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THE BEST MAN & Lippineott Co.) DING CHAPTERS. Glyde Gordon, & Government Secret Service gent, i9 sent by his chiel at Washington to Perfectly beautiful time, and I’ve something fine to tell you. All those nice things you said to me just be- fore you got off the train are true. Yes, he's just as nice as you said / and @ great deal nicer besides. Oh, yes, I'm very happy, and I want to speak to Mamma, please, Jeff, is she all right? Is she perfectly well and not fretting a bit? You know you promised to tell me. What's that? She thought I looked sad? Well, I did, but that’s all gone now. Tell mother to come to the phone, Everything 1s perfectly beautiful. Please—I want to make her under- stand, “I'm going to tell her, dear, Ghose pressed by his pursuers, be jumps into @ Private carriage. The coachman at once whips ap le horse, Holman's men follow in a motor car and on motorcycle, During the ride Gorton laguises his face as best be can, The carriage Grawe up at a church. Several men waiting on ress seise Gordon and From their tale he I E i i i i ‘The church is crowded with apectators. whispered, looking up at Gordon. “I’m in a dase, {# married to Cella afraid George will get there before wutiful gifl who seems to bate we do and make her worry.’ ‘Rot see that not the = For answer he stooped and kissed her, his arm encircling her and draw- ing her close. “Whateyer you think best, di he whispered back. ‘Is that you, mamma?” With a happy smile she turned back to the Phone, “Dear mamma! Yes, I'm all safe and happy, and I'm so sorry you have worried. We won't let you do it again, But listen; I've something to tell you, @ surprise—mamma, I did not marry George Hayne at all. No, I way I did not marry George Hayne at all. George Hayne is a wicked mi I can't tell you about it over the phone, but that was why I looked sad. Yes, | was married, all right, but not to George. He's oh, so differ- other, you can't think! right here beside me now, and, mother, he is just as dear—you'd be very happy about him if you could see him. What did you say? Didn't I mean to marry George? mother, I never wanted to. I was awfully unhappy about it, and I knew I made you feel so too, though I tried not to, But I'll explain all about it. You'll be perfectly satisfied when ze= fi : agrt reFF a I H } Z55 bi fit rp z it over the story of the brave little newsboy and was eager to visit bim in New York, promising herself all sorts of pleasure in taking him gifts and permanently bettering his condi- tion; and it was in this way that Gor- don incidentally learned that his wife had a fortune in her own right, a fact that for a time gave him great un- easiness of mind until she had soothed sn CHAPTER XVI. (Continued. must telephone your 66 mother at once and set her heart at rest. Then jnow ail aboutit. * © © No, ther we can find out just nothing whatever for you to worry what ought to be done,” said Gordon pee ea “ifet bugle is ea ae now snd soothingly. “It was unforgivably |if¢ looks more beautiful to me than id before, y thoughtless in me not to have done {jy ys" “id before, What's his name? it before.” tuts looked up at Gordon with a ‘ nny little expression of dismay, Celta’s face was radiant at the ghe had forgotten and he whispercd thought of speaking to her mother. it in her ear, “Oh, how beautiful! Why didn’t I yr" —— telephone table. ‘Gordon"— he supplied in her ear “Shali you call tuem up or shall 1?” he asked. You call, and then I will speak to mamma,” she said, her eyes shining with her joy in him. “I want them to hear your voice again. They can't help knowing you are all right when Besides it seemed an unfair advai tage to have taken a wife and a for- tune as it were unaw But Celia’s fortune not spoiled her, and she soon made him see that it had always been a mere incident in her scheme of living; comfortabie and pleasant incident to be sure, but still an incident to be kept always in the background, and never for a moment n, 'yril Gordon, mother she said, fairs. giggling in spite of herself at her strange predicament. * © © "Yes, mother, I am very, very happy. I couldn't be happier unless I had you and Jeff, too, and"—she paused, hesi- tating at the unaccustomed name— “and Cyril says we're coming to visit much worth having. “Just how do you account for the fact that you didn’t think I was all right yesterday afternoon? I have a very realizing sense that you didn't. I used my voice to the best of my ability, but it did no good then.” ‘Well, you see, that was different! ‘Phere were those letters to be ac- counted for, Mamma and Jeff don't know anything about the letters.” “And what are you going to tell them now?” She drew her brows down a minute and thought. “You'd better find out how much they already know,” he suggested, “If this George Hayne hasn't turned