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Show WORKS FOR CHILD MUST KEEP WELL Mothers in a Like Situation Should Read This Letter from Mrs. Enrico CHAPTER XIII vn." kf . . Continued. tenaorty. "I warm-- ) And chance allusion to inj I position, which I thought her uimeresdistressed has ,,er I out of the jj yi ill. truly, ifHl ta. llH.I unfortunate cinBed. The of my friend Whose name you aioula- withhold," - Rhh- - Interrupted the musical voice to 4? dryly. x-ause a of 1 fix-1- T -- ap-e- to 111 on din. believed that you and she hnd each other since December, een gel I lost no chance iJie reminded him. ti advise her against the engagement! I . thought It was all over! Well P Richard said, with a breath' el relief. He had leen watching her riosely. now ho settled hack In his his contemptuous chair and moved scrutiny to Rlondln. One moment P Royal Rlondln rtild, You ffntly. But hS'wns nlso pale. believe that 1 would make Nina it good husband, dont you? he asked Harriet directly and quietly. Her She was not looking at hltn. ryes were on Richard Carter. I believe you would ruin bet1 life! site sahl, deliberately. Thank you," Richard said. "I think that Is all, Mr.Blondin. I was aware 'at you hail misunderstood Mrs. frtcr. when you made that statement P Not -- quite all," Rlondln persisted. Too believe that Nina would lie wiser aot to Bmrry me?" he asked Harriet. "You She cleared her throat. You know that I think so!" she said. Rlondln laughed. AmTnov, Mr. Rlondin. you v Hi tindly leave my house P said Richard. The other man was watching Har riet. with a menace In his narrowed rje. White lines hail drawn them-wlve- s about his tightly closed lips, yet he was smiling. He hnd lost the same, trtjly, but she knew he would play his last card. Just the same. The anavlty, the calm of years fell from him. and his voice deepened Into a 41 f cold and quiet fury ns he said : tne moment, Mr, Carter. Why 4i't you ask your wife what mnkes kr think I wont make Vlna a good husband? Why don't you ask her If be has been hiding something from run all this time? Why don't you ask her If she herself wasn't madly In love d with me! when she was Nina'p rl-- en at her lavd fingers, with i despairing and helpless In the droop of her bright head and loomed bodies It had had Us tl:ne. of seeming frightful to h.r. tlds veret. In the troubled of the just year But t lad nevei loomed s. horrible and so moment!. iin - now. In the silent library. with the e;.es ,,f the limn she loved fixeil anxiously iijsiii her. lie h:id tntsiisl he v its to admire her. und like his IV .ind his daughter and hi mo' her, she had fal'ed him "Harriet?" he said hi quick unea-- t ness. She rais.sl her TieTil now, and looked at h'm with weary eyes devoid of any expression except bewilderment ' and pain. Yes," she said, slmuh. "That Is all juite true. It sounds " she lies Hated, and grojieil for words It as If " she began and sounds But It Is all quite stopped again. true!'' she finished. In the troubled tone of a child who Is misunderstood. g- n- vv CHAPTER XIV. The curtains ut the French windows the library at Crownhinds stirred the breeze of the warm summer night, the jienduliim of the big clock behind Richard Carter moved to and fro, but for a long time there was no other Sound lu the library. Richard hnd dropjied his eyes, was Idly staring at the blank sheet of pajer before him. Royal Rlondln. who had folded Ids arms, for a moment studied Harriet lietween lids, but presently his eyes fell. too. and with a rather troubled expression be studied the pattern of the great oriental rug. Harriet stood motionless, turned to stone. If there was anything to he said In her behalf, she could not say it noxv. For the first time the full measure of her resjionslhitlty and the full measure of her deceit smote her. and In utter sickness of spirit she could advance no excuse. It was not that she hnd failed Rlondln, or that she had failed Richard, but the extent of her failure toward herself