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Show IWSON (HION'in THK IVSOVj321L K. A Copyright the Bohbt Merrill by SYNOPSIS Xovvl hi Ilonry KitchcH VlVbslor (WNX Co. himself as old awoke In time to make the substitution I think thev'rc more like that than young people," lie said rcllertiv idy. You see anything may happen v. le n to you're young. Anyhow, U's believe that It will. I'.ut when you're forty six years old, you know it won't. 1 know I will never hi rich sucre---ful- ; any more linn I'll find a h ig of pearls or a trea-ur- e hot of p.eees of eight hi lulid the wainscoting In lie library.'' I don't see." she argued, "why something wondertul couhhi t happen to you Just as well as it can to anypos-ild- Acting In gorr1 fa.th In an effort to ali aparfatly neihluir, Uu'fi Itigr.tt.K.'r in ft buaJntMM way. Edward lhUfrnIii ih hir f the ( hlriKu ajriH v of a :!' u.sui.ti.-l.v l,m w ,fa, eompany. U wrony urpt-tJtilla. of Infldailiy. Her prarthal a ua a u-i- ' fiom a auri.nier n ton, In a him for buaiuefta, and t. a rt irkvacation. Patterson a akriH is a ft ;in ing of rMpoualbiiity. de-l- u I.W rfu-bta vacation ha la vvoumi.-i.y ) u daughter. Edith. haitaMhKly telling him that his parsonal baking t.gs weiw in tha from 'spars room." hav'njc h n rni.o-.etbs room which had been hi and ht wife a badroom. l'atterson thu g.tmitlou as wife a huh f in hi gui.l. troof ofIT hia years old, 1m worried ov-(ha of her (mumM having Mlr&ngment mora Uian a dirn umpi vhciioion of theiltte )ttr a.tM CHAPTER II Continued "Recall, broadly speaking," For a loiif time after that mot tier didn't say anything. She was sunk down ever so deep In her own It wasn't until Kdilli rethoughts. marked that site guessed she might as well get up, and had swung her legs out of the bed hy way of carrying out this purpose, that her mother spoke. Tin sorry you've been thinking things like that. We arent very happy Just now, your father ami I. I cant tell you why. l.ut I can't hear to have you made unhappy about it. dear. I didn't realize that you were. I dont want you to side with me against him or to think unkind things about him. If I have made you do I haven't been fair io him. It will work out somehow, I suppose. Until It does, I I want you to he fond of us both. Ami not go on worrying about something you cant understand. Itun along now, dear, and dress, and go down and have breaka.st with him. lint stop and give me a kiss first. Mother culled her back Into the room Just before the girl was dressed. There's something I'd like you to do, Edith. See If dad won't go with you to the matinee, instead of me. I dont know whether hell think he can get nwny from the oflice or not. lint If he can, I wish he would. I really mean It, dear. 1vo got a committee meeting this afternoon that I hate to miss, anyhow. Dad had agreed, after a blink of surprise and not much more than a minute of consideration, to cut business for the afternoon and take her to the show. lie had been genuinely pleased by the proposal and all the more so, apparently, because It Involved playpns-albl- y ing truant. lie was waiting for her the station. He blinked lit her as she came Until she got quite near, UP to him. he said, he hadnt realized who she was. That was the polo coat, of and the chrysanthemums, course, Which some of the girls at school Who'll remembered her birthday, had given her. Well tnke a taxi over to the theThis Is going to ater, he remarked. be a real party. It's a long time since Ive taken a pretty girl to a show. Edith hnd been to the theater numerous times, but this was her first experience of being a prelty girl getting taken to a show, and she got a real thrill out of It. Eor that proved to he no mere Idle compliment of dad's, lie didn't act parental nt all. Along In the first net, as soon ns things began to get funny and exciting, they found each other's hands and kept them clasped through most of the play for convenience In communicating their special moments of enjoyment. Of course the curtain had to come down nt last. Dad helped her into her polo coat and slipped his hand through her arm ns they walked up the aisle while the orchestra played the people out, which somehow kept the spell