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Show V THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH The Man With Three Names HIGHER THAN W00LW0RTH BUILDING 4 -- STORY -- THE FROM START Brandon Cathewe. younR writer, has bought a newspaper in Bannister--as part of his plan in becoming a "force" in the town, which position he must attain if he is to court Betty, daughter of Dunleigh Mansfield, stee.1 magnate of the town. a story telling Cathewe pr'r. how Mansfield has defrauded a workman of a valuable invention, which has made Manhfleld rich. Doctor Maddox learns that Cathewe is the son of Digby the doctors Nancy, daughter, is Betty's chum, and read the article. together they Mansfield learns that Cathewe is the new editor. Hal-lowe- CHAPTER III Continued 3 uliat lie could Why, of that remarkable rntervhnv. the fellow had caught the spirit of jthe jest, but had pinned the jester down to a gentleman's agreement. Gone to ' Bannister, bought that sheet, all with the idea of winning Betty! The fellow ought to he looked over by the commission in lunacy. In one manner or another he must be driven out of Bannister, where he did 'not belong. Mansfield's prerogatives had been encroached upon, and the encroacher must be punished, as an example and a warning to other editors that one man ruled the destinies of Bannister. Suddenly he had it; and the illumination chilled him slightly. Reprisal! The whole affair on shipboard a blind, Betty a pretense. The son of some man he had broken via Wall Street method. The affair now had sense and significance. Ile prisal Very good. What he had meted out to the father he would mete out to the son recalled Mansfield semi-Sociali- S ' i 1 ! 1 I wish I had some new words to describe Nancy and Betty or that I could twist the old ones about in such a fashion ns to make them look new! To have described these two young women a thousand years ago. when the language blocks were- - freshly painted ! The Both of them had beauty. beauty of one was cloudlike; a summer cloud, brilliantly white against the blue, changing subtly and continuously, mirrored on the stream a serene beauty. Her lovely white arms were spread out on each side of her. Her skin, reflecting the firelight, was like a goldbeater's leaf, and there were magic threads of gold in the blue iris of her eye. Tier hair was a ruddy brown, like the leaf of the copper-beech in October. The other girl was resting her elbows on her knees, her chin in the cup of her palms. ShT was as pretty ns a hollyhock ; liomesy, frank, and friendly. Good folks a summer cloud and a hollyhock ! , ( There was no continuity to Nancy Maddoxs thoughts. They were like butterflies, wheeling 8ml turning in a most wonderful garden. ' These amazing two weeks In Washington ! It seemed to her that she wasnt real, that in some mysterious fashion slTe had been incorporated between the covers of an' English society novel. Ambassadors and diplomats, officers 'from all parts of the world, heroes and politicians! Men with brains to sell. And they danced with Nancy Jkaddox-heeau.s- e she was Betty Mansfields friend. Betty ! IIow they flocked about her, these men She was like it Whirlpool, drawing .every- - one toward her. and quite as unconscious of her power as any real whirlpool. Nancy had learned a stupendous fact, that the great in soul are always simple and genuine. And this lovely girt et her side was totally free of artifice. "Betty, you baffle me, Nancy' said Sometimes I think I know one night. you ; then I'm sure I dont. How why?" "You are so beautiful that I find myself Watching you constantly. And I cant get away from the idea that you are watching and waiting for The eager something or someone. way in which you greet new inert ! I thought at first it was one of those little tricks women use to trap mens interest. But not you. I have noticed that after youve talked a little while with a new man you leave him utterly bewildered by your sudden lack of 1 . interest." And so you have noticed! I won- Nancy, have you ever been in love? rather intensely. I dou't know, Betty. There is a young man in Bannister Im very fond of. I'm afraid I am fonder than it is wise to lie, since no act or word of his lias ever carried him over the He's the boundary line of friendship. queerest hoy! Merr- - and whimsical and shrewd; but soinetimes I sense precipices in his sout, depths that I cannot see into. Father says lie is flip finest young man he ever met. But there! Im not in love that I know of. It may happen, but I'm not going to let go until lie gives me the right to. , Betty stood up. She swept a hand across her eyes. Oh,' I must tell someone. or go mad ! I dare not tell daddy. Besides, he would not understand. He doesnt believe In Brushwood Boys. Betty suddenly dropped to her knees and seized the bewildered Nancy's bafids. Romance! Nancy, do I look like the kind am I the kind for any man to play with? I mean, is it right that aiF man should hurt and mock . I Harold MacGrath (O, by Bell