up yet perhaps you can wait until you can write, or we might be able to go Gordon found himself dreading t! explanation that would have to come say, WHR Te he ee Cella had necepted his explanations, , ee, Y i ecause, somehow, by the beautifu otha % and believed in soul before the ve encanma? X04, ont, know truth ‘was made known to her: but dee ae y Ld would her mother and brother be able What? You want to speak also to believe? mother tear ait Gent here. “And ho fell to planning with Cella ‘II promise not to worry abouc Just how he should tell the story, 1g? AL Tithe, Hore eee ceiet and this led to his bringing out 4 Ae ent. [tere is—Cyril.” number of letters and papera that rdon took the receiver, would be worth while showing as Mother, I'm taking good care of credentials, and every step oft her, just as I promised, and I’ ‘ella got glimpse after ing to bring her for a flying up 1 Phe tage De tg Te aed into his past, her face shone dear to t thing that ever came Hayne if he comes. ‘Just let Jeff put him off by telling him you have sent office. health? in the Department.” gazed at the kindly old face. ra with joy and her heart leaped with e her. the assurance that her lot had been cast in goodly places, for she per- yeived not only that this man was jonored and respected in high places, but that his early life had been pe- cullarly pure and true. taken the chief in his arms. Then a mother's blessing came Geserve: thrilling over the wires and touched the handsome, manly face with ten- derness, “Oh, could we? How lovely!” “I think we could,” said Gordon, 'm sure I can make It possible, Of course you know a wedding journey isn't exactly in the program of the Secret Service, but I might be able to work them for one. I surely can in a few days if this Holman business doesn't hold me up. I may be needed for a witness. I'll have to talk with the chief first.” “Oh, how perfectly beautiful! Then yeu call them up, and just say som: thing pleasant—anything, you know— and then say I'll speak to mamma.” She gave him the number and in a few minutes a voice from New York sald, “Hello!” “Hello!” called Gordon, “Is this Mr. ‘Jefferson Hathaway? * © * Well, thia is your new brother-in-law. How are you all? * * © Your mother recovered from all the excitement and | weariness? © © © That's good. What's that? © * © You've been trying to ‘phone us in Chicago? ¢ © © But we're not in Chicago. We changed our minds and came to ‘Washington Instead, © © © Yes, ‘Q we're in Washington—The Harris Apartments. We have been very selfish not to have communicated with you sooner. At least I have. those words. ‘They returned to looking in each other's eyes, after the receiver was hung up, as if they had been parted a long time. It seemed somehow as if thelr joy must be greater than any other married couple, because they had all their courting yet to do. It was beautiful to think of what was before them. ‘There was 80 much on both sides to be told; and to be told over again be- cause only half had been told; and there were so many hopes and experi- ences to be exchanged; so many opin- fons to compare and to rejoice over because they were alike on many essentials. Then there were the room to be gono through, and Gordon's pic- tures and favorite books to look a. and talk about, and plans for the fu> ture to be touched upon—just barely touched upon, The apartment would do until they could look about and get a house, Gordon said, his heart swelling with the proud thought that at last he would have a real home, like his other married friends, with @ real princess to proside over It. Then Cella had to tell all about the horror of the last three months, look after that Stanhope That will fall to you, make a little vacation of it. want it. higher ones, Stanhope case, and full sults your pleasure. wet ready for your journey.” ahead of him, and to have opened out into tho glory of the companion- need of his life, Thus they looked into one another's eyes, reading their life-Joy, and entered into the beauti- ful miracle of acquaintanceship. HF next morning quite early the phone called Gordon to the office. The chief's sec- retary sald the matter wi Fo hurried away leaving Cella somewhat anxious lest thetr plans for going to New York that day could not be carried out, but she made up had to be put off a little, and solaced herself with a short visit with her mother over the telephone. Gordon entered his chief's office a justice to his wife he ought to take with the Gnplecnone suadows of AS her right back to New York and get receding years back of it, Bhe to . this in the dusk of evening before matters there adjusted; but he feared Henry had come in to light up and that there would be business to hold almost dinner time, She told it with her face hidden in her husband's tf Was settled. A shoulder and his arms close about The