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Show TIIE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH Swedish Twin Brothers Famed as Master Shots Sweden's master shots, Muj. Wil-helCarl berg and Capt Eric Carl-bertwin brothers, have celebrated their fiftieth birthday, although not together because the former lives in Stockholm and the latter In Teheran, Persia, where he Is employed by the Swedish match interests. Eric also has served three years with the Persian gendarmerie. As early as 1900, at the Olympic games In AthWHO Ifrricl ens, the marksmanship skill of the twin brothers was pronounced and brought many prb.es to Sweden. iMMirding bouse, tmd been to se:tl Max Lewis knew It anyhow, for Two years later, at the games Id that trunk with strips of gummed Babe had told blm the night he London, Wilhelra won three gold . I. -- .nr.rtnil " me uu. a relief and satisfaction brought her home that she and medals and three silver medals In (lai'tri ail auruiiu Her father's dying reference to Rhoda worked all day at the News, pistol shooting, while Eric won two it is for mothers to know that there bis papers prevented her from de- and that Doris and Isabel were off first and two second is always Castoria to depend on prizes. stroying the thing. After the bur- on a tour with their ballet No, when babies get fretful and uncomchamworld the also captured glary she'd looked at It to make Claire had asked her to lunch In fortable! Whether it's teething, pionship In revolver shooting In 1913. sure It was undisturbed, but at that order to find out something. colic or other little upset, Castoria time, preoccupied by the loss of her What could she have found out? always brings quick comfort; and, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes three hundred dollars, she hadn't Not much, with relief from pain, restful sleep. certainly. Khoda was weak women strong. No alcohol. Sold thought much about It sure she hadn't told anything im- by druggists in tablets Adv. or liquM. to until now, she heard Claire And when older, Up Wait a minute, though Cleveland pronounce the word Cali- portant. children get out of sorts and out of had said that none of her faShe been able in her sensi- ther's Law fornia, she'd condition, you have only to give a papers hnd been destroyed. ble moments to remind herself that act making more liberal dose of this pure the was a whole trunk full of passed Congress There all she'd ever seen in the trunk had she had sealed gold the single standard of currency she'd and them, said, preparation to right the vegetable been laboratory notes and diaIn condition quickly. other 1900. trunk. disturbed the on she'd words, March 14, up grams, to argue that In all probavolunteered the fact fool ! Silly, Because Castoria is made exbility It contained nothing else, and babbling fool ! that a sealed-uto promise herself that some day If sleeping late gives you a headpressly for children, it has just the was the thing to look for. trunk she would open it up, go through It mnke a great virtue of risneeded mildness Yet you But had she said thnt It was In ache, you methodically, and make an end of it to be on can depend ing always early. rememstudio? couldn't She the ber nightmare once and for all In so many But now the nightmare was true. ber having said that These people certainly Claire, and words, but she must have admitted It by Inference, since Claire had probably Forster and his nephew suggested coming home with her and helping in the search for the paper she wanted. Had Claire expected her to accept an offer like that? Probably not very seriously, but she might have regarded it as a chance worth faking. Anyhow, it hadn't been until after Rhoda had declined this offer, giving away (Mil? her own suspicion, no doubt, hand X over fist that Claire had remembered the friend who was waiting for her to telephone. "Them," she'd said, though; not "him." Did that really mean there were two of them; Max and his Most likely not. uncle. Forster? Claire's real hatred of old Forster had seemed real enough. It must have been Max she'd telephoned to, waiting at a telephone somewhere for Claire's Instructions. His attempt yesterday to find the papers they wanted had bien unThe daily press tells of increasing numbers of cases of successful, because he hadn't known sore throat. A sore throat is a menace to the person what to look for. So he'd taken her three hundred dollars Instead. who has it, and to those around hirn. Don't neglect Did Claire know that? she wonthe condition. Check the soreness and the infection dered. That might be worth thinking nhout later, but she hadn't time B ay er Aspirin ! Crush tlir ee tablets in tumblerwith to follow it out now. Max hnd tried ful of water and gargle well. You can feel the imagain today, with better informa- Scaled Trunk Jul Castoria corrects CHILDREN 'S ailments by HENRY KITGHELL WEBSTER Copyright by WHAT WENT Its Bobbs-Merrl- BEFORE At a dance Martin Forbes, newspaper reporter, meets "Rhoda White." He overhears a conversation between Max Lewis and a woman which he believes concerns Rhoda. Ha recalls a "blind