Syndicate.) WNU Service me when I have wittingly harmed no one? It isn't fair, it Isnt fair ! Love! to it As if one could say howdy-d- o ! and then good-bI Betty, whatever has happened? just knew that something wns wrong. But there must be some mistake. No man would hurt and mock you intentionally. Betty turned nnd sat on her heels, staring into the crumbling embers. She drew one of Nancy's hands down across her shoulder and held It tightly. Letters! from the sky, the clouds, the stars, burning with fire. Oh, he must have loved me! He couldnt have written like that else. The first was beautifully written, full of poetry and music . . . and love. I read it and threw it into the empty grate. But I went hack and recovered it. There was a phrase that kept singing through my head, and I wanted to see if I had interpreted it correctly. Well. I put the letter away. Nancy laid lier free hand on the beautiful hair and stroked it. Of course I wondered who nnd what he was. I had nearly forgotten the letter a month later when the second one came, quite as wonderful as t lie first, which I resurrected for comparison. They were absolutely unlike except in theme. That was love. No answer was expected, for there was neither name nor address. A month later the third letter came. And then I began to wait for them, eager and thrilled. For nearly three years they came, Iaris, London, Cairo, direct, there was never any forwarding marks ilpon the envelopes. Some one who knew where I was, where I was going. That alone fascinated me ! From where were they mailed?". Always from New York. I carried an autograph album about and lots of young men have written their names In this allium. But I never found the one handwriting I was in search of. But it would be easy to disguise y that! made them write a paragraph with three or four sentences quotations. It wasn't the writing! it was the style of punctuation by which they ended a sentence. I dont understand. I was limiting for a curious period a little x instead of dot, such as you and I make. A man might change the style of his stroke, but habit would lure him into making that odd little period, so I believed. And you never found it? No. There was always a postscript to these letters. Some day I shall come to you. Five months ago tlie letters ceased to come. What has happened? Is lie dead? If alive, why doesnt lie come to me? Nancy, Im much afraid. Of what? That he lias created in my heart something that will always he there. Love? whispered Nancy. I dont know what it is, but it is beginning to hurt dreadfully. At first, when I got a letter, it made me curiously happy. Id sit down at the piano and sing happy songs. Now I cant play anything but sad ones. What is happening to me? Whatever can it mean? Im afraid. He may be ill. He would have found some way of 1 notifying me. He might be too old and afraid to come. Oh, Nancy, he is young like I am! I know hr But if I could only stamp out the thought of him, free myself. I am watching and waiting and searching. I am always straining 'my ears for some sign. He doesnt come. And now he writes no more. Where and under what circumstances did lie first see "me? Have I really met bint? Io I know him? What impelled him to writejjke that to me? No man would make sport of me. My brain is in a turmoil. I .would have disobeyed .father and remained in France but for the hope that if I cable I GRAHAM MARY BQNMER. COm.OHl VOHtN ONlOM m Year's Sales of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound MAHALIAS KITCHEN CHAPTER IV An Encounter. On the sunny side of a huge bowl- der, on the top of a rusty green hill, sat a man with a small book on bis knees. He wore a gray flannel shirt, Nvytl m i tieless; a pair of brown corduroy trousers, much the worse for wear; and a pair of ugly russet walking boots. Eastward, several church spires were visible In the late September haze. There lay the city of Rnnnis ter. Nature, hating the ugly, hid It ns well as she could. Farther east, a drab smudge, which seemed to shut off the world beyond. Wherever the mans gaze went back to his hook, his expression was one of contentment. Whenever this gaze shifted toward the spires, an Ironical sinile twisted up the corners of his lips. He frowned, for they were after him down there. Nearly all the local advertising had fallen away, the stockholders were exhibiting signs of restiveness; and that signified that Mansfield or his agents had approached them. Ilis thought went to his mother. What a thoroughbred she was, to stick to him on his crazy adventure, to follow his fortunes, wliep she might have remained in the peace nnd seclusion of the villa up Fiesole way, with that riot of roses In the springtime and the sun on the red roofs of her maiden Florence! Cathewe, name; and to be forced to prefix it with Mrs. In order to share his for- Now little Mahalia was very fond of cooking and she was very clever at cooking, too. She could make nnst delicious things to eat and the more she tried the better she