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Show mm "WMMMMUHUraKSilLI'JUHMm ai a rbere ought to ut i municipal pound Anyhow, eggs at 65 centa for unmuzzled motor cars. help to keep the vest clean. Three Men aiidailaidl Copyright by George H. Doran SSSStu- Friendly ! MERCIFUL ESCAPE . Himett. 1 World- - W "Th in New York her during tour. Windlee. ances-fill, her. of the Hignetts U his. - ?' Lon-lawy- er. to-;S- er i heart-broke- appears, that . ? spiral ..... It n. his - mother hadand dehis trousers !WiIhelmlna haa declared ine wea- Bam 18 Pusnea over-- . Jlng pSt ymm -a rtcsnerate strusrele ipgaiu, ii the water with another swim mer and rejoins the Atlantic at girl ,uirantlne. The riiiiimlni Rennett "Billle." II ntiun"". 3h halls Sm as a hero and introduMS flream. Eustace, a poor ..n. Von to his berth. He Sotm't know Billle is on board. He Sim makes warm love. Sam plans Is accepted. to ling In the ship's concert and fwfM Eustace to promise to be Ihii accompanist. Sam blacks op l.nl li made rlillcnlous. Eustann 111 eonsoled by Jane Hubbard, Mend of Billle. Sam and BlUle - y quirreL Continued CHAPTER VII 9 soul-mate,- fffell, what can you do when your Itlst runs out on you?" Hon could have done something. I forgive a man for looking rldleu- - its nai, sue cneu, in- try to give an Imitation on, wum, ed you to v Williams?" Bert started, stung to the Quick. 4u vnsui wiuiaras. it was Ink Tlnney!" , "Well, how was I to know?" itn my best," said is the awful Sam sullenly. thought." I did It for your sake." "I know, it gives me a horrible i of guilt" She shuddered again. a suddenly, with the nervous icbess of a woman unstrung, nit small black golliwog Into his j'ldid "That m 'Take It!" this?" it for me yesterday at itarbes shop. It is the pres-- f flt fou have given rae. only Take It "What's "lou bought i," "tot want it. I shouldn't it." know t to do with y'W take 'it," she said In a "It is a symbol." must iwiatr Hmhoi of our broken love." see how you make that out. "t s golhwrg." never J marry you t! Good heavens! l now." Don't be can't" . have a dash on, at it." ha thougn hls heart Imaging,,, J sook her head H I couldn't." "Uang it an,.. Im straiW girl 8 ..." SiZ rightl youhave -- t0 don't set ti'ii me an tr, to hTJjWrl he retortgolllogs." hsh,,, - f P". Can't neat. . : ,.:r. h-Wtien i . '"'siJonuently. ' l you. .arry stood to 1011 . tin "Vs ",at iW0!hl..,.fi noble and I . (J I. I had only to njure ... V Job 8 pictur e Von ,it.... " W.(-(ill "ii ute rau .1 mat b(-I voice trembled Shut laa nit. ?.es r,"w I can only see "l's black face mak- kboself v. "t me nW Clin I thiPlcturer 'rry yUl haanfe,, ' . aU . U I r n fin. lUr shee-lnin- as if f:rwr,'d,n brnt fDJsht I ..exp?cu'J me to come to cork." nh of hs I saw 'u arr-mo- r, h d fine-mes- h full-pag- e i bull-calve- s - . ."' . HI ill mi"Knhwnv In New 51 of ''hall ? : unmarried. Enter phV Sam. son of Sir Mai- the eminent W Marlowe, It is arranged that an4 Eustace shall .all on the Atlantic the next Bream Mortimer, Enter i African, son of a friend of an named American WrabJe ' has been pestering ?m HlJett to lease Wlndles. Wll- Brffl informs her that hilnlna Bennett Is waiting for t the Little Church Bream hlm- Round the Corner. with Wilhelmlna. U i In love off to Eus-- J Mn. Hlfnett marches tiet'f room. The scene shifts to Sam. tln Atlantic at her pier, meets beading for the gangplank, i. jijrious, girl, with 'whom lie Instantly falls in love, itiourh ner dog bites him. Eus-.JC- 4 ,$ WTnn-irTCTimmr- Ant Spreading Light" on . Miiai He knows women a i , T a result of that now Women! What concert my engagement mighty m8 have Is broken off." not been done by women? Who was t Eustace sprang forward with betrayed the A womhand. an ! Who lost . . . lost . . . lost "Not really? How snlendld ! who er and so on? a woman my eongratulatlnnot tm- So all Is over! There Is me- miesinothing to be thin that could nossiblv is said but good-byhlv hnn. pened. These are not Idle words. As "No." . one who has been "Good-by- , engaged to the girl then, Miss Bennett!" himself. I speak feelingly. You are well "Good-by.- " said Billle sadly "i-- rm out of it, Sam." sorry." Sam thrust aside his hand. Had it "Don't mention It!" been his neck be might have clutched it "You do understand, don't you?" eagerly, but he drew the line at shaking "You have made everything perfect- hands with Eustace Hignett. ly clear." "My heart is broken," he said with "I hope I hope you won't be undignity. happy." "That feeling will pass, giving way "Unhappy !" Sara produced a stran- to one of devout ! gled noise from his larynx, like the I've been there. thankfulness. I know After all. . . . Wila of in cry shrimp pain. "Unhappy! helmlna Bennett . . . what is she? A I'm not unhappy! Whatever gave vou rag and a bone and a hank of hair." that Idea? I'm smiling! I'm laughing! "She is nothing of the kind." said I feel I've had a merciful Sam, revolted. escape." "It's very unkind and rude of you to "I'ardon me," said Eustace firmly, "I say that." speak as an expert. I know her and I "It reminds me of a m picture I repeat, she is a rag and a bone and a saw in New York. It .ti; was called, hank of hair!" 