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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. FT AH END CHEST QUICK WITH RED PEFPER eld Novel A. Copyright by tha bjjf fiilenry KHelicSI Relieves Almost ig Instantly When noisy breathing and ska, m cheat dry cough or washed broadcast the presence of om ing cold, just try this sale an(J that relieves chest cold, and pains of rheumatism, neuritis and bago almost instantly, h healing heat of Ved P'n' Now this genuine red pepMr?ii P"? contained in an omtmentyou 7 rub on to get relief in less than 3 It utea. is Rowlcs Red Pen.'11' No blister, nor bum nor hsfm'hrf bring the relief you want. jar from your druggist. i WcJislcr (WNTJ Service) Co. Bobbg-Merrl- COLDS ' SYNOPSIS Acting In good faith In an effort to a neighbor, Ituth Ingraham, In a fid way, Kdward Patterson, of the Chicago agency of a life Insurance company, In wrongly hla by Julia, of Infidelity. r accusation, wife, In a letter from a eurn-piresort, unfits him for LunI nevs. and a short vacation. On his refturntakes he ia deeply wounded by his daughter Edith, telling him his personal belongings were in the "spare foom, having been removed from the foom which had been his and hla wife's bedroom. Patterson arrepts the sltua-.liA- a Pror,f of hla wife s belief In hfs fullt. Edith, seventeen years obi, is Worried over tha estrangement of her parents. Her mother only partly succeeds In her efforts to comfort her. The eon, Kdward, Junior, Is at college. matter art "Inven-or,- " rL k.ORlnesa Jatnee Mariner,brings Into Patterson's life. Mariner needs fl.UOu, with which Invention, an automobile pushandhisPatterson Is ehoke, After a brief Investigation Interested he decides to In with Mariner. Without Informing fo family, he resigns from the Insurance company, devoting his whole time of th pushing Invention. An bid friend, Albert Willird, Is frankly Skeptical of the value of the choke. Patterson tells his wife of the change P, hoa made. She accepts the situation. Kdlth Is made awnte of the change In the family fortunes by her mother telling teer she has decided to part with the conk she and Kdith to do the housework. ar CHAPTER IV Continued Edith snld, Ive really got to go. Tm helping molher now, you know, dth the house work and I haven't done a thing today, flood by! She was trembling. The tears would how In her eyes In another minute. She got out of that house as fast as he could. It must have been Ed who telephoned. If It had been anyone else, Agatha would have told her who It was. She must have told him he had to go right after lunch. Tlmt was why he hadnt been surprised when he rushed off like that. Hut shed told him he could come hack after his sister had gone. She was probably to have telephoned him but he hadnt waited. Ile'thsald, Has she gone yet? That Was when Agntha had said So." He'd Bsked how much longer she was going to stay, and Agatha had snld slip didnt know. And then hed asked Agatha he must have to tell Edith he had another engagement, and Agatha had said of course she wouldn't and told him nbt to he silly. Rut she hadnt cured, really. She Was telephoning him now, tlmt the coast w'as clear and that ho could Edith knew It ns well as If comp. hed heard the whole thing, She didnt quarrel openly either with Agatha or with Ed. She even forbore to Inquire whether she had grounds for a quarrel and so kept alive the possibility that shed misinterpreted that telephone call. Wlih each of them separately she had some renlly good times. It was only us a couple that Ed and Agatha made her unhappy. She puzzled a good deal over her feelings about this phenomenon. Assuming thnt Ed had to get silly about a girl and Agntha about a hoy, shed have thought It bettor tAut they turn toward each other than that they Should drag In a pair of outsiders, hut she didnt believe now that shed have Blinded the latter alternative so much. There was something subtly Infuriating about a relation between those two which left her out. It seemed like a betrayal. It was perfectly terrible the way kept him running From the time he got up, around. along toward noon, until lie came home to hod nt some unknown small hour In the morning, they never saw Mill at nil, except when he dashed home to change his dollies. Dad, she could see, was getting pretty sore about It, though It was several days before he snld anything. l!ut one night at dinner, two or three days after Christmas, he blew up. They expected Ed to he at home for that meal nml had a place set for I dont Mm, hut he didnt appear. know