0. HENRY m (Continued from last Keck) CHAITKR ' FIFTY-SIX. N?ht was the revealinK hour tor the magician of Hagdad Whe n the million lights flashed ni.d throDRa of men and omi crowded, the. thorouMarPH in Ion;;, undulating lines like mov ing, black Btiakea, '.Bill Portr canto into .his own. 1H owned the city; its poopl" eiu. hi KUbjeotB. He went into thdr midct, turning upon thm I tut hrwd mlcrom-op ot his j I (1111,1 nr underxtandirL'. Sham, jialtry Ueceit, fllmey po.v wt-r-blown away an veil before a de trmlnl wind.. The aouls stood fo-th. naked and pathetic. The wizard had his way. At erery corner, advf-nturp aitd on his roniinK. young rirl would Kkim stealthily around .the corner, or an old "win" wo.ild crouch In a doorway. Then-were niyaterlea for Porter to nolve. H did not stand afar and spculate. He made friends with his uub Jccts. He learned their pecrrts, their hopes", their disappointments. He ( r lasped the hand of Soapy, the bum,' and Dulrle herself told him ! why sh weflt totally bankrupt ;n $C a week. New York was an enchanted labyrinth, yielding at Why We Are Strong for Wfflard . . . - - ' WeVe teen a lot of batteries. yput . never another like the Willard Tleaded Rubber Bat tery. Threaded Rubber insulates the plates instead of separating them the way wood separators Hoi ' carbonizing," puncturing, tiecking or cracking, because Threaded Rubber Insulation re tains all the valuable insulating qualities ' of rubber.- and. is. not affected by add.' - . That's one reason why we're strong for Willard Threaded Jcubber Batteries. " Degge & Auto Electricians 238 North High St. Phone 203 'mdtH&ll gfff? Burrell Cmilard J :ifcterfes THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON AL. JENNINGS every twist the thrill of the un expected the wonderful. Porter IiftulM Into Nlranne Kingilom. Into this kingdom of hi, mil Porter took .me. ; Jaunty, whimsical, light hiart "d, h- came for me onf of the : first intrlith of my visit. He wore a little (Veil Ittunii'T ro"e in hi J buttonholf. With a Kheepi.sh wink. h puINd another from bi pocket . 'Colonel. 1 have bo'ichf you ia discui.-e. Wear this and they will not know yoii are l roin the ! West." ' "lanin it. I don't want th" t'arnihinp." lint wbc-n Mill had a notion he carried if out. The ; pink titid wax fastened to my 'coat. ' I'e noticed that the bull look at you with a too, favorable fye. This token will divert sus picion from ii" ' "Where are we Roinp?" I "Everywhere and nowhere. We ; may find ourselves in Hell' Kit chen or we may land in Heaven's vestibule. Prepare yrturself for thrills and perils. We go where , the niarnet draweth." It was neariiiK midnight. We j started down Fifth Avenu and were sauntei tnK aiont?-iii nere lieiween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth. Dozens of women with white, garish faces had flitted by. "Ships that pass in the night. whispered Porter. "There are but two rocks in their courses the cops and their landladies. Haltered and storm-tossed, aren't they? They haunt me. "Girl's Firs! Trip" Vhifperel rotter. Out from the shadow came a ragged wisp of a girL She looked about 17. " "She's been skimming the bogs of country life." a "Aw, shucks, she's an old tim er." . "First trip," Porter nudged me. "She hasn't .learned how to steer her bark in 'the deeps of city life yet. She's just flying that sail for effect." "No, you're mistaken. You in- STEER YOU CAR TO. SERVICE GREAT WESTERN GARAGE Opposite Court House Phone 41 Tires Tires Tires Hood, Fisk and Silvertown Cords Automotive Sup plies Expert Repairing Welding We Never Sleep Better tires that will run motorists. This is just wht we They are made by the Sound Rubber Company at Taco ma. Wash. A 'new Northwest entfrnris finnnori hv gon and Washington capital ait western people. They are building a quality hand made tire, using a hJgh er percentage of pure rubber, and the very best quality of fabric and cords. The quality is much more uniform than in machine made lires. ' They are built to stand our Western roads and from tes timonials we are receiving they are making good beyond all doubt. Insist on jour next time being a Sound Tire Vick Bros. Trade and High Streets vestigate and we'll see who's cor i rect. I'll stand here and hold the horses." Porter had a way of pulling things out of the past and snapping them at me. As we came up the girl dodged into a doorway, making Ta pre ! tence of tying her shoe. She looked up at me. fright darting in hi-r u-irle. vuiinc eyes. "You're a nlain clothes man?" Her voice, was low but it shrilled in her fear. "Yes, very plain." "Please don't