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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER, UTAH LALLU TRUNK . 7 rri swer was merely a hesitating admission that she had wondered what he wanted of her. He seemed a little put out by the way she phrased it. "I don't want anything of you at all," be as"The only sured her earnestly. thing I want is to do something for you. This is going to be the best thing you ever did, coming to see me. Think now. Didn't your father ever tell you anything about HENRY KITCHELL me?" WEBSTER W.N.U. SERVICE COPYRIGHT hf Th B0BB5- MERRILL CO. "" " -- " " with the reflection- that it wouldn't do any good. How had it At a dance Martin Forbes, happened? How couJd they have known she'd come here when she newspaper reporter, meets "Rhoda White." He overhears a conversahad only turned into the hotel on a Lewis Max and tion between the spur of the moment, in pursuit woman which he believes concerns Rhoda. He recalls a "blind of Claire. She'd never even heard ad" inquiring for "Rhoda McFar-land- " of C. J. Forster until Martin had and senses a newspaper told her about him last night Her notion that the hotel clerk and all story. He believes that Rhoda's real name 's McFarland. She rethe rest of them had mistaken her fuses to admit or deny it, but for some one else would no longer Martin was right. Her life in serve as an The man California bad been happy after in the blue explanation. serge suit must have her mother's death until misforher, though his stiff recognized tune cvercame her father. Professor McFarland. They move to face had not betrayed the fact. It sudhad been as Mr. Forster's agent Chicago. The professor dies denly, vainly trying to tell Rhoda that he had come to the studio about "papers" in a trunk. Rhoda last night to see whether she lived gets a job as stenographer and there, it had been on the strength takes rooms with "Babe" Jenof his report that Mr. Forster himnings. Martin discovers that the "blind ad" advertiser Is C. J. self in his limousine had followed her and Babe this morning, offered Forster. Rhoda admits her identhem the lift Babe had so gladly tity- A mysterious "Claire CleveInterland" asks Rhoda for an and incidentally, found view. Claire requests Rhoda to accepted, That out where they worked. of that hers certain papers get were In McFarland's possession.' seemed to hang together. It was a queer sort of room she She reveals knowledge of the was in large, well proportioned, trick that wrecked McFarland's life. The trunk Is stolen and with a high barrel-vaulteceiling, Rhoda suspects Claire and trails hut rather heterogene-ousl- y her to the hotel where Forster beautifully turmshed, partly as a drawing-lives. Martin ses the trunk checked and partly as an office, at the depot by one Lewis, tin be room since there was an enormous Jennings gets the check and disappears. desk, bare except for a bronze bust of Napoleon, in the CHAPTER VIII Continued middle of it. What was it that made the piace seem so queer? floor appeared Why, there wasn't a window in the The twenty-fourtto be the topmost. There were red whole room ! "Down" lights only over all the The early twilight of a cloudy It didn't appear autumn afternoon was already elevator doors. to be a regular hotel floor, either, closing in, which might be why she at least not the whole of It, for hadn't noticed the absence of daythe broad corridor was cut off by light in the room when she first a transverse partition of oak and came in. But was that the only ground glass, as in an ofllce build- reason? Probably not. There were went over and pictures nil around the walls, big, ing. The bell-bopressed the bell button beside a handsome oil paintings regulariy solid door which had no legend nor spaced, all of them heavily framed numerals whatever upon its panel. and In shadow boxes with a special Thpre was no immediate resnonse. light over each, and they broke up "Where are you taking me?" the wails more or less as windows Rhoda asked, trying to hide her would. nervousness. The biggest of them all was above the fireplace down at the He seemed surprised at the forster doesn't come end of the room. It was a landfrown to his office much, ' he said, scape which Rhoda decided looked "lie's got a regular house up on as if it had been painted from the roof of the hotel. This little stage scenery rather than from naprivate elevator takes you tip to ture itself. The thing that held Rhoda's Interest down at that end St. It'll be down in a minute." "Heavens 1" Rhoda exclaimed. of the room was the Are that was "Does he own the hotel?" blazing in the grate just before it It was an unusually picturesque "And howl" said the boy. The door opened upon a small fire, with its leaping flames, and private elevator with a big man in Rhoda stared at it a full not in the wondering why she didn't hear It He was dressed hotel livery but in a blue serge suit it purr or crackle before she discoat. Rhoda