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J BATES Lawyer t Notary Public RICHFIELD Collection UTAH 2wLL Succeed when everything else fails In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme" remedy as thousands have testified FOR KIDNEY LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE TAILOKIHG Step up stairs over the He restore and ask the man to pairs cleans and makes suits or'kr— — Ericksen August w it is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist’s counter DO IT NOW Subscribe THIS for PAPER Miss Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen Holbrook her niece were entrusted to the care of Laurance Donovan a writer M Annandale summering near PortDonovan see that Patricia confided to feared her brother Henry who ruined uy a bank failure bad constantly threalenea of will s tils fallier from her for money which Miss Patricia was guardian iney came to Port Annandale to escape Henry with the two Donovan sympathized an s Helen women He learned of Miss Donovan discovered and noying suitor who proved to raptured an intruder hand of Reginald Gillespie suitor for the Miss Helen Holbrook GillespieA disaprougn peared the following morning away sailor appeared and was ordered her Donovan saw MIbs Holbrook and meet on friendly terms Do‘nf" assassin He fought an Italian was Holbrook but who man he supposed a said he was Hartrldge lerc After a short discussion Donovan Donby Gillespie was discovered surlily ovan presenting a country cliurthof witn Holknew he admitted 11000 Gillespie brook’s presence Miss Pat acknowledged to Donovan that Miss Helen r! d ng W missing for a few hourssailor liile the Italian In a launch M1" Pf to moles' the trio but failed y announced her intention of fighting He Holbrook and not seeking another hiainiat place Donovan met Helen in garden night VIII— Continued CHAPTER shall we “An interest in geography call it?” she chaffed gayly We will assume ‘‘Or astronomy! that we are both looking for the Little Dipper” “Good!” she returned on my own “Between the affairs of the Holnote brooks and your evening Dipper hunt you are a busy man Mr Donovan” 1 am not half so busy as you are It must tax you seMiss Holbrook! verely to maintain both sides of the barricade at the same time” I ventured boldly “That does require some ingenuity” she replied musingly “but I am a very flexible character” “But what will bend will break— you may carry the game too far” “Oh are you tired of it already?” “Not a bit of It but I should like to make this stipulation with you: That as you and I seem to be pitted against each other in this little contest we shall fight it all out behind I prefer that she Miss Pat’s back shouldn’t know what a —” and I hes- itated “Oh give me a name won’t you?” she pleaded mockingly deceiver a beautiful you “What are!” We will agree that I am “Splendid! a deceiver!” You are “Tf it gives you pleasure! welcome to all the joy you can get out of it!” “Please don’t he hitter! Let us play fair and not stoop to abuse” “I should think you would feel after that ugly business You didn’t appear of this afternoon to be even annoyed by that Italian’s effort to smash 'the launch” She was silent for an Instant I heard her breath come and go quickly when she responded with what seemed a forced lightness: “You really think that was Inspired at a by — ” she suddenly appeared loss as you know “By Henry Holbrook And if Miss Pat should well enough be murdered through his enmity don’t you see that your position in the matter would be difficult to explain? Murder my dear young woman Is not even in this looked upon complacently remote corner of the world!” of "You seem given to the use strong language Mr Donovan Let us drop the calling of names and consider Just where yoq put me” “I don't put you at all you have taken your own stand But I will say not to say that I was surprised to find that you played the pained the very hour you came eavesdropper to Annandale” A moment’s silence the water muran owl mured in the reeds below hooted in the Glenarm wood! a restless bird chirped from its perch in a maple overhead “Oh to be sure!” she said at last "You thought I was listening while Aunt Pat unfolded the dark history of the Hofbrooks” “I knew it though I tried to believe I was mistaken But when I saw you there on Tippecanoe creek meeting your father at the house I was astounded I did not know that depravity could go bo ej cat It a Bargain?” it’s oftener Rosalind I hope you don’t object Mr Donovan?” “No I rather like it it’s in keeping with your variable character You seem prone to woodlike Rosalind I dare say the other land wandering people of the cast will appear in due season So far I have seen only the Fool" “The Fool? Oh yes there was Touchstone wasn't there?” “I believe it is admitted that there was” I felt that we were She laughedbound to get on better now that we understood each other “You are rather proud of your attainments aren’t you? I have really read the play Mr Donovan I have even seen it acted” “I did not mean to reflect on your which is acute enough or intelligence on your attainments which are sufficient or on your experience of life I really believe that “Well spoken! I am liking you better all the time Mr Donovan” "My heart is swollen with gratitude You heard my talk with your father at his cottage last night And