appalled her. She was not the good, brave, cultivated woman she had liked to think herself: she wns one more egotist, with Nina, und Isabelle, and Ida, playing her own game in In half-clone- d for heF' nun fihlS: I'm extremely sorry," Richard said, presently. In .a somewhat lifeless tone. "I Imagine that If my daughter had known this, she might have been spared some suffering and some humiliation. Rut we needn't consider that now." He was silent, frowning faintly. He put up a (ne hand and adjusted his eyeglasses with a little Imputlent muscular twitching of his whole face thut Harriet knew to be characteristic of his worried moods. Mr. Rlondln." be said, wvarlly anil politely, I have had a great deal on my mind, lately, and have perhaps been hasty In my condemnation of you. However, this does not particularly help your cause with my daughter. There are a great many aspects to the and I I tnust fake time to geatid whether she was married In matter,them.' Nina must lie ray first "y studio, to me. ten years ago P. ! Her mother He had shot the phrases at her with consideration, poor child we failed her! all have fr her lied distinctness almost violent. Now Nhe has a right to know of this conversation " Harriet stirred, and his eye moved to her. Witliout a worth and with a her beam I ful. ahen stricken look-- in she turned, and went s' wly face, toward the door. When she reached It, slie steadied herself a second by pressing one fine hand against the dark wood, then she ojiened It and was gone. I'm very sorry " Rlondln said hesitatingly. when the men were alone. Mrs. Carter." Richard sahl. getting to his feet, tnl very definitely Indicating an end to the conversation, "before she consented to ths arrange-men- t Into which we entered, of course took me Into her confidence In this con-siii- ir , matter!" Her Shell Tell You! Aek Her!" k ! voice stopped, hut his swift, '? !nx wer.t from the sflent h8 it ihe desk to the silent woman ho st(rtd before him. Before either vrd nr spoke he spoke again. "Ask her shell tell you! Ask herP "Re quiet!" Richard said. "I dont VT r H'ive fUie worij of u neither raised her eyes nor tenipti to speak, he asked her, en- itgingijr, an,i qab tly; Harriet, DU bine that no one word of ya tht I true?" Yla rnet had risen, and was standing Hie tvacV ot tha black chair -- In t ? d ryes I i' unaware -- bl.-vr- tun-lu- prom We !" Itoyul he resumed, "Hut." .jJied promptly. Harriet. "I shall he aide to to rlnc tltla business as I nnm palate without any assistance gf Farter. lip him or hl8 daughter" hi gcornfuHy. "and I do not pro-tgive hor up for any three three weeks ! ' por could otily look at him Harriet lth an ashen face. God help iue." she breathed In her tJud help meP ut, Well." said Richard with weary we did not cull you down hipatiem'e, this ! I uskeil to see with l bore you Mr. Blontlln has becuuse Harriet, ran, Mile the statement to me, just now. tkat you were heartily lu accord with M plans for Nina and that you of the affair P The prayer In Harriet's heart did get stop as she moved Lit wretched -i- with Isith her hand- - testing umn it She had looked quietly at Rlomhn. when he began to sji'uk. an.i t henti tlfut white hrenst Hint her evening gown left hare had one or twice on a swift tr.ipuKe to Interrupt hint. But now she wu looking down She she did? Royal stammered. "Certainty she did." Richard said, harshly. And losing at him the other man saw that his face looked hagglin' She did not men thus and colorless. I name. presume out of a sense your could have of generosity to you. wished." he addd. that you hud Iwen similarly generous, and had seen fit to leave her. and leave my daughter alone. I think 1 must ak you to excuse me," said Richard at the door. Ills tone was one of absolute suffiK'a-tton- . I can see no object In your frankness tonight, unless to distress and humiliate Mrs. Carter. My daughter, and not myself. Is the one entitled to your confidence, 'and you are well aware of ray feeling