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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH mtm mini ii i i mu. cimer. 1 m r-nino. . . JJy.PeterB.Kyne WNU Service j.,tarB.W T WENT BEFORE J? man out M .w n" for pay- P. na Bntttrworth & '"'"Elmer to toM W en,y;, S Cathcart,. Limes a candidal tor ?'ido Charley's IS. ai i . newsp nf ls Gateway d In her the adventuress ta visits Doris and her F Colorado Charley, in fles. TER VIII Continued oypNel"e u:.d llv and popped in. I g, it's gorgeoos-so gor-l gor-l I'm grateful to be the rl to ride in It first. " louldn't help thrusting that fc-and It went home, too. fshed and looked as guilty bulling dog as he climbed her. Well, there was but I to, and that was to tell shame the devil and let i'fall where they might. I rn tell you all about I besan, but Nellie raised pi finger. Elmer! It Isn't neees-Jm neees-Jm do not have to. I know happened to be riding $d met her, she was walk-i walk-i recognized you and you I to be decent and give her have it your own way, fed gloomily but bravely. tat wasn't the way. You met her before. Shes a tr correspondent and she here to get a story trora low it feels to be a poor da? and a millionaire the flie's a ,very charming girl name Is Dons Gatewood. orrespondent for the Amer- kly of New York. 1 hap tell her. I was going to ties to buy this car and she d that if I would telephone n let me read her story be- mailed . It .east. " I sup-, didn't want to write any-which any-which I might object." said Nellie. "Did she write Interesting story about you, le hanged if I know." he td, "We forgot to look at It" :'a weil you forgot, Elmer, jldnl write a snappy, interior? inter-ior? anyhow. She's as spurl-i spurl-i lead dollar." how can you say such a 4wut a girl you have never Elmer challenged. im walking down to the fith her the night she was Mtos. Heard a fragment of f ersation. Heard her laugh, fer general make-up. That's fihat'8 enough for little Nel-Hn" Nel-Hn" - I'll admit she Isn't In your fellie, but nevertheless I e' charming. She's bully f-so much so that I double-1 double-1 1 you and gave her the first fer Td promised you." '3 gurgling little laugh 1 ease. "Now that I've Jon suffer, dear, you may firself op and dust yourself f not miffed at you, hut 1 I" a number of people In fo today." ; . jwold L I Wisn 1 hadn,t I into that campaign for high trustee. You're all that ! ".ii. -ton Veran(1 n I k thfo. ,a" n this com- Dt- CI "j dis- u W be !r m 0l your p wor! tor you to I don't think I could stand that" he confessed soberly. Nellie laughed. "No man of spirit would. Where are you taking me for luncheon?" "Out to Joe Angellottrs." "Well, Elmer," Nellie announced when they found themselves seated, "I've sold your house and lot on the terms you named. If you drop In at tbe bank after luncheon and sign the deed, I'll attest It and the deal will be closed In twenty-four hours." "Three cheers!" said Elmer. "Nellie, "Nel-lie, you're a smart girl. When does the new owner desire to take possession pos-session of my house?" "Immediately." "O. K. I'll take a suite at the hotel." "Atta boy!" said Nellie. "Now let's talk about your campaign for high school trustee and organize that I've been checking off votes, trying to estimate your strength, and it seems to me you have a fight on your hands." 'Watch my smoke," said Elmer Clarke. Because he was so easy to handle Nellie favored him with a loving look and with difficulty repressed an Impulse to lean across the table and kiss him. Dear, blind, straightforward, straight-forward, straight-thinking Elmer! All she had to do to hold him In line was to show him a fight and then send him into It. He had been fighting and winning since his twelfth birthday and It had never been an easy fight. His path had always been beset with obstacles, which he had successfully hurdled, but far down that path Nellie could discern one obstacle that must send him crashing to the ground. Yes, nothing but death before he should reach that obstacle could save Elmer Clarke from having his nose rubbed in the dirt and Nellie had a vast curiosity to see how this man, who had tasted victory, would . assimilate defeat, chagrin, sneers, gibes and the varied cruelties cruel-ties of a world which tramples joyously joy-ously over the fellow who goes down in the fight Standing alone, in a stricken field, would Eliner, defeated, de-feated, acknowledge defeat? "Why. Nellie, what are you crying about?" he demanded suddenly. Nellie's sweet mouth trembled pitifully. "I I I can't tell you. Elmer. I'm Just s-s-silly, that's all. I I haven't any spunk. Tlease forgive me