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Published by Artangement with First National CHAPTER XXI. (Continued) Meanwhile, as 'Poleon continued his celebration, Rouletta grew more aud more miserable; at last he sob- ered up sufficiently to realize he was hurting her. He was frankly puz- zled at this; he met her reproaches with careless good-nature, brushing aside the remonstrances of Lucky Broad and his fellows by declaring that he having the time of his ing that he injured no- In the end the girl prevailed upon him to stop drinking, and then Vound him to further sobriety by means of a sacred pledge. When, perhaps later, he disappeared into the hills Rouletta and her corps | kn ot self-appointed guardians breathed easier. But the boys did not relax their watchfulness; Rouletta’ was their charge and they took good care of None of the Rialto’s patrons, ance, was permitted to fol- ‘Dp his first acquaintance with “the lady dealer.” Some member of the clan was always on hand to trown down such an attempt. Broad or Bridges usually brouglit her to work and took her home, the Snow- Vird and the Mocha Kid made it a practice to tuke her to supper, and when che received invitations from cther sources one or the other of them firmly declined, in her name, and treaicd the would-te host with such malevolent stispicion that the in- Vitation was never repeated. Far from taking offense at s espion- » Rouletta rather enjoyed it: she grew to like these ruflians, and ¢hat Liking became mutual. Soon most of them took her into their confi- dence with a completeness that threatened to embarass her, as, for i » Wher they discussed in her ting incidents “in their colorful ives that the Mounted Police would have given much to know, The Mocha Kid, in particular, was addict- ed to reminiscence of an incriminat- ing sort, and he totally ignored Rou- Istta’s protests at sharing the secrets of his guilty past. As for the Snow- lird, he was fond of telling her fairy- ‘They were queer fairy- » all beginning in the same “Once upon a time there was a autiful Princess and her name was Kouletta.” All the familiar characters figured in these _narrativ the Wicked Wit the Cruel King, the Hand- some Prince; there were other char- acters, too, such as the Wise Guy, the Farmer's Son, the Boob Detec- tive, the Tough Mary Ann and the Stony-hearted Jailer. ane cuowbird possessed a fertile fancy but it ran in crooked channels; although he launched his stories ac- cording to Grimm, he sailed them \arough: seas of crima, of violence, and of bloodshed too realistic to be the product of pure imagination. ‘The adventures of the beautiful Princess Rouletta were blood-curd- ling in the extreme, and the doings of her criminal associates were un- tnistakably autobiographic. Natur- ally Rouletta never felt free to re- peat these stories, but it was not long before she began to look for- ward with avid interest to her night- ly entertainment. Inasmuch as Pierce Phillips went off shift at the same time as did Rouletta, they met frequently, and more than once he acted as her es- cort. He offered such a marked contrast to the other employees of the Rialto, his treatment of her was at such total variance with theirs that he interested her in an altogether different way. His was an engaging personality, but just why she grew so fond of him she could not tell; he was neither especially witty and ac- complished nor did ‘he lay himself out to be unusaally agreeable. He was quiet and reserved ; nevertheless, he had the knack of making friends quickly, like Broad and Bridges and the Mocha Kid all her life, but Pierce was of a type quite new and divert- ing. She speculated considerably re- ‘ding him, rheir acquaintance, while interest- ing, had not progressed much beyond that point when Rouletta experienced a disagreeable shock. She had strolled into the theater one evening and was watching the performance when Laure accosted her... As Rou- ‘Hello! Looking for’ new con- quests?” Laure began.’ . letta had not come into ‘close contact with any of, the ll’ crowd, she was surprised -at-the tone this girl assumed. ° : sHale! peng for mew con- ests?” ure -began. . Miss irby shook’ her head - in} vague denial, but the speaker eyed her with open hostility and there was an unmistakable sneer behind her next. words: Rouletta had known men |“ Lloyd Productions, Inc, “What's the matter? Have you trimmed all the leading citizens?” “I’ve finished ‘my work, if that’s what you mean.” “Now you're going to try your hand at box-rustling, eh?” es Rouletta’s expression altered; she regarded her inquisitor more in- “You know I'm not,” said What are you driving at?” why don't you? Are you ” The visitor spoke coldly. She turned away, but Laure stepped close and cried, in a low, angry voice: oH nto, you're not! — You've fooled the men, but you can’t fool us girls, I’ve