where she Is concerned! I would to God, 'said Richard, with bitterness, that I had never seen your face Mrs. Carter lias been a useful and Indispensable ! member of this fat nil-- for many years; If there t some unpleasant and was In her that Is her own affevent, painful i,f U." R,i,,jm suggested. pleasant, soft tones. I Is inineT Rlcl-ur.aid, stern-l- . And lie njHMied the library ihsir evening:" he said C.ssl evi niug I" with his belli, loitering step, crossed the thresh-"lami Rii hard c!os,hJ the ili.tr, He look Ins ttmlr again und reached i"" ard the bell tlrht would have btouglt r.iittnmlev to summon Nina turn. But l.iilfvv u to the bell his r solution wavered. In I,,ad. lie rested Ids elbows on the table Mini his head In his hands, ami (here sounded from his chest a great sigh tint was nbiiost a groan. i'll, he was was tired he was tired' It was all n mess the hoj, the girl, tlie.r mother. Ids own arrangements for their protection and safety. All a mess. She liitd been beautiful, that girl, with her golden hair In the himjdiglit. anil her white amis a little niisml to rest tier locked hands on the- chair. I. ike some ujierb actress of tragedy, smile splendid and sullen prisoner at the bur. The slender figure inThe dull , wrapping of satin, uml the white hail looked so young, so virginal. he blue eyes were no honestly frightened and ashamed. And she had been that bounder's wife- - In Ids hhiis! Divorced! Harriet Field? Poor girl, cornered by this unscrupulous scoundrel, this bully, with all the ugly past dragged uji like the muddy bottom of a river, staining and clouding the clear waters. Ami what a look she luid given him. there under the lamp! "It's a funny code " he mused. thats w but we tire, when It cotncs to women. Nina. Ida, Isabelle, Harriet all of them pay for the manmade rule! I shouldn't have forced her hand In this hus'ncss marriage; It was taking an advantage of her. No woman wants to marry; for anything hut love, and If she had married for love, she would have made a clenn breust of this old affair, of course. I didn't exact that. We've made a nice mess of it, alt around! mustnt let her work herself Into a fever over all this! he found himself thinking. But Nina must be the first consideration. He must plan for Nina, lie brought Ids thoughts hack resolutely ills daughter must break her engagement now, there was that much gained. And for the Journey to Illo Hut why didnt she tell me!" he Interrupted himself, suddenly. The reference was not to Nina. Again he saw the superb white shoulders In the soft fioodTnampllght, and the flush of the blue eyes that turned tovvurd R'nmlln. She could have killed him !" Richard sahl. "My God! how she will love when she die's love! . I ir-- I t - -- bos-oin- I "Bar-hnrian- 1 Meanwhile, to Harriet had cotne the She hnd reached a crossroads, and with steady fingers and an anguished heart she prepared for the only step that to her whirling brain and shamed aoul seemed possible. She must dlapar. There was no alternative. Sheliad banned them all, they could only think of her now as an unscrupulous and mischievous woman who had by chance entered their lives when they were all In desperate need of wisdom and guldance.who had played her own rontemptlide game, and added one more hurt to the hurt reputntion of the house of Cnrter. Harriet got out of her evening gown und Into a loose wrapjier. She went a I Hint somewhat aimlessly, yet the suitcases, spread ojen on the led. w ore gruihiHliy fiiieiir and her possessions gradually disappeared front tables and walls. Now and then she stopped short, heartsick and trembling; once hr lips quivered and her eyes filled, but for the roost pause, part she did Nina, at about eleven, had come to the disir lietween their rismis. and opened It. The girl was undressed, and for a few moments she watched Harriet seowllngly. with narrowed eyes. Are you going away? she suld. Harriet brought heavy presently. eyes to meet hers, and stissl considering a infinite, as If bringing her thoughts hack a long distance. 