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Show . THE PROVO POII 11 ipintm a in i nini t i t b r t In tnildlv, ruIidp. J"1'"" La. of iWWwL VsV hut A Novelized Version of the Motion Picture Drama el the Same Name Produced by the Universal Fitn Co. nttr u. J ".rmc7n. LLow T m 1.4 oe-J- k By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE "Tb a.Unt I iluuett"Tiit Bio Eouil, The f 8tblhtr Lkibrat'd w'i Tiic Copyright, -- J !!; ii I red CHAPTER L- i Louis Joseph Vane Kilby Ttiisl.i stall tnenl SJijivi a I Ellen Neil -- Bag," eft. from the Picture Predactioa ap,- - - It; Tim See It ThJrsi3yleiJ uittik, uin U He could read quite ull t!.e mesaags.. of the rose. Fie Would not soon for-- was1, hi 1 not ; Vtlilnton pat.iute tu TTX,TIn tttTK'TV btiled Laud of bloody rvl tLo cLcp voico rolled cn: 'La", and I were cue; friends; then It cnme to rass that ve loved cue nonan, your mother. I won her all but her heart: too lute she real-- i ized It was Law' she Ioved.'He never forgave me. nor I him Though he married another wom-m- , still he held from me the love of my wife. I could not sleep for hating Iilm-- - and he ft as no better off EactTsought the dher's ruin; it came to open duel be tween us. In Wall street. One of us had to fail and I held the stronger hand. The night before the day that was to have' seen my triumph, walked in, Central park, as was my habit to tire my body so that my brain the East drive might a metor-ca-r running at high speed without lights. I was picked up insensible and lived oqly to bo what I am today. La w ed n the while 1 lay helpless: onlv a IHiu-j- ; remnant of my fortune remained to met Then his chauffer- -, ' charged, came to me and sold n't- t ti truth; It was Laws car ft ith Luvr t the wheel that had struok, me down a deliberate attempt at 1 sasslnauon. I sent Law word that I meant to hare a Ufa for a life. For what was I better than dead I promised him that.1 rVuld ho escape, I would have the liie of his son. Ue knew I meant it, and sent hls wife and son abroad. Then be died sud-- t denly, of seme common ailment they said; bnt I knew better. Be died of fear of mo. , Trine Eioi-a cruel smile: "I had made hls Ufe a reign of terror. Ever so often I would send Law, one way or another mysteriously always a. i . trey of hearts; It was my for blrm-a- i 'yeuknewT" our- -' naa Trine, signifies a group of three. And every time he received a trey of hearts, within twenty four hours an attempt of some sort would bo made And jj i Ulry, i S Lnw- PAGE THREE cnocted p'r.i jou art' rkLt lljs father j t pre.-ontl- be-a- The Message of the Rose. parting with his get that year-olleather-bounYou say you In of Riviera: Rose the the deep Lapped love me but may not marry me and Itivury of an ample lounge-chairwe must part. Then promise this, walled apart from the world by the venerable solitude of the library of that If ever you change your mind, Londons most exclusive club, Mr. youll send .for me. And her promI will 6end you a rose. Alan Law sprawled (largely on tbe ise: But the year had lapsed with never nape of hla neck) and, squinting discontentedly down his noBe, admitted' a sign from her, so that he had grown accustomed to the unflattering belief that he was exhaustively bored. Now the chair filled so gracelessly. that she had forgotten him. And now the sign had come but stood by an open window, some twen-- J ty feet below which lay a sizable1 what The deuce did the trey of hearts walled garden, an old English garden mean?. In full flower. And through the wln-- j , When morning came, London bad lost Alan Law. No man of bis acdow, now and then, a breeze wafted gusts of. warm air quaintance nor any woman bad resauve and enervating with' the ceived the least warning of his disHe was simply and sufof English roses. appearance. Mr. Law drank deep of It, and far ficiently removed from English, ken. J jji . 13 Your Company pays One Thousand Dollars a day taxes spits of hie spiritual unrest, sighed) slightly and shut hit eyes. CHAPTER II. An unspoken- - word troubled the ' wr" 4,r Not only in September but every day in the year depth Of his consciousness, so that of the Three. Tbs Sign to old memories stirred and struggled high brazen noon, a Its surface. The word was "Rose, In spring, the clamorous Ufe of r day Last year the total amount of our taxes was $386,664.00 .and for the time, seemed to he that iNew York h fluent as as running of ifidur of a woman-no- r JU brilliant streets.