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CHAPTER NVI at of this kid. I'm » int names,” he said. bi no tam for callin’ | deeply, ‘oughed less. too, and final t grew feeble t she f umber to le of ba, consideratic that © night dat gal goin’ chaln. begin get well. M no Mebbe you fe '¢ WL while an’ he'p Tom stirred uneasily. parent firmness evade the an expressic 00, was less obdurate than ? pretended. After some furth gument he avoided a weak su ~by muttering: = “All right. Take him “:know my grub’s safe, 8 brown eyes wid: nd ed in ad astonishment. “Jim a hount for’ punish you Pierce made no anawer, seemed fixed in a frow monly and more when,th gets down you Noting that the ared to be weary, F 1 to relieve him, an offe quick J. As he and prepared to fall t sed him. count your money t's all there.” He at to get him up and ze nd. My idea about this abs Mr. Linton groaned loudly, then to Poleon he cried: “Lead the way.|i¢ You watch the girl and I'll watch| this vet’rinary.” That was night for 4 as directed. “It's al sured her, She flashed af er| crept into the up the anxious and a trying| him a ace he smil had d that she had patient him to finish f was droopin ion gave him 8 sleep whi h fatigue ; he began to give some x.|thought to the naturo of his new surroundings. They a sort m-|t0 warrant consideration; for a long | time he ucally, 4 nightmare him. Occash to start into wak perience che pelt, and his nally he dozed, but on ness and to , Keener tha had its effect | upon Tom and Jerry. Their compas-| upon his sion increased when they learned | t waved his par {Sam Kirby had been taken off and| Shore shortly before dusk. Lights fhow Rouletta had been brought to| were « ing in the tents when this desperate pa he story of her| Pierce found his way thru the gloom sdevotion, her sa roused thelr|to the landing in search of his own deepest pity the heat of that | belongings ted on the gunwalo emotion they grew soft of a le discovered Lauro. This ‘char “L've been watching you,” sho said, hat aiktch: A “You're a handy man,’ Giclis taptiopés: netnorisn What do you think of the other sidered long dead and gone, arose to girl } haven't pald much attention to haram him. It was true that he had h f been unhappily married, but time had| them,” ho told her, franki cured the sting of that experience There was a moment's pause; then or £0 ho had believed. He discov Laure sald: now that such was not the case; firiaigia tain incidents of those forgotten days ae 1 a recurred with poignant effect. He} Pierce took the speaker's arm; had experienced the of a fath-| Sether they climbed the gravelly wor’'s love, a father’s pride: he lost| imeline toward the illumination from himself in a melancholy considera- the cook fire, In the edge tion of what might have been had not | Shadows Laure halted and her hand that dawn been darkened. lipped down over Pierce's. Jerry, too, altered in his peculiar were of anxiety rowed mect a frown Ww y toward the 5 most noticeable 6 night wore on dis- he con- cer- of the “Remember!” she said, meaningly. ‘Don't—or you'll hear from me."" (Advertisement) MBI SEPT EE NR , COLOR IT NEW WITH } “DIAMOND DYES” Just Dip i Tint or Boi! aed { to Dye eee! CHAPTER XVIL. laure had no cause to repeat her §| admonition, for, In the days that fol lowed, Plerce Phillips maintained to: ; the women member of the } an admirable attitude of aloo This doubtless would have met §| with Laure’s whole-hearted approval had.he not treated her tn precisely tho same way. He exercised a pro nounced effect upon her; his volee, his laughter, brought a ight and a sparkle to her eyes; sho could not rest when he was out of her sight. To discover that she lacked a similar appeal for him rot the girl to desperation; sho lay awake nights, puzzle out the reason, for " a new experience to her, Recalling their meeting and the in- nent colors in cldents of that first night at White lingerie, silka, rib® ‘ Horse, she veallzed that here was a "bons skirts, . 