1 going e"T.y? Yes," she said, slowly. "Ye. I u.ay." Nlm sbssl watching, which seemed vaguely to trouble Il.irrlet. who gave her a restless glance now and then a she went to ami fro. Presently she sjs.ke to Nina again. GissJ night. Nina!" vhssl night ! snapped Nina, and the door slammed, Harriet continued to move about for perhaps haif an hour before Nlr.aa odd manner recurred ! tier, on a wave of memory, and she seemed to hear again Ninas .ungracious tone. lie told her!" she said, suddenly. She saw Royal, and he tdd her! Poor bitterest hour of her life. Jmt-soii- nt v. child" And she went to Ninas room, with a vague Idea that she would sit Iteslde tl.e weeping girl for awhile, one heavy heart close to the other, even If no word could pass between them. IVut Nina lay sleeping peacefully, and Harriet, after w etching her for a air-P own Net when she marries a man who fw minutes, welt lack to her ! went to the ojwn window, and staring absently out at the dark summer night, the great brunches of the tns-moving In the restless wind, .iml the oblong of dull light that still foil from the lltirury window. She could not the Urror as Itichatil saw It: she could not see herself as only a mistaken wihmn, a woman with youth, beauty, anil Intelligence pleading for her, one problem more In tils life. It N true, but only sie among many, and not the greatest. She did not see him as he saw himself, tils ftimlly as the somewhat troublesome, mnl yet quite understandable, group of selfish human beings In whose jierplcxiiles he hnd always played the part of arbiter. To Harriot the thing hauiied momentous, unforgiving, incalculable. It assumed t her the proportions of a murder, Richard, In her estimation, was not what he thought himself, a some- Mu- - stis-- lbnl '("1 rsm. s m-- c ilrojijssl tlioughtfull.x straight making tli heml shafts of tpe sunlight wera luijHsslble to fHCe the house. so was within thn-feet of Richard Farter before she saw In anv it case--un- a d him. lie looked fresh, hard, even .voting. 1 took Lydia EL Chicago, Illinota. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound foe serioua trouble. I had tried doctors and all aaid the same an operation. At first I only felt the pein on my left alde.but later I seemed to feel it on both aidet. I am a power e sewing-machin- operator and have a little girl to support I work in a tailor shop and that line of work has been 'ery slack this1 year and I am home part t tne time. do not like to take any hancea, so I consulted my friends, and ne lady said. Take Lydia Pinkhama vedicine, so I did. 1 have felt better tgfctalonf and am In good enough health-, o go to work. 1 recommend your Vegtable Compound and Sanative Wash to .11. Mrs. Mart Enrico, 453 N. Carpenter SL, Chicago, Illinois. Often the mother Is obliged to support .er children and good health is neces-arLydia E. Finkhams Vegetable Compound is just the medicine you can lepend upon. It is a medicine for ailments and the relief it brought Irs. Enrico it may bring to you. Keep veil by taking Lydia E. iHnkhams white thi n cl They stood hookat euch mlier for a moment withing out ajsuiklng. "Where have you been?" suld Richard. sharply, then. You look 111!" Tears, despite her ilesjmrute resolution. suddenly stung Harriet's eye. And yet her heart IcbjhsI with "I wanted to see you, Mr. Carter," she faltered. "I couldn't sleep very well. I've been down at the shore. Hut later any time will do!" "You couldn't sleeji !" he exclaimed with quick symiath,v. He hailed frinn her a hou t him, as If for a shelter for her emotion. "Here," he said, "come down the steps a hit. I was going down to the court for a little tennis; W'nrd may follow me, but he wont be Compound. dressed for bulf an hour yet. Sit down here; we can talk." They had come to the marble bench on the terrace, where Isabelle and Anthony I ope, shelters'll by these antne lowering tree and low brick walla, "Vaseline had Inn