darling.". , Elmer was delighted. Most men are when'they think they have observed ob-served infallible evidence that the girl they love, but aren't quite certain cer-tain of, evinces signs of jealousy. Poor Elmer thought she was jealous jeal-ous of Doris. Ml CHAPTER- IX THAT night Nellie sent a telegram tele-gram to the editor of the American Amer-ican Weekly in New York asking if their Los Angeles staff correspondent corre-spondent was Miss Doris Gatewood, and giving her address, which in the form of an anonymous letter had reached her that morning. She re quested an answer collect She had It early next morning. "I thought so," Nellie soliloquized. "Only another buzzard gathering for the feast Well. Elmer might as well learn about women from her. I wonder If she's an alimony hound or Just a plain swindler. Well, a letter to the chief of police of Los Angeles, on the bank stationery, will receive prompt attention." Nellie wrote the letter. Three days later she had her answer. It ran as follows: "Dear . Miss Cathcart : "In response to your Interesting letter of recent date: "The circumstances under which the lady In question made the acquaintance ac-quaintance of your friend appears to me to present ample ground for suspicion particularly In view of the fact that the gentleman has a considerable fortune. "J therefore sent one of my most reliable men to Investigate. "He reports that the house at the address you name Is inhabited by a notorious bunco steerer, known to the police all over the country as Colorado Charley. Therj is a young woman living there with him who passes as his sister, but who Is an accomplice of his. She has a police record as the most accomplished accom-plished come-on in the" business, and Is undoubtedly the person to who you refer. "We will keep them under surveillance. surveil-lance. Meanwhile, If you should have any further Information of lra-nortnnpp lra-nortnnpp to communicate to ns. we shall be glad to co-operate with you. . . "In closing, may I suggest that you do nothing to indicate to the young man that he is t'aying with fire? If we give this calf more rope we may be enabled to get him Into the corral and earmark him. "Very truly yours, "J. Fitzgerald. "Acting Captain of Detectives." When Elmer called at the bank to sign the deed to his bouse anil lot, he noted that the deed ran to Nellie Cathcart an unmarried worn an. "Hello," he murmured. "1 see the buyer Is hiding his identity by using you as a dummy. Why all the secrecy, Nellie?" , "No secrecy at all." Nellie replied re-plied demurely. "I am the buyer." Elmer scratched his ear In perplexity. per-plexity. "What do you want of the property?" be demanded presently. "It's a good buy. Elmer. I think I can sell It for about two thousand thou-sand dollars profit In a year's time." "Are you going to move into the house yourself?" "Well, suppose you rent It to me for the present. It's all furnished with my furniture, and I'll be far more comfortable there than In that rat trap of a Palace hotel" "The rem will be seventv.flvo lars a month, Elmer." "You're a highway robber!" There fell a silence wi.iu o, looked at each other. Then : "How goes your fight for school trustee dear?" Nellie asked. "It's a flcht and I'm fl.,i,in That's all I can say. I'm making u uuuoe-iu-iiuuse cuuvuss. "In the new car?" Ho nn,u0 "Better use the old tin Lizzie," she suggested, -mat BMny new monster mon-ster will cost you votes. I heard a well-known merchant of Pllarcl-tos Pllarcl-tos remark to Mr. Moody, apropos of your new Imported ear that , fool and his money are soon parted." weu, j must oe off, Nellie. I'm afraid I shall not be able to see very much of you until after the school election." ' "Atta boy, Elmer!" As be strode out of the bank Netlie observed that for ttlA ft rot time, he no longer walked with the sngnt ump that had been the result re-sult of an unexpected mpeino r,,m a soldier of the Prussian Guard. unce u nad been a real limp; then It had become a habit; but now "Nothing like a little judicial prodding nothing like a hint of oppositionnothing op-positionnothing like an objective to be captured, to keep that boy busy," the girl soliloquized. "Well, anyhow, he didn't fib to me about Doris Gatewood. lie didn't apologize apol-ogize or explain or try to excuse himself and that's a comfort." True to his promise. Elmer saw little of Nellie during the period intervening before the school trustee election. He had a fight on his hands and he fought. The Sunday Sun-day before the election he invited the entire high school district to a barbecue. During the barbecue he made the only public speech