The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 7

5 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 19287 ~ Published by Arrangement with. First National Pictures, Inc. and Frank . Lloyd Productions, Inc. CHAPTER XRIV. (Continued) | there was I up stakes and ended jt, She was the first woman who ever— She| Well, sir, 1 admired her tremen- t. “Why| dously. She—impressed me won- ked.| derfuily.” Hilda laid down her book. turned to face her aceu: should I make a scene he ask “T've nothing to do with Phil-| “No doubt,” the colonel smiléd. lips since we parted company at] “She's an impressive person. Are White Horse. I've scarcely spoken| you still fond of her? tu him, and you know it. “ “Not in the same w “You don't den: here was some-} “What about this girl Laure? thing between you This time Pierce flushed uncom- The woman shrugged non-com-| jortably, “I've no excuses to offer mittally, her lips parted in a faint,| there, sir--no explanations, “Wea cheerless smile, “I deny nothing. 1] just drifted together, It was a long admit nothing, . _ trip and the Yukon docs that sort of . Although Courteau’s brain was} thing, Force of circumstance as fogged, he expericnced a growing} much as anything, I presume, I've surprise at the sclf-poss: > been trying to break away, but—” ch his wite had taken this blow} he shrugged. 2 hehe had aimed as much at her] “you've been a pretty foolish lad.” as at Pierce Phillip: Pierce zemained silent at this ac- | cusation, and the colonel went on: “However, 1] didn’t bring you here to lecture you, The Royal Mounted. have other things to think about than young wasters who throw themselves away. After all, it's a iree-and-casy country and if you want to play ducks and drakes it’s your own business. I merely want you to realize that you've put your- self in’ a bad light and that you don’t come into court with clean hands, “I umderstand. I put in a wake- ind of admiration in his ‘wn- certain gaze. He saw for one thing, that his effort to reach her had failed and that she remained com- pletely the mistress of herseli, She ned at case in her comfortable . quite ungtirred by his deris- ion, “his jubilation. He became aware, also, of the fact that she pre- sented an extremel: i i ture, for the soft loose robe she wore ex luring glimpse of snowy throat and iosom; one wide sleeve had fallen | jut night thinking about it, It's the showing a smoothly rounded] fect time in a long while that I've her silken ankles, litted to the] gone any serious thinking.” warmth of the stove, were] «well. don't be discouraged, A Hand trim; her feet were shod] tittle thinking will benefit you. Now in neat high-heeled slippers. “The! then, I'm going to put’ Rock at Count admired neatly shod fadies. {ork on your case, and meanwhile Ei ae very art-looking Won! voy may” have the liberty of the man,” he cried, with some reltic-| parracks. You're a gentleman, and tance, “You're beautiful, Hilda. I trust you to act as one.” Pierce was cnly too grateful for this courtesy, and to realize that he retained the respect of this middle- aged, soldierly officer, whom he had long admired, filled him with deep relief. He gave his promise readily enough. Later in the day Broad and Bridges came in to see him, and their indignation at the outrage, their positive assertion that it was nothing Iess than a deliberate con- spiracy, and so considered among the Front Street resorts, immensely cheered him, “You remember the hojler Z let up : f when then Sheep-Campers wanted He qi any woman—wite or mistress. lig hang McCaskev?” Broad ‘ in- You've never Ime the half; I'vel = ‘ : quired. “4. Wao Mv mustake., fis pad to guess. But im patent. LT) car and a hemp knot. would go. to- Kove haw to wait and to use my! ether. like rheumatism and. lini- eyes and my car: Then to strike " 1 follow this | Ment OHON , Bridges agreed. unny, us three ¢ don't blame the young fool for fall- ing. ut you are too old, too wise— Hilda nodded, “You've said it. Too old and too wise. If I'd been as young and as silly as when T met you—who knows? He's a hand- seme bo Again the husband's anger blazed up. ut I'm not young and silly,” his interrupted. “Just the same, you played me a rotten trich the Count exploded. “And FT don't forget. As for him’— 1 ore savagely—‘he I learn that tie to humiliate me, to rob nd dole cially’ a dredged, you, loose change, but—there it | we toak it You'd of done better if you'd turned on the hollow of your foot thay day and romped right back to the old farm Bread asserted, rou'd never abled up w the MeCaskeys and you'd still the blushing Y Wourtean’s ze shifted. “What dilierence? [won it on a turn the North Star; it was given to