covered that it wasn't a fire at all. with a stared. Where had she seen him It was a highly ingenious electrical before? counterfeit and must have cost a said. lot of money. No doubt Mr. Fors"Miss White," the "It's all right, miss," the man ter was correspondingly proud of she'd involuntarily It, though why, she wondered, was for said, backed away at the sight of him. the chair that was obviously his "Mr. Forster's expecting you." placed on the wrong side of his Reluctantly, beginning now to desk, not where he could watch trembln a little, she stepped into the leaping artificial flames, but the elevator, denouncing to herself with his hack to them? as she did so the Impulse to exThe door opened and Mr. Forster. claim that it was all a mistake, and supported by one of his canes and to run. There wasn't anywhere on the arm of the man In the blue to run to, for one thing. Rut she serge suit, came into the room. might have tried it anyhow if she'd He paused Just outside the door remembered two seconds sooner for a sharp, faintly puzzled look at her, as if he'd expected his appearance to produce some sensation that hadn't come off. Then he gave way what had been in bis mind by saying, "We've already met today, you see." "Yes," she answered, a little vaguely, "I know." The puzzle that had again come up sharply In her own mind was why he should have taken her being here for granted. She couldn't talk to him, though, daring his slow, painful progress across the room townrd the big chair she'd assumed was his. After he was seated he Indicated the chair at the end of the desk, facing the imitation fire, ns the one he wanted her to take. Then he said to his attendant. "That's all; you needn't wait I shan't want you until I ring." Was It pure imagination on her part, or had he given that order as If he meant something special by it? The man's going was noiseless, and since Forster didn't Immediately speak to her after he'd gone out It seemed almost as if he were waiting for something. The Intensity of the silence again became noticeable and frightened her a little lie may have observed this, for what he said was. In a low, "He's Got a Regular House Up on husky voice, "I'm very sensitive to the Roof of the Hotel." sound don't like sudden noises or I've got this room who the man in blue serge was. loud voices.sound-prooThat's a He was the man who'd come to practically their studio last night pretending felt ceiling up there, though you for the city wouldn't know It I suppose you've to be a name-take- r been wondering why I sent for directory. His manner remained perfecfJy you?" So he'd sent for her, had he? civil as he led her out of ttie elevator and ushered her across a broad Most likely he'd left a message of hall Into a room, where he asked some sort at the paper which she'd or if she would mind waiting a hnve received If she'd gone back w minutes. That Mr. Forster, she said. to work t)Ia afternoon. own see tier uirecuy. u me pretty well disposed of her misgivf some trap were closing upon her ing that she'd been lured Into a If he'd contemplated anyne wasn't meant to be aware of trap. them yet. thing ugly or dangerous, like de"He closed after him as he went taining her against her will, he out the door they had come In by wouldn't openly have summoned and she noted In her first panicky her to his apartment. lie thought glance about the room that Its she'd come in answer to his sumiUier doors were closed also. mons. Well, It wouldn't do any ?Ti('re wus complete silence. harm for the present to let htm So ber an She checked her impulse to go on thinking bo. WHAT WENT BEFORE fiight 2 d d h y ques-li,tIo- half-minut- e double-breaste- d bell-bo- jb That was the connection, then. A part at least, of what Cluire had been telling her at lunch was true. She answered with cautious vagueness, "I don't know. He may have." "Well, of course," he said, "you were a pretty small girl when I hired him, I knew about you, though. 1 even saw you a few times out walking with him. I remember your red hair. That's how I rec--' ognized you this morning, and I'm There glad I found you at last. have been times when I was about ready to give it up." "Why," she asked, "were you so anxious to find me?" "Why?" he echoed. "Of course I wanted to find you. I'd never have lost you if I hadn't been sick I myself when your father died. was a mighty good friend to your father, l'ou might say I was the He was a fine only one he had. man. Smart, too, there's no denying that. Only not practical, and smartness don't get you anywhere - without that "But what I want to tell you Is that you've found a friend, that's the long and short of it- I'm an old man, old enough to be your grandfather, and I'm still an old bachelor without chick or child of So I want you should my own. feel you can come to me with any of your troubles. Ask me for anything you want within reason, that Is. "I'll give you a better job than you've got down