alive a little longer. Hut at last they were out on the sidewalk, and It seemed that the Inevitable end hnd come. A faint, half pleasurable melancholy Invaded her spirit and colored her voice as she said, We may ns well walk over to the station. We've got lots of time for the live eighteen. Itenlly, she wasn't hinting. A enb had swooped down Invitingly to the eurb before them, and she had felt her father, who still had hold of her arm, hesitate. Otherwise she wouldn't have said a word. No, he said with sudden resolution, we'll finish this thing otT propAnd then, amazingly, erly. Hop In. she heard him tell the chauffeur to drive, not to the North Western station, but to the street number of their home In I.akeshle. I think. she told him. deep In the wonder of It. that this has been Just about the most perfect time I've ever bad!" e. one else." 3 that, Not a rbh man necessarily. Mar i.ers hi lp. If he got It, would be .somebody's savings. It was the pour who mok long chances. Six thousand doihirs in the savings hank or In LibEderty bonds didnt amount to much, he himse'f amount Tin knew. ward had succeeded in putting hy amounted, outside h.s house and his life insurance, to just a little more than that. If ar'iv body yielded to Mariner's spell, it would he somebody In a pair of Somebody silmes very like his own. who, in the regular course of things, hadn't much to hope for. IPs muscles tightened suddenly and Ins heart gave an unexpected flutter. There was a wild Idea! Nonsensical, of course, hut literally true. He could give M iriner his six thousand dollars p,!p eauaeg In His only answer to that was to find her hand and squeeze it. They went hack over the play once more. I don't suppose, she admitted, that It could have happened really. What a play No, he assented. like that Is trying to do Is to make what can people forget for a while We re nil hungry, you happen. really see, for adventure, for something and that thnfs left out of our lives, s like a It us. it to of gives sort play dream, only better. -people like that. Are grown-usahl old Instead of almost Shed tnoV new to grown up. hut a sense, quite think of didn't dad nor. that perhaps In told her, "things don't - happen to anybody. Life isn't like tbit really. Ihe next thing really grows out of the one that's hapjii lung now, so that n man like me, whos Jvrd two thirds of his life, can tell pretty well what the la- -t third of It Is going to he. liven if he's rei k d hy some fault nr some disastrous mistake, you'd he ible to see, I suppose. If you looked lueu, n.. l It was the sort nf that lie Would make when lie got the ehatiee," They didn't talk such a lot during the rest of the ride, hut there was rmtlilng uneasy about the silences. They were awfully eluse sotiiehnvv. When the taxi pulled up before their house, tin girl on an Impulse, slipped her arm around her fathers neck and kls-e- d him. Thanks, dud, she said. "I've had a most wonderful time. vv i.- to re- - ip without d o .nt 1, at move t all. alter another on cut and dried Hut a tug iiuuri this has its rule-- . ui- Lit I know that a our pos'leei, if in wants to ! gome rule that will mu m in de.ihng with a spee'al the . , ,i -t ri ,,, km I ' - 'Vv v v i i;, tv 1, N -- c;i il you ; ( oe,i'r th it. If you don't to my factory, ,o down ear nij; here. d. man, you in mv M i v 'rive I dont je.iig to drop this now When all it w ants e y i nr- -. om moie push to put it over the t,.p of ike h,:i. You won't turn me il,, vii walnut taking at least a look ! mi-'a- 11 w III I .peer thing happened to Edward ! le hi in exp hi in tig. as hed ex I la ned a hum! e j linn s before, that the i'. e of the insurance business w as it d dn't reeogn.e exceptions to il, No (her the merits of Mariner's rna-sdev a e tier the urgency of his needs He entered into the ease nt nil. iet:M have fourtien hundred and odd dollars if he wanted it, and that was X CHAPTER III ail It was not surprising that a stricken look came into Mariner's vv istful brown eves, Edward was used to seeing people look l.ke that. TIip astonishing th.ng was that he heard himself add- The Optimist was at this point that James Mariner came Into Edwards life. There was nothing extraordinary nlmut the