With all her efforts at self-control, pened, and I find I am powerless. It’s employment of such legal talent as
Annie would have been more than too much for me. I can't fight this may be necessary. That’s as far aa 1
human had she not resented the insin battle alone. Won't you help me, Mr. wish to go in the case. It must not
There is no other season when medi
uation In this cruel speech. For a mo Jeffries?”
she
added
pleadingly. be known—I cannot allow it to be
cine is so much needed as in the
ment she forgot the importance of “Won't you help me?”
known that I am helping him."
spring. The blood is impure and Im
preserving amicable relations, and she
The banker was thoughtful a min
“Must not be known?” cried Annie, poverished—a condition indicated by
retorted:
ute, then suddenly he turned on her.
in astonishment.
“You mean you pimples, boils and other eruptions on
"Such a woman as me? That’s pret
“Will you consent to a divorce if I won't stand by him? You'll only just the face and body, by deficient vitality,
r
Joss of appetite, lack of strength.
ty plain—. But you’ll have to speak agree to help him?”
pay for the lawyer?”
The best spring medicine, according
even more plainly. What do you mean
to the experience and testimony of
She looked at him with dismay,
The banker nodded:
when you say such a woman as me? There was tragic tenseness in thia
thousands annually, is
Narrative
“That is all I can promise."
What have I done?”
------ ------------
dramatic situation—a father fighting
She laughed hysterically.
Mr. Jeffries looked out of the win- for his son, a woman fighting
cTWetropolitan
for her
"Why," she exclaimed, “I—I could
dow without answering, and she went husband.
It purifies and enriches the blood,
I---- Life ---- 1
do that myself if I—I tried hard cures eruptions, builds up the system.
on:
“A divorce?" she stammered. “Why, •nough."
Get it today in usual liquid form or
“I worked in a factory when I was
chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs.
"I can promise nothing more,'
nine years old, and I’ve earned my I never thought of such a thing as
plied Mr. Jeffries, coldly.
living ever since. There’s no disgrace that.”
“It’s the only way to save him,”
“But that is not enough,” she pro
in
that,
is
there?
There
’
s
nothing
In the Declaration.
By CHARLES KLEIN and
tested. “I want you to come forward
against me personally—nothing dis said the banker coldly.
Too often In speech and print occur
ARTHUR HORNBLOW
“The only way?” she faltered.
and publicly declare your belief in “Uncle Sam’s common people," "My
graceful, I mean. I know I’m not edu
“The only way," said Mr. Jeffries your son’s innocence. I want you
ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS
cated. I’m not a lady in your sense
servants," “Our middle classes." Re
of the word, but I’ve led a decent life. firmly. “Do you consent?” he asked. put your arms around him and say tc publican France still adores her
There isn’t a breath of scandal against
Annie threw up her head. Her pale the world: ‘My boy is Innocent! 1 princes and despises her poor. The
(Copyright, IMI, by U. W. Dillingham CoiupauyJ
1«
me—not. a breath. But what's the face was full of determination, as she know it and I’m going to stand by United States and the Kingdom of
SYNOPSIS.
good of talking about me? Never mind replied resignedly, catching her breath him.’ You won’t do that?”
Heaven were founded for the homes
me. I'm not asking for anything, as she spoke:
Mr. Jeffries shook his head.
if the poor and the weary and the
Howard Jfffrfrs, banker’s son. under
"Yes, if it must be. I will consent
“It is impossible.”
lie <-vil influence of Robert Underwood, What are you going to do for him?
persecuted—not for- flunkey monkeys.
’ellow-student at Yale, leads a life of dis- He must have the best lawyer that to a divorce—to save him!”
The wife’s pent-up feelings now
dpatlon, marries the daughter of a gani- money can procure—none of those
"You will leave the country and go gave way. The utter indifference of
Jler who died In prison, and is disowned
Judge Brewster, abroad to live?” continued the banker this aristocratic father aroused her
>y his father. He is out of work and in barroom orators.
!» sperata straits. Underwood, who had your lawyer, is the man.