ad" Inquiring for "Rhoda McFar- -' land" and senses a newspaper story. Ha believes that Rhoda'a real name Is MrFarland. Ehe refuses to admit or deny it. but Martin was right. Her life In California had been happy after her mother's death until misfortune overcame her father. Professor McFarland. They move to Chicago. The professor dies suddenly, vainly trying to tell Rhoda about "papers In a trunk. Rhoda gets a Job as stenographer and takes rooms with "Babe" Jennings. Martin discovers that the "blind ad" advertiser Is C. J. Forster. Rhoda admits her Identity. A mysterious "Claire Cleveland" asks Rhoda for an interview. Co. want to do; go over your father's papers and pick out what she likes? It was a moment before she could trust her voice to answer and even then It didn't sound quite right "Oh, that won't be necessary," she said. "I'm sure I can find It if It's there, and it won't be any trouble at all." Claire glanced at her watch and started a little. "Will you excuse me a moment dearie?" she said. "I told a friend of mine that I didn't know whether I had a date for lunch today or not I didn't of course, until I knew whether And I said I'd call you'd come. them up before one o'clock and let them know." Her departure worried Rhoda a little, principally because she had only two dollars with her. What If Claire had fled and left her with that enormous lunch to pay for! Really Claire wasn't gone very long CHAPTER IV Continued but her return when she came was 6 such a relief that for a moment "Well, I'm glad It didn't bother Khoda almost thought Ehe liked yVo that 'I knew!" (She wasn't! her. lfer voice gave her away every Rut that state of feeling didn't time. It was flat now with disap- last long. Claire's manner had over the loss of a changed a little and had become pointment weapon she'd counted on.) "You vaguely disquieting. She talked be won't mind, then. If I call you Miss tween and during nioutbfuls all McFarland?" through the rest of the meal, about "Not a bit! The meal My best friends anything or iiothing. But know it's my real name. Only, why dragged to an end at last She when, having set down her empty dont you call me Khoda?" , Khoda moved back her hoped her voice didn't Rive her away, too. The nest moment she chair a' little as a preliminary to had to manage to call her compan- saying she must go, Claire suddenly found that she had something left ion Claire. "I'm a working girl, myself," said to say. "I said in my letter," she beClaire, "or I have been until lately. Are you a stenographer? That's gan, "that if any stranger tried to what I was! There may be ways communicate with you in any way that look easier, but in the long run I hoped you wouldn't answer him they don't pay. Whereas now you until you'd had this talk with me. take me, I was never out of a good Yon haven't have you?" "No, I guess not," Khoda told her. Job, and the last man I worked for gave me a tip on the stock market alert again and answering as cas that I made enough out of so that ually'as she could. "I don't he Heve 1 know what you mean. What I don't have to work any more ever, unless 1 like. He owed it to sort of communication?" "You haven't seen It, then," me. all right. I'd made him more than that. I'd practically managed Claire said, with a sish of relief, It was just a all his affairs for six years. It ''or you'd know. was easy, though; didn't take near guess of mine and maybe I'm all my time and 1 used to do out- all wrong. This dirty old goat that side work afternoons and some- I've been telling yon about, the one times evenings. That's how I hap that made me all my trouble I've sort of got him on the brain, I pened to worn tor your miner. "flh Bpo" rjhrwla nfrraart hrlrht guess. . . ." This much of which "I remember how often he used she was saying, Khoda reflected, I al- - was probably true. The hatred In go back to work evenings. tvu.vs niiieu to nave nun uo u. the woman's voice sounded genuine, "You poor kid! You must have anvhow. been lonesome!" "Maybe he Isn't doing it," Claire Khoda fell her face burning as If went on, "but It's exactly the kind !t had been slapped. This woman's of thing he would do. He's old profession of sympathy was an In- and he's got rheumatism so bad sult she couldn't stand. She looked he can't walk without two canes down at her plate and managed to but I bet he still likes voung girls He ai swallow a few morsels of the food as much as he ever did. that was on it When she thought ways got them whenever he could." found herself getting Khoda she could command her voice she broached the main subject of their frightened. The old man who had Interview. given her and Rnbe a lift this "You asked In your letter about morning had two canes with him a paper you had given him to keep In the car. There was some horrl for you. I haven't destroyed anv fying admixture of truth in the lies of my father's papers," Rhoda told the woman was telling her. her. "There was a whole trnnkful "He must know about you," Claire of them and I sealed it up just as went on smoothly, "because he wa? It was. What sort of paper was in business. In a way. with your It?" father. 