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Show i ii iiis e n at wm e Margaret TurnbuII CHAPTER IX 15 i "ow cou,d r!1 '"""n' Vflt tor It was not .In the Wind obedient. thlnps, nor the nature of a "Ship daughter. Tolly decided the ST. had come for a frank confession. n'lfc.le jisry brushed her hair, Polly to "po tn " .j .Vol kIia meant .nnocncpu for a place to look ah and mice months, cheaply and a .everal I i I I S fi I B romfortably. said Mar v did n"1 S kiit Copyrltht. 1!S. by Mre,r,t WNU Servlc. I ' I ill' II - 1' S Funkness was ihiiwii"c umn jut mother was m"Intel- ;n!d not degrade her mother's u own. iiu.viug me ?nce, or her if.,.f colli fihn wna c'nnnp ,d! went to bed. But not to sleep. lira. Johnston siayeu tu ucr uwu ..... ....... oHfhrlv mien hil"Tcin ,.,m She tlisroheri ana siooa i;i ner ')r,!n town before the long mirror. wonderful color study In a poft, jftjjjlng chiffon robe of blue, with her Ld hair fiamlns nsainst white ehoul- - ""vi'A A 3 1 n"r in me imhhm. "Cot to do It, Polly. on down the door and to herself and put Lmh. She went to the ft Lftly opened It. C .... . . .. . , ... ... n" jury, wHiii hi Harv shook her head, l-j- meet- - u are mp.- igratifi ex- - she Come, turned on reading HjAt, threw a ro.e-colore- d essing gown over her shoulder? and tied the bed beside her. She ree- :n!wd from her mother's face that ; reply. re, at ft, at l?p time had come. I rd like immensely to have you Y t.p and talk yourVelf out to me. It's i.n quite a while," she announced :'h sly look up t ner mother. Mrs, Johnston sighed. There was' doubt she was in for it. She put n, looked at Mary, shut her eyes M took the plunge. "Mary, I'd like to talk cbout your Is at her." sat tip. Of all the nnlikely Tall: about her father T Blue- fcjnfs door was about to be opened. pm her earliest youth she could re Mary n?s. her mother saying: "Mustn't mother questions about father, !fj. it only makes JIumsy un- rpy and miserable." What could mber : mean? Johnston settled herself hack Mary's bed. How Diuch do you know about me. Mrs. fcyr that you're the nicest I'Otily f' mother Invented," Mary told hor, "The best looking and the hon-lr- . best a girl ever had." r,rs- Jonnston leaned over lm- pely and kissed the pirl. ! only hope you'll think I "ame when I pet through." exactly f'urry up, Mother, and tell. You like a Vst geller." " have known some less Interest- I Plots. Well, we'll ben!n with the '"at I tfas born of poor people. "'"Kiins, N. J. My mother and "r both died when I was a t. Rbout twelve, and a kind ; ff 6"uslit me up. She took me "runswlck, and sent me to helped about tha hous. sool hours. sh kept a board- I had only one relative In n pd p lir-M- 1 liole world, Uncle Michael. my other's brother, and he was as ''a an old haelielor as ever drew t'1"' ripat WW'1' nil. stiil lire ,,,.. house, and kept rMae there. Mrs. Thomas, T,",0k n Interest whatever w ''ared about was keep- house dean and KettlriR the -- t """e. Slip (llfln't do that comfortably, so I morning to nlcht. Sthastlr.' "Jo Trom Km, l,ked at Mar? shvlv mo to dewrrilw " r "Onw. . ' the men at the . ... U1H' ."5 oil ( "er mother this odd nast It years. walrcd eagerly .. i hadn't niontloi.wi nv J!1 mwf of hpr talk was m? m",)(', ,!,hh-'- ( ",:nuc, N!ie first OienMnr, ' C - off. ni u ,1,1., bl thf man It suggested J! t'Uinful i'i'! t have a name "r' nsked her moth- - nn ,Ivo,l In the "ever looked at me-" M'"-y- "A lovely Hm0"? - UKC -V(,, ,I ....... .... - bit h. "- "r 1 I .inn I ut- There's a ) red '"is of monrv et off her I... kn "verworked, r,,ll!d in a l.ourdliirf '"n, win, tv . i mm IPS to tioss T He . I. 111 . CUl.rvMn.l r.Uiil.r.cU Ut HI" I. T'fanla somewhere. workiiiL' In rt mines, when my people died. COU 111 finrl Mm r.... 7 took me In. Bradley died, and her sister ud took the house) nnil run If indents' bonniin.r i W with the cti!IR).., llttl 1) nd h15 -- lam51 rill.."--- blr.g- ' ""it I n.. ' 'I ami..., i1 liiK,i , "'! 