take me in. I never did this before." "I'm not a policeman, but I'd like to introduce you to a friend of lllill"'." Mill came over. "You've frigh tened the lady. Ask her if she would like to dine with us." More frightened than before, the girl drew hack. "I dare not go with you!" ' You dare- go anywhere with us." Porter addressed her as though hhe were truly the prin cess and he the Knight Errant. Not hint; Personal In Ills Interest. There was nothing personal In his interest. He hid one indom itable passion -hn wished to dis over the secret and hidden things in the chararters of the men and I women about him. He wanted no second hand or expurgated ver sions. He was a scientist and the iiuiveiin? heart of humanity was the one absorbing subject under his crutiny. We went to Mouquin's. The little, thin, white creature had never been there before. Her eyes were luminous with excitement. ; Porter made her feel so much at ast. it disconcerted me a trifle. ! 1 wanted the girt to know that she was in the presence of greatness. "He's a great writer," I whis pered to her. Porter turned a withering sneer at me. "I'm noth ing of the sort." he contradicted. "Oh, but I believe it," she said. "I'd like to see what you write. Is it about wonderful people and money and everything- grand?" - "Yes," Porter answered. It's about girls like you and all the strange things that happen to you." "But my life isn't mine. It's just mean and scraping and hun gry, and fine things never hap- more miles is of interest to all have in SOUND TIRES and should have the support of pened to me until tonight. Ever since I can remember Its' been the same." Porter had started her on the revelation. He was correct. She was but a little country girl. She had tired of the monotony and came to life. .Nothing Kemarkablo About Vibt (iirl. There was nothing remarkable about her. I couldn't see a atory there. The only spark sh showed was when the dinner came and then a look of inspired Joyousness lighted her face. It seemed to me that Porter must turely be disap pointed. "When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disas ter," he said. "Wei. what did you make of that investigation?" "Nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came!" "That's the story." What's behind that look of rap ture? Why should any girl's face Clow at the prospect of a plate of soup in this city, where enough food to feed a dozen armies Is wasted every night? Yes. It's more of a story than will ever be writ ten!" Each one that he met yielded a treasure to him. Into the honka tonks. the dance halls, the .base ment cafes he took me. The same indomitable purpose guided him. No wonder that New York threw off its disguise before the Peerless Midnight Investigator. Faring Forth to Track Down Idea "I s'ent an idea tonight. Color, el. Let us go forth and . track it down." It was another even ing and I had dined with him; at the Caledonia Hotel. We started down Sixth aveaue. The rain splashed sideways and downways. Puny lights flickered up from basement doors. The mingled odor of stalo beer, cab bage ind beans simmered up. We went down into many of these paltry hall, with the sawdust on the floor and the chipped salt cellars and the scratched up, bare tables. "It's not here. Let us go to O'Reilly's. I don't like the frag rance of these dago joints. At Twenty-second street Porter pull ed down his umbrella. "Well find it in here." At the bar were a score of men. The tables here and there were but shelves for the elbows of gaudily dressed, cheaply jew eled women. We took a vacant table. As Porter sat down every woman in the room sent an admiring glance at him. "For God's sake, Bill, you won't eat. in this stench will you?" "Just beer and a sandwich. Look over there, Colonel, I see my idea." In one corner sat two girls, pretty, shabby genteel, the stark piercing glare of hunger In theft eyes. Porter beckoned to them. (Continued next week) Adele Garrison's New Phase Of REVELATIONS OF, A WIFE CHAPTER 46 WHAT LILLIAN' SAID TO MADGE WHEN HEK STOUY WAS ENDED. I lost no time in going to Lil lian Underwood with the problem of my father's inexplicable ac tions. I made the excuse of a desire to see Mrs. Cosgrove. Robert Sav arin'g sister, who was still with Lillian, watching over the slow convalescence of her artist broth er, and so effectually lolled any lurking doubt or my mission which my father's general uneasi ness might have conceived. Lillian, wan, heavy-eyed rroni In part sharing the vigil of the sick room with the nurse and Mrs. Cosgrove, but more from the un certainty as to Harry t'nder wood's