,OLD HILL NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON
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Leading Lady
By
GERALDINE BONNER
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f n i I i n i m î f rn 1
_ WNU Marvin«
IC o » y r l* b l by T S . Hnblw-M arrlll Co.»
CHAPTER XIV— Continued
-ft—
curls In her Jacket puskee biding her
« sue could not speak and the
own cloth» U a bua In the »tore ether, thinking her allene* meant re-
P retty Selfish
Ositn.
loctsnre to agree, caught at her hand*,
“Bill" Tilden, the tennis star, eon
Tbs nsgt ilsy she bad been a prey plssdlng, with breuthles* urgence:
•leuined, at a dinner on the Columbus,
to a rising title of alarm. From be
s wife who bad ruined her husband
"They've accepted everything—It's
hind a certain she hud watched the all explained and ended. Joe ha*
by her extravagance and then eloped
search uf lbs Ishind lind realized a gone, dropped out of sight Boy* of
with a rich neighbor.
bunt through tbs top floor must fol bis kind do that, do something they're
m “She's worse," said Mr. Tilden,
low. Every sign of her presence wus sail*med of uud disappear. What good
“than the girl who announced to her
Ey Taking Lydia E. P in It ham’s
oblltersted and she studied tier sur
frlem ls:
would It do Mlokes or llassett or the
dy?AARY
GRAHAM
BOWER
Vegetable Compound
roundings for a hiding pluce. The police to know It was Joe who was
— ■■ tonhCsiwsiPi»
wr
“ ‘Well, I've thrown Tom over.’
Here ia Proof
windows, opened half way lo air the killed? It's not Ilea, It's not being
“ ’W h y r
rooms, suggested Ihe possibility of a false to anyone. It’s only to keep silent
“
’Why?
Because,
of
course,
I
THE QUARREL
^,n I' Minn.—“Hera 1» » uttla
cache outside. Climbing up (be wall aud let uie go. Oh, Anne, we've been
couldn't marry a man with a crooked k4vlce I would like to have you put la
and extending to the roof wus ths real friends, we've loved each oUier—
the paper»,” Mr»,
Nick and Nancy had been feeding uoM?
«real wisteria vine, It* oulspreud Love me enough to let ijie lie happy."
"'H o w did his nose get crooked?"
Uirberter of
crumbs to the bird* every day for
branches twisted Into ropes slid cov
M i belfwoiM P l« « ’
JL T . broke it with my racket In a
The rim of the sun slipped above the •«me time.
ered with a mantle of dense foliage.
»rote to the Lydia
tennis game.* “
• •
“I fancy they enjoy them pretty
, The main trunk passed close to ths distant sea line and sent a ray of
E. Finkham Medi
brilliant light through the window. It w ll , don't they?" said Daddy.
cine Company, “JJ
window of (be room that faced the
“ Yes, they love them,” replied
Medicine Sent by Raft
yoffng women want
stair heud, the place where she sat touched Hielr seated figures and lay
Nuncy.
rosy
on
Anne's
face
as
she
raised
It.
to
keep their health
To give medical relief to the tiny
waiting for ascending footsteps. When
Ifld strength for the
"Go,” she said softly.
“Go. Fll
Do they ever scrap over who shall West Indian Island of S t Vincent, the
Anne bud made her visit, she bad
next thirty years of
liner Andes, on Its way from South
heard the first creuk of ths stnlrs and never tell—I ’ll keep that promise as get a crumb flr»t?” added Daddy.
their lives, It Is best
long u* I live.”
No,"
said
Nick,
"they
don't
seem
America
to
Lisbon
recently,
went
170
eruwled out under the raised window.
tostart In right now
Hlie could slay no longer, the house to. They really' are very cunning, miles off Its regular course. It had
and Uke Lydia E.
With u foothold on the gutter the had
would
lie
waking
soon.