what to make of the hoy, Did East aummer I thought he said. allowed signs of being a man. lie worked hard; he acted like a responsible being. Now he shows no signs of responsibility for anything or consideration of nnybody. lies negleeling Edith, going off to unties that she's not Included In. He makes extra work for you, getting special meals for him and so oil and lie knows thnt you and Edith have to do it all ami lie doesn't even pretend to take an Interest In my concerns. You'd think that ordinary curiosity and self interest, exon If he has no natural nlTeeUon for me, would lend him to come and see what we're doing. If this is what college does for him, I doubt If It's worth the sacrifice. I dont feel like sacrificing you and Edith for him, and that's the Eds engagements truth. t It was funny that mother a didn while After In Ed's defense. speak Iiditli said, If .'"it mean the Mahcrns' me. party, I don't think lid neglected lum to for be silly would it think I I wasn t asked. Pf ay lmme Just because to go. he'd get I!,.' said if 1 wanted me. and t Inuto them Agntha to ak .so to go, want I didn't in I told about me. I worry to have d.ui't you d." i s if I was hc.'ig s.o it.ee d ai t fee , ISut her defense sult shed looked didnt have the refor. Duds face take them buck. She Just shut the door behind her, quietly, and went Edith put out the light and axxay. undressed In t life dark. Already the headai tie was no mere pretext. It would tie a relief to cry, hut she couldn't. twitched with pain. He looked as If he might he going to cry. In a panic she turned from him to mother. There were tears In mothers eyes, Edith pushed hack her chair, gripping the edge of the table with both hands. 1 cant stand It, she said. Y Just cant stand It! I know something perfectly horribles going to happen that I dont know about. I want It to happen and get It oxer. Its Jut rotten, like tills. Im Rorry, mother. I dont want any more dnner. She managed to hold hack the sob that was coming until she had got out Into the hull. She lied upstairs to her room where she could cry as much as she liked and where, by xirtue of that fact, It xvas much easier not to. She turned on the light, looked at herself dispassionately In the mirror and wiiing away the txvn Incipient tears proceeded to pull herself together. Shed made a good start nt this when, at the sound of mother's step on the stair, her heart turned to lead. Mother hadn't finished dinner, either. Shed never hnxe left dad to come to her unless unless that random shot about something horrible thnt xvas about to happen had hit the mark. There was something. There really was. She cried, as her mother appeared In the doorway, You've come up to tell me what It Is! Mother nodded, hut before she said anything she came across the room and sat down on the edge of the bed. It Isnt a matter, she It Isnt anything that need make said. Eut any real difference, except . . It seemed, she couldnt go on with tlmt. 1 suppose dads business has failed, Edith said dully, is that It? This seemed to help mother out. No, It Isn't that nt all. It Isn't nearly ns bad ns thnt. In some xvays thp business looks better than It did. Only It does need more money to get It started t Ini n your father thought It would. IIp thinks fie could get some one else, Agathas father, perhaps, to put money in, ns nn Investment. Eut tlmt would mean giving him a share In the business. .lust as Mr. Mariner lmd to give dad a share, So Instead of doing tlmt, he's decided to borrow the money himself, and put It In. And. besides, thnt will give him the eon trol. Instead of Mr. Mariner. Eut bor rowing the money, ns lifell have to do It, means that we must help him by saving every penny that we pos sibly can." I thought we were doing that, al ready," Edith said. Yo can save several hundred do! lars," mother said, in n scared sort of voice, by changing your school; send Ing you to high school for the last half year, where there Isnt nnv tuition to pay. Your tuition Is paid for the first half year up to February first. If you were going nn, so you see we must decide noxv. As far as education goes, the high school Is ns good as the other. You know xve sent Ed there for the whole four years. Its only. . . (ill, I know. It xvill he hard! Dad knows, too. He didn't see It at fir.st. It hut since the play ntid nil. nmkes Mm almost sick to ask It of you. lie wouldnt do It now. If It werent that I Insisted. Eut the three hundred dollars will make such a dif ferenee to him, just nt this time to I want you to go