their talk a year ago. Harto own fell her riet, consternation, thut she wu In danger of tears. "I I hardly know how to say It," she began. "But hut you know how ashamed I am!" "i know I know how you feel!" Richard said with a sort of brief sym, , a.Uae..o. Im sorry! But you know pathy. you mustn't lake till ull too hard. I PETROLEUM JELLY dldntI wu thinking of this last night ; I didn't usk you for well, any sores, more than you guve me, In this marblisters.bams, cuts riage of ours. Your divorce was your own affulr " irriall The girls tired eves flushed. V "There was no divorce! she said, innumerable ?. quickly. "No divorce?" he echoed with a puzzled frown. suBSimnn I want to tell you about It!" ahe one. snld. But the tear would come again. iusseueT a I'm tired!" Harriet suld, childishly, VewYork Slate Street I've been up walktrying to smile. You Been? Said ing. I couldn't sleep J" Where Have The consciousness that he hod been Richard, Sharply, Then, You Look utile to forget the whole tnngle, and III! sleep soundly, gave Richard's voice a what ordinary man In the forties little romjiuncttnn ns he suld: whose life hnd already held poverty "Yn don't have to tell me now. " anil disillusionment and wholesome Well find n way out of it thnt la easy -- Liver omach-Kidnc- y had whose nature St " .lisnpslntment, . for every one numor been tempered to and generosNo, hut let me talk!" Harriet, In Keep the vital organa healthy by ity ami, philosophy ; to Harriet, lie was her eagerness, laid er fingers on his regularly taking the worlds standthe richest, the finest, the most deservwrist, anil lie was shocked to feel that ard remedy forjkldney, llvert meHr-anshe the adventures ing of vvere Icy cold, "t wani id ieii bladder end uric odd troubles who had brought his name down to They the whole thing I want you to you shame und dishonor. understand !" ahe said, eagerly. RichI'ntll two o'clock she was wretched- ard looked at her In some anxiety? ly busy In soul find body. When th there wna no acting here. The rich last of her personal possessions wna hair wna pushed carelessly from the packed, and when she wns aching from troubled forebend. She waa huddled head to foot, she took a hot hath, and In the enveloping coat, a different figcrept Into bed. ure Indeed from hi memory of the rhe National Remedy of Holland for But not to sleep. The feverlsn superb and nngry girl of last night In centuries end endorsed by Queen WllheU mine. At all druggists, three sizes. ugonles of shame and reproach held Ihe library lamplight. her. She- was pleading with Richard, "Mr. Carter. I never knew my mothLeok far the Ma UU MriJ w mrf ks Ml nw m ImuSm she wus talking to Nina she was mak- er " ahe begun. But be Interrupted ing little of It making much of It her. site wu snylng a reluctant yes yen-y- es!' "My dear, he said. In a tone he to their questioning. might have ucd to Nina, fTe laid his At four oclock she dressed herself warm, fine hand on hers, and patted with headache and It soothingly. Again, My dear girl, If you futlgue, and went out Into a world feel thnt you would like to go t that that was Just beginning to brighten In- motherly slater of yours If you feel to faint pueM ami CfAyrs. that It would be wiser " Jw, ZS. OiataMot ZS aaf SO. Tales ZSe. A steadier moved tfffijeSIcally' np I once am going to Linda at' Oh. P the. river, the smoothlyAbletilng wake Harriet said, feverishly, hurt to the spread from shore to sfiitfe; pink light aoul. "I had planned thatl But but showed at one cnbln window; and Into wont you let me tell youP ahe pleadHarriet' somber thought came unhid ed. She had framed the sentence a watting redacod ta e dsvet regabtae th kldaere, etotnaclt den Ihe picture of a yawning cook, hundred time In the long night; they few tad kasrt! gnriliM tha Wood,wjthM the Triml irMtumt, Writ tw eotire stumbling about amM Id frw failed her utterly now, and ahe groped lyata. . enisl ml and pans. w. sum E9i.su el T wh total sii'-ilsapt three years isity 