4 baffling secret and that she did not waiats, dress e the Key to St Wonte i atookin the truth came to her sweaters, druper- camp later than usual, fes, coverings, hangings-everything a regult had selected a par- Buy Diamond Dy other bad for ita brushy kind—and tell your druggist wheth-| ¢iat running back from a high, over er the material you wist to color| hanging bank beneath which ran a jx wool or ellk, or whether it is lin! swirling eddy én,,cotton or mixed goods, (To Be Continued) Each 15-cent yackage contains directions 60 sim- ple, any woman ean tint soft, deli- vate shades or dye rich, perma One night Beat had ma ‘)and as and TONIGHT} | Hey PLAN | BOOTS AND HER TTLE STAR BUDDIES a WELA Sone ! | GOTTA Go -SEE | XOH VMorROW | pes —<e WHO . HORACE ? 0 HB PLAY | OW WEG ON VOOTBALL. Too, ary MISS Boots - ke LAK MR. IM | Po ? | Sai | SCRUB | TEAM THIS | YEAR \ SANTA MARIA ff WE JUST ¢ ALONG TO DANCED OR BOUGH LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES COTT TO THE LITTLE MAK QUISE, CARE THE SECKET DRAWER—CONTINUED “I don’t understar Laalle sald Jo mean about me pre \ friendship? syd k janything under th just as he would for friends. It isn's a quest friends, It isn't a question of Jal that's nec y’ It ha | happened that you havo k lot the tha | for me. ack t me nown ¢ things see, Little Marquise, that | I will say this for my John. He does not know that |he is a very selfish man, Ho «im |ply_has had things done for all his life and goes rig | lettin, people him out of I'm that he Syd takes more joy out of things for John Alden Pres than anything | I could | Jack was hurt him help quite sure | doin cott else in | world | 1 thought would be | a time as any to tell him apa Syd had other things all the time than perhaps, it Jas @ od | that per! to. thir hie friend. about At this, Jack laughed easily “Les! he ‘you not {soem to understand that poor old Syd is a plodding sort of a human being. 1 think he would give all he has in the world to havo just one sort of adventure that comes to mo almost evory day, ‘even tho those adventures be rather annoy- ing. Don't you realize, dear, that I furnish \ all the romance and the UTE OLD ME TERR IF Loo ANOTHER MAN ~ HE HAD No COMPASSION For MY ENDER. SHO NUFF ? LAWS, WKYNT Yo TELL ME ~ AH CoulDA OVE WIM A JoB- DE Ze On A SchUB WELL OATS WHEAM HE BLONG - TEAM .AK KNOWED NO’COUNT RASCAL OCIONT HAVE NUFF SENSE %O PLAX FOOTBALL - a pra say! HANG You EVER HEARD THI STORY BEFORE TF 7 Ye Gos! = 'N) y, TSN DOLLARS A [THOUGHT You'o WEEK- HE WAS A HAVE MORE SENSE 90D) “THAN TO Go WITHA DUMB BELL uke /) THAT war a | H. \ La] CALL HIM ADUMB BELL, (7 TALHAAE YOU UNDERSTAND HES / NODUMS BELL“IT'S REMARKABLE THE WAY CAN PLAY A UKELELE AND HE WRITES THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE LETTERS ~ Lo YOU'VE GOTA LOT OF NERVE TO - MW’DUFFER, GOLFER yr } ||)" Ro, cAovie. NUH / WON'T SIVE You A NII! DIME FOR THAT DOLLAQ | LL~ITs AGAINST THE CLUBS QULES TO BUY BALLS FROM NX Caooies be clear up to it a radiance t cold and dead 1 seems tho acme tontment cD: the quisite beautiful, < I cannot ha stand inside ta point upon lif all the evening Indy of the Ite young friend of husband's Carton, I think Js his name T man really fascinates mo. I upposo if anyone could really into his hee hich he creetly hidden—he does not wear St elf-sufficient does—one would that one ni! cold "If woman, think that he would engage }tention much moro than Mr cott There, I've said it, haven't In] ty pes , I will not take it back.” somo (Copyright, 1925, ‘The Seattle Star.) | It, I como einer viaw