to Battle Ax ialaud There's been an plosion of some kind over there this PostGasoline figure evening master got the call to me od the subThree children marine telephone and three children burned woman tohe the flood Siinhlii over to wulket loud the following Thursday begged a rid and attended the funeral of Fritz dong lie hunted out lulie lino hei father after the servt es an told them coat tmsun Insisted that they visit the lighthouse the next Sunday but one Norman would he all right by then Julie tor Captain Copperlienil ph promised James Delong Oer-accompanied nine ftlclmud and bis daughter when they waded over the dunes to the light- - He explained that be had met them on the road had sent Peter back with their team and brought them himself In his car Germaine still distrusted James De long uot so much as be had but enough "What do you do with the devilish hole now?" he asked Insultingly “The little lake?" Delong's big face darkened ‘Tin going to clean out the bottom uni' sod It down Mr Uichaud” waited Impatiently Norman at the How Long They Sat Thus Neither He bad not seen Julie tower doot One of Them Knew since the evening ol the flood two II hail been weeks She bad seemed You not where you belong belong Her Impulses un close to him then It Is decided” Julie sud firmhere der the stiess 'ot that day's will not ly T go and you atay certainly had smacked of someno will not!" cry thing besides the hills Julie fas alShe turned her buck to him and ways faithful to him She was like peered Intently at the vast distance Jiin Nelson In that he believed she "There are girls meuni for the would consent now to anything he lake” she said “1 am not one or asked her to do Sue Stocking Is She Is born them In Stocking So are you to live by water dropped asleep Nor Cnptain tils chair soon after the guests arman" rived Ids daughter and James De“No no Julie I” “Bui yes" Finality put a stiff edge long retired to the flshcord hammock Norman felt light of heart as he to her voice “She Is a fine girl Norshowed Julie and her father about man She will make you good wife I have my owo the resplendent and orderly reserva future It Is Julie's “ob's" and “ah’s" detlon no 00!" not with you Before be could speok again he lighted him “Oh “1 like It I” she cried not to fore he could reach nut bis hand she live here but to see once It's so was running over the rocks fleeing He clean !” from the water and from him “I don’t like white paint" Ger- pluDged after her “No no Julie" he called “you are "It gets too dirty maine growled How much longer do you stay here wrong P She reached the lighthouse ahead of “When are you Norman?" he asked him Germaine grumbled as Norman coming back to land?" “I don't know" Norman answered caught up with them “Do you sit on the hard rock for I’ve got to go" vaguely He raised his blue eyes to Captain Julie’s black ones “It depends on a ever?” be asked “(’me It Is time “Get - the coast guard" Stocking suggested good many things Perhaps Pll not to do chores time we start home" “Will yon come back next Sundny?" come back “Drown the coast guard I" retorted ever" ’em "Drown Suptose McCarthy lie sat with Julie on tbe Uichaud Norman asked “Come to dinner" Sue suggested stir off the bench? Say they they’d and confessed steps that afternoon can't do b regular or legal or some that he was afraid ot storms Real “and you Mr Delong" to ’em Told told 'em Captain Stocking waking from his thing storms And she bad laughed at him Tild era Invitation Ifomeo with Thgulntlonal She had warned him never to’ tell nap heard his daughter' Told 'em I'd hurt “Not next Sunday" he forbade “I wns children anyone else He changed the subject don’t want company next Sunday It'll get you They snld nobody down quickly 0’ September's storm here hnd a boat or guts enough to sure la his ImHe fell sure the equinox" run It If he had" passioned heart that Julie would conJame- - Delong turned from an ab “Thpre’a my father’s boat" Norman sent to anythin' he asked She ran stare across the water cut In dawn tbe line ot wet Impulsively he Bis face was sober as It bad been faltered Ills voice Suppose rocks that swung In a narrow ttnger not? all could Why do It? Captain day off iLe tip 0 the point oul var "Il does sometimes storm on the Slocking legnrded him reflectively the submerged stone ledge ot Blind "Got enough gas Norman?" equinox” he argued ’’Imi so li does Mud's Teeth She waited for Norman I’m ready It'll have to blow Doctor" "Think so air then submitted to being led down to on other days Be a ailte care "Better start then the beach an along the bowlders that mighty hard to keep me' way" blow “She’ll t" fill" the answered aatd the keepei the keeper lake reared above The ut his band held Stocking They came to s heap ot atones klff down henie the doctor helped In the seamanly opinion of Cap where the water shelved off deeply for the sand aslioc Climbing Ilio It he stopped tain Slocking to