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Show TUB HELPER TIMES. HELPU. UTAH RECLUSE J -- 1 KV ; VtlFTH J AVENUE jwYNDHAM MARTYN COPYRIGHT th CHAPTER IX I Continued 18 'ft' will cause you and I have distress, fcnown men of your type to see red such moments." ltaxon balanced i square envelope in his thin hands. If It's blackmail you are thinking jf !u connection with me," said Bcornfully, "you are wasting im It's you who are using stupid stuff, not me. I tell tou, my life is an open book." "With one uncut page," Raxon remarked. "I've cut that page. It cost line and money, but it was the best svestment I ever made. Think back t bit over this life of yours that IS Is there anything in jn open book. t that might hurt you if It got out?" "Not a thing," cried McKImber But there was lacking that tog of confidence he had previously thown. Fear was mastering him. There was no madness about this man opposite. "Very well," said Raxon briskly. You talk of Tou force me to speak. e man who rose rourself as a !rom being a machinist to the ownersThat's hip of a vast organization. . In who s who its written ror ill the world to see. But there are tertaln omissions. I can supply them. That's why you are here, McKImber, !o listen to the writing between the .ilnes. When you were twenty you left I'tica for St. Louis and got a job in .he Davis foundry. There you studied drafting, and three years later, having made good, entered the employ of William Graham, Mrs. McKimber's uncle; who owned the Rochester Steel and Iron mills. Later you married his "Because exhibit ) tonsiderable in y. steady-eye- d At UNITED STATES W.N.U. SERAICE was curious, he reflected, that the sense of anger had left him. It was the measure of his defeat "I can't talk now. Tomorrow my brain will be clearer." Unsteadily he rose to his feet and walked to the door. Paul Raxon watched him go out, a broken man. Oriental in his absence of pity, he enjoyed humiliating one of McKimber's domineering sort. To bring low such gave him an Increased sense of power. He disliked big, arrogant men with loud voices and assured gestures. Raxon was aroused from his pleas ing reflections by a noise on the door. It was Alfred, the dark footman, who entered and told him that he was e wanted on the telephone. Raxon shut the precious envelope in his wall-saf- e and passed oni, not even glancing at the map who stood respectfully at the door. When Fleming Bradney was assured that Raxon had gone, he hurried back Into the room. Then he did a curious thing. lie kneeled down by one of the long-distanc- self-mad- ? J - I I i ) f ) J f I I I I f i ing it" "It was all done Innocently," Mc"As God Is my witness, I thought I was free to marry. In the divorce suit there was nothing that reflected on me personally." "What has that to do with it?" I Raxon asked cynically. "It may be that you thought you were free to I i marry. But that makes no difference. ,Tbe world won't think that. Westfleld ffun't think that' Nor will the big I ''apers that are supporting him. You're hrough, McKImber, that's all. You'll ; never hold public office again if this Sets out That's not all. You are go- , tag to help me into the senate, and I jour friends are going to help. If I your friends try and knife me, you are the one who will bleed." j I ; McKiniher sat motionless. Raxon I cared nothing about his Innocence. Guilty or innocent, McKImber was the loser. He turned dull eyes toward I the envelope Raxon held up. "In this is the entry of your first Someone cut a page out of j marriage. 1 the register and offered it to tne for le. I bought it. There pre also i tome letterr you wrote to your first j lfe whet, you found she was a secret 1 Milker. Her son by a second mnr-- I Mage sold them to my agent. Pathetic tetters In their way, but you know kw the modern yellow newspaper toughs at pathetic things, especially 1hen they affect political opponents. Hhope the need for publication may ver come. Some day they may be KImber protested. . ' ' long-distanc- long-distanc- e CHAPTER X niece." "Well," said McKImber, his throat 'constricting, "what about it?" "Your employer singled her out of ill his relatives and left his fortune ,to her on condition she married you. He had confidence In you. lie had read the open book and liked the con-- i tents. If he had had access to that incut page, he would have known that four first wife was still living." "I divorced her," McKImber cried, "I can prove it." 1 "The decree was not made absolute :ntll three months after you married It's a nice jour employer's niece egal point, and I've no doubt his other ephews and nieces would be quite eady to fight it If the condition of retting the fortune was your marriage 'o Graham's niece, you did not fullfll A t, because you did not marry her. 