We want coldly.
indignation to such a pitch that she
nice be
engaged to Howard's step-
not her. Alida. I h apparently In prosper Judge Brewster.”
became reckless of the consequences.
She
listened
as
in
a
dream.
That
itu drrumstanci isi. Taking advantage of
Mr. Jeffries shrugged his shoulders. she would be confronted by such an They wanted her to desert him, just
lis Intimacy with Alicia, he becomes a
tort of social highwayman. IHscovering
“I repeat—my son’s marriage with alternative as this had never entered as they deserted him, but she
ils true character. Alicia denies him the tho daughter of a man who died in
her mind.
She wondered why the wouldn't. She would show them the
louse. He sends her a note threatening
■uidde. Art dealers for whom he acted prison—”
world was so cruel and heartless. Yet kind of woman she was.
is commissioner, demand an accounting.
She interrupted him.
if the sacrifice must be made to save
"So! she cried in an outburst ol
He cannot make good. Howard calls at
As a rule, a few doses of Munyon’s Cold Remedy
lis apartments In an Intoxicated condl-
"That was hard luck—nothing but Howard she was ready to make it.
mingled anger and grief. “So his fam- will break up any cold and prevent pneumonia. It
lon to request a loan of $2.000 to enable hard luck. You're not going to make
“You will leave America and never ily must desert him and his wife relieves the head, throat and lunes almost in
Him to take up a business proposition.
Underwood tells him he Is in debt up to mo responsible for that, are you? return—is that understood?” repeated must leave him!
The poor boy must stantly. Price 25 cents at any druggists or sent
lis ej’es. Howard drinks himself into a
postpaid.
stand absolutely alone in the world,
rmmllln condition, nnd goes to sleep on a Why, I was only eight years old when the banker.
If you need Medical advice write to Munyon's
livan. A caller is announced and Under that happened.
Could I have pre
and
face
a
trial
for
his
life!
Is that Doctors. They will carefully diagnose your case
“Yes, sir,” she replied falteringly.
wood draws a screen around the drunken vented it?" Recklessly she went on:
and give you advice by mail, absolutely free.
deeper. Alicia enters. She demands a
Mr. Jeffries paced nervously up and the idea?”
promise from Underwood that he will not "Well, blame it on me if you want to,
Address Professor Munyon. 53d and Jefferson
The banker made no reply. Snap-
down the room. For the first time
ake Ids Ufe. He refuses unless she will but
streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
don’t hold it up against Howard, he seemed to take an interest in the ping her fingers, she went on:
■enow her patronage. This she refuses,
ind takes her leave. Underwood kills He didn’t know it when he married
“Well, it isn’t mine, Mr. Jeffries! I
Patronizingly he said:
Himself. The report of the pistol awa- me. He never would have known it interview.
cens Howard. He finds Underwood dead.
“You will receive a yearly allow won't consent to a divorce! I won’t
The Simpler Way.
Realizing bls predicament he attempts to but for the detectives employed by
leave America! And I’ll see him just
“Send for the business manager,’
met by Underwood’s valet. you to dig up my family history, and ance through my lawyer.”
Howard Is turned
the police,
Annie tossed up her chin defiantly. as often as I can, even if I have tc said the editor of a great magazine.
?apt. Clinton,
God!
his brutal the newspapers did the rest.
She would show the aristocrat that sit in the Tombs prison all day. As “What’s the trouble?" inquired the
ireatment of prisoners, puts Howard what they didn’t say!
I never real
for his defense, I'll find some one. I’ll contributing editor.
hrough the tlrird degree, aad finally gats
she could be as proud as he was.
'I want to tell
in alleged confession from the harassed ized I was of so much importance.
"Thanks.” she exclaimed. "I don’t go to Judge Brewster again and if he him that hereafter when we support
run Annie, Howard’s wife, declares her They printed it in scare-head lines. It
Belief fn her husband's Innocenue. and
accept charity. I’m used to earning still refuses, I’ll go to some one else a presidential candidate we’ll avoid
lays she will clear him. Elm calls on made a line sensation for the public,
There must be some good, big-hearted possible confusion and do it in display
my own living.”
lelTrles, Sr.
but it destroyed my peace of mind.”
