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Show 1.. - rjr- itfWlOT - aAU., a. nn .k, THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH Indeed, trees were everywhere about the farm, which had grown up in a regular sapling forest. The buildings were in a ruinous state clapboards hanging loosely, roofs dotted by gaping holes, doors and windows long since gone. Leaving the car, Gramont, followed by the chauffeur, went to the front doorway and surveyed the wreckage inside. ( What do you say, Hammond? Think we can stop here, or go back to the hotel? Its not much of a run toN a cluster of towering trees. The Mardi Gras Mystery By H. BEDFORD-JONE- S Relief Is Found NERVOUS AND From Stomach Trouble WOMEN HALF-SIC- K bought it Hope for the millions of unlortunate A peculiar smile twisted cently. men and women who are victims of In fatft, they Fells lips awry. stomach trouble Is sounded by Wil13 E. Pink-ha-ms liam Hoylen, of 16 Spring St., Bristol, "Books be d d! snorted the chief, bought it from a man named HamWill Conn. Mr. Hoylen was a victim of and leaned forward earnestly. "Look mond, as the evidence will show very stomach trouble In Its worst form, but here, Fell? Do you believe in your clearly. Ben had he Chacherre started, since heart that Maiilard killed his father? was completely restored to health by For Your Own Good Please Read Them Fell was silent a moment under that sold that car himself. Then a slow town taking Tanlac. He says: grin came into his thin features a Intent scrutiny. firewide a to For of fifteen Hammond pointed years I had attacks Last fall I would often ait down and cry, and was Youngstown, Ohio. "From the evidence, I am forced grin that widened Into a noiseless place facing them. stomach trouble, and had been in bed to feel mean and my back hart always blue and had no ambition. I , began laugh. against my will to believe it, he said me and I eonld hardly do my little bit I can get this shack cleaned out in for three weeks when I got Tanlac, was this way for over a year and had Master, you are magnificent! he at last. Of course, he-l- l be able to of housework. I was played out one room, but three bottles built me up fifteen allowed myself to get into quite' a an hour this half about and is Homrose. Well, if there when I would just sweep one room serious condition. One day I saw your in pounds, and made a well man of me. a fire prove that he was not the Masquer on said,further on we When goln get anyhow. I shall go to bed. and would have to rest I would have advertisement in the daily paper and windows and I am now eating steak and onions, the previous occasions ; his alibis will take ing An excellenthand, board and up there, to put a cushion behind me when I program, said Jachin began to take Lydia E. Pinkhama care of that. Up to the point of the comfortable be to we and feel just fine in every way. ought would sitdown and atnightl could not and took his hat from the desk. doors, Fell, Vegetable Compound at once. I have ! his is all And, murder, story right. enough. But suit yourself, capn Its unless I had something under ever since taking the third 1 must get some sleep myself. Undigested food femjents In the improved sleep my friend,' there Is a chance a very bottle and find it is the bestmedicin your funeral. stomach and soon the entire system is my back. I had awful cramps every buildoffice left the the and They alim, tenuous chance that his entire month and was just nearly all in. All right. Go filled with poisons. I have ever taken. Gramont laughed. Tanlac was detogether. husband said to me one If rain story Is true. In that case, another ingThree Finally my and clean and ahead then, up, to a restore to stomach the signed hours afterward the dawn Benefited by First Bottle day, 'Why dont you try Lydia E. must have appeared as the , person Be had set in a cold, gray and dismal comes down we can camp here. healthy condition, and build up the Pinkhams medicine? and I said, I I was completely run down and Uasquer, which seems unlikely vermin. and snakes look sure and for whole body. Millions everywhere have am willing to take anything if I could not able to do my housework. I just "Or else, put In Ben Chacherre, dawn that rose upon a city littered The floor seems sound, and If theres acclaimed its wonderful power. Get a with the aftermath of carnival. Lean dragged myself around and did not get well again.' So I took one bottle smoothly, "the real original Masquer and a second one and felt better and have energy to get up when once I Bat In sober fact. bottle it was. Wednesday today. showed up! the neighbors asked me what I was down. I read advertisements of Thus far, the city in general was igTanlac Is sold by all good druggists. I There was an instant silence. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable ComAdvertisement Fell regarded his henchman with norant of the tragedy which had taken pound in our paper The Indiana Daily at the very conclusion of Its J my eig! Times, and learned all about it. 1 resteady gray eyes. Ben Chacherre met place carnival season. Within a few "Gentlemen of the Guard. ceived results from the very first botnot express to you how I feel, the gayest the look with almost a trace of The original function of the house like to. If you can use social circles and now I am doing all my own would tle hours business and I way The chief frowned darkly. , this letter you are welcome to it and work, even washing ana ironing, and hold cavalry was to protect the kings of would be the fact Joseph by swept Yes, said the chief. "Thats the if any woman does not believe what I I never felt better in my fife; I tell but at this early person, and Charles II saw to it that Size of it. Fell. Youre keepin quiet Maillards murder, Mrs. have written to be true, she can write all my friends it is due to you. old recruited from were his life The guards 403 N. Pine me and I will describe mv condiabout the name of the real Masquer; point of the day the city slept. to Elizabeth Reinbold, Cavalier families. Even the privates morning papers, which today carried a Mrs. tion to her as I have to you. St., Indianapolis, Indiana. why? were men of very good families, and news story that promised, to shock You should pay heed to the experiElmer Heasley, 141 S. Jackson St, Because, said Fell, calmly, I hapfine uniforms were Their well were stun and paid. the entire community, ences of these women. They know Youngstown, Ohio. pen to know that he was in the audian essential were and finer swagger how they felt before taking the Vegnot yet distributed. I was very nervous and runtorium at the time of the murder. etable Compound, and afterwards, part of the splendor of Whitehall. down, writes Mrs. L. E. Wiese of Rising before daylight, Henry GraAgain silence. Ben Chacherre stared too. Their words are true. 706 Louisa St, New Orleans, La. I were called Gentlemen of the mont and Hammond breakfasted early They admiraamazement and with ht Fell, Text-Boo- k Guard. car. in off were six E. upon Ailments the Private and Pinkhams by They Lydia When the master tion In his gaze. sent free request. Write be to will upon Women you and were Peculiar well town outside sweeping lies, he lies magnificently!" he murMassachusetts, Medicine Co., E. Faces. Lynn, Pinkhain for to Cuticura the on Pimply to Lydia Terrebonne their way parish mured in French. , and the town To remove pimples and blackheads before of Paradis they dei Well,? and the chief gestured smear them with Cuticura Ointment Mew realized that the day was not going spairingly, I guess that lets out the to Wash off in five minutes with Cutibrighten appreciably. Instead, it t real Masquer, eh? cura Soap and hot yater. Once clear very cloudy and gloomy, No use remained Exactly, assented Fell. Putnam Fadeless Dyes -- dyes or tints as you wish in the air. a with of rain keep your skin clear by using them for chill threat indragging his name Into it. Ill keep to fail Dont toilet to Gramont. purposes. Weather daily mattered little IN PROSPECT. at work on this, chief, and if any- When clude Cuticura Talcum. Advertisement COULD DO WITHOUT UNIFORM NOTHING WORSE the excellent highway thing turns up to clear young Mail-lar- was leftfinally behind, and they started on He Had Got Over Ill be very glad. AT LEAST GUILTY OF LYING Youthful Fijian Proved Anew That Traveler Satisfied of their seventy-mil- e ride, All right, grunted the chief, and the last lap Part of Uncomfortable Most the Mother Fertile is the Necessity they found the parish roads execrable rose. Til be on my way." His Journey. Invention. of and the going slow. Thus, noon was Truly Clergyman Had Refrained From He departed. Neither Fell nor but He Had Sinned at hand when they at length pulled inBlasphemy, n coal opmoved or spoke for a space. W. S. Inglis, the A traveler from Fiji in the old days in Another Direction. to Paradis, the town closest to Lucie a railat When at length the clang of the elerailroad a told story in the past erator, Ledanois bayou land. The rain was "Think We Can Stop Here, or Go