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x fg ere Ig MME ar Use a a ea ead ’ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, May as be he te th td bie id (Copyr' race Burt has disemered gold in Im moutitainns. An bastorn capitilin epee, fo foe him, of bie claim mo Helen Dunbar, wom hes to aid. In hia searelh fur some ance chin inin OW. Harm. an eecontrie cayitalist, — 'T ee, amarrel beta vey’ nae talked ioget ree minwies unles A jst RAL looked at him specu ment, then his Hs parted tevill an grin wh show two sharp, white, promi- that “On the square.” eagerly, “do you he think you can down me?" “L know it.” curtly—“any old time One or place, Now, if it suits from To Bruce's amazement Harra Dis hand and shook it joytull coral ever! We'll have a try-out in private 2% Rreak who in twe he Spanish Bulldc he chuckled gleefully. “What's the matter with y Bruce demanded, “Are you lo “Close to it! the eccentric capitals pyr« tat cried gayly—"with Joy! Ie bested pea Athletic Mul--he dusted the on 4) with me—and 1 want to play even.” Seeing that Hrice’s face did not lose {te look of mystification he curbed his exuberance: “You see, I've got ey Some ttle reputation as a wrest Tmts st to raise mone hydro-electric power plant, ne {oto the ring. It looks as if taking a good deal for grante: That's all right.” Harrah a to swered is it? What you cot?) Where Bruce told him Harrah heard hi tively and when he was done Ha that with aqu port ft isn't mu proposition to appeal to a business because I }ike you. Til h 4 your In- unsfor gical siniles that 1 CHAPTER IIL. pests An Outdoors Romance of a Battle for Fortune. , i USE SKINNY: By CAROLINE LOCKHART « Author of ‘Me, Smith,” Ete. (? New Yor™ CHICAGO 1915, by J.B Lippincott Co) unctuous preachers warming their) | ~ @yNorsis of precnpive cHarrens, Shing before their study fires, that Hiri living ts @ privilege, be grateful to the Almighty for being ) allowed t ty L can't see It!" she dee Hew encounters in angry rebellion, “1 hd fy thing on earth to look forw be worst , ‘ Hprudell's note had come by specs His Only Asset. delivery from the Hotel Stracunore she had latively, without) resent- He had n j the pretext of business, bul it did not require nont front teeth Now, | mind from her om turned her back to the wind and drew out his note f took {he pages that she was reading a iverything about it grated upon “L wouldn't be surprised You her—and the note was so emaen’y \euarded moment Sprudell's passion yynade the nung could! a look as hard ¢ characterist She observed i Ee lfor revengo was stamped upon hie starded and i oon ee Do you box or wrestle?” pal the "My a ye thd baad |r © like a Brand, Helen t thought unexpected appearance, ail Ble 68 Wor ‘i whieh she considered more Intimate Jof him contempttously as a bounder, thoughts finally t ~ He answered shortly: “Some.” ked the round vowels formed with than these things, he was a danger- defeat lim, Revenge, always bis first “Bully!” excitedly. rhe best luck “uch eure that they looked pitting, ous man impulse when injured, was to becom the elibovately shaded conso- | ver there was OF . ponte, The stiffness, the tritoness and if you're the moose 1 think you of his phrascology. and his utter Inch are you can break him in two!” of humor, made his letters dull r ¢, but most of all his inexact nse words frritated her—it made him] Hi back you had s to the Jimit:” ghinee ro Was a “broken lot bought at a bar gain Ina department store, fo-night TI have a matter of su- me proper the other night at the The evening may prove ie importance to impart.” she! Wes at ey et first time in many years he had aome “make every effort to Join me.) Hin adware ete rene muce thing on his feet other than hot ag eventful to} sagt madly “ "y = nailed miner's shoes. Also he. laid sto me, so do not disappoint me, | the “Sponivh Hulllog” was that hit aside his Stetson because, as he @x- you as to maine should not be known in the watned when Harrah deplored. the “Mirnonne!” Her Ups curled. “Idiot! event of the mateh being mentioned change, he cht "St made folle rile! I amus!” Savagely the papers: so Harrah had com- took at him. ks" still looked