doxvn all of us. nml tell him, thnt It Isn't going to make you unhappy. Will you do tlmt, dear? Tonight! Mother xvas holding out her arms. Inviting her to come to them and he comforted, but t lie girl ignored tin gesture and xvent and sat doxvn, stolid ly. In a chair xvliere her face would he turned axvav. .lust noxv she felt per fcctlv numb and she wanted to keep oil feeling that way as long as she could. The one thing she couldn't hear would he to have mother go on talking to her in that encouraging he a good girl xoice. Slic'd have $" say something, herself. She t ih, it's till rigid of course. didn't mean her xoice to snmd as hateful as tlmt. hut she couldn't help I it. dont mind not going hack to You can tell him school so much. could stay around suppose that. home and help jou. more. Or perhaps Mo; her, I dont Imxe I could get a Job to go to Marthas party, tonight, do I? I Just -- couldn't. You can tcil Ed, xx lien lie comes lmme. tlmt I'xe He gone to tied xxith a headache. won't mind going xx 'about me, that's a cinch. And i'll really go to bod. I guess I'll go now." For a minute she xxas afraid that mother would try to reason xvith her; try to t ilk about unselfishness and sacrifice and things ko that, but If tlmt lmd been whit she meant to do, she changed her m ml, for she got up a ml xx a iked to t he doer. I 'rom t here, she said. "All r'gip, m t, E l. A spurt of uopirmed a,, i anger made the girt viy, tiut Mother xvas in her room putting on tier xx raps. So It xxa-possible, though Edith didn't feel like speaking a word to anybody that morning, to go by down ho hall without stopping. Im Just off to the (lulld lunch, nt mother explained. Its the last meeting of the year and I can't get out of It xory xx ell. I was going to pu.-- h a note under your door, and then I heard you inox.ng about. Your breakfast Is all ready except making the toast and boiling up the coffee. I suppose I 1! have to get Something for Ed when he comes down, Edith remarked. I.ut mother offered the surprising Information that Ed had got up early tlmt morning and gone out. She kissed Imr daughter brielly and was gone. It wasn't more than a minute before the front door shut behind her. Thank goodness, she hadnt tried to talk about last night. The girl said tlmt very definitely to herself and yet she wasn't quite sincere about It. Anxlioxv, she was glad Ed was out of h Once More She Was Struck Speechless. Did Did You Do It? She Stammered. lie way. It was a comfort to have die house all to herself. She didn't want any breakfast, but she might as well go down and get It over with. Then she could settle doxvn and really decide xvhat she xvas going to do. She hadn't been able to do that last night. The thought of the hunch getting together next week In classes, teams, committees the whole fabric if a life tlmt had been hers going on xvith her torn out of It had hurt her unbearably. The tiling for her to do was to make up her oxvn mind while solitude still gave her the chance. She Already It was half made up. knexv what she xvasn't going to do. She xvasn't going to high school. They couldn't make her. She tinted with reluctant satisfaction that mother had cleared and reset the dining room table for her solitary meal, xvith the electric toaster beside her place ready to do Its duty. She went into the kitchen and lighted the tlame under the coffee pot; then came hack and started dm toast. The doorbell ring Just as she'd turned on the current in tin toaster. It xxas rattier dirk In the hall, and when she onened the d "T the glare from the sunlit snow on the lawn half . Minded her, and the blinked, at Hie xis't.-rIlcMo, Edith." he sa'.l cheerfully. It t ... ... hexxil-lered- . Mm-g'n- tomatically mekn it .v a dido t ge r t . t.--y sir. the repmt del. ot were found the rui: s of burned htick at. of a logo 'x .le c. aval ion xx it a a drum w l.mh ivdc.i1 Du the same world. It xxas one calamity too many; more than she could stand. She started to say Dll. never miml. I.et It alone, but her voice wouldn't xvork. She felt the tears coming up into her eyes. She reached for her handkerchief and found she hadn't any. Flight was the only thing. Slip bolted through the dining room, down the hall, and upstairs to her room. She didn't knoxv whether the "Excuse me" shed flung hack to him had been audible or not. She didn't care. She stripped off the beastly blouse and skirt. She'd go hack to bed, that's xvhat she'd do. She was listening for the opening and shutting of the front door that should tell her he'd gone. Why