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By CHARLES KLEIN and
ARTHUR HORNBLOW
ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS
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SYNOPSIS.
Howard Jeffries, blinker’s son. under
the evil Influence of Robert Underwood,
lellnw-sludent nt Yale, leads a life of dis
sipation, marries the daughter of a gam-
Her who died in prison, and is disowned
Uy his father. He is out of work and in
Cesperate straits. Underwood, who had
<«<••■ been engaged to Howards step-
«mthcr. Allla, Is apparently In prosper-
« xjs circumstances. Taking advantage of
his tntlniicy with Alicia, he becomes a
•ort of social highwayman. Discovering
Sis true character. Alicia denies him the
house Ho sends her a note threatening
suicide. Art dealer» for whom he acted
as commissioner, demand an accounting
He cannot make good. Howard calls at
Mi apartments In an intoxicated condf-
■lon to f.'qmst n loan of $2.000 to enable
Mm to take up a business profXisltlon.
Howard drinks himself Into a maudlin
condition, and Roes to sleep on a divan.
A caller is announced and Underwood
irnwB a screen around the drunken
rieeper.
Albia enters. She demands a
■ fust * unless she will
his life.
This she refuses.
renew her patronage
Underwood kills
and takes her leav
’ tlie pistol awa-
MmscH. The report
Underwood «1-ml.
•r to the police.
Howard la turned
Capt Clinton, noti
brutal
Howard
through the third degree, and finally gets
¿.n nib-Red confession from the harassed
mnn.
belief m m r husband's Innocence, n nd
eslía on Jeffries. Sr. He refuses to
unless sho will consent to a divorce. To
••ave Howard she consents, but when she
flnds that the elder Jeffries does not In
tend to stand hy his son. except finan-
to Judge
It I h reported that .Annie Is R'dng on the
stnico. The’banker and his wife call on
Judge Brewster to t*—-! some way to pre
vent It. Ann'e again pleads with Brew-
I owhi ' i I.
He
<<»n-
l>
defend
Kreatly
alarmed
Allein
is
from
Annie
that
«lie
learns
con-
<h*> information. Annie pr<
a
«ter to produco tl*e missing
meeting nt h’s home. Rre\
Clinton of forcing a con t-HSlon from
flou ar«1. Annie appears wit umt the wlt-
name. Alicia
('ant.
the letter was
’prisoner and defied the counsel for
'Now, don't regard me as an enemy,1 on her hand. Wearily she said
I the defense to do their worst. Judge said the doctor in a conciliatory
*T was thinking over all that weYi
Brewster, who loved the fray, accept tone. "Mr. Jeffries inquired after bis been through together, and what
ed the challenge. He acted promptly. son.
Believe me, he’s very anxious. they’re saying about us—”
He secured Annie’s release on habeas He knows he did the boy a great In
Howard threw down his newspaper
corpus proceedings and, his civil suit justice, and he wants to make up Impatiently.
against the city having already begun for it.”
“Let them say what they like. Why
in the courts, he suddenly called Capt.
"Oh, ue does?” she exclaimed, sar should we care as long as we’re
Clinton to the stand and gave him castically.
happy?”
' a grilling which more than atoned for
Dr.Bernstein hesitated for a moment
His wife smiled sadly.
[ any which the police tyrant had pre before replying. Then he said, lightly:
“Are we happy?” she asked, gently.
viously made his victims suffer.
In
“Of course we are," replied How-
"Suppose Howard goes abroad for a
the limelight of a sensational trial, in few months with his father and ard.
which public servants were charged mother?”
She looked up and smiled. It was
with abusing positions of trust, he
“Is that the proposition?” she de good to hear him say so, but did he
showed Capt. Clinton up as a bully and manded.
mean it?