I've of snows, een thinking de you, my and that ur keeps di | by, Mi ur he husband worlds of would never Ray Dak AHO Ae, ‘ (Copyright, 1828, Associated Aliors, Iné.) SAPS FABLES N2309 see whole romance expect from | exterioor were a Laslic, 1 my at Pre couldn't put you that,” said together again.” Humpty Dump: was my & , great, great and m » greats grandfather, I come from a very Important fam+ ily," “Whore you, were doing stunts, TOMORROW —Letter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, were sir, whon we I should like to Live RQ NO. HUMPTY out,” begged Nanes Come on out and have 1 “Come He jand Nick somoe4un | Humpty Dumpty looked out |his burrel and shook himself ‘ | He couldn't siake his head “no” for he had none. “1 can't risk! Ii" he declared. \J ot / NTURES; ai of, the TWINS know?" asked Mister Corn Dodger | suddonty, “LT was right here in my barrol¢’ sald Humpty Dumpty merrily,“ saw and heard everything thru the bung-hole.”” “Then you were cheating,” | Mister Corn’ Dodger. “Everybody Jin High Jinks Land has to do a {stunt and It Isn't too late for you And 1 don't Ike the tdea | pHevb ition tetaten| ° ‘Resinol on uid BERTS BARTON ¥ DUMPTY’S STORY ("It ever & mashed. | wayto hold me togeth fry me of bein the only) agin is to away by a few applications of 8 and yours ago," sald ays that all the king's all the king's men “rt horses and THE FLAPPER FANNY says | / WHAT? evar GAS JeT IN TR’ HULL BANK NEEDS )\ & NEW MANTLE ? ©1025 BY WEA SERVICE INC. When a mends a ule [her husband's pocket, he's usually | appreciative enough to wonder hou | sho knew it 008 there wife to do your stunt now. | mence."* . Humpty Dumpty looked thought ful. “Columbus made an egg to \stand on end," said he. “If I just know how, I could do that, But 1 | don't know how." } “Can't you think of something jelvo?"’ insisted Mister Dodger. said Humpty Dumpty, Please com “Well,” “the cook-books say to take an egg and separate it. But that is oan.) other thing that I don't know how to do cither, How can I separate myself from myself, I'd ike to know." “I Know!" cried Jack O' Lantern. Hla story. Wo all like stories," "AIL right," -sald Humpty Dump. ty obligingly, "I+ don't know any, but I'll tell one anyway.” CH thing that looked liko a nest. “One day Mister Jones took his hat off and laid it on a chair Up: sido down, and Mary splod it and | laid a nice white in it.” “Oho—ho! 1 know that story!” said Jones wont tho egg fell down on his head and} smashed," “No, sit! said Humpty Dumpty. | So all the High Jinks people sat around in a circle while Humpty Dumpty began; “Once upon a time there was a little hen and-her name was Ma CAL | “Mary,” laughed Nancy, "That's | a funny name for a chicken. | "Hor name was Mary,” repeated | Humpty Dumpty verely, “and sho {laid nice white eggs. Besides that sho great pot and ctlowed in the house whenever sho Wanted. | “Mister Jones saw tho org and took “And sometimes sho laid ogee in {t carefully out and thoy haa tt | the house if she could find some-] for dinner,” cg the © Nick, Lister was a WELL, Y’ SEG, ZEB, | SQUEEZED 'EM ALL AN’ EVRY ONE WAS AY NEA SERVICE, INC. “L didn’t story!’ Nanoy myself,” think BANKER ZEB PERKINS APPOINTED POP SLUPE “JANITOR PRO TEM” AT THE MUDD CENTER BANK WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO EXAMINE THE GAS JETS AND REPLACE ANY MANTLES HE FOUND BROKEN=~ IN #IS ANXIETY TO MAKE GOOD, POP OVERDID THINGS«— NOW HE'S LOOKING FOR ANOTHER JOB wa much of * whispered Contrary Many "LE could have done bl But Humpty Dumpty beard it goo," for it!" “IT think good," said A of} looked offended. ald he your ed difforently (To Be Continued. (Copyright, 4 ick, “phat is the “One does to put his hat on and) best he can and then gets > tl story wascd “yt sort of ei Ny, As Servlets 7 \