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BRIDE sf BATTLE ' Suddenly thè telephone lutorrupted door. clear ofTTinT woman—of Mrs. Kens'on, serious tone. The electric light In the passage Imd bis medllntlons. A womun's voice ut “ New plans.” Hartley. It's evident that «he doesn't gone out. The room grew dark behind thè other end wus uskiug for bini. “ Yes, but to you?” reciprócala your f e e l i n g o r whatever “ 1 guess so, Colonel Howard. And "A re you qulte su»--« ymi are Cuplaln him. lie groped Ills way toward ttie they are, and she seem- to have some I ’d like to hurry It through. O f course Mark Wallace?" It laqulrèd, when he door. ■ dangerous friends about her.’’ Suddenly a vivid light Unshod before I shall waut 11 over. I'll go home now, hud stateli bis Ideuttty. He relented suddenly, and, going “ I uni us suro as 1 bave ever liceo,” Ills eyes, lie heard, though he felt no | forward, clapped the matt on the ahoul- and— ” pain, the Impact o f a hard weapon unswered Mark. “ Stop!” Colonel Howard's chal- 1 d«r. “ Ah. uow I reeognlze you," salii thè upon tho back o f Ids head. He tiling “ I guess you’ve had your troubles. lengo bad a triumphal ring to It. He out Ills hands and grappled with a Hartley,” he said. “ But pull yourself placed his hands on Murk's shoulders strange voice In ,i merry rlpple of and swung him round, looking straight laughter. “ And you don’t know who man. In the uplifted hand lie felt a together, man.” heavy stick with u knobbed handle. Into his eyes. “Thank God for that, I am?" Th e sheepish, unmanly mask M ark!” he cried. “ I fought the llrlgu " I f you will state your name— " bo- He bolleved Ids assailant to lie Kel- dropped from Hartley's face. lie dler over you. and I'll fight hlui to the gan Mark patiently. lertnnn, and, half uni-ontu-lous us lie caught Mark’s hand Impulsively. end o f time. I told him It was u “ Someone who knows that you are was, lie fought madly. But the man. “ I’m a cur, Captaiu W ullace!” he dimmed lie. I’ll swear to It." 111 trouble and wants to help you. I'm Kellernmn or not, was more than u cried. “ I — I—■ “ afraid you won't let me. You seemed mutch for him. For it few moments “ What do you menu, sir?” “That’s all right. Hartley. But. by “ That you are a frequenter o f gam to be prejudiced against nit- when wo they wrestled furiously; then the other the way, who told you uiy name?” bling houses. Wallace. That's the met before. Well, I am Ada Kelison." got Ids iirm free mid brought down lie* “ Captain Wullace, don't ask me that) story thut they have been putting over Mark uttered an angry exelumatlOQ. stick upon Mark's head again. And Go back I Never mind me! Go buck on him. You know whom 1 mean by which lie Institut ly cheeked. This this time the light fuilcd Into black Into your ofllce at once!” cried Hart •they.' Washington’s swimming with might prove the key that he was seek- ness. ley. that crooked gang, and that story— lug. (Continued next week.) He broke past Murk with a sudden, well, Giey managed to start that In “ Come to my house ut nine o’clock spasmodic movement, gained the door, circulation und saw that It reached the tonight, unlosa you are afruid. You N E W B U T T E R W R A P P R IC E S and ran down the corridor. Mark Brigadier's ears. He heard thut you wlll ini-ot in »body but me." looked after him In stupefaction. Hart were lu a tight outside Mrs. Henson's It limi beoti In Mark's mimi to look Oil account of another nilvuiicc in ley had not been drunk, and his pres place In the small hours this mortilng. for lliirlley 111 tltut liclgltborliond. ¡the prill«» i»l' butler pnrclimcnl, wi- A continuous,uniform ence there had seeuied purposeless. Mark. I'll see you through this. “ What do you Kiiy, Cuplaln W al limi tin* follow ing slight iKlvanci chain of boiling poin ts Suddenly, with an Intuition o f danger, Impulsively the kindly old man start lace? 1 eau lielp you vory mudi lu- makes “ Kcd Crown” he hurried through the clerks’ office, ed toward the door. He had almost deed, and portilips put things righi for in prices necessary : I imi m rapa +1.80 unlocked his door, and entered. dependable. No ‘‘mix reached It wheu Wullueo found his you. I ani Iti a posi timi to know a The room was filled with a furious tongue. gissi deal o f what Is happening hdilnri Kach aitili)mnal Imi ordered ture” can give the at same time as first 100 40c “ S top!” gust o f wind. The mobilization papers thè seenes.” same satisfactory re The colonel halted, one hand still were whirling on his desk in front of Mark felt lils brulli grow as cimi us sults. L o o k fo r the Friday and Saturday Special outstretched toward the door. “ Kli, Ice. “ ITI coinè, Mrs. Kenson,” he nn- the open window. Kcd Crown sign be The circular fan, which had been my boy?” he usked. awered erisply, and hung up thè rc- A m iliti ion of l!