Was she doing right to
a grafter, a bribe-taker, working hand
stand in the way of his career? Would
The doctor nodded.
i and glove with dishonest politicians,
you ever tasted
“I believe Mr. Jeffries has already he not be happier if she left him? He
not hesitating even to divide loot with spoken about It to his son,” he said.
was too loyal to suggest it, but per
—
and
the
most
wholesome and
! thieves and dive-keepers In his greed
Annie choked back a sob and, cross haps in his heart he desired it. Look-
invigorating. You cannot but
' for wealth. He proved him to be a ing the room to conceal her emotion, ing at him tenderly, she went on:
like its rich “grainy” flavor and
1 consummate liar, a man who would stood with her back turned, looking
"I don’t question your affection for
spicy
aroma. Ask your grocer (or
stop at nothing to gain his own ends. out of the window.
Her voice was me, Howard. I believe you love me.
What jury would take the word of trembling as she said:
but I’m afraid that, sooner or later.
such a man as this? Yet this was the
“He wants to separate us, I know. you’ll ask yourself the question all
(GOLDEN GRAIN GRANULES)
man who still insisted that Howard He'd give half his fortune to do It. your friends are asking now, the ques
—if he hasn't got it he will get it for
Jeffries was guilty of the shooting Perhaps he’s not altogether wrong. tion everybody seems to be asking.”
you. It's cood for you 3 times a day.
of Robert Underwood!
“What question?” demanded How
Things do look pretty black for me,
And rentember ¡hat there
But public opinion was too intelli don’t they? Everybody believes that ard.
is no substitute for 3 G’s.
gent to be hoodwinked for any length my going to see Underwood that night
“Yesterday the bell rang and a gen
of time by a brutal and Ignorant po had something to do with his suicide tleman said he wanted to see you. I
liceman. There was a clamor for the and led to my husband being falsely told him you were out, and he said
prisoner’s release. The evidence was accused. The police built up a fine ro I’d do just as well. He handed me a
. Second-Hand Machin-
such that further delay was Inexcus mance about Mr. Underwood and me card. On it was the name of the news l
able.
The district attorney, thus —and the newspapers!
Every other paper he represented.”
boiler-. sawmills, etc. The J. E. Martin Co., 76 lat
urged, took an active interest in the day a reporter comes and asks us
“Well?”
.
St., Portland. Send for Stock List and prices.
case, and after going over the new evi when the divorce is going to take
“He asked me if it were true that
dence with Judge Brewster, went be place—and who is going to institute proceedings for a divorce were about
TREE GOVERNMENT LAND
fore the court and made formal ap the proceedings, Howard or me.
If to be instituted. If so, when? And
Pest fruit or alfalfa land in Oregon, 10. 40orl6C
plication for the dismissal of the com everybody would only mind their own could I give him any information on
plaint. A few days later Howard Jef- business and let us alone he might the subject? I asked him who wanted
JESSE HOBSON,
Ry Exchange Bldg. Fortland
fries left the Tombs amid the cheers forget. Oh, I don’t mean you, doctor. the information ,and he said the read
I of a crowd assembled outside. At his You’re my friend.
You made short ers of his paper—the people—I believe
I side walked his wife, now smiling work of Capt. Clinton and his confes- he said over a million of them. Just
Lesson All Should Learn.
through tears of joy.
Plutarch said to the Emperor Tro
mean people—outsiders— think, Howard! Over a million peo
sion.’
It was a glad home-coming to the strangers—who don’t know us, and ple, not counting your father, your jan: "Let your government commence
little flat In Harlem. To Howard, aft don't care whether we're alive or dead; friends and relations, all waiting to in your own breast, and lay the foun
er spending so long a time in the those are the people I mean.
They know why. you don’t get rid of me, dation of it in the command of your
, narrow prison quarters, it seemed like buy a one-cent paper and they think why you don’t believe me to be as bad temper and passions.” Here come In
the words, self-control, duty, and con
paradise, and Annie walked on air, so it gives them the right to pry into as they think I am—”
delighted was she to have him with every detail of our lives.” She paused
Howard raised his hand for her science—S
her again. Yet there were still anxi for a moment, and then went on: “So to desist.
Try fflnrlne Eye Remedy for K-n,
eties to cloud their happiness.