'v With Ihe morning, the peace of a old when my mother died," ahe aald. conquered spirit fell ujn her. She Of course I dont remember her I tool thought It all to an ending at only remember Linda. I was aliy, my Inst. It seemed to Harriet that never father wna a profior, we were too In her life had she thought so clearly, poor to have very tniuh social life. I SAVE AND SAKS so truly, so bravely. Her duty to Jived In books, lived in my father & to hi children, to Idnda ; he shabby little study really; I never had TVs erne h Msw bs il U. had faci-- them without fear and with an intimate girl friend! Linda was IB .Hivllt. Q 1 lilut N out deception, tasting the humiliating always go!d angelically good talktruth to it bitter dreg, planning the ing of the Armenhiftv sufferers, and of What's in a Name? few short Interviews that must pre- the outrages la the Congo, and of the Knleker What U thla peace dollar? cede her leaving, them all forever. poor In New York's lower East aide Rocker A mlanoiner try giving For Harriet emerged from the fur she rever cared that we were poor, one to your wife. New York Jut nnee the mistress of her own aoul, urn! that we hadn't clothes!" Herald. She bail been wrong; she had been 1 know I know!" Richard's eyes .'icak; she hail len contemptible Hi were Mulling, a If he knew the picPainful Then. not so wrong or weak or eontemjttlble ture. and liked It. Do your shoo ever hurt you?" as they would think her. She would u Well. Linda married when I waa Not until I have to, pay the hllL on her way now. the braver for th ten, and Josephine came, and then New York Sun. lesMrti and the shame. And what they Julia came. I still lived for bookstand thought of her must never sltnke again liable. But. unlike Linda. I cared." her own knowlevlge of her own In Harriet's whole face glowed; she but noeence. lK'.cd off Into space, and her voice More She did not had a longing note. Go on her way to what? I cared for know. But she neither feared what the cliches and good times!" she said. I future might hold nor doubted It. She adored the children, but I dreamed rou'd make her own way from a new of tarrlages maids glory achieveBut before I go." said ments! I knew that other women did teglr.n!ng. ' "I must tell him It resolutely, Harriet, KMHUH that Im sorry. Ar.d I must ask Nina (to be coNTiKryrn.) . SuspenderS to forgive nie."' -- and a Tar'i Animals Have Sixth Senes. She tumetand burled her' face In RtMUMmlMl Animal have a wird alxth aenae Aik Tm, IMtor the thick, soft sleeve of her emit. But wmd If b VmV she did not cry long, and when Jen- wh'ch few human beings possess. airwrt. .w tnr Nl-ivng 41-- r Mm. will on fur desert dock enme out their the Illustration, Isaittnan. sen. the Ant, DoS toe mrum Md Urlr ua Him Support! hills, taking their babies and eggs mm Igam at seven, the lady he knew to be hi Itpck iMxto C XI- 1new mistress was sitting compoe!!y with them, 24 hours before the outa while forest of now rabbits break fire, the on her bench, studying limnotitrblng g Pinoting Allurkmot. VVcrit enough a ny arwinf machine, ouxli? adjust.!) trn In made will burrows leave with river nrnl rudi-m- . OE5I sparkling glittering llvcrd. with full IInn lit T Utrww flood occurs. a before NOVKLTT CO., Box 'and butg They eyes. quiet weird which some ave rose ami FOR him. to premonition AN I M1 OR KKlF.irTMETUOD Harriet nodded . lh lnrtisn.jinx!. M4Ki.NO BuokxXIh r them to seek higher ground somewhat stiffly, to go up to the house. 'or-Mxti-- 1 for lift' Fitn ta any aU x K la IAI.IKWK.MA. 41 East the dancer 81. buLISuA ngoo theta. Fne mounted th brick ateps wltii a In hi 1 . bi. y, wo-ne- na Veg-itab- le broken For and tations. skin Also toilet ues. smss ca curzzzzovGzi i 4 WATCH I THE BIG 4 art -- d COLD MEDAL 4 catutei - Cuticura Soap Clears the Skin half-ma- d and Keeps it Clpar nnnpQVI UilUFu llr. oot-blac- Rh-hard- k t for Coughs , ituri Colds No Rubber Stretch jlPJp ExcellO Ado-Hic- - low-lyin- g 1!. Chi-Vtl- . be-;,i- lr-- f I |