reports that at times Scranton. vator door resounded through the de- still in mens road introduced first banquet when settled the who game A off. ago years Back to the Hotel? holding clergyman serted corridors Ben Chacherre slipped There used to br a little line, ha Too coil to rain, observed Grain Massachusetts once reproved a there the Fijians used to get waves 12 miles from his chair and went to the outer mont. we can on moss the trees, while he was of cricket madness, and in some out- said, a branch line about hit for the hotel and plenty of for workman Lets swearing door. He glanced out into the hnli, so long, that was notorious for its bumps, Too bad not was beds. comfortable make it where to up new eat. field. have to Ill a lying villages plowing get something closed the door, and with ji nod reI guess readily quelled by law a match would general discomfort and dirt. youre not a fisherman, or we might locate the land, which is somewhere Swear! said the man. turned to his chair. A train on this line pulled' into out fish of a the bayou fresh get be kept up for weeks, on end. Intown. near swear! youd Well?" Jachin Fell regarded him one morning, late half an hourp in town and tackle I wore town, their an got pads hotel some, be the to took discovered the they the cidentally, They preacher Whereupon Have with intent, searching eyes. and a man said as be rose as Hammond bootless on usual, legs widely. their grinned naked, ancient structure, and boasting prices ' plow and hurried after it, Indignantly strapped evihimself off: you any light to throw on the occabrushed Then make Good and work! But effect. yourself denying the charge. hen, as lie with a very ludicrous worthy of Lafitte and his buccaneers. sion? Well, thank goodness, the worst As in many small towns of Louisiana, at home and go to it. Weve most of field became more impassable, he be- dently the Fijians have no sense of Chacherres usual air of cool impu- however, the food the ludicrous, for lur traveler further part of my journey is over. proved fit for a the afternoon before us. gan panting: dence was never in evidence when he Goin far? said another man. Another distinguishing Gramont left the house, and headed After a light luncheon of quail, saw the like ! I never saw reports: never I king. talked with Mr. Fell. Kong, China, said the first me once shore. amused toward down once the "Hong rather bayou and mark that had When probably he illegal crayfish bisque, gone the like! No, he said, shaking his head. venison, Gramont sighed regret that house when boy, was chap. his from my a He took letter pocket, round the field lie stopped, breathless, Hammond "worked on the car until he could ,eat no more, and set about opened It, and glanced over It anew. It and added: Esau, came in one day with his hair Waited Long tor Fortune. about nine oclock, then beat it to inquiring where the Ledanois farm lay. was an old letter,, one written him necescut It find see away from one side of his head, I didnt There, you He bed, I guess. I quit the job at ten, might have been rich fifteen weird to partsomewhat Lucie a two was like indeed, There very little, years previously by to swear. looking nearly and his light had been out some time. Paradis, which lay on the bayou but Ledanois. It bad been written mere- saryNo, said the other, hut youve ing, for the remainder stood up as years ago, but a Belgian who' purWell, master, this is a queer affair! well away from the railroad. It was a ly In the endeavor to distract the told moren 50 lies. You said you usual like a bass 'broom w ith bristles chased a bond In 1903 hadn't applied-fothe list of numbers drawn In Theres no doubt that Gramont pulled desolate spot, unpainted and unkempt. thoughts of a wounded soldier, to never did see the like, and you saw five Inches long. I asked him what on lotteries in 1907. A poor man-frorestate It, eh? he and had robbed bring his mind to Louisiana, away It all the time I was plowin'. The parish seat of Houma earth he had been doing You think so?" asked Fell. the country happening to bn it of all life and growth on the one from the stricken fields of France. In plied : Sir, I am now a member of the for the first time for, Chacherre made a gesture of assent. hand; on the other, the new oil and the letter Lucie had described some of in Antwerp have we and A team, Lomaloma Beginning Early. the offices of the entered When the tree falls, the kid can climb years, many the as It. like touched of tills, the more interesting features Bayou A city troop of girl scouts was In- agreed to cut our hair gas district had Riot yet Caisse Communale to see if the It! Any fool can see that Gramont S Southward lay the swamp fully Terrebonne the oyster and shrimp the all sashes 11 cannot a store get Its treasury by holding creasing he had taken out In the lonn-o- f was the man. Dont you think so vilLondon forty miles of it, merging by degrees fleets, the Chinese and Filipino candy sale in the downtown district. A same color. 