1 don't know very much The woman, despite her pretend- about that except that he played ed hesitations and reluctances, was your father about the dirtiest trick perfectly ready with her answer. that a man could play on another Rhoda listened Intently for a sen-man. For anything I know he may tence or two and then more or less think your father left you someswitched off her mind to other thing that he wants something things. It was glaringly evident she among his papers but I don't bewas lying. lieve it's that. I think It's because The gist of the story was that a he knows you're young, and pretty wicked man had wronged her years and have no one to look after you ajwlien she was a mere girl. The Anyhow, when I saw the fid in the paper was, It seemed, a sort of con- paper for Khoda McFarland It came fession which she had. somehow, over me like second sight that that forced him to give her. Its value must be Forster up to his old tricks her was thnt It showed her to again." kave been really Innocent -- though "Forster?" Khoda asked. Her llj she had been wronged In the lips felt stiff but she seemed able to r.o.fn'1 way it was hard to see what "Has he been adtalk nil right. good the exhibition of this docu- vertising for me? What sort of ad ment would do her with anybody vertlsement?" Rhndfi asked no questions however, "Oh. the regular sort that's In no for details. and pressed the personal columns saying you'll Claire's reason for wanting her learn something to your advantage paper so desperately after all these by applying to so and so. That's years was not the least remarkable good. If It's Forster who put in the part of the narrative. She was ad. Of course I don't know that planning to be married and she had it's him. It hasn't got his name reason to believe that her enemy to letters, like XYZ. That's It; just meant to try to prevent It by tell- enough In itself to show that he ing the man some lies about her. Isn't on the level. Didn't your fa Piit If she had his confession to ther ever tell you about him? I confront him with, he wouldn t dare don't suppose he would, though." Bay a word to her fiance. It was Rhoda shook hei head. Khoda hoped her face looked as if the fascination of terror that she were believing it all, but she under she asked, almost Involuntarily, the was afraid It didn't. "What sort of trick was "1 can see how badly you must question, tt that he played on mv father?" It." she said, when the story want "Why, It's my personal opinion," was finished. "I'll try my hest to said Claire, "though of course I It for yon." find It don't know anything about it. "Will It take very long?" Claire before your father asked. "Refore you can start look-I- happened long and got acquainted but It's my for it. I mean. Of course you that Former whs private tell how long it will take somehow opinion can't or other nt the hottom of find to It." you the whole thing: your father's trou "T'l! ble out In California. I mean." "No." Khoda assured her. go at it as soon as I get home this To Khoda It was ns if a burled afternoon." thing had reared Its head after ail "That certainly is mighty sweet these years and stared ut her Ever of yon." Claire burst nut. with i since her father's death there'd been sudden RiifTusion of warmth. "It an unacknowledged fear In the hot n torn of her mind that this would a shame to mnke yon iHV Huffi trouble I'll tell yon what we happen something like this. It "l et me had taken Its first vngne nightmare might do," she added. o Rlnng with yon nnd help von form when, as a child of fourteen, could prohahly find It she'd read In the papet about an .icok I than yon could, hecause I other trial under the Mnnn act. It quicker know Just what to look for." hud been a fear of finding someThe attempted casunlness of th thing that would give form and miL'treKtlnn mnv have been n little body to this nightmare that ha 1 overdone. Whether for thnt reason kept her from going over the pn .y-another there flashed Into pers In the old leather trunk the ji'nndn'n memory, as clearly as If day after her father died. One of she were hearing It over a radio the first things she had done after a question Martin ha I asked her her flight from the hotel, up In the that morning: "What does she little hall bedroom of her first demi-tasse- 1 1 t rrtii.-apfcBC)r- ! Mineral. Not NAt Wr 1 - I Stir. - Wil-hel- Gold-Standar- d p Jl , Km m ore tion, remembering, likely enough, just where he'd seen the sealed up trunk the day before, and had sucOne of the First Things She Had ceeded without nny trouble at all. Done After Her Flight From the It had just happened, within the past hour, thanks to her own plain Hotel. in giving everything imbecility had their connection with her fa away. r ther back In the days of the She hated the thought of telling and for some unthinkable pur- Martin what had happened, even pose of their own, wanted the thing while site was wishing he were here at her elbow now telling her dug up. She sat there frozen. It was what to do. Well, couldn't she seconds before she could even turn think of anything, do