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frei ses arrison’s Finish| Bob Hampton of Placer By RANDALL PARRISH EAT Au THAT LIVER, KITTY HA Great Midsummer Romance of the Racetrack |f ately. “TI didn’t say anything when rison away. The greatest sorrow ty a you were unwinding that yarn, kid) stagnant, not active. ‘The heart be _—” sounded mighty tangled tO comes ike a frozen morass, Solae> times memory slips through the crust, (Copyright, 1908, by Street & Smith.) a It was five miles to the Ko oad @YNoOPsis OF PRECEDIN wre epot, reached by a road that Billy Garren, 4 thmou jody io Link as. Branched off from the Logan Pike ‘ ‘crooke<in losing x Hee. The su poy nd 5, mile ae LJ spot * where Waterbury had been thrown. Ror cnet helteetesnorees, came, tato th He remembered that there was. 4 even Sena for : pa train at a ee ine, a "4 Would have time if he rode + A With head bowed, shoulders hunched, he bent over the gelding, He had no recollection of that ride. z But the long, weary journey North rar me eV pine me a, he pea full ae & + cident, ats Be He was forced to remain part n= ‘ing Se th an ‘of Datgett ee be ac rottts. active, though he paced from smoking Hy beerv: ‘How? “How? Why, wo ain't Hving im only to sink in the grim “slough of © fairy books to-day. It’s atraight, Supene? © hard life, And there ain't any fool ; a as far as I can see, who are allowed | Waterbury's death had unnerved — to take up air and space. I’ve heard her, coming as it did at a time of Major Calvert, and his brains were tragedy had opened the pores of fintnere the last thme 1 heard of heart, He had been conscious for ® “What do you mean? Garrison f¢W minutes before the messenger of bored his eyes into Drak @ new life summoned him into the 9 7 “Why, I mean, kid, that blood 18 great beyond. He used the few mine thicker than water, and leave it to a hia own identity is word to ol ion car time and time Woman to soe through a stone wall, { 110 Well, if we all lived with es Me muovoand relatives." ue Debts again, He could not remain still, don't believe you could palm yourself thought that the next hour would ‘Waele Tastee ea ee ta, MA ye firat t fury of the storm had off to the major and his wife as their our last, the world would be peo} is 0, but confeswes to her that he is an passed. had swept him up, weak nephew. it's not reasonable nohow, with angels—and hypocrites, ’ Ammpestor. and nerveless, on the beach of retro- iene believe any one cOuld fool any h hha hes 4 asked [ede ape { family.” ost, Col. Desha, to see ne ; CHAPTER X. the ftoteum and Jolsam cf what went] | DRINK ALL THIS EAT AW THIS “But I didi" Garrison was staring Was’ willingly granted, ‘The . pricletarl have bees. ER SEED, blankly, “I did, Jimmie! Remember, white-faced, came and sat by the all.” he He had. time for self-analysis, for WAT 8 : I had the cooked-up proofs. Remem- In the room of many shadows; the » i remorse, for the ferce IROIE Bs ber that they had never seen the real room where death was we ee hi neph ping on the door, She ha bald K | “Oh, shucks! What's the odds? ing to h ther regarding the te Blood’s blood. You don’t mean to the runaway and Watepe i 4 man wouldn't know his own sist bury'’s accident. ‘ 7 4 child? Living in the house with him? Waterbury eyed her long” : Wouldn't there be some likeness, some gravely. The heat of his great jfamily trait, some characteristic? Are sion had melted the baser me folks any different from horses? No, his nature. What original alloy no, it might happen in stories, but gold he possessed had but euse: not life, not Ii refined. His fingers, formerly pudgy, Garrison shook his head wearily. “I well fed, had suddenly, become can't foliow you, Jimmie. You like to ¢tons of themselves. They were argue for the sake of arguing. I don't ing at the coveriet, understand. They did belleve me, “1 lied about—about (nmol “ IND—and that’ robs of whispered. od _KnoW4 conscience, One minute fe regretted {t's enough—too much.” that he had rum away without con- Ho drew himself away