became. In fact, she hnd good luck, so she said. But it wTas really because she was so clever at doing it. Her little next-doo- r friend used to make most awful mistakes and then say she had no luck. She would put something in tiie oven and forget all about it, and what could the xiven do but go on roasting when it had been all started off to roast? Now one day as a great treat Mahalia was allowed to get the whole dinner. She even was allowed to plan what they would have to eat. First of all she decided they would have tomato soup made with tomatoes and milk. Oh, she knew how to keep them separate until Just the right time and how to mix them and how tiie soda kept tiie milk front curdling. Then she decided she would have popovers, as her family loved popovers and her popovers always turned out well. She thought she would be very economical and use some of the steak that had been left ovef from dinner tunes ! There came an interruption the the day before. So she put it In the meat chopper .whine of an automobile. A plague of and added some potatoes that had also a man to climb Matterhad the them; been left over and made a very nice horn these days to find solitude. hash. Sandy ! cried a woman's voice little will want something very They from the far side of the bowlder. cool and crisp to go with hash, MaSandy, come here! . . . Sandy! said to herself. The automobile whizzed by. Cath-ev- e halia So she fixed some celery In a dish. recovered his book and stood up To go with the hash she had some resentfully. But this resentment died ns it was nice and green. spinach, swiftly. Now that was Just about as much On the slope just beyond the ditch, as she could possibly manage, so for where he had been flung, lay an Airedessert she had some preserved fruit dale, motionless. Kneeling beside him was Betty Mansfield, her hands and some cookies from the cookie Jar. Her mother had made the cookies. clenched against her bosom, her eyes But they would all think It was fine full of unshed tears. that site was preparing so much, and M.v dog! My friend nnd comrade! Cathewe dropped his book, ran tiie popovers would be her special dish of tiie evening. across, looked at the dog for a moMahalia hnd her kitchen all in such ment or two, then picked him up tenorder. before the perfect derly and carried him hack to the ach was started Long cooked it spinwas being where side of the bowlder, sunny on the table soaking in a bowl in big there wns a patch of warm clover. Tiie girl followed, dumbly. Not a cold water. And the celery had been fis' uidii w,et cltoth a"?,hafl spoken" word Gatliewe pu"t u, ln,icea where been upon it could keep his hand over the dog's heart. so and nice. crisp Is is lie dead? she whispered. Then all her spoons nnd forks and No. His hands roved hither and knives that she would use were put Well wait yon over the dogs body. in readiness so she a minute. I cant find any breaks. Iroliahly stunned. j My poor Sandy ! A moment later Cathewe received a slight hut pleasurable shock. He had readied for the dogs head the same instant ns she, nnd their hands A great bitterness swept touched. over him, for the aftermath of that hme- pleasurable shook was the knowledge P'ent? and she set the that he still cared. table, too A shudder ran over the Airedale; She did It all so and presently the stump of Ids tail and carefully began to heat the turf, feebly. was that it neatly Sandy? joyously. Hes all right, said Cathewe, con- not . nearly the and bother as fidently. Simply knocked out. Hes fuss If had gone she in luck. Its mighty hard to keep a rushing about her In a Big Bowl. dog these days; and yet I can't honforget- estly blame the motorists. The ani- kitchen, mals will run at the cars. This is a ting this, suddenly remembering that, having to particularly fine breed. Never saw smelling something burning, reason save bewithout waste any him like around these anything parts. to tackle cause of earelesness. Big anil strong en No, she didnt do It in any careless bear. lie began to pat the broad but so neatly and nicely and way, beAnd head. the wag of the tall capably and clevtrly. came more energetic. And quite often, because Mahalia was so good at cooking nnd fixing things to eat and In looking after houseSomething in the wind. Wait hold matters that tiie family spoke for the next installment. of tiie kitchen as MahaMas kitchen. It was a compliment she mote than deserved. BE CONTINUED (TO ) El PInkhams Vegetable Compound, In a recent letter, Mrs. Daugherty says, I was ill for four months before I took your medicine. I found one of your books at my front door and read It It seemed to lit my case, so I began taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, and after I took the third bottle, I found relief. I am on my eleventh bottle and I dont have that trouble any more, and feel like a different woman. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to every one I see who has trouble like mine. 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