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Show ITT An THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVTLLE. VWlfllFTEl SHE COOKED A MEft Toole Lydia E. Pir&W Vegetable Compounds ' the Result T andKJfe w with nervous troubles 'ties Cincinnati. Ohio. ! FIFTY-FIFT- she was not In the company ofr Maurice Rodaine, lie hurried to her and she smiled at Ids approach, Have they found anything yet?" "Nothing so far. Uxcept that there Is plenty of water In the shaft Im trying not to believe It" "I hope It Isn't true. Her voice was low and serious. Father wna talking to me about you. And we hoped you two would succeed this time. Uvtdently her father had told her snore than she cared to relate. caught the inflection In her voice but disregarded it "I owe you an apology," be said bluntly. For what?" Last night I couldnt resist It I forgot for a moment that yon were there. Ilut I I hope that youll believe me to be a gentleman. In spite of It" She smiled up at him quickly. I already have had proof of that I I am only hoping that you will believe me well, that youll forget somei thing." Y 8TNOPFIP. At Thornton Felr-ehtiddeath hi on Robert losrni there ha boon a dark .period In hi father Ilf which for almoat thirty year ha caused him suffer- - Inc. la hinted at In a Th document left by th elder Fair-chilwhich also Inform Robert h I now owner of a mining claim In Colorado, and advising him to ae Henry ttcamtah, a lawyer. Beamish tell Robert hi claim, a liver mine, la t Ohadl, thirty-eigmile from Djrtver. II also warn him agatnat a certain man, 8qulnt" Rodalne, hi father' enemy. Robert deride to go to Ohadl. 'On th road to Ohadl from Denver Fairchild aselst a girl, apparently hi a freniy of hast, to chanr a tlr on her auto. When h ha left, th hrllfand a po appear. In puraulf of k bandit. Fairchild, bethem as to the wildered. ils!-adirection (he itlrl had taken. At Ohadl Fairchild la warmly greeted by "Mother Howard, boarding-hou- e keeper, for hi fathers ake. From Mother Howard Fairchild learn anmethlng of th mystery connected with th disappearance I air sen. Me father coof worker In th mine. He meet th girt he had assisted, hut h denies her Identity, (the I Anita Rich-monJudge Richmond's daughter. VIsItMf hi claim. Fairchild M shadowed by a man ha recognise a. from deacrlptlona aa "Squint" Rack In Ohadl, hi fathers eld friend, Harry Harkins, a summoned from England by Reamlah to help Fairchild, balls him with Jov. Th pair find tha win flooded and have not euffl. clent funds to have If pumped dry. Later In th day "Squint Itodatna announce that ha practically nw Harklna fall Into th flooded mint, and evidently la drownad. Harklna being a general favorite, tha entire population turn out to clear th 'a rrt d, Fair-chil- ht d "8II" "You Yes, d For, coming toward them Jauntily, slowly, was a figure In beaming blue, a Fedora on his head now, but with the rest of bit wardrobe Intact, yellow, bump-toeshoes and all. Someone shouted. Kverybody turned. And as they did ao, the figure hastened Its pace. A moment later, a booming vglce sounded, the unmistakable voice of Harry Harkins; I eye!- Wbnt'a the matter over there? Did 'Somebody fall In?" The puffing of gasoline engines ceased A moment more and the gurgling cough of the pumpa was stilled, while the shouting and laughter of a great crowd sounded through the hills. A leaping form went forward, Sam Uerbenfelder. to seize Harry, to pat d - l Itodalne with all the hate and anger and futile malice that a human being can know typified In Ills scarred, hawkA thin, taloned hand like features. came upward, to double, leaving one bony, curved finger extending In emphasis of the words which streamed from the slit of a mouth: Funny, werent you? 'Played your cheap Jokes and got away with em. But everybody aint like them fools P he pointed to the crowd Just rounding the rocks, Harry bobbing In the foreThere's some that rememground. ber and Im one of em. You've put over your fake; youve had your laugh; youve framed It so m be the butt of every numbskull In Ohadl But Just listen to this Just listen to this! be repeated, the harsh voice taking on tone thet wss "almost a screech. There's another time coming and that times golog to be mine I"And before Fairchild could retort, be had turned and was scrambling I down the mountain aide.' - , mean" CHAPTER IX ' Judge Is like anybody else when they're bedridden and only arf their faculties working. The girl, so Mother Oward tells tpe. Is about twenty now. That made er'Just a little kid, and motherless, when Rodaine got In Ms work. She aint got a thing to aye. And she loves er father. If e dont die pretty soon, youll see a wedding Ton mean ? SheMl be Mrs. Maurice Rodaine. She loves er father enough to do It after er wllla broken." 