“Oh, very well,” replied the banker lawyer in this great city who’ll take type at regular advertising rates.”
“A convict’s daughter!" said Mr.
CHAPTER XII.—Continued.
quickly. “That’s as you please. But up his case.”
Jeffries contemptuously.
Trembling with emotion, she read
Whenever you have a pain think ol
I have your promise—you will not at
He halted, looking as if he would
"He was a good man at that!” she tempt to see him again?”
For headache.
justed her veil and with her handker Hamlins Wizard Oil.
Toothache, Earache. Stomach ache and
like to escape, but there was no way answered hotly. "He kept the squarest
chief
dried
her
tear-stained
face.
Go
"What! Not see him once more?
many other painful ailments there is noth
of egress. This determined-looking poolroom in .Manhattan, but he re-
ing better.
To say good-by?” she exclaimed. A ing toward the door, she said:
young woman had him at a disad fused to pay police blackmail, and
"You needn’t trouble yourself any
broken sob half checked her utterance.
vantage.
he was railroaded to prison.” Indig- "Surely you can’t mean that, Mr. Jeff more, Mr. Jeffries. We shan’t need
A Toot.
"I do not think," he said Idly, "that nantly she went on: “If my father’s ries.”
your help. Thank you very much for
King Olaf—“What ho, varlet! Bring
there is any subject which can be of shingle had been up in Wall street.
The banker shrugged his shoulders. the interview. It was very kind of forth my drinking horn.” The Varlet
mutual Interest—”
and he’d made 50 dishonest millions,
"I don’t want the newspapers filled you to listen so patiently. Good after —“Here with the drinking horn, kid.
"Oh, yes, there is,” she replied eag- you’d forget it next morning, and you'd
The old man’s going to have another
with
sensational articles about the noon, sir.”
erly. She was quick to take advan- welcome me with open arms. But he
Before the astonished banker could toot”
heartrending
farewell
interview
be
tago of this entering wedge into the was unfortunate. Why, Billy Delmore
tween Howard Jeffries, Jr., and his stop her, she had thrown back the
man’s mantle of cold reserve.
Mothers will And Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
was the best man in the world. He’d
wife
—with your picture on the front tapestry and disappeared through the Byrup the best remedy to use for their ehildrcj
" Flesh and blood," she went on give away the last dollar he had to
door.
iuriug ihe teething period.
earnestly, "is of mutual interest. Your a friend. I wish to God he was alive page."
(TO RE CONTINUED.)
She was not listening to his sar
son is yours whether you cast him off now! He’d help to save your son. I
Get Plenty of Sleep.
casm.
FOES
ONLY
DURING
DEBATE
or not. You've got to hear me. 1 am wouldn’t have to come here to ask
Plenty
of sleep is conducive to
"Not even to say good-by?" she
not asking anythin) for myself. It's you.”
beauty. Even a garment looks worn
sobbed.
for him, your son. Ups in trouble.
Mr. Jeffries shifted uneasily on his
And That Ended, Recriminating Sena when it loses its nap.
“No," replied Mr. Jeffries firmly.
Don’t desert him nt a moment like feet and looked away.
tors Speedily Forget Their
“Not even to say good-by.”
Only One "BROMO QUININE"
this. Whatever he may have done to
"You don’t seem to understand,” he
Differences.
"But what will he say? What will
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Ix>ok
deserve your anger—don’t—don't deal said impatiently. "I’ve completely cut
for the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used th«
him such a blow. You cannot realize him off from the family. It’s as if he he think?” she cried.
The late John J. Ingalls, senator World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c.
“
He
will
see
it
is
for
the
best,
”
an
what it means In such a critical situa were dead.”
from Kansas, let loose in the senate
Without Limitations.
tion. Even if you only pretend to be
She approached nearer and laid her swered the banker. "He himself will one day about Conkling. Hancock and
thank
you
for
your
action.