- but oddly of both, as though ! neither sound nor suit; Dollars for taxes in the last' The Bell System has paid over Eleven le two things were one. Bis mental beam disturbed a perennial quiet that vision, bridging tbe gap of a year, con- was yet not peace. jured np the vision of a lithe, sweet The room was like a wide, deep silhouette in white, with red rosea well of twelve months the haunt of teeming .at bar belt, pcsed on a terrace of the shadows night, and alnlatersllences(, Riviera against (he burning M edited Littls Indeed, was visible beyond ranean blue. the lonely shape that brooded over This money all goes for the support of Ike City, County and State Mr. Law was dully conscious that motionman old an the of It, he ought to be sorry about something. less in figure chair. a great, leather-bounJ But he was really very drowsy Indeed; His hair was as white as hie heart Public erd the Buildings Schools, It Highways goes up toleeep of-w and drinking ideep w as black.The rack of bis bones, bis' nerve. b of roses he fell gently asleep. clothed in a thick black dressing-gow"Then I turimd mv attention to the The clock was striking four when! waist-corwith of crimson silk, Every dollar of it goes for the peoples benefit . he awoke; and before closing bis from the thighs down was covered by son, but the distance was too grat. Law The difficulties the insuperable. eyes he had noticed that its hands " Indicated ten minutes tofour, So ha a black woollen rug'-- He stared millions mocked all n,yeffort&; their J at nothing: a man alliance with the Rothschilds placed j Who would pay these taxes if the Government owned the" Telephone System could not have slept very long. dead, completely paralyzed mother and son under the protection For some few seconds Alan did not .but for bis bead and his left arm. of every secret police in Europe. But move, but rested as he was, increduPresently a faint clicking signal dis- they dared not come home. At length mawhich had a rose lously regarding i turbed the stillness. Seneca Trine put ITT. ; tenanted mysteriously upon the little forth bI left hand aDd touched one I realized I could win only by playing waiting game. I needed threa table at his elbow. - He was quite sun 'oTaTfow of crimson buttons embedded Mountain-State- s . , more money; to bring Alan. closed he when things: there it had not been in the desk. Something else clicked Law back to I one agent America; and his eyes, and almost as sure that It JCThe Corporation Different . this time a latch. There was the I could trust, one incorruptible ugent. was not real. notse a of faintest closing possible - mother and to I son, ceased And In that Instant of awakening stole noise- - lulled them persecute a smallish , door, and into a sense of false sethe magic fragrance ofthe nd by careful specuatlons curity, seemed to be even more strong and waited respectfully for leave repaired roy fortunes. In Rose I had cloying sweet than ever. the lure to draw the boy back ' Then he put out a gingerly hand Well in you, the one person I and d'scovered thatltwas rod beyond A telegrara, Birfrem England. could trust freshall question. A warm red rose, j . Glve j, me; -I sentRose abroadand arranged pluckedrdropsof water trwnbltag and p'ThroId -the sheet oryet- she should meet Law.. They fell that sparkling i'e ow paper, scanned it hungrily,-anlove In at sighL. Then I wrote Informvelvet of its fleBby petals And when crushed i , lQ M- - tremulona claw with that the men she had chosen her It he the stem, ing by Impulsively he took ncotttroilablemotion. e . who him son of was the had imrdered discovered a xupst indl spnl We thorn .Send my daughter Judith herer all of me hut my brain. It fell out as 86 woman I 0 minutes later a young I foresaw You can Imagine the scene h In street dress was admitted to the of passionate renunciation pledges wasnt Convinced that he breaming. cbamber of ehadowa, of undying constancy the