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Show THE The Thirteenth Commandment CHAPTER XXIII Bayard hung up the receiver, pushed tho telephone away as a bitter cup, Mrs. Komllly finished her wholesale and laughed sheepishly. "Great convenience, tho telephone! order and wheezed out like a grand old automobile of an eurly model. Just learned that I've dropped more When they were alone the partners money than I ever hoped to have. 'For razed at Daphne's lint and then at want of a nail the shoe was lost.' Oh each other. well. It saves me from upending It "What on earth mndo you take ltl" foolishly. But If I'd hud five thousand Mrs. Chlwls exclulmed. "rou know dollars My God I If I'd hud five thousand dollars." vo can't fill it." "We're going to fill It." Daphne could think of nothing more "But how?" helpful to say thun a casual, "How's "Purned If I know, but Well, well Leila?" . In have to get a lot of sewing-wome- n "Don't ask me !" Bnyurd smiled. and alt up nights." "Tell me. What cun I do for you, "But the material. We can't buy honey, before I go to tuke some nasty medicine from the president." those things on credit" "Then I'll borrow cash and pay for "Nothing dear. I had to come downtown on an errand, bo I thought I'd It." "Borrow where? Tou Bald you run In and any 'hello.'" wouldn't trouble your brother." "Well, hello!" He kissed ber and patted her back "I'm not responsible for what I have said or mny any. Besides, I don't mind with doleful tenderness and she went going to Bayard, now that I can go out of bis ofllce into the elevator. Its door and Its clanking with success. I'll call on lilm in a business way nnd offer him Interest chains gave it a cnngenlul prison feeland all that. I guess Mrs. Itoiiillly'g ing, and the bottomless pit it dropped Into seemed even more appropriate. name Is guod enough collateral." All unconscious of Daphne's affairs, CHAPTER XXIV. Ttnyard was approaching Ms office Continued. 15 Iron-burre- d Mr. Romllly Finished Her Wholesale Order and Came Wheezing Out Like a Grand Old Automobile of an Early Model. with the brisk manner, of a triumphant capitalist. But that was bluff for outward effect. He was actually dirty with loss of bearings and control. Bayard had carried heavier burdens than Clay, and voder the atlng of Leila's whip had taken greater risks for higher prize. The crash In the tree bad found him so extended that lie could not recover without additional belp. That very morning one of his brokers bad railed on him for a renewal of margin. He bad to have five thousand dollars or be would lose fifty. Rebuffed from every door. Bayard bad gone to Wetherell's office a mysterious sort of place surrounded by guards and secret service men to ward off the menace of spies, real and Imaginary. Bayard bad dniisual difficulty In passing the lines. The reason he soon heard. A new man was In charge In Wetherell' place, a retired British officer whose natural and affected gruff- sees was aggravated by the unpleas ant nature of bis tasks. He had only one eye. He made Bayard describe who and what be was and what be wanted. Only Bsyard's desperation gave blm strenglh to ask this old Cyclops for an advance on new contracts. Bayard went away in a stupor. n had Intelligence enough to feel that he could less safely attack Wetherell now than before. He would seem to Le Implicated in the fellow's malfeasance. He would only advertise to his Tedltors that Ms vaunted contracts were worthless, Hnslne men will endure mur-- to escape such publication of their wrongs. Bayard kept bis bead high till he reached his own office. Then be fell Into his chair and propped bis elbows on bis desk and gripped his hot brows la his hands a If be were holding his skull together. It Is the business msn'a attltnde of prsyer. It was tho thst Daphne found him when she opened the door narrowly and closed It behind her ss softly as La Tov-a- . She was beaming with af fection and Importance, and when at bee mischievous "Ahem!" I'.nyard looked np she was so pretty that he forgot himself long enongh to smile and rush forward to embrace her. Fhe was wondering how to state her errand when the telephone rang. It startled Bayard strangely. He caught It to hi Hps as a toper lifts a glass. He pressed the relver to bis ear snd evidently rervnznlzedl the voice that ld "Hello" from earmrvhera. He answered In mono.