The you think Howard is worrying?
I
“Annie—please!” he pleaded.
Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Ey«Uo*
No
Smarting-—Just Eye ComiorL
close confinement, with its attendant think, so, too. At first I thought It
“That’s the fact. isn’t it?” she
worry, had seriously undermined How was because of the letter Mr. Under- laughed.
BUck Shsep Not Wanted.
ard’s health. He was pale and atten wood wrote me, but I guess it’s what
"No.”
Australian wool growers have beer
uated, and so weak that he had sev-
His wife’s head dropped on the table.
oilcially warned by an English cham
eral fainting spells.
Much alarmed,
She was crying now.
Annie summoned Dr. Bernstein, who
‘Tve made a hard fight, Howard,” ber of commerce not to breed from
administered a tonic. There was noth-
she sobbed, "but I’m going to give up. black or gray sheep; to take the
greatest care in selecting rams from
ing to cause anxiety, he said, reas
I’m through—I’m through!”
suringly. It was a natural reaction
Howard took hold of her hand and flocks as free as possible from black
hairs; to slaughter all black and gray
after what her husband had under
carried it to his lips.
gone.
But it was worry as much
"Annie, old girl,” he said, with some ambs.
as anything else.
Howard worried
feeling, “I may be weak, I may be
about his father, with whom he was
blind, but nobody on top of God's green
anywhere, at
DAJSY FLY KILLER placed
tracts and Ill Is all
only partially reconciled; he worried
earth can tell me that you’re not the
flies.
Neat, clean,
about his future, which was as pre-
ornamental, conven
squarest, straightest little woman that
ient, cheap. Lasts
carious as ever, and most of all he
ever lived! I don't care a damn what
all season. Made of
worried about his wife. He was not
metal, can’t spill or
one million or eight million think.
tip over; will not soil
ignorant of the circumstances which
Supposing you had received letters
or injure anything.
Guaranteed effective
had brought about his release, and
from Underwood, supposing you had
Bold by dealers or
while liberty was sweet to him, it had
6
sent prepaid for €1.
gone to his rooms to beg him not to
HAROLD
SOMERd.
150
DeKalb
Ave..
Brooklyn, N. Y.
been a terrible shock when he first
kill himself—what of it? It would be
heard that she was the woman who
for a good motive, wouldn’t It? Let
He
had visited Underwood's rooms.
them talk all the bad of you they want.
As to Buying.
refused to believe her sworn evidence.
I don’t believe a word of it—you know
Whatever
we wish to buy, we ought
How wns it possible? Why should she
I don’t.”
first to consider not only if the thing
go to Underwood's rooms knowing he
She looked up and smiled through be fit fcr us, but if the manufacture
was there? It was preposterous. Still
her tears.
of it bo a wholesome and happy one;
the small voice rang in his ears—per Placed the Rolls and Butter on the
"You’re so good, dear,” she ex and if, on the whole, the sum we are
haps she’s untrue!
It haunted him
T able.
claimed. “Yes, I know you believe in going to spend will do as much good
till one day he asked point-blank for
me." She stopped and continued, sad spent in this way as it would If spent
you
say.
His
old
friends
won
’
t
have
Then she told that
an explanation.
ly: “But you're only a boy, you know. in any other wav.—Rnskli.
she had perjured herself. She was not anything to do with him and—he’s
Well, I’ll talk it over with What of the future, the years to
woman. Who she really was she lonely.
come?” Howard’s face became se
could not say. He must be satisfied him—”
rious, and she went on:
“You see
with
the
assurance
“
Yes
—
talk-
It
over
with
him.
”
for the present
you’ve thought about It, too, and you’re
"Did you promise his father you’d
that It was not his wife. With that
trying to hide it from me.
But you
he was content. What did he care for ask me?" she demanded.
can’t. Your father wants you to go
the opinion of others? He knew—that
"No—not exactly,” he replied, hesi
abroad with the family."
was enough! In their conversation on tatingly.