”
friendly with him—you don't need to hand gently on tho banker’s arm.
Our
country
is the world; our coun
Th are was a long silence, broken several other distinguished people. trymen are mankind.—William Lloyd
really bo friends with him. But don't
“Don't say that, Mr. Jeffries. It'S
His
remarks
were
particularly
severe.
you see whnt the effect will be if you, wicked to say that about your own only by the sound of the girl’s sob
Joe Blackburn, then senator from Garrison.
his father, publicly withdraw from his son. He's a good boy at heart, and bing. Finally she said:
Kentucky, was chosen to answer In
“Very well, sir. I’ll do as you say."
support? Every tody will say he’s no he's been so good to me. Ah, if you
galls, and he took a good deal of hide
good, that he can't be any good or his only knew how hard he’s tried to get She looked up. Her eyes were dry, off the brilliant Kansan. In one para
father wouldn't go back on him. You work I’m sure you’d change your opin
graph Blackburn said: “And this
know what the world is. People will ion of him. Lately he’s been drinking
man has the temerity to assail Han
condemn him because you condemn a little because he was disappointed
cock—Hancock the Superb—who was
him. They won’t even give him a in not getting anything to do. But
giving of his life’s blood on the
hearing.
For God's sake, don't go he tried so hard. He walked the
heights of Gettysburg while the sena
back on him now!"
streets night and day. Once he even
tor from Kansas was skulking along
Mr. Jeffries turned and walked to- took a position as guard on the ele
behind a regiment of Kansas jay
ward the window, and stood there
vated road. Just think of it, Mr. Jeff
hawkers, trying those Jayhawkers in
xing on tho trees on the lawn. Sha ries, your son—to such straits were
the capacity of judge advocate for
did not see his face, but by the ner we reduced -but he caught cold and
robbing hen roosts.”
vous twitching of his hands behind had to give it up. I wanted to go to
There was more of the same kind, Find Relief in Lydia E. Pink-
l.i» back, sho saw that her words had work and help him out. I always
and everybody thought there would be
not been without effect. She waited earned my living before I married
ham’s Vegetable Compound
trouble, inasmuch as Ingalls was high
in silence for him to say something him, but he wouldn't let me. You
spirited and Blackburn unafraid.
—Their Own Statements
Presently he turned around, and she don't know what a good heart he's
After the senate adjourned Black
saw that bls face had changed. The got. He's been weak nnd foolish. but
So Testify.
burn and Ingalls met, face to face, in
look of haughty pride had gone. She you know he's only a boy.”
the corridor in front of the marble
had touched the chords of the fa
She watched his face to seo if her
room. A dozen spectators looked for
Platea, Pa. —"When I wrote to you
thers heart. Gravely he said:
words were having any effect, but Mr.
carnage.
first I was troubled with female weak-
"Of course you realize that you. Jeffries showed no sign of relenting.
Ingalls stopped, looked squarely into
ness and backache,
above all others, are responsible for Sarcastically, he said:
Blackburn's eyes and Blackburn gUred
and was so nervous
his present position."
“And >ou took advantage of the
back.
that I would cry at
She was about to demur, but she fact and married him?”
"Joe," said Ingalls, putting out hta
9S
the least noise, it
Checked herself. What did she care
For a moment she made no reply,
hand, "isn't thia cruel war over!"
would
startle me so.
what they thought of her? She was She felt the reproach was not unmer- "You Will Leave America Never to
"It la,” said Blackburn, taking tha
I began to take Ly
Return—”
fighting to suve her husband, not to itid. but why should they blame her
offered hand, and they went off arm
dia E. Pinkham’s
make the Jeffries family think better for seeking happiness? Was she not
in arm.—Saturday Evening Post
remedies, and I don’t
the
lines
about
her
mouth
set
and
de
Of her. Quickly she answered:
entitled to It as much as any other
have any more cry
termined
"Now,
”
she
said,
"what
are
"Well, all right—I’m responsible— woman? She had not married How-
Water Found in Arid Australia.
ing spells. I sleep
but don’t punish him because of me. a rd for his social position or hie you going to do for him?"