there with the newspaper, where you'd get more money and wouldn't have to work so hard. You could come here and do secretary work for me. Settle I down and live right here, too. mean that You can go home and pack your trunks and move In here The fact Is, it this afternoon. would suit me if you did that very thing." Rhoda had to admit to herself that this was, intrinsically, a good plausible explanation of his search for her. She had, as it proceeded, found herself wondering why she wasn't believing a word of it. She had known nothing of the nature of her father's actual labors, but she did know the passion that had inspired them and the hope of sudden great fortune that had still been burning In him the very night He begged the doctor he died. for enough of the drug to keep him Those going a few hours more. memories couldn't be reconciled with the sort of job this man was talking about. Why was he trying to make it look like that? Why had he gone out of his way to lie about it? That was the question In her mind when he wound up his speech, with the suggestion that she pack up her trunks and move into this palatial apartment of his this very afternoon and the word trunk struck a spark from it. "It may be," Claire had said at lunch, in discussing Forster's reason for advertising for her, "that he thinks you've got some paper of your father's that he wants." Had Rhoda's father been as near success the night he died as he believed he was? That would account for Forster's lying about his Job, for his belittling It all he could. There was a paper, then, and Forster knew it and had been trying for nobody knew how long to get It Rut Claire knew about it too. and Claire had found her first Claire's scheme for getting the paper had failed, probably through the treachery of her confederate. Max. But Forster hadn't got It either, or he wouldn't be sitting there now telling her how kind he meant to be to her, urging her to go home and pack her trunlo and come and have her home with him. She looked up at him now and found him staring at her with a look of consternation. "What's got into yon?" he asked. "What are you thinking about, all of a sudden. What makes yon look like that?" "1 was thinking," she said, "that even If I did come here to live I conldn't bring all my trunks. Yon see, the little hat trunk that had all my father's papers In It was stolen while I was out at lunch today." CHAPTER IX Some Light and More Darkness. expected that statement SHE had startle him, but she'd no- where near guessed what the force of the explosion would be. The utter disintegration of panic that his whole appearance betrayed would have been ludicrous If it had not been revolting. His face had gone a sickly shiny yellow. A door had opened and the man In the blue serge suit was In the room. "Yes, sir?" he said Interrogatively. "I didn't ring, Conley," Forster toid him, without looking around. "Understand now, I shan't want you until I ring." It was precisely the same phrase, Rhoda noted, that he'd used In dismissing the mnn the other time. It was no doubt a code order to station himself at some listening post where be could hear everything they said. "What was It yon were saying?" Forster asked. 'That some trunk of yours had been stolen?" "Yes," she said, "my hat trunk, while I was out at lunch. At least I think I went that's when it was. When to the studio after lunch, about two o'clock, I found it gone." Went home after lunch, did your he asked, after a sharp look at her. "What kind of hours do you keep on your Job?" "I had this afternoon off," she back "I didnt go back to the paper at all." "Well, then, he demanded, "how did you get my message that you were to come up here and see me?" She hadn't foreseen the question, and her instinctively truthful answer was, "I didn't" "Well," he persisted, "how did yon know who I was or where I livedt What did you come here for?" She smiled at him as she said, I came "It's rather complicated. here without having planned to, and I was surprised when I found you were expecting me. I didn't know anything about you until last night Kven tlieu I hadn't decided to anI dldu't swer the advertisement connect you with my father, you see, nor know that you'd been his friend. Weil, last night I got a letter from a woman I'd never heard of before, asking me to lunch with her today. She said she'd known my father well and had something very important to talk to me about. I went to lunch with her to find out what It was. What she seemed interested in was my father's papers, whether he'd left any and whether I had destroyed them. I told him. WORLD WAR YARNS by Lieut. Frank E. ess. Wakeful Hagan GASIPI restless CHILD fan onet "See here," he demanded finally of the Intelligence man. "Don't you require any discipline in your American troops toward officers? This soldier here," and he Indicated a watchful Infantryman, "is grossly familiar. The pig calls ma an otlicer, by my first name