of his campaign. It was a rattling good speech and well delivered. As usually occurs when an untrained un-trained speaker warms to his subject, sub-ject, Elmer's oratory suddenly captivated cap-tivated Elmer. Almost before he realized it, he had announced his Intention In-tention of seeking the office of mayor of Pilarcitos, as an independent inde-pendent candidate, at the November election. When Elmer Clarke stepped down from the table upon whlcn he had made his speech, he knew he had won. In fact, he was elect ed by a majority of nineteen votes, and took office at the next regular meeting of the board. Meanwhile the Pilarcitos Clarion had increased its circulation by one. Colorado Charley had subscribed sub-scribed for three months, on the off-chance that thus he might be kept in touch with the activities of his intended victim. As a result of his foresight Elmer received a tele- gram from Doris Gatewood on the morning of election day, wishing him a tremendous' victory and making mak-ing the prophecy that any other Issue Is-sue would be improbable. Elmer thought it was both kind and considerate of her to do this; consequently an hour after the votes were counted he sent her a" telegram tele-gram thanking her and announcing announc-ing his victory. Immediately she replied with a night letter suggesting suggest-ing that he owed himself a present and it ought to take the form of another visit to Los Angeles. With that suggestion Elmer was in entire accord. He told Nellie about it before he left and she agreed that he ought to go. When he told her he would probably see Doris Gatewood and her brother while there, she told him she hoped he would see the charming Miss GatewooC and that he might enjoy her society immensely. As a result of this conversation, Elmer departed depart-ed not a little Irritated. He would have preferred to have Nellie display dis-play opposition to his plan. To say that Elmer enjoyed his vacation would, In these days of superlative su-perlative slang, scarcely express the content of his enjoyment. Perhaps it would be better to state that ne ate It up. He lunched and dined and fox-trotted in every worthwhile worth-while hotel, restaurant and road house in Los Angeles county. 'and then departed, accomraniedJ).v Colorado Col-orado Charley and Doris Gatewood. for points farther south. They swam and played golf at Coronado. they lunched at delightfully wicked Tia Juana. and. at a bare suggestion sugges-tion from nis guests, he ruined the paint on his new automobile in a wild dash across the Colorado desert des-ert to spend a week at the Grand canyon. Quite early in the history of the junket Doris commenced calling him Elmer and insisted that if they were to be good pals he must call her Doris. He did-gratefully. Presently she took to calling him dear and darling and old thing and old dear and silly boy and sundry other verbal evidences of insincerity. insincer-ity. Elmer liked it. He "ate It up." In the gentle art of coquetry Doris Gatewood was a past master, mas-ter, and it is not to be marveled at that he became hopelessly infatuated infat-uated with her. She thrilled him. she dazzled him. she brought on a delicious pain in his heart, she filled him with the wonder of her. When he thought of Nellie Cathcart It was with a pang of shame and trepidation, but this unpleasantness gradually disappeared, dis-appeared, exorcised by Elmer h m-self m-self Finding he could not think of Nellie without having his indescribable inde-scribable happiness clouded he ceased to think of her at all. although al-though he did send her a few picture pic-ture postcards. She was but a memory of another life. Nevertheless old habit?, partleu larly of loyalty, are hard to 'break Elmer was more than the devoted friend and host but not quite the lover He wanted to be but lacked the courage. Doris realized this and created opportunity after opportunity op-portunity for him to declare himself. him-self. She even went so far, on their way back to Los Angeles, when they traveled bv nlcht to avoid Hm i,Q,. of the day, as to pretend to sleep with her lovely head on his shoulder. shoul-der. Elmer trembled a little, but that was all, so the lady took advantage advan-tage of Colorado Charley's presence pres-ence In the front seat with the driver to commence weeping softly when Elmer asked her tenderly why she wept she told hira it was because they had to part so soon. Thereupon she got her first real rise out of Elmer. lie said: "Well, I don't know about that I" There is something connected with driving a fast and powerful car through the night which promotes pro-motes