got your number. I iow your game.” “My game? Then why don't you take a shift in the gambling-room ? Why work in here?” “You understand me,” the other persisted. “too good for the dance- hall, eh? Too good to associate with us girls; too good to live like us! ow stop at the Courteau House, the respectable hotel! Bah! Miller fell tor you, but—you'd better let well enougl. alone.” “That's precisely what I do. there were a better hotel than the Courteau House I’d stop there. But there isn't. Now, then, suppose you tell me what really ails you.” Laura’s dusky eyes were blazing, her voice was hoarse-when she an- swered: | “AIL right. T'll tell you. 1 want you to mind your own business. Yes, and I'm going to see that you do. You can't go home alone, can you? |Afraid of the dark, I suppose, or afraid some man’ wil speak to you, My goodness! - ‘The airs you put on —you! Sam Kirby's girl, the daugh- ter of a gambler, a—' “Leave my father out of this!” There was something of Sam Kirby's force in this sharp command, some- thing of his cold, forbidding anger in his daughter's face. “He's my re- ligion, so you'd better lay off of him. Speak out. Where ‘did. T tread on your toes?” . Well, you tread on them every time you stop at the gold-scales, if you want to know. have a re- ligion, too, and it’s locked up in the cashier's cage.” There was a pause: the girls ap- lesa each other with mutual dis- re. “You mean Mr. Phillips?” “I do. See that you éall him ‘Mi ter," and learn to walk home alone.” “Don’t order me. I can't take orders,” - Laure was beside herself at this defiance. She grew blind with rage. $0 much so shat sue aid not nonce Phillips himself; he had approached within hearing distance. “You've got the boss; he’s crazy about you, but Pierce is mine—” “What's that?” It was Phillips who spoke. “What are you saying about me?” Both ritls started. Laure turned upon him furiously. “I'm serving notice on this faro- dealer, that's all. But it goes for you, too—” eyes opened, his face | Phillips’ whitened with “an émotion -neither girl had before seen. To Rouletta he said, quietly: “The other boys are busy, so I came to take you home.” Laure cried, wildly, hysterically: “Don’t do it! I warm you!” “Are you ready to go?” “All ready,” Rouletta agreed. To- gether they left the theater. Nothing was said as the two trod the snow-banked streets; not until they halted at the door of the Cour-| d teau House did Rouletta speak; then she said: “I wouldn't have let you do this, only—I have a temper.” “So have I ae humiliating $0 ices up.” a “I was wrong. ave no tight to hurt that girl's: feelings” “Right?” He laughed angrily. he had no right to make a scene.” “Why not? She's fighting for her own, isn’t she? Slie’s honest about it, at least.” Noting Pierce's expres- sion of surprise, Rouletta went on: “You expect me to be shocked, but I'm not, for I've known the truth in a general ay You think I'm going to preach. Well, I’m not going to do that, either. I’ve lived a queer life; I've seen women like Laure— in fact, I was raised among them— and nothing they do surprises m+ very much. But I've learned a good many lessons around saloons and gambling-places. One is this: never cheat. Father taught me that. He ave everybody a square deal, in- cluding himself. It's a good thing to think about—a square deal all around, even to vourself.” “That sounds ‘like an allopathic sermon of some sort,” said Pierce, “but I can’t see just how. it applies to ‘me. However, I'll think it over. You're a brick, Miss Kirby, and I’m if you had an unpleasant mo- ment.” He took Rouletta’s hand’and held it while he stared ‘at her with a frank, contemplative gaze.” “You're an unusbal person, and’ you're about the nicest girl I've met, I want you to like me.” If] hi Pierce ‘said, shortly. | Pictures, Inc., and Frank Passing phase of his development, an experience ‘such as came to every Man. Since it had left no mark upon him, and had not seriously affected Laure, the score was even. He dis- missed Rouletta’s words as of little consequence. In order, however, to prevent any further unpleasant scenes le place, once for all. -Rouletta went to her room, vaguel disturbed at her owh emotions, She could still feel the touch of Phillips’ hand, she could still feet his Raze fixed earnestly, meditatively, upon hers, and she was amazed to discover the importance he had assumed ig | —<——<—<—<$—<—<—$—<—$——— her thoughts. the word. very interesting, person, and there Was some inexplicable attraction about him that offset his faults and his failings, thing, he was not ah automaton, like the other men; he was. a living, breathing problem, and he absorbed Rouletta’s attention. She was sitting on the edge of her bed, staring ‘at the wall, Svhen the Countess Courteau knocked at er door and entered. The women had vecome good friends; frequent- ly the’ elder one stopped