then you flew back to Miss Pat and played the of Rosahypocrite with the artlessness — lind the real Rosalind” “Did I? Then I'm as clever as I am wicked You no doubt are as wise as you are good" She folded her aras with a quick movement the better I thought to satisfaction with express her own share of the talk then her manner her She rested changed abruptly hands on the back of the bench and bent toward me “My father dealt very generously with you He You were an Intruder was well within his rights In capturing And more than that you drew you to our place some enemies of your own who may yet do us grave injury” “They were no enemies of mine! Didn’t ypu hear me debating that matter with your father? They were his enemies and they pounced on me by mistake It’s not their fault that they didn’t kill me!” “That's a likely story That little creek is the quietest place in the world” “How do you know?” I demanded bending closer toward her "Because my father tells me so! That was the reason he chose it” “He wanted a place to hide when I the cities became too hot for him advise you Miss Holbrook in view of all that has happened and if you have left to keep any sense of decency far” away from there” “My poor unhappy unfortunate fa“And I suggest to you Mr Donovan ther!” she said in a low voice there that your devotion to my aunt does was almost a moan in it not require you to pursue my father “I suppose you defend your conduct You do well to remember that a stranon the ground of filial duty” I sugger thrusting himself Into the affairs gested finding it difficult to be severe of a family he does not know puts him“Why shouldn’t I? Who are you to self in a very bad light" We are the t Judge our affairs? “I am not asking your admiration but I Miss Holbrook” family that ever lived should like you to know that it was “You may save yourself the trounot by my wish that you were brought ble!” she flashed and then laughed into our councils There is more In out “Let us not be so abmerrily all this than appears!" surd! We are quarreling like two “There is nothing in it but Miss Pat school children It's over an apple — her security her peace her happi- really a pleasure to meet you in this ness I am pledged to her and the unconventional fashion but we must rest of you are nothing to me But be amiable Our affairs will not be you may tell your father that I have settled by words — I am sure of that been In rows before and that I propose must beg of you the next time you to stand by the guns” come forth at night to wear your “I shall deliver your message Mr cloak and dagger The stage setting is Donovan and I give you my father’s fair enough and the players should thanks for It” she mocked I am dress their parts becomingly “Your father calls you Rosalind-befRosalind — at night named already Aunt Pat we will call the Duchess In strangers!" I remarked exile and we were speaking “Yes It’s a fancy of his” she mur a momured it’s ment ago of the Fool “Sometimes Well yes lingeringly Viola or Perdita but as I think of it thore was a Fool” “I might take the part myself if Gillespie were not already cast for it” she said wonderingly “Gillespie?” then added at once as though memory had prompted her: “To be sure there is Gillespie” Per“There is certainly Gillespie haps you would liefer call him Orlando?” I ventured “Let me see” she pondered bending her head then: “O that’s a brave man! He writes brave verses speaks brave words swears brave oaths and breaks them bravely quite traverse athwart the heart of his lover as a puisny tilter that spurs bin horse but oft one side breaks his staff like a noble goose but all’s biave that youth ” mounts and folly our pledge that you you to remember are not to vex Miss Pat unnecessarily in this affair To rouse her in the night would only add to her alarm She has had enough to worry her already And I rather imagine” I added bitterly "that you don't propose killing her with your own hands” "No do give me credit for that!” she mocked “But I shall not disturb and I shall not distress’ your guards Aunt Pat by making a row in the garden trying to run your pickets I want you to stay here five minutes — count them honestly — until I have had time to get hack In my own fashion Is it a bargain?’ She put out heihand as As she turned away — her left hand my fingers closed upon It an instant tho emerald ring touched my palm “I should think you would not wear that ring” I said detaining her hand “It is too like hers it is as though you were plighted to her by it" "Yes it is liko her own she gavs it—’’ She choked and caught her breath and her hand flew to her sharply face “She gave it to my mother long ago” she said and ran away down the A bit of path toward the school gravel loosened by her step slipped after her to a new resting place then silence and the night closed upon her I threw myself upon the bench and waited marveling at her If I had not If I had not heard touched her hand her voice if more than all I had not talked with her of her father of Miss Pat of Intimate things which no one else could have known I Bhould not have believed that I had seen Helen Holbrook face to face CHAPTER IX The Lights on St Agatha’s Pier On my way home through St Aga tha’s I Btopped io question the two had They had heard nothing guards How that girl had seen nothing I scanned I know did not them