fate and Robert Savarin's nart in it which was consuming her, put her arms around me in convulsive greeting when Hetty had shown me into the library. "Miss Madge, ef yoh s got any thing in the world to tak Mis Lillian's mind off whatevah's troublin her. I wish yoh'd spill it," Hetty had whispered tc me earnestly as we mounted th stairs, and I was glad of the in junction. Otherwise I never would have dared to trouble the tragic figure my friend presented with any problem of my own. "You Always Understand "Oh. my dear, my dear. I'm so glad to see von!" Lillian i,i she drew me to a chair, an tn her old. loving deft fashion re- movea my hat and coat. "Is Robert no better?" I asked fearfully. "Physically, ves " Kho nn swered. although his progress " . ana ne is terribly weak But mentally oh. Madge I wonder She Paused. Ktrucelinp- iinvoin for composure, gave it up. put her head against my shoulder, wnne nara, strangling sobs tore from her throat. Mr ion i n my m D "There:" she said harshly a few moments later. "I knew I'd 'io this if you ever came near me. What is it about you anywav that makes me do the baby act when ever I'm in trouble and you' tome anywhere near me?" "Because it isn't in 'numan na nre to face everything as bravely and composedly as you do," said lu'etly. ' You s'.mply have to break sometime, and I'm verv proud and thanhful that! am near enough to you for you to 1k will ing to come to me for the little comfort I can give you." "The little comfort!" she re- peated scornfully. "Child, you haven't any idea of what yoiur loving comfort means to me. You always understand so, without niy having to explain all over tie place. And if anybody else bmt you saw me making an idiot of myself this way well I think there'd be a double Job for the nearest undertaker. "I!ut that's enough for me," she went on brusquely. "You're looking sort of groggy yourself. What's the answer that princi pal's wife you told me about?" I started with surprise. My father's affairs had so engrossed my mind that for days I had for gotten all about the terror with which Milly Stockbrldge had in spired me upon the night of her reception. "It isn't she that's troubling tnc." I answered quickly, though awkwardly. "Although she's raising Cain, a little more than usual." Lillliui commented shrewdly. "Well, we'll dismiss her for the present, and take her case up later. What's the real trouble? I hope it'ii some trouble about which I can do something. I think I shall ro stark staring mad if I don't have something to fake my mind of things. Work doesn't help me a bit any more." Is Lillian Right? "'If you cannot help me no one in the world can." I answered, and was rewarded by seeing a look of interest flash into her strained face. "Go ahead and talk slowly," she replied, settling herself into an attitude of attentive listening. I beean at mv father's enthus iasm over our outing together, and reviewed the whole aeries of incidents which had so impressed Orw Jl-MMY ! Tn'aJV I : ..7V.. n..-. ? .- a, i !i it '-". Not only does a bicycle teach the boy habits of carefulness, but it saves time for the entire family through the speed with which errands can be attended to. You owe it to your boy to see that he has a bicycle at once. We sell Daytons, Columbias and heavy Service Bikes RAMSDEN & M'MORRAN 387 Court Street SALEM. OREGON reran SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1921 themselves npon my mind. Lil lian didn't interrupt me with a single question until I had fin ished. Then for several minutes later she sat motionless, her chin in her cupped hands. Then she lifted her head, looked at me steadily. "A ghost from the past," sho repeated. "Madge, dear, pardon me for raking np unpleasant things, but you told me once your mother's unhappy history. Do you know whether that woman for whom your father deserted her i living or dead?" (To be continued) Saskatchewan Province Is Big Game Country HARKATOON, Sask.. April 20 The claim that the province of Saskatchewan is one of the best big game countries on the North American continent seems estab lished by the chief gams guard ian's report for the season 1820. The report shows a total of 2170 big animals secured by the 3000 G. L DAVENPORT OEOWEE AND SHIPPER Apple. Potatoes, Onrnnft, Sp1 Pota toes true vritir. "The beat tbat'l irrown." , All kin-U produce aotiritd. 147 Front St. Portland. Ore. A BOY'S BICYCLE Is his most prized posses sion. There is a peculiar joy and pride in the ownership of the first bicycle which is sel dom duplicated in after life. 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