TTiere
was
a
and
they
seem
to
I»
very
friendly
and
—i i n
. ■ PlnJtham's V • g e-
received a wireless 8. O. 8. that In
slipped behind the curtain of the vine,
table Compound. I hare tried the
fluenza was raging among the Island
her hands gripped round Its limbs, rapid Inlerclmuge of last Injunctions, get along beautifully."
Compound
myself
and received One re
Information
for
Sybil's
safety.
To
“ Well, you know," »aid Daddy, “the ers and remedies were scarce. The
■veil from the garden below she
mits from Its use.” In describing her
thought It would have been I iiijmiss I night at low tide she would cross on other day I saw some birds having liner approached within a mile of
condition before taking the Compound
shore, and to prevent the disease
she writes. “I was afraid in my own
ble to detect her. Of Anne’s whis the causeway. Every evidence of her *n awful fight.
occupation
would
be
removed
and
with
house In broad daylight, I used to
spreading
to
the
ship,
the
needed
sup
One
Uttle
sparrow
had
found
*
pered pleudlugs she had heard noth
lock the doors and pull down the
log; she hud supposed the lutmder this In mind ahe took her Viola dress very big crumb and vm trying to plies were placed on a raft built for
shades so that nobody could see me."
the purpose, the natives rowing out
oue of the men. When they came up friirn Its hiding pluce and guve it to keep it all to himself."
One day a booklet advertising the
Sparrows are supposed to be rath to i t
•he Imd hud plenty of time to hide Anne. No one, ransacking the top
Vegetable Compound was left on her
f<»r ahe bud heard their footsteps when floor at Gull Island would ever find a er fond of fighting, aren’t they Dad
porch and she read It through. In so
trace of her.
dy?" asked Nick.
doing, she found a letter from a woman
they came along the hull.
That night was cloudy—great Wack
whose condition was similar to her
They do seem to he considerable
After the visit of itawson and Wll-
own. “I bought Lydia K. Plnkham's
llama she knew Hie danger of detec bank* passing across the heaven*. At crosser and to have more cranky na
Vegetable
Compound,” Mrs. Lorberter
tion Increased with every hour. Also time* they broke and through serene tures than other birds.
continued, "and have had fine results.
°
I
M
'n
spaces
the
moo^
rode,
silvering
But perhaps It Is because they are
the necessity for food could not be
My condition made me a burden to my
always around us, and they never
husband. Now I ask him, “How Is
denied much longer. The one chance the sea, turning the pools and stream
let*
of
the
channel
bed
to
a
shining
have a quarrel that we don’t see IL
housekeeping?” and he says, “I t Is Just
left her was to get awuy that night,
Amazing Relic! ia 5 Miaute» or
a boy's figure that had
like being in Heaven!" Are you on
"But really, we ought to be grateful
make what she felt would be a lust tracery,
Money
Back.
the Sunlit Road to Better Health?
attempt to gain the freedom that started across the causeway In the to the sparrows, for we have them al
Get a bottle of Moone’a Emerald
meant life to her. The darkness was dark, wua caught In one of these transi ways with us, even when other birds
In her favor mid she resolved to slip tory gleams, a flitting shadow on the are not fond of our weather, or even Oil with the understanding that If
Keep Stonuck and Beweis Right
It does not put an end to the pain
from the house and cross the bed of straight bright path. It stood out In In the city In the winter time."
By
b a b y th e h a n a le M . p u re ly
sharp silhouette, running on the slip
"les, that's true,” said Nancy. “And and soreness aDd do away with all
the channel below the causeway.
▼ •»«table, ia /a n t»' and c h ild re n ■ re g u la to r.
offensive odors your money w ill he
At the foot of the stairs she had pery stones, then clouds swept across they're plucky little creatures, too, promptly returned.
hesitated, undecided whether to go by the moon and In the durkness It never minding bad weather, not even
Don’t worry about how long you’ve
the shore and the sheltering the very worst
bring-«? astoni «h ing. g ra tify ing remai ta
the living room or the kitchen. Finally gained
been troubled or how many other
trees.