passed the main building where she and Miss Pat had two rooms with nn intervenbut all was dark ing sitting room Miss Helen Holbrook was undeniably a resourceful young woman of charm went on to Glenarm and wit and I her for House with a new respect cleverness I was abroad early the next mornguides’ "That is Celia’s speech but well ing retracing my steps through St rendered Let us consider that you Agatha’s to the stone bench on the are Rosalind Celia Viola and Ariel bluff with a vague notion of confirming all in one And I shall be those im my memory of the night by actual contact with visible tangible things The mortal villains of old tragedy — first the sky second and third murtherer or it it lake twinkled in the sunlight suit you better let me be Iago for overhead was a flawless sweep of blue and the foliage shone from the deluge Othello for great adventures honesty Hamlet tor gloom Shylock for relent- of the early night But In the soft mold of the path the prints of a woman's lessness and Romeo for shoe were unmistakable I bent down I measured them Again she bent her head then draw- and examined them — ungraciously indefensibly guiltily her ing a little away and clasping ' hands she quoted: ‘“Come woo me — with my hand and rose convinced woo me for now I nra in a holiday that the neat outlines spoke of a modish bootmaker and were not apt to be exhumour and like enough to consent What would you say to me now an plained away as marking the step of a fairy or the I were your very very Rosalind?’” Then I deI stammered flight of Diana a moment dirtily recalling Orlando’s reply in the play scended to St Agatha’s and found I did not know whether she were dar- Miss Pat and Helen loitering tranquiling me and this was certainly not the ly in the garden They gave me good morning — Miss girl’s mood as we had met at St Agaand Helen in tha’s My heart leaped and the blood Pat calm and gracious the spirit of the morning itself smilas memory tingled in my Deing cool and arguing ’or peace searched out the scene as a social accomplishment and suddenly I threw at her the line: ception she had undoubtedly carried far and “‘How if the kiss be denied?'” I was hard put to hold up my end of She shrugged her shoulders “The rehearsal has gone far enough the game I have practiced lying with Let us come back to earth again” pastmasters in the art — the bazar of Cairo horse dealers in But this somehow was not so easy keepers Far across the lake a heavy train Moscow and rug brokers in Teheran and Its engine blew a long but I dipped my colors to this amazing rqmbled blast for Annandale girl InI felt at that “I’m afraid that we are making ourstant the unreality of the day’s events selves a nuisance to you” said Miss with their culmination in this strange Interview on the height above the Pat “I heard the watchmen patroling lake Never I thought had man par- the walks last night” “Yes was it feudal!” Helen woman on with quite so leyed extraordinary "I felt that we were back a business In the brief silence while broke in centhe whistle’s echoes rang round the at least as far as the eleventh I drew away from the bench tury The splash of water — which you shore that had stood like a barricade be- can hear when the lake is rough — must be quite like the lap of water in tween us and walked toward her I But I did not hear the clank In did not believe she had a moat her flaunted her shameful trickery in my of arms” face and yet I felt her spell upon me “No” I observed dryly “Ijima as through the dusk I realized anew wears blue serge and carries a gun her splendid height the faint dis- that would shoot clear through a cruclosure of her noble head and felt the sader The gardener Is a Scotchman She did not and his dialect would kill a horse” glory of her dark eyes draw away but stood quietlj with her Miss Pat paused behind us to dehead uplifted a light scarf ca’iht liberate upon a new species of hollyabout her shoulders and on her he d hock whose minarets rose level with a round sailor’s cap from kind gentle eyes her away tipped Something had her face been in my mind and I took this op“You must go back I must see you portunity to speak to Helen safely to St Agatha’s” I said “Why don’t you avert danger and She turned drawing the scarf close avoid an ugly casastropho by confessunder her throat with a quick gesture ing to Miss Pat that your duty and as though about to go She lauglmd sympathy lie with your father? It with more honest glee than I had would save a lot of trouble in the known in her before Und I forgot her end” duplicity forgot the bold game she The flame leaped into Helen’s face was playing and the consequences to ns she turned to me which it must lead my pulses bounded “I don’t know what you mean! I when a bit of her scarf touched my have never been spoken to by any one hand as sheflung a loose end over her so She glanced hur outrageously!” shoulder riedly over her shoulder “My position “My dear Mr Donovan you propose Is hard enough it is difficult enough the impossible! We are foes you without this I thought you wished must remember and I cannot accept to help us” your escort” I starei it her she was diftlng out “But I have a guard about the house of my reckoning and leading me into you are likely to get into trouble if uncharted seas you try to pass through I must ask (TO BE CONTINUED) ' |