'igamous union is not marriage !n he eyes of the law. You must have mown that, or you wouldn't have gone through a second ceremony. The first carriage was by a justice of the The second was at a New ieace. lork church. You obtained Graham's fortune under false pretenses, and you were a bigamist It's no good deny- "Has Mta shown job anything yet? "No. None of us can go to ber rooin because she's supposed to be out fot the evening, and it's locked. Bradnej ays she wasn't as cheerful as sh might have been. I wonder why." "She might nave heard something damaging to McKImber." "Why should that distress her?" "Haven't you yet seen that your gin and Robin are in love with one another? My God," Malet went on passionately, to Barnes' extreme surprise, "are you so blind?" Floyd Malet had witnessed the whole affair. He was more sensitive to It than his companions, because be had fallen hopelessly in love with her himself. It was one of those charming and romantic attachments which come to men of middle years and bring them at first an agony that time transmutes to the truest of friendships, never wholly separated from the love which brought it to flower. "Nita would do nothing to upset our plans." Barnes said. "If she has one quality above others that I admire, it is loyalty. She'll stick by us." "I didn't doubt her loyalty," Malet said quietly. "There Is something which brings In its train great suffering. I leave tomorrow. I'm afraid I have not been much use." "Nita's as good as fired," said Barnes "Gertrude Raxon fights her ail the time. I shall be glad to get out of It. I've been talking to the Swedish maids about it. They seem certain 6he's going and don't want her to be cut down." generous wage-scal- e Barnes was presently called Into Mr. Raxon's presence. "It appears," said Raxon, "that yon told the other man to fetch me to the e call. telephone for a Central tells me there have been no calls since luncheon. How did that happen?" He looked keenly at 'Enry. "Central!" said 'Enry with lofty scorn. "If I was you, sir, I'd complain about that young woman. I've 'ad to speak to her very severe myself, but she don't care. With your permission, I'd like to call 'er up and give 'er a piece of my mind." "It would not be a valuable present," Raxon said. "I will see that this does not occur again." "Anything else, sir?" 'Enry sked, a trace of insolence in his voice. "Nita'a 88 Good as Fired," Said Barnes. bookcases and pried back a board Then he peered with a screw-driveInto the darkness where he had recently been mistaken for a rat Bradney reached into this space and pulled out Nita, head first She wore riding breeches and golf stockings, and at first could hardly stand upright. The constraint of the position had become torture. In Nlta's hands was a notebook, several pencils, and a flashlight Every word which had passed was taken down. It was her tfsk now to go to her room and transcribe it for Peter Milman's bener. fit It was not until the two had passed the danger zone trat they spoke. "Well," Bradney demanded, "did you get anything?" "I got everything," she answered, lie wondered why there was no exultation in her voice. Bradney resumed his duties, which consisted mainly in handing refreshments to thirsty dancers. For a little while he stood by Barnes. "It's all right," Bradney whispered; "she says she has everything." "She must be tickled to death at getting it eh?" "On the contrary, she looked depressed. I didn't understand It at the time. Of course, there was physical discomfort and constraint, and the possibility of being found out." "She'll be all right tomorrow," said Barnes gleefully. Later he had the opportunity to talk It over with Viscount d Guillain. "Well?" said the sculptor eagerly. "What happened?" He listened to what Barnes had to sny. Mrs. McKImber was only concerned that the girl her son chose should be She sufficiently in love with him. loved beauty, and had been attracted to Agatha at first sight Mrs. McKImber was prepared to help her son. Shf realized that it would not be easy u bring her husband to agree with her McKImber had learned that a senator, even from the Empire state, does not ex officio find the doors open to him that shelter the great names in American society. He wished Robin to marry Into a family which had entree to the best When Robin had gladly made the sacrifice, he found the girl put obstacles In the way. She did not flutter to his arms. She was no beggarmald to his King Cophetua. Gloomily he wondered if she was fond of some other man. The viscount was good looking; he had poise and breeding. Agatha had been brought up in Europe, where