man or his errand. The grist of Edward's Job was dealing with people like him, hearing their explanations, listening with an air of sympathy to the tale of their troubles, discounting their hopes; and finally seeing to It that the great Insurance company's rights were guarded to the last penny. Janies Mariner's ense was one of the commonest sort. Years ngo, when hed been temporarily prosperous and believed he was going to he rich, he'd taken out a big life Insurance policy. The riches hadnt materialized, and after paying a few premiums hed let the policy lapse. He'd come upon It the other day, while looking over some old papers in his box, and lie wanted to realize on it. It must he worth he thought at least six thousand dollars anyhow six thousand was what he wanted. Edward felt sure, again from long experience, that the cash surrender value of the policy would prove to he nothing like that amount. Also, before the Interview had lasted five minutes, he saw that despair had fortified Mariner In whatever belief he had that he could get his six thousand or anywhere near that. He evaded coming down to facts and figures; he wanted to put off the moment of disillusionment as long as he could, lie wauled to tell his story first. The story could have no possible bearing on the case. You had only to hook look It up In a little of tables to know to a cent how much Mariner was entitled to he paid for his policy. Neither the urgency of his needs nor the brilliancy of his expectations hud any relevancy In the matter at all. Yet, It was out of something more than mere tolerant good nature that Edward let the man tell his story. lie didn't know why ho did. lie told himself bitterly, as he sat hack to listen-wi- th only half his mind nt first that his own tlon, his sense of failure, his lacerated selfesteem was finding momentary comfort In his visitor's appeal. It wasnt long, though, before he forgot to think about himself. When Mariner begkA telling what he wanted the money for, a change came over him. The stigmata of failure faded out. Despite the gray streaks In Ins hair and the lines in his lean face, there was something about him that gave Edward an Impression of youth, lie wanted something tremendous, and it was something that he saw almost within his roach. Yet his manner was not that of a visionary. He had not forgotten how to smile. It appeared he was an inventor. His most Important invention had been a carburetor for automobiles. It should have made him a very rich man, for the principle of it had proved to he sound and was now In almost universal use; but he bad got Involved disastrously n litigation. You had to have millions behind you to get anywhere with that, and he had had no hacking at all. "I wandered In the wilderness a while" he smiled retleetively us he said that at nil try ing my ham sorts of things; the less 1 knew about them the bettor they looked, ltut 1 waked up at last and went hack to my own field. I've invented a device fer giving a motor the sort of mixture It needs, a rich or lean, automatically. lie broke off for another smile. "It Isn't likely of course, humanly speaking, that the thing is as good as It It tie - you hoped, looks to me. The man with one Idea gets to he a fanatic about It. Lilt I do know th.s, as sola!, seieni.lic mat-to- r of fact: If the tilings half as good as it looks to mo, or even a quarter as go" ), it's rev olut ;nii:irv. "I don t base that statement on tloorv, hut ori expor. cnee. I'm maim f.o luting the thing in a sin. ill way. ami soikng it; ami it works, Mr Latter-on. It lines the business. Here! 1erli ips you'd like to look at It." lie plungod Ids hand irilo one of the tmlg ing p'M l.t t s of Ids overcoat and pulled out a sin. ill piece of apparatus about the s;t. (,f an tipple, made of aluminum. M iriner, with a tv, of the uri-t- , tool; it apart. "That's the thing that (loos the business," lie ponded out a eoih d up ribbon of whitish melal. "When its mid when the motor Is cold it's coiled tightly as you see it now, xml serves ns a choke to In Makes your mixture rich. air lien It gets warm, as the motor does. It ex; amis, opons up, ami lets in the well-wor- de-pe- ru ing, as the man leaned forward to