Water Is more precious than gold tn
sound and my ner
The
banker
made,
a
gesture
of
im
Mr. Jeffries looked at her.
certain parts of Australia. Borings
money, In fact, she had been worse
vousness is better.
Who was this young woman who off since her marriage than she was patience. as if such considerations recently made on the route of the
I will recommenc
were
not
Important.
rhamploned so warmly his own son? before. She married him because she
proposed
transcontinental
railway
"I don't know yet.” he said, haught- have resulted fn water being struck your medicines to all suffering women.”
She was his wife, of course. But wives loved him, and because she thought
of a certain kind are quick to desert she could redeem him. and she was ily. “I shall think the matter over at Madura and also at a point 340 — Mrs. M ary H alstead , Platea, Pa.,
th. ir husbands when they are in trou- ready to go through any amount of carefully."
miles from Kalgoorlle. The officials Box 98.
Here is the report of another genuins
ble. There must be some good in the suffering to prove her disinterested
Annie was fast losing patience Sho are confident that a good artesian sup
girl, after all, be thought. Hesitating devotion. Quietly, she said:
was willing to sacrifice herself and ply will be struck, which will greatly case, which still further shows that Ly
dia E. Pinkham’s Vegstable Compound
ly, he said:
“Tea. I know—I did wrong. But I— give up everything she held dear In reduce the cost of the railway and add
"I could have forgiven him every I love him, Mr Jeffries, Believe me life to save the man she loved, but a new pastoral or agricultural area may be relied upon.
Walcott, N. Dakota. —"I had inflam
thing, everything but—”
the cold, deliberate, calculating atti- of twenty to thirty million acres to
or not—1 love him. H's my onlv
mation which caused pain in my side,
"But me," she said promptly. "1 cuae I thought 1 could take care, of । tude of this ujyiatural father
the country.
end my back ached all the time. I was
know It IXm't you suppose I feel It. him. He needed some one to look aft-1 perated her.
•
True 'Eloquence.
so blue that I felt like crying if any on«
too, and don't you suppose it hurts?" er him. he's too easily influenced. You ' "But I want to know." she said,
He Is the eloquent man who cao even spoke to me. I took Lydia E
Mr Jeffries «tiffi ned up Thia worn ! know Ms character Is not so strong boldly. “I want to consider t¿e mat-
i treat humble subjects with delicacy Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and ]
an was evidently trying to excite his ns it might be. He told mo that his. ter carefully, too.
lofty things impressively and moder began to gain right away. I continue«
sympathies. Th»» hard, proud expres I fellow students at college used to hyp
"You?’ sneered Mr. Jeffries.
its use and now I am a well woman.“
«ion came back into his face, aa he an i notise him and make him do all kinds ' "Yes. sir." she retorted. "I’m par- ate things temperately.—Cicero.
— Mrs. A melia D ahl , Walcott, N.
a wared curtly:
of things to amuse the other boys He ing dearly for It —with my with all
Smart Society.
Dakota.
"Forgive me for speaking plainly. I snys that somehow he’s never been I have. I want to know just what
People Imagine smart society as
but my son’s marriage with such a the same since, 1 -I Just loved him ' you're going to give him for it"
If yon want special advice write t<
Witty, whereas It Is only familiar;
uoman aa you has made it Impossible1 because । I was strong and he was
He was lost tn reflection for a mo- they conceive It as daring, whereat It Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl-
to even consider the question of recon-
’ thought 1 could protect him. ment. then he said, pompously:
'a only indifferent—11. B. Marxlatl dential) Lynn. Mass. Your letter wil
be opened, read and answered by i
«illation."
But u iw this terrible thing hau ho
T shall furnish the money for the W b JO
Tße THIRD
n DEGREE
Spring Medicine
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
COLDS
CURED IN ONE DAY
NERVOUS
DESPONDENT
WOMEN
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