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Show $T By Dornford Yates' synopsis nd hi wfonln eoniln, aaoffrej l Antrim, but dftrd portrait painter While Copyright by Minton. Uslch WXU Service. C USIC WKD Swlcn For some extraordinary reason my senses were now as lively as they had Iven lately duiL I knew no heslts-tlo- iEJittd by H. my confidence was sublime. AVo hack." I said landscape. quietly. "What a Eng-and hauled ? paint I haara myself out of the water to mercy we lh, foraat, John hadnt got further. As It daeldaa to Invutlgat. stand by her aide. flnda four men mi b I, we've plenty of time. They can't "Helena, where are you?" do a mile a minute ln green livery who, po along this lane" Gently I closed the gratliig. murdered. Pharaoh ll7',MThd "But, John" the liii.-Count Again of tho gang: the other hi voice. 1 ,H pulled her blessed hand. '?,0p. Rush and Buttle. Unfor- "Failing!" he bawled. Failing !" makea hlmaelf known to "Hurt worry, my dear. Its all right. Helena touched my arm. with a letter ttf2Llni by dropping tell Geoffrey I.lttie Arthur has got nn Idea." and, I could tell him whore ; .ddreaa. H. Failing I. W ?? Barley, of hie ad-t- d He'S gone to the bridge. X,.ho,y knows with thiil, I put out my headlights and fiJoffrey, rrallilng that John1 started to take the Bolls hack by the of this exit, hut Florin and me." low which her egnaer, declnrea he muet van. threw. The tunnel w soeun'd it limit end. It S! Bwer dlecover. that the livery Two minute later 1 hacked her over to waa dark and damp mid noisome and mrdered man correspond the bridge. eervante of Vortrk rnu u.Jyof theCounteea uphill, and 1 was more ilmn iipink-fu- l Helena, mle-th- e telle Tnn you see their headlights!" I when after the or six itiliuiirs I ceetle. what he had aeen. saw the faint light of the evening anil asked. John atari and Barley. 2S Geoffrey W "Not yet." nearby village. They found the nir more fre-i- i. The urnmli Tliaraoh. In making their of the tunnel was masked I begun to swing nnuiml to the right, n riot by the with ehote exchange of undergrowth, but when we were leaving the roadway und haeking onto Without eerloua reault. They orlek clear or this sereeu. I saw at once that the turf. When had gone thirty paces, Plnmatfe farm, on tlie requeat-an- d I threw out the clutch. we Mto.nl due north nf the ensile. where Lndy Helena had meet her. hi cousin to At oiu-- we heurJ the Carlotta and now "And Axel.11 for mid father her Helena. 2. eel. o them that Into And Salire. I hope. When lie can1! liml a moment later we saw the glow of her Sj Maeerted hi Immense fortune fi MYerelicne and hidden them away me. he'll remember the Inst two nights lighti vault in the cn.tle. Know The two of us sat In silence, listenS. ttat hi eon, Valentine. Helena1 and come to the Plumage ride.11 It win now ten minutes past nine, ing and watching, while Pharaoh came Incapable of controlling KHStna. he had revealed It to down like the wolf on the fold. and dusk hud come in. We had, therehi. death. In fore. no fear or I do not think we were excited the of skirting leaked edge had out, new manner the 2a pharaoh waa after the treasure. the forest, for the going was better In the dnnger wns past. We now were sim2. ilannrd that Geoffrey and Barley the meadows mid we were at least ply waiting for a car to get out of to Saltburg to watch for half a mile from where Axel would lie. our wny. Suaek while John waa to remain And so she did. The rustle was lighted now ns I hud Shbuuiw, lyl"S low In the daytime 1 orlck never seen It, but of course we could Well dear of the beam of her headgatrolllnp the road about go see no movement nnd hear no sound. lights. we watched her mm dusk to dawn. Several night sweep down John The without Important Incident. the slope and over the bridge; and as lights suggested Unit the lulldin Hilda and that castle Torlck Alta she went by to the apron, I let the Count Valentin. Is there wns being searched. Rolls leap forward and take her place We pushed on breathlessly. I with him, on most friendly terms, on the road. h Pharaoh, as Captain Fanlng. Hearing Pha-laa- b We had covered half distance the at la Plumage, stopping that John My lights were dimmed and I do not apaaks to Dewdrop. John suspecta when Helena caught my arm and think that they saw us, for their eyes, plat. stopped In her tracks. of course, were looking the opposite Humehody was whistling not very In any event the sturt which far away ; whistling ns though to bring way ; but CHAPTER IV Continued we had was deadly, for they must