1'tie t 1 I could only Wanted to wt i" nMive mar "'"t time was tin. k'lrl arid Murv "'. llm W "Mother, How Brav ,0 Wnk of .vu. will. You Were." all your brilliant ideas, tied down that way." "ISless you, Baby!" her mother exclaimed. "My lost nnde turned up Just about then, and found me out. He was a terrible creature; six feet tall, very dry and brittle and had a bad cough, and a vile temper. What was left of his carroty hair had turned a yellow-gray- . The poor thing hadn't long to live. "He had worked too hard, and lived too roughly, to know how to take care of himself. He had plenty of money, I discovered, and while he knew how to take care of It. he didn't know how to spend It. He didn't want to leave It to any one, especially to a cirl. Rut I was all he had-po- or soul." For a moment, Mary's mother caressed the toe of her slipper in silence. "But Mother, please." urged Mary, "how can I wait until you pet to me?". Her mother came back from some long unlit cavern of her. mind. "Of course," she admitted, "that would naturally Interest you most. Though Uncle found me and told me of his money, he swore me to secrecy as far as Mrs. Thomas' hoarding house was concerned. He was like a lot of unmarried people, tremendously keen about marrying off the rest of the world. Mrs. Thomas had had a bad first and a wretched second husband, and hated men even worse than I did, She assured Uncle that I was a good girl and kept myself to myself and was perfectly safe. "Uncle went away without committing himself In any way. but two days later a letter came, saying 1 was to come to a certain address to see him. I went. It was a private sanitarium, and Uncle was very 111 Indeed. "He had his lawyer with him, and then and there I was ordered to get married. Uncle wanted to know that his money was going to some properly married woman with a man to look after her. I think some woman had treated him badly when he was young and poor. He wanted me to get married before any one knew I had any chance of getting money. He wanted lad who me tied up to a would expect to work for me. and would start honest, as he said, and have a family at once, and as large a family as possible. "I was shocked and angry, furious ly angry. Rut oh, how I wanted that money! There It was. dangling in front of me, a chance to learn all the things I longed to know, a chance to travel, to have pretty clothes, nil the things I'd sworn to have. My dearest day dreams could be realties now. but would be lost to me unless I had a man to haug them on. 1, who hated men. who hadn't wanted, and never had had a young man." "Oh Mother, what did you do?" know what to do. I "1 didn't came home simply beside myself. I couldn't confide, in the cook or Mrs. Thomas. I knew what would happen. They would laugh at nie and despise me. It's odd, isn't It? Its always I he women who've made the worst matrimonial blunders who laugh the hard-workin- g hardest "I found Mrs. Thomas In a tine ... tin f w. .Iifnl .. , . .. i ru I rgwiin rage, floor before 1 went out. That was the floor young De Harms, Wood and Diibhs occupied. I went rip there as u.j w.,.,B quickly a i coma mi finding as the others." "I thought you anted all men." commented Mary, slyly. Her mother Ignored her. "1 went to his room. There he was, sitting all huddled up by the window. I nsked him If he minded my doing no the room while he was there, and he aid he didn't. He had a telegram clutched in his hand. I could see that he was troubled. l!y and by I couldn't stand it any longer. 1 forgot my own troubles. I'd never been so sorry for anyone in my life. I went up to him, P.M quite forgetting I was a servant, said: "Mr. DHbbs Claude what's wrong?" "Claude!" Mary exclaimed. "Claude Dabbs? What a funny name! Why, it's the same as " Her mother stopped her with a quick : "It was funnier than that. I discovered afterward It was Claude Melnotte Dubbs." Mary's soft Inugh rung out, and then she checked it. "Oh Mother, I'm sorry. I'm so Interested. Hnrry and tell." Her daughter's mirth was not the pleasnntest sound In Mrs. Johnston's ears Just then. "I discovered that this young man. with the funny name, was In great trouble. His father was dying and the boy had no money to go home with, and his mother was quite too poor to send him any." "Oh, poor thing Of course you loaned him your savings." "I didn't. I told him my troubles, and offered him five hundred dollars If he would marry me." double-cris- p "Mother! You didn't !" "Sorry dear, but I can't stop to Post Toastics are the kind of Post toasties by name and make this romantic. I'm telling you you corn flakes that make breakfast will be sure of the plain, unvarnished I truth. getting corn a real event. Millions prefer flakes "with the natural corn thought his troubles and mine showed me a way out. I said if he would them for their delicious flavor flavor corn flakes that stay marry me and show himself, to my and A crunch milk in lasting crispness. or cream. Have crisp uncle, I would give him five hundred of goodness in every spoon them often. They come ready ne was to promise to go dollars, away ami never, try to see me again. ful. Crtspness that lasts to to serve from the red He was to leave me to go my way the very