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etale; a thrill, of whatever sort, would stir my blood.” “Don't be willy you if you did go “U'mem!" This iden, it scomed had How could 1 pay not occurred to Mr, Gray, It was plain that money meant nothing to him, “You see? We couldn’t permit—* “1 have it We'll divores ship and sentiment entively from t N discussion business | shall ease You your The emotional suspense that vet in my dotage, and I had se before 1 saw you." “he's living here I don't know much about her, but the man goes by the name of Mallow.” “No thrill yet." e's been hanging about our store for the past month, ‘making a few purchases 1 getting acquainted with gome of the <, Wherever 1 go, lately, there he il wager if 1 took tonight's train for Ranger, he'd be on it.” Calvin Gray turned now and open- ly stared at the object of Coverly's suspicions. here was an alert in- terest in his eyes. “You've cinched the matter with me,” he declared, after a moment. “Get our your ¢ monds tomorrow; I'm going to take the night train to Ranger.” Later that evening, after his guest had gone, Gray took casion de Iiberately to put himself in Mallow way and to get into conversation with him. For the better part of an hour the two men smoked and talked, anc had Coverly overheard their conver gation hi¢ blood would have prema- turely aged, for his distinguished host, Calvin Gray, the worldly-wise, suave man of affairs, @ tually J mitted himseif to he pumped like tarmer's soi. Once Gray was in his rooms, how- his manner changed, and into a ever, his ey there came a triumphant glitter. Hastily ~he rummaged through one of his bags, and from a collection of tri souvenirs, and the like he sc he examined carefully, then took into the bathroom for further experiment. CHAPRTER 111 Bob Parker Comes Home Old Tom Parker was Stype. He was one of small class of men at one time common to the west, but now rapidly disappearing. A turbu- lent lifetime spent in administering the law in a lawless region had stamped him with the characteristics of a frontier officer. Among the late comers to Wichita Falls, where he lived, Tom was known as a quiet-spoken, emotionies old fellow with an honorabie past. It was not generally known that he was a kind and indulgent father and had a daughter whom he worshiped with blind adulation This ignor- i ance was not strange, for Miss Bar- bara Parker had been aw col- lege for four years now, and during that time she had not once returned Ee—e—— T0 EXPECTANT " MOTHERS A Letter from Mrs. Ward Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Springfield, Ohio. —*‘ Lydia E. Pi bam’s Vegetable Compound prove splendid medicine for me before my fourth child was born. With the first three [ had been sick and wealk, and had sick headaches twice a week. [ couldn’t keep enough food down to do me an good, and my wer was left undone many a time. My - gister-in-law told me to take the Vegetable Compound when 1 began to have the same old dreadful gickness and headaches and was so worn out. Since then I have only had two headaches, had a good_appetite and scarcely lost a meal. I have a fine, healthy baby girl who has never had a sick day. The nicest part s that [ am bealthy, too. It did me a lot of 1,0"']' and if 1 should ever have another ‘a‘by 1 will take your medicine at once.”— Mrs. Bessie WARD, 1027 Park Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Ve table Com- nd is an excelient medicine for ex- tant mothers, and should be taken mng the entire period. It has a gen- eral effect to strengthen and tome u the entire system, 8o that jt may worl g every respect effectually as nature nk- d a friend. | | d reduce it to a strietly | an object whici | | conscience by paying my traveling ex- | pennes, 1 undergo shall be my v 1, 'y take my commission in thrills."” This offer evoked a light laugh from Gsay's guest, “You'd get enough of 'em,” he asserted e advance a mild one, on count, at this moment Notice the couple din- ing at the third table to your left.”