turn s dog to hla heels: tlie Carlotta and we had the faster Then we beard Pharaoh'S voice. The door of a tower wm open, and car. "Good dog," be cried. "Good dog." Sdtna whipped Inside. She fled As we floated In silence, I touched The mun was out In the meadows, my companion's sleeve. end Into the pleasantest bedim I ever saw. At I followed her In, somewhere between the bridge and the "And now where!" said I. e pressed a key Into my hand. Plumage ride. We'll go to my nurse at Pommers. In n flash I saw what had happened. Her husband's a farmer there, snd Then's a door behind that curtail" Sub re had left the castle, and llieyll see us through. And we'll wire While I wae unlocking this, she Pharaoh hud seen him go. The porter, to your cousin to join us and start no doubt, hud told him that that waa from there." twitched a coat from a cupboard and nihed to the painted table on which the Countess dog, and the fellow had We had the ways all to ourselves, were combe end brushes and all things guessed In an Instant that 8abres Inand. Indeed, I believe that we were that women use. stinct was leading him to his mistress, the only beings awake in that countrywherever she was. And so he had fol- side. Twice we sang through a village Have you money, John?" lowed Sabre, but had lost him because and now and again we could make About fifty pounds," said I. It was dark. Good." out the form of a homestead beneath "Come on," said L Now that he's the trees. So for some 33 miles. Then she threw one look around and lost Sabre, lie hasn't s chance." Then the engine of the Bolls coughed Hipped out of the room. If he hears the horses, breathed twice, and the car slowed down. Lock It behind us, John." A short stone As I frowned, the truth came peltstairway brought ua Helena. We were nearly there now, but when ing to sear my brain. tato a little hall which was very dim What la It, John! What to It! tj lighted and waa shut by three mas-air- e rhnraoh whistled again, he was not so far off as before. doors. Petrol," I said hoarsely. "I meant As we stumbled Into the ride, I to fill np before we patrolled this ere The one, anld Helena. found the dog paddling beside ui He "Quick. Thats a master key. We now encountered a winding flight may have been there for lire minutes for all I know. And there was Axel ef itepi At the foot of this flight we cute to another door, but I could not waiting, ten minutes before hla time. see to unlock It, so Helena took the "Good dog," cried Pharaoh. key. I judged the man to be fifty paces And then we were out in some passaway. In a flash I hnd Helena up on the age and there on our right waa a gotten that gave to the outside world. lively gray. Bat Helena turned Instead to a very As she stooped to whisper to Axel, ttnch amaller door, sunk deep In the 1 turned to the other horse, but, pervelL haps because he was startled, he would A man was coming. I could hear not stand. Aa I swung myself up, be lb iteps on the stone. He waa out of backed sideways against the gray, and eight, round mme corner, but he was before I could find my right rtlrrup, twelve paces away. Its dangling Iron had clashed with that Helena's fingers were shaking, aa of Helens, making s ringing sound. he fitted the master key. The lock waa The whistle which Pharaoh was letMUf and defied the efforts she made, ting suddenly stopped. de I put out my hand, I heard the I heard the man running towards stop and swear. Then he turned ae we turned the horeea about us ea his heel and began to retrace hla And then we were both sitting down atepa and riding hard for Plumage. Aa Instant later the door was locked We dared not spare the horses behind ne and we were alone In the the hunt was up. dark. Pharaoh would run to the castle, find Helena was trembling, and I my the Count end Induce him to order a put na about her and held her dose: car; end we had to ride to Plumage "Benetton," she murmured. "Ill be and drive from there to the high road right directly. You see, we're safe could reach the mouth r the moment I Td like to alt before that car of the private lane. down." What Is It, John! What la It!" As we came to the apron With my arm about her, we sat our-rivI'll take the horses." said Helena. down on a stepi nlng; but with all this Pharaoh busYou go and get your things." iness" Ini all right now," breathed g As she caught my bridle, I flung myThe nearest village lay roughly It her head. self off the bay. I let her go, and off, and whether It boasted miles she ant back against In my bedroom I wasted no time, but