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Show 4 THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH without taking her gaze off this flower like young woman; and Betty felt powerless to shift her eyes. She had entered an enchanted castle, and the mystic Inhabitants had laid a spell upon her. She was not conscious of moving. Did she drink a cup of tea? She could not remember. She recollected nothing until the door of the taxicab slammed behind her. Betty peered from the side window, and received a distinct shock. Why, this All Babas cave was almost opposite Nancy's! Nancy knew them. She must know them ! The moment she arrived home she was astonished to note that it was seven. She had been in that quaint hou$e almost two hours. She ran to the telephone and called a number. "Doctor Maddox, please." She had to wait a minute. "Hello! Tills Is Betty Mansfield, doctor, I've a question to ask. Who lives in that little white house across the street from you, the house with the picket fence? There are four or five white houses across the street. Thanks! With an indignant ges- ture she set the receiver on the hook. Cathewe usually remained at his desk until the paper was ready for the press, which was about three oclock in the morning. But tonight at twtffve he turned the office over to the night editor, lie wanted to get out of doors, walk. His head was full of the girl. He could not dismiss the vivid picture of her. Cal hew es long stride carried him to his own gate. He was in the act of opening it when a pistol shot cut through the silence sharply. iM Man With Three Names - BY HAROLD MacGRATH . by Bell SyndUata.) WNU Service CHAPTER VContinued As he went out he passed Doctor Maddox coming in. John," Mansfield said, I sent for you because I wish to ask an honest man a few simple questions." Maddox, plainly distressed, pulled his heard. Whats happened to you? An Inconceivable thing. Ive fallen In love with something." What? My daughter. Nothing abnormal about that. Tell me what you want to, and Ill answer as an honest friend. ' What do you know nbout this fel- low Brandon Cathewe?" J know him to be as clean and white as a hound's tooth, Dunlelgh. I'm glad you've fallen in love with Betty. It's bound to change your point of view. Youve made Bannister prosperous, but On a rotten foundation. You have set out to break Cathewe because he Is the first man who ever dared oppose you openly. And I don't believe you will succeed. Why? Because he represents Right ftnd you , represent Might. Thatq plain speaking, John." You asked for it." . All this is quite complimentary to dashed down the hall to the bathroom. it was only after nine, but that did not matter. Ive won mother," he said, as he came storming into the dining room, his eyes glistening, and his fine skin , ruddy. Think of it! The most puzzling, tantalizing, thing on quieksilvery earth the public went out and won this fight for me because they saw I was playing fair! Queer sheep that" they are, they would turn against me tomorrow, if Mother, Im being they knew! watched. I cant prove it, but I sense it continually. Mansfield lias Just received a bitter blow to ills prestige, lies not going to leave any stone unturned to do me Injury. He ate his breakfast hurriedly, then bolted into the study. For a little while she could hoar him humming some liars from the Second Polonaise; (hen silence. Thereafter she and the maid moved about their work without sound. He wrote steadily until throe, on Ids book ; then lie went to the office. He worked hard, arranged a new advertising schedule with his business manager and left the office at five oclock. It was growing dark. He always walked home, even ill bad weather. It was dark, but still a little too early for the street lamps. The darkness was partly due to the heavy rainelouds that were sweeping across the sky. Obliquely he saw two men Then you said Mansfield, dryly. advise me to throw up my hands? John, my position Is Impregnable. On the money sJde, yes. Man, theres a great thing under your hand. Make a clean breast of It to that girl. Mansfield drew his palm across his forehead. First, I've got to find out where Cathewe got his four hundred thousand. Did you know that he had that hmouut In the local hanks?" me, . . . CHAPTER VI 1 . the Kitchen and Make for the Back Fence. He Saw a Man Dash From on. This Mr. Mansfield? . . UHtOH J I i . There wasnt anything." . Mansfield hung up the receiver, but he did not reach for the book he had been reading. Instead, be stared into space. He was thinking and thinking hard. The truth is, he was trying to fight his way through the gossamer net Betty had thrown about him. lie sensed with panic that the fiber which had made him a power inthe land was softening. Again, his imagination took another turn. He seemed to be walking In a Give Betty what