| Gray lifted his eyes. “What do you see?” 3 | “A rather well-dressed, hard-faced man and a dee 1y attracl wo- man--brunette, I'here's a suggestion of repressed widowhood about her. It's the gown, probably, 1 am not n her | tion of sharing this day of days with |citement. T tell you! T'll get a a tiresome old pest, and now he again |new sign painted, tod! Tom and| made an evasive answer, Bob Parker. Real Estate and Tnsur- | It was only upon occasions like |ance, Qi1 Prop'tles and ILeases.' this meeting that “DBob” kissed her|Gosh! It's a great idea, son!" father, Tor she had been reared as a \ ’ boy and taught to shun emotional "(’.'P;.‘A‘::::,RTL:F‘" iisplay. £ A year before this story opens the h, daddy, it has bee: 3 4 i |a weather-beaten, run-down railroad course the judge asked when *“Bob'"|where you can lay down when you're was coming home. The judge always tired, You been away so long it |did that, too. Old Tom had 1lied geems like T can't have you close and although her suit was not expes [sive, it was worn with an air and was |perhaps as fetehtag as any that had te Wiehita Palls | ever come Well, VOICES IN THE AIR there for A moment hefore she spoke, “You-~didn't even forget that T love blue-honnets, did you, dad?" “Hob's room was saved for the | and 014 Tom stood back, glowing her delight, He could not refrain from showing her his blackened thumb-nail—=the priee of his carpen- try—for he hoped she'd kiss it. And she dil, Not until she had “shooed’ him out and sent him downatairs, did she give way to those emotions she had been fighting this long time; then her face grew white and tragic. “Oh, daddy, daddy!" she whispered. “What have 1T done to you?" Tom Parker had ralsed his girl like a son, and llke a son she took hold of things, but with a daughter's tact. Her intuition told her much, but she 414 not arrive at a full appreciation of the family affairs until she had the house running and went down to put his office in order. Then, indeed, she learned at what cost had come those four expensive years in the East, and the truth left her limp. Tom was mortgaged to the hilt. his royalties were pledged; a crow could | “WE'LL. BE PARTNERS, DAD.” ind he serubbed, trying his best to put the house in order, {not pick a llving out of his insurance On the Ay set for Bob's arrival [Ebusiness. Tom had his dishes washed and his Something had to be done, and things in order long ere the town was |quickly; a new hand was needed to Rarbara awake. Then he went down to the mend the family fortunes. 1.!f|‘ll"‘ and waited—with the jumps, [determined to lend that hand. Repeatedly he consulted his heavy After a fortnight of careful con- sideration she decided to enter the oil business and deal in leases, “We'll be partners, dad. You run the insurance and I'll be the lease hound.” “Say—" Tom's eye brightened. “I'll put a desk right alongside of mine—a little feller, just vour size— and a nice lounge in the back room, gold watch, engraved: “With the ad- miration and gratitude of the citizens of Burlingame, November fifth, 1802 It was still two hours of train time when he locked up and limped off toward the station, but—it was well to he there early, Of course he met Judge Halloran on the street—he always did and of | enough.” Another thought presented diligently to the judge every day for itself, and he manifested sudden ex- a month now, for he had no inten- either of them had spoken. Narbara was anything but boyish to look at: quite the opposite, in fact. She was delightfully feminine from the crown of her smart little travel- hat to her dainty French heels, e ‘ Beecham's Pills Ke ou fit ep Y a station, a blacksmith shop, and ‘a hitching ‘rail, town enough, inciden- tally, for the limited number of people and the scanty amount of mer- | chandise that passed through. The| |few farms and ranches round about | | were scattered widely, and life there| on was a grim struggle against heart- ing !‘nrmk. by reason of the gaunt, gray,| | ever-present specter of the drought. | Geologists had claimed for some| time that there must be coal in these north Texas counties, a contention perhaps based upon a comfortable be- lief in the law of compensation. | program to be announced by radio. son, there's a bhoom on and | the town has grown seme; but | KDKA | | wuess things are about the same as| Sast ! a It . | |when you left ‘em Sl B Potsbuogh), - | with pride and satisfaction as he paid [the driver, took Narbara's suit case,! ¢ o m.