“But
do
tell
us
more
about
the
she chose the way she knew best,
preparations you have tried. Tills
itogs scented It* passage and broke light. Daddy.”
where she was fam iliar with the dls-
powerful penetrating oil fa one prep
out harking; the sound following Its
"Another little sparrow," continued aration that w ill help to make your
posltlou of the furniture. As the flash
progress
till
the
houses
were
passed
Ilailily, “was furious when he saw the painful aching feet so healthy and
light hurst she had made a noiseless
free from corn and callous troubles
rush f o r the stairs, wus In the upper and the road stretched on between m hlshness of the first sparrow.
He completely lost his temper, that you’ll be able to go anywhere
passage when the women's doors flew quiet fields to the railway.
and do anything In absolute foot
Some people heard the dogs—light
lie flew at the first little sparrow and comfort.
open and Itawson curne running along
sleeping villagers who turned and won
So marvelously powerful is Moone's
dered If a trump was about and lapsed
Emerald Oil that thousands have
Into comfortable slumber. In the still
found It gives wonderful results in
ties* of the room where Stokes lay un
the treatment of dangerous swollen
Foiling Merrymaker»
conscious, druwlng toward the hour of
or varicose veins.
A Spanish war cannon In the court
deliverance, the harking sounded loud
house park at Galesburg. IIL, Is to
and Insistent T h * nurse was dis
Might Be Either
be filled with cement so that college
turbed by It and went to the window
“Jack’s one passion Is Jack.”
pranksters can no longer annoy towns
and looked out, hut Flora never heard
“Do you mean that he’s In love with
folk by firing It In the middle of tbe
It. Anue did and sat up In bed fol
himself, or out for the dough?"
night
lowing It along the edge of the village
till It died on the outskirts.
[toddy's
^Ever\ii\0
Fairy Tale
KIUNG WOMEN
M IY KEEP WELL
Ko Jo* hud died, a body clad In gala
art-aa swirling out on currents that
would never bring him back. Anne
••Id nothin«. Hhe did not feel any
•pedal grief, or feeling of any kind.
Too much hud happened, «lie wus be
numbed. Hhe hud a vugue sense that
In some future thi.e, when ehe had
recovered from her dulled uud bat
tered state, «lie might, he aorry, cry
perhaps. Her eyea fell on her hand
with Sybil** clasped around It and the
•Igbt of the linked lingers roused her.
Kbe lifted her head and looked at the
face beside her:
"But—but—why did you do all thia?
Hide, not any anything, let them think
you were dead?”
“I wanted to get away."
••<let away I What for— where r
lo Jim Dalluo. I know where
he la."
“You've known r
"For a month. I ’ve written him tell
ing him I'd cotne If I could. If I ever
could, oh, but It's been hopeless. I
wua spied on, dogged, followed—" Her
voice rose on a hourae note, stopped,
and after a scared listening bush,
went on whispering: " I wan; to stay
dead, never come to life hers again.
It a my chance— the only chance I'll
ever have. You've found me now and
I II tell you everything." Aud ahe told
Anne the story—the story that no one
else has ever heard.
Since ahe hud received his address
the longing to Join her lover hud pos
sessed her. She had written she would
come, ahe knew he was waiting for
her, but the watch kept upon her
made uny move Impossible. Whatever
her anguish, ahe could not risk be-
1 raying
his whereabout*; If It hud
been only herself she would have
EPILOGUE
dared anything.
In thia position,
growtng daily more unbearable, had
Three yenr* luter Bassett and Anne
suddenly come the means of escupe.
had a friend at dinner. He was a
Tragedy, swift and terrible as a bolt
writer who had Just returned from a
fiom ’i,a blue, hud been her oppor
He Flew at ths First U ttla Sparrow.
successful lecture tour In Australia
tunity, sad she hud desperately
On his way back he had ranged bit him with his wings Just as hart*
seized It.
through the pleusunt reaches of the us ever he could.