() eeiita w ill lie fore you fill, distributing a gentle breeze Impar “ One moment, sir ! I cannot let you eelver. made on first liumlml on all co tially from side to side, now poured go to the Brigadier. I have never been S T A N D A R D O IL C O M P A N Y He consoled himself with the reflec ders printed mi Pridnva or Saint- (C*l»n»nia) Its current o f air Immediately u|»on Inside a gambling house In my life, but tion that ho had, at least, nothing to days. Orders may In- placed on Mark's desk. The rotary movement I wns outside Mrs. Keusou’s place lust lose. He Waited calmly for the ap any day of the week for printing had been stopped, and It had been set night." point meat, and arrived outside the on Pi-nlay or Saturday al t In* re to maximum speed. A sudden feebleness seemed to couio house promptly. There was uo sign duoeil linee. T O. 8UDTELL. S PE C IA L AGENT o f Hartley In the neighborhood. And this was not the small fan cus over the Colonel. COTTAGE GROVE SENTINE!, C otta ge G rove. Oregon “T ell me about It. Wallace, T ell me At his ring Mrs. Kenson herself tomarily In use in the little office, but a large one from the clerks’ room. j why you went there. You know her, opened the door, smiled, and ahqwed Wheu Mark had left to Interview then? iHm't you know that she’s— " him Into a well furnished little parlor. “ I know uothlng about her, sir. I “ Sit down, Captain Wallace," who j Hartley, he had seen Kellerman at work through the glass door that con merely usk you not to go to the Brig said. Indicating u chair. “ You'll wonder who I am and why nected their two offices. Now Keller- adier. I shall proceed to my quar ters." I usked you lo come here,” said Mrs. 1 man's desk was vacant. * “ You understand there will bo a Kenson. “ W ell, I happen to know Mark slammed down the window; quite a good ib-ul about you. Cuptaln there were two locks, and Murk und court-martial?” Wallace. All your history. In fact, Kellerman had each a key. Nobody , “ Naturally, sir." “ The war department hnsn’t much from the time you entered West could have entered. superfluous time on Its hands to wash Point. It Is part o f tuy business to But Mark was positive that Keller- Its dirty llueu. W e wunt to get uheud. know these things." man had set the fan. It stood on a We want to forget this. I think If Mark bowed und watted, expecting shelf against the partition. Looking you will send In your resignation— ” something sensational. He was aston up, Mark saw that there was a tiny “ You shall have it tonight, sir." ished beyond bis expectation, however, hole Immediately behind it, large by Mrs. Henson's next words. enough to permit an Inserted wire to C H A PTE R V III. “ Your long and distasteful stay In push back the lever that controlled the the West. Cuptaln Wallace, wus not rotary apparatus. Yet this might have Mark rushed to the street and found wholly tlie fortune o f the military been nothing but a wormhole In the himself face to fuce with Kleanor. service," she wild. “ It wus ex|iedlent wood framework o f the door. She was coming out o f a store, and that you should slay there, on account With a gasp o f rage Murk hastily going, evidently, toward the cab which o f your unfortutiute mistake In adopt stopped the fan and ran back to his was waiting agulnst the street curb. ing the lute Churles Hampton's child." desk. He begun collecting the pupers. They almost ran into each other. Mark rose In protest, collected him They had blown hither and thither, j Mark lifted his hat mechunleally, and some had fallen behind the desk, some thought she wus about to puss, but self, und sut down again. - , “ In fnct, dear Captulu Wallace, yon on the radiator. The floor was Uttered suddenly she took him by the arm, have been the victim o f circum with them. ami looked at him earnestly, extreme stances," went on Mrs. Kenson. " I Had any gone out o f the window? concern upon her face. suppose you know that the world tins There should have been two hundred j “ What’s the matter. Uncle Mark?" changed a good deul during your tlf- A X