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| R AR e e ik e | A . Al ‘(HE BEMIDJ1 DAILY FiONEER __ (Continued from Iast issue) It was not until Johnnie had laid the ase before Miss Whitford and restat- ed it under the impression that she could not have understood that his con- fidence ebbed. He had expected an eager interest, a quick enthusiasm. Instead, he found In his young mi: tress a spirit beyond his understand- ing. Her manner had a touch of cool disdain, almost of contempt, while she listened to his tale, She asked no questions and made no comments. What he had to tell met with chill silence. Johnnie’s guileless narrative had made clear to her that Clay hagl brought Kitty home about midnight, had mixed a drink for her, und had given her his own clothes to replace her wet ones. Somelow the cattleman’s robe, pajamas and bedroom slippers obtruded unduly from his friend’s story. Jven the Runt felt this. He began to perceive himself a helpless medium of wrong impressions, “T suppose you know that when the mManager of your apartiment house finds Gat she's there he'll send her pack- . So Beatrice summed up when spoke at last. “No, ma'am, I reckon not. You see we done told him she Is Clay's sister Jes’ got in from the West,” the punch- er explaine i “Oh, I see.” The ¢irl’s lip curled and her clean-cut chin lifted a trifle. “You don't seem to have overlooked any- thing. No, I don’t think I care to have anything to do with your arrange- ments.” Beatrice turned and walked swiftly into the house. A pulse of anger was beating in her soft throat. She felt a sense of outruge. To Clay Lindsay she had given herself generously In spirit. She had risked something in introdue- ing him to her frlends. They might have Inughed at him for his slight so- clal lapses. They might have rejected him for his lack of background. They had done neither. He was so genuine- 1y a man that he had won his way In- stantly. v Pacing up and dewn her room, little fists clenched, her soul In passionate Pacing Up and Down Her Room, Lit- tle Fists Clenched, Her Soul in Pas. | sionate Turmoil. turmoll. Beatrice went over It all agaln as she had done through a slecpless night. She had given him sp much, and he had seemed to give her even more. Hours filled with a keen-edged delight jumped to her memory, hours that had earried her away from the falseness of social fribble to clean, wind-swept, open spnces of the mind. And after this—after he had tacitly recognized her claim on him—he had Insulted her before her friends by de- serting his guests to go off with this’ hi v he had been spending weeks to 8¢ h for. Not for a moment did she admit, perhaps she did not know, that an in- sune jealou was flooding her being, that her indignation was based on per- sonal as well as moral grounds, Some- thing primitive stirred her—a flare of | feminine ferocity, She felt hot to the touch, an active voleano ready for eruption. 1f only she could get a chance to strike back in.a wuy that would hurt, to wound him as deeply usy | he had her! Pat to her desire came the oppor- tunity. Clay's card was brought /in to her by Jenkins. “Tell Mr. Lindsay T'll see him in a few minutes,” she told the man. The few minutes stretched to a long quarter of an hour before she descend- ed. AS soon as his eyes fell on her. Clay knew that this pale, slim girl in /, the close-fitting gown was a strangel 1o him. Her eyes, star-bright and but ing like live coals, warned him thgt the friend whose youth had run outfse | eagerly to meet his was higden deep sn_her today. - = Copyright by William MacLeod Raine [} “I reckon I owe you and Mr. Whit- ford an apology,” he said. “No need to tell you how I happened to leave last night. I expect you know.” “Why take the trouble? I think 1 understand.” She spoke in an even, schooled voice that set him at a dis- rtance, “Your friend, Mr. Green, has carefully brought me the details I didn’t know.” Clay flushed. Her clear voice carried an edge of scorn. “You mustn't judge by appearances. I know you wouldn’t be unfair. I had to take her home and look after her.” “I don't quite see why—unless, of course, you wanted to,” the girl an- swered, tapping the arm of her chair with impatient finger-tips, eyes on the clock. “But, of course, it isn’'t neces- sary I should see.” Her cavalier treatment of him did not affect the gentle imperturbability of the westerner. “Because I'm a white man, because she's u little girl who came from my country and can't hold her own here, because she was sick and chilled and starving. Do you see now?” “No, but it doesn’t matter. I'm not the keeper of your consclence, Mr. Linds: she countered with hard lightne: “You're judging me just the same. If you'd let me bring her here to sec you—" 0, thanks.” “You're unjust.” “You think so?” “And unkind. That's not like the little friend I've come to—like so much.” “You're kind enough for twe, Mr. Lindsay. She really doesn’t need an- other friend so long as she has you,” she retorted with a flash of contemptu- gus eyes. “In New York we're not used to