'Again Robert Fairchild filled an oil cup, again he tinkered about the pumps. Then he straightened. IIow are we going to work this miner he asked 'shortly. Harry stared at him. Ow should I know? You own It P I dont mean that way. We (wer from the minute you showed up. There never has been any other thought In my mind " "Fifty-fiftyYoure making me a bloated capitalist P I ope I wilL Or rather, I hope that youll make such a thing possible for both of us. But I was talking about something else; are we going to work hard and fight It out day and ' night for awhile until we can get things clear, or are we Just going tt It by easy stages?" "Suppose," answered Harry after a communication with hla magic mustache, that we go dye and ntght til we get the water out? It wont be long. Then well are to work. together. Youll need my vast store of and enlightenment t" be learntng grinned. Good. But the pumping will last Can you through tomorrow night f take the night trick?" Sure. But why?" I want to go to that dancer Harry whistled. Harrys big Ups spread Into grin. And shes got brown eyesP he chortled to himself. "And shes got brown sir, and shes a wye about er. Oh! Shes got a wye about er! And Ill bet shea going with Maurice Rodaine! Obi Shes got a wye about !p t(i h " h n Vegetabl, Ppi pamedauk d 1 w y ? unfit fc! i housework, i worn out if I meal, andw able to r fifty-fift- before Pali Lydia E. PiriC wd pound and Liver Pills do my mv if I 2 wa uter wj would wt Vegetable I would 1110 firt botJi felt better, wnd neglected it awhiuti found I could not do my worka? PvymrwinF6 an never have carried him If tT been for your Vegetable Compouai i recommend your medicine' to all althou one 513 , imay. imift Lydia E. Pinkhtuna Vegetabls Co pound contains no harmful drun iS can be taken in safety by any wwa - she countered quickly, as Fairchild went back Into the tunnel, though to cut off his explanation. It spun the flywheels of the gasoline enseemed like a great deaL Vet It was gines and started them revolving WDI redoc nothing at all. I would feel much hapagain, that the last of the water might Swell,;' Strained. If I were sure pier you had disrebe drained from the shaft before7 the , garded It." . KZnsdes. Ligament, pumps must be returned to their own-erth Stop Fairchild looked at her for a long from gpltsr lime, studying her with his serious Side Bene or Bene Spirit Several houre passed, then narry blue eyes, wondering about many No bUatar, no hair gon ad returned, mlnua hla gorgeous clothing ean be umL gisoboe hora things, wishing that he knew more of and his diamond ling, dressed In min tla at women end their ways. At last he druggists or deiivtrtd lng costume now, with high leather Xrih yereMfot (wtoi said the thing that he felt, the straightboots Into which hla trousers were ruction and lntrtinf kern forward outburst of a straightforward S Atrae, Ink tucked, end carrying s carbine lantern. man j w. t. TOUflC, W. in Tgt Sc. IwlMhltlg Dolefully he looked at the vacant finYoure not going to be offended If ger where once a diamond had sparI tell you something?" kled. Then be chuckled. flooded min. Decline of Oratory. Explain "Certainly not." Sam took It back," he announced. reason The sheriff came along Just after Oqe why we dont hab md "And I took part of the money and said Uncle Eben, Mi you had made the tUrn. He was lookOratory, greater CHAPTER VIM Continued. paid It out for. rent on these pumps. dat so 'hi Shy of our best talken k ing for an suto bandit," We can keep em aa long as we want A what?" She stared at him with Innjln' delr attention to gslensjy Fairchild turned at the entrance of em. Ita only costing about a fourth almost But laughing eyes. the mine and waited for the first of ship. of what It might of.Drownings j the minora band the accompanying you don't believe" . "What'a the Rumpus?" worth something," he laughed again. He was looking for a man," said Fleam of hla carbide. Then they went Fairchild Joined him, then sobered. Fairchild I I told him that him ana paw him, aa though In assurquietly. 