disparity In age is less u bar to marriage than In the United States. They had met before. They had common acquaintances, and the De Guillains, he was told, were all rich. Robin smoked many cigarettes over the problem. He was surprised to hear a knock at his door. It was his father who came In. "Why, father," he cried, "is there anything the matter?" Mr. McKImber was stooped. His bold, resolute carriage was gone. He looked as one might who had undergone severe mental or physical strain. "Not a thing," said the elder, with an effort at smiling. "I've been thinking, Robbie, and I see I have made a great many mistakes in my life." Robin listened in silence. Never before had he heard his father in anything but an assured and contented mood. "I tried to dictate to you awhile ago," said McKimber, "and I tried to dictate to the girl you're fond of. I told you if you didn't marry a girl 1 approved of we should pull apart. I told her that if anyone knowing what money you would Inherit thought she could get it by marrying you without my consent, there wouldn't be any money." Robin's face hardened. "You had no right to do that We may as well understand one another. I've asked Miss Brown to marry me. If I haven't your social ambitions. she won't murry me, nobody else will be asked." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Nast Suffered Under Handicap of Shyness ' ours." j I "What do you want for that tn- 'elope, if It contains what you say?" f i "You'll never ziave half enough to buy. it Why do you persist Underestimating me? Realize here I I "d now that you are beaten. You HI f j never go to the senate. If I don't ; i 1. then WestrieM wins, and you will I J to the traitor to your party. No fur-i- , ther discussion Is necessary. What Is It o be? j Absolute obedience, or do things go to Westfield?" ucKlmber's head dropped. There 8s ft consciousness of physlcul feebleness about him, a devitalization which toj bad never before It experienced. Honey to I j Aunt Sophronia's j Madness t r By JOHN DANFORTH 6 $ 3 $ ooo0o0 Coif Playing at Night With Luminous Balls It at first like a jubilee cele bration of some kind, as flare after flare streaked the night horizon of Van Cortlandt Park golf course, New looked COEMS ' ' "V York city. But these rocket-likstreaks were nothing other than "luminous" golf CAROLINE PORTMAN Irved In an balls being tried out by their Inventor, house with an old, old M. J. Bloomer, scientist of Columbia great-aun- t In one minute pain Trom corns is ended. who was going to leave her university. These luminous balls keep Dr. Seholl's Zino-pad- o do this Mfelf orphaned grandniece all her money. their light for ten minutes after bethe cosse pressing and by removing And rumor had it that old Miss Port-ma- n ing hit from the tee, and thus, with rubbing of shoes. Thoy are thin, mediwas as wealthy as she was stingy. the aid of electric over the lights cated, antiseptic, healing. At all drug If that were so the old lady was and shoe stores. Cost but a trifle. greens, the night becomes as day to wealthy indeed: for there was no the Insatiate golfer. Sportsmen now known economy that she did not pracpicture additional possibilities for tice. "You must marry a man with night golf with the aid of this ball and money," she told Caroline. "You will illumination of tee flags by Itino-pademploying have all I have got Money should the PmI one on the painisgoml piercing rays of the marry money." neon light which can be seen at great Caroline's life was not a very excit- distance and through fog, mist and ing one in the dreary old mansion. smoke. She fared sparsely and dressed cheaIn his experiments with the lumiplyshe who loved life and laughter, nous ball, Mr. Bloomer drove off eight and good fare and pretty clothes. balls from the first tee and located all But she compensated herself by Inof them within six minutes. Like Having the huge glow worms they nestled among dulging In day dreams. idea constantly dinned into her ears grass, leaf and tree far down the fairby the old lady, the thought of what ways and in the rough. she would do with wealth when it became hers could not help forming a Freak Coif in Scotland part of the day dreams of the girl. A freak golf match was played reThen along came Leonard Riccently in Scotland. It was an hmondand Caroline fell in love with course and the players agreed to meet him. Leonard was not rich. In fact, by moonlight Thty started at 0:30 he had nothing in the world but what p. m accompanied by spectators. No HOME he worked for, nnd she had to reconone could see the ball when it left the struct her castles In the air. But tee, so all stood In strained silence what did It matter? Some day she trying to hear It