valley of echoes. Give me what 1 want. she wants. Give Cathewe what he wants." Give. The thought of Cathewe, however, always hud the effect of a tonic upon a man at low ebb. To crush this meddling wliippersnapper, break him and scatter him like dust. The sum of ail these psychological incursions and cogitations was th! Mansfield was giving Betty what she wanted, giving It to her because he loved her and because another phrase of Maddox' was of recurrent quality. When the advertising men of the could think of anything else to say. various shops penitently entered the we are, lie said, when they Here business office of the Herald the next at last reached the house. morning, asking to renew their conIs that you, sonny? tracts, the business manager called up a pleasant voice! thought the What an had who teleextension Cathewe, her astonishment at full tide. phone at the side of his bed. Drow- girl, Will you ring for mother. Yes, Cathewe first few the caught sily I and have tea? lights company Miss words, then he became wide awake. Mansfield, whose chauffeur misunderA.il of them?" stood her instructions." Yes, sir. They want their spaces The girl heard a flurry of skirts In back tomorrow." room beyond, the tinkle of a bell, the The old contracts are dead." a. kind of dream Betty "Ive got new ones all ready, with and then in,living-room. entered the Do the cash line blank. you want to see Can the lounge? he you come down, or shall I handle it? asked. ' Ill leave it to , But listen you. Yes." The Herald has gained carefully. at once the maid came in Almost twenty thousand since those chaps deserted us. Add twenty per cent to with a Roman candelabrum, which she placed on the piano. the old scale. "Youll excuse me a moment, said Wouldnt It be better to soak them while I call a taxi"; and Gathews, with the January renewal? You dont understand the big thing he stepped into the hall. Mrs. Cathewe sat down again and that's happened. Those fellows are played it not in the office because they are sorry played Greigs Papillon, (TO BBS CONTINUED.) are a us. for up against wall, They' and were the only way out. Twenty per cent and a years run. When a man offers you a Corona, you dont ask for a stogie. Those are the terms. They can take them or leave them. The American treasury derives a amples of penitence was that of a Call me up when they go." Cathewe from res- Washington woman who was "in desamount of certain propped himself with his pillows and stared at the telephone for a full half titutions made by persons who are perate need of a story which could of con- be procured only from a newspaper ir hour; and when the telephone finally troubled by the prickingsamount reone the files of the Library of Congress. the In science. on year the hair his forehead rang again, ceived from this source exceeded It was several columns long, and she Well?" he said. was damp. Not a whimper. One year, with a $,"1,000. Among the contributors to this felt unequal to the labor of minIL,so she took the paper away with twenty per cent raise, and they fund are taxpayers who have seemed glad to sign. In a couple of imized their Incomes, Importers who her. Thereafter her conscience gave her no rest until she sent four cents have evaded customs duties, letter-writemonths if the print-pnpe- r holds out who have used stamps that in payment of her debt. Manchester well be carrying money to the banks." have done service before hut bad not (England) Guardian. Ill be with you at four. Cathewe set the telephone down been defaced, government clerks who have exaggerated their expense acwith a bang kicked the bedclothes Then They Wonder counts, and old soldiers who wish to high Into the air, turned a somersault office records show that 100, Post a blanket make amends for saddle a on thud floor. the with and landed 000 letters go into the mail yearly t u He picked himself up, laughing, flung stolen long ago. One of the most curious recent txperfectly blank envelopes tils bathrobe across his shoulders, and Moved by Conscience lo Make Restitution NfWtHI The children hadnt been told an animal story for some time, and Daddy thought It was high time to tell one. j How about a story of some little bab.v. pigs? asked Daddy We would love to hear a story about some pigs, said Nancy. j We havent heard a story about pigs for ever and ever so long. Is this to he about our beloved family .' of pigs, Porky Iig, Brother Bacon and the others?" . j No, said Daddy, this Is to be of another family of pigs, That's wlmt I thought," said Nick, j Do tell us about them. Daddy. Well, the pig family that I am going to tell you ahout," began Daddy, were having the best time you ean possibly Imagine, ns they loved having day after day of warmth and sunshine. "The part of the country where they lived always had warm weather. So they were perfectly happy. They would