From her window, after the Inter
South seas nnd had fallen under their
“llien a number of sparrows came
view with Stokes, ahe had seen Joe,
spell—a little more money in hla and Joined In the fight. Some took
In hla Sebastian dress, puss below.
pocket nnd for him It would be a the side of the first sparrow and
She hud known It wua he because of
plantation on some Isis of enchant
»me of tlie second sparrow.
the costume and was astonished, sup
ment Not the accessible places, they
“It really might have been quite a
posing him nlrcudy gone. Stokes came
were already spoiled, steamers had
Serious battle had not an old sparrow
Into view following him and the dis
come, jaa* music, nnd tourists In pith
Stepped in and pitched his voice wuy
turbing Idea seized her that he had
helmet* with red guidebooks were un up In the air.
Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
mistaken the boy for herself. She hud
der your feet. It wns the remoter
"He simply shrieked at the spar-
run lo the door to go down and end
Islands, still out of the line of travel, rows.
the misapprehension. and then stopped
Colds
Headache
Neuritis
Lumbago
where a trading schooner was the solo
" 'Stop I Stop at once I' he cried.
link with the world.
—at close quarters Stokes would see
“All
the
sparrows
stopped
at
once,
It
Stood
Out
In
Sharp
8llhoustts.
Pain
Neuralgia
Toothache
Rheumatism
who It was, mid to let Joe—evll-
He had made e point of visiting for they were very much afraid of the
tongued and hostile— discovered their the hall below. The darkness and some of these— hired an old tub with a
old sparrow.
rendezvous, was the last thing she noise hud covered her flight, but In her native crew and gone batting about
"He was quite their leader, and,
wanted. She went back to the window eyrie on the top floor she had crouched and had a glimpse of ths real thing
though he was a very Jolly old soul
to watch the outcome and saw neither at the head of the stairs slek with un
that Stevenson saw. And ne enlarged
of them. Thia frightened her—the certainty and dread. The concerted on a particular Island, the endmost of ami would enter into all their sports,
only place they could have dlsapin-nred shrieks of the women hail come eerily a scattered group, where he had found still he waa quite strict
‘Aren't you ashamed of yourselves,
lo was tlie summer house. Stokes to her—cries of her own name. Shg an American and his wife running a
Accept only «‘Bayer” package
all of you,’ he continued— 'you, little
might say too much before lie discov
copra
plantation.
Delightful
people
guessed then a • picture hud bee.i
which contains proven directions.
first
sparrow,
for
being
go
selfish,
and.
ered his mistake, and panic-stricken. taken, they had seen It, and she culled Whittier, he'd stayed several
V.*ndL .r ,B,yer” boie* of 12 tïblet»
•he wua about to rush out, when Joe waited, not knowing what was coming. days with them In a long bamboo little second one, for losing your tern
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists,
and the rest of you for Joining
1«
*
S
tr.d
e
mark
of
B
i t « M an of.rtor. of
run from the doorway and the shot She had stayed there a long time, lis house on the edge of a lagoon—you t Per,
o r
tleuMdrstrr o f Sallcyllcaeld
followed.
tening with every sense alert, heard couldn't Imagine anything more beau
“And
all
the
little
sparrows
hung
W
e
Know
Many
For a space— ahe had no Idea him silence gathering over the house aud tiful.
Coetty Job of Painting
their heads In shame, and they then
long-she was paralyzed, not bellevltg then gone back to her pluce by the
After an absence ol three years a
After dinner, moving about In the
One thousand gallons of special
aud
there
promised
the
old
sparrow
pigeon has returned to Its loft In Bath,
her aetises. She remembered moving window ;
sitting room, the gueet had (topped that they would never again be greedy
paint was used In painting the dome
England. It is described as a racing
back Into the room and from there
“I hadn't given up, I had the spirit before a photograph standing on a and selfish nor would they fight
of the United States capitol a short
pigeon with a strong homing Instinct
she saw Stokes Issue from the summer to fight still. Itut It was so awful not aide table, picked It up and asked
time ago.