drop. Two brave would have enough for both of them. men, all in white, went ahead lighting When Aunt Sophronia finally woke matches to give the players a clew to up to what was going on she said: the right direction. They escaped "If you marry that pauper you need with their lives, although a ball passed not expect, a penny of my money. between the feet of one of them. The Send that young man about his busiballs were traced with the aid of elecness. He is a fortune hunter." tric flashlights. The match ended at Caroline protested that her Leonard 12:20. Not a single player made a She was hole in one, the match going to the was not a fortune hunter. or she expert who achieved a hole In 93. hlin to anyway marry going would remain single all her life. Then she burst Into tears and, after watchAll Start in Kansas lis SOLD ANO ing her a minute with a grim smile, A landmark, or "datum," placed at BY GUARANTEED EVERY DRUGGIST the old lady soothed her and said: the little town of Ogden, Kan., by the welof is It your only "Oh, Caroline, United States coast and geodetic surfare I am thinking. I want you to vey, Is the starting point for all surmadehANFORD'S nltT be far, far removed from poverty veys and boundaries In the United si84C6 Come of when I am gone. That is all. States. All government surveys are now, let us pick out a rich husband rrade on that basing line probably beIT MUST BE GOOD for you." cause that Is the geographic center of Try it for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, etc. Caroline and Leonard talked it over the country. Capper's Weekly. AH 4wlen w nthori! to refold jour bom? fr th brit battk ii lot raited that night for, in spite of Aunt prohibition, the Ineligible Romances of Industry youth persisted in calling. More than 60 subjects involved In "I suppose," said Leonard, "that the romantic task of taking wealth A VOTD d ropD nt itroni (I rugi In your aunt wants you to marry that from underground are depicted in a yet tore from Alkali or other irritation. Robert Cathcart fellow. He has money series of motion pictures prepared by The old iimple remedy or pretends he has and there Is no the bureau of mines, says Popular comfortlnit rollef brln that la beat. 25c, oil iruojuti doubt that he wants you or your Mechanics Magazine, and elaborate Hall t Bntkel, Sen TorkCH, aunt's money. I do wish you would equipment Including portable lighting not encourage him the way you do." candle furnish facilities that 12,000,000 "Encourage him?" cried Caroline. power, has been devised for the task, I am Just One of the PARKER'S "I don't encourage him. Illuminating units is a HAIR BALSAM civil to him and that is all. Don't be huge searchlight somewhat like that IttamoveaU&iidrutf StnpsHairKaJlinj so absurdly jealous." Color tvtid used on airplane landing fields. Fifty . r i it -j emvirBj, -- in. i aura u.:J was W very pensive trunks of lighting apparatus are Old Miss Portman kJ d uc. sndfliwal uruinruu. V. rVom. T. EW-,Wk. Jmmi and thoughtful for two days. Then ployed. In filming the "Story of Copnse in Ideal for : SHAMPOO see have were of the reels "I taken she said to Caroline you per" many connection with 1'arker's Ilair Balsam. not obeyed nie with regard to Leonard 8,000 feet below the surface. or mail at cent dru60 and hair eoft by fluffy. ggist. Jiiscox Chemical Works, Fatcbogue, M. 1. Richmond. The next time he calls tell him I want to see him. There, Headaches from Slight Colds For Women, who need effective douche powthere! Don't answer back. And when Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets reder, use aatringent, Hoothintf, Hafe. tor circular. II box, C.O.I). Robert Cathcart calls tell him, also, lieve the Headache by curing the Cold. Send Look for Blgrnature of E. W. Grove on Labor., Box 808, Sta. C, Los Angeles, Calif. that I want to see him. You are too the box. 30c. Adv. i shorthand special ;rkgg I'll mind. own now. only course by mail. Ptart Send $1 young to know your Full PAN DIEGO BUSIfirst two lessons. for take matters In hand and settle them. Potato in First Place NESS COLLEGE, SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Run along now. Don't you see I am Potatoes retain their popularity busy with my accounts?" while fads and fancies come and go, i6fcrtsi liifacli cream maks tlie &kin beautiiui for only Cathcart was the first to call and according, to J. W. Strowbridge, prin11.26. Free Booklet. Ask your dealer or write to him did Caroline deliver her aunt's Hi. C. H. Ben? C,, Itopt, W.28. iehtt Aw., Chlcag cipal marketing specialist assistant of message. the division of fruits and vegetables, The interview between Cathcart United States bureau of agricultural and Miss Portman was not long. Aunt economics. The potato, Mr. Strow- been relieving coughs due to colds Sophronia was not given to wasting brldge says, is more widely grown has for sixty-on- e years. words. When the young man rejoined than any other commercial vegetable he unusually in the country. Caroline appeared thoughtful and a trifle vexed. Caroloosens the phlegm, promotes expecto- line tried in vain to find out what her ff you like to gloat, set the alarm ration, gives a good night's rest free) aunt had said to him, but Cathcart clock for an hour when you don't have from coughing. 