anything, for her eyes from the woman's horrible herself? Was she going to sit face. down and let that pair of crooks get "You know about it don't you?" away with It? They were probably Claire was saying. "You must know up at Claire's flat now gloating over something about It. Why, there their booty, grinning about how easy wasn't hardly anything else In the she'd been. papers at the time especially the She wouldn't call the police. She San Francisco papers. You don't couldn't do with the story of want to take a thing like that too her father's that, disgrace Involved in hard, dearie." d the matter, they knew it. That's At that Khoda mannged to drag what they were counting on. They'd her hypnotized eyes away and turn been too clever for her; not Max, them on her empty coffee cup. but Claire. The mere fatuous "Of course, to hear people talk smirk on Max's beefy handsome dirty hypocrites you'd think a face was enough to tell anybody thing like that had never hap thnt there was no Intelligence beIt's happening all hind It He took Claire's orders, pened before. the time, only they didn't happen in spite of the rich uncle Martin to get caught You must know thought he was afraid of. Forster I The old man who had yourself that a good looking girl could get any man if she wanted given her and Babe the ride downhim; practically any man. They're town In his limousine that morning. funny that way most men are. Rut Thnt hadn't been chance, of course I think they He'd been trying to find her, and your father hot-ro- ... Of put something over on him. course." she hastened to add. "I wouldn't want to be held to anything I couldn't prove, and naturally I couldn't prove one single Rut If there thing about this. was a nigger In the woodpile. It was this man Forster And you can play that right across the board There's no way that yon could get back nt him that I can see, be cause It was all over and done long Rut there's one thing you ago. can do. and that's lay off from him If he tries to come around." Khoda heard her move her chair hack a little and that broke the Glancing up she saw the spell. woman gazing thoughtfully at her watch. "Well. I guess I've had my say," "And I know you she concluded. must be wanting to run along. I'm going to order a taxi. I can't take yon anywhere In It. can I?" She hadn't quite said her say. though, for as she rose to leave the table she added, "You won't forget to look up that paper of mine, will you, dearie?" Despite her panic, Rhoda was able to note thnt tills hnd been a clear afterthought, and not a com plete one. either. Claire hadn't told her where she lived. She didn't Khoda went home. known bow she got there. Nor till she plan what she'd do when she did.. She bad no clear expectation of what she'd find. Rut by the time she had climbed the long flight of stairs and let herself Into the studio with her latchkey and flown straight lip to her little bedroom In the loft nnd looked under the bed, she was not rfilly surprised to see that the trunk was gone. CHAPTER V The Enemy's Lair. invitation to lunch HAD Claire's anything but a trick to insure her bseme trotn the studio while It was being broken Into? It wouldn't have been necessary to do that and Claire probably knew It he'd succeeded somehow. He was playing a hand of his own in this game. Her body stiffened under the ImCould she use pact of un iden. him as an ally against the other' pair? Claire was afraid of him, too, she thought. She must be, to hate blm like that. Anyhow, she'd done everything she could to keep Khoda from going to him. She'd warned her in the letter against an swering his advertisement, nnd hnd rubbed the warning In today at Well then, why not go to lunch. him now, as quickly as a taxi could take her to the Worcester hotel? Ttiat was where Martin said he lived. Take Claire's letter along as a bit of documentary evidence. She got the tetter out of the drawer of the writing desk, crammed it into her ulster pocket slammed the studio door behind her and darted down the two long flights oi stairs to the street. "Worcester hotel," she said to the taxi driver who pulled up to the curb when she signaled him. It was quite a ride the better part of a mile, at least and though she didn't want to chill with wet blankets, the fine warm resolution that possessed her, she couldn't help doing It. Forster might not he a desirable ally even If Claire hated him. He might he ns bad as she said he was. He might have been her father's arch enemy. There wouldn't be In much satisfaction spoiling Claire's and Max's game if doing that Involved delivering herself over, tied hand and foot. Into the power of a man like that. And could slip spoil their gamn? Could she convince Forster that Claire nnd his nephew were con spiring against him? To what ex tent had Chdre given herself awav in the letter? (TO HE CONTINUED.) Il Is Given to Few One of life's luxuries ts thnt of being in a position to go to bed with a cold. Toledo Illade, fe M 11 ll g 1 0 7 mediate relief. The soreness will be relieved at once. The infection will be reduced. 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