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} Not a passive placid grape-juice but a true wine. Matured and ripened in wood as it has been for nearly a By is COPYRIGHT | CHAPTER XVI |Major Allen Barnes, M.D, Ph. D.— and Sim Gage | Sim Gage's reflections kept him | wandering about for the space of an |hour or two in the open air. || “I'll tell you,” said he, after a time, }|cared for their household needs, “I |reckon I'll go on down to the dam, |\on the mail coach this evening. You |i go in and tell her, won't yout Say I can't noways get back before to |morrow. I got to see about one thing and another, She'll under stand.” It was well toward midnight when the end of its semi-weekly round and put up at the Company works. At that hour the Company doctor was olnewhere. It was a due time after |breakfast on the following morning |before he ventured to the doctor's office. Doctor Barnes himeelf was en gaged in bringing up his correspond ence, He was occupied with two letters of importance: One was going to a certain medical authority of | the University from which he himself had received his degree. It contained |a certain hypothetical question re garding diseases of the eye, upon |which he himself at the time did not | feel competent to pass, The second letter was one to his new Chief, an officer of the recima- tion engineers, at Washington, He | wore again today the uniform of a Major of the Army, The wheels of ofticialdom were revolving. The | Public quality of this enterprise was well understood. That lawless ele- ments were afoot in that region was a fact also well recognized. To have this dam go out now would be an injury to the peace measures of the country. Soldiers were coming to protect it, and the soldiers must have & commander. In the hurried Umes of war, when there was not oppor tunity always for exactness, majors were made overnight when needful out of such material as the Govern ment found at hand. It might have turning around and finding Stim Gage standing in the door. “What brought you down here? Any- thing gone wrong?” “Well, I ain't sure, Doe,” said Sim Gage, “but like enough. One thing, my knee hurts me consderable.” In reality be was sparring for time. “But you're dressed up for a soldier?” “Yes. Sit down there on the oper A STANDARD > $625 great player roll libraries of today. pelled to retail them at a much higher price, but, as above stated, they by our factories nearly a year ago, and at the right figure, as purchase, at the extremely low price of $625 Wholesale 1519 Third Avenue Manufacturers to Mra. Jensen, who once more had| the lelwurely mail wagon arrived at| not visible, so Sim found quarters! 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Part of the order was filled within a reasonable time after it was given, but part of it was not, and had these player pianos been,delivered to us at the time they were purchased, the price would have then been $625, but their delivery to us was delayed, and wholesale prices since then have greatly advanced; in fact, if we were to buy these player pianos from their makers at this time, we would be com- is to be expected when one manufacturer buys from another, and they are to be sold in accordance with their Our factory’s knowledge of and confidence in these instruments is expressed by the fact that they purchased them, and this guarantees the safety of your investment. Hush slaw Pianos @ Retail * BA UUs merseim Lil Rarnes, Any ating chair,” sal@) Doctor torsely. “We'll look it over, thing happen to it? “Why, nothing much,” said Sim. “I burt it a little when I was getting in the mail wagon yesterday evening busted her open. Bo last night, when I was going to bed, I took a | needle and thread and sewed her up again.” “What's that? Sewed it up? “Yeu, I got @ needle and some black patent thread. Do you reckon she'll hold all right now, Docto sors in hand, about to rip open the trouser leg “No, you don't!" Waid Sim. “Them's my best pants. You just go eany now, and don't you cut them none jatall, Wait till 1 take ‘em off.” The doctor bent over the wounded momber. “You put in a regular | button-hole stitch,” said he, grinning “didn't you? About three stitches would have been plenty. You put in about two dosen—and with black thread! Like enough poisoned again.” “Well,” said Sim, “T didn't want to take no chances of her breaking open again.” | The doctor was busy removing the ntitches, and with no gentle hand | this time, made the proper surgical suture “Leave it alone this way,” said he, “and mind what I tell you Seems like you can’t kill a man out lin thig country. You can do things lin surgery*owt here that you wouldn't |dare tackle back in France, or in [the States. I suppose, maybe, I jeould cut your head off, for in | stance.” | I wish't you would,” mid Sim Gage. “She bothers me sometimes.” | After a pause he continued, “I been | thinking over a heap of things. You |e, I'm busted about flat. If I could |go on and put up some hay, way | prices In, I could giuake some money | this fall, but them damn robbers has cleaned me, and I can't start with nothing. And I ain't got nothing. Bo there I am.” Me vouchmfed nothing more, but |had already said so much that Doo tor Barnes sat regarding him quietly. said he after a time, ‘things might be bet! in this val I know that you’ stick with |the Government. Now, laten. I'm going to have practical command jhere from this time on. .Thia is un- |der Army control. I'm going to run a telophone wire up the valley as far jas your settlement. I'll appoipt you a government special scout. to watch that road. If these ruffians are in ‘this valley again we want to catch them.” were purchased THE SEATTLE STAR Omg, 1919 BY EMERSON HOUG Doctor Barnes was standing, sels | « ba a eS he Lae “You think I could be any use that way, Doc?” said Sim. “You, I've got to have some of the settlers with me that I can depend on, besides the regular detall ordered in here.” “Would I bé some sort of soldier, too, Uke?” demanded Sim Gage, “I tried to get in. They wouldn't take me, I'm—I'm past forty-five.” “You'd be under orders just like a poldl I have any sort of