rise from his chair, "However, I'll turn the thing over in my mind, and if there's anything more that can he dope. , , ." A sudden blaze of hope in the inventor's fare stopped him short. After a moment's pause he added irritably, "You're not to build on that. I'rnb-atdI shouldn't have said it. Hut I'll Struck a Match and Held It Near the Coil. Edward, Astonished, Saw It Open Up. He y call He struck a match air. Look hero. and held It near the coil. Edward astonished for hed never heard of a metal so sensitive to heat that It would net like this saw It open up Just ns the Inventor said. He didn't ask about the composition of the metal hut assumed it must be a profound secret. Well, that's very Interesting, he said. "I certainly wish you success. It will succeed all right. There's no question about that. I.ut whether I succeed with it Is a question of You soe I'm d d hy lack of money. capital. Its enough to make a man turn I.olshevik to see the money lying around In the hands of people who dont know what to do with it. And It's got to this thing wants it! have it. Theres an enormous profit In it at five dollars if I can manufacture It economically. Of course my costs just now are out of all reason. They wont come down until I can get into volume production and discount mv I don't need much to put the hills. thing on its feet. It's n Joke how little I need. Six thousand dolilars! I.ut unless I can get It Oh, of course, I will. Lilt I didn't knew ju-- t where to turn until I came upon this insurance policy. I'll either borrow the money on it and give yon my note, or I can turn It In outright if you prefer. All the buoyancy and confideneeth.it had marked his manner while lie talked about his Invention was gone He was again the stubby, now. mcessitous failure he had looke when he took his seat beside Edwards desk. Edward's heart sank. Well,'' he sahl, trying to speak cheerfully, "let's come down to figures. It's Ju- -t a quo-tloof arithmetic now. you know" It turned out ju-- t about as !i, guessed. The policy was vvoah a lh!e over fourteen hundred do!:. us n, wrote it on a slip of on r an s. to M ir.ner it across the de-- k "it J1 ,s eV- - you tonight or tomorrow morn- ing. Howard's Job had never seemed so barren or so nearly unendurable as It seemed todav. He felt he was an automaton. He wondered fantastically whether it would he possible to build an actual automaton out of cogs and levers, some sort of super adding machine, that could take his Job away from him, do everything that he did. He gave the notion a further twist of Irony. There was no danger; It would cost a lot of money. He, Edward Patterson, the human machine, came cheaper. Why did he stick? Why did he keep up the pretense? What was there in It for him nnvvvay? A livelihood, of course; probably his only one. Put what was there in the prospect of his life to make it worth going on with for another twenty five years? It frightened him to like that. There was no good to lie got from It. Recurrently, during the day, he wondered whv lie had thing that last scrap of hope to Mariner. It was a cruel thing to have done, reallv. Had he done it from mere cowardice or from varrty? It must have been, he thought, from one or the other. He was sorry for Mariner. It wasn't often that any caller broke through to his emotions like that, and yet, queerly, he had envied him, too. Mariner had something to hope fer. No doubt he was still imping. Was lie plodd'ng about the streets, turning in'o ill's ,,t:;.,,. and that, telling his story over ami over ;, again? Or was he vva ting Ids own telephone In the hope t! at I'd ward would call him up i n l tell him he could have the money ? It was l.d war s dutv of course to tel ye, put h'm nut of his m en. when It came to tl e po t of u. ,d; ing his receiver and cal' Mirmo number, his wid Perhaps, if he vv 'cl a vv'i h learn that M. 