as fessing to the major; the next, re- ome unclean thing. membering Sue's advice, he was glad, « % He tried to shut out the girl's picture ‘All that, all that, and you only & from his heart. Impossible, She was! boy,” whispered the girl, half to her- the picture; all else was but Facies) self. “You must not tell the Major, He knew that he had lost her irre- VGH intent not,” she cried fereety vocably. What must she think of| y M4 him? How she must utterly despise “I must,” he whispered. “I will.” him! “You must not. You won't. You ach, the eee fey, doubt came My must go away, go away. Wipe the Garrison, and with it came a ray o slate clean,” she added tensely, “You Hoe. For the Arst time the possibil must not tell the Major, It must be rom the deep well of his jive’ broken to him gently, by degrees. !magination, might have concocted Boy, boy, don’t you know what it is Mrs. Garrison and offsprin; Crim- . to love; to have your heart twisted, Sg eats. nea Myoted Tike, avai > broken, trampled? You must not tell jain. He looked like one; like @ felon, ‘him, It would kill. I—know.” She Re bet teaniee etateaaee ne an ave in’ e ‘oug! Crushed her hands in her 1 sheer ill will? Realizing that Garri- ‘ma coward if I run,” he said. — son's memory was a blank, might he murderer if you stay,” she an- not have sought to rivet the black- Isn't that enough? Why—why"—— whispe ving life to his mor His face blanched at the thought. his eyes ne leaving the girl's, “You don’t mean to say that they Med. He was square”——— knew [| was an impostor? Knew ail would not come, “For—forgive,” along? You—can't mean that, Jim- lenly in a smother of sweat, mie?” rgly “LT may,” said Drake shortly, “But “Giladly, willingly,” whispered the seo here, kid, you'll admit it would girl. She was crying inwardly, be impossible for two people to have — His eyes flamed for an instant, and that birthmark on them; the identical then died away. By sheer will pa mark in the identical spot. You'llad- he succeeded in stretching @ Now, wouldn't it be im- ‘ons the coveriet, palm | u ewered, “And Mr. Waterbury—he mulling fetters upon him by this new DIDN'T You TELL ‘ut—put it—there,” he whispered. q ible.” ‘ua ‘ war say you—keep you in the mire, ae Garrison reasoned, and out- pat = Nor ORGET poahkis fowviion hac Sotmienced to She Understood, It was the spores I know. No, you must go, you must 4 iret, JE ANIMALS, le hands clenching. token of forgiveness: of : lined two schemes, First, he would! Wi breathe heavily, his hands clenching, A ‘go, Must have @ chance for regener- find his wife it wite there were. He | Drake cocked his head on one aide friendship, She laid her hand in his, ation.” could not love her, for love must have | “You are very kind—very kind, ® beginning, and it feeds on the past. | You do not say you loathe me." He hearts Weer nepal aa Crise wate arose abruptly, clenching his hands she had been lo; to him. Then he above his head in silent agony. herr oe wh: re Corte vor “ ” 4 . against im, and see! ration , No, 1 do not,” she whispered, lean- PET "the Jockey club, though it took ing forward, hands gripping the log, him his lifetime. And he would seek | eyes burning up into his tac ‘1 dO some way of wiping out, or at least . Be- diminishing, the stain he had left © you, love you, love you. Boy, boy, can't you see? Won't you behind him in Virginia, Py " losed an eye. He eyed Garrison sipping with a firm clasp. steadily. Kid, It seems to me that . “Thank you,” he whispered, Again you've only been fooling yourself. [ his eyes flamed; again died away, believe you're Major Calvert's ne- The end was very near. Cr phew. That's straight! proaching lom of the it For a long time ‘4 igrty: at oy ootee te rons outs thous . Then he ughed oked Ps Late own saw that she knew what lay in — “Oh, you're good, Egy seal ra Bo wee breathed ‘t tempt me. You forget; forge! Don't tt things, Lknow my moth- “If—if you only could” ers name was Loring, not Calvert. great ing, @ mighty s ‘wan Garrison, in bie v Madea atel On the