chief greeted him affably an her, to give her comfort at each bade him sit down, “I am sorry to have called you up ship of one pecullarly fitted to fill the CHAPTER XVII. | urgent. her mind not to fret even if the trip trifle anxiously, for he felt that in before they had realized that {t was him at home until the Holman mat- revelation of the story, i “Thite hadn't any choice inthe mat THCY tied ate ve and Then thee 80 early,” he sald, “but we needed When ter, I've kept her so busy. Ye% was the whole story of Gordon'x you. "The fact they've arrested | difficult and cost she's very woll and seems to lock journey and commission from the Holman and five other men, and | matter. ; time the old chief had called him . happy. She wants to speak for ti tne office until he came tostand You are in immediate demand to herself. I'll try to arrange to bring beside her at the church altar and fdentify them. Would it be asking they were married, It was told in careful detail with all the comical, exasperating and pitiful incidents of white dog and little newshoy, but the strangest part about it all was that Gordon never said one word about Julia Bentley and her imaginary presence with him that first day, and he never even knew that he had left out an important detail. . Cella laughed over the white dog and declared they must bring him home alive with them; and she cried her up to-morrow for a little visit, I want to see you too. We've a lot of things to explain to you. Here is Cel She wants to speak to you.” Celia, her eyes shining, her lips quivering with suppressed excitement, took the receiver, | “Oh, Jeff dear, it's good to hear your voice,” she sald everything all right? Yes, I've been having a too much of an already overworked man to send you back to New York to-day? Gordon almost sprang from his seat in pleasure. : “It just exactly fits in with my Plans, or, rather, my wishes,” he sald, amiling. ‘There are several matters of my own that I would like to attend to in New York and for Bear this in mi which of course I did not have time.” He paused and looked at his chief, half hesitating, marvelling that the way had so miraculously opened for him to keep silence a little longer on the subject of his marriage. Perhaps the chief need never be told that the marriage ceremony took place on the think of that before! What perfectly | iit's Cyril, mother! Isn't that ® him and laughed at him for an hour day of the Holman dinner. dear things telephones are!” Bret game, of courses Then of more; for Gordon was an inde- rhat is good,” sald the chlef, With one accord they went to the name? Supporting his wife by his own tal, Smiling, “You certainly have earned the right to attend to your own af- Then we need not feel so bad at having to send you back. Can you go on the afternon train? Good! Then let us hear your account of your trip briefly, to see if there are any points we didn’t notice yester- . But first just step here a mo- + they hear your voice. you to-morrow. We'll come up and to he a cause for self-gratulatio! ment. I have something to show see you and explain everything, And 2 wee For that he gave her @ glance very yore nit ty worry about George Pride. you." + He filing open the door to the next “You knew that Ferry had left the Department on acount of his ill- I have taken the liberty of having your things moved in here. This will hereafter be your head- quarters;.and you will be next to me Gordon turned in amazement and tion he had hoped for, but such pro- motion right over the heads of his elders and superiors, he had never dreamed of receiving. He could have “Pooh, pooh!" said the chief. when Gordon tried to blunder out some words of appre- elation. Then, as if to cap the climax, up to-morrow and explain it our- “er ; ai The strange loneliness that had he added: Pose La Thank you," he said. ‘I shall try surrounded hin” youne. ‘manhood °°,” ; acl always to make you glad you sald gkeemed suddenly to have broken “And, by the way, you know some one has got to run across the water to I'm afraid. Sorry to keep you trotting around the globe, but perhaps you'll like to partment ‘ll give you some time if you Oh, don't thank me! simply the reward of doing your duty, to have more duties given you, and “You have done well, young man. T have here all the papers in the directions written out, and then If you can plan for {t you needn't return, unless it You understand the matter as fully as I do already. “And now for business. Let's hurry through. 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"THE STORY OF A SECRET SERVICE AGENT WHOM FATE THROWS INTO A NEW YORK “JUNE B story composed of the bare facts and not all of those. At parting the chief pressed Gor- don's hand with heartiness and us! ered him out into the hall, with the same brusque manner he used to close all business interviews, and Gordon found himself hurrying through the familiar halls in a daze of happiness, the secret of his unexpected marriage still his own—and hers. Cella was watching at the window when his key clicked In the lock and he let himself into the apartment his face alight with the joy of ye tit her again after tho brief absence. 