30c and 90c bottles. Buy it at your drug store. O. G. Green, put her off with Jests'and rather wry to get up, and then don't Inc., Woodbury, N. J. than his earlier leave smiles, taking usual. W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. Virtue alone is true nobility. "Oh," thought Caroline, "I do hope auntie has said something to offend him and that he will keep away in She can't repryach me for future. his keeping away If It Is because of something she said herself. I do wonder what It was. though." So we've put Then came Leonard and, Caroline him to situation the a dainty blue explained having first. It was his turn for a seance and white with Aunt Sophronia. china cup and saucer in every "Young . man," said the old lady when they were alone, "Is1 it my niece or my money that you are hanging around after? If It's my money you I can spare yourself the trouble. huven't any money. 1 pretend I hnve. haven't. I scrimp and save, not but because I am parsimonious as people think, but because I have to And It has been my ambition to see m.v niece so married that she will never know the stings of poverty as have known I have carefully mil h tiled h them. reputation for wealth In order flint Prepared the Carnation Oats Albers way wealthy suitors might seek her h;;nd. told nil this to Cut heart and he are precooked for quick cried off What do you say?" to improve the "You don't know how happy you flavor. "I have h make me," cried Leonard good position, a good salary iiml a Caroline of advancement. surety shall never know poverty I think I I make enough can promise that. now to support her and you. too. Miss Portman. Let me marry her nnd you will never have to scrimp and All save nny more." "Well, well," said Aunt Sophronia. For generations Cuticura Soap and Oint"we'll sec. Go now and make love to ment have afforded the purest, sweetest and most satisfactory method of piomoting and her." was A week Inter old .Miss Purttriiin maintaining a healthy condition of skin men find the and scalp. Tender-face- d gathered to her fathers In her nineCuticura Shaving Stick a When said. tieth year, the paper necessity. Cuticura Talcum is an ideal her will was prolmted It wns found powder, cooling and refreshing. that fcbe hud left her niece a fortune Foup 8Ee. Ointment 26 snd Me. Talcum Mr. Sold everyof nearly half a million dollars. Some where. Snmple mrh free. AdOrcas I "ObUobts D.pt 83, MaJdeo, 1" " said the old lady had neeii n trill, jjlljf Cuticura ShsTWf Stick 25a. been method mad; but If so there had In her madness. CopyrigbL e Ends pain at once mScholl's s now-popul- sizej lMONEy jgnFffiSBK Balsam Myrrh 1 Mitchell Eye Salve For SORE EYES I Maki-sth- Wo-N- e Boschee's Syrup Soothes the Throat Cups and saucers are the first to break! 1 1 1 1 r r ? Excessive shyness was an affliction of Thomas Nast. the great cartoonist, who lifted caricature from Its obscuras one of the ity to Its present position most potent agencies for creating and was influencing public opinion. He of havthought the very at appalled in person. After ing to face a crowd other agencies had coaxed in vain for his services on the lecture platform after a repRedpath's succeeded only on his trail had camped resentative the for months. It was explained to back to his could he keep that artist do his audience, lotting his crayon turn need and the of talking, most remarn only occasionally for a brief Illusof tour the for up Nast signed brief simplic the and trated lectures made quite a hit with his audiences. On one occasiou In Philadelphia he went to his black' board on the stage and rapidly drew the outlines of a great building, then turning his head he remarked dryly. A "You see I can draw a house." the theater was packed, the audieml decided he had intended the possible1 double meaning and a storm of ap that plause ensued. He earned season, but got "homesick" toward tii close and cauceled engagements that would have brought $5,000 niora-Kans- ns Ci'7 Star. ity of his remarks Cuticura Preparations the Family for freely-latheri- ng Isoors-fcult- The discovery that germs ram disease was made by Louis Pasteu' fifty years ago a, |