other hand, if Crimmins had And my father's name was Garrison, [1,167 oana over his mouth Don't, sharply, as it in Wed—Garrison's jaw came out and| 2 peee in” mused Drake, knttting © mighty, effort Waterbu Gaenicel’ You dunt know Mis eyes snapped, Then he would| “Um-m-m," mused Drake, knitting Dust it. “It you only could.” he ree Feat you ay scrape himself morally clean, and brows, You dont cay that’ this iterated. “It—tt means so little to ne Ot ety sg you, love you,” fight and fight for honorable recogni- here, Mid vather was only Major Cal- YOU, Mige “\gho storied, Passion, long stamped [on from the world. He would prove pee aif-slster?. ‘How about. that, t—me!” down, had arisen in ali its might, The that « “has-been™ agave th 8 ie mn "chen her name would be differ: wand cena Ge White heat. It had broken all bonds, ABd then—Sue, Perhaps—perhaps, ont from ae eon ag mistent Ot it? fo you know Loring mightn’t Mt it? Kissed him, He smiled, And eo died @ that.” > ADT never thought of that,” whis- woecee me pered Garrison. “If you onty are Watert ury’s on, renter right, Jimmie! If you only are, what was honest! Somehow she always Those were the two roads. Which Youn Take ma would he traverse, Whichever it was, aeiyanted’pas, though his heart, his entire being, lay with the latter, he would follo swept everything rush. “Take me wi! with you—anywhere, sionately, She arose and caught him the pointing finger of honor; follow Pike believed he was. His e; ‘ What you are—I know what you will ™sht cost, or where it might lead. derstood that before another dawn the first time the blood came to his told everything, and the turfman, pal. Secondly, he thought you had & ‘e's no getting around that, Jim. "ad read weakness there, but never ‘be. I've loved you from the first. 1 Love had restored to him the appre- had come creeping through the win- face. chin in hand, eyes riveted on the nar- split about the dope, and he laid his a als fame was Garriaon, My dishonesty, Tes, somehow she had’ led when I ever said I hated you, °!4tion of man’s birthright; the birth- dows, little Billy Garrison would have rator, listened absorbed. discharge to you. And he hated mie. {a Garrison. There's no dodg- &!waya believed him honest. But T'll help you to make a new start. Oh, "Sht without which nothing 1s won crossed the Big Divide; nights when CHAPTER XIl. “Gee!” Jimmie Drake whispered at Waterbury. He could square you peme q You can't change that into Wa# married. That was ‘atitoname so hard! Try me. Try me. Take me |” this world or the next. He had the shibboleths of a dead and gone ' last, “it sounds like a fairy story. It both at one shot, He poisoned Sis ing that, The concrete, not the abstract, with you. You are alll have, 1can't Sained self-respeot, At present it life were ever fluttering on his lips; WO months had gone in; two don't sound real.” Then he sud- when you'd gone, agget. 2” argued Drake Paramount, All else was give up up. L won't! Take me, take WS Dut the thought. He would fight nights when names but not identities, months of slow recupera- denly crashed a fist into his open “Every one believed you guilty, for “How do you know? bs, here |g DY the fact that he wae married. me. Do, do, do!” Her head thrown ‘© make it reality; fight to keep it. — fought with one another for existence: tion, regeneration, for Gar- Palm. “I see, I ace,” he snapped, they didn't know the row Criminins slowly, pertinaclously. “This here |4 could not believe that he had forgots /) Baek, she forced a hungry arm about And that night as tho train was fought for birth, for supremacy, an ! ust begin. sfiving to control his excitement, and Waterbury hed. But Waterbury my idea. and T ain't Whos oo Fitnow tee hie ma with hig true fens his Heck and strove to drag his lips leaping out of the darkness toward “Sue” always won; nights when he rison, Ho was just begin~ “phen ‘you don't know. You can't suspected. He and Crimming had it up without a tight. | How do you know tity, “She could not belleve that, Mer ‘to hers. the lights of the great city, racing St up in bed as he had sat up in ning to look at life from know, out. He caught him on Broadway @ but your father mig it have ets heart was against her. Love to her He caught both wrists and eyed toward its haven, rushing like a fall- Bellevue so long ago, and with tense the standpoint of unremitting toil “Know what?" Garrison sat bolt day or two later, and Crimming wal- his name I've ee low Te everything. She could not un- her. She was panting, but her eyes ing comet, some one blundered. The betes aad 8 car Rae soumee out and endeavor, It is the only satis- upright in his narrow cot, his heart oped a EE coed ig hg nese BEE ied poli How do you Lect how ae dh gg ever forget. met yave: , wo! 2 + q victory on the stretch. Horrible, hor- id pounding. e c op ~ 0 s 6 might ‘ Beiirsea’ Re touche tor cours wore ataments an nonasan EO Grey rible nights; sureharged with the factory standpoint. From it we see — “why—why, about Crimmins, about tal and came next to dying. Crim- know he mightn’t haye nae | that, not that. id, but not “Don't—tempt—me—Sue, Good God, 8Witch; the press called it an outrage, frenzy and unreality of a nightmare. life in its true proportions, Neither Waterbury, about Sis—everything,” ming went to jail, 1 guess he was as not Gisgrace ne aanal’ our , And at Calvert House life had rea you don't know how I love. You Pessimism called it fate—stern | And one of his audience who seldom qistorted through the blue glasses of ¢xclaimed Drake. “It was all in the down and out, all right, when, as you Changed it after y solved itself into ellence. s : i 5 it so as not 2 t left the narrow cot was a man who Eastern papers. You were in Bellevue gay, he heard from his brother that mother, and she stood for and his wife were ets t. Loved you from that night In other (OF SHS DeEAvory, ace had come to look fora friend among Pessimism—but another name for the then” T thought you knew. Ton't you Waterbury was at Cottonton, I be- to diserace her family. You were a tho future; strivi My What you are to me—everything. “Heip the train jammed shut like a closing the wreck victims; come and found failure of misappiwation—nor through know, Idd, that It was proved that lieve he went there to square him; kid when she died. and you weren't Garrigon's return. ai : : . How do you know ale 5 him not. He had chanced to pass the wonderful rose-colored glasses of Crimmins poisoned Sis? Hold on, but ran across you instead and present, you say, ant of the true cause of his not of myaelf, telescope, Undiluted Hades was very fim oor, he ki ‘ei 5 ck- but she mightn’t have wanted to tell doaving. * + son's 4 . keep quiet. Yes, it wi Crimmina. thought he could have a good black ut For Sue, the You must guard yourself. I'm tired bravelant it OYEE An Boue. i ee laa cot, And hp had remain- the dreamer, He was patiently go- KD Gort ee ted Yen Til te mailfag game on the side. ‘That wife you a whole lol, eh? A whole lot your jor divulged he nce we, oraret, Bak, of fighting—-I can't— ¥ ? bode 4g ing back over his past life; returning you ‘all. Give me time. Why, kid, game was a plot to cinch you, kid, father wouldn't tell you because he witha aimoult had been i “it's the girl up North?” jargon of those about to precipitately | Came a night at last when stamina |"... Loint where he had deserted you were as clean as the wind that fie didn't think you'd dare to come never cared for you. No, the more I Tig gits som ph yy a | Ee es Rereugeet BACK. He Had forgotten, WAM RGE SA Gloaaaat neemart Ciauls Laie etl bet ielalnt wan LATRER: itp clearly dened patelat boner end (red your first jphirt, Bure, sure North, When you told him about aan tt ie uerts nephew Yours porized. She knew that sooner er vi fighting: fichting against love Were there. But mercy, charity, and The demons, defeated, who had been guty for the flowery felds of un- \Vo, all knew, It—then, And we your lapse of memory, then he knew you're Malor Caivill® Hepiit, amet later the truth would have to ; Sverything. ‘Then Sue drew a great gTeat courage were also there, And fighting among themselves for the prided ticense, HEROES FOU eee. areata NP he was safe, rou knew nothing of (ein. ypur and the other Incidents ts outs | She put it off. She could wot Reais, and. oorsen ? vas there, sseasion of ixon's mind, ° s ‘ ow -down. ” now, not now, Each ee tera Yenmusy eo hare Jae had been with ‘tantly gave it back to. him, “And, It Was no easy task he had sot Crcltoment Ma Rit face Bray With | Garrison covered his face with 4 woeoot empt ‘me, Jimmie, don’t Zendered, If fe more a > , a A ‘4 sl 2 5 hi . Only b the great, the ,,, »” a r could ni she whispered. “She has the right of him. ‘He had been thrown clear at Moreover, they Rave it back—intact. himeelf, but be did not falter by the “ey on gorcefully, succinot- oe Only be Bane ag tempt me," pleaded Garrison again. “You don't know what it all means, I | She bad only to the fi crash; thi t The part they had stolen that night wayside. Three great stimulants , bg ie haa the MiaN er wars Go, ihe Gest Crean Wirow A conven ie may be his nephew, T may be—God Mor: to look at his wi she blazed, passion slipping up sleeping berth window. Physically he 1”,the Hoffman House was replaced, had—health, the thought of Sue De- 1 pea ipping Garrison's, withdrawing itself from his hea FH sk ze Bit} 4 1, we'll take it up from that w Wy i thd blow w last them. She again. “Go before I forget honor; Was not very, presentable, | But he (oni, Toatea br a very learned ord Shale Drake enon assistance Of aay of the Carter Handicap. Remem- iNet ‘Long ‘contact with mistorcune sTane,t,am! But I must be honest pq te belo hana, cael forget everything but that I love.” — fought a good fight against the flames ; ber? When you and Waterbury had pad 4 . had h aners ‘sterious name. They gave an eso- It was a month, dating from the ny! y had sapped the natural resilien “ chan jarrison turned, She never forgot and the general chaos, my: , ‘ i} Bat te it out? Now, I had suspected that his character. It had been subjected , “Well. I'm kolng to hunt up that they@ And so sho sca the look his face held; never forgot One of the forward cars was a cal- {othe urwdit OF the gene rgtely memorable meeting with the turf Dun Crimming hid. been PlUnKiNg {4's much preasure that It’ had be. Mwyer. Snark,” affirmed Drake and she had quarreling coxonte the tone of his volce. dron of flame. A baby's cry 8WUNK and surgical world. It wax something leave the hospital, When he did, it &4inst his stable for some time. 1 come flaccid. ‘The pressure removed, finally. “I won't rest until T see this that in sudden anger, pique, h “1 mo. Good-by, Sue. T fo to the out from among the roar and smart {othe effect that the Initial blow Gare wan to take up his life at Drake's Nad got OM to some bets he had put jr "would be some time before the {MM through. | Snark | may have jeft, Oh, yas, she Enew he would 2% girl up North. You are above me in of the living hell. There were & rison had received had forced piece Long fsland breeding farm and race ‘hroueh with the ald of his dirty heart could wet upon the message of Known all alonx you were the rightftl turn, She wae quite sure of tt ’ every way——Infinitely above me. Yes, frantic father and a demented moth: of hone against the brain In such @ ing stable; for in the interim Drake CoMmissioners. That's why I stood up good dings the brain had conveyed pile out of you when you came into “4 Sl! so ettly and over nothin, the girl up North. 