a "Donkey!" | go When Billy Harper ran across this cold bric ported him on purpose to reduce the cieek to turn to frost on the dark fur chalten wi heen gent and Mt was foreetul xcatures, la utter lack uf swelling in my head, he sald, and he of her muff. eee re ha INAe MRITENTOLTE SUNG. Mita enoanity ie Deedes ana ¢ iy head, ud, and ; He papers had made much of ft, pub- upon him indelibly the freedom and bold him. But you George! wait observing men in any Walks ¢ ee felt refused to let them take F He was bane er yerene even in f . by George! ‘ a 5 of| his picture group, all of whose members bags Beg mney 4 i WH eannttl “1 pe ins t into # rudell ; Gavi It was true enough, a8 Helen had were more or less notable, who woul! ¥, ic f Sprud said, he had Whipped the “Spanish have been suspected of a cold-blooded for a At least she understood him to the extent of re ‘ou're terpreting his actions with tole ble accuracy. She tried to be charitable ‘Stow much do you want? traits which, in the Leht of his lo y attitude, made him ridiculous. When ly. she received tender offering of stale hrough atten. fruit-cake and glucose jam froin a rran Cut-Tate grocer, large boxes of candy Maid from an. obscure confection btw ‘con sald candidly: ve heen told before other xifts betraying the penurion ie iiater, Which humor Bruce did versation with Sprudell, who nade always ¢ A his ‘not relish, for Spradell’s taunt that no pretense of listening; but just so fied engineer's re- econemy which h of a business generosity, she endeavore herself that it came m Ynbit of s endeavoring to palliate th: quickly to her b tty, By Maurice Ketten ina World.» | Here is the story you've been looking for—the abso- lutely new type of mystery tale, wherein the very cley- erest reader cannot guess in advance how the problem is to be solved. It is | | | mi SAFETY RAZOR | QUIRREL S) ANTI FAT <j The House of the Purple Stairs By Jeannette I. Helm Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World i nd we shoulu 9 through things tike this’ red to helself ent one rd to--) —" her hand tightened on a inside her muff—"“unless 1 take out which, in the end, might Try your skill as an amateur detective in working out this story's tery. But it is only fair to warn you you won't be able to. face held her eyes, Tt faseinated her, selves to further sums or be lable for Vor the moment ano forgot Bruce “assessments, nist Ya atedyine kin Bruce had gone about with Harrah Bs . sines then, and with op notable @ She thought she had read his real sponsor the world beeame suddenly # nature, had s nt char- pleasant, friendly place and life plat jAdteriatic in the blatant exotiam that f Me grea ean comme ao Uae King that I might divert — jhad shown itself #0 strongly in Kis Price was leaving on the morrow, thi ry, Helen ‘ation, But this was different, so dinner being in the nature of @ fares different that she had a queer feeling Wel! party, : lara celta breil e Bruce in the Bast and in thé Of Kiting opposite an uttor stranger. It company of these men on top of Dill’ | was not disiike, resentment, fear; it telegram was a culminating blow ta was rather a sty but savage vindie~ Sprudell, as effective as though it tiveness, a purposeful malice that had been planned. Stunned at first by would stop at nothing. In the UM- the lows of the water-right which sshe was leaving the offies, su tostopped to answer it de several trips trom tar e since their first meeting, ands \y great acumen to discover 6 came chiefly to see he 1 second reading, | would scarcely have gathered expression ae she turned! 