-yllst.lof the leant Importance, but Daphne e Jward gloom la Ueem, Dnphne wanted to run away from her thoughts and she walked for a mile or two up tho deep ravine of Broadway. She dared not go back to Mrs. Chlwls Just yet with her bad news. She thought of asking Clay for a loan. She swept the oppulllng Idea from her brain with a puff of derision. Besides, he was out of town. Bayard had aald. She thought of nsklng Tom Dunne for It. She tried to blow that Idea from her mind, but It kept drift ing back like a bit of stubborn thistle ' down. She could not outwalk it. At lengtft she grew so desperate that she stopped at a telephone booth and brazenly called up Duane's number. He chnnced to be at home. When he heard ber voice he cried : "Oh Lord, it's good to hear you. Sing again, sing again, nightingale!" "I'm .no nightingale. I'm a business woman, offering you an investment." She told hlra the whole story. The name of Mrs. Romllly made biro whistle. "Old Gorgon Zola." he called her, and added, "You're a made woman." "But the clothes aren't made, and I can't make 'em till I get some money. Would you could you advance me a little on the most excellent security?" "How much do you want? Where shall I bring :tr "Mull two er five hundred dollar to the shop, will you? And I can never thank you enough." "HuRb. It's me that thanks you. Don't yon want more?" "No, thanks." "It will be there In the early mall and I may call round later to put a mortgage or something on the place." "Good-by.she chuckled, and bung up the receiver. She was crying softly a she stole from the blessed booth, and she looked less like a successful business woman than ever. Something made ber think of Wetherell. She stopped off at Bayard' floor and rang the bell. Leila's new butler admitted ber with pomp. Daphne walked past him into the drawing-room- . Leila and Wetherell were standing there In heavy costs. They seemed to be a little shocked at seeing Daphne. She wa horribly hurt at seeing them, but she chirruped: "Just come In?" "Just going out," Leila answered, klsslog tpline nervously. "WhereT Ihiphne asked, with Intrepidity, a she shook bands with Wetherell a preliminary handshake It was. "Oh r Just motoring about a bit." "Thanks I d love It," Daphne dnred to say, almost as much amazed as they were at bearing her accept the Invitation that had not been given. She was quite shameless from their point of View, but she felt thst It would be unpardonable to let ber brother's wife go unrebnked or st least unaided snd nnchsperoned on a cruise so perilous to reputation If not to character. While she was st the miserable buslneas ahe derided to make a good Job of It. When they went down to the car. she squeezed In between Leila Leila blanched with and Wetherell. Jealousy and cold rage. They dined at Long Iteach and watched the dancers. In sullen mood. Wetherell ordered much champagne snd would Dot listen to Leila's pleas that he let It alone. He frightened her a little by his reckless mood, and Daphne began to dread the Journey home In the dark with rhampagncd hands on the steering wheel. After IhJphne and he had executed s funeral dance teila was emboldened to step out with him. They talked very earnestly and he seemed to horrify ber by what he said to ber. Dnphne could hot Imagine what It was. Bayard bad not told her of Wetherell' downfall from power. Wetherell confessed bis dlgrse to Leila In the dance, and Leila was Sickened wltb the sordid outcome of her romance. She had played with fire and got soot on her band. She qtilt the dance and sked to be takes bocoe. " NEPHI, UTAH. TIMES-NEW- S, By RUPERT HUGHES Bmthan ftoarriaM by Harpa Wetherell felt that she had turned against him and be reached for the lust of the wine to fling It down his throut. Leila grimly took It from his Angers and emptied It in the Ice bucket. "Chauffeurs and champagne are a bad combination," she laughed, but there was a sneer on her lips. "Oh, very well!" Wetherell sneered In turn. He paid for the dinner and tipped the waiter with the lavlshness of a bankrupt. He tipped lavishly the man who guarded his car, and swung out into the road with an instant speed that would huve been prettier If there had been less dunger. Daphne and Leila were good sports, hut they were not merry. Wetherell furnished all the merriment, and his was from wine and despair. It was the wine thnt brouglii out the tfuth. He had to tell Duphne what he had told Leila, of his misfortune with his bully old government. He asked Daphne to explain to Bay ard how sorry he was that he was In volved in the crash. "Your broth' Bayard's nw'fly nice fel'. Miss Skip. He's got nicest 111 wife in worl'. I'erf'ly good HT girl. St might aa a string straight as they make 'em. No nonsense about 1IT Lell'. I Just love her perf'ly hon orable love. I'd do anything In worl' for Lell' or 11T Miss Duffy or ol' broth Buy'd. Tell him 'ut. will you. like a goo' H'l' girl? Tell Buy' 'at, wlll-ll?