being so kind to people of her sort.” Clay lifted = hond. “Stop right there, Miss Beatrice. You don’t want to sny anything you'll be sorry for.” ~“PH sty this™ she cut back, ‘“The men I know wouldn’t invite a woman to their rooms at.midnight and pass her oft as thelr sister—und. then ex- pect people to know her. They would be kinder to themselves—and to their own reputations.” “Will you tell me what else there was to do? Where could I have taken her at that time of night? Are repu- table hotels open at midnight to lone women, wet and ragged, who come without baggnge either alone or escort- ed by a man?” “I'm not telling yon what you ought to have done, Mr. Lindsay,” she an- swered, with a touch of hautear, “But since you ask me—why couldn’'t you have given her money and let her find a place for herself?” “Because that wouldn't have saved her.” i “Oh, wouldn’t it?” she retorted, dry- y. He walked over to the fireplace and put an elbow on the corner of the mantel, “Lemme tell you a story, trice,” he said presenitly. “Mebbe it'll show yon what I mewn. I was runnin’ cattle in the Galiures five years ago | and I got caught in, a storm 'way up { In the hills, When It rains in my part of Arizonn, which gin't often, it sure does come down im sheets. The clay | below the rubble ‘on the slopes got | slick as lee. My Jaawss, a young one, i slipped and fell ond me, clawed back to its feet, and bolted Well, there I was with my lalg busfdd, forty miles from even a whistliny post In the desert. gettin' wetter arad colder every blessed minute. “There wasa't a(chance in a million that anybody; wouXl hear, but I kept firin® oft my fohty-fiye on the off hope. And just hetoce nightt a girl on a pinto came down tae side of that uncurried hill round & bend and got me. She took me toga cabin lidden in the bot- tom of & cgnon and looked after me four dups. | Her father, a prospector, had grne te Tucson for supplies and we ‘wera afone there. She fed me, n d me, and waited on me. We di- Vided a -pne-room tv:elve-by-sixteen cabin. ¥ nderstand, we were four days alon # together ‘before her dad came backl, and all the time the sky was lettin’t down a tenrible lot of wa- ter. When her father showed up he grinned ¢fnd said, ‘Luckg fgr you Myr- tle heard thaf. six-gun, of Fore's pop!' He nevani thought onejewilthing ubout either ¢ us. ‘Ec Just;acaepted the sit- uation’ as :necessaryi: Now' the ques- tion is, wimt ought ske to have done? Left me tor die ion that Infistde? “Of ‘course mot. That different,” prote'sted Bentrice, Andignantly. “You're ‘trying to put me in the verong. Well, I'won't have ity That's all. You may take your chodce, Mr. Lindsay. Either'send that girl pway— give her up—hawe nothing to dyp with her, or—" i \ “Or—7" “Or please domft come here to\see me any more.” ...He waited, hisseyes steadily on_ngr.\, Miss Bea- B YOI Sure enough _wiean. that, Miss Leatrice?” Her heart sank. She knew that she had gone too far, but she was too im- perious to draw back now. “Yes, that's just what I mean.” “I'm sorry. You're leavin’ me no op- tion. I'm not a yellow dog. Sometimes I'm 'most a man. I'm goin’ to do what I think is right.” “Of course,” she responded, lightly. “If our ideas of what that is differ—" “They do.” “It's because we've been brought up differently, I 'suppose.” She achieved a stifled little yawn behind her hand. “You've said it.” He gave it to her: straight from the shoulder. “All yore life you've been pampered. When yop to reach out a hand-for it.” Folks were born to walt on you, by yore way of it. You're a spoiled kid. Ask me to turn my back on a friend, and I've got to say, ‘Nothin’ doin’’ And if you was Just a few years younger I'd advise yore pa to put you in yore room and feed you bread and water for askin’ it The angry color poured into her cheeks. She clenched her hands till the nails bit her palns. “I think you're the most hateful man I ever met,” she cried, passionately. His easy smile taunted her. “Oh, no, you don’t. You just think you think it. Now, I'm goin’ to light a shuck. I'll be sayin’ good-by, Miss Beatrice, until you send for me.” “And that will be never,” she flung at him. He rose, bowed and walked out of the room. The street door closed behind him. Beatrice .bit her lip to keep from breaking down before she reached her room. (Continued in Next Iss=e) AMIESEMEN “LOVE'S REDEMPTION” AT THE REX TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY A distinct surprise awaits Norma Talmadge ians, who have been ac- customed to seeing her in gorgeous evening gowns, when she makes her appearance as a Jamacian girl in “Love’s Redemption,” the powerful story which is being released as a First National Attraction. The pic- ture has been booked for a two days run at the Rex theatre commencing Tuesday . Harrison Ford has the leading male role and gives a capable performance of an exiled English youth who is rapidly squandering his opportunities. Montague 'Love _has a ‘“heavy” art in which he becomes an ac- complished villian, . Cooper Cliffe finds.a new outlet for his histrionic "ability in the role of the elder and stilted English brother. He was previously seen in “Half an Hour” and.