bottom of the d and yellow, alone, while he went his." bowl. Ask your grocer for "But Mother! What a cold blooded package. thing to do!" 1927. r. C C. Inc. "Wasn't it?" agreed Mrs. Johnston, much embarrassed, see It "liut you POSTUM COMPANY, BATTLE MICH, didn't seem like that to me, Mary. Please remember that he was only my door of escape and it was absoWas a Hero Latest Clock Novelty Porto Rico Farmers lutely a business proposition." "Oh Mother!" Mrs. C.rnbb (after a tiff) When I A London clock maker has devised Hid Money Cleverly married you I didn't know you were "I can't help it, Mary. That's what a clock which has no sign of median About the middle of the Nineteenth such a coward. I thought you weru I offered him, and after the first mo- Ism. The face of the novelty Is em ment of astonishment, and when he bedded in a slab of crystal five inches century Important business houses a brave man. was convinced that I was not fooling In diameter, and the hands, whidi are made their first appearance in San Mr. Grubb So did everybody else. him and wonld actually have the made of platinum and diamonds, re Juan and other towns of the island of money I had two hundred and fifty volve on a thin metal pinion. Al Porto Rico. Then the rich fanners dollars of my own savings to show though the crystal Is transparent, no deposited their savings with these him he agreed." one except the maker knows how the houses and also obtained from them "Oh dear," groaned Mary, "then he clock goes, because there Is no appar financing for their sugar mills. was Just as bad!" Throughout Jhe Nineteenth century ent connection between the hands and "I don't know," Mrs. Johnston said the framework. The a great struggle went on for the estab of a such lishment of a bank in the Island. The "I've often wondered. clock is something likeprice thoughtfully. $4,000. Tou see. his father was dying." idea was successful In the year 18S0 when the Banco Espanol, now Banco "That's so, I'd forgotten." Mrs. Johnston looked as though she Commercial de Puerto Rico, was es was about to say something In her tablished. own defense, thought better of It, and Money also was kept in silk stockS went on, doggedly : "Uncle wasn't told is ings and handmade hosiery. It was the custom of some persons to hide anything about the agreement. Roth their pesos and gold pieces in the my uncle and his lawyer were favorNo Need to Suffer Another Day beams of the roofing. There Is an old 25 and 75 Pkg's.Sold Everywhere ably Impressed with Claude. Tortur Those who usurer an in Arodbo of we have insisted that Agonizing "Uncle th. story Hi) Cumly and Icing Heriim 20c. Dren used to hide his money in a hollow cukes, make candy nlfer, cheaper, quicker. ceremony performed at once, and that ing Pains. New certain, simple way. Mail t rlimei. wooden statue of Saint Bias two feet Fstrdale HpcIpms Co..Bx. 1842,Bpokane,Wash. suited both of us. Claude looked sick with anxiety, and was eager to get it sh--There Is one simple yet inexpen high. The statue of the saint was way to reduce Inflamed, swollen placed on a corner stand In his room ITALIAN TART SWEET PRUNES over and start home. We were marfrom (frower to consumer at bottom toe and get them down to nor and it was his custom to Joints who ried before a Justice of the peace, keep an oil 64c lor medium niii; 7 He frr largo price: li. mal and that is to apply Moone's Em F. O. B. G. M. PAULSEN, Wilder, Idaho. knew neither of us. Right after the erald Oil night and morning. lamp burning before it. Not until his ceremony Claude went home with half Ask your druggist or any first class death, when his heirs took possession ra?rj of his belongings, was the hiding place of the five hundred in his pocket. The druggist for nn original fciujiH, attract Jjflie. Neat,r'T1 other half was to be his when he bottle of Moone's Emerald Oil (full discovered. cian, omjunenUi, eonvenumt anS eneap. l,uu ailMa signed the papers agreeing to leave strength) and refuse to accept anycan't STvil or tip avert thing in Its place. It Is such a highly Not to Be Worked me alone, and not to block any petiwill notmilMinlHM concentrated an 7th in jr. Goaraatced preparation that two tion I might make for divorce, on the ounces 'Whoa, you lasUt Boon furthera time and lasts long grounds of desertion, later. The lawDAISY FLY KUJXg more If this wonderful discovery misbegotten son of this, that and to the draw yer had to have time does not give you complete satis- tuther!" roared Lum Dumra of Slip HAROLD lOMIM , i17 klV" Tt. documents up." faction you can have your money pery Slap, addressing his mule. I can't simply recognize refunded. "Mother, "You should speak kindly to the you as the calculating girl who marSpecial note: People who wnnt to faithful animal," said the presiding reduce swollen or varicose veins elder. ried that way !" "Kind words aro fur better l''m J 'enor tie I did it. should get n bottle of Emerald Oil "You'll have to, Mary. irnl, dn(rr ." than of achinx tymt, red lidi. blood-hand once, died at morning night uncle for Applied In too. rfbll.. my time. M,t,ha Just this Idiot stand won't "Aw, directed they will quickly notice Von, rduaUlbunmaUoa. that night. 