and nine. There was nothing to do Í she usked. “ You're 111— you're looking ! teen years of exile? Well, this war, but count them. Mark began, but his frightfully 111.” \ for example. It's a shocking revet- fingers trembled so thut he could hard “ Well, It’s a pretty hot day,” said i slon to barbarism, the nations flying ly turn the pages. Muik. at each other's throats, when their dif In the very middle o f this task the i “ Yes, but you can stand beat. Uncle ficulties could have been adjusted by door clicked ; the Brigadier and Colonel Mark. You don’t lo«>k fit to be around. a little frank diplomacy. It was u great Howard entered. How long have you been III, und have blow to the tlnanelul Interests that are “ Well, Wallace, finished, I hope?” you been working ull the time, uud working to reconcile the tuitions uud ! asked the Brigadier with the cordiality why didn’t you send for me?” ! to develop the world's resources. They “ I’m not 111, Eleanor,” said Mark, | would do all posslhi»- to end It. I am [ o f one who has been refreshed by a i trying to smile. good dinner. “ Let me see!” working fo r them here. I am not tell- Captala Wullace, Mark turned the leaves nervelessly, ! ‘“I lien why haven t you been to see j,I(, yOU nny while the Brigadier and Howard stood os? Have you forgotten our talk that , |„.ynUltt, everybody In Washington night? What’s the reasou? Tell m e !" j ,t j interna-. silently beside him. H e reached the end. H e had count- : "Your father keeps our noses to the Uonu, ,„.a(.e committee, and I huve ^ quite a good deal o f Influence among ed exactly two hundred. Thut might grindstone, Eleanor. “That Isn t true, and please don t jto- senators and representatives— have been an error. But the puper play with me as If I were a child. Gap- ,,rlnt|,mMy the Western ones, t ’up- was not there. taln Wallace. Come, get Into this eub tain.” He looked up to see the Brigadier at once! I am going to take you home i The frankness and auilaelty o f the peering Into his face with an extraor and have Mrs. Howard look after you disclosure astounded Mark. So this dinary expression. He heard himself was one center o f "they," 11s Colon«! stammering, fumbling for words; he at once. Oh, you are laughing!” It was rather a grim Jest to Mark, Howard had called the nucleus o f Teu ■topped. but It occurred to him that It would tonic spies and ugi-nts In America. Colonel Howard spring forward and help to alienate Eleanor. She drew “ We are trying our hardest to pre caught him by the shoulder. “ Wallace, . away from him and looked ¡it him with vent America from being dragged Into D i r e c t 'd by , Story b y my dear fellow, pull yourself togeth those keen, scrutinizing eyes that Ur(1 er !” he was plcndiug. " W r a fa that this maelstrom," continued Mrs. Ken li you’re saying? Blown out of the win In some measure discomfited him at son. “ You. Captain Wallace, were un the Misses Harpers’ school. dow ? It’s the heat, sir. lie 's been fortunate enough to be working on the “ Uncle Mark," she pleaded, “ do tell ovin 'cln g i t ” ' other side. And— I ’m sorry, but a little me why you are acting so horribly “ V »ry poss-biv " said the Brigadier trap was laid for you and Kellerman. . caustica!.y. “ *’ray have a look, then, when 1 am only thinking o f you. It’s You walked right Into It. Major Kel- | Just the way you acted thut other | Jernian, who Is u very good friend o f Howurc fa k e your time.” ¡n ^»'nipb-N-' gimd'''faith. I Mark was searching again. He night until we got to understand each | other. And tell me why you h a v e n u .. stopped as they came to the Inst pa con.- to ns ” ! Don * blame blm. Don1 ’t blame your- per, which was now the two hundred “ Well, Eleanor, the truth Is, sald i Bel*- Don’t blame that wretched fe l and third. low who came here the other night Mark, “ the work at the office has Just “ It's no use, Colonel Howard," he about taken it all out o f me. And then, to blackmail me. It was Inevitable. cried. “ It has gone out ot the win in iny position, o f course there are vis You see, when you adopted Hampton's daughter you unconsciously put a sort dow. I was called out. When 1 came its that 1 must pay.” o f noose about your neck. There was back the fan was turned on my desk "O f course,” said Eleanor Iron and the papers were blowing about ically. “ Go on. Uncle Mark. I shall the possibility o f your coming Into con tact with Humptnn’s friends. The sys the room. Somebody— perhaps