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The very jour child is eating bet- '!ing better, Keep on with ? of figs a few days and ses amazing improvement e, color, weight and spirits. pg store has the real Call- : rapogs, all bottled, with Is, Sttm sever made a jpt or nicer tasting laxa-rtpely laxa-rtpely vegetable.) Ee-62omia Ee-62omia syrup of figs I ia, a cold or any upset pi child's bowels.. JffliB: lm vhn tt'i tome-;$e tome-;$e cMliren, tome ttoret U CALIFORNIA. Eyrup 1 EMBER H.R.A. imorethan a mm deep fwtof. Ask the beauty ! SSL S!P TEA cup 9 K"1? doe "ore for i m""?1"!' Poison- f muddy. M wwh,oo.Bgintoniht. orug store) II III 1 Y Laxative Drink to . T 1 ' I I a Kappy 1 rbrealc. n.Z.t t Our RV,. Hi 77- m toS .t .001 ni J " r) cuts fA rfwth.ni quIcUvl 1 Ml WNU SERVICE " co f y it 1 6 CHAPTER IV Continued ("Cries easily," Smlf registered mentally. "I wonder how much her feelings really amount to?") The next moment she called her self hard-hearted, for Mercy raised streaming eyes to hers and spoke with telling simplicity. "Please believe me and help me. I didn't know people felt this way when they were In love. Maybe no one ever did before," she suggested hopefully. "Well, your condition Is not abso lutely unique. Nor should I call It hopeless." "I'm afraid you will when you hear all about It," Miss Mercedes sniffed. Tm desperate. Johnny absolutely hates all fat women. I've put on a little weight lately and since then he certainly avoids me. There's no mistaking that" A little welghtl "You should never have allowed yourself to grow so large." . Mercy pouted as If she were a chidden child. "I've such a wonderful cook," she murmured with a guilty look. "Discharge her." "Oh, I couldn't do that My din ners are celebrated." "Then don't eat them." "In that case Lucinda would leave of her own accord. She has often told me that she wouldn't stay with a lady who didn't appreciate her food. Anyway, I've a tiny appetite. ap-petite. It can't be what I eat that makes me fat Really, I take only enough to keep my strength up. Emotional as I am, and under such a fearful strain, I need nourish ment. Tou do see that, Madame Saitou?" "H'm," Smlf pondered the point. Plain to her was the fact that Miss Mercedes- was a gourmet and probably prob-ably a glutton. "In that case the only thing to do to keep Lucinda and you apart for a time." , "You mean that I ought to stay here and reduce? And not see Johnny for agesi How could I bear It? Oh, Madame Saitou, Is that all you can think of to help me?" It may not be all I can think of at least It's the most obvious remedy, Isn't It?" Smif smiled. "If the gentleman preferred you as you were before. It would seem only to be necessary now to remake yourself your-self more nearly to his heart's desire." de-sire." ; ' .: Miss Mercedes' tears stopped : "How beautifully you do say things," she beamed. "I must 'remake' 're-make' myself 'more nearly to his heart's desire? I think that's very lovely." Since time was pressing, It did not seem worth while to point out that Fitzgerald had done more Jus tice to Omar's thought Smlf began be-gan to sum up: "As ,1 understand your case, the only obstacle between you and your lover Is your size. What Is called for Is self-denial on your part I should not think of advising either diet or treatment The most I should be willing to do Is to suggest a phy sician ' who to my knowledge has been successful In similar cases." Miss Mercedes now exhibited an unsuspected trace of native shrewdness. shrewd-ness. ' . 'If you don't mind my asking, have you gone to him yourself?" As Smlf could read in her face that If she had, her visitor did not think highly of the result she permitted per-mitted herself a broad grin. "No, I've never taken any treatment treat-ment I can't afford to. My time Is too valuable." "H'm," said Miss Mercedes speculatively. spec-ulatively. "If you wish me to do so, 111 call the doctor this afternoon and speak about the case. If he says he can help you, ni make an appointment for you and It will then be possible possi-ble for you to decide for yourself whether It is worth while to begin his treatments." "H'm," said Miss Mercedes again, "I've got a better idea than that "You haver said Smif. "I have an idea that's nothing short of an inspiration," Miss Mercedes Mer-cedes began firmly. "I only hope youH agree to it" Smlff waited expectantly ex-pectantly and she went on: "You see, money's practically no object to me. I've plenty of my own, and for tne last four years Tve not be gun to spend my Income. Then Johnny's simply rolling. If I marry him I never mean to consider the price of anything again as long as I live. So. lookinz at this as a j business proposition, it may pay me ' to find cat what this treatment Is worth before I try It on myself." "And how do you propose to do