Heinle, whenever he speaks to me!" Illustrating the point further Is the experience of a wounded American who, from his prone position in a wheat field, witnessed the stately appearance of a German with officer prisoner, resplendent his medals and wearing a monocle. From time to time the huge man turned his head nervously and ap peared to flinch as from ticklish contact with a bayonet. So he was, for as the little party drew near the wounded Americati perceived that the German ad vanced at the will of an American negro, equally as large as his gorgeous prisoner. , white folks," was the colored man's salutation. "Ah doesn't know rightly what I'se got, but 1'se Mo" I. Such Informality! Sometimes the American doughboy may have been dazzled by the sartorial splendor and haughty demeanor of German officer prisoners One but was never dismayed. front in 1018 saw the capture of a sizeable bag of such prisoners. These were brought to the read where an intelligence officer questioned them as the doughboys guarded their prisoners zealously. One of the Germans grew restive under the attention he was receiving from the man with the bay- he MtncMl needs Castoria Wi makes an infant can never be sure just what restless, but the remedy can always be the same. Good old Castoria! 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All through babyhood, Castoria should be a mother's standby; and a wise mother continues it in more liberal doses as a child grows up. call Heavy Advertisers Nothing New in Idea advertisers by indusThe largest of Power From Ocean tries In 37 magazines in 1028 general as So far the dispatches Indicate, were the following: Food, toilet a power machine that has been set goods, house furnishings and equipat Claude Frof. Georges tip by ment passenger cars, electrical (InCuba, with its gigantic pipe radio) and wearing apparel. cluding for bringing up cold water from the bottom of the sea, does not involve any principles unknown to science. It was shown long ago that water, If confined in a vacuum, will give off v ' steam at temperatures far below its t', . It along!" ordinary boiling point, and also that cold water will condense the steam Denny, a Dog Hero and restore the vacuum. So that "He was "only a dog," but he was when Professor Claude takes advanthe hero of five battles on the west- tage of this and uses warm water ern front he was honorably dls from the surface to produce the charged from the army at Camp steam and cold water from the botin 18 111., after the tom to months H New Exterminator that "Come to That, How Did You Grant condense it again, he is not thick of the fighting in France and Won't Hill Livestock, Poultry, Know Yourself?" main an The Innovator. exactly Belgium, and when he died last year Dofja, Cats, oi even Baby Chlcka told her I hadn't; Fd kept them all he was given a military funeral by question, then, is whether his Invencan be used about the home.barn or rout-tr- y and tion is commercially Important, together In a trunk. She said she'd an American Legion post. yard with absolute safety as it contains no is made of Squill, aa recomFor Denny was a member of the on this one would like to have more leadly poison. given him a letter to keep for her by U.S. Dept of Agriculture. and now she wanted it back. Site Harry E. Kelley post of the Legion expert opinion, formed after thor- mended under the Connable process which insures maxHe was born In ough observation on the spot Ac- imum strength. Used by County Agents in most suggested that I take her home with of Elkhorn, Wis. Thirty-seconk Guarantee. rat killing campaigns. di me to my room, you know and a dugout of the cording to the dispatches, the appaoriginal 8quill ertermln-ator.A- ll let her help me find it. I told her vision In Belgium In 1918. Sergt. ratus generated enough powerto light Insist upon 75c, $1.25.$2jOO. Direct if dealer druggists, that that wasn't necessary, but that Tom O'Keefe adopted the puppy. 40 cannot supply you bulbs, but whether this r I'd find it for her If I could. When The animal was gassed at E5F5&a efXi and sent to a base hospital power was in excess of the power I said that, she excused herself needed to pump cold water up from from the lunch table to go out and for treatment as were his dough9 When the dog was the bottom is not stated, and it Is telephone. When she came back she boy friends. had been O'Keefe cured a very vital point. Sergeant kept talking and ordering more food so that I couldn't get away transferred to the First division To the layman the whole device After his looks like a second cousin to a perWhen I finally got away and went and Denny went along. Immense Wistaria Vine home, I found that the trunk wit.i experience with gas at Montdidier A floral spectacle which has taken petual motion machine, and theremy father's papers in It was gone." his master fashioned a gas mask fore not very promising ; but this ob- 37 years to perfect Is blooming at His little