1 had forgotten, er. Both had to be thrown and manner as to defy mero man's sur- had passed from the bookmaking for you against Waterbury, I knew {to jt, For a long time he remained the ostate. Or he may have been whe had no idea he would take 4 Bhe Is my wife And | have children’ pounded into submission; beld by gory, ‘This had caused the lapse of stage to that of owner, He ran a Qe Was square, T know he didn't wiient, And Drake respected his al- jonost in his dishonesty, may not heen Way: And she was #0 sorry, 00 sorry. eile, BvUNE on his heel and blindly sheer weight and muscle.” Memory. firet-class string of mounts, and he Tow, the race, and, aa for you—well, jence to the letter, ,Thon Garriacn UN- Known, But.l'm going to rustle round git had, all Been her fault. ‘He had 1 hung himself upon the waiting geld- ere were brave men there that iy 9 b : © 1 sald to myself; at ain't ke covered his « 4 by ‘aus not been to blame. It was shi . night, but there was no sense in giv- Pe ara di B pecend blow eek Garren to ride for him dur- the kid’ I knew the evidence against “vp ern T can't believe Sick Bin, Maybe there's proche he she. In a thoughtless moment “Se je stood motionless, ing two lives for one. Death ws nad falled, nature had stepped in MP, Sas the Utes onacce for regener- you, but it was hard to believe, kid: jt." he whispered, wide-eyed. “It is Are you going to write him * sald something about his belt reaping more than enough, They and operated successfully, Her meth. ation, and it had been timidly asked AM4 ! believed you when you sald too good to be true, It means too ~ (arrison considered. >—no," he Pendent on his uncle, and he had fired 4 CHAPTER XI. wold, Wy te save the "kid. but i ods had been crude but effective. The and gladly granted; asked and gramt- YOU hadnt made a cent on the race, much, You're aure you're right, Jim- paid at length. “No, if if by’ any YP: affirming that he would show har ; k looked hopeless. ues ita girl? Yes, unscientific blow on tho head had re- ed during one of the long nights in pai instead had lost all you had. 1 mie?’ dt means im proved ‘clean, chance [am his nephew--you geo how {at ait” * man, and could carn die HAT night Garrison left for and an only child! She must be stored the dislodged bone to its proper the hospital when Garrison was Ly hy 1 hat. able fuuna renee "8 proved square. It means reinstate- | want to believe you, Jimmie, God ae tes bravel q New. York! lett with the Rinses Under s Bees Ehe Are woud Place. ‘The medical world was highly struggling for strength and faith. Ie ing T talleved be drugged your kia,” ment on the turf, Means—every- knows how much—then J'll tell hin whole-henrtedly, reeyininy aes i ae... = eased over this \ the first time he had bee: A J f NK. afterward Aft yard w —T' bel “a memory of Sue standing gure they would see what could be Piser. Sireionl teil aaa cenee er bad Teen etalk’ for any great. “Now, when you tell me you were “Ali that, kid” suid Drake, “1 Gerard. Afterward Teenie Was done thoroughly, She would nob / | there on the moonlit pike, done, any way, the roof was due to to think that she had operated under length fighting consumption it clears a lot of thought you knew.” myseif in my own sight and man's think of the future. But she cot 4 that look tn her eyes; that smush down. ‘Dut they'd see. But ity direction, And nature never des “Thank you," he said, on the grant. space for me that hes been dark. I Gurrison hugged bis knees in ® par> y want to make another namo for my- Pomeary eM aTrgOn Was an in? +] 4 horror which he strove there were lots of others who needed nied it. ing of his request Which he more than knew you were doped half the time, oxysm of silent joy. self, Jimmie. T want to start all over ns Id soo Ot aaeit out, He did not return #,haad: others who were not pinned "Xs Garrison opened his eyes, dazed, thought would be ratused, Tis eyes DUtT thought you ware going the pact = igut—Waterbury? he puazied at and shame no mane If by any chence i and led 86 bitndly to shut out, He did not return under seats with the flames hungry weak as water, memory, full, com: voiced where his ipa were dumb. with the pipe, though I'l admit I ength., “He know I had been exon- Tam William C. Dagget, thon—then T wen frntod to yawn, Dewlidereds to Calvert House; not ee Me re- for them plete, rushed into action. His brain haven't gone back, Jimmie, but it's comian't Age Ri Critaming erated. And yet—yet he must have want to be worthy of that name, And forced i Ashu Be oe wae membered the girl's advice and was But Garrison had swung on to a recalled everything—everything f-°m good of you to give me the chance taking. 