didn't he go? She stood staring at her tear stained face in the mirror. Mechanically, xvith about three swift movements, she rearranged her hair. She went Into the bathroom and xvaslied tier face in cold xvater. He hadn't gone yet. Or had he, nfter all, xxitimut her having heard him? She slipped into a plain little house dress and fortified herself with a handkerchief and xvith another look In the mirror. Anger oxer the revolting series of petty disasters had dried her tears and restored imr color. He had gone of course He must imxe hv this time. Anyhow, slic'd go down and see. He was in the din.ng room. The smoke and the smell of gas were gone. The entfee pot, wipe! clean, stood on its tile upon the table. "Just on the minute," lie said with !y was (feed people. material-- "1 as hey hath a n!-- n vx hv the at,. ov e ti.e cotcn . 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Hashing yimw. i PILES Pile sufferers from Protruding Eleeding, Itching or ltlind Piles can noxv get relief from very first treatment by using left early because she wasn't there, she xvouldn't have believed It. The mere fact that he didnt say it made He was talking with only It possible. half Ids mind, anyway, thinking about something else. he said at last, Its You knoxv, awfully good of you to let me get by xvith tiiis. You're Ed's sister and Im his oldest friend, and that creates a sort of presumption that I know you well enough to drop In on you In the morning and Invite myself to breakfast. Eut Its perfectly phony. When I really don't knoxv you a hit. you eante out of the house on the way to the play the other night the night I didnt even I brought Ed home knoxv xx ho you xvere for a minute; not till Ed hugged you and called you Edith. I'd always thought of you as his little sister. "I must have looked awfully silly," she said, dressed up like that, when you didnt know what It was for. He frowned nt her In a puzzled sort of xvay, which she found comShe loved people pletely adorable. who didn't smile all the time. Dressed up? he echoed. "Yon mean you were in costume for the play? I didn't notice it. There was a sort of romantic look about you In your big cloak and all, but I guess I xvas too surprised to take In details. "Did von like the play? she asked. "Ed told me you xvere there. Again he frowned. "Was that all he told you? I guess he said you liked it, she admitted. "Well, theres a case of wasted eloI talked quence for you! he said. my head off to him for half an hour, about ltoxv good you were. It was probably just as xx fell he didn't try to pass it on, though." "I xvas seared sick! she told him. "Well, Wien, he pronounced, after a stare of surprise, "you must be a real actress, that's all Ive got to Q. R. 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There xvas nothing she could say to that, so site buttered her second slice of toast. He got up and began roaming tip and down the room. "Exon so, I don't understand It, he xvent on. "1 don't understand your being one of them Martha, and Jane ('o!e, and Isabel N'orris and the rest of the hunch. Don't they seem like Kids to you? I should think that anybody ell, anybody xx ho could play that screen scene, for instance, the xv.tv xo played It xvould find the rest of them axvfu'.lv young. '('h. I don't knoxv," she said. Really. she d dnt. She hadnt the least idea xxii.it he meant about the screen scene. Hut the next moment she heard herself saying, Anyhow, Im c"'ng to snip sehool. Im not going luck next term. He mi, Med ns if it didnt surprise him xery much, hut he didnt Inter-n:p- f with nnv comment, and somehow Write for oJ when PLAN a Persona Two days, one r modations : rlft.- tickets or c:dfi-c- r xx 'lie hud to go on. Site jjst couldnt ersclf. "I haven't made up my x at to do exactly. Take a job, m n 1 I g tes- - " the sound of the xvords she was ill a panic. What would he Wlia.t xvould he do? What would tbtk of her for blurting out a t soi-e- 'i? 1" S7.50 2 Good week-endPI AN b 2 Persons ' s t . H. t g i that? x. it's xx hat I'd have expected '' t" !o if I'd thought of It. Its a - !'"t'pos.t.on. you see. ntid nny- - '' ' "1 accow Q Two days, one r modat'ons: rarn fast, luncheon : Good any tirre Farther details upon rco. HOTEL mewhouse Suit City. rnh L W. E. Sutton e ' I The Maddest Millie They say tb makes one feroeimi-- . Tillie Well, the saw xvas one " " en a ctiteniill.tr xxith h tel! you wore h good Fport " i.x xti play ed that part. tie-.turn a the room. ''v' s Ed think about It? ! " 'c ; u r,ra.