1 dinner {invitation S AWN) t) Z BILLIARD BALL BMIISPorr. BEST T jst isn intense antagonfora® naam Wi t+ HAIR ' IK ETSH hold toy nae anon? ABT: Ne prdels, nature sei Wo bascaa TonIic {LH} so hopel far more so than 1 “WwW y thowe men” he asked in bolsoned by the venom of his vindle= ling. She even detested the} j IN TOWN O LEMONADE S| | tisiertone, and he noticed thet he five anatice where \t concerned Bruce J nete paper which she was sure vreathing hard ina clteme Burt. OPEN ALL NIGHT : Cy Lincout ate. ran li th i i rd inan excitement Burts named them ds turn ote maw DeArance at Lone occasion ip eee cine roxarding her Ds life, in Sprudell's office, whea he with the puzzled, questioning look one pad Pe une oe of ‘his clothe wives to the person he is trying to Those he now ¥ at Yee Ate the p nh ba sive, but they fit hand for the 1 materially tn aps plied by introducing him to his friends fim, for even in hy any humorous appellation which ments of civiHzation pou vecurred to hit It proved a wise Jooked pleturesaue and alien, Power Trecnution, since direetly fully built, tanned, with his wide the correct habjl wi relhouse, her head Tulides.? loosened is tenacious murder, larip in'a feat of strength so sens@- — Against her will Helen found he: Comal that the next morning he had self looking at him, It seemed found himscif featured along with an natural; she was shocked at herself. clopement and a bank failure, but he attracted her irresistibly. Hee "Phey called him “The Man From brother's murderer was handsyine in the Hitter Roots,” and a staff artist: a dark, serious, unsmiling way wale depicted him as @ hairy, aborigine appealed to her strongly. that Winfleld Harrah had had cap- | She tried to fix her attention upon 1 to turn loose on the Spanish the food before her, to keep up ing his motives and in-! deavored not to dwell upon the mper d to assure | rely from the — ~ ving in small wavs which nuscle” was bis only asset still ran- often as she resolved not *o took candle ee aie eR neers sn ‘kled, again, just so often she found her ‘The betting odds had been against #lf returning Bruce Hurt's question- baie ; SOE ot iene ven had Incommon, itself in an expression of mawkish frontispiece contained a picture of which we now have in operation, convinced now that her reluctant Pe ot ing but respec Once oF twice,” Bruce answered (ANY, welt me i ee aes colintes, sentimentality SEN OD ot Tat her, goven large mules staggering up a is the wonder of the place, and is, feet would have refused to carry her Ae ee eee ty ieee ribet “Fralen ‘took tormented that hi es etdss,? She ae reat ce which’ had and there was that in the amorous, mountain trail under a load of bul. of courae, our mlvatton, for with- to the altar, and her tongue to answer Size ofttlm et etloa great ebJect in coming Kast was to ime sqiNeverthelcss," Harrah continued, TiN, him a business #uccess: yet in Significant light in his infantile blue lion protected by guards, carrying Out that, of course, we could not according to her bidding, Bee at q bear's aur. the “Spanish Bulldog,” but Sprudei m willing to take a chance on you MAG) i oe ild not help iikening eyes Which sickened her very soul. rifles with eight-foot barrels construct flumes to put water If she had been tess strong in her strength he had also 9 wears Se knew better, He had seen enough of monet on the nroposition as youre nt to a Karment of shoddy material She disapproved of his todditng walk, “That illustration is my Id he Upon our placer ground, Hike and distikes, jess violent in her BEsing quickness and Metihy. Ant Bruce to Kuess something of his tixity ut It Up to me, but on you personally, oo ye she atyle of elegance. While his fat, stooped shoulders, his spats said proudly. We have partially construct Proutlerss she inselt have: forced Mas the Combination wiv HAA Hen of purpose when arouned and Dill's gon road to shorten and telegram confirmed ft. But he had ance of over hers lof- and “It's very——very alluring,” Helen f to dwell upon the advantages se SI) with one of the awkward but swift scription list with $5,000 and intro- § " ; we ‘ SOR SRa crested?” less arduous the difficult trip | renses Helen knew perfectly that they 1 dapperness. ‘The exc conceded. “And you are intereste: i t yInto over her present position and co Rens thought that, naturally, Bruce woul Guce you to some men that will prob. fenses Helen Knew pertocs tivas ine politeness, the elaborate deference “Interested!” gleefully, “it's all Tle nae Hixe. Nevertheless, it is to ac the situation with some. movements which characteristic; Jotun to, tho, West at onoe #romn ably take a ‘fiver’ on my aay-no. It nately what was known in the office which he showed her upon occasions, min "Wait till you go