0 4 sald something to the contrary to [ owe everything to Garrison, I'm forcctort: qraulesce. ting upon it, His mind had no room nearby hose cart jammed into rubber the period it Is given man to remem. on my say-so. T'll bear it In mind, fed You dope while pretending to hand Misy Deyhu, Sho knew all along that going to clean that name. It meant was “betior thar ty oor R een « t, Every bloodvessel was 200ts, coat, and helmet, tying a wet ber down to the present. Tt was all And—and it’s good of you, Jimmie, to YoU nerve food, I know it. I know {| was Garrison; knew when I didn't something once—and it'll mean somes is Sankhboas” hele for the past. Every ‘ ” towel over nose and mouth. And as 80 clear, so perfect, so workmanlike, --to come and sit with me, II ap- he bet against his stable time and Know myself. ‘But she thought me thing again,” e and love the girl than that he striving to grapple with the present. some stared, some cursed, and some The long-halted clock of memory was preciate {t all, and I don't see why ain and won on every race youwere square. But Waterbury must have “| believe you, kid." nid tate hae te belt that He was numb with agony, It seemed cheered feebly, he smashed his way tleking away merrily, perfectly, and you should do it.” accused of throwing, I tweaked id something. 1 can never forget Subsequently, Drake fulfilled bis ach day he hoped to rn Sarria it his brain had been beaten with through the smother of flame to the ot one hour was missing from Its — Drake laughed awkwardly. things pretty clear that day after r saying when I confessed: ‘It's word concerning the “rustling round” back, but each day passed withi t mich is vip. hat tase COKIN screcms of the child. dial, ‘The thread of his severed life “It's the least I could do, lad, The left you, true, then.’ I can never forget that, after that eminent lawyer, Theobald that conaummation, The strain way sticks; beaten ta pulp. ust “he roof fell in, A great crash and WAS Joined—Jolned in such a manner favor ain't on my slde, it's on yours 1 went to Waterbury and andthe look in her eyes. D. Snark. His efforts met with fail- beginning to tell on him. His h soene with Sue had unrooted every spouting fire of flame. An eternity, that no hiteh or knot was apparent. Anyway, what use is eo friend if he charge against the trainer. Aye, Waterbury,” mused Drake ure. Probably the eminent lawyer's was bound up in the boy. If he cht ear x that he had been compelled to vacate a searc! Bea eee ways wot Only, he was note Shudrache Aes, Alled—filled with clear writing, with- you hud disappeared for keeps, Res Well, Waterbury was mad. Said he nodded confirmation ax tha other {he'niene he held in the Nasana Stores saptitute & search, wee: Possess’ me onrerit all; anyhow, ach, or Abednego. He was not fash- Ut blot or blemish, And on the apace member that day you cut ma on had no hand in it, and I believed stared, white-faced. "Died the morn- pookcase. Hut Drake had not given great hearte away, gol away; ‘ Beery providentiat ‘asbestos, He WS not recorded one deed he had Broadway? I ought to ve followed him. The upshot of it was that ho ing after he was thrown. Fractured up the fight 4 “ie Was like @ raw recruit who has was vulnerable, They carried him to ‘eaded to sec. There were misinkes, you, but T was sore-——" faced Crimmins. Now, Crimming had skull, I had word. Some right- “Meanwhile Garrison had commenced inded, enough not to censure the girl by word or act. He saw how a ! he was suffering: growing paler Wd weaknesses—but not dishonor, Fora “But TT didn't mean to cut you, been blowing himself on the pile he meaning chap says somewhere some- pis life of regeneration at the tur > } Pe oe eee ce inaae (Aen hed bye the falling Moment he could not grasp the full Jimmie, T didn’t know you. T want had made,and he was nasty. Instead thing shout saying nothing but good Bice A Toland