8 turned in @ quiver of pleasure at his ing. ‘Well, get ready,” he sald joyfully. ‘We are ordered off to New York on the afternoon train, with a wedding trip to Europe into the bargain; and I'm promoted to the next place t the chief. What do you think of that for a morning’s surprise?" He tossed up his hat like a boy, me over to where she stood, and stoopin, brow and eyes. hb, beautif ecstatically, “come sit down on the couch and tell me about it. We can work faster afterward if we get it off our miods. Was your chlof very much shocked that you were married without his permission or knowl- edge?’ “Why, that was the best of all. I didn’t have to tell him I was mar- ried, And he Is not to know until just as I sail, He need never know how it all happened. It isn't his business and it would be bard to ex- plain. No one need ever know ex- cept your mother and brother unless you wish them to, dear. “Oh, I am so glad Cella, delightedly. worry- ing about that a@ little—what people would think of us—for of course we couldn't possibly explain it all out es it is to us. They would always be watching us to see If we really cared for each other, and suspecting that we didn't, and it would be horrid. think it is our own precious secret, anc nobody but mamma and Jeff have a right to know, don't you?’ “LT certainly do, and 1 was casting about In my mind as [ went Into the office how I could manage not to tell the chief, when what did he do but spring a proposition on me to go at once to New York and identify those men. He apologized tremendously for having to send me right back again, but said {t was necessary. [told him it just suited me, for I had affairs of my own that [ had not, had time to attend to when I was there, and would be glad to go back them. That let me out on the wed- ding question, for it would be only necessary to tejl him I was married when I got back. He would never ask when.’ “But the announcements,’ Nia, catching her breath lav “I never thought of that. We'll just have to have some kind of announc: ments or my friends will not under. stand about my new name, and we'll have to send him one, wi we? ‘Why, | don't know. Couldn't we get ulong without announcementa? You can explain to your tntinmal friends, and the others won't ever r member the name after a few montha —we'll not be likely to meet many of them right away. I'll write to my chief and tell him informally leaving out the date entirely, He won't mise it. If we have announcements at all we needn't send bim one. He wouldn't be likely ever to ses one any other way, or to notice the date. [ think we can manage that matter. We'll talk it over with your—" he hesitatéd and then smiling tenderly added, ‘we'll talk it over with mother. How good it sounds to say that. I never knew my mother, you know.” Cella nestled her hands in his and murmured, “Oh, I am so happy—so happy! But I don't understand how you got a wedding trip without te! ing your chief about our marriage.” “Easy as anything. He asked me if I would mind running across the water to attend to a matter for the service and asid | might have ext time while there for a vacation. never suspects that vacation is to be used as @ wedding trip. I'll write him, or phone him the night we leave N York, I may have to stay in the city two or three days to get this Holman matter settled, and then we can be off. In the meantime you can spend the tme reconciling your mother to her new gon. Do you think we'll have @ very hard time explaining matters to her?" “Not a bit,” sald Cella, gayly. “She never did like orge, It was the only thing wo ever disagreed abou rrying him. She suspected « the time I wa: happy and couldn't understand why T Jnnisted on marry. ing hint"When I hadn't seen him for ten yeurk She begged ine to walt until he had been back in the country for a year or two, but he would not hear of such a@ thing and threatened to carry out his worst at once. Gordon's heart suddenly contracted with righteous wrath over the coward- liness of the man who sought to gain his own ends by intimidating a woman —and this woman, so dear, so beautt- ful, so lovely in her nature. It seemed the man's heart must indeed be black to have done what he did. NEX1 WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL ‘* s = IN THE EVENING WORLD => - CAPTAIN VELVET’S REVOLT By EDGAR FRANKLIN, Author of “CAPTAIN VELVET’S 'W tions until afterward; & He mentally resolved to search him 1 could, out and bring him to justice as soon as he reached New York. It puzzled him to understand