- . " Daphne grew furious. She felt now that she hud Justified her presence here. She held Leila fast In her embrace and commanded Wetherell. "Slow down at once Do you heur? Slow down this cur!" 1 Wetherell laughed: "Bless H'l' heart. I'm goln' take you home. You're quite ahufe with nit quite. Man that's born to be hanged never drown or get automoktlled that's good word eh, whn't?" They whipped round a somber Jut In the rond, and his searchlight painted Instantly In white outlines against the black world a wagonload of sleepy children returning from some village church affair. They were singing, drowsily, "Merrllee we Daphne and Leila seemed to die at I once. Wetherell groaned. "Oh,' my Cod, the UT chll'ren !" There was nothing for Wetherell to do but what he did. He spun his wheel and drove hi thunderbolt into an open concrete culvert. There was a furious racket. The car turned a somersault and crumpled In a shuddering mass. Wetherell, pinioned under the wheel, was knocked this wsy and that and his beantlful head cracked on the concrete like a china doll's. Leila was snatched from the car as if invisible bands bsd caught her exquisite body for a lash to flog a tele- - NT'V prlse-flghter'- -- Wetherell Furnished and Hi Wa All the From Win Merrl-mer- it and Oespalr. phone . pole with, then threw ber Into a dtt-hInphne was flung and battered and thrust under the car when It turned over. And then the gasoline spilled from the shattered tank and caught fire. CHAPTER XXV. outrages the blind forces of momentum hud wreaked on her with the fury of a Bill Hikes trying to beat a woman to deuth. The chauffeurs and passengers of curs that drew up la lengthening queues ran to the scene of Wetherell's disaster. At first they could not see Wetherell, but they saw Daphne and her peril, and they set frantically to work to drug her free. But ahe was so caught that they could not release her until they should remove the car. They pulled and heaved, but it was Jammed into the culvert and the ditch so tight thut they could not budge It, though they took risk enough and suffered blistered hands and charred clothes. At lust one chauffeur fastened a chain to the reur axle of Wetherell's cur and to the front axle of his, and, by alternate bucking and swerving, dragged and hoisted Wetherell's car upward and rearward while other men snutched Daphne from benea'h and away from the flames Just as they were nibbling at ber skirts. At the same time they disclosed the body of Wetherell and with huge difficulty fetched It forth. Still others found Leila in a heap, a toy with broken Joints. The lust thing Daphne had known was the sensation of being shaken to death, a helpless mouse In a terrier's mouth. The next she knew was that she was seated on the edge of a ditch ami leaning against the shoulder of a kneeling woman In evening dress. A number of shadowy men and women wavered against the searing glare of the gasoline. They arrived at lust at a hospital. Itaphne was lifted out and delivered Into the possession of two curt young internes. She was stretched on a Utter, curried feet foremost Into an elevator, down a corridor to a room, and rolled out on a bed. Two nurses proceeded to undress her and bathe her. Then an older doctor came In and examined her Injuries. She blazed with shame, one complete blush ; but to him she was hardly more than a car brought to a garage. He nodded cheerfully and said: "Not a hone broken, young lady, and no Internul derangements thut I cun discover. A few burns, that's all, and a big shock." "Is Leila hurt much?" Daphne mumbled. "She Is hurt a trifle worse than you. But she'll come round all right," "I don't believe you !" said Daphne, and sighed, "Poor Bayard I" "Who la Bayard?" "My brother her