thatr Smif inquired, although 6he oad an inkling 0f wnat wa8 agitat ht th e bobbs-mehriu company ing Miss Mercedes shrewd mind. "What is your Idea?" "To try it on you," Miss Mercedes answered simply. "If I find him successful with you, U will give me confidence that he will be with me, too." Smlfs opinion of Mercedes common com-mon sense, which had been low, was rising with every word she said now that the subject of her love affair was left in the background. "As to the remuneration, I should feel that you ought to be satisfied if I paid your doctor's bills." "Sorry," said Smif briefly, "we'll let the matter drop. I do not find myself interested in your proposition. proposi-tion. Suppose I give you Doctor Blanton's address and you can make arrangements with him or not as best suits you. Any good man would probably do as well for you, but I happen to have confidence confi-dence in him," "You think there Is no other course open to me? What about mental science of some sort? Absent Ab-sent treatment? The power of mind over matter? I must do something. Pd go through anything for Johnny's John-ny's sake; it's only that I've made up my mind I want to see the result re-sult of treatment given some one else before I submit to it" Mercy whispered, yet it was evident that with her a mind made up was a mind made up once and for all time, and Smif was becoming bored. "Really, Miss Mercedes," she began, be-gan, "I do not believe that you should have any difficulty in finding find-ing some one who would accept an offer such as you suggested if you added a small fee. I cannot help you there." "Why won't you do it?" Feeling herself dismissed the lady began slowly to work her fat hands into gloves several sizes too small for her. "Because I'm a business woman whose time has a very definite value. " Moreover, I am by no means sure my size is not an asset in my business. There is something about It that inspires confidence. I might be making a mistake to reduce. re-duce. At all events It would require a large bribe to induce me to run the risk." "Very well," Miss Mercedes ejaculated ejac-ulated in trembling tones, giving way with surprising suddenness. "You shall name your price." "Nor shall I undertake It except under a written agreement," Smif warned her, recognizing her client's vacillating disposition. "I shall expect ex-pect ten thousand dollars. Moreover, More-over, to be fair to both of us, payment pay-ment must be half In advance, half at the termination of Doctor Blanton's Blan-ton's treatments. That is, when he has reduced me to what he decides to be a normal weight." "How do I know that will make you slim enough? I want to be really slender; girlish, you know." Miss Mercedes was plainly wabbling again. "I can't guarantee that" Smif returned calmly. "I refuse to take off a pound more than Doctor Blan- ton regards as safe. Really, Miss Mercedes, don't you think you are wasting time? What you require Is some one more tractable than 1 also cheaper," she added with a hint of contempt; for, after all, Smif was a Lovely with a Lovely's disregard for money, when she had it And Miss Mercedes sensed this, growing more eager the moment she feared Smif was inclined to draw back. "I'll sign your agreement," she announced, "m pay anything In reason. Please have the paper made ready and I will make you out a check. It's a proof of my love for Johnny," she added, her voice trembling. trem-bling. "And I look on it as an investment" in-vestment" she ended, her practicality practi-cality again to the fore. So said, so done, and Miss Mercedes Mer-cedes wended her weighty way toward the elevator. CHAPTER V SMIF looked forward with an amount of interest that she found surprising to her arproach-tag arproach-tag interview with the person she still designated to herself as the gunman. On his behalf she was tempted to order a more substantial THE STORY FROM -tf .-d r0.'.'.. sh. Pi- WaT XUTTJSS are-- in,t . i VWnua. w ' . Uiy- :Mrf" . tbt wh inm. hi- Ji'r UAy i . tat S - r' "rwJZ l .horn k rrf MercT cede coax. Uter, tb ler luncheon ; yet, after all, why should she? She bad not invited this guest Finally she compromised. Three sandwiches and an apple were to be brought to her as usual, while Buttons was told to hold a larger supply In reserve. , The man arrived promptly and ushered himself out to the lounge without ceremony. Plainly ceremony cere-mony was one of tS5 superfluities he had banished from his scheme of existence. Buttons followed with a small plate of sandwiches, regarded by the gunman with extreme disfavor. "Are those a joke?" he demanded before he saw the twinkle In Smlfs eyes, after which the rest of the banquet was quickly forthcoming. "Well, why don't you talk?" he asked, doing full justice to the sandwiches sand-wiches the while. "I was meditating on the inequalities