how please?” He, handed her « few letters and easily he seemed to have abandoned papers, his purpose. Perhaps after all he was more of a coward than they thought. p9 and had not dared to remain in tho country when he found that other man. He would find out about him and set the girl's heart at rest just as soon eht be avoided, Kissed his wife again, a caress that seemed to promise all reparation for the past. that trains did not wait for lovers’ long loitering, and with one acord they went to work. Celia of course Her trunk was probably in Chica, and would need to be wired for. Gordon attended to that the first York by telegraph. Turning from t! telepho 6 he rang for the man and usked Cella to give the order for ‘hat my family was respectabl Mrs, Hathaway was examining the ke with him. papers, and suddenly looked up, ex- claiming: “My dear! My father knew I think I «aw him He went Into the bedroom and be- once when he came to our home in New York. It was years ago and [ directions she found him standing in 48 ® young girl, but I remember he the bedroom doorway with an old- was @ fine looking man with keen dark eyes and a heavy head of iron gray hair.” She looked at Gordon keenly, “I wonder if your eyes are not like lunch whilo he got together some things that he must A stay of several weeks would neces- sitate a little more bagage than he had taken to New York. gan pulling out things to pack, but when Cella turned from giving her fashioned velvet jewel case in his hand, which he had just taken from the little safe in his room, His face wore & tender light as if he had just discovered something precious, “Dear,” he said, wonder if you will care for these. They were mother's. Perhaps this ring will do until T can buy a new one. it will fit you. It was my mother He held out a ring containing his. diamond of singular purity and ‘Now, tell me about yourself,” she brilliance in quaint old-fashioned #{d and laid a gentle hand on his, setting. Jordon looked down, an embarras- Celia put out her hand with its o wedding ring, the ring that he had put upon her finger at the altar, and he sald. it. Tt fitted perfectly, holding out “and [ would far rather have it th @ new one. Your dear little mother! oe) little string of pearls and a pin or & two. I have always kept them near me. Somehow they seemed like a left link between me and mother, I was much. ished: “I was keeping them for you.” Her answering look was eloquent and needed no words, which was well, for Henry appeared at that moment to m ter that hie train left in @ little over two hours, There was no further 1 time for sentiment. And yet these two, it seemed, could not be practical that day. The: over their luncheon and dawdled over that Gordon had picked up in some his travels; and Houry finally had to w, take things in his own hands, pack them. Henry was a capable mai rejoiced to see the devotion of his master and his new mistress, but h 3 = my Iii them off and send their baggage after inyeet your grandfather. i Will you look at them, People hint a lot of things © me DDING” COMPLICATION Grace L. H. Lut > OO “These papers on the top show the nk and position that my father and elia had My grandfather held with the Gov- braved his wrath and married an- ernment and in the army. This is a letter ‘from the bremaent to my fath- er congratulating him on bis ap- embarrassment al ‘eae tutus time proaching marriage with my mother. Gordon stooped and That paper contains my mother's family tree, and the letters with it will give you an idea of the honor in But it suddenly occurred to the two which my mother's family was held in Washington and in Virginia, her old home, I know these matters are had very little preparation to make. “ot of much moment, and eay noth- ing whatever about what I am my- welf, but they are things you would thing, looking up the number of the have been likely to know about my check and ordering it back to New family if you had known me all my @ life; and at least they will tell you It was long ago of course.” “Ive have still m fe, hud a practical head and knew where standing his part sane gs CHAPTER XVIII. pectedly, and every mile HE journey back ‘to New was filled with a new and aweet 4 rushed in on Mra. Hathaway and the know where to begin. Mrs. Hathaway settled the matter immediately and leaving all explana- and with the servante present of course there was little that could be heart, But there was a apirit of deep ‘°,! happiness tn the atmonphere and one story and daughter, husband and wife, brother and stater, As soon an the meal wan concluded the mother led them up to her pri- you n always ve “They used to say I looked like him. I do not remember him. He died whe I was very young.” The mother looked up with a pleas- ant smile. flush spreading over his face. “There's nothing great to tell,” he tried to slipped the