'tvr li I g,,t tl think-thought- s he-',- -- , r ) i err Seme oto-- fret or ndght have turn'd up w'th the r.,..., money. , ' Deep Attachment Found Among Jungle Animals H.s mate la A lion was shot dead. a pnroxym of grief threw ker-epr trnte over his dead body, then re- -, op. b eveij hair on her back bristling anger. She had caught the s, cut of the shiver. She followed It up, am! coming upon bis camp leaped over p e fence to where the man sat. Aftei s' e bad literally torn him to piece, she In, ;. turned to mourn ,''.'id her Tk!s Is one of ike tales of "l ata ,y I. if,. Ill the Jung'p." told In i he N it.il Witness to lmli m'.p that in m 'ey t animals "nave lore, 'it fe ng of i, ve other." Am ; and kindness to e A comes from the K.ilab.ir.. d group of lions, male and female, v In a d were g gv'iehv'Iii tvy cubs, river bd. Sudd uly the dan thievv up emitted vv j il'- -; j do; ,nt y . j(1 vrii Wto the ImMi. W hen t ev wore safe Iv out of s' gh the i,,n follow e the seem The w'ite hunter, mem' whde. st, ink hv the m,M hu;, scene of dom.- -t determined not to fire. At that tm. mold the lion p.-v- d the hu- -' es to him a ml s', o.j, t ,. ,p, ing He Tored on fi,, s y J waiting ", td t'm e '. , ( -- . ! Then a- his head: the air bad told Id in a me Without turning his head he sag pti-Gi- . .ol r a low which fauilv, !f ( he v'i-",.- ,; ., Unccmfortal ( John I e !y h " n r le Journey I ii ,'s trav ei r. c fr"in Sue, et to ti 0 Sd. r,a, nil t'e w y ,m f tioallT no nine) or sU" anu fg ni n.fot. i ti'-r- l ... f ( W b e i;.,;,' , . 4 Get n .k, ouftcf ar j . ,rr.' 1 '"T1 ii Dii velvety Wi hrwiirsun V ' t remove wrinkle (WiVKi ,U o t. u' Old Water Main Laborer- - uieMnl.H lMr, "f ax., en water n.a 1(. J in Springtv!,! m was troin i, ,,ie ", ltd's, about t. rt ,,, The inside of in. apparently to keep tu sap from tin water. tomorrow morning. It was only a question of getting into the bank and unlocking his strong box. Oh, no, he wouldn't actually do anything like that Lut it was au amusing riot yet. thing to have thought of. Imagine how Julia would look when he told her! 'Ihe dav had worn Itself out nt last. There was hardly anyone left in the oll.ee. there was nothing left for him to do hut go home. Home to another dinner of frozen silences; an evening of pretend. ng to read; another restless, I, easily night in the spare-roohed Was that Julia's step in the hall? Oh, Wes she coming to his door? I ;c ''Hu y ; ti Pkt J Mentholatum cools, heals and voften, chapped lips, fact and hands. It is an inexpensive and vjlUibk aid to a good complexion. Jars and tubes, K SJ& &&BED I The Truth at Last The women m.t ur va formed a secret soeioty," Tut! Women ketp secret-.- " don't crets; its He wouldn't go home yet. There was a certain peacefulness In the Mliwe now the activities of the oflice were dying down; nil occasional door opening and shutting; a voice saying good night to somebody. He'd stay a little longer. He must telephone to Mariner before he went home. to tell . know ho Rut tliis society isn't G- -d! V Hioii)."-Kxd- to keen lM Scorpion Drags Mate Arousi" 1hII il roiiio u jt pf f the scorpion Picking n ti out h.s own bagging her around until in tiki revicc that satisfies l,im a, 8 i. lace L, H once in a jf Ik i own, the wit,, soon assrn1(IS upper hand, in f,t, hv the time sal 'Two salesmen were talking ns they lounged toward the outer door. One was urging something, and the oilier was holding hack. h.s finished her hr, nkf.-- t intheuiera. mg there are only a f, vv fnigmH,,. ihe untie scorpion left as pm- .u she ever had a Presently the urgent one raised his voice a little with a note of exasperation. "Gh, don't he a crab!" he said. "You're getting more like Old Aunt Pally every day." face pririgled at the Edvvaid's words. He caught his breath in something like a laugh before his mind had had time to tell him whom the young It man nmant hy Old Aunt Patty. wasn't an accepted nickname of his. At least he'd never heard It before. Lot there was no mistaking it. Edward tried to tell himself he was amused. He'd spring that nickname himself tomorrow on one of those young fellows and see what he looked like. Lut lie couldnt manage that attitude. His lips were trembling. There was a lump in his throat. Hed had enough and a little over. In nnoiher minute, with the receiver at his ear, he was asking Mariner to d ue with him at half past sir at the club. He felt shaky as he walked to the club, tremulous, exalted and depressed at the same time. He didn't mean to do anything, not In a hurry. He made himself a