—n Etutiay Saven and opened the gate fer her o BORRASL AOYOR & CHTToRy The girl turned from her first long, | 6:15 p, m.—Addresses A g% At the modeat home.| ¢4 p, m “The visit to the little we, indeed! The paint on the | folks by t » ady |nouse was peeiing, guters had rusted 3 "R " masenatl seorea. Nationst | 3 FIH out, some of the poreh fleo . - - BEGIN HERE TODAY m e poreh flooring stoekman and farmer market reports. Calvin Gray occipies davernoral There was u perfeetiy mood reason|[0V?d through, the yard was an ur 7:16 p, m.—Add " IR R o x the seest eksenaive | fo? in protra Somaratias of |KempL tangle of matted grass and f”“ P 'l| '_‘un. S 3 hotel in Daline. = He introduces him. | tather and daughter; sinee Old Tom |¥O50s and heiected shruhbery [ High n'. o chowtra 1 er direc. hetal in Datias " e int (ither and daughier; sin i VIt haan't chanmed & miter ane|Migh school orchestra under direc. R e :,‘ A ‘;.;x-n to the|Wwa I ¢ [ ;|r| 1‘ took a Alhr sald, bravely tion of Osear Demmier. Mary Hull, B lsat & e larges k and: to]eo ke and serape to meet { " RRsaL o the Inre Bk A8 0] e and raliroad . . ';"'h ""‘ A moment later she paused upon | PN Dewsnaber sives a Writeup fo Calvin| Tom earried on & nominal fire (n. |(he threshold, tense. thrilied, appar-| ¢ o ¥ Gray, “globe trotter, soldier of for anee husincss, but as & ently apeechless. Thin time 1t was | pifly 8 00 “:(T\w? W I'l": l“m Phure i "ot - tune and financier Yo the hotel faet the tiny two.roomed rmnwn".',':r':“':::‘":"" to counterfelt an ex- | oty t0 0T o te manager Gray admits that he s ture that bore his painted sign | joy, : . . | Colonel Calvin Gray, In the hotel Was nothing more or less than a oast || “owWhy, eversthing in right where it] LA0 P PO '-“u“m“\\!"m el dining room Gray meets an old friend, | Ig piace for him and his rheumatio |Delong: How wonderfully you've o of the Alohp ™. o e, who is vice president of the biggest friends [kept house! You must have a per- JOMN-of Sua A php L AShers hEeh | sewelry house In Dillas, (iray offers| The time came, however, when he |fect jowel of a girl, dad:’ Nt by Mol : 1 oo to Renmer and try to sell some |was forced to shed his habit of sioth.| "I 10t Aunt Lizsia go ‘bout three| " t["hr'l':nln‘"l'i:;:nrg et Rtl: N nle A ta s Tiriskow, fulness as completely as o snake sheds [YArs back," Tom explained. “Bhe| oy upoh of Christ Bclentist of Wilk. ERS Bas' strack’ oll ita skin, and that was during_ the (E0t—ahiftless and T heen aort off,, ., ) : | prd e Dagare “Motes arrival Then, |PAtching 1t aince, ~ Clean, though, | ""3'T T L iay by pr. o ] . . » ' | naning . rgan recital by s NOW GO ON \ ST( lindeed, he swept and he dusted, he L N oy“v |'| ' .‘“" THE sTORY mopped and he polished, he ru Harbara turned: blindly she walked H"”ln”"' SIEASIR ang Om ol Ixeellent There no jonger in| v SRR op il to the center table and buried her tor 9 “"‘"".,"""'"‘ Pittsburgh, any question about my going,’" Gray face In a bouguet of wild flowers gar- 3:48 p, m.—Vesper servioes of the announced, firmly, “I'm bored; 1 am nered from the yard, She held it| Shadyside Presbyterian church, Rev. . Hugh Thomson Kerr, minister. 6:20 p, m.—8erviees of the Cavalry Episcopal church, Pittsburgh, Pa. 8 p. m~-Chamber music recital from Little Theater, Carnegie Instl. tute, Pittsburgh, Pa. WBZ (Westinghouse—S8pringfield), Saturday. 7:20 p. m.~~Redtime story. 7:45 p. m.—Literary evening, “Un- der the Evening Lamp,” from Youth's Companion, 8 p.om- Baseball scores, Musical 9 p. m.—Baseball scores, WEAF (American Tel. and Tel. Co, N. Y.) Saturday. 7:30 p. m.—Concert by the choir of chapel of the Good Shepherd. Music by the Elks' band, under direction of Col. Robert M. Watkins of the U. 8, Shipping board. Gimbel 9 p. m-~—Program by Brothers' New York store. Piano re- cital by Maude Tucker Doolittle, So- prano solos by Marion Owen Weiser, and Ruth Chase, lyric soprano. ASPIRIN Say “Bayer” and Insist! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on Package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over tventy- two years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Earache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain. Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”| only. Each unbroken package contains | proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug- gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid, 100 R (Continued in Our Next Issue) DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HAVE You BEEN TO ANY DANCES PIANO No, NOT FOR ) | SEVERAL ' $ALESMAN $AM Gy /7 FOR ™ LOvA MIKE! { | OLVERSLEPT YIS MORNING ~ [ VD BET THEW'RE AL THROUGH L MOUING BREADY AND GULZLL L3 MAD A9 A HORNET [/ You PLAY THE DON'T YOU PLAY SOME THING! 4 W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1023, WGl \ (Ameriean Madio & Research Corp, | (General Eieetrle Co, Beheneotady, Medford Hillside, Mass.) | N, ¥ NEED FPATHER JOHN'S MEDIOINS N’"““h‘ If the strain of winter has left you ’ | tived a ur body cells Saturday. 8 p. m—Dance music by Cain's '.'.Q.'.nf".'?.;.'“fi."“"" your body 6 p. m~New England forecast fur- | Castle orchestra whipped into B Weather Bureau crop notes by V., A stician. Late news nished by the | New Pngland Saunde flashes. Early sports news. & | v Wha 6:15 p. m.—~Condition of Massachu- Saturday, you need i setts Highways furnished by the Au- “nel v w! 3 | tomonile 1.egal Asso. [ T p. m-="Uncle Wigsily Bloriea” ¢ne rea1 tonic y Howard R, Garis, author, 6:30 p. m.—Reston Police reports.| §:30 p. m.~"Fashlons,” by an edi- food elements Amrad bulletin board, 6146 p. m~Code practice, Lesson Sidd p.m No. 48, of the Amateur Dramtic nrnnim-irlm- whieh 7 p. mo—Evening program tion under the direction of Drama| help you drive out impurities and re~ 1==8Ixth of serien of talks on New 1.eague, build new flesh and health, Over 68 England problems under direction of | #:30 p. m—Talk by Owen D.|years of success. No drugs. New England business, Young. fund —_—=——————————— 1 unday, nn:mr?d‘f“"l program to be an 10:80 A, m,—Musieal program, ‘lhn‘ soprano; courtesy Betty Tillots UNCed, altor” by Dercival| 11 8. me=Morning service from West | #on Concert bureau. | Wilde, presented by Amrad Players, "‘i:‘" Presbyterian church, New York| #:30 p. m—Rachel Crothers, well | " | eity. | known auther, will talk on her first i 4=="A Binck Trump," A NOKTO Com- | 3" __gongalogue, “Mothers.of| niuy Suihah will talk ey nes ‘ edy by David Risdon, presented hy;“;" 1 the Amrad Players, W, Eugene Ham. | ™" mett, director, Sunday, $:30 p. m.-~Federation ehurch serv- | fee conducted by Mass, Federation of body," Churches, | M 9:00 p, m,~Musicale, I kes, What About Costs the Second and Third Year? It is the second and third and fourth years that either bring mounting costs or dem- onstrate the real economy of a motor car. It is a fact, proved over and over again by fleet owners, that the Hupmobile costs less to maintain over a period of three years, or longer, than any other car built today. Their carefully kept costs record the cold CITY SERVICE STATION 15 Main St. A. M. PAONESSA, Prop. ; Cor. Hartford Ave. and Stanley St. Hupmobile iY WIZ (Westinghouse —Newark) tor of Harper's Hasaar Winners of the contest| John's 4 p. mo—"Humanity and Tts Debt | to Our Mothers,” hy Maxmillian le-‘ 4:40 p. m—~"Something for Every- copyrighted stories by Ralph | ew, Harper & Bros, p. me~=Concert by Kay Hender Tired Body Cells temporary ar tivity by drug of Father Medl 5:45 p. m~Program to be an« nounced later, 9:55 p. m.~—Arlington time signals, weather forecast, 10 p. mo-=Concert by Mra Jane | Grawfora Eiler, contralto, soloist for West End Presbyterian chureh, ) hard fact that Hupmobile gives lowest-cost 3 service in the long run. Hupmobile economy goes straight to the things hidden away in the motor, trans- mission and the rear axle,—things that account for the extremely low upkeep cost, and the long life for which the Hup- mobile is noted. 4 Olivia Shows No Mercy NO,} DON'T PLAY ANY MORE TH VAN 19 STiLL HERE! LWHILE. THEY'RE \N TH' $TORE. \LL'JU DRIVE. TH' UAN OUER 0 W NEW fl\éht e'axm AND SURPRIYE. GULZ. a [/ WHY You ToLD ME THAT You PLAYED - NOW SHOW ME - L;'_g THE ORGAN BULT WHY DID YoU GIVE UPTHE BY ALLMAN ORGAN, 01D THE MONKEY DIE? HEYIL! WHAT T’ 5AM HILL 19 TH MRTTER W Yoo A — A R T o OTHES &RN THAT Wa MOVING INTO OLD PLACE. it hhtuilii i