arrangeAlan transferred the rose i to bis wundj fa ment of a eert edo-w hereby hand.:;and rTLaegllatl1. j riCgcd. Jt II needed blmTsh e wc uld' seiuTTiTrri Jbe4--ghLe iumped-u- p feund-an- d toni placed a rbalr at the brttr of n groat to chair and glared suspiciously round desk, and obediently settled herself nance! roEettir ' ' the room. It was true that a prac- in It The old man laughed Ea'rdorleally. me tical joke In that solemn atmosphere what day Is this?" Judith tell there is the history. Now the Well, BtIH, there ft era a thing unthinkable; My birthday. I am twenty-one.rose has been Bent; Law Is already was the rose. And your sisters birthday: -- Rose, homeward - hound;,-a- y -agents- are There was no one but himself In too. Is twenty-onhis every step. The rest la watching "Yes.the library. In your hands." You could have forgotten that," the Perplexed to exasperation, Alan fled The girl bent forward, breathing (he club, only pausing on the way out rd maH pursued olmost mockingly, heavily, eyeg aflame in a face that had adfound he euvelone to annex the you reay dislike your assumed a waxen pallor. Af dressedJo him in the letter-racgo intensely? What Is it yorrftnnt of of white blank envelope You It was a Tha glrrg Yolce trembled t Bring Alan Law to me. Dead or good quality.lhe address typewritten,Eije galdpfte have nothing in cllveTbrlng hTmhlo rae; But "aTiverTf tbe stamp English, and bore a Lon- common beyohd parentage and this you can compass It; I w ish to see him don postmark half illegible. W.f . abominable resemblance; Our natures die Then I, too, may die content' Alan tore the envelope open in differ as light from darkness. hand of xThe stole youth fashion and started as i4i And which would you say was- forthvand grasped the Icy hand of If stung, Tk enclosure' was a sim- L light?" ple playing card a trey of hearts! I will bring him," Judith swore-d- ead "Hardly my own: Im no hypocrite. , As for Alan Law, he wandered Rose is everything that they tell me or alive, you. shall, have him . ", homeward in a state of stupefaction. j my mother was, while I the girl here." . i smiled strangely "I think 4 am more Wo Bolh Loved One Womans CHAPTERxIII your daughter than my mother's." A nod of the white head confirmed i FEW EOLKS ft 1b true, I have The Trail of Treachej, 'the suggestion, depleted packs, the two paused .on a d d , Sleepr-Crossi- . n ng .trl:-uinph- stt A DAY - -- half-hearted- 1 - heavy-ir&granc- e a-- I -- qulck-throug- i death-sign- ? d . ... ine-sce- n ' ' d -- , . seven-elght- ' rose-garde- Telephone and Telegraph Co The "pridVtb n Smashing the Vice Trust if ( man'-iezed d 4 4 r - -- -- - tMmb,--Tlieia- -- -- e 1 twin-siste- r mu"' k J absen- hot-blood- t-minded 5 death-in-Uf- s iif ir ... & more cloBsly than even you knew the Before I wasbquugbt to this gesVasted hand s I was a man ture yousg ldge-peJt.f- of hls own evanlshment; Just as he was nobodys fool, least of all his owm The hidden meaning of the trey oK hearts perplexed him with such disYour mother never IdveiJjhut trust that before leaving London, he .Druggis s Says Ladies are Using rather feared me. And Rose Isthp dispatched A code cablegram to hls Rectpe of Sage fTea and mirror of hef mothers nature, gen tle, p goo fl den tlal agent in New York, Sulphur? unselfish, sympathetic. But yon, Ju WhaT'diKyou know about .the trey of and lustre. dith, you are like a second self to hearts T AssWectmmediately, Hair thA loses Its cplor or when itlfades, turn gray,' dull end . The answer forestalled hls arrival "lifeless. Is taused by a lack of culphur in Liverpool: made up in the hair.lOur grandmother Trine's death sign for your fa' - a mixture olSage Tear and Sulphur to jn a 8nence that wss tensely expect-keeOode sake, look .to yourself and her loAs dark aSd beautiful, and i anb away from America. who men I and women oh this your birthday thousands ol 'lrb.n,lf Bnt Alan had more than once visvalue that even colof, 'that beautiful! wera ag a service of you that sa which..la shade-el hair "'dark in jurleusly affctdha..happlnesa ited America lncognltoand unknown' to Seneca Trine, rla a secret route of jecipe. .JlTeUSe JPPM this 8l8tar ? . j. 0f hls ownf selection. Nowadays a get hls famous mixaj briefly: t Only laughed l g ture by askingiat any, drug store for Eight days out of London, a second-clas- s 50 cent bottle W Wyeths Saga and, do to would passenger newly landed from you go And how far Sulphur Hair- Rfcmedy ft hlch darkens one of the C.