1o wtthtn and the ehaft, the light It brought Rodaine out of the Smncier Find Yon Miserable? I hadnt seen anything but a boy. I ance that ho really was alive, then to bushes," he said. ahlnlng downward upon the oily, black threatened Squint I a lame, achy beck torturing yn' WBter below. Two objects floated was willing to do that then because grasp wildly at the ring on hla finger. us after theyd hauled you down town Doe the least exertion leave you tlreA I But believe a couldnt that waved like him a Harry aside, girl you broken piece of timber, toni there, on the rail." You should tu 'er!" week, all worn-out"Aint I paid the Installment on It?" from the side of the shaft, where would" Then he stumbled and haltcause of your trouble and try a the shut winked Oh, Harry Jovially. up!" growled Fairchild, correct it. More than likely its yow Whata the rumsomeone evidently hod grasped haatUy ed. A moment he sought speech while he remonstrated- "Aint It Just what I expected? Its but he grinned In schoolboy fashion, she smiled him. at kidney. & Miserable backache vitli out It Then up In pus?" It an at effort to stop a fall, and as be said It Harry poured half a can better that to ave im snoopthan wye dizzy spells and annoyiu headaches, came: I I dont cars what It was Fairchild, with Mother Howard, both in around." new, hat, gradually of oil upon the bearings of the chlv urinary disorders ere common (ip i 1 I like I I you. do. waa Honest, liked laughing happily, Just behind Her and sinking kidney weakness. There la dan(ter h They chuckled together then ; It waa wheel with almost loving tenderness. ao much when I waa changing benfelder. And behind them waa delay. Begin using Doon't Kulti (.lowly beneath the surface. And then, you knoftr te that something Shea got a wye about rP be they had not PilUt today. Doant havs helped for the first time, fear clutched at that tire that I didnt even notice it thronging half of Ohadl. only forced Squint Rodaine to show echoed. Fairchild suddenly frowned. should help yot thousands. They when the In you We money were put Fairchild drowned P thought you heart fear which hope myhand. hla enmity openly, but It wns someAik what do "Jusf your mean? neighbor! you I That well, youre not the kind of a girl Her llarrya laughter boomed thing more to make him the lnstru shes in love with Rodaine could not Ignore. and Just" An Idaho Casa There's hla hat." It was a miner who would do anything really wrong. again. In a way that waa Infectious. ment of helping them with their work. Ow should I know? But shes got Mrs.' Eva It Logan, be a "Me or might drowned. Just because I let a prank something staring downward. 419 South Fourteenth Harry looked 'down the hole, stared a wye about er!" Fairchild had seen It. but he strove like that but It wouldnt be wrong. oiler and dropped my at?" St, Boise, Idaho, at then turned to the "Well," the firm chin of the other So so theres an end to It" says: "You did It on purpose?" Sam Iler- Intentlyhoist. nothing, My kidneys to put aside the thought. were tn a bad eondU (h man rusty if grew wont firmer, bs ahe hard In a benfelder Again shook a laughed softly, way tlon and "True, he answered, but anyone scrawny fist under I had nag- - f i Eres the thing weve to fix to find out P ring pains across my lose a hat, simply by looking tantalising to Robert Fairchild, as Harrys nose. The big Cornlsliman up now. This ere chlv got back. I rest wheels all And the next night he started over the edge of the shaft. Uarry'a a though she were making game of him. waved It aside aa one would brush out of npn at ntght couldn't and morngear," hla Nor do investigations. What know did be I tired. you an about felt te women?" I ings obnoxious fly. Then he stop away trong man. Certainly he would know What makes your face so redr consider that social events had nervous, dizzy had been how to swim. And In any- - event he she asked finally, and Fairchild told grinned at the townpeople about him Fairchild asked the headaches and my question as the few and far bween for him, that his should have been able to have kept the truth. "Well," he confessed, there was an kidneys didnt act of Harry came dondng had visage erularly. Doans Nothing." progressed little farther afloat for at least a few minutes. unoly lot of water In there, and I nearer to the carbide. Kidney Pills were looked than the simple Harry to move the Then" his avo ability grew laugh didnt heartier, he What else any money. recommended, so I heard a shout and says that up. feet In unison to music. Years of ofused tome. Doans ran right In here; but all that he finally, however, to die away. The waa I to doF Mother Oward almost slapped It fice and entirely cured m of home, home and office, had not You P A pumpman had picked could see was ruffled water and a float girl put forth her hand. "But I wont flie complaint.' came his rueful answer. offP For allowed Robert Fairchild the Batumi ay what I was going to. It wouldnt up a piece of heavy timbering ami not Then he paused sudlug hat, I Cat Deeae el Aoy Store, 60e Bo 1 was r what telling going to do, advantages of the usual young man. denly. It had come to him that Ro- aound