inequal-ities and injustices of this world. If I consumed a tithe of what you do, the only scales I could be weighed on would be a hay scales; and I suppose the same is true of Miss Mercedes." "Don't fool yourself or let her fool you. Lucinda's best customer is her mistress. And Lucinda's an artist." . "So I was given to understand," Smlf said dryly. "I judge that If Lucinda's masterpieces were less tempting Miss Mercedes might be less colossal" "What you'd like to say Is, if Miss Mercedes were not such a pig Miss Mercedes might be less colossal" colos-sal" "Really," said Smlf, lifting her eyebrows and with difficulty restraining re-straining her laughter, this man with the emerald horseshoe was, after all so like a rather naughty little boy, "that is not the way a gentleman should talk about a lady, is it?" "I can't see that", lie compressed his lips stubbornly. "If a lady acts like a pig, I think a man should be free to mention it; Judicially and without ill-feeling, you understand. But then what should I know about it? I don't pretend to be a gentleman. gentle-man. You didn't think I was one, did your "Dear me, no!" Smif answered. I had It on good authority that you were a gunman. Don't you want to As"K I H t 1 JW J !'f v Ami I "I Don't Pretend to Be a Gentleman. You Didn't Think Was One, Did Your hear of my interview with Miss Mercedes r "Not particularly." "And that is just as well" she told him crushlngly, "because I have no Intention of telling you anything." any-thing." . "I was sure you hadn't," Johnny rejoined. "How could you be certain I would say nothing about Miss Mercedes? Mer-cedes? I thought she was your excuse ex-cuse for doming here." Smif was disturbed. She preferred playing with people to having them play with her. Her guest beamed at her. "Any excuse that brings me here Is good enough for me." This was sheer frivolity. Smlf pounded on the arm of her chair in exasperation. "Listen to me. I Insist In-sist that you remember that I am a business woman engaged In a serious business enterprise." "And I am one of your customers," custom-ers," Johnny said soothingly. "You can't get away from that I engaged you to keep me from being married mar-ried by Mercy." "You didn't engage me to do that because I should have refused such an engagement I said I would see if I thought I could help you. Well if that's the only help you want I can't and wonX so there I" "I never believed that you'd go back on a bargain." "So far as that goes, I haven't You acknowledged that you are fond of her You said that if she were not so fat you wouldn't mind" -That was my fatal desire to palm myself off on you as a gentleman. D n it all I won't marry her and have to sit opposite her watching her gobble Lucinda's glorious food day after day. Just tell me this, is THE BEGINNING -" -w. r,. -z i. Km i """I i ' V,.! u. c.r. - . that mammoth planning to reduce? Is that what you're driving at?" "She Isn't yet not until I've shown her that it Is possible.'' And then this astonishing man astonished her again. "But you aren't fat" said he. Smlf regarded hint with incredulous incredu-lous wonder gradually merging into belief. The man actually appeared to mean It "Never say again that you arent a gentleman," she remarked at list "The first requisite is to be able to He magnificently and spontaneously. I congratulate you." "I don't mean you aren't big," Johnny began to explain laboriously, apparently quite uninterested in her view of the most essential qualification for a gentleman. "When I say fat I refer to something soft and boneless, a shape of blanc mange that hasn't quite solidified in fact Mercy! You cant be fat, because I like you, and I simply hate fat people. I always have," Giving this knock-down argument time to sink in, he went on with his sandwich, navlng finished the first half, he resumed: "And that Isn't the only reason I like you, either. I liked you from the first moment I saw you. You reminded me at once of my great-grandmother." This compliment was more than Smlf had expected. She broke into a peal of irrepressible laughter, laughing until tears stood in her eyes. Johnny never smiled. Smif gurgled: "I've been compared com-pared to Kwan-Yin, to the Sphinx, to the Buddha at Eamakura, but never, never before to anybody's great-grandmother." "It's a great compliment," said Johnny; "I hoped you'd appreciate it" "I know It Is. It Is unique. In fact It has gone to my head," Smif gasped, keeping right on laughing because she was unable to stop. "You're a very trying girl," the gunman declared severely. This was too personal for his hostess. ' "I am Madame Saitou," she bristled. bris-tled. ' "Poohl" said , Johnny. "That's just a business name. It doesn't mean a single thing." "You know nothing about it "Oh, yes, I do. I tipped Buttons a dollar and asked him if