husband.? "Ah, the young man who was The other young man was not your then?" Daphne shook ber bead. "He Is no relation a friend." "Perhaps we'd better notify Bayard, What's hi last name? Has he a bus-ban- d, Duphne muttered his name and number. Then ber bend was lifted, a capsule placed in ber mouth, and a glaa of water held to her lips. When she was restored to her pillow a sedative was within ber to sulxlue the riot of her thoughts. he wondered what Duane would think of ber now. She remembered the money ahe bad asked blm to lend ber. It would be In the morning' mall. But she would not be there to open It. Mr. Chlwls might not dare to. All her acquaintance Ccgan to march brain In review. past Daphne' and whimThoughts snd sies danced through ber mind In a car nival of stupor and frenzy, while to the eye of the nurses she lsy still and slept. In another room Leila wss shrieking snd fight log, whimpering and moaning, a torn gazelle under the claws and fangs of tigerish pain. Abruptly there came a lethal silence also from ber. They had succeeded In drugging her at last. balf-thought-a When Daphne had left Bayard In the afternoon she had found that be was deprewd. but not how deeply. She supposed thst his money los wss only a failure of expected profits, or the mishap of an Investment. She Hd hot dream that he was crippled financially. , Bayard wss so forlorn, so profoundly ashamed of his bad guesnwork. that be could not bear to show his face at any of hi clubs thst night. He had bosated there too often of having bought heavily of the stork. He had persuaded too many of bis friends to Invest In It. So be went where buy men go when other pieces are closed to Ihetn. He went borne. When be readied his apartment be found that Leila had given the servants a night out. Leila bsd left no word of her own plans. After a forlorn delay Bayard called for Isphne. She was gone, too, with no word of ber return. At last the telephone rang. A man's voice spoke and explained that U spoke from the hospital. "Is Mr. Kip there? Is this Mr. Kip? Mr. Bayard Kip? Toor wife Is here, snd your sister, and your friend Wetherell automoltile accident out here on Long IIniid pretty bsd msh. Your wife's not very well better come out ss soon ss yon can." The world reeled. Bayard seized his hat. played a tattoo n the elevator bell, darted Into the street, yelled at a taxlcab with ferocity, got In, ordered the driver to "go like helL" He kept putting tils bead out to bowl at him. At the hopita! be questioned the Interne fiercely abmit Leila and Daphne, and had evlve answers. He did not ask about Wetherell, bat the Interne volunteered the new that be was head cold us If a clumftiy bund bad been luld on It. Death was at work. Where would he stop? In the chill white aisle of the corridor hts frenzy gave place to a sense of bitter cold. A chill white nurse led hi in pust doors and doors to a room where In a white bed lay a chill white thing, a cylinder of cotton. Leila's face was almost Invisible In bandages; her whole body crisscrossed and swaddled. She was an Egyptian princess mummied. For a moment her soul came out of the drug ut his gusp of pity. It ran about inside Its cocoon trying to find a nerve to pull or a muscle to signal to him outside. The mere lifting of her hand brought from her a moun of such woe aa canceled all Bayard's grievances against ber. Once Buyard's resentments and Jealousies were swept from his mind, bis old love came back throbbing und THIS WOMAN SAVED FROM AN OPERATION By taking LydiaE. PtnkhamY Vegetable Compound, One of Thousands of Such Cases. Black River Falls, Wis. -- "As Lydla E. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound savea mo iruui au operation, I cannot . suy enough in praise of it. I su If e red from organic troubles and my side hurt me so. 1 could hardly be up from my bed, and I was unable to do my housework. I bad the beat doctors in Eau Claire and they wanted me to navaf an operation, but 1 JI. P PinkhAm'a Vegetable Compound cured me so I did not need the operation, and I am teilin gr Mrs. A. W. all my friends about Kinzer. Black River Falls. Wis. It is just udh experience as that of Mrs. Binzer that has made this famou root and herb remedy a household word from ocean to ocean Any woman who suffer from inflammation, ulceration, displacements, backache, nervousness irregularitiea or "the blues" should not rest until ahe has given it a trial, and for special advice write I vdia K. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, w mm if On the Job. "He hud u clever way of getting Votes." "Su? What was It?" "Bussed out clears to the women." "I should think thut would have offended them." "Not at all. Told them to take them home to their husbands, and tliey lll fell for the plan." BOSCHEE'S SYRUP He Was So Grateful, So Eager to Be Deceived Thst He Forgot Her State and Clutched Her Hand Hard and .Kissed It in Gratitude. will quiet your coiikIi, soothe the Inflammation of a sore throat and lungs, top Irritation In the bronchial tubes, leaping, nis very soul bled and he dropped to bis knees, his arm thrown across that bundle of wreckage which had been his choice among the world'! beauties. He was soon dragged from hi comunconmunion with bis once-mor- e scious bride by the young doctor, who lifted him up with the unpractleed diplomacy of Internes and led blm aside, grumbling: "Say, what yon trying to do? Kill ber? She's weak and her heart's fluttering. Cheer her up If you can. If you can't, you can't stay. Better not stay, anyway." Bayard apologized cravenly and promised better behavior, and wa permitted to steal back to Leila. II took her one undamaged band; It was as beautiful as the severed band of a Greek statue, and aa marbllsh wbite and cold. The Interne led blm at length out Into the corridor. And now Bayard remembered that he had also a sister, an only sister. In this same tavern of pain. His heart went out to ber. He remembered, too, that they bad a father and a mother to tell or deceive. The Interne assured blm that Daphne's Injuries were slight. She looked sad enough when he peered In at ber, though ahe was far from the dreary estate of Leila, She was asleep, but she woke at the sound of his step, and, turning her head with effort, opened her eye and smiled at him feebly and whispered bis name, and beckoned to him with one weak finger. Daphne's heart ached out to him; she bugged him as hard as ber weak arms would let her. She sesrehed her mind for comfort. She could think of nothing so comforting Just now as a hearty, reassuring lie. She whispered : "It's all my fault, honey. Tou see, Mr. Wetherell was tsklng me out for a ride. I met Leila. She told me you telephoned you weren't coming home for dinner. She looked so lonely that I asked ber to come along and chaperon us. I'm to blame for it all. Can you ever forgive tnT" He was so grateful, so eager to be deceived, that he forgot ber state and clenched ber band bard and kissed It in gratitude for a priceless boon. The nurse, returning, saw the deed and smiled, not knowing what joy Bayard was taking In absolving Leila of suspicion snd loadipg himself with blame. At such a time wa love to how our own heads In shame and cast asbes upon our hair. The taste of asbea In the mouth la good at such a time. Daphne's first visitor after Bayard wss Mrs. Chlwls. "Oh, my dear V she murmured. "I read In the papers about your misfortune. Soch a night a I had spent! I was so afraid for you I And to think that you were lying here In such pain I And I might have helped you." Dsphne smiled, and they clapped hands like the two splendid little business women they were. "How's the shop?" Daphne asked. "I haven't been there," "It isn't open, then?" "No, Indeed. With you heref Underneath the machine lay the relics of Wetherell, who would suffer no more here. C1 by was Dsphne (TO UK COVTltfUED.) Kip, whom a brief unconsciousness cave a short furlough from tortsre. Seal Reveals Salmon' Ago. Phe was not llre enonch to be afraid A single sale from a salmon vTJ of the long, lean flames about the tell it owner's ge and whether the fish's picking have been slim or lha gavIine tank, though they kept springing at ber like wotfhonnd held opposite. When viewed through a miIn a weakening leash. They had not croscope the scale will reveal tiy yet quite reached ber, bat they missed lines, which have developed at the rata her less and less. of 13 a year. Lines doa A small distance off, Lell lay still. desd. fcrove Ihst the nlmim has been Urine In almost her flrst ungraceful attitude, That male the ultimate difference. fcijrh. Line widely spread InOicat oblivious for a few aoometiU of U. 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