me:| 1 found it. Anyhow, 1 had it was a ged night for me; very good night. | had my reveng and I y friends that I'ma > to be reckoned with.” Jn a tone unexpectedly humble the woman sud: “IT had no idea you cared very much what 1 did or how L carried on, Aiter all, it was % vn fault.” The Count latfghed in derision and astonishment. actly! If you had taken the att t seemed, were in mood for moraliz- 1 bereaved up over this thin, sent us here te cheer you, You was a you had taken the) cean as.an apple, then—and easier Muble to, show ine that you cated | 49 pick--now you're just a coxamon el, aac? Ties Gauubeen bar-fiy, th me as us. Laure done and with another change of ite ues tne, bap vanipires that voice and “manner said: « "Come | MGs 8, Pum OF You ttering,” Phil alg Let's do something for your lips smiled faintl é “Oh, I'm sort repeatin’. what Letty said. She put me to-thinkin’, The Count stared at her in be- wilderment, then he turned away. crying: “Bah! I want no help.” At the door he paused to jeer once more. Pierce Phillips! “A com- mon thief, a despicable creature who robs the very man he had_ most, deeply injured. I've exposed him to the law and to public scorn. Sleep on i t, my cas Dream on it” ¥ chuckle he traced an ts ce es uncertain es course to the _ stair: that ever struck this coun do tr Look at the good we ‘done prounted to his room, and slammed} around Dyea and Skagway. Them . spel-bringers never touched it, He had undressed and flung him- er met i suckers on the edge of self into bed, but he had not yet shaikrdzen North andavetumed ent fallen asleep when the door re- ack by the score. Them three wal- opened and his wife entercd, bears! nut husks done more good than thé ing in her hand a‘steaming pitcher Ten Commandments, ‘Yes, “sir, 3 oi hot vette te Be deposited) set of cheatin’ tools will save more intone she dipped a Jolded) sone) rayed lambs than a ship-load ef ‘I'm sorry you're disfigured, Hen? i," she told him, quietly. y figures that somebody Despite his. surly protests, she] tossed, that gotd-sack over the top bathed and soothed his swollen fea-]of the cage after you iollered the tures until he dropped asleep, after} Count. o which she stole gut and down to! “Impossible,” Pierce declared. her room on the floor below. ‘There,] “T. got an’ idea.” It was Broad however, she paused, staring back] speaking ‘again. “The mere contem- up the empty stairway, a look of|plation of physical violence’ unmans deepest loathing upon her face. that Frog. He'd about as soon have Slowly, carefully, she wiped her |‘ beatin’.as have a Ieg cut off with hands as if they were unclean; her|a case-knife, S'pose me and the Kid’ Them birds is about as. useful as a hip pocket in an undershirt. Why, missionaries don’t do no real, last- ing good outside of Indian villages! Us sure-thing guys are the best mis curled into a mirthless smile; | lure. hith to some Joncly spot—some. then she passed into her chamber | ggod -yellin’-place—and set upon him and turned the key behind her. with 2 coupla pick-handles. We'll < make him contess or we'll mhim and Rock had spoken truly in assur-| meller him till he backs out through ing ’Poleon that Pierce Phillips’ lot} his bootlegs. What d’you say?” would be made as easy for him as] Pierce. shook his head. “Some- possible, That is what happendd.| nine must be done, but I doubt it No one at the Barracks appeared to} that's it. It’s tough to be—disgraced, | am and what I'm- charged with, dc! take much stock in Courteau’s) i cng Ail A charge, and even Colonel Cavendish} -0Ne,9 ming ike. this hanging the commandant, took the trouble to| so mucltif I were up for murder or send for him early the next mom: |arson or any mai's-sized crime, ing and to ask for the whole stoty| Anything except stealing ! in detail. When ‘Pierce had given] “A” mere matter- of choice,” the it the officer nodded. “It looks very| former speaker lightly _ declared, much like a spite case. I couldn't] “We got boys around the Rialto that imagine your doing such a thing;/has tried ‘em all, They don't notice ny boy.’ : »|0 particular difference.” “Tt isa spite sgase, nothing else. ‘or some time; the three friends paca is-2 rotter, and your discussed. the Situation, then, when’ mosity,” panied'them to the Pierce colored slightly as he went|ing after them, realizing with a fre 5 yas ig 5 a_fresh on to explain, “You see, I was per-| pang that fie was a iabaoner Tt wa: fectly honest. I didn’t know there ‘an “mfortunate predicament, he -re- INSTALMENT FORTY-THREE “EVE'S APPLE”-GROWS ON-TREE| The tree on which it grows is|| Each fruit hus a peculiar: appear-|, affair with his wife explains his’ anj-| his visitors rose t Pierce accom=| ositye Piva e finits of the Bar- It wasn’t exactly an ‘affair,’ sir.” | racks oremises and there stood look-| was a*count, and when I learned! fected, and quite us unpleasant as the one yhich had, brought, him into conflict with the angry men of Sheep Camp. ‘That had been an experience light was little better, it seemed to him, for already, he felt the weight of the Dominion over him, already he cd himself enmeshed in a | disconraging tangle of red tape. There was no adventurous thrill to this affair, nothing but an odious feeling of, shame and disgrace which he could not shake off. Ne was. staring morosely at the ground between chis- feet when he heard a voice that caused him to start. There, facing him with a light of pleasure in her blue, ¢: was the girl cf.the skees. “Hello! said she. She extended. her hand, and her mit ten. closed over Pierce's fingers with firm cla I'm awfully see you again, Mr.—? She liesitated, then with a smile, confessed, “Do you know yet I've never hear “Phillips,” said h “You don’t deserve to be remem- bered at all, for you didn't come to the dance. And after you ‘had prom- ised, too.” “I couldn't come,” he assured her, truthfully enough, “I looked for you. I was quite hurt when you failed to appear. Then 1 thought perhaps you expected something more formal than a mere verbal invitation, and in that way 1 we my’ vanity. If I'd known who you were or how to find you I'd have had my. father send you a note. If it, wasn’t. that, I'm glad. Well, there's another dance thi: and I'll expect you.” . not dancing,” he stam- ‘Not at the Barracks, any- your name.” mered . how.” The girl, was puzzled; therefore Pierce summoned his cour. ined, with as brave ; “You see before von a victim of un- happy cireumstance, a person to be | shunned. I'm worse than a case of smallpox. 1 don't think you should | talking to n at are you driving at?” “I'm gett up the spiritual mo- mentum necessary to tell vou that I'ma thief! Truly. Anyhow, three choice genflemen are so sure of that they went to the trouble of per- j themselves and hiying me ar * “Arrested? Vou?” And the Talmost think [must “Are you?” Yierce shook “OF cour: ber, now bh You fought, with that vood-look: BD us rench count, didn't you the one cheerful feature con with the entire : hand to him in anger- fall, but Lieutenant Rocks whole party.” “Tell me ever; thi Pierce was more than willing te an his recital at ime of his first meeting with Joe McCaskey on the beach at Dy | While he taiked the girl listened with! that peculiar open-cyed meditative | gravity he had noted upon, their former meeting. When he had fin- shed she cried, Ireathlessl; “Why, as exciting “Do you feel that Pierce inquired, curiov everything is an adyenture? I used to. “I used to stand outside of my- self and look on, but now—I'm on the inside, looking out. 1 suppose it’s the effect of the perience comes fast ® this country To one thing I've made up my mi however; when I get out. of th scrape, if I ever do, I'm going away up into the hills where ‘the wind cai blow me.clean, and stay there. “It’s a perfect shame!” the gir said, indignantly. “I shall tell. fa- ther to fix it. He fixes everything I ask him to, He's wonderful, a: you probably know. “Inasmuch as I haven't the faint- est idea who he 1s— everybody knew me.” Pierce could not restrain-a start oj] 20. surprise. Very humbly he inquired: “Now that you understand who | you want to—know me; be friend: with me?” “We are friends,” Miss Cavendist |! warmly declared. “That's not some: thing that may happen; it has hap. pened, I’m peculiar about svh mat: ters; I have my own way of looking at them, And now that we're friend: are going to be friends throughow an I'm going to help you. Coms|4 along and mect mother.” “I—don't know how far my paroh extends,” Pierce ventured, doubtfully | ; “Nonsense! There’s only ope att thority around here, Father think, the’s it, but he isn’t. I am. ° You'n my prisoner now. Give me. vot word you won't try to escape—” (To be continued) was CRAIN known by the name of “Forbidden ance of having a piece bitten out Ceylon, Dec. 4—Among the manvy| Fruit” or “Eve’s Apple Tree.” botanical. curiosities here is. a fruit}. The, hides supposed to.bear-the marks: of Eve's a ‘ teeth. M ‘ outside.and a-deep crimson withi om is pleasantly. scent-}that, ed, and the fruit is orange in color} to the den ‘fruit ‘of the Garden of Eden, @f it. This peculiarity and the fact i fruit.is poisonous have led, ebelief that it is the forbid- loge WANTED—A_ live party winter” sciling commiodity full time or ught with peril, but his, present | good Cafe, Killdeer, No. Dak. 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