you were married. Thank Cod, I'm no gentleman gen-tleman I That's saved you the trouble trou-ble of saying It" "Well then," said Smlf, "it's true enough. What Is itr Buttons stood apologetically In the doorway. door-way. "They's a lady here, Madame, Mrs. Stannard. She says she's your sister and insists she must see you." Smlf was in no mood for argument argu-ment with Lucy. "Tell Mrs. Stannard that I have not s moment to give her now but that I am to meet Mrs. Carter at Pierre's and shall be very glad if she will have tea with us there at five." Buttons saluted and took his departure. de-parture. She turned back to Johnny to find him pointing a finger at her accusingly. "Mrs. Carter Mrs, Stannard" he stammered "they're your sisters. sis-ters. Then you must be the youngest youn-gest of the family. Matilda Love iy." "Correct enough, although I don't publish my pedigree on my business card." She was ruffled, as her next remark betrayed. "I am curious to know how you came to ferret it out" "I didn't ferret it out!" Natural resentment colored his voice. "I didn't have to. You didn't take the Family Bible with you when you left Lovelylea. You're all down in it and when I saw a marriage in the paper I filled the date In after the name. ... It seemed to be a friendly thing to keep the record up for your brother in case he came back. Not that I want him to come back. Now that I've been there so long I mean to buy Lovely-lea" Lovely-lea" A light had broken over Smifs face only to darken again. "You're Johnstone Nesbitr she "rr. tie nouutru. tenant of Lovelyiea. and as bund red times, do gentleman. Silence fell betw tween them. to b co.NTLvura Payment of Debt Should Give Joy No Other Thought Worthy, Especially in These Trying Days. There is an attitude toward the payment of bills which it is well for the person paying them to preserve. It is that of thankfulness. Many persons per-sons have Just the reverse attitude. They feel depressed when they see the money going from their own purse into that of another. They center their attention on the reduction reduc-tion of their funds. It depresses them to note the hole that is made by the outgoing dollars and cents. Let us turn from this point to view the other side of the picture. The person has the opportunity to be glad that he, or she, has the funds with which to pay aa indebtedness. Surely this Is cause for rejoicing. It may be that the bill is of long standing stand-ing and haunted the person owing :t with the fear that it may be still longer before funds will be present to settle the account And then the chance comes to pay the bill I The burden f sleepless nights and restless daytime thoughts Is stilled. The bill ia paid. Whnt if the money is gone? It Is a matter for praise that one had it and could do the long-wished for thing, settle in full The value was received pre vlously. The thing for which the bill was made has been of service or enjoyment Not to be able to pay, was the one disturbing feature. Now that Is off the mind, The problem Is solved. The burden is lifted. The money la paid. There would seem to be an overpowering balance In favor of being be-ing glad. It may have taxed the pres ent funds to pay the bill, and a cer tain curtailment of living costs may necessarily result for a period. Even so, the bill Is paid. This phnse should ring in one's ears, for it is something Shrike Whl.tUe Like Boy A shrike discovered by an expedition expedi-tion in Southwest Africa is said to whistle so much like a boy that It is difficult to believe that the whistler whis-tler Is a bird. Flawlet Emerald Scarce Unlike the diamond, most emeralds emer-alds have flaws and these give individuality in-dividuality to the gems and render ren-der them more valuable. A flawless emerald is a rare thing. When Doge Were Dogt A West Roxbury (Mass.) resident is the owner of two dogs whose pedigrees ped-igrees he can trace back to a mastiff strain of the Fifteenth century. Spooky Money Jud Tunklns says he hears money referred to as a medium of exchange. ex-change. So far as be is concerned the medium has gone Into a trance. Real Happtnett True happiness leaves no reaction. reac-tion. The mind is at rest within itself, it-self, and the conscience filled with the Joy of living. Critic A critic Is a fault-finder who can give good reasons; whereas, with most people, it is either "swell" or "rotten." From Water to Ice When water passes from the liquid to the solid it expands to an amount of about one-eleventh of its volume. ' Suspicion Suspicion Is a trait common to both man and what be likes to distinguish dis-tinguish as "the animals," PILES Tile sufferers from Protruding, Bleeding, Itching or Blind Piles, can now get relief from very first treatment by using Q n.Pile Ointment Q. R. 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