He walL we could not tell. pump first seised the and razor snatched np a Cnrcfully I surveyed onr surroundJohn. We couldnt have clothes I found; yet. ere I was back, weed the ings. drawbridge without being horaee were fast In the stables and The road waa a main highway. If "fl. And that would hare been rulna- - the seat her take to Helena was returning I locked her switch anil her bonnet, no But now we're Just dlaup-Th-e In the Hulls. man could take the Bolls, but. tort on doora that were open are Thirty seconds later the Roll slid the road, she waa bout d to attract atWa, and the doora that were locked over the bridge. tention the very sort of attention we locked. But we hare ranlshed. wished so much to avoid. ,flrway leads to a grating In the 1 had often rend and heard speak of paces ahead a track of the moat. It's Some forty-fivshore the "an agony of apprehension," but never Hie forest a decent track; wr. Directly below just Into led headour when It; under the nntll Hint erenlng. was more. It ran slightly ond, therefore, out of sent darkness packing out of what sight, la a u i could manlinndle the Rolls woridze of atone: That leads across lights that understood I hail that lovely lane, Ita mouth, her weight would as ont to another far as nilml. or In the te.rlhle state grating set to me carry her out of sight. Rut a!L The stood help Then ell at once the truth gratlnga are barred level, waa rambered. though road, ,ml each of them's barred dear before me. and something more the m Helena steered and stood by A,rte The farther of jVhlle my hold nd-k- a took sinister tliun fear grating mu. , to apply the brake, I moved the Rolls B oM br,ck tunnel that will heart. wheels ull by the apokca of one of her un,,Pr t'1 meadows and Into Ths lane wae no lane, but a trap-fthe waa groat, for the car waa strain The woods." ghe In. were we Once to her feet. And two miles long. got very heavy, and the camlicr made inch S0, We're not n moment we could no more turn the Bolls round to tnL aa I conld not overcome. a T1' rnml,a,to don't orerlook than a man that was buried could turn In gradient this m I moved her jierhnpi six desperation of In Ills (lie grave. moat, and we simply himself round stmt 1 Inrfcea towards the crown of the road, horses the to ,,lnn,nKe before Bugle and If only vte had stuck Bash." hut then the weight of hpr heat me. and ridden away bitoss country to and alie begnn to return; and In my Gnefnlly we Hnt It was too the stnlr, take some train. . was very hnd effort to hold her befi.re I could cry lute now. For better or worse we dump. fur the brake 1 strained or tore some !,1lfr eU and the Iron of chosen this dreadful wny.we took the mutele ths In the aninll of my hack. "K wa 1 set my troth; nnd and eery too Inte harsh i! 1 smothered a grunt of puln lift. a of t ,lie Poolhrldge rush the gave good rise before ns with foothni i before I hnd drawn ears, Helena's for crest, the Hni1 Aa tho Rolls swept over ouf pnasuge wns nindo he wit foot-n- ml myself up. nty lady naa sliti'ng for an Instant I lifted my hone Mi116 f,,r w,l,eh I had not dared side me and asking nte how 1 did. was stisitense Hie "o all water mine up to my then In a flash mj IoJqJ , You've hurt yourself, John" from my sknju 1111,1,0 Helena lie across my over snd Its grip was torn A muscle," wild I. It's not rung. At "id carried her orer like lipfltf. use If. I'll he nil right.' car hnd turned long ae I don't Two miles ahead I regnrded Hie Boll.". "Bui Ruefully Into the tone. w J k'1 llr on he.1 frot In tho wc'II hnve to lenve her here. A fm tlie Count culling her Helens caught my arm. ns shifting her goes. I've shot my holt. "Thats the Carlotts. I know It hat "Uotenal (TO BE CUMIM LUJ Helena I" can w dot" aobt faf frtW Find Out McGoofeys First Reader and o laariiM Eclectic Primer Kipra 1. PHILLIPS; From Your Doctor if the Pain Remedy You Take Is Safa. a' bB binder Dont Entrust Your Own or Your Family's Well - Being to Unknown tiiit-lam- p Preparations 1YEF0RE you take any prepnra-lio- n you don't know all about, for tho relief of headaches; or the i.bel nj. ar-fij- at m What to this! This to a "dog wagon." What Is a "dog wagon"! A "dog wagon" to a lunch room on wheels. It to a horse cur that hits tired of s gypsy lire. What Is the piinmae of s dog wagon"! Its purpose la to see that Indigestion to preserved ss a sacred American Institution. Do many people eat In "ilog wagons"! You would be surprised. What do they eat! They eat anything the chef can cook without taking any particular twins to make it appetizing. Don't