gimlet eyes had been for him. This mask never left the jection was raised to the locomotive, Sierra Madre, Calif., at the home of boring right into ber all the while dog until after the armistice. she talked. Now, at her first pause, Denny went with the Army of the steamboat and the airplane when Mrs. T. II. Fennell. It is a wistaria Perinto Germany: they were in the experimental stage. vine, which is more than 500 feet he barked out "Who was this Occupation woman?" haps the darkest hours of his That any of these could possibly long and believed to be the largest of "She told me," Rhoda answered, whole 13 years came when It seemed carry enough fuel to propel Itself its kind In the world. It completely "that her name was Claire Cleve- inevitable that he must be left be- was held to be a prima facie absurd- circles the Fennell home, and during hind as his master was about to land." ity; yet they did propel themselves, the last decade has extended its A deluge of rain A sudden suffusion of blood in sail for home. and at a pretty lively clip. The very twining branches on neighboring oaks and saved O'Keefe his face turned it purple. He boat Sergeant Denny least that can be said for Professor and three large arbors constructed to Denied from the being separated. feebly but furiously upon his de.sk is that he has tackled a proj- accommodate its amazing Claude on of with a loosely clenched hand. "So right shipgrowth. taking Denny board, O'Keefe smuggled him on ect that men have often speculated you've Joined up with that blackto a and it brought point Peware of the tonic In platonlc. mailing woman, have you?" he under his raincoat, and brought him about, back safely to this country. where its possibilities can be defsaid. The National Legion convention "I haven't joined up with her initely determined. It may prove to at all," Rhoda retorted. "I've Just at Kansas City In 11)21 presented be as impractical as schemes to utibeen telling you I think she stole Denny with an O. D. blanket with lize the latent power of the tides. my trunk. She talked to me about one wound stripe and a medal tes- But It may eventually be lighting you quite a lot at lunch after tifying to his participation In five our cities. 'Newest Hotel she'd come black from the tele- major battles. 4 phone, that is. She said she'd seen your advertisement for me in the It Came Just in Time FORCOLDS-ALKALIN- IZE newspaper." Take it from the Stars and He pounced upon her here with a question. "My advertisement? Stripes, A. E. F. newspaper, the 2 V How did she know it was mine? It Armistice came Just In the nick of to rabbit skin from time prevent caps wasn't signed. Come to that, how being Inflicted upon the American did you know yourself?" I what soldiers Here's the "A friend of mine on the paper YOUR SYSTEM paper found out for me," Rhoda said. said about It in its Issue of June 6. 1019: "But I was wrong in saying that exof what "Regardless military Claire knew. She said she thought Doctors everywhere are prescribperts may claim as to the condiit probably was you." tills new treatment for colds: ing "Call her Claire, do you," he tions among the allied troops on Begin when you feel a cold comcommented, "when you never saw November 11, It Is now revealed ing. Take a tablespoonful of Philfrom Washington that the Armiher before today?" This slip had rattled Rhoda. stice was not signed a moment too lips' Milk of Magnesia, morning, noon and night, the first day. Do the She'd been aware of It as it left soon. While there Is still no quesner tongue. "She asked me to call tion as to the morale of the oversame second day. Then only at night her that" she explained, "and I seas troops at that time, this morale Colds reduce the alkalinity of your did, though I hated to because I could never have held up under the system. That's what makes you feel was reached in shower the rabbit hated ber. And the real reason 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Philachy, feverish, weak, half-sicI came to see you was because she ments prepared for the A. E. F Milk In Is alkali of Magnesia in every room. lips' Radio connection climax of the this and Invention urged me so strongly not to. I checks thought she must have some rea- showed was reached In the rabbit harmless, palatable form. It RATES FROM $1.50 . son of her own for not wanting me skin cap. Just what kind of a cap the symptoms of colds by restoring Just oppotitt Mormon TabtmacU to come. She said that you'd been it was going to be has been kept the alkalinity of your system. the cause of all her trouble. She from the A. E. F. so far, but any Believes sour stomach, indigestion, C. ROSSITER, Mgr. ERNEST said you were a terrible person way, It was going to be an atithen All drugstores. gas, tic Issue because Washington had that liked to get young girls." He broke In with an ugly laugh. adopted it fidl limits by Mail. Large profits. 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