the see through you presently.” tem Is widespread, you know, and quite mechanism slipped. I don’t know. I ’m "But I have been meaning to visit twenty years old. So— you hnd to go tired— my God, how tired I a m !” you soon. Only, you know. I ain not The Colonel was pushing him Into In any sense your guardian now, und west. “ Now, Captain Wallace, I'm a frank a chair. He heard the storming voice so, Eleanor, If you want me to be o f the Brigadier a long distance away. frank. It Is a little unreasonable o f woman, and I ’ll put my proposition to Howard was expostulating. They were you to put forward my duties In that y ° u- Yoa * ,,nt *° M“ J,,r going through the papers again. A respect when I huve no compensa- Kellerman walk off with that pretty j ward o f yours, do you? And you can’t clerk had been called In. Murk heard y o n sn something about searching the streets. She started. “ You mean that you marry her without a little money. Well, you could be very useful to us Somebody was telephoning. And, didn’t want to come?" she asked. No more changing your glasses ««very time in many ways. Would you, without above all, he was conscious o f Keller “ I did want to. But I have so many yon rein I or look off at a distance, if you sacrificing your patriotism or revealing man In the next room, long before he duties— ” , wear opened the glass door and entered. “ Thank you. That’s quite enough, any secrets, become a salaried worker H e was alone, and struggling back Captain Wallace. My conduct In In o f our organization?” Mark stood up, trembling. “ I— don’t Into the realization o f his situation. truding on such a busy man has been Kellerman’s threat and his refusal to quite Inexcusable. Good day, Cuptaln quite understand,” he said huskily; I V GLASSES and the picture o f Eleanor In Keller consider It, the visit o f Hartley, be W allace!” INC ONLY INVISIIU BIFOCAL gan to link themselves Into the chain khyptok She made a mocking little bow and man’s arms at the dance swuin before o f the devilish conspiracy. H e rose went toward her cnb. She stopped and his eyes. “ What Is it you want me to K R Y P T O K S ( pronounced Crip locks) will unsteadily to his feet, wiping the sweat looked back. The brief anger was do?" give the autoinohilist or anyone needing “ Use your Influence nnd armyknowl- from his forehead. Colonel Howard ended. But Mark was already free hit ocala near and far vision in one pair was coming through thu open doorway from that Intolerable Interview and <*lge In our behalf. That little affair | o f today will soon be forgotten. And from Kellerman’s room. ■tumbling homeward. ol glasses. No scams or humps. They will He let himself In, wrote out his res- w «’H help You *® Put Kellerman out “ Sit down, Wallace,” he said grave give you pcrlcct eyesight comfort. You | ° * business. ’ ly. “ I've been talking to the Brigadier, ignatlon, and mailed 1L will waul to learn more aliout these won- As he paced his room, pondering ‘A ou ask me to become a German or, rather, he has been talking to me. You must consider yourself under ar o v e f the situation, It aeemed to him spy!” • d'-rlul hilocala call and we will explain. “ Don’t be absurd, my dear captain. rest In your quarters. Now, how did that the key to the mystery lay with Hert!<*y. Even yet he had not allowed Who ever suggested such a thing?" this damned thing happen?” "T h at’s what it amounts to." Mark explained as lamely as one himself to h eller» Kellerman a traitor, j “ A little Influence on behalf o f hu who had beard excuses o f all kinds But It was essential that he should Broken Lenses E Y E S IG H T S P E C IA L IS T from soldiers brought before him fo r find Hartley, and Insist U[s>n a confes manity.” Factory on Quickly Replaced A N D O P T IC IA N “ N o !" shouted Mnrk, quite beside Premises various offenses daring bis term o f sion, both o f his motives In watching the Colonel’s house, and o f those that himself. “ You’re Infamous. You ought service, and waved them aside. 