-- steamships, he walked will. tbe hair so- nathrall so evenly, that my servIn streets the of Quebec and dropped' the Where would you stop tell it has been between' dark and dawn,1 out of t loved dan-Ione r ice sight of you it takes oft turn to And nodded up presently In tbe distan gravely. Seneca Trine king and falling In love, is hamlet of Dale SL Paul, apCanadian or "Rose a brief en after a pause, sponge im and diaw this he announced parently a very tenderfooted American r cbaperoned by a tacihalrl aklng one small Oh, I, know I know! the father the Indian gray satisfacturn of a a time. faint guide picked up heavenBAnornlng strand at affirmed with ring hair disappears; hut what delights the tion. I am old, a cripple, prisoner of Xv b but all "things - I - Crossing tbe St. Lawrence by night, Xidtervrith Wyeth Sage and Sulphur ihls.ni is that, besides beautifully darkening should know somehow I come to the two strack off quietly into-tthe hair after a few applications. It know In course of time! hinterland of the Notre Dame range, also brings back the gloss and lustre then crossed the Main border. she that true Englishman Its ' and gives it an appearance of abundw ith on the On the second noon thereafter, an acquaintance scraped two store, ance. Hedonist Drug Co., hls name? and weary, as lean as thetr whats last year Riviera successors to Smoot and Palace Drag M Law. Alan Taw, Cos. (Adr.) made'-ftsignifican- tf g pas-nJon- , p . old-tim- e J -- i .X "" ; woods-travele- - knows-wber- e. . vtpg-dom- hr -- trall-woy- IV f n -. the--i.wihter aesa- - p;feek of the Allagash country, and made their midday meal In a silence which, if normal In the Indian, was one of deep misgiyings on Alan's part. ' Continually hls gaze questioned the northern skies that lowered portentously, foul wfth -- smoke a, countrywide conflagration that threatened all bone-drwith northern Maine, drought. Only tbe south offered s fair pros-feeAnd the fires were making southward far toster than man might hope to travel through that grim and . theX Vice - - . g dramatizaTrust, - a clossal tion in six parts. Startling disclosures of th White Slave Ring. This picture will be shown at IhePrincess Theatre today. Smashing heart-renderin- y t. BMEFSTOPi II CATARRH STUfFED HEAD-E- ND stubborn land Even-a- s be stared, Alan saw fresh .mnl-- . .mrln- anlam.. ATvX.iT In the Anxiously he consttRed tbe impas and I lead balm dssolves by the hewt of the slve mask of the IndlanTYram whom Instant Rslisf When NoseCold. a From Stops nostrils; penetrates and heals the 1 Are Clogged hls questions gained Alan Diill Discharges.! flanie(L swollen membrane which line Nasty Catarrhal Jacob recommended ' Vanish. Headache the nose, head and throat; clears the to Spirit lake, where canoes air passages; stops nasty discharge and a feeling of cleansing, soothing f -- Try Ely Cream Balm." (Continued Ort Pane .Sis.l 'Get a small bottle anyway, ust to relief comes immediately. Don't lay awake tonight strugglln "7 it Apply a little in the nostrils for breath, with head stuffed! nostril and Despondency id instantly your clogged nose P closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh Is often caused by Indigestion and air passages of thehqad ora cold, with Its running nose, foul pped-udropping Into the throat, an disappears constipatipnand-quick- ly lllopenL you will breathe freely; jnucous i aw dryness Is distressing (rat. truly" headache and disappear. .ullness lak are when Cahmaberlains Tablets or needless. the catarrh, norwlng! dealers. ail For sale by (Adv) Put your faith Just ones In Ely etarrbal sore throat will be gone. and your sold or catarrh " EDd such mlnery now! Cet the Remember tbe' Provo Tailoring 4mall bottle of Elvs Cream Balm" at will surely disappear, Hedqulzt Drug toy drug store. This swe-- t, fragiant Co. (Av.) Company. HD , Ixrx llttTe-am-for- t. forced-marche- s p cold-in-hea- d Cream-Balm- |