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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918, 0SS NOTES maternity The 9 4 The pan een Fross “hild Officers merican In Fra Geor- children, a day nursery open daily from indays, unding Red special of the Laon France, h the American Red turned into hospital 3 contagious diseases enlisted men from a Aviation Instruction Cent sent a check for 5,00 Irs. to the Red Cross as a mark of ap preciation At this center the Red ross maintains baths, laundry,can- I rildven, with the approval of een. disinfecting plant, tailor and the ian authorvities are being jnending « barber shop and tech- ' tres \L this clinic. This new medical pical aviation library. It also con- cent reatly needed because tha ributed a printing press used by the increased the population of jviators in issuing their camp news ym « normal of about 140,000 paper. than 200,000 souls. The Sallee Franklin, the building in ister ®f the Iaterior with the avre named after Benjamin Frank- : ance of the F n and former used as a meetin josscssion of Salle Franklin place for peoplgss clubs has been turn- which has thus become the headquar- d into a health center by the Belgian ters fo- Red Cross social service and ssion American Red hea tivities in the community. | en demountable houses were ! single week by the bry where former residence o dis- to Consul at and a hospi nd will be en with and pensaiy is p. . except on had ing, co child Wh arily build is now sounds sur the Amc ing & can Cross st hospital for have ated prim- many this center 1ssist Belgian is op. refu T v Havie to mor of the in a 1 Red Cros viliage fo errected Amer a mo f In the huildifg, where formerly lal and economic questions were dis ussed, located a dispensary so- are now “Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the best remedy we have found for constipation. We cannot say too much for it” (From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by Mr. Win- field S. Taylor, 342 Penn St., Burlington, N. J.), . Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the best remedy for constipation because it acts gently and does not gripe and strain. Its freedom from all habit-forming properties and its posi- tive effect make it the ideal remedy for the family medicine-chest. DR. CALDWELL’S Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 czs. (3=) $1.00 A TRIAL BOTTLE CAN BE OBTAINED, FREE OF CHARGE, BY WRITING TO DR. W. B. CALDWELL, 459 WASHINGTON STREET, MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS Bel- | rench Government ' with tu- | | neces 1 before her, ! you imagine, | be Do You Wonder That Women ‘Are Lavish In Their Praise Over These Perfectly Stunning Shoes at Five Dollars? A mind when you behold these beaut: Shoes at $5.00. You will proneunce them the mest wo derful values you have seen anywhere th season. And there is a very good rcason why thisisso. We sell millions of pairs of them annually through our 297 stores in the Jnited States. Come and see for yourself the buying power that a five-dollar bill still has in Shoes! “[lewark Stoe Stores Co. NEW BRITAIN STOR 324 MAIN ST. Near R. R. Crossing Open Monday and Saturday Evcnings 297 STORES IN NINKTY-SEVEN CITIES being establi forty more such n completed. These »uilt that the patient 1itdoor treatment and live as his family the well bereulo ed. hous s for houses mem- | h children, pre- | have been lth hy treat- reulosis comp ment the Amer children are to their familie crers from bone tubercu- will be sent for seaside tment to the shores of scay. Red hteen losis shortly open air tre the Bay of B REVELATIONS OF A WIFE = - | come back until T send William for | you.” I obeyed her found my father, Drake smoking library. 1 barely of Kato's discovery paper when the Asiatic’s knock was heard at the door. Allen Drake quickly rose and placed him- selt in such a position that the servant woundn’t him until he was well within the room. “I like go out began, and then— Allen Drake reached out a slender but sinewy hand, grasped him by the jacket collar and turned Kato around until he faced him. Then was that stolid face contorted with a most terrible fear, fear that I realized had its roots in something beyond ordinary understanding. Mr. Drake held him taut for two or three long minutes, silently gazing at him. without question, and Dr. Pettit and Allen ! comfortably in the a chance to tell them of the hidden deferential had see little while,” Kato | Then he spoke rapidly in a jargon un- at Happened as They Waited to Spring the Trap. i | sh: ted few words rtha's hash,” ed her of the My mother-in-law w in “settling Co when Lillian ity of doing so. “Agatha, ' she said when that | ancient damsel stood visibly trembling | “T've stood a good deal from you first and last. But now that your snoopir round has ended in your finding out something which might do vou harm, I'm going to take a hand. You march right back with me to Katic’s room, and you leave it again only over my dead body until Mrs. Underwood gives the word. Now rch!” And sniff, mee “I hate to mi mother-in-law said repared to follow “but I gue use this way.” “I take off itha, with martyr-like marched. the a 1y shindig,” my | to Lillian as she her recreant kins- I'll be of more | my best chapeaux to | Lillian remarked, when she was out of hearing. “And I'm so relieved that she isn’t to be in the final round-up. We'll have enough to | do