other jowelled one above straight, true life, and I've never been In love with any girl “It tw a beauty,” breathed Cella, Mashed 4 wonderful, biluding ernile upon Cella, Mae fetter har tact "twas feft alone in the world when quite young and h . : boarding-schools and college I'm a hoe Rent EMG pier on. araduate of Harvard and I've travels led a little, from my father I'm not rich, keeping them forse he hestatedana Service man, and I love my work. I then giving her @ rare smile he fin- K¢t 4 Kood salary and was this morn- ing promoted to the position next in rank to my chief, #o that now I shall ro money, I ahall be able @ your daughter comfortable and give her some of t to serve luncheon and remind his mas- Ot all, to which she hab been accus- fore" he lived around in There was some money estate, not I'm a Secret luxuries, if “My dear boy, that part ta not what am anxious about”—— interrupted the mother. “I know,” said Gordon, “but it is a y idied detail you have a right to be told. understand that you care far more their packing, stopping to look at this what I-am than how much money [ and that picture or bit of bric-a-brac can make, and I promise you lam go- | of ing to try to be all that you would t your daughter's husband to be. the best thing I can say for is that I love her better than dT mean to make her hap- piness the dearest thing in life to me.” bi The mother's look of deep under- answered him quently than words could have done, and after a moment she spoke again. “But I do not understand how you could have known one another and I never have heard of you. Co ms good at keeping things from ber York seemed all too brief mother, though the last three months for the two why. > lives had she has bi . fathom, ai Just been blended ao unex- rotural dread of leaving home. seomed 40 insistent upon havin; - marriage just as George planne: covery of dolight in one another; agd and I was so afraid she would regret then when they reached the city they not waiting, da aadnons that I could not was forced to lay to her She this it— How could you have known one another all this time and she never talked to me about it, and eager young Jeff like two children why did George Hayne have any part who had so much to tell they did not whatever in It if you two loved one another? Just how. long known each other anyway? begin when you visited by Inalating on their going to dinner ton last spring, Celia vith dancing eyes Celia shook her ave No, mamma. If T had met him then 'm sure George Hayne would never 14 about the have had anything to do with the mat- matter that each one had most at ter, for Cyril would have known how to help me out of my difficulty,” I shall have to tell you the whole from my standpoint, and from couldn't possibly entertain any fears the beginning,” said Gordon, dreading under the influence of the radiant Now that the crisis was upon him what the outcome would be. “I amilen that passed between mother wanted you to know who and what I was before you knew the story, that ight judge mo as kindly as pos- ible, and know that however I may have been to blame in the matter it live a more elo- Cella is not you Did it in Washing- eff, dear, let us hear the Again insisted his mother, story continued. Gordon had been looking he talked. He dreaded to se@ faces as the truth should dawm: them, but when he had told lifted honost eyes to the mother and pleaded with her: “Indeed, indeed, 1 bi believe that not unt your dalghte and in J re that I b ig L*. ridegroom. tl it all her brother was the b had not been so dis trying so hard to think how cape, I suppose I would ticed that I was stan and that everything was about the whole matter, but And then when I suddenly > that she and I were being ri what should I have done? D think [I ought to have sto ceremony then and there scene before all those — was the right thing to do “Suppose my commiaat entirely out of the question had no duty toward the G to keep entirely quiet about. do you think I ought to have scene? Would you have to for your daughter's nake? please,” he insisted, gently. And while she hesitated he “T did some pretty hard during that firat quarter of a that I realized what was h and I tell you honestly I didi what was the right thi de. seemed awful for her to 4 scene, and to tell you the’ ti worshipped her from the momest eyes rested upon her, There something ead and looked at me that seemed my very life to save her from ble. Tell mg, do you think I have stop; the ceremony tl the first moment of m: that [ was being married?” The mother’s face had softened she watched him and listened to tender words about Cella and she answered gently: 4 am not sure—perhape not! ft was & very grave question to face, I | don't know that I can at doing nothing. It would have 4 terrible for her and us and E and have made It all 90 public, think you