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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Ike MA1DIGRAS Did you bring that chauffeur Yes, and he lsughed at her Hp i erness. Good! I accept because I mnat see that famous feur. If youll wait, Ill be ready in a minute. She hurried from the room, a snatch of song on her lips. Gramont smiled as he waited. CHAPTER by V The Masquer Unmasks. In New Orleans one may find pensions In the old quarter the quarter which is still Instinct with the pulse life. These pensions do of not advertise. The average tourist Illustrations by knows nothing of them. Even If he knew. Indeed, he might have some difficulty in obtaining accommodations, for It Is not nearly enough to have the money; one must also have the Introductions, come well recommended, Doubladay.Page and Company and be under the tongue of good rei finis to their work except the dollar pute. Gramont had obtained a smnll apartSuch a dropping into their pouch. man Is your relative, Joseph Malllard. ment en pension a quiet and severely I do not wish to offend you, and I shall retired house in Burgundy street, therefore refrain from saying all that maintained by a very proud old lady whose ancestors had come out of Is In my mind." But you have not hesitated to Intimate very frankly that you Canada with the Sieur dIberville. are not wealthy. Some time ago, If Here Gramont lived with Hammond, on a basis of equality, and they you recall, you wrote me how you had quite were very comfortable. just missed' wealth through having The two men sat smoking their pipes sold some land. I have taken the libthe fireplace. In which blazed a before erty of looking up that deal to some extent, and I have suspected that your small fire more for good cheer than It was Sunday uncle had some interest In putting the through necessity. evening. sale through Gramont stared into the flickering The gray eyes of the girl flashed fire and sucked at his pipe. Suddenly suddenly. he roused himself and shot a glance Henry Gramont! Are my family affairs to be an open book to the at Hammond. You- seem to have a Sergeant! world? Do you realize that you are recollection of that night pretty good most Into my Intruding unwarrantably at the Lavergne house, when I found private matters? Gramonts eyes you entering and Jumped on you. Unwarrantably? You bet I have! Hammond held her gaze steadily. Do you realchuckled. When youd knocked the ly mean to use that word? and we recognized each I do, most certainly I answered goggles off me ! I felt like a boob. Lucie with spirit. I dont think you other h Gramont smiled. How many places realize Just what the whole thing had you robbed up to then? Three, tends toward wasnt it? 's Oh, yes I do ! Quite clearly. Three Is ilght capn," was the uncool, level tone conquered her ashamed response. orsee I that you are Indignation. We haven't phaned, and that your uncle was your ten, but now referred to it very ofthings have happened. guardian, and executed questionable Gramonts face took on harsh lines of deals which lost money for you. Come, "Do you know, It was thats brutally frank but its true! determination. a lucky thing that you had no chance I cnme here to New Orleans and became involved in some dealings with to dispose of the Jewels and money obtained? your cousin, Bob Maillard. I believed, youNo chance? snorted the other. No and I believe now, that In your heart chance is right, cap'n! And I was you have some suspicion of your uncle in regard to those transactions in sore, too. Say, they got a ring of land. Therefore, I took the trouble to crooks around this town you couldnt look Into the thing to a slight extent. bust Into with grenades ! Listen here, and Ill tell you something big. Shall I tell you what I have discovHammond leaned forward, lowered ered? Lucie Ledanols gazed at him, her his voice, and tamped at his pipe. When I was a young fellow I lived Ups compressed. She liked this new in a little "town up north I aint say-i- n where. My old man had a livery stable there, see? Well, one night a guy come along and got the old man out of bed, and slips him fifteen hundred for' a rig and a team, see? I drove the guy ten miles through the hills, and set him on a road he wanted RBedfordiJones old-wor- Irwin Myers Copyright by GRAMONT AND LUCIE SYNOPSIS. During the height of the New Orleans carnival season Jachln Fell, wealthy though somewhat mysterious citizen, and Dr. Ansley, are discussing a series of robberies by an Individual known as the Midnight Masquer, who, invariably attired