" T l i e old sparrow then looked very
And th a t somehow, sounds humorous
house and tlee to the shelter of the knowing anything, what they were do whose It was. Bassett had answered
much
relieved,
for
It
always
made
him
rather
than
felicitous.
We'vs
known
pine wood that told her what she had ing, If they'd found out I was alive. —■ friend of his wife, now dead. But
Get rich quick schemes enable a lot
human pigeons of the kind.—Phila
seen was real, a murder had been com And what was I to do—stay here, get he would remember— It was Sybil very unhappy when the sparrows were
of people to get poor quicker.
naughty.”
delphia Ledger.
mitted under her eyes, and she went out on the Island? I couldn't tell, I Saunders who had met with such a
to the door to go down. Holding II was ull In the dark, and I felt my tragic death some years ago. The
Jealousy Is a tree that bears tin
Too much money can shorten life.
open she paused on the threshold, nerve weaken for the first time. And guest nodded; of course he remeiu-
W ouldn’t Imitate a Girl
most bitter of all fruits.
heard the voices below, heard Stokes' then I heard your voice, Anne. T in bered, a horrible affair. Then after a
Jack had woven a small mat and
entering words and had made n for coming to help you,' It said." She last look ut the photograph he turued gnve It to Ills mother for a g ift When
ward step to run down and denounce drew back and looked with solemn to Anne:
he guve It to her she thanked him
him, when a sound from outside meaning Into the other's face “ You
" It’s like that Mrs. W hittier I was and was looking It over. Thinking she
»topped her. Flora's cry that Sybil meant It? You will help me?"
telling you about Just the same eyes did not look much pleased, he said,
was killed.
—quite reuinrkubly like, only she's a “Well, don’t you like it, mother?"
"Sybil, yot) know It.”
It was Hint wild screaming voice
hit stouter aud more muture.
It
"Yes, Jock, I do like IL but It seems
“There's only one way you can.
Ihut gave her the Idea, sent It through
“Any wny."
might have been her picture when she to me you might have made It a little
her bruin like a zigzag of lightning.
wus a girl."
more neatly.”
"Let me go."
While I lie people below mudo their
When the evening wns over Bassett
“Never tell—thnt you were here—
Juck replied, “You see I didn't warn
clamorous rush from the house, slie Hint It wasn't yon?"
escorted the guest to the door. On bis it to look as though a girl had made
stood In the doorway, motionless in
Yes, let me stay dend. Everybody wuy buck to the sitting room he I t ”
contemplation of the possibilities that believes It, let them go on believing. thought lie would suggest to Anne that
spened before her. The excitement It was death, my life since thnt night she put away the photograph—people
Cutting Out Slang
ihut bad shuken her a few minutes when Jim disappeared.
It wasn't noticed It and the subject kept com
Flyosan still killing
Kenneth, aged three, hud been cau
surlier died, her mind steadied and worth going on with. Now I can go to Ing up. It was evidently unbearably
cleared, die felt herself uplifted by an him, lie with him, there'll be no one painful to her for she rarely spoke of tinned constantly about picking up the
flies
and mosquitoes
invincible during and courage. There watching Sybil Saunders nny more. It; that durk chapter In her life was slung used by his older brothers. One
by the millions
was no danger of a recovery of the Even If I looked like myself It would a thing closed and sealed. He had day he wiyit to the kitchen cupboard
body for «lie Imd beard from Gabriel lie only the chance resemblance to
the words on his lips as he entered for something and accidentally tipped
A nx -<rn Miu fi^hdn, su. ..a
and Miss Pinkney that bodies curried murdered womun. And do I look like the room und then saw that she held a glass of Jelly on the lloor, making
H e r e is I h e r i g h t in s e c t i c i d e
b - x r . i U a * Ihaoa o u . 1 .
O r do y o .
a great mess.
»ut on th» tide were never found.
the picture In her hands and was look
myself?"