'Saved From the Scaffold.' " "She is the only girl in the worn, "Oh !" and owing to your Idiotic behavior I "I'm not unhappy. What have i t have lost her." to be unhappy about? What on eanh "You speak of the only girl In the does any man want to get married for? world," said Eustace blithely. "If you I don't . . . Give me my gay bachelor want to hear about the only girl In the life! My uncle Charlie used to say, world, I will tell you. A week ago I 'It's better luck to get married than it was In the Subway in New York. . . ." "I'm going to bed," said Sara brusoue- is to De Kicked in the head by a mule.' But he was an optimist. Good night, !y. "All right. I'll tell you while you're Miss Bennett Ahd good-bforever." He turned on his heel and strode undressing." "I don't want to listen." across the deck. From a white heaven "A week ago," said Eustace Hignett, the moon still shone benignantly down, mocking him. He bad spoken bravely ; "I will ask you to picture me seated. the most captious critic could not but after some difficulty. In a New York have admitted that he had made a good subway ; I got Into conversation with a exit. But already his heart was aching. girl with an elephant gun." Sam revised his private commlnntlon As he drew near to his stateroom, he was amazed and disgusted to hear a service In order to Include the elephant high tenor voice raised In song pro- gun. " "She was my proceeded ceeding from behind the closed door. Eustace with quiet determination. "I didn't know It at the time, but she was. g I fee-e- r naw faw In She had grave brown eyes, a wonderful Though his lance be sharrrp and-e- r keen; personality, and this elephant gun. She I fee-e- r But I fee-e- r, the glah-mo- r was bringing the gun away from the lashes seen: Therougrh thy downtown place where she had taken It I fee-e- r, . . . I fee-e- r the glah-mto be mended." Sam flung open the door wrathfully. "Did she shoot you with It?" That Eustace Hignett should be alive "Shoot me? What do you mean? was bad he had pictured him hurling Why, no !" himself overboard and bobbing about, "The girl must have been a fool I" a pleasing sight, In the wake of the said Sam bitterly. "The chance of a vessel; that he should be singing was lifetime and she missed it. Where are an outrage. Remorse, Sam thought, my pajamas?" should have stricken Eustace Hignett "I naven't seen your pajamas. She dumb. Instead of which, here he was talked to me about this elephant gun, comporting himself like a blasted lin- and explained its mechanism. You can net. It was all wrong. The man could Imagine how she soothed my aching have no conscience whatever. heart. My heart, if you recollect, was "Well," he said, sternly, "so there aching at that moment quite unnecessarily if I had only known because it you are!" looked Eustace Hignett up brightly, was only a couple of days since my eneven beamingly. In the brief interval gagement to Wilbelmina Bennett had which had elapsed since Sam had seen been broken off. Well, we parted at Sixty-sixtstreet and, strange as it him last an extraordinary transformation had taken place in this young man. may seem, I forgot all about her." "1 o it again !" His wan look had disappeared. His it again?" "Tell wore that His face were bright. eyes "Good heavens, no! Forget all about smirk which you beastly see In pictures advertising certain her again." If "Nothing," said Eustace Hignett underwear. f makes gravely, "could make me do that. Our Eustace Hignett bad been a Our beings have souls have blended. drawing In a magazine with "My dear been called to one another from their wear SuperI Sigsbee's fellow, always . . . There are fine Featherweight !" printed under- deepest depths, saying. in the corner. . . over looked your pajamas, neath him, he could not have 'You are mine!' How could I saying, himself. with more pleased her after that? Well, as I was "Hullo !" he said. "I was wondering forget we parted. Little did I know saying, where you had got to." was sailing on this very boat! she that "Never mind," said Sam coldly, But just now she came to me as I "where I had got to! Where did you writhed on deck. . . ." get to, and why? You poor, miserable "Did you writhe?" asked Sam with a worm." he went on in a hurst or gen flicker of moody Interest. erous Indignation, "what