as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mail-larwealthy banker, is giving a ball that night, at which the Masquer has threatened to appear and rob the guests. Fell and Ansley, on their way to the affair, meet a girl dressed as Columbine, seemingly known to Fell, but masked, who accompanies them to ' the ball. Lucie Ledanols, recently the ward of her uncle, Joseph Malllard, is the Columbine. At the ball, Bob Maillard, son of the banker, again proposes to her and is refused. He offers to buy some of her property. A Franciscan monk interests her. He turns out to be Prince Gramont. In his library Joseph Malllard and a group of his friends are held up and robbed by the Midnight Masquer. Lucie Ledanols, the last of an old family, is in straitened circumstances. Joseph Mai Hards handling of her funds has been unfortunate. Fell is an old friend of her parents and deeply Interested in the girl. Henry Gramont, really the Prince de Gramont, is enamored of Lucie. Lucie talks with Felr about her affairs and the Masked Masquer. d, - CHAPTER IV Continued. 6 Some of them, yes and all that prince stuff with them. Smiling as jie dropped Into English,' Gramont glanced about the room, and his eyes ! THERE ARE MANY WAYS a baby has of expressing any pain or irregularity or digression from its normal condition of health ana happiness. A short sharp cry, a prolonged irritated cry. Restlessness, a constant turning of the head or of the whole body, fretful. In these and other ways a baby tells you there is something wrong. Most mothers know that a disordered stomach, or bowels that do not act naturally are the cause of most of babys sufferings. A call for the doctor, is the first thought, but in the event of any delay there should be ready at hand a safe remedy such as Fletchers Castoria. Castoria has been used for babys ailments for over 30 years and has merited the good will of the family physician in a measure not equaled by any other babys medicine because of its harmlessness and the good results achieved. And remember this: Castoria is essentially a babys remedy and not a cure-a- ll for every member of the family. What might help you is too often dangerous when given to a babe. Children Cry For ks.j; fi algohol-- 3 per cent. fc.r As ISIS AVe dable Preparation - 5 1 simiiatintheFood by RegulaBowels and Stomachs 6 y tint the - 'j'J Cheerfulness Lets Think It Over. There is such a thing as saying too much on any subject, and the grand-stan-d talker sooner or later becomes a bore. The truth is always welcomed, and the truth reiterated and confirmed is more than welcome it reaches your innermost soul. and Rest bona Morphine nar neither Opium, f MineraL Not Narcotic pptofOidDcSA 1 Fletchers Castoria is aU its advertising has claimed for if. . y the microscope of public opinion and used for over thirty years it stands without a peer in the hearts of thoughtful, cautious, SeiTnOt JMeikSaJt9 Scrutinized Gra-mont- ' softened. This Is a lovely and lovable home of yours, Lucie! he exblalmed, graveSo few homes are worthy the ly. name; so few have In them the Intimate air of use and friendliness why are so many furnished from bargain sales? This place Is touched with repose and sweetness; to come and sit here Is a privilege. It Is like being In another world, after all the money striving and the dollar madness of the city. Oh ! The girls gaze searched him curiously. "I hope youre not going to take the fine artistic pose that to find. It Is a crime to make money?" Now, that guy was the biggest Gramont laughed. crook In the country In them days Not much I want to make money still is, I guess. He was on the dead myself; thats one reason Im In New run that night, to keep out o LeavenOrleans. Still, you 'cannot deny that worth. He kep out, all right, and hes there Is a craze about the eternal In the game to this minute. Nosettin clutching after dollars. I cant make body never pinched him yet, and never the dollar sign the big thing in life, will. Lucie. You couldnt, either." Why? She frowned a little. "Because his gang runs' back to You seem to have the European politicians and rich guys all over the notion that all Americans are dollar country. You ask anybody on the inchasers ! side if they ever heard of Memphis He shrugged his shoulders slightly. Izzy Gumberts! Well, capn, I seen In a sense, yes; why not? he anthat very identical guy on the street I am an American. I am swered. the other day I never could forget his a dollar chaser, and not ashamed of it. ugly mug! And where he is. no outI am going into business