did right not to do thing publicly—perhaps—and is terrible to me to think you been forced to marry my nt in that way.” “Please do not say fo: i said Gordon, laying: both want nestly upon hers and looking in| eyes, “I tell you one t! me back from doin, that I so earnestly desi ws ve like her before. I know that if mistake had been righted 1 had reoyery of my \life I t never have felt the same again, glad, glad with all my h u i mine, and—mother! —I rs lad too ) The mother turned daughter, and Celia wi came and knelt befogs - her hands in der than I eve; And kne band's ar his shoug@F, and both clasped ih his, she told about the tortures that had put her through, until the turned white with horror et belovea an cherished c v1 enduring, and the brother stormed across the floor, we head her her vengeance on the I boor George Hayne, Then after the mother her blessing to the two, and added an original one of hig there was the whole eventful wedding trip to they both told by eolos and el until the hour grew n i and the mother suddenly eent al oft to bea he next daya were both and happy ones for the two, went to the hospital and the life of the little ne: frult and toys and many and they brought home a hams white don from his -* whom Jeff adopted as his own. Gete | don had a trying hour or two at = with his one-time host, the er who had stolen the cipher and the thickset man glared have from a cell window as he the corridor of the prison, whitl had gone in search of Gordon in his search for the lest bridegroom, whom for many he desired to find as soon as bl was through no intention of mine. My had asked the help of one of the vate sitting room, and closing the story may sound rather impossible. 1 at work on the Holman door she stood facing them allas, balf know ft will seem improbable, but it searching for a certain George breathless with the excitement of the 1s nevertheless true, everything that I moment, they stood in a row Before fisvagsn ft May 1 bope to be be to, {stive, a a ve to meal her, “IT think you may,” answered the hin lared the man, with a4 “My three dear children!" she mur- mother, searching his face anxiously, "He's safely landed in prison mured, and his heart thrilled with the won- der of it all, Then the oyes.” “Thank you,” he said si mother stepped then gathering all his up to him and placing her hand on hia plunged into his story. arm Jed him over to the couch and | Mra aes with ‘searching Interest Jef had Meana to see the real culprit Bums | made him alt beside her, while tho drawn his chair up close and could !#hed ‘ brother and sister sat down together scarcely restrain his excitement, and , And so Gordon, in the capacity: close by, when Gordon told of his commission ‘elia’s lawyer, went to the Hathaway was watching him Gordon's eyes it with joy “Those eyes of yours are not lying nply, courage “Now, Cyril, my new aon," said she, ¢ burst forth explosively: deliberately, hor eyes resting approv- tq Raye” iiked ty eye Rrett mune ingly upon his face, “you tay teil with you! You must be simply grea me your story. I see my girl has lost to H® trusted with a thing like tha hoth head and heart to you and 1 , But hie mother gently reproved doubt if he could tell It connectedly.” "“'Huwh, my son; iét us hear the And while Celia and Jef were story.” laughing at this, Gordon set about his task of winning a mother and in- to his caune already, Celia watched proudly as her hand- band with pride, two Once mi Celia sat quietly watching her hus- bright spots of color on her cheeks, and her hands cidentally an eager-eyed young broth- clasping each other tightly er who was tore than half committed hearing many detalla now that were new to her, don mentioned the dinnei Jeff interrupted with some husband took out his creden- “Holman! Holman! Not J Ia and be, Say , Why of course we know him! be Aggie hie SSDIBAAS ON was one of hix daughter's rat, T must tell you who T amy maids last spring! ‘The old lynx! and these papers will do it better than always thought he was WELCOME” ———— The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.28 You Get It for 6 Cents and he know who he wi She was brides- I who needed very much to be days ago, He was caught ap # rolling off a log by the son of man whose name he forged big corporation and the man hiw place tn @ prison cell, but the tulk with George Hayne, a miserable man found no ex lor his sins when the searching tal Gordon tid not let the mam” and myay ba nderatood that Cella, was and that if he attempted her any Piping trouble thing would be exposed would have to answer a grave chamg of blackmail. ¢ © ¢ ers, “Dear,” said Gordon, steamer rug more comfortably her, “has It occurred to you are probably the only bride whe married the best man at her to smiled appreciatively a minute replied misohiew NUppore every bri T husband is the best mat