‘‘The Devil's Garden,” a First“N#tional' release. Ida Waterman, who has the role of Standish’s'mother, is'a screen actress parts. Michael :M, Barnes, E. Fer- nandez and Fraser Coulter handle minor roles in a' capable manner. “CAPPY RICKS” AT ELKO: &% THEATRE WEDNESDAY ONLY If you haven’t seen Thomas Meigh- an in his latest Paramount picture, “Cappy Ricks,” you are the loser. Repeat showings will be had at the Flko theatre Wednesday only. Don’t miss it. Mr. Meighan’s leading woman in this production is Agnes Ayres, a charming screen player. Many ca- able players contribute to make the photoplay entertaining. “THE FIRST WOMAN" AT THE GRAND THEATRE TOMORROW A surprise finish that lands with the force of a Dempsey knockout, laughs and chuckles_and no end of delightful thrills make "“The First Woman''starring Mildred Harris, one of the snappiest comedy-dramatic hits of recent months. It will be shown at the Grand theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. “The First Woman’' in which Mil- dred Harris repeats the brilliant suc- cess she achieved in “Fool’s Paradise” has to do with the experiences of a young woman of the stage in her / ’pia’fretté It's toasted. This one extra process gives a rare and delightful quality -—1impossiblo to duplicate. Guaraztced by . Ko Nz fboce S wanted a thing all you had to do was ‘| bloated me -al was perfectl efforts to cony,i_n e a noted, play- wright that he could act. Billie Mayo, portrayed by Miss Harris,! was recommended to Paul Marsh,| world famous author, for the leading iyole in his new drama. Marsh had heard of Ler as a music hall head- liner but regarded her as unsuitable for such: an important part as the leading one in his show. He turned her, down. Billie, however, wasn’t dishearten- ed. She set about the task of con- vincing Marsh that she could .act— with all the trimmings. w . Percy Marmont, as Marsh the. playwright, appears in support of Miss Harris together with a: brilliant cast, Pathq Weekly .News and a comedy completes the program. “THE GRAY DAWN"” AT GRAND THEATRE AGAIN TONIGHT A famous author and a noted pro- ducer combined to produce “‘The Gray Dawn,” showing at the Grand theatre again this evening, namely Stewart Edward White and Benjamin Hampton. “The Gray Dawn'- equals “The Westerners” it its rich Western setting and surpasses “The Killer” in its virile drama and stirripg action. Both of these successes r:presented the combined genius of author and producer, The story, depicts San Francisco’s picturesque period of 1856, directly after the gold rush—a period in which the city was in the grip of a lawl ss element. Into the plot is woven a beautiful rcmance, the lovers being enacted by the “screen’s sweetest sweethearts” —Carl Gantvoort and Claire Adams, who have recently been seen in“The Mysterious Rider” and as the sweet~ hearts in “When Romance Rides.” Robert McKim, who of late has ap- peared in “sympathetic” roles, ehacts a “heavy” ence more as ‘“Sansome’ with his usual Qramatic intensity. An unusually large cast fills the re- maining roles and are played by tie screen’s most popular artists. They are George Hackathorne, Claire Me- Dowell, Frank Hayes, Grace Marvin, Maude Wayne, Snitz Edwards, Stan- ton Heck and J. Gunnis Davis. “BILLY JIM” AT THE ELKO TONIGHT AND TUESDAY A Western drama ‘with delicious comedy supplied by the inimitable talents of:: Fred Stone! That's “Billy Jim,” producéd by Andrew J. Callaghan Productions, released by R-C Pictures, and scheduled for ex- hibition at the Elko theatre for two day besginning tonight. One of the most popular favor- stes in the history of the American theatre, Fred Stone’s legion of ad- mirers extends as well to the screen, on which he is seen in one of his most congenipl roles in “Billy Jim.” Not the least interesting feature of “Billy Jim” is the scenic grand- uer of the mountain lands amid which the scenes were taken. Some of the most beautiful “shots” ever seen on the screen serve as a backgrounds for outdoor action in “Billy Jim”. “JAN OF THE BIG SNOWS" AT REX THEATRE TONIGHT’ James Oliver Curwood, who has written most of the big outdoor stor- ies presented on the silver sheet, WHOLELOAD OF TROUBLELIFTED FROM FURMAN Feels Like a New Man, Says Minneapolis Citizen, Since Tanlac Ended Stomach Trou- ble and Built Him Right Up. “Tanlac has relieved me of such a load of troubles I just can’t help praising it from the bottom of my heart,” said George W. Furman, a well known citizen of Minneapolis, Minn., residing at 3311 Columbus Ave., South. £“For threc years I suffered tor- tdres from stomach trouble, and af- ter every meal my food soured and up with gas_so _bad I ‘miserable for hours, and I nearly i{starved mysdlf trying to avoid the i_‘sufl‘ering my x:meals would cause me. Every night I lay| awake for hours turning and toss- ing and was so nervous at, times I adtually couldn’t stay in hed at all. 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