the chefs In "dog wagon" ever prepare food carefully and with n eye to whetting the appetite of man! Now and then you find one to actuated but not often. Once you put cook In a lunch wagon he seem to confuse cooking with deck swabbing, house painting and the kindred arts. Whnt does he do? He cooks everything In hot fat, burns your eggs to a crisp, makea a hamburger steak look like a petrified sponge, prepare! soups that taste like fuel oil and creates a cup of coffee that would take the ctente out of a football player's sboea. Is there any excuse for this! None, except the theory Hint everybody who comes Into a lunch wagon to ent to In too much of a hurry to wait for Anything fit to eat. How do you explain the low state of lunch wagon cooking! It can only lie explained by the conclusion that all Incompetent cooks go to lunch wagons before they die. llel-befo- re Si Hcl-broth- up-Ki- ln right-han- . . d THE STORY OF LESTER Lester was a who had no head for figures a He didn't care for detnlls. 8 He waa a superficial thinker. 4 In grammar school he stood at the foot of the class In arithmetic: He waa a total loss at problems 6 When hla folks sent him to the grocery atom he always came back with the wrong change. 6 Hla defense wae that he could count but that he hated to take the trouble. 7 In college he was the close dumbbell but he waa a varsity football star and oarsman. He hnd trouble remem bering the signals but managed to get away with It. 8 ne had personality and was a good mixer wherever the conversation didn't turn to anything acrlous. 9 It took him five years to gradu ate, despite the fart he had token a course that called for no deep think' Ing and Included nothing very Intri1 boy Hel-liftin- e 1. i1' super-corpor- CURIOUS FACTS WORTH KNOWING ' dem-etule- d tnn-"PB- rd PSALMS OF LIFE Be patient as you go through life; I j I the heart. And the discovery of Bayer Aspirin largely changed medical practice. Countless thousands of people who have taken Bayer Amuria year in and out without ill effect, have proved that the medical findings about its safety wen correct. Remember this: Genuine Bayer Aspirin to rated amorw the fastest methods yet discovered for the relief of headaches and all common pains . . . and safe for the average person to take regularly. but always saying BAYER ASPIRIN when you buy. alone, Bayer Aspirin 8nup judgments never pay; Consider well opinions you Arrive at day by day. Don't Jump at quick conclusions First gnther all the facta Before you form a verdict on and Another person's acta. Re rnltn and quite judicial as You travel through this vnle; Express no promt or hnsty tliouglit truth and Justice fall. Thus you'll be thought to have, my tod. The wisdom nf so owl But who tlie devil wants to be A stuffy blinking fowl! LITERARY TEST 1 Tlie' Knee, "I love to bear thine earnest voice, wherever thou art hid," Holmes' "To An appear In Insect" Shelleys "The Flight of Love" Browning's "The Lost Lender. 2 Tlie poem, "Ichnhod," was writWordsworth ten by Keats. . . Longfellow No Tim te Fail lu the opinion of the mien of states, marriage to never n failure K there are plenty ef children. A Three Days Cough Is Your Danger Signal Vo matter how many medicines tried for your cough, chest add or bronchial Irritation, you can get relief now with Crcomulolon. Serious trouble may bo brewing and you cannot eHord to take a chance with anything less than Crcomul-sla- n, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to eld nature to eoothe and heal the Inflamed membranes ns tho gcrm-ladphlegm Is loosened nnd expelled. Even it other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your druggist to authorized to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from ths very first bottle. Pet Creomulslon right now. (AdvJ pou have ca Tennyson. It to Rather Lata not until middle age that a man becomes interested la hla destination. CONSTIPATED 30 YEARS 'Far thirty yman Jironi 1 The common or gnnlen worm baa no bnckbone. 2 The world baa never discovered a genius able to Invent a type of at (ached can opener that would be any good In a pinch. 3 Bed anta cun be avoided at outdoor picnics by serving lunch In the automobile. 4 Ninety-tw- o per cent of all Hie knlaomlnera In the United States are named Ohnrlle. 