1903 had won a prize in the yearly yourself, master? into the Gulf. Forty miles of cypress lages along the gulf, the ragged little newsboy approached one He thought that perhaps ha Jachin Fell nodded. founlottery. the Costume. bubbling swamps; cypress for marsh and uncharted, asked and bayou, winding Sport of the uniformed girls won 110 . francs In this yeaFs Yes. But weve no evidence evhad inbroke that natural In hunters this curiosities, occasional I save Kin tains, poker game? by git unexplored a dimes worth of chocolate fudge. draw. After waiting Impatiently while erything lies against young Maiilard. or Sam. d sheriffs. No man up tbrougb the streams and bayous of He laid down 15 cents, took the candy quired to searched the records he Gramont goes in the morning Early "If youll send East an' git yerself the cashier knew who or what might be in those the whole wide parish fountains that out. Informed that his number had was Paradis to examine that land of Miss swamps, and no one cared to know. were caused by gas seeping up from and started Cactus answered Joe, a bathin suit, I thought you just wanted a dimes been drawn In 1907, and that he was mebbe well let you sit In. The man' who brought in fish t or the earths Interior, and breaking worth, said the little scout. bonus of 200,000 franca "Whats the idea of the bathin entitled to anormal oysters in his skiff might be a bayou through. "I did; thats your tip, answered at exchange rates). ($40,000 alwere murbe a knew Inhe and Gramont that suit? plans fisherman, might the youngster, as he darted out. It aint got no pockets ner sleeves derer wanted in ten states. Curiosity ready afoot to tap this field of natural dianapolis News. Imagination. to tempt a man to hide out aces. was apt to prove extremely unhealthy. gas and pipe It to New Orleans. Oil Tommy, age four, went with his sisLlk'e the Atchafalaya, where chance had been found, too, and all the state to Be Cheated. Not Fortunes were beter. early in the spring, to pick violets-Itravelers find themselves abruptly or- was now Parcel Post In New York. Grandfather and Betty were paythe woods near his hoifie. One day, dered elsewhere, the Terrebonne ing made dally, and other fortunes ing a visit to the strawberry patch. More than 600,000 packages leave weeks later, he and his mother who own those and secrets a few were lost their by have daily being swamps some small, luscious berries New York by parcel post every day. He some friends on an autodealt with oil stocks instead of with and picked know how to keep them. accompanied manufacturing One clothing For little large sir!. to the fed them ride. As the ciir passed along a mobile as ns out sends many Gramont had no difficulty in locat- oil. alone concern ones. himself he found much larger Those gas fountains did the work! while s big department road bordered with locust trees in full ing the Ledanois land, and he found Betty watched him for a few mo- 30,000 a day, Mother, 1 se that It was by no means in the swamp. reflected Gramont. And according to ments, and then said, gravely : Grand- store mails from 1,000 to 2,000 or bloom. Tommy said: on trees. violets growlu A part of it, lying closer to Houma, this letter theres one of those fountoo. more. father, I can eat the large ones, had been sold and was now included tains here in the bayou, close to her she in the new oil district ; it was this por- property. Just opposite the dock, tion which Joseph Maiilard had sold says. The first tiling is to find the off. dock, then the fountain. After that, The remainder, and the largest por- well decide if its true mineral gas. tion, lay north of Paradis and ran If It is. then the works done for Ill on finding oil near along the west bank of the bayou for sure take a chance farm. It! half a mile, A Gramont came to the bayou and beIt was high ground, with the timber well cleared off and excellently lo- gan searching Ills way along the thick cated; but tenants were hard to get and high fringe of bushes and saplings and shiftless when obtained, so that that girded