without taking care of non-com- | batants.” “I wonder remarked, to what Kato will do,” T hide my sensitive con- sciousness that a non-combatant was what I would be reckoned. | “Go straight to Harry as soon as he | i replied, and in her voice. “But has something up his sleeve for ind that he wants come over ther partly, T him spring it. Drake | little masculine vanity, not particularly averse to showing off a bit before you. So as | I can’t leave here and someone must | there, you'll have to go. Tl keep | Allis busy in the kitehen while you | slip out the side door, And don't | .zmr'm - was bitter Drake Kato reminds r to to see isn’t without a I suspect, and Hewark Shoes For BOYS $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 125 New Fall Styles in Newark Shoes For Men Just Received— €ome in-and see them! ! intelligible to us, | | but dently well understood. Mr. Drake asked two or three s rp questions, which® the Al answered submissively. Then Drake led him to the door, took hand from the other’s collar, and deft- | 1y, foreibly kicked him into the cor- | ridor and closed the door. | | | | which Kato evi- | At the end his A Flashlght's Rays. “Hé's our man mnow, body and soul,” he said, a little mocking light of triumph in his eyes, and dusting his hands with his handkerchief as if he had touched something unclean. “Be- ' cause of something happened vears ago when he was with me, he believes in his superstitious soul that I am in league with the devil, and can bring down all sorts of torments upon his devoted head. So he will obey me im- plicitly. He has gone to his em- ployers now with instructions to bring them here tomorrow night and at half hour past midnight, and when he comes back here I will instruct him just how to get them in the house. In every detall they will dance like pup- pets at our bidding. The prophecy came back to me the next night after midnight, when I stood tense in the little alcove off my mother-in-law’s room, the heav tains shrowding it in darkness Lillian had placed me there with the injunction to watch the stairway from the library, although we had re- covered the keys and both doors were locked. T knew that it was a subter- fuge to get me out of the way of the real danger but I was thankful to be even an onlooker at the drama which was about to be staged. We had managed that Kato should see the Chinese vase brought back to DSt —— | one in the doorw my mother-in for it af- torded those of us in the house better hiding plac And in those hiding places my father, enfeebled physlcally but a deadly marksman; Allen Drake, with the switch of the electric lights removed and in his hand; Dr. Pettit, two stocky guards. the most trusted Lillian could and Lillian herself waited to sp the trap. “T'll take personal charge of Grace Draper,” she promised grimly “I'm afraid the you might be little too room. n rest of a chivalrous. It was exactly half-past twelve when we heard the slight shuffling upon the stairs which told u cording to our own plan Mrs. Allis had | admitted the conspirators through a side window concealed b yshrubbery, and that Kato was bringing them up the front stairs to the room. In an- other minute Kato himself, evidently sent ahead, was casting the rays of a flashlight over the room, his face as imperturbable as if he didn't know of the watchers concealed there. Voices From the Dark. he assured some- “Two old women ick girl, way back in house, e go home, young missee houseboy. Nobody here. “Just what I say,” with the other sleep, | All sleep.” “By houseboy I suppose you mean | that old ape with the wen on his fore- head,” s low but clear tones sounded The better for you. pose, is dear little house. It's a wonder Grace Drape: amusedly. Madgie’s treasure she didn’'t take | it to bed with her.” “If T might suggest,” a low voice with a hint of authority and more than a hint of Teutonic ancestry, said Arontoally, “a little less voice and more work.” Another voice, one that T nized with a thrill of terror of the man with the scarred growled a guttural assent. “Who planned this whole thing any- way?” Grace Draper retorted deflant- ly. ut I noticed that her voice was more guarded than before, and that > at once turned her attention to Chinese vase. owner of the ironical voice real reins of the expedition. With quick, deft finger: that she had remembered Kato's deecription, she emptied the vase, and taking a magnet similar to mine from her dress, the metal pencil case soon lay within her hand. But when she had opened it, and had handed the rice paper the owner of the ironical voice, whose mustached square face I could see in the light of the flashlight he held to the paper, there broke a startled ex- recog- hand, held the showing perfectly that ac- | it contained to | “All right. | And here, T sup- | as that | 1 deduced that the | Charge It r Mrscn Stomy SOV~ 6RE MAIN ITRET HARTFORD HARTFORD’S it. them. MORE Dig In DON'T winter Clothes, Simply take advantage of Our Easy WEEK- LY PAYMENTS and WEAR Garments WHILE YOU ARE PAYING By this method, you secure the advan- tage of present low prices. you'll find that the same Garments will cost you Most iHelpful Store “SAVE UP” because there is no NEED for to purchase your the warm fine, for “save If you up”’ MONEY later. MEN-—WOMEN We Clothe the Family —CHILDREN Buy Bonds to Your Utmost clamation from h chweinhund ! 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