solemn promise while he waited for Mariner that he wouldnt hind himself to anything tonight. He'd make a visit to the factory, too, in order to get a notion, such as his laymans mind could form, of the actual physical basis of the Inventor's prospects. This promise stood him In good stead during their long talk over the dinner table and after. Mariner was a hard man to res!st. The mere possibility that he'd found a rescuer had restored the manner which he lmd for a few minutes attained during the interview in the oflice. The stricken, desperate look about him was gone. He didn't pretend that the adventure was a sure thing. Of course It Involves taking a chance," he said. If it didnt, you wouldn't be getting In for six thousand dollars. Rut If you can see anything wrong In my calculations I wish you'd tell me what It Is. I know I'm not impartial. I'm telling you how It looks to me. So If you ran find any blow holes In it, I w'ish -f How Fast Was He Going? young man in tniliu was t;ty hitting a telegraph pel, m th" dari, A .v first j lie hit a lmi-- ami e k.lled 4 throwing it JO feet. Tins pn tar into tin ditch, win-r- he raa 1$ feet, scraping off both sales of the. Then lie hit the p, le and hrelie it, !:j rontinued for JJ teet, wN'n tvp rx flirned over. Oiiery : IIovv fast wx joitig when he hit the horse- !(Ontario) Daily Star. Egg Is Two Foods The egg, from the standpoint nutrition, really is two foods af one. The white provides prop u of high biological value and maintenance. The yr.it supplies concentrated fuel fr it body, protein and an unusually ri store of minerals and vitamins for growth and development. of nets-sar- Chamois Gloves You are quite mistaken if you th'Eit your chamois gloves are the profcct 3f the little mountain antelope tom is the chamois. Glovcniakers haven 'mention to deceive when they folio .lie custom of using the nameclws kin from split sheepskin and his skin of a washable sort. Wants Him Ready Made t Jinny a wife is perfectly wilhnf stick up her nose and wear es; sive finery to advertise what a St wou.dL'! is, who cess her to M? over finger turn her little make him one. ( 'ineiiinsti Enqu.ra. hu-iia- Joe you would." Edward couldnt see any holes. Not If one granted the assumption that the device would work. lie couldn't seriously dispute that assumption either. Mar, tier must know whether it worked or not. And everything about the story ind, rated his entire good faith. Hed put In every cent he could scrape tog, her. And the man's manner, every unguarded phrase and gesture, sleeved that he was in deadly earnest. Edward wondered at his self and also, a little, nt his He proposed to give Edward, in consideration of his six thousand (h'H r. n 0 per cent interest In the t; i "IH1:, h v ss get rid of gray hair, testify. Try it. WJLIH for a bottle of SULPHUR and feikweasv Results will delight vox . "I wouldn't surrender the control of he so! quietly, "for ten times ''lit, nor twenty. This tiling's mine, 'ml I in go ng to keep it mine. Rut !'v e got to have help," l.d ird clung to Ids promise. Im not getg to agree to go In tonight, he Mud I'll think It over, and I'll .up to your place In the ntorn-- 1 ("me g a td have a look at the plant. Also may want to talk to a friend of "one a piimufaetiirer '"Exception-N- Willie found? Pa In. i three th 'S Jll 1 15!, f t- -r here In the sen! hern stub' t'c let ii,; art V, Hrtn ripirs. ( G( sfthf s,t 4t 3! and get his "pinion, j suppose nnother :wi it v four hours, or even forty-eighwould he fatal." I r":n a remote corner of his mind Ft t, Pe 'Vi i'fii 'unie the whispered hope that Mariner would say It would be fatal, that It was now or never. Then he could "iv no arid the thing would be over. ,rrf' tuition of telling Rert d about it turned him a bit cold. Lut Mar. ner d'dn't say now or He "'is disappointed 'it i'e d.s ippoinmif nt d'dn'tperhaps, show. S i',. was that the more Edward ho"r! t nt out it and the further he nn!'''l i'de it, Hie better it would 'ecu. Io his mind, It was already 'Ctthd. Clears head Stops cold lt.il spreading-Sprinkl- w, N. u., Sait Lake fch: your handkerchief dunng Ot ng your pillow YY11-ir- itq , ! - I- -I the ot v. v U ' ' or- i ;rrt i City, bi continued I f ? |