on.” radise, when once within IS thing Tike wienity, AbUL sie was ton alls Wearliike, Hruce ‘had swooped Tartiesvilie to try and hold ie clas You're still short of what you think vernacular as a “cheap skate.” striv- exasperated her, and it was incred: The first paragraph of the text charmed environments, Gold I@ irong a character to adapt herself MNCn Nt the nix opening and thrown from which, when he Was ready, you'll need Lil make up the Femuln- ing to give the impression of gen- ible, she thought, that a part in a read RET fomprcently_ to a livelong, Intimate the "Bulldox his shoulder. ‘The through a due proceas of law, if neces ¥ Erethat you go in and wall anniek erosity at a minimum of expense man's back hair should be able to | We lave, wih infinite haniahin and, diftient COO it ice te meer Tron with a person ao gentine- he had whirled and pinned BEC PO gary, Sprudell would eject tm Greaser!” a 7 Helen had g rows | a6 nitive | arouse puny a vd be ig es an ere! and physlal powension, of hecompany this” prospectus will uncontrollably, physleally re~ siiiarely qiere had been no room wan fi a nore, pesoees already Riies's expression was a mixture "er couMn Bnd sBrank from onminent it did. She Ne ape NA aoe ato kins, Waking Ii acres of tie inake known our financtal 1 pugnant to her as was Sprud fay dispute over the decision, Friends n formidable backing, for the mo of many. upon it, She did her best to stifl 1t was one of her very strongest aver li SP 8 quirements Paychologically, It war curious—no fo" UaDute Over aie ered in frenzy, ment scattered Nprudell’s wits, upset Finally he replied slow! 1 she heraolé spoke of it lightly; sions. She had always hoped noves PHE PROPERTIES Hrements. nave a ereatfor= dolibt there wero women in the world And foon alle Nad chtlt Seek nam, Biras the only Calne tte ia " “Well, it isn't just the way Va but © came into the even to know a man who parted his sia No, Vite tuneincieht’ bie nidden away in who fad, of did, of might, adare tut BO/O8G tH Nt Ne tise wan pee coe ‘and real was the determina - figured out to interest Cap ity e after th t- back r and now she was going hog re roater depths are unknown Sprudell; but for herselt she under- HIP wen rn oceans, Bruce tion somehow to block him. sekon t thed is uniqu ie cori u marry or possibilities of fabulous riches Sood clearly now that the single (On UNKNN Mion hole thing was A vaguely defined plan was already mnot # nc at tho end of (on, cold: ride ahenwas ev She tried to imagine herself go- No. brag val len for this great river is noted for its kindly feeling she had for hin was Ee ee ioct tau nie forming in his mind, and he wanted rope © nu choice sughing Violently, so violently that it ing through life making @ pretense of < gpowed gold varing quan richness on bed-rock, Millions — the gratitude she felt she owed him, & humillation to hb to be alone to perfect it and tt more meal of ‘crow’ won't k ne cere y ention of her taking bis learning and his talents st stalk extremely: . have been taken out of its sand 1 congratulate you," she aald final But Harrah had been 0 aod red into immediate execution, B a, he He went on with a tinge of bitter. 0! culled over: the, partl seriously, of refraining carefully from J\~ush { Fanpock Nee ao ree with the erudest devices. t ee RrRAbiC alawyecniaas Gla wore: They. Hed) filnt the Wanita are comfortable in the See inking of Bnrudell: “Mince Joculary: Duc with @ note of s calling attention to his errors or cor- {fe We have demonstrated our good antici *famarkable stury—mort Hruce's top floor room one evening ence of the man who, tenporatay at Bees, thinking of Bplay Mee Hess in his v ) Pet aoe ee tie of shicids “Average workable depth of thin wectioe 60 ft faith and our confidence ‘ea | \ Pe Harran’s friends hea by Harra. Joagt, had outwitted him, nor was ho ‘ muscle js my only asset PH have to Mali hava io shin vou sa@olnrada: Conc aie ecnee Tie pt 4 eter Gann enble vant Ay ages} i 7 never was anything truer bisten!" ip) eepayre tt ented lp aa 6 tect precsenbied o. Saauve Snaers on it." The 4 dark face ob ae ‘ou to 40, ing him from the ridicule which his peu, yes. worth of the: roperties DY i she raised a van pnt that your Chey hud seem L 00 ees, eet ‘ berded face tis Dun you co on like that NOUR: Mnae Bring upon HUAC when 0.000 as. at personal expenditure — approx peers <a die da eam iu nee YOMr joni, roosting on his bed and win- obvious interest in Helen, He made lh 9 t Helen oaught her clasped hands of working B conte per cu. mating fifty thousand dollars in > ¥ e | dow sill and table, while Bruce the motion to go a= soon aa possible he mingled with his superiors, he bul : Sprudell ostentatiously opened 1.00 ash, telegram whieh was brought to | past, a trick she had dropped naturally to a seat on hi and in spite of his best efforts to ap- moothing over smarts whe “Unchain the ‘Spanish bull dos ‘ 4 bh i rt en startled } 1 3 o have taken every lexal py heel, camp-fire fashion, with his back felle : WRT UN ceccaratial pur Ue and take 1 down," without con: of the poor claim.” he Wertuve tikan every Jere! | necretly pleased at seeming to be thus Heel. camp-fe See thele arias peer re rate his movements were ' © office bi nd ant Vineing his adversaries as Helen hac eles “we probabl aution and necessit piven sursuce oe requireme of his @ \ ttl, an ec pl ] Marra : f Nd her expression was frightened Seer ee Sa Anrat: SUL eOId ANA eae ee ‘en to insure an absolutely #@ pk A knaune: tetareera nis ef 1s Trent outlined “his preposition and Lruce fotnd it Impossible to keep n si Died Peo w noticing! It was th iRise di t aie es + sold? nd profitable Investmen “4 ata: drew am of t location of M4 jig attention upon the conversation Aili ste » When it came right down to lage of “The Pot of Gold frown of Mmportance and air of the quakine nd befor ast straw needed, When she laid out frase tacks, she asked herself, could and claims ‘Eureka’ 1 and 2 totalled We are now ready, and destr aa Le ata tA dae ground on carpet with his finger. at his own table, After bis first sur- “tell those 5 fe not to her most becom rock that evening Oia exchange herself, her freedom, iond, walle the jeanest next to [2 sinAneh G plone ¢ ace le Was Wasted Upon Helen, who wos But they had not taken Fa n- prise at seeing Sprudett his mind and I'm called EA PS Wy f SAD Ut fr individuality, all the years to “Phe Queen of Sheba," yielded a1 with: a. Melted ¢ Peed tee lively party of al terest in detail, they were going inte eves persisted in fxing themselves important | The odds were too heavyoshe felt Cote it many were spared her, for profit uf $700,000 CoH om this property an avacale befitting Be eA catDe table vescrvea ic, cniesly to, nieade Harenns HEVEY anon SOTUdell se Ocnieniog: —— tae Gaee Vl be bac she must surrender before It was too (Pe inve to get well and for - phen. the mor y of fac’ 1 5 importance, eae ae ener? saw that eleariy and tt piqued him. could not rid himself of the notion hs late le she ed her hair w lief from anxiety about food and ¢; phew: it ay OF thor dina ,felen closed the: pamphlet and Rprudell reads He felt as though his proposition, that somewhere he had seen her, or is angen vore t isual care she scrutinized Gothes and shelter? figures wae varled By anpther Uk. passed i back. She knew nothing Gf ees sincerity, counted for nothing, but was itonly a resemblance? Yet aure- CHAPTER IV. er face closely for that indefinab| ae rs Ganaat ont yi ADL Nhat mite te te § mining and no reason to doubt teem heel Beat uy. te r owhile It nett d him more than ever. jy ifthe ever had known a girl with ‘Hionw? 2k Which conveys to the Initiated Minaar Gathers, Teor minnie whieh thn MACE eta its truth or Sprudeil's | ty. Not Wile me pnaitie with tie, it Dut him on his mettle, @ profile like that-such hatr, such Millions! Ant of something deeper seated than fom freesing on street corners, from sient wt watensinch stream Goiy the facts but the magnitude of te ! bint tuce's. brief acquaintance with eyes, #uch a perfect manger—be mental and physical € ustion, from into a sand-think ’ b LD the car never co the languor of fatigne 4 1, i the possibilities as he had outlin Ho | if some one bad Harrah already }opened up new would not have forgotten her! Was the rebuffs which w a part of her } t we would it never come! He