untform, | Doctor Barnes sat thinking for some ume, “No,” said he ou have to pass an examination before lyou really get into the Army; and ou're ovey age, you and Wid, both you. But I'll tell you—I'll give |you a hat—you shall have a hat with la cord on it, #0 you'll be like a |noldier, We'll have a green nervice ord on it—say green with a little White in it, Sim Gage? Don't that make you feel as if you were in a | uniform? “Now that'd sure be ‘fine, Doc, a Ihat Mke that,” said Sim. “I sure would like that, And I certainly would try to do what was right.” “And I shall have to put some men |up in your place, so we'll have to build you an extra cabin,” “It would raise a load offen me, that's what it would! [ight now, enpecial.” Sim cleared hin throat. “That there brings me right around to what I come down here to talk about,” sald he, with sudden resolu: | tion, “For instance, there was a let ter come to her up there—from back where she lived—from Annie Squires, |80 her and me got to talking over | that letter, you see.” } “What did Annie Squires may, tf) |'t's any of my business?” said the | Doctor, looking at him steadily “Well, I was just talking things over, that way, and we allowed that |maybe Annie Squires could come out here—after—weil, after the wedding, you see.” It was out! his brow. “The wedding? “Why, one thing and other, her and me got to talking things over Things couldn't run on; #0 we—we fixed it up.” “Gage,” sald Doctor Barnes sudden ly, “I've got to talk to you.” “Well, ail right, Doc. That'll be all right. I wish't you would.” Doctor Barnes tose and paced rap idly up and down within the narrow confines of his offica “You do love her, don't you?” | Sim Gage, for the first time tn his life, felt the secret* quick of his sim ple, sensitive mul cut open and ex posed to view. But Allen Barnes was the pitiless surgeon now. “I don't care a damn | About you, of course, Gage. You're| not fit for her to wipe her shoes on, | Jand you know it. But she can't seo| it and doesn't know it. If she could) [see you—what do you suppose she'd jthink? Gage—she mustn't ever | know! Sim Gage looked at him quietly.| “Every one of them words you naid| jto me, Doc, is plumb true, and it {ain't enough. I told her my own self, | that first day, and since then, it was | & blessing she was blind. But look.« here, I reckon you don’t understand |how things ia You say you're going |to build a house up there, and help od Sim Gage wiped off jme gweta start. That's fine. Because herw is the other one, my old house. | I wish't I could get some sheets and | pillow cases down here while I'm| right here now—I'd like to fix her| up in there better’n what she is. I'd even like to have a tablecloth, like. | But you understand, that’s for her, not me. That's her house, and not| mine. She can't see. It's a God's| [blessing she can't And what you raid is so—she mustn't ever know, | not now ner no time, what—Sim Gage really is.” Doctor Barnes’ voice was out of |control. He turned once more to this newly revealed Sim Gage, a mian whom he had not hitherto under stood. “Marriage means all sorts things, It covers up_things, begins things, end things. t's true.” “It ends things for her, Doo—tt| |don’t begin nothing fer me, you un-| | derstand. It is, but it jan't. I'll never |xtep a foot across that door ail, |night or day—you understand that. of don't you? You didn't think I was so lowdewn I couldn't understand a thing like tha did you? It's because she's blind a: don't know the truth; and becau she's plumb up against it That's why.” damn youm™ said Doctor Rarnes savagely. “You understand | me better than I did you. Yes—it's| the only way.” “It sure ia funny how things get mixed up sometimes, ain't it, Doc? remarked Sim Gage. “But now, part of my coming down here was about minister.” “Well,” said Doctor Barnes, desper- ately, feeling that he was party to a crime, “it's priest day next Sunday. We have five or six different sorts of riests and ministers that come in ef once a month, and they all come the same Sunday, so they can watch each other—every fellow is afraid the other fellow will get some souls saved the wrong way if ho ien't there on} the job too, Listen, Gage—I'll bring one of these chaps—Church of Eng- land man, I reckqn, for he hasn't got much to do down here—up to your| ranch next Sunday morning. We've got to get this over with, or we'll all be crazy—I will, anyhow. When I show up, you two be ready to be mar- ried.” ~ eee It was the Sabbath, and the aum- mer sun was casting its southering Nght even with the eaves of Sim Gage's half-ruined house. It was high noon.@ High noon ter a wed- ding. “Who giveth this woman fn mar. riage?” the deep voice of the minister at last Intoned, Sim Gage had no idea of the mar- riage ceremony of the Church of England or of any other church. As for Doctor Barnes, the matter had been too serious for him to plan de- tails, But now, seeing tho exigency, he stepped forward quickly, and of- fered himself as the next friend of Mary Warren, orphaned and friend less. The ceremony went on until it came to that portion having to do with the ring—for this was Church used. “With what voice of the man of God. Sim Gake's eyes were raised in sudden question. Neither he nor Doctor Bafnes, quasi best man, had ever given thought to this matter of the ring. Doctor Barnes was able to serve. Quickly he slipped off the seal ring from hisvown finger and passed it to Sim Gage. churchly official showed him how to place it upon the finger of Mary Warren, who raised her own hand in hia So finally it was, over, and those solemn, oftimes mocking words were sald: gether, let no man put asunder!" Sim stood for a moment undecided. He did not stoop even now to greet his wife with that salutation usual at this moment. The group at the bedside broke apart. The bride, white of England, and full ceremony was] as a ghost, dropped back on her FIFTH _ DOWNSTAIRS STORE FREDERICK & NELSON AVENUE AND PINE STREET New Coats at. $15.00 Present Another Opportunity for Advantageous Buying Exceptionally low-priced Chocolate Chips Special 60c Lb. 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