881-Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon. Telephone 362 “ You know what this means, W al had brought him to the war depart to be put out o f the country I” H e strode Indignantly toward tha lace?” asked the Colonel In a kindly, ment* ___ ____ » steady Power eg* c A Romance gf the A m e ric a n A r m y Fighting on the Bat tlefields France By" VICTOR ROUSSEAU iC opyrigbt, UU, by W. U. Chapman.) CH APTER V II. On the way to the war department the following morning ho was puzzling over the affair. Kellertuan's presence In Mrs. Reason's bouse, and Keller- man's possible connection with Hart ley, who watched Kleanor. H e could not arrive at any but the most fantastic solutions. Kellertnan welcomed him with his usual suavity. They carried up the papers from the safe; then Kellermuu called Mark Into his own office. “ About last night, Wallace— ” he began. “ O f course you acted all right, as you understood the situation, but there was a good deal that you did not understand. That man you took home to your rooms is a sort of international stool pigeon. If I can coiu the phrase. Quite despicable— the one-time gentle man who has lost his honor; and dan gerous, because he knows things that nobody would credit him with know ing. 1 suppose you wonder whut 1 wus doing In Mrs. Reason's place?" “ Not at all. Major Kellerman.” “ My dear Wallace,” said Kellerman, laying a hand on Mark's shoulder, “ 1 want to give' you a piece of advice. This Is quite apart from our work here. I don't think your qualities are adapted to headquarters work. Go back to your battalion— or. rather, take advantage o f your friends in Wash ington to secure a good post"— he em phasized the adjective— "in regimental work.” And as Mark looked at him in stu pefaction, Kellerman added coolly: “I am not speaking officially, my dear Wallace. Take the suggestion as a friendly one. I f I can make It a little clearer to you. your presence In Washington Is Inconvenient to me for personal reasons. I think you will ap preciate the reasons— the reason, rather.” The man’s Insolence was madden ing. Mark's Impulse was to dash his fists into his face. But discipline told. Mark saluted stiffly and went away. H e sat down at his desk, fuming. O f course Kellerman had referred to El eanor; and It suddenly occurred to Mark that Kellerman might have made a good deal o f headway during his absence. Mark and Colonel Howard occupied a small room at the end o f the corri dor ; the clerks’ room wus without; be tween the two, accessible from each, was Kellennan’8 office, which commu nicated. In turn, with the Brigadier’s. Colonel Howard came in after a while, and they went over their plans together. They were engaged on a complicated piece o f work, involving tonnage and computations o f cubic feet o f space fo r cargoes. There had j been an error somewhere, and Murk was trying hard to discover it when the Brigadier came In In his usual iras cible manner. “ How long w ill that Job take, How ard?” he asked. “ Wallace will have it finished by noon, sir," answered the Colonel. The Brigadier Waved Mark to his seat impatiently. “ Bring i t right In to me as soon as you have the figures, please,” he said. “ I ’ll wait fo r it. Sore you can be through by noon?” “ I ’m sure, sir,” answered Mark, who was hot on the trail o f the error. The Brigadier withdrew, taking the Colonel with him fo r a conference. Mark worked steadily. The omission wus found, the computations were balancing. A clerk knocked at the door. “ What Is it?" asked Mark Impa tiently. “ A man to see you, sir. H e says his name's Hartley. .Shall I show him In?” “ Good laird, n o ! I'll see him in the waiting room,” answered Mark. He locked the office door, went through the clerks room and Into the anteroom. Hartley was standing be side the window. He looked up sheep ishly us Mark entered. “ W ell?'' asked Murk crisply. Hartley grinned. “ I didn’t take the cups or the picture, Captain Wallace,” be said. “ Well, what about it? Whut can I do for you?” “ Why, I— I wanted to tell you as much, Captain Wallace. I ’ve sunk low, but not to theft. Only 1 didn’t feel 1 could stay.” “ Good Lord, man. Is that all you have come to tell me?*' » “ Well, you see— there was something else, but— ” stuiumered Hartley. “ Out with It, then!” “ I wnnted to thank you for what you did for me. and— ” The man seemed to be trying to spin oo* the Interview for some indefinite purpose. Mark turned on his heel. His temper was not ot the best Just then, and Hartley was th«s lust man In the world whom he wanted to see. “ A ll right.” he answered. “ Steer (ÍÜ, % o l V£ //¡e Gasoline °fQ u a lity A V w j WITH THE KAISER \ St iiffn C l a s s i c s Production George ving Ju n e M athis M e t r o Pictures Corporation Pi st ri butors Arcade T h eater Thursday - Friday 'O Q November ^ ^ JO ^ This Inconvenience Ended By K R Y PTO K S l(R Y pTO K SHERMAN W. MOODY *