1 was free and the money an which will continue for flattery.'1 Kansas City Star. an was mine. I left the boarding house untilImprovement HAIL re are . 1WTET. bunches and the veins J4TWTrlyM.,lUwTor, and went to a quiet little hotel, i duced to normal. On Last Its Legs never told the people at the bourdliu' Landlady Isn't this rood chicken? The French superphotographer, 11. house anything abont the money, or Boarder It may have been mor the marriage. Nogues, has Invented a camera which ally, but physically it's a wreck. "The lawyer was kind. He mud takes 300 photographs a second. arrangements for me to go to France We have lnra; aaaortmtnt at nard trarka of vitrloua makra aad alar a. All and live with some friends of his sisre or enr trnna. bargiilo. ter who would finish my education. Write o? dctalla or mil and fe a a. was supposed to lie u young widow.'' THE WHITE COMPANY . (TO BE CONTINUED.) 5 8rd Kaat, gait Lab City, I tnfc, : that stay crisp in milk or cream Flaked hearts of corn toasted and full of flavor kJ wisdom There was a whole world of ... In the words a wise man or o,u. reaio. , ,ges of faith ascribed to his I im that 'Be still then and know re- bus , .... nhiii.Konher i.....r i i uim ; saKl be can men marked that no two are o he tnilv friends unless they to biusk in each other's company I Her. expression of word. Is the silence re occasions when f of 'uMi nnd reverent joy. w t h union a living eal and sign of he Infinite and confident rollowsi.p man. It is In ..I, .., f,.i!o that we karn tl.I of practice r.m. low to discipline ire. he proMiltjr of the gun con.panlonsbH ,,l(.es of mom vmssIhb . f formal .ellon and the useiew MW-ne- "'"" Ms An End to oELL-ANFOR INDIGESTION e Kill Ail two-oun- una PIiac! low-dow- lop-eare- d BEST USED TRUCKS ch 1 Children Cryjer oti " SALESMEN WANTED Wen to taka order for tailor ma4e Have onrn!nK in I'tHh, Idaho. j'jits. Wyomlnp; j.nd Nevada.. 150 Now a to mill at J?3. Union made. earnings from 175 to 1100 per week. The A. Nanh Company. 3 Tlraneh, Hovel l'ark Buil.JIriK, Suit City, I'tah Tha larg-ps- X pat-tern- the certitude of faith and confidence "The (surpasses the powers of speech. truth Is best spoken nt by us, but through us." says a philosopher writ "The witlug to -another bigI...Journal. ... ... If,.,i-u.ie or true ness oiscipieMi.. truth.' to the silent testimony Avc-r-Rfi- Inter-niountii- . t Cease. Cccd and Evil is evil nlwat-co- n He who imitates what that Is set beyond the example niwuys - Wm !- Brlllsh Rousing expcrt!i. sensing and danger In Indiscriminate building thai the enlargement ? towns, snggot nnd that .options ,,ew towns be bnlll d.Mii.i to the centers of population clardiril. ilW -. Suggest New Towns -- - ln 601-2-- tnilorlnt; - ! . CREEK, Sure Relief , of from w.rd:' because uiey mate to Mi.rem our MH"em-e- wax-wrappe- INC., Occasions Which Make Silence a Sacrament I!lv - r i com flakes 1 s .v - POST TOASTIES - railPQ "r.- Ask fc wit i'rtBfldences. Si r ir lat, 1ft b'"j rs. Polly did not t!lke ner usual She Ir'chtly delight in the spectacle. . I 11 Lnfn .... n...f A1TOC Tl"M till. u.ui i find hegan slapping thlnps together. Young Dabbs' room I left to the because well, because he was a decent young fellow and wasn't so fault- T.rnbulL III iuicaimS, herself further .immlf i - i ? fti ? 7 Kvvvi.VvNN. MOTH Eft Ike house the world. In o.,diii.,u. omvi,xi,.n th every wmuibo anJ VI.. t4.i'.irall,,n of frr ty uja n. K It V M i .1. ' a, II ,nrfl.Ko,l tornnlTtl.Kaa I h'n.-.BiI.ot xoroell : i..rr. Iiri',1-- lU.oKl.KT. Am orwrl'o lir. 0. IX. bony U.., Uept. W.Sllsr.nirdHer klloWtf4i will xV Fletcher's Te,, Castoria is a pleasant, harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Sooth inj Syrups, espe in arms and Children cially prepared for Infanta Chl'4jo, mm r. r. M PARKER'S I! Al 3AAt U.Klr.r! "tut $ 'W. -- "L DoautrtnCravanH c T a!l aes. &aS&&U To avoM imitation, always look for the signature of on r.rh p'i ' nc. 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