right. I hope thatj I live up thrown It at him In mock - ferocity. and letting er think I got drownded. "But Kp he put that aside now; be was Work us to death and then come back But ow waa I to dalne might have helped In the demise to your Estimation of me At least knowr to Itn thankful to you for being the man and give ua the laugh! Where that dance, and he was going COL. BUFFALO, It I going of Harry! you Fairchild absently examined the been at?" Khouts sounded from outside, and you are. And I wont forget I" and pumps, supplying water to Center City," confessed narry the radiators the roaring of a motor truck aa It In And once more her hand had rested and filling an oil cup hla a small, warm, caressing thing cheerily. made Its slow, tortuous way up the or two. Then he turned swiftly, voicIn of the spite boulder-strewAnd you knew all the time? ing that which was purely casual grasp road with Its gulltes uppermost In bln tnd Innumerable ruts. Voices came, of an Impersonal action. Again Rob- Mother Howard wagged a finger under mind. Fairchild ert felt a thrill that wns new bis nose. When you were here before. rumbling and varied. Lights. Gain- to Harry and he stood watching her unhim, Well." and the Cornlshman chuck did you know a the mouth of the tunnel, Fairchild til ing Judge Richmond she had reached motor car the I ave didnt led, ow'd see a mass of shadows outlined any money. I 'ad Yeh." Harry pawed his mustache Life Is a burden when the bedf which had brought her to the big to get that shaft unwatered, didnt IP y the carbide, all following the and made a greasy, black mark on his Is and had curve, faded racked with pain. Everythin down the bill. "Get a rail !" An Irate but laugh face. of a small, excited man, Sam But I dont thtnk I want Then he went back to assist the sweat- tng pumpman had come forward and the victim becoo worries know Mm now." lixrbetfetdor, still seeking hla ing workmen and the anxious-faceThink can you on that us? Get pull despondent and downhearted. To j "Why not?" Sara lierhenf elder. The water was a rail!" IBs mixed up with the Itodalnes. bring back the sunshine take . The big pump from the Argonaut down seventy feet. Someone seized a small, dend pine "How tunnel was aboard the truck, which muchF That was followed by two 'other auto ve- a few night Robert Fairchild sought which lay on the ground near by. They own Mm thats all." hours sleep. Two after the Others helped to strip It of the scrag There was silence for a moment. It hicles, each loaded with gasoline en- town still divided Its days attention be- gly limbs which still slung to It. had been gines and smaller pumps. A hundred tween something which Fairchild for the Old Times Harry watched them and chuckled preparations men were In the crowd, all equipped had not expected. If the Itodalnes dance and the progress In the dewaterfor knew he that In none was there owned Judge Richmond, how with ropes and bucket. Sam Ilerhen-folder- s far did ing of the Blue Poppy abaft. Now malice. He had played his Joke and that ownership extend? After a long had been heard. pleas The and then the long hose was The National Remedy of Holland fet vet withdrawn, won. It was their turn now. Shout time, he forced himself search was about to begin for the and a to 200 statement. years; It is en enemy of efl pAn dynamite lowered on floats to the lng In mock anger, calling for all dire I know his daughter. She sold me body of Harry and the diamond that surface of the from kidney, liver and uric suiting water, far below, a cop- things, from ljnchinga on down to a cirri oil one finger. And Fairchild hasticket to a dance," Fairchild caretroubles. All druggists, three zb wire trailing It. A push of the burnings at the per stake, they dragged tened to th hi part. UkbriiwMMCtUlMdMiwrk1 plunger, a detonation, and a wait of Harry to the pine tree, threw him fully forgot the earlier meeting. weve Until far Into the ntght they worked long momenta; It Then M faaitatioe to meet several happened nothaccomplished of astraddle It, then, with willing times after that. She caid and strained to put the hlg pump Into ing, and the that her pumping went on. If the hands on side, father had told her about me It poaiiinn ; while crews of men, four and earttdy remains of Harry Ilarktns hoisted volunteering the tree high above them ami seems he five In a group, balled water as fast nere ued to be a friend of my below, steadfastly refused started down the mountain aide. Sani own father." as possible, that the aggregate might to come to thethey surface. Ilerbenfelder tn the rear and be lessened to the greatest possible Harry nodded. The water had fallen to the