If Helen had cared at all for Spru- (06 ree ee aint tar worse thar Tdrew a He h for tha then were bewildering, He miley struck him face. 4 shown lain unknown possi: it the face of some dream-girl that eda . Joll’s approbation ahe would have haa Work and which burt tar worse h the art out omy ideas.” indeed, become as ric as Croes Helen Was still watehing the ad ie \ life. ‘They were sport. had lingered in his memory? It was walked once moge to the ward for her ell any one guessed because she could Sprudell 1 1 to convey th t AALnIT ow r ' 1 f cour ene reoT r ‘ fi ard fo er pains 1 ahs s and, she thought, how like at vaneing pa She murmured, with m4 Is, ener ¥ puzzling, most extraordiary, but whi corner from the Alter of a pleased, self-satisfied air of prop never regard them as impersonal. pression that along with hig many je would use his pow aw smile lusement, as Sprudell im--merry> ever she Was she looked far too nice building in one of the out- torship with which he followed her t Wome "i wore Me AR Rete fu other wif e possessed tent Well?” He looked her, exultan down be who are frea to be dining with that—that—, Hi debe the tuble he had reserved in. the CYery day Ant with OGkt eee or had he men to develop It ‘einat For tho | e ‘ I the int hee und the in> black brows met in a frown and un tricta where an asdignmen y oF pos iurely-but coule ole ad at random glow " ment by i F § , lying distric e n Bl fashionable restaurant of the Hote WaUrY v Le y--but could " at i nl ippearance of a person whose every UNfe “Tew SB W new {emin consciously his hands became fist had taken her. Strathmor He missed none of the ume ‘ospect fe wish had bee ranted. HW w You's earl ' ized under the table The day was ditterly cold with @ interested looks directed at her ax she | Must sie grow tute a old roman “ fully © ager inked With’ @xCKBmen face Behind the Wig « ’ He felt a sharp pang when he sa 4 wind. blowing which went through passed and glowed with satifact! h : crimson, Dazaled, leated by the i preparing hy ; ¢ “Te they notice her tke this in a ‘That ma emed every woman's are ind. spots yield ee eal SM ds the mysterioug Samson from the . adn his luck. to” know her coat and skirt as though they Civ 6 thought triumphantly, “shel) right. What had she done that the 0 tothe pin of — Pronpect of nae t who whipped the ‘Spanisi Bu exten girl | He wo 1 how wie lghtweight summer clothing mosit up in) Bartlesville: Mates sho! have it in for her" like wh e Giant M iane Ayenaee Liners i he Man from Mutter lof being foreed to ae- would sitting aoroen t nae he)? her muff against her cheek Sprudel!’s cup of happiness seemed ‘His? She clenched ao Cie Soya a lose He from « Y tnt Sie eau Rim” t reumstances may table from matel . p the street a e running ful pelter ne tablecloth, n » ay . hangs . among the ver H t ' 4 Sprude heard ”" And he 1c satisf and sho peered up the street and the TUN Eee great toomtght.” he thing sie de up her mind to Pay othe age AH Bre Teh we whiiat wom aevinw and Tk Ova ¢ ‘i “ a dark backeround accentuated the yy cnored ast sat down > ned such a horrid, sordid, va W w e our ent bhp # ian na lowed he rh rt he eo cauacd whe iw fae Ry drawn whiteness of t With “epine feather sie smiled gar end to yout and gen nt : an exami haa NM rte turn her head q ' ‘Flin that . hae the pinched, Diue look about bh my one good Sprudell meanwhile was revolving | ‘ Dean had rial ai is ‘ » was more than colorless, '! was tors 1 ws enjoy hers ' \ ' nth 1 in bis mind the be method vom * W on FOCK: My LJ ' ven to the w th and fost: The girl was iy dear, vo wn ww nuridred v : i m with tat m . i r or - As ra mee A aifering. terribly. She hud —a thousand! ‘ 1 ooxtrava. parting effectively and) dramaucal ta se eit ar Ho ft ‘ for ' He exclaimed voluata . i remy : ge and was y. "It's up to ” enews which wat dening him ws y ahttul ww 1 who earned " trace Bu He coult have bit tt t Paduring dumbly, wondering how studied V curiously, wonder Pace eG eed ¢ voley comforts — offer He waa impatic fe r ' taueh longer she could stand it, khow what Had hispoened. | He was Le vot 1 : NEC THBR A ELIS Loe Lona eee cites Gig Ae " fog all the time thi