stable. He was th Rite aucerali tae aorta Inthe tne agonies of apprehension, of jmag~ wonderfully smashed by ne meaning of the blessing, He could to tell you all about that--about of denying it and putting the proving of the dead, kid. If Waterbury tried . } od ination; experiencing the proximity of roof, His eyebrows and hair were left ride Speedaway tn the coming Carter world could not account for his leave Geath in cold blood, without the heat behind In the smother of flame. He only sense that he had indecd been everything. I'm just beginning to of the game up to me he took the to queer you it was through jealousy. Handicap. The event that had seen ing like that; account for his silence, Gf action to render him oblivious, Was fireclioked from tos to heel, He "igisad pove Wie desert, = ||| Know now that tm living. I've Been Rey aRca ee en he COCAINE OE RIAE® 4 REGAN De rT Cree an Te hint: Bp own, down to oblivion one (To Be Continued.) Garrison had been on the tiring line was raving. But the child was safe. what it all meant to him; underataod —“T alwave thought there was some- “don't know all the facts, They like every man, Think of them, kid, Yeah 2&9 might he opcnk ei ~arstenievdienaill ary eney of his star. He had vowed tt ———————-—— » for go long that his nerve was frayel And that wreck and that rescue Went the chief fnot that he had not deserted thing back of your absent treatment, came out in tho paper afterward. not the bad ones. T guess the book: \°¥ ,° ‘ ‘ to ribbons, Now the blow bad fallen down in history. wife and children; that Sue might be What was it?” Drake hitched his But Crimmins and Waterbury had 4 keeper up above will credit us with woul Pe spesranee ia at jast. The exposure had come, and For weeks Garrison was in the won, he crushed his face to the pillow chair nearer and focused all his pow- scrap and the trainer was fired, He all the times wo've tried to do the [iit creat wario-comic tragedy of life ‘ce frenzy possessed him to com- hospital, It was very like the re- and cried—eried like a little child. ers of concentration. “What was it, was fired when you went to the aquare, even if we petered out before GOING AWAY FOR THE af re plete the work begun, He craved phy: hearsal of a past performan - He And a big man. sitting In the shel- kid? Out with it, And if [can be of stable to say goodby to Kis. He was we'd made good. ‘Trying counts °alled “Making Good. SUMMER? Remember The Eve- rt ‘sical combat, And when he though: was completely out of his hi It ter of a ncreen, hitched hin chair near- any help you know you have only to packing what things he had there, somothing, kid. Don't forget tha ere ning World prints each week a] of Sue he felt like a murderer fleeing was all very like the months he put er the cot, and laid both Wands ab put it There.” He held out a large but when he saw you weren't on he ‘Yes, he had his good points,” whis- CHAPTER Xill. J mp be the scene of his crime; striving, in at Bellevus the long ago, before Garrison’ He did not sneak, but kept it mum. I believe then he was pered Garrison. “I don't forget, Time a hand. distance, to blot out the memory he had experienced the hunger- 1 i I don't f that hi leroy ak won ail tn teeth aeken nik A there was a wonderful light in his And then slowly, haltingly, but lu- planning to do away with Sis and mie. lon't forget that he complete up-to-date novel ~g UE never rightly remembered : "s reading lth hon- eyer—steady, clear eray eyes, cidly, dispassionately, events follor offered @ nice easy getaway for cleaner bill of moral health than I how the two months passed; week's 1 | Have . That, i to get away—to fle» esty. LS " . YW . ° hated beca I 5 ucceeding ning ‘orld, sent of. himself, Attorvpra, ansiyals af And agin ts ; "Kid, gga a 1 le fag in sequence, Gerrigon ala every, tim. Ho hate: 7a, rat, 9 hey wa an epee, Te I ins tue meine WwW come, b doctors ir ve nes ; pend ag, '3 Mites rar wien to pea tor Iwan he Who was, tl was opr to that.” Drake that night when in | mer add i