5 It to said that there arc 3.'7,8?.i lintrs In the average huninn beard, but a neither major political party will the mutter. dto-"is- He hope upon n little perch But to no sooner there Thnn with a quiver and a lurch lie hops Into the air. onto a little dtoh And off once more he hope; He seems bo full of strange anihluh And never, never stops lie hops I had aonmtipmtion. I did not go Samwtimma tor tour or tiro day. I oho had avuj gat bloating, AawfacA and palm in tho book. Adlarika halpad right away. Haw I oat tautagt. Sanaa. pirn, anything I want and mnartatt bottmr. J mlmp roundly all night and aniay Ufa." tin, Mtbml Schott, If you are suffering from omtlpattok leeplcssnesa, sour stomach, end gas bloating, there to quick relief for you in Adlciika. Many report actioa la 30 minute after taking juit one do: Adtorika gives complete action, cleaning your bowel tract where ordinary laxative do not even reach. Dr. S. L. Shoub, Now York, raporttt "In addition tointastinhlelaanainit Adlarika chaaka tha growth of bactaria and colon bacilli.' Give your stomach and bowel a real cleansing with Adtorika and see how good you feci. Juat one epoonful relieves OA8 and chronic constipation. Sold by all druggists end drug departments. FEMININE WEAKNESS C Knatky at 1M GarSttd St.. Aaolx Aria, laid: "Sr. Pltrct1 tlon. a 1G And It put him on twenty different boards. MORAL It' all done by reflectors. Jr ruiil eating an alligator pear. 10 Klghly-seve- n ier cent of the soldiers In the various Chinese ware do not know which side they are on, and the generals are a little doubtful, too. 11 Old electric light bulbs can be disposed of by using a nutcracker and dropping tlie debris down a well. 8 The lines, It to an ancient mariner. and he etoppeth one of three, Robinare to he found In son Crusoe ."Casey et ths "The Old 8qnlre".... Bat "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." 4 Edward Everett Hale waa the au"Marco Bozzarls" thor of "The Man Without s Coun"Delight In Disorder" try" New England's Chevy Chase." The Landing of the Pilgrim Fa5 thers wns written by John MaseRohert Herrick Fetccla D. Hemans field Ttinmus Hardy William Henley Oliver Herford. 6 "Locksley Hall" was the work of ....a...... .Lord Tennyson, John Greenleaf Whittier Matthew Hartley Coleridge Arnold rate. Eugene Field. Two the night be10 Ilia folks were worried over hto 7 The lines. future. Lester would have been wor- fore Christinas and all through the ried over it too If he hnd ever stopped house, not a creature was stirring, not to think about It. FTcn a mouse" are found In 11 lie nearly Uinnght about It now "Wynken, Rlynken nnd Nod". and then but he couldnt concentrate. "The Ould Pluld Shawl" Father 12 When he went out Into the world "Concord llynin". "My Old Kentucky there waa mnrh skepticism about William" A Visit From St Home" whether he would do well. The Village Black- 13 And all the people who predicted Nicholas" he would he a failure were fooled. smith. 14 He chose a business career and when the American Big Business World THE CANARY found out about hla outstanding mental characteristic, It knew at once The canary la a funny bird. Hint he waa Its man. hasn't any acnae; He 15 It realized at once that had the Ilia actions are the moat a beard. In a a for director perfect equipment Ills energy Intense. u down-1,11- C Observation made during forest fires spreading across farm kinds show that cuttle dn not enre for imp corn. 7 The iKlund of Guam hits no vaudeville people who do roller skuting acta. 8 A typewriter rihlmn may be cleaned by rinsing It In boiling water for half an hour, but It will be ridiculous procedure unless you aretlirough with It for typewriting purposes !) No alligator has ever been seen pains of rheumatism, neuritis or neuralgia, ask your doctor what he thinks about it in comparison with Genuine Bayer Aspirin. We say tliia because, before the disco veiy of Bayer Aspirin, inoat "pain remedies wero advised against by physicians ns being bad for the stomach; or, often, for rmnk rmeripHon Sa barn tlx biaaot help far ny wifa. Star was radon daring th chaae I Hla peiad sad bar pear. I knew nrtik at Dr. Haa1 Rcmcdia henna 7 ptapk bad gnat failh la them, and a tea hnj had T th bottle Fmcrlptiaa1 worn bad my lb eating man end eajayina Bead hralth." 0 I row aeiabborbeod Uru(gt today. m down to the engos floor Then, quicker thnn n wink, Ho liiqa onto the l torch once more-- lie imp too much, I think. lie hops He hop around inoat ev'rywhere And holds on with Ills feet: He flutters here nnd flutters there Willi merry "tweet! tweet I tweet I" He Isn't still a minute tn It's time to go to bed ; I wlxh he wouldn't be ro atU" And rest a while Instead. Bet Quick relief with Cntleura. wide inereee t gold everywhere: Olatmaat SI. Writ Soap Seek 'Catlsara |