W b l y o a . a _ o r ig in a l . . d fc « , | | _ M _
f o r e a c h in s e c t;
That
ulglit
when
his
father
asked
( " " - ¡ " ■ ‘ • » - m . ) — hlwh w ip e . u ,rm . . . by
Alone 01 the second floor with little
She turned her face to the light, Ing Intently at It, softly smiling, her
F L Y O S A N , U y a U S p ray — h l l l i Slaa and
th
»
wholesale?
7
four of Interruption she Imd gone bright now with the coming of the expression tranquil, even happy. Thai him about It he explained, “1 fought
m oaquiloea.
(thought) 'gosh' and I fought 'darn,
M oaquitoea » a d th e com m on booeo-fiy, »At
'■bout her preparations nt once. She sun. ltelow the smooth sweep of hnlr was good—the wound hud heultgl-
ri-rrawAM-s
ant food — .
,f—
ip ,.,.
but I said 'My doodness.'”
anla.
»•d taken nothing from her own room across her forehead It was so changed so he said nothing.
*«l w ith lu illio a s o f diaoaao germs.
but money from her purse (leaving n In Its pallor nnd thinness, so bereft
[T H E END.]
F E T E K M A N 'S D IS C O V E R Y . U m U — . i t e r -
"SwaiHnu”
m i nates bed-huge.
No Head to Class
•unnll amount to avert suspicion) the o f Its rounded curves and delicate
germ a in to th « a ir w hich you and ,
P E T E R M A N ’ S R O A C H F <)O D —eaU rm lna te fl
l l 7 b re ath e.
J
♦andlea fr< m the box on the table, a freshness that It was only a dim re
Who
headed
the
clnss
today.
Etiquette Conetant Problem
lb»« eoekroaeh a rm y ,
fbw crackers she bud brought up the flection of Sybil’» —the fnce of a way-
Freddy?" asked his mother of a seven
F lr .» « n SM la Ib r a . g h y n r room a. I l d . .
Proper manner» are set by the lead
rr T E R M A N ’S M O T H F O O D - p r o .« « ,,
night before from supper, and a pnlr worn lad In whom the same blood inn.
year-old.
■ Ir a ,a a ll Ih a a . g rrm a ■■ » a l l a , a ll the Slaa
against m otha.
era of every age In history, nnd yet
and m o m p iilM . w hich c a rry them .
of scissors. Then going to Joe's room
Oh, there was no head today
The havoc worked by the suffering
high society” I. hardly less guilty
»lie Imd gathered the clothes lie Imd thnt had so transfigured It drove like
Vn.
S a n haw. . ^ » I l , | „ ^ k l d . fo r m c A
mother. They all followed tlielr lead
Inaccl. N o a l . c l . l a v r l l r l d a »111 r .te r m in a l.
(tsrarded, lying ready to her hand on a knife to Anne's heart. She felt the than the lower social orders at times. er und I wns wrong I”
Ibrna
a ll. W . haw. bad a a a rly SO y e a r .' wa.
I he situation became so hud during
•he bed everything from the shoes to prick of tears under her eyelids and
periauee. W e know th a t ia true.
the
reign
of
I
nuis
XTV
In
France,
Prfra»,.-,
h„,
,h,
fhe enp—and stolen out and upward lowered her head—Sybil gripping at
Synonym for Holdup
Inaici,,.1.
„e* In.
lo the top floor. Here she Imd put on her Imppl.iess with the (lerce courage who hail poor eating manners, that
BOet. Ol» »aln wheroeor
Teacher—Give a synonym for hold
hooks of Instruction were Issued then
d ru g s a r o m id .
ihe clothes mid cut off her lmlr- she o f despair, and now Sybil going, break
ns now. At one time the fork was up.
•bowed Anne the ends of the yellow Ing all ties, going forever. For a mo
Johnnie— Suspenders.
held ''Indecent'*
200 Fifth Ave., N. Y. e
Tender, Aching,
Perspiring Feet
AW 1W SÌ0W 3 SYRUP
SAY “ BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTI
D O E S N O T A F F E C T TH E H EART I
S'
/
Ye Gods!
Another
Atrocity