lie for hours in the most comfortable place they could find and never budge until they felt hungry. j But one lltt'e pig became quite Intimate with a goat that resided in a field nearby. The goats fn rally were nol so lazy ns the litiie pigs family were, and at first the goats family didnt want "Yes.' but. neither COfltHiMl tv VUHIN THE CLEAN PIG nister? "Bannister, Mr. Cathewe. But for all that, my job Is my bread and butter.. You know the department as well as I do. Youre up against a real war. Youll never get anything on Mansfield thatll bold water in court. Cathewe let the matter drop, and the policeman left. At precisely this moment the telephone rang in Mansfields library. Mansfield laid aside his book. Hello! tv. started f described the man minutely, I'd let the matter drop, the patrolman said suddenly. Clary, which are you for? Cathewe demanded. "What do you mean? Are you for Mansfield or for Ban- - So am I. And they ay the affair. Then Mrs. Cathewe across the. street apparently talking to a woman. What made him turn ids head and look squarely, he never knew. Ordinarily, he would have continued on. Tills single look was enough. He broke Into a run. When lie arrived he did not ask questions, lie knocked one of the men flat and whirled the other Into the gutter. Can I be of assistance? he said, turning to the woman. Then lie saw Miss Mansfield! who it was. What In the world are you doing- alone in this quarter of the town? Here, take My home Is only a few my arm. blocks away. Ill call a taxi and you can have a cup of tea while you wait." . Im rather If you please upset. One of them touched me !" Cathewe stopped. "No, no! Please do not go back. My chauffeur must have misunderstood tny directions, for I left him by the curb here. Im so glad I happened along." Daddy's ?dEveiii Tale Fairy BONNER GRAHAM Y Longing. Cathewe broke into a run toward the rear of the house. He saw a man dash from the kitchen and make for tlie back fence. There was no way of cutting him off, but there was a chance of putting a hand on him before he could scale the high board fence. Cathewe touched the mans coat tail, but futilely. Mother? he called, thundering through the kitchen into the dining room. Mother?" Yes, sonny! I'm all right, came from ills study. I fired only to frighten him. He was rifling your safe. Was there anything; of value there? Only odds and ends of manuscripts and my dramatic contracts. This Is Mansfield. That money In the bank Is bothering him. lie begins to feel that he must find out. But 1 must go to New l'ork tomorrow night, even If Im followed. There goes the bell! exclaimed Mrs. Cathewe. Frobably the patrolman. It was. Cathewe offered him a cup of coffee, and the three of them sat around the kitchen table,' discussing No. Do you accept him In your house as an equal? "AssuredlyJ By George, that fellow has hypnotized you! "Not noticeably, So you have written down your boyhood friend as a rogue I wont answer that. I'll abide by what you have written down yourself shrewdly. Mansfield laughed. Ill travel on my own. But you wont find anything youd call mean In the deal. I ean promise you that. But one of us must break. I'm on the boy's side, Dunlelgh, But Ill" teplied Maddox, getting up. repeat my advice: Call up Cathewe; Then the give him what he wauts. doctor left. That night as he sat before the fire in the library, his office hours over, his pipe going comfortably, Nancy walked over and sat down in his lap, took the pipe from his teeth, and laid it on the ashtray. Then she seized his ears and drew. frig head right about face. Father Maddox, who is Digby Hallowed? Ills start nearly upset her. Where did you hear that name? From you." From me? But thats impossible 1" Dont you know that you have lately acquired the habit of muttering out loud when you are overtired? Half a dozen times I have heard you mutter that name as if it were some tremendous thing." Nancy, he said, gravely, you will do father a great favor if you will forget you ever heard me utter It. I feel, by uttering that name aloud, even' unconsciously, that I have broken my faith as a physician. S ; J BAYER SAY ASPIRI- i j Colds Headache Neuritis Pain Neuralgia Toothache Lumbago Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only Bayer1 package which contains proven directions. Handy Bayer Also bottles of Aspirin Is Uie trade mark of Bayer Manufacture . writes: The seashore never could stand whnt it 1ms to if It didnt have plenty of sand." Boston Diner These sardines are terrible! Waiter But theyre Imported, sir. Diner Well, they ought to be deported, every one of them. He gains wisdom in a happy way who gains it by another's experience. Plautus. Riches have wings, but they dont seem to have any tall that you can There is notldng io be gained by a knocker. 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