to yossip. The Countess flung herself into a cha said Importance, that was ell, I see you and A ave the bankroll again” | SENSS Saved Rouletta_ nodded. aril bluff, ° “Agnes is an I never load her. But ‘fourse nobody knows that.” oure a queer youngster. never known a girl quite like you. Everybody is talking about you.” “Indeed? Not the nice people?” ._ Nice people?” ‘The Countess lifted her brows. “You mean those at the Barracks and up on the hill? Yes, they’ re talking about you, too.” can imagine what thev’ sa Rouletta drew her brows together in a trown. “No doubt they think I'm Just like the dance-hall girls, I've seen a few of them—at a di They avoid meas if 1 had measles.” aturally., Do you car ettainly I care. I'd like to he one of them, Wouldn't you?” “Um-m, Perhaps, could be one of ther for Courteau. Quickly “Wh: I've I dare say 1 m if it weren't i People forget things in a new country.” y did you take him back? I'm sure you don't care for him.” ‘Not’ in the least. He's the sort of man you can't love or hate; he's a nine-spot. Just the same, he pro- tects me and—I can’t i for him.” help being sorry . ouletta smiled. ing protection and “You don't understand. F tects me from myself. I mean it. I'm as unruly as the average woman and I make a fool of myself on the slightest provocation, Henri. is a loafer, a g00d-for-nothing, to be sure, but, nevertheless, I have resumed his support. It was easier than refus- ing it. I help broken miners. I feed bangty dogs. Why shouldn't 1 Gee ie and set a felpless husband? 3S 4 perfectly feminine, ‘illogical tig if do,” ; ; a '' “Other people don't share your opinion o} him. Nevcan be very ‘agreeable, very charming, when he tries.” “OF course. That's his stock in trade, that's his excise for being. omen are crazy about hirn, a$ probably know, ive me a aan the men like.” There was 6 “So @ pause. © you don’t enjoy the thing you're ong f “I hate it! I hate the whole at- mosphere—the whole underworld. It's—unhealthy, stifling.” “What has happened?” Slowly, hesitatingly, Routletta told of her encounter with Laure. The Countess listened silently. . Tt was an unpleasant shock.” the girl concluded, “for it brought me back to my surroundings, the curtain and showed me what's really going on. It’s a pity Pierce Phillips is entangled with that crea- ture, for he’s a nice chap and he's got it in hini to do big things. But it wasn’t much use my trying to tell him that he was cheating himself’ I don’t think he understood”” I feel almost—well, motherly toward him.” Milda nodded gravely. “O course you do. He has it.” “Has it?. What?” “The call—the appeal—the same thing that lets Henri get by.” “Oh, he’s nothing like the Count!” Rouletta protested, quickly. The elder woman did’ not argue the point. “Pierce hhas sore char- acter than Henri, but a man can lose even that in a gambling-house. I was very fond of him—fonder than I knew. Yes, it's a fact. I’m jealous of Laure, jealous of you—” * “Jealous? Of me? Youre joking!” “Of course. Don’t take me. seri- ously. Nevertheless, I mean it.”"The Countess smiled queerly and. sose to determined to put Laure in her! He was a very real, a} “Fancy you need- | him A ae H Pro | FOR but—give me a man ; It lifted | i i however grave. For one} W { | 1 rolled and lit'a cigarette, then | WANTEL | | | | | 1 | ice. | FOR, Not a—a specimen, |FOR RE: ‘ her feet, “It's improper for a mar- | tied woman to joke about R6-good count, isn’t it? | ‘And i foolish, too. .Well, I'm lin; ing, to’ Bot somthing ered’ more Seekers in her, and their subsequent relations were entirely ‘the result of her un- ceasing efforts to appropriate him to herself. He had resisted, she had prises. Nor could he ‘see that he ad. cheated—in other words, inje himself. This was a J t a re going to out found. himself yet; he’s wild. He's light in ballast and he's Gs (idee If he: straightens out he'll make some woman very begwilphell erate 6 ap Believe me, 1 whit ing about, for I collided ‘with Henri: and—look at the result!” (To be continued - giye you some advice. Bath, Engl: on the’ site Of a" TOMaet “Renner wthta near here an old Roman tablet or seal was found. This tablet was us- by Roman oculists’*6impresting ‘trade: marks on cakes of ointment fdr: eye’ troubl : Frank I. Robinson, Glove Y., 43 Yeats # yailroad’ ¢ ‘tire’ ir estinrated at 1,883,400 miles. such | 36. things, even a woman mastied to » 38. that young’ man. He hasn't | 5! | WANT. ; 2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Tribune Classified Advertisements —--PHONE 82 oe ALE HELP WANTED _ \ ERY DAY: Distribute 50 necessary products to estab ished users. Extracts, soaps, food products, ete. Worlds largest com- pany will back you with surprising plan. Write The JR. Watkins Company, Rept. K-2, tone eae WANTED—Men and women to leatn Barber trade. 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