level forgetting histrotting tn anger the Jojful No e waa. And a good friend. But extent before the pumps, with thetr of the drift, two hundred feet down; knowledge that bis ring; at last wag that was before hoKett. were attached. - Then the gasoT Want to Go to That Dance! things 'appened like the pumps now were working on the safe. line engines began to In .the last ten years. theyve apjencd great muiu flood which still lay below. Behind the to stay there as tong ss throng of men with their Not that I know about It of lengths of tubing were let down Into A day more and a the music my owfl after the shaft, and spurting water started The water was now day a few that. nuxk threats trailed the women amt knowledge. But Mother Oward She sounded, or rather as Jong the feet only children, some throwtng pine cones knows a lot." broxvn eyes, hroxxn hair down the mountain side as the task high lu the and laughing It meant that the at the shaft; booming Harry, Juggling of nnwatering the shaft began. But whats caused the - change? Ups of Anim Richmond whole great opening, together with the on the narrow pole; and In the What to him. Whats But It was a stow Job. verfjar r moro.be carrel oj Morning, drift tunnel, soon would be dewatered crowd, Fairchild found someone his resolution. he found iV distance to the safer length-eoo- l to an extent sufficient to Intent gae stopped Mm. Freckles Harrys Positively of could watch with more than permit by Dr. Bcttt'i Freckle Otooseot. Again amt a rain Fairchilds "Ow many time ave you seen onhn.iry by twenty to thirty feet, and the T eye Again the mi.Tor cars tr.iemt Anita eotopleewo. Your rfmertw Richmond, trudging Judge Richmond" searched ihe crowds the bucket brigades nearly at tin end of evJ.ithm. frw bailee Br. C. I. lerry Ce. 2J7i raultlcoJorod up the narrow roadway. Out-txxith the rest, along I haven't exe seen h'mr apparently their ropes. Mentrudgedilmrnthe overdressed rostnn.es f the women tunnel the crowds gathered. rrating with the sullen, You xxenY if MIU to breakfast, sending ethers In Fairchild fashioned nfTui.w with which Mothe'Oward Anita RIehmond and man at her side. of joung the men had many E knows their places. Fairchild stayed on to trilled Ids saw, ain't anything. abte to get teeth at the fact that young arrayed Fairchild knew th.,t sick apoplexy a stroke. E meet Mother Howard and assuage her Rodalne out. all the way fron, ranging jar,p her. Farther lu Rodaine was not pleased with the reaciompanled -leather boo, to frock suits and RodsiireW taken advantage of Vrvou ness as best be Could, divuf.n the bukgrouud, narrow ees watch'V) turn of Harkins, for the father pipe heater Lots. Fn,m Is time between her and the task Ho?" f ing closely, was Squint Rodaine. And Fairchild wt, tried at a voice by n hini. Noon found more water still farther ,inv does anybody take advantage n not tier hi, gnxe went side and looked straight into J umed absrmcied.y to the lh ban oxer tvmhlir.g down the hills of some body that's sick? w dw Falrcii.i l gasped as be noticed the cnkHl eyes of Thornton Of tables. With the-- r devotees ,on? I, Fairchild's gti.xbodv get a old on a person v he smaller were working now figure plodo.ng down the . of keno mountain The scar enemy. and had iNsugh: a pndd:e turned in unison with the larger one. After- sidv. He money! Judge Rlchrrnfl ISOYfX put out a hand. tin?- -, seizing almost black now, the eyes were red Through SenJ for fcur Hst of a noon and most of Ohadl was there. the mrvous wet obUlneWe; wr: Ilerbenfelder hj iLg from swollen, blood stained veins, Fie ad lote of tt. Then e srt siTi. h.v ( anythin en th lint In e fr dalne. got old of that money. Nw Fairchild could distinguish the form shoulder, whirled l.ini around. " vtffO if ecrnminiDn crooked ex'h, thin, were tips "And wording Judge Rkhmotid as to ask Mm for of Anita Kirnmuud In the hundreds of up. everybody I And toAmr; Look!" he exclaimed. Look there. in sullen aVnneq M AJ H K rAJfT- - nrKKEin-- . They were rmcricafiy every penny he gets and e dux-- a what quick about It!" women md men clustered about the Ihdnt I tell you! Didnt I have a alone at the moub of the rMpe. f Rodaine sars." XVAVTKD. FROM OWNtB. r of the tunnel, and for once hunch?" epentr-C I1. Will trail, end with a laugh dying on las Lpa, But a Judge Fort I BK Itnnuui uU Rtywr, CONT,N"l T d; Ito-daln- s. n, - & t wide-ope- - ? four-denie- d water-soake- d rId Ro-tatn- e DOAN S FOSTER-ICLBUR- illV N en-gtn- es BETTER DEAD n r lead-whi- p dia-on- d. d GOLD MEDAL & ex-er- y him-se- lf r' t--r gofi -l e tnean-xNase- d them-rive- s, stilt r -- U wAhJ he-r- e blue-whit- e 1 t-- ry. cu-irowX-- -. Fair-chil- d 1 1 X-1M x |