straight thinking, and so Elmer El-mer came to the conclusion that he was violently In love with two women at the same time; he had to choose one, he knew which one he wanted and he lacked the courage to choose her and Jilt the other. He reflected bitterly that in the days of his poverty no such unhappy un-happy ultimatum could possibly have been his portion. Also, he had a curious presentment that Col- Swedish Twin Brothers Famed as Master Shots Sweden's master shots, MaJ. Wit-helm Wit-helm Carlberg and Capt Eric Carl-berg, Carl-berg, twin 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 190C, at the Olympic games in Athens, Ath-ens, the marksmanship skill of the twin brothers was pronounced and brought many prizes to Sweden. Two years later, at the games Id London, WUhelm won three gold medals and three silver medals In pistol shooting, while Eric won two first and two second prizes. Wil-helm Wil-helm also captured the world championship cham-pionship In revolver shooting In 1913. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong. No alcohol. Sold by druggists in tablets or liquid. Adv. CoId-SUndard Lmw Congress passed the act 'making gold the single standard of currency on March 14. 1900. An Instant Later She Was In Elmer's Arms. orado Charley was going tomorrow some money from him before long, and that be, Elmer, was going to grant the loan and, figuratively speaking, kiss the money good-by. What with the happiness tiiat was in the company of Doris, Elmer had not hitherto given more than a cursory thought to his othev companion. com-panion. . Now his thoughts centered suddenly on Colorado Charley, who, by the way, was known as Harvey Gatewood. It occurred to him now that Harvey Har-vey was a bit narrow between the eyes, a trifle furtive, a shade overdressed, over-dressed, his affability and gracious-ness gracious-ness a fraction overstressed. He talked too much and too big. Elmer felt his suspicions mounting, mount-ing, even as the hackles of a dog rise as be lies asleep and dreams of rats. "If 1 should marry Doris," he decided, "I'll give Harvey the air about ten minutes after leaving the altar. He has Doris fooled, but fooling me Isn't so easy." CHAPTER X A RRIVED at Doris' home, Elmer soberly announced his intention of departing for Pilarcitos next day, but promised to look In again on his way north and say good-by. The result was that when he did "look In" he found Doris alone. She was curled up on a divan, sobbing audibly, when Elmer walked up on the porch of the bungalow, glanced In through the screen door and saw her. With the license of an old friend he entered unannounced, sat down beside her, and tenderly inquired what the matter might be. "Oh, Elmer, darling, I can't bear It I can't I can't!" the girl sobbed. "I'll be so lonely!" She seized his hand, covered her tear-stained face with it and kissed It very humbly and benig-nantly. benig-nantly. An Instant later she was In Elmer's arms and he was kissing ber tears away and murmuring words of endearment. Presently her soft cheek was against his and she was, according to her own state ment, the happiest girl In the world ! Many a man has been captured less adroitly, but nevertheless as securely. Elmer had three hundred hun-dred miles of motoring before him that day, so he did not linger long over his leave-taking just lon enough to swear undying love and promise fervently to write the light of his life daily until they should meet again soon! As a curious commentary on the unfaithfulness of man and the gen eral Inconsistency of the creature It Is worthy to remark that thirty miles up the road Elmer Clarke quivered, sighed dismally and mur-murpfl mur-murpfl verv distinctly: "Oh, Lord. what an ass I am! What a jam I'm In! What am 1 going to dor About the same time Doris perched on Colorado Charley's thin knees, was telling him the Inside story of her conquest. Colorado Charley stroked her fair cheek. "You're papa's little sweetheart" sweet-heart" he declared happily. "We're almost broke, Mae. - When you've had half a dozen letters from him he should be touched for a thousand." thou-sand." Elmer Clarke suffered every foot of the journey back to Pilarcitos. Not that he reproached himself with having made a mistake; but he faced an unpleasant Issue and there was no possible chance of avoiding it If he purposed living with himself the remainder of his life. Rather than face Nellie and tell her that the love he had for merly vowed to her had all been a mistake, he would cheerfully have submitted to the bastinado. TO BE CONTINUED.) 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