here. Once side crooks can get 'in, you believe It Is a success, I shall go on; I shall me ! see America, I shall come to know Tim! Memphis Izzy Gumberts. eh? this whole country of mine, all of it! What kind of a crook is lie, sergeant? I have been a month In New Orleans The big kind. You remember them do you know, a strange thing hapChicago lotteries? But you dont, o pened to me only a few days after I Hm! Memphis Eh? Izzy Gumberts, course. arrived here! his game lotWell, What Kind of a Crook Is He. Serteries and such like. With her eyes she urged him on, geant? and he continued gravely : Gramonts lips clenched for a minIn France I met a man, an Amerimanner of his, this firm and resolute ute, then he spoke with slow distinctcan sergeant named Hammond. It gravity, this harshness. It brought out ness : was just at the close of things. We his underlying character very well. Sergeant, Id have given five hunhad adjoining cots at Nice "If you please, Henry, she mur- dred dollars for that information a I mured very meekly. Ah! she exclaimed, quickly. week ago ! remember, you wrote about him the Gramont shook his head. Well, then, I have discovxred that Why? man who had been wounded In both your uncle appears to be honestly at Never mind. Forget it! Now, this legs! Did he get well? You never fault in the matter stunt of yours was clever. You showed said. Thanks for this approval of my brains when you got yourself up as an I never knew until I came here," family, she murmured. aviator and pulled that stuff, seranswered Gramont. "One night, not continued geant. But you handled it brutally And, Gramont, imperlong after J had got established in my turbably, "that your suspicions of him terribly brutally. a man on Burgundy street, pension were It was a little raw, I guess, conBut, on the other tried to rob me. It was this same hand, groundless. new has turned I was up against ceded Hammond. something up man, Hammond; we recognized each about which I wish to It, thats all. When you took over the but speak once. at almost other which I must speak delicately. costume and began to get across with I took him home with me and aboutBob Maillard offered to buy your the Raffles stuff why, it was a pipe learned his story. He had come back Has for you, capn! Look what weve done land on the Bayou Terreremaining lind his to dead wife America only to In a month. Six jobs, every one runbonne? from influenza, his home broken up, She started slightly. So It was to ning off smooth as glass! Your nohis future destroyed. He drifted to been leading up all tion of going to parties ready dressed New Orleans, careless of what hap- this that he had with some kind of loose robe over the the while! deshimself He him. to flung pened broached He the last flyin duds was a scream ! And then subject of and career a into burglary perately I she answered. me running that motor with the cutdismissed it night, pillage. Well, I gave Hammond a for the time. out on all Miem birds that never You would chauffeur. Is he my Job; Good!" he exclaimed with boyish heard an airplane think you come and never recognize him as the same man Good! I warned you In time, go by air. for certain ! Nobody will vigor. now ! I am very proud of his friendthen! If you will permit me, I must ever find us out. ship. Gramont nodded thoughtfully. advise you not to part with that land nodded Lucie well said. was "That "Yes? But, sergeant, how about the not even for a good offer. This I shant call you her head quickly. man who came along last M. Le prince any more -- unless you week, immediately Mardi Gras Is over, quiet little Maillard house and asked the at am to I night that land for going Inspect offend again. disHe smiled, reading her thought I the company ; it is Bob Malllard's com- about the car? Perhaps he had covered you had been running the know. Is my unwarrantable you pany, what eh? a Well, to et snob, be .try engine. Tin driving at Is this i I want to know Intrusion forgiven? Hm?" Hammond sniffed In scorn. You are put She nodded brightly. this country of mine, to see it with He wasn't no dick. sir. In on Youie our We hide Bobs probation, clear, unprejudiced eyes. real shames and exalt our false ones. company?' Yes. Gramont frowned. I inbe ashamed of chas-- i ,v Why should w I too hastily but no dare not risk it. That Ing the dollar? So long as that Is a vested perhaps man Fell is too smart. means to the end of happiness, ifs all matter now. I' have the car outside, 1 have the ; pleasure of right. 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