the waters edge. Presentthe place had not been farmed for the ly he came upon the ruined evidences last five years or more. After getting of what had once been a small boat these faets, Gramont consulted with shed. Not far from this he found the dock referred to in the letter ; nothing Hammond. Wed better buy some grub here in was left of it except a few spiles proto stay a couple of truding from the surface of the water. and "look Here, Fell! Dojfou Believe in town on arrange If necessary, he But lie had no need to look farther. the farm, nights Killed His Maiilard Your Heart That There are some buildings there, Directly before him, he saw that said. Father? so well find shelter. Along the bayou which he was seeking. HE union of Nature, Science and the Farmer is a partA dozen feet out from shore the waHell are summer cottages I believe some Ledanois along- - the bayou. nership for life. ter was rising and falling In a continuprobably say nothing of this murder of them rather pretentious places to Hammond, and the chauffeur may and we ought to find the road pretty ous dome or fountain of highly In the golden sheaves of living wheat, and in the w avnot 'find out about it until a day or decent. Its only three or four miles charged bubbles that rose a foot above shimmering fields of barley Nature stores the vital ing, the surface. Gramont stared at it, two they get , few newspapers down out of town. elements of human power and energy which Science con' With some provisions piled in the motionless. He watched it for a space there. food. the famous body-buildin- g road The forth. verts into Grape-Nut- s wound mornset a was It he car. started. in the they Drive down to Paradis then, abruptly, along the bayou side, past ancient violent start, a start of sheer amazeing, Ben; get Into touch with Hamwith milk or cream is a complete food, which Grape-Nut- s v Cajun farms and the squat homes of ment and Incredulity. mond. and discover what time Granutrition (including the mineral elements) all the contains He leaned forward, staring no longer mont got home tonight. Write me fishermen. Here and there had been for rich, red blood, and for building sturdy making summer required and cottages, at the gas dome, but at the water what you find out. Then take charge placed camps sound bone structure and strong, healthy body tissue, of things at the Gutuberts place. Make nestling amid groups of huge oaks and closer inshore. For a moment be j silver-gra- y cells. of nerve fronds whose deceived senses had ts handled cypress, his car that right. sure that every thought' A headquarters man from Mobile will moss hung In drooping clusters like him, then he saw that the tiling was easy to baking process makes Grape-Nut- s The there indeed, there beyond any doubt j be here tomorrow to trace the Non- pale and ghostly shrouds. and flavor sweet crispthat delicious, and develops digest . Watching the road closely. Gramont a very faint trace of iridescent light pareil Twelve that Gramont now this food a favorite the w orld over. made that has ness landmarks found the that suddenly that played over the surface of the owns." Chacherre whistled under his breath. had been described to him, and or- water. , dered Hammond to stop and turn in Reason (TO BE CONTINUED.) What? Jachin Fell smiled slightly and at a gap in the fence which had once Cleaning Hint. Yes. If Gramont remains been an entrance gate. nodded. When buildare we Those the Here are! down on cleaning house sprinsie him I youre send at Paradis, may there I m not sure yet. I Intend to ings off to the right. Whew! I should the clothes closets with a little water In which tobacco has been steeped and get something on that man Ham- say it had been abandoned! Nothing Sold by grocers everywhere! then sprinkle with a little spirits of much left but ruins. Go ahead! mond." the latter The in drove as Before from destroys him camphor. them, they land that way, But you cant Made by Postum Cereal Company, Ino., Battle Creek, Mich. d the road by a drive, odor of the former and together they master! He bought the car ami a tn sold the car to the ga showed a bouse, shed, and barn amid will prevent annoyance by motha. Copyright by Doubieday, Page & Co. CHAPTER IX Continued. rage people? inno- They These Letters Recommending Lydia Interest You Vegetable Compound , Ja-ch- in defi-ance- Skirt Saves Need Buying a 1 d, Cha-cher- well-know- s bond-whic- Tit-Bit- d Three-Fingere- -- oil-ma- Life Partners T 20-ho- ur Theres a for -- grass-covere- f; i Grape Nuts , |