there they sat down facing the broad horizon They did Dot speak it flrst a storm mean to polish with pains nnd put hta hand to ils ear "Whnt’d you say?" he asked Nor on It was as If the Immensity of the distaking enre every piece ol bra- tance commanded silence si If It the lighthouse reserved' 0 Nomnn man the assistant keeper an Bow long they sat was up to his elbows In soansuds “Nothlig forbade speech thus neither one of them knew And wben Sieve Sutton arrived ar five swered What he had snld fiercely nndet o’jloik bringing a IWi fm Oie Reapthen Norman heard a sound that b his close a hreutb flrst lipped lo the In oltlce at for When From stringent mistook er's supper post laughter Me? My wo "Scart? exultation Madrid he brought a letter to Norhe turned he discovered tears upon Isn't It? Coast' guard name Erickson man who retired to the skiff to ex Julie's cheeks won’t go? We don't need them I" amine IL “Why Julie!" But It makes “I'm sorry Norman BoodwHooocweaXH3B6ow30foonKioWKtxoxofHTnonnaca3aoocSite waved her hand despairingly at Divorce-Cou- rt Seen the horizon at the Jubilant waters beneath her feet Stfi glanced up at the round sky Her gaze became fixed thus la discontent In an address before the National started In a nice iih n its emptiness and Norman un Restaurant association Mia Christ ine happy home — and court actions follow grew troubled atiie to understand The lukt could make one love It or Frederick sold that It the way to a —Brooklyn Standard Union Restaurant chose ' one girl I" Julie “It explained and wl(1 her cheeks She added Impetuously: “It Is very splen do see did I begin to see hv your 'si her loved It" her tnood tried Norman reason it oul for himself know T don whether It Is splen ilht or not Julie" be said hesitantly “1 don't" know whether I love It or In Once a while I bate ll hate II now no! often “Y 00 must not I" “But If I do? Perhaps I am like my She didn’t wish to mot her Julie hHte It Is whichever It too big for as It mull's heart Is through tils stomach most caters follows that whoever closely to hts upp'tite will have a chief hold on his aVecilous— aud conas most women hate to sequently cook the restaurant D an ally of (lie divorce court of Wives will hold the affection tint their husbands t good cooking they time ceased lo be cooks and be come Yes Indeed It discourages man to that he Is excome home aud pected to eat a lot of cold stuff from the delicatessen shop Instead of good hut roast beef with the fixings and Ally Some Helper Mrs Wigwag— "Does leiicon (lose evei conirllMite toward (lie sup of the churi It?" Mr Wigwag— T understand be once gave rhiee cheers when the rector suggested ink for the poor ol mg up a collection the parish" list port Coutioul The fellow to ids tee Hint ujt U she who admits he owes til Ins wile Is to Isu around when he CHAPTER Guitafi XIII Boat Captain Stocklng’a equlnoxtal gale day early across tbe five ripped the gray of wide Inland jear dawn-cthwind settled Into a tense taut aa a unyielding vehemence drawn wire Norman had steered with skillful since two u’clock Under the ruddep head of Battle Ax Jsland with rooky Its stone light tower he pulled oien the trap to thq cabin “All right?" he cried Doctor McCarthy showed sick white the tower window “It’s the Corrigans that’s hurL One boy died In the night Beef Stop JnflPd rest a minute I'll call op the town walk ag’ln' the wind It's a There’e coffee on the stove" “Thanks” the doctor answered “which way? They’ll give me coffee You stay here and dry off Erickson" Norman slept three hours behind the At atowe In (he Battle As kitchen two o’clock McCarthy tramped In AII setr he asked “Sorry I was Awful to see so long Erickson en-hurt’ that way - Fd take 'em malnla nd to the hospl tat If It weren't for this storm lie waved toward the window the off tonlghL" “Nobod takes said keeper have to go back “Nobody? emergency case walling another there" at “You the minute" McCarthy looked Norman every “What I’ve across It?’ about Inquiringly he asked Gustat enough gas I’ve over He langbed "Nothin unce out there eould making harder can't go In doctor's Igti the size o’ that tub keep afloat Blow’s at thud of the engine “She's missing" he cried to McCarthy “engine’s missing I" He lifted the trap In the cabin root dragged the doctor after him and jammed the hatch cover back on At that moment the engine sputtered and stopped The boaL with mischievous She antics thrashed across the seas dived her blunu unlovely bow burrowing closer and closer to tbs bot- tom with BHIUIPS F of Magnesia For Piles Corns Bunions Chilblains — etc B&lsam of Myrrh m Mm ShKOM llOtnolORTUtSTHOCk! oebaraitisareassttyand qwickly nmovsd witb--out knife or firing Iron Absorbin rsdncM them no esrmansntlysndlMVM bUmlshM Will not bllator or remove the hair Horss worked daring treatment Atdrnggiataor ftse $U0 poetpsld Horse book lanriat alia twltt SwvrtMSiOTrwrttOTt Hana tHuuha would m mw t alltaktomit awai wptOTtr w - m S f ynUNU'l'nie' btQ LymanliF'p'ni'ftlriq Eloquent believe money "Do you "Yes mine Is always Maaa talks?’’ saying muttered What Will sought the tool box Rummag- When your Children Cry for It found the ing in the neavlu darkIte he oeatn on the flash Inmpund poured engine The wiring bung D—useless ao a IL be There Is hardly a household that far as hi could see hasn't beard of Caatorlal At least five wasn't a mechanic wasn’t a mechanic teaman million homes are never without It If any more than b wae nera on out there are children In your family tbe What was he dulng lake In a storm for which Parish there's almost dally needfindof Its comfort And any night may you very daren't spare a man? It dll no good to make one wire thankful there's a bottle in the house It tlghL Eh b time be thought Just a few drops aud that colic or fastforward Is or relieved own body diarrhea constipation hi lurching swept away at least half ot bis work checked A vegetable product a baby Twice he stopped entirely and waited remedy meant for young folks Castoria to Him over la about the only thing you have ever for the whole of water that heard doctors advise giving to infants watted for the flrst Stronger medicines are dangerous to a shnulo tell him he was sinking Sinking! Who could think of sink- tiny baby however harmless they may Good old Castoria I ing? This boot would hold Gustaf be to Erickson had built her 8omehow bis Remember the name and remember mind fell respect fo: eny boat hla to buy It It may spare you a sleep-les-s found Evwae had huIlL She anxious night It Is always ready father In emergencies or lways safe to ery plank and rib every rivet bott Biie had never gone sown for everyday aliments Any hour of the eounil it h Him nf He had died ashore died day or night that Bnby becomes fretfwae proof on There land was but Castoria or never restless weU ul more popular with mothers than It Is ot a good boat ills foot tripped near the engine today Every druggist hat it Stooping down be felt a square oh Jt ue fool he What box wonder she wouldn't start He never out of nlnoe He of the butteries Jimiglil where they behack them longed working now In the dark by to rise of touch In hls chill bruised The hail bnttM® No (mix fingers wua The engine sputtered with a atsmallIt i‘l!ji king noise as If surprised He cranked the wheel again eif Sinhlenlv eo suddenly that Norman on hi feet Gustafs motor an now sprsing hflik to life begun Hied and e'en vibration purred eg t Hy- llO at 'JONTINI'EDJ rtered ’ Some people are never satisfied they find out something that makes them dissatisfied no i left Tlii was! : Milk reason leaped op for no apparent each time and cause she rode free Down In the cabin McCarthy of Copperhead sprawled on the deck boards holding with flDgers that ached and bled LI ad the night on deck been dark here below the blackness was solid Norman flung over tbe flywheel The motor gse a email gasp tbs flrst time and stopped unreasonable as death “It's the spark I” be screamed to- I "Those wires McCarthy ward They’re loose somewhere Give me r hand I sayl" hnud? MeCartLr’a head brougbj op with thud against the engine block' and the doctor collupsed “No time for hin now" Norman And Stomach In the same time it takes a dose ot soda to bring a little temporary relief of gas and sour stomach l'hllllps Milk ot Magnesia has acidity complete' ly checked and the digestive "orgunfl all trnnqtllllzed Once you have tried tills form of relief you will cense to worry about your diet and experience a new freedom In eating This pleasant preparation Is Just as good for children too Use It whenever coated tongue or fetid breath signals need of a sweetener Physicians will tell you that every spoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnewla neutralizes many times Its volume In pdd Getthe genuine the nnme Phin Ips Is Important Imitations do not act the samel Hanford's Erick- “Fm ready" son eon answered The keeper became angry "I won't leave you!" he cried "I’ll leave no tuan go drown off my point!" Ve won’t drown" the doctor assured him “Erickson's a seaman" Norman buckled on hla A seaman sou’wester and slicker tad stepped out to the blasty beach “You’re the crazy I" screamed The doctor ran after Norman “I’ll stand outside with you this time" he shouted Oustafs boat spun burrowed under shook mounted high unexpectedly herself like 1 mettlesome horse slid astern off the hunched backs of rollers An hour tbey worked southeast Then Norman’s enr bent toward the cabin Uls planted feet measured the lie A Sour face Tm sick” the physician confessed “terribly sick" They went ashore at dawn from the lighthouse dock Cp the beach the surfman un watch ae Battle Ax coast guard station thrust his bead out of At lint itr of s eoW tnk M MATvas-- amisr-- Ui 1M that thorousbtv It th on ym vwU1 to lUNluill JwdOTtlmlih Mild fm artr llti Q AIRIOMV vtbl For Sale at All Dragg’uU i |