-e- ; i -- rx I snip fete register- ing ask for special All r E x p e nse Rates. - d- xx xx have t. , I down by-tn- -ct. Jolly. "Yes, it xxas a nice party, I guess. I didn't stay very long. Marthas my cousin, you knoxv, so I checked in and danced xvith her; smoked a cigarette with Ed w lien he happened not to be dancing, and did a quiet fade-ouShe thrilled at that. If hed said he " lot to l.o-v- I .,! e to nml aufrom the ,,,-:i! , r :i ha h stepped a- fraternity house m bn ..g .,11 the fun there is. She "as a, hist ,.0r tic w,r!s as hersef s., ... ; tv;: she me-he- mm-- ; The oldest wheel yet found, dating E. has bt e: ds 'rom about covered in an ancient site In s.u: man mmi-cein an Kalurhistan. it was mol ar of toe immal report survey of India. ,.irt It formed part of a two i years aid is hel. eve to be about earlier titan the eurl.C't xxietU use s.g The f.ud Is of ill Kay pt. niticanee. since the vxh.ee! is o; o of the fund.i'm ntal tnxonions of uu. kite! e groalv The dtsioxerx of ds pt.m-p'.of course i'tmy. aiVrcd the 11 three uu .red debar- - w to him. lie can go ,,,, adi. I'm sorry 1 missed him, Itoger sai 1, "hut it doesn't matter. You can say good hv to him for me. Mother and decided at breakfast this morning that we'd go to New York for two or thi ee days before college opens, so we're lcaiing on t life afternoon train. Eut I'm awfully glad I found yuu. I thought I'd see you at Marthas party-lis- t I asked Ed why you night. weren't there, and lie told me you weren't feeling well, I hope you're better this morning. oil. Im fine," she said. "It xvas Just a headache. Well then," he said, if youre not busy, wont you let me come In for a few minutes? Ive been xvanting a chance to talk with you ever since the day. Itcally, you night of ttie He broke off short and know sniffed. Ills look fixed itself over tier shoulder, upon the door Into the dining room. "Isnt something burning?" he asked. In the same instant slip smelled It she cried, and tied. too. "The toast He came along, too, of course, anxious to help, though there wasnt a thing lie could do. The room xvas full of smoke and the toast was charred black and stuck to the wires. Slip xxas busy for a minute removing the debris, and when she next looked up at him, he xxas In the act of disappearing into the kitchen. She'd caught her breath to ak him xvhat he xxas doing that for, when the smell of gas answered the question for her. The coffee pot must have boiled over nml put out the tlame. She got to the kitchen door iu time to see him at the stoxe turning off the gas. It seemed to her just then that a coffee pot which has hoileil over xvas the most disgusting sight In the Ancient Wheel May Be One of Earliest Made 1 I . Hog r She sail, "Hood unless because there didnt xxas something so deliciously matter-of-faabout Ids voice. "I might have known youd spot that extra cup first thing," he said, lie had put on another cup, meaning to Imxe coffee with her. lie thought that "as xvhy she had laughed. She xvas conscious of a passing wonder whether he renlly was like that or whether he was Just pretending. Didn't lie know that she had cried and run away? Hadn't he noticed that she had changed her dress? He had lighted a cigarette and sat down to the cup of coffee she had poured for him as If he had been dropping in for breakfast xvith iter every morning for a week. Luckily there was something she could begin tnlklng about. The party last night. Shed been awfully sorry not to go. It must have been awfully knoxv xvhy, ! . 1 a glance that seemed to take In nothing hut the fact that she was thera "Your toast is done to a turn." Once more she was struck speechless. "Did did you do it?" she stammered. "It seemed the least I could do after having ruined your other breakfast by coining to make a call in the middle of the morning. Unexpectedly the girl laughed. She of light pit.,cs, betrayal of tlmt glare It was too late to do any good, ol course, line glance would have been enough to show him how perfectly linrr.lile she looked. Her eyes swollen w.th last nigiits crying; tier hair a mess; and then that beastly old serge skirt with spots all oxer It! It was almost too horrible to he true. And slic'd only made matters worse by retreating into ttie hall, for hed taken that, naturally, as an Invitation to coine In. He lmd followed her and shut the door behind him. I'm I'm uwfully sorry, she said, hut Ed Nn't home. He got up early this morning, for once, and went out." ' n't kt ow, she to! him. exon know I'm going to 1 'TO EE lO.NIINUD ) J? Man ':"at t eau j ' ,'',fnst ; r |