•Well?”
the subject Annie did not even men
Annie looked at him frankly.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
"Howard's a pretty good fellow to
tion Alicia's name. Why should she?”
Weeks passed, and Howard's health stand by me in the face of all that's
A Polytheist.
did not improve. He had tried to find being said about my character, isn’t
"When the late Bishop Foss was Doctors Could Not Help Mrs.
a position. but without success, yet he, doctor?
And I’m not going to
every day brought Its obligations stand In his light, even if It doesn’t president of Amenia seminary,’1 said
Templeton — Regained
One morning exactly make me the happiest woman an aged Methodist of Philadelphia, “I
which had to be met.
Health through Lydia E.
Annie was bustling about their tiny in the world, but don't let it trickle enee heard him deliver an Interesting
dining room preparing the table for into your mind that I'm doing it for Faster address on heathenism and
Pinkham’s Compound.
idolatry.
their frugal luncheon.
She had just his father's sake.”
"Bisbop
Foss
showed
us,
with
a
Ift-
placed the rolls and butter on the
At that moment Howard entered
table, and arranged the chairs, when from the inner room.
He was sur- tie story, the bad effect that the many
Hooper, Nebraska.—“I am very glad
gods of polytheism has upon the mind.
there came a ring at the front door prised to see Dr. Bernstein.
co
tell how Lydia ELPinkham’s Vegetable
"He said a little English boy living
bell.
Early visitors were not so in
"How do you feel to-day?” asked the
Compound has helped me. For five years
In India was rebuked by his mother
frequent as to cause surprise, so, with doctor.
I suffered from female troubles so I was
out waiting to remove her apron, she
"First rate! Ob, l’m all right You for telling a falsehood.
scarcely able to do my work. I took doc
God. if you tell falsehoods, will tors’ medicines and used local treatments
went to the door and opened IL Dr. see, I’m Just going to eat a bite, Won’t
be very angry with you,’ said the but was not helped. I had such awful
Bernstein entered.
you join us?”
"Good morning. Mrs. Jeffries," he
He sat down at the table and picked mother.
bearing down pains and my back was so
“ Very well,’ the youngster an- weak 1 could hardly walk and could not
said, cheerily. Putting down his medl- up the newspaper, while Annie busied
swered. ’Then I will change my ride. I often had to sit up nights to sleep
How Is our pa herself with carrying In the dishes.
cal bag. he asked:
tlent this morning?
"No, thank you," laughed the doctor. god.’ "
and my friends thought I could not live
"All right, doctor. lie had a splen- "It’s too early for me. I’ve only Just
long. At my request my husband got
I dropped In to see
had breakfast,
did night's rest. I'll call him."
Recovery of Lost Standards.
me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
Taking up his bag,
A curious experiment was once etable Compound and I commenced to
"Never mind, I want to talk to you." how you were.
Seriously, he went on: "Mrs. Jeffries, he said: “Good-by! Don’t get up. I made to determine whether a lost take it By the time I had taken the
your husband needs a change of scene. can let myself out."
standard could be recovered by purely seventh bottle my health had returned
But Annie had already opened the personal efforts. The assumption was and I began doing my washing and was a
He's worrying. That fainting spell the
other day was only a symptom. I'm door for him. and smiled a farewell. made that the standard of length was well woman. Atone time for three weeks
When she returned to her seat, at the lost One hundred operatives and oth I did all the work for eighteen boarders
afraid he'll break down unless—"
"Unless what?" she demanded, anx bead of the table, and began to pour ers accustomed to dealing with meas with no signs of my old trouble return
out the coffee, Howard said:
urements were asked to give by esti ing. Many have taken your medicine
iously.
"He’s a pretty decent fellow. Isn’t mate their ideas of what the given r.fter seeing what it did for me. I would
He hesitated for a moment, as If un
willing to give utterance to words he he?”
standard was—in other words, to not take $1000 and be where I was. You
"Yes," she replied, absent mlndedly, guess at length of the meter. It was have my permission to use my name if
knew must inflict pain.