he mu i at nd a wlth eu ad erone. Bee eA Pr TTR } ’ lange. oltea Ga huch she was ampe ! CHAPTER V, 1 tise missit the car whieh elation of int xicath Lhe ordered When he fe he right moment f yryard, W @ Heal ; ae mii: eles Vs an Slim's Sister. . aif hour intervals meant With a lavishness whic nade 1 rived stating the fact bl fifty ise and twenty rin King i ve bare ‘ rat a ; Y : Nh yas conapicuous, and abruptly within three hundred feet 0 his transport, the r wtion CCK BURT! the murderer! Yer Renee won There was no inis sour gi t. she told herself, as But Sprudell was indifferent to an Um going to be as neh as Cr ‘ yorway. Bear may be had SWHEUY unexpectedly ut she Moat things the world Sur that a y serious eyes, the bee 'atamped her feet which Were al- pearances, seeming to survey” the Sis” for the going aft not marry him if tot @ meant the At he should be Phe Man | Bn er which be had growr most without ng. The doctor's world at large from the height of om Helen looked up, to see his red borne in mind, all of unin of ' ron Bitter Roots" Y Gaye yellowish picture mosatic warning caine to her mind ninotence, and it seemed to Melon lower lip trembling w th excitement oplacers are t neient bed OW weause sha wa , erties jie ‘a opel : ae ihe UA oe each ivy bist that made her that every objectionable tr ti 'My dear mnly, “L shall have of ot st two Separate period Norable, too conseier is, 10 Vin athmore Yow gnuc good roundness was gon b beyond shrink and huddl: ser to the wall of was exaggerated, twice ent un- fabulous wealth,’ Arent river, consequently hed without love in her present cires ¢ tof Winfleld Harrah! Weren't jiu ad ir ade ba aukerion vad wiim's sister! snr iH eaneng nite paure, der the stimulus of this mysterious, Undvubiediy ue in earnest. She ot ndoubtedly reve! fa nites x been uae st wand: b rina} - 1 for murdor in the *25:000 betwee ‘ ) Mled “she passe e table without a wet feet, were it er exalted mood, Wis: erot!s amend ‘ see that the intensity 1 v hv canr 1 ual tm ibility for he ; Sal ; H HM pa uk ance and 1 ke a pan aeeon aid wuard, azainst the latter, thing and evervhady but tilmse the pamphlet which ne withdrew use tempt to ¢ Ht was not a question of r uy ¢ of the would never see her a rhis wa former if she would er work wing eas in her eye ving hee fac agerly a won inh . remperine ut on © " AOS RA calmly and let 1 pase conscientiously f 1 orides | THelon herself runetite, ey read fie AbrAye bath ats ' ' 0 t ® bal as a ele tt ta napkin on table, and and waits on sivert corners were a ow Spradeil pa of the nome iN : i ren} ged 0 of abe re ; heen 1 ox | na he Pons Santlt recognized pir ous dishes with relish she inspected. prospReTUs OF THE BEPTER Peciter tor 4 bh ’ and ‘ y i Nie te There's some one out there T must She could not even to does him anew from the critical viewpoint , TTER Siti Ae Mun From her first: acquaintar with ' ¢ aed ai ad teen ale of Nis goo, I'll be back, but don't walt for warmly. There was ylutely noth= of the woman who intends to mar ,0OT PLACER MINING ere if ere is had ny aril lich hardening of \ ¥ ua me." fhe but fur that would Keep out such without love, As she dissected him t OINT Se ee int ina encle y touch of Ona GHBaNGniS. tire | rea is nits ehariir rine. BOMNe 4 Tie did not know himself what he penctrating wind and colt as this, it oceurred to her that Sprudell ex COMPANY : ley retofore heen too at le sat be (Pas : Np natant aa trey FP ant meant to say or do, heyond the fac and anything at all presentable was emplified every petty feminine preju ; sclshiAb ALK Aiea ERiCaL } fienlt of a to tempt capital nat the theatre she °X# amp na certainly aa a ah ead ha tald ieee Soe yuld speak to her even if ond her means. dics she had. She disliked his amali to come in here, We have changed , invar had been unpleasantly fiction. involuntarily she glanced at privately, but the othe i olainiy snubbed him. "And they (ell ws these emus, red mouth. which had a way of fixing proclaimed the outside page, amé the «86 a whole situation. Our eawmitl, ' @onacious of his nearness. She w Sprudel!, and the expression on hie that | would not commtt them- (To Be Continued} , Le y '