have you to "I certainly did." mean say for yourself? What do you "That "s good !" by dashing away like that and killing "But not for long." my little entertainment? "That's hail." I hailn t "Site came to me and healed me. Awfully sorry, old man. foreseen the cigar. I was hearing up Sam, that girl Is an angel." sniff the "Switch off the light when you've fintolerably well till I began to smoke. Then everything seemed to go ished." black I don't mean you. of course. "She seemed to understand without Yon were black already and I got the a word how I was feeling. Ttiere are on deck some situations 'which do not need feeling that I simply must get words. She won! away and returned and drown myself." demanded didn't with a mixture of some kind In a glass. you?" - ... Well, whv nl. "I don't know what It was. It kad Sam. with a strong sense ot n.im v. to Put same in it. She put It to then. Worcester might have forgiven you ... made me drink It. She She my lips. come down here and find you siog said ii was "hat her father always with the 'used in Africa for A soft light came into Eustace HigWell, believe me or believe stagg-r- s. nett's eyes. me not. . . Are you asleep?" I want to tell yon all about that, he "Yes." -. said. "It's the most aston:Mim"Bel eve me or believe me noi, m i nliihrSt call it. i.ii'bt A iiiiracic, . not merely t int miner two minutes I was . uii.l what's-lts-nan.e- thf080DhT.-a- - York . . ." V.l, while nhi.cu.m off lie broke o.k. .New of the Subway and the city nameo. order In the u.r ...... ... , "My dear chap, wnat is . ... t I ... . . r. 1 i Irirar- ' I was smoking, ... mjse.i:Uk....l . . i.nr ii..ru. tin u-- i Iki'i" the iteeK will, nei , k WIts ,v,n able to 'l,,, , from time to ,, nd lhe hvnuty of the moon on s((je n)ol.,.im r.m.n I nil Til fill "What Is the matter? till:t - it "Mil ...!tA, tilinOX withdraw them un- "There' "Something is the mattei. Itpei.. , by your " 0ur 'eft ear." girls Eustace Hignett. "I ran tell T,,py stm , nave happened toi r P(.nm.Iti mt 17 nd. But she manner. Something hasI know jmi back if struck. disturb and upset you Ltkis l,,, (lip wl)0lp SPS n my vwiai eml'" he muttered. well that I can pierce the mask, Jane Hul,i,ard has restored It'. Sam!" Is It? Tell me." mv 'f.liti, in woman. Sam! , "What?" "Ila, liar ...H ,r . . nan, remv.... crolv can't still ne uiw"'" rntV' he seated. "I said that Jane Huhhani that's Why. boslness? woman." g concert be,ow anJ 8k on that Reard tl stored my faith in SM-you some more ail over, i "Oh, all right." of ass colossal ttfre you made the most liNbitt-r.- . Eustace Hignett finished undressing let that worry you? With a soft smile on but why yourself, and got Into bed. one affect off the light. There cannot .witched These things nls face he broken only by the silence, . was happen! long Let me tel! you that U Eustace was f'e of black ' Sa,"y- . 4 - - bany i N irsuld Brazil gives fifty acres to each fniiilly. but no jqnitor service. advice for nlzing automobile Slow down; Danger ahead France found lhat the Job of Euroe was making It lonesome. dictnt-epeeder- I s: Ing to -- ill'iiin A What's become of the old fashioned In a padlock sense, the one good to be deserved. boy who knew how to hang an axef turn seems Scientists agree that as for warfare, can do It better with gas. ittvut'nuui - This year'a university freshmen ar bigger and heavier, but no fresher. A calamity howler In Europe must have a lot of competition. P. Q. IUODEUOUSS Ca a dozen "wtfT pe" ,, w '.Tu-sr- distant purring of engines. At about a voice came from the tower berth. "Sam!" "What Is It now?" "There l a sweet womanly strength about her. Sam. She wjis telling me sh once killed a panther with a Sam groaned and tossed on his mattress. Silence fell again. "At least I think It was a panther," said Eustace Hignett, at a quarter past one. "Either a panther or a puma." twelve-thirt- y hat-pin.- CHAPTER VIII France has half a million men unAviation certainly was fortunate In picking out an era when the tendency dor anus and much Interest under cover. was upward. When the bride promises to obey, France announces a now cannon to shoot CO miles. Always ready to meet she waives her rights; but it Isn't a permanent wulve. the peace dove half way. Persons who think Santa Clans la This age. for some reason, seems to be more Interested In the cave man a myth should look at the stubs la Pad's checkbook. than In the man of the future. With eggs at (15 cents a dozen here, Some of the anthracite fields. It Is said, will he exhausted In 50 years. an omelette In Germany would look Ilke war debt. The consumer Is that way now. The song that went "Sweet and Young women lead men mentally, says a professor, and the statement Lm"' was composed before