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——— me ay PAGE FOURTEEN. ‘LOU-LOU’ A Brilliant and Dramatic Novel of the South Seas. BY H. BEDFORD-JONES, AUTHOR ty) ARKNESS AT DAW? a) SECOND LIFE OF M. THE DEVIL,” ETC. } INSTALLMENT NO, TWO Who's who in the story. Brian Fortesque, twenty-eight, in a b to his so! wealthy cynical, storm drives e Ca’ ta. To his surprise 1 a strange, beautiful hat her name {fs | r of an Arab Sul. ant of a noble Phillippines. ne: tan Spaniard killed in th and Baral as th ts couch Brian woke reached 1 and leaped up. night's eve: his bewildered e3 t the door of the bed room. ected nly halted. | , from the top of the logs and) from just undernea the roof, crawled a man who aimed a re y i breast. | A hobo!” que. ‘What do you want,” he asker | The man gave |! but pointed toward the house. | 1 to take a hobo int but as ho hesitated, mouth wide |the lightning? E ° | understand. though to pass on. Fortesque stepped in his way. A flash of anger lit the stranger's face but it gave way to smile. as he looked past Brian’s shoulder. Astonished, Fortesque turned and| d'scovered Lou-Lou. She was clad now in her own garments, and held out her hand to him. “So you have found Barak? I did * not know where he had gone.” ‘ak.”" Fortesque stared at her. “Barak—certainly! Did I not tell you that I came here in the arms of Well, that was true. k is as strong as three men. He must have carried mo for mites, through the darkness and rain. He understands English perfectly. Lis ten! ‘This is our host, Barak; he is my friend and protector. Obey him as you would me! The mute seized the hand of For- tesque and pressed {t to his Ups. Then he glanced upward. In that look was accomplished a miracle; the dumb man spoke. Up- ce was printed a tremendous a blind devotion, a word less appeal. Lou-Lou then spoke to the man in a language which Fortesque did not She immediately added, in English. “Give them to Mr. Fortesque. He take care of them from now on.” Zarnk brought into view a little of leather. Opening the draw gs he spilled the contents upon le. tesque found himself gazing upon a dozen stones that shone with the rich scarlet of new blood yet which bore in thelr hearts a spark of living fire. “Will you please take care of these stones for me?” sald Lou-Lou. “I will explain about them later.” Fortesque assented with a curt nod. He gathered up the rubies one by one into the bag, each of them a stone for which men would have died—and for which men of the dusky Orient undoubtedly had died in times past. “Ort said the girl, ‘“‘thero were Barak sold three of them in New York, and they brought s here."* tesque saw that he had Pity overwhelmed Bria Once more the no tounge, creature gestured, and this time Fortesque © way into the kitchen. The muto glanced| around questioningly and made as BEAUTIFUL HAIR | Try This! A Gleamy Mass of Luxuriant Hair |* At once! 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I shall them myself and have them into a necklace for my wife.” Your wife! I did not know that you had a wife!" | “Nor have I.” que pushed | back his chair, “Ye e denied the possit I would Today 1| ate it. Now I must go out and| This Barak— real name was sec to my car, Please consider the! probably Jim the Dip, omething of house at your disposal.” [the sort. He had 1 1 up to his — departed abruptly. | part cleverly {OTHERS MAY BE UNGRATEFUL— trian strode out to his roadster,| The wit of a madwoman and the MAY MISUNDERSTAND, BUT HIS. 1 front of the house and fell to work | criminal—a strong com BOOKS ARE ALWAYS STAUNCH emoving a punctured tire. | 5 AND TRUE — BRIMMING WITH As ifted his fresh tire into place} shrank from thought, as he SYMPATHY, INSPIRATION wo horsemen appeared Hlatng toward | , * OR FORGE TFULNESS m. O a sheriff of = a ~ apparent ¥ ‘ortesque!” “Howdy former as came u| strangers up this way Fortesque laughed. rangers? | should say not! I had hard work to} limited at the w: skipped into the hills.” station, and “Ahi” Fortesque smiled. “An elopement?"” “Hell, no! growled the sheriff. “The man pulled a big Jewel robbery in New York. The woman's just cut of an asylum there—they hitched up and skipped west.” “Sorry I haven't seen ‘em, re- h? Nope!" Just the woman. nd Calls herself Lulu s it all doped out that she's a or something. The man’s a , I guess. It's the woman Private asylum. She after. week.” The men left and Fortesque slowly took his way toward the house. The world had reeled and rocked around him, and had crashed into All his fine imaginings were destroyed Doctors WANTED © To OPERATE Mrs. Quillon Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Muskegon, Michigan.—‘‘After doc- toring for eight or nine yearswith dif- | ferent physicians | trumpery without anyrelief | other houses, tall feathery trees, an at all, they said at last that thedi case and I operation. I had heard of Lydia E. 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They Oh, I’m not talkin’ about cars,”| arranged {t between them. ‘They ar- | said the sheriff. “We're lookin’ for| ranged that she would delude me | a man and a w got off the| lure mo into disposing of the stones) Barak | dd te » the and look | sive as a n ships." rges Saved Her from an Operation | touse of all ts the house of the sultan | Brown men armed with | are A GASOLINE ALLEY —CONCERNING FRIENDS AND BOOKS i THEY HOLD AN ANSWER TO HIS EVERY DOUBT, A SOLACE FOR HIS EVERY MOOD. SOMEHOW 1 CAN'T SEEM TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT ONE TODAY ! his work agai rtesque passed | h and went cn into the living | mm Then i On the c ich we ; placed to catch cof = = 3 eastern window, his fair t Cuike aD aN by | with one of his yellowbacked Fre * ( Thar FLivver SEDAN HEN We ee HoT PUPPIES és volumes. The book dropped from 7 | AGAIN — Ibe SkIP.UP 2? 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Ono of Men fear him, f that Sheitan crouches in the Gazelle, and that his ey is the lamp in his cz “They are my enemies, those friends of ny half-brother, they prey. ‘They plotted a and told my brother with cur word w to bring into a in America. obeyed f feared mo. With me out of the who would be sultan but Zahri son of a handmaid, ahri of the skin? “So they brought it now I am here, longing and justice "Tell m B r ne again and F about. for my Fe er white men too 2 Chines grandfather's ol¢ on whom inst me ‘PRIEST ACCUSED OF FORGING nn + Another fine installment tomorrow. | 1 COULDN'T GET IT WITHOUT WELL SOMEBODY'S GOING To GET T WONDER 1F FOR 1T — 227 i HAY T_WAS WONDERING F I COULON'T Buy THAT |! IN THE WINDOW- ER IN EASY PAYMENTS 2 BS | Wee | | was dispatched to Harrisburg author. | | ites asking that Father Graco | taken into custody, Attords Utmost PREVENTIVE for you GoT SOME Nowe! be ARKEON BE THERE si ceaticielatanidacnceaiimne es AUTOMOBILE SHOW TONIGHT