Then he
Mrs. SUSIE TEM
as she passed a cup of coffee.
quickly continued:
found that the guesses were most ac- it will aid anyone.
“He made a monkey of Capt Clin curate for lengths of about six inches PLETON, Hooper, Nebraska.
"Your husband Is under a great
ThePinkham record is a proud and peer
mental strain
His inability to sup- ’ ton all tight." went on Howard. "What —that small lengths were underestl-
mated and larger ones were overesti- less one. It is a record of constant vic
port you. his banishment from his I did he come for?”
"To see you—of course,” she re- mated. Taking the average of tbs tory over the obstinate ills of woman—ills
proper sphere In the social world Is
100 subjects the result varied but a that deal out despair.
mental torture to him.
He feds his I plied.
Ft is an established
Oh. I'm all right now," he replied few one thousandths from the truth.
position keenly. There is nothing else ।
fact that Lydia E.
to occupy his mind but thoughts of Ixxiklng anxiously at his wife across
Pinkham's Vegeta
Not Our Language.
his utter and complete failur« In life. , the table, he said: "You’re the one
"Tour wife taya your youngeat baby ble Cem pound has r e-
I heard you
I was talking to his father last night, that needs tuning up.
xtc- ■db ealth to thou-
crying last night. You thought I
can talk."
and—”
s:.Jj of such suffer-
answered Mr Bltggtns, with
asleep, but I wasn’t. I didn't say any-
"And what?" she demanded.
:g women.
"But be appears
ing herself up.
She suspected what i thing because—well—I felt kind of ■ slight hesitation
naturailv
• sou etbiug ilka
was coming and
rved herself to i blue myself."
i Annie sighed aud leaned her bead Volapuk
meet it.
She Is ar
CHAPTER XIX.
The Jeffries case suddenly entered
Into nn entirely new phase, and once
more was deemed of sufficient public
Interest to warrant column after col
umn of spicy comment in the news-
The town awoke one morn-
papers.
Ing to learn that the long-sought-for
witness, the mysterious woman on
whose teetimony everything binged,
bad not only been found,but proved
to be the prisoner’s own wife, who
had been so active in his defense,
This announcement was stupefying
enougb to overshadow all other news
of the day, and satisfied the most
jaded palate for sensationalism.
The first question asked on all sides
was: Why had not the wife come for
ward before?
The reason, as glibly
vxplnlned by an evening Journal of
pomewhat yellow proclivities, was log
ical enough. The telling of her mid
night visit to n single man's rooms
involved a shameful admission which
any woman might well hesitate to
make unless forced to it as a last
extremity. Confronted, however, with
the alternative of either seeing her
husband suffer for a crime of which
he was innocent or making public ac
knowledgment of her own frailty, she
had chosen the latter course.
Nat
urally, ii meant divorce from the bank
er's son. and undoubtedly this was the
solution most wished for by the family.
The »hole unsavory affair conveyed a
good lesson to reckless young men of
wealth to avoid entangling them-
■elves Ii. undesirable matrimonial ad
ventures. But It was no less certain,
went on this Journalistic mentor, that
this wife, unfaithful as she had proved
herself to be, had really rendered her
husband a signal service in her pres
ent scrape. The letter she had pro
duced, written to her by Underwood
the day belore his death, In which he
stated his determination to kill hlm-
self, was, of course, a complete vindi
cation for the man awaiting trial. His
liberation now depended only on bow
quickly the ponderous machinery of
the law could take cognizance of this
new and most Important evidence.
The now turn of affairs was nat
urally most distasteful to the police.
If there was one thing more than
another which angered Capt. Clinton it
was to take the trouble to build up a
ease only to have It suddenly demol
ished
Ils scoffed at the “suicide let
ter," safely committed to» Judge Brew
ster's custody, and openly branded it
as a forgery concocted by an Immoral
■ •man for the purpose of defeating
«be ends of justice.
He kept Auule a
Three G’s
Machinery
RECORD OF A
GREAT MEDICINE