the pres-woueat price of sugar. be true without the mentally. ld A week after the liner Atlantic had docked at Southampton, Sam Marlowe might have been observed and was observed by various of the resident! sitting on a bench on the esplanade of that repellent watering-place- , In Sussex. All watering-place- s on the south coast of England are blots on the landscape, but, though I am aware that by saying it I shall offend the civic pride of some of the others, none are so peculiarly foul as The asphalt on the BIngley esplanade Is several degrees more depressing than the asphalt on other esplanades. The Swiss waiters at the Hotel Magnificent, where Sam was stopping, are In a class of bungling Incompetence by themselves, the envy and despair of all the other Swiss waiters at all the other Hotels For Magnificent along the coast a dreariness of aspect stands alone. The very waves that break on the shingle seem to creep uj the beach reluctantly, as If It revolted them to come to such a place. Why, then, was Sam Marlowe visiting this ozone-sweGehenna? Why, with all the rest of England at his disposal, had he chosen to spend a week at breezy, blighted Bingley? Simply because he had tieen disappointed In love. He had sought relief by slinking off alone to the most benighted spot he knew, In the same spirit as other men In similar circumstances had gone off to the Rockies to shoot grizzly bears. To a certain extent the experiment had proved successful. If the Hotel Magnificent had not cured his agony, the service and the cooking there had at least done much to take his mind off It His heart still ached, but he felt equal to going to London and seeing his father, which, of course, he ought to have done immediately upon his arrival in England. He rose from his bench and, going back to the hotel to inquire about trains, observed a familiar figure in the Eustace Hignett was leaning lobby. over the counter, in conversation with the desk-cler"Hullo, Eustace!" said Sam. "Hullo, Sam!" said Eustace. There was a brief silence. The conversational opening had been a little unfortunately chosen, for It reminded both men of a painful episode in their recent lives. "What are you doing here?" asked Eustace. "What are you doing here?" asked Blngley-on-the-Se- Three masked men beat an auto A traveler returning from India says a waterfall there Is five times as high agent, according to the headline. Pos-a- s Niagara. But. prwabiy. no wetter, sllily the car wouldn't run. a, Bingley-on-the-Se- Bingley-on-the-Se- This talk of simplifying the Income The consumer, observes a disheart ened Virginia editor. Is always a goat. Nobody is Injured In the rush when Still, a goat can swallow almost the office seeks the umn. A Portland (Ore.) pedestrian was Germany can do anything with Its struck by two automobiles simultamoney except buy something. Somebody must have been neously. About the time a popular song gets offside. popular It loses Its popularity. It looks as If the Franco-BritisIt must have been a relief to that break might hang tire somewhat after husband of three women to be found the manner of the German national collapse. guilty. Youth. Youth drinks the Cup of Life With Joyous haste. Age sips It with Jealous care, But I whose cup Is full can hardly Be espected to understand One whose cup Is now empty. Exchnnge. pt Sam. "I came to see you," said Eustace, leading his cousin out of the lobby and onto the bleak esplanade. A fine rain had begun to fall, and Bingley loo:.ed, if possible, worse than ever. "I asked for you at your cluh, and they told me you had come down here." "What did you want to see me about?" "The fact is, old man, I'm In a bit of a hole." "What's the matter?" "It's a rather long story," said Eustace deprecatingly. "Go ahead." "I don't know where to begin." "Have a dash at starting at the beginning." Eustace stared gloomily at a stranded crab on the beach below. The crab stared gloomily back. "Well, you remember my telling yor about the girl I met on the boat?" "Jane Something?" "Jane Hubbard.-- ' said Eustace reverently. "Sam, love that g'rl." "I know. You told me." "But I didn't tell her. I tried to muster tip the nerve, but we got to without my Southampton having clicked. What a dashed diilictilt thing a proposal fs to bring off. Isn't "J? 1 didn't bring it off, and i' began to .yok was in the soi.. to me as though And then she fold me something whio gave me an idea. She said the had invited her to stay with them in the country when she got to England, old Mr. Bennett and his pa! Mortimer, Bream's father, were trying to get n house somewhere which they could share. Only so far they hadn't managed to find the house they wanted. 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