Masquerader
streets and at last gnln«*d the house he
had so easily learned to call home.
As he tnnert«*d th«* latchkey and felt
I 1
It move smoothly In the h»ck a momen
tary revolt against his ow«i Judgment,
bls own censorship, swung him sharp!?
toward reaction. But It is only the
blind who can walk without u tremot
I
on the edge of an abyss, and there was
no longer a bandage across his eyes
The reaction iared up like a strip of
lighted paper; then, like a strip of
Author of "Tha Circi«,” Etc.
lighted paper. It dropped back to ashes.
He pushed the door open and slowly
Copyright« 1904. by Harper C- Brothers
crossed the hall.
Hie mounting nt a staircase Is often
the Index to a man's state of mind. As
I
bubble bartts.”
Loder ascended the stairs of Chilcote’s
CHAPTER XXX (Continued.)
“And the end of the wife?”
bouse his shoulders lacked their stiff
I
“The end of the wife?" Lillian broke ness, his bead was no longer erect. He
'Indeed?" he said. “Then my Im in, with a little laugh. “Why, the end moved as though bls feet were weight
agination was at fault, I thought the
ed. He had ceased to be the man of
piece was serious."
achievement whose smallest opinion
“Serious!”
Lillian smiled again.
compels consideration. In the prf vacy
“Why. where's your sense of humor?
of solitude lie was the mere human flot
The motive of the play* debars all seri
sam to which he had once compared
ouaness.”
himself—the flotsam that, dreaming it
looked
down
at
the
pro
Loder
has fouml a harbor, wakes to find Itself
still
between
his
hands,
gramme
the prey of the Incoming tide.
“What Is the motive?” he asked.
He paused nt the bead of the stairs to
Lillian waved her fan once or twice,
rally bls resolutl >ns. Then, still walk
then «dosed it softly. “Love Is the
ing heavily, he passed down the corri
motive,” she said.
dor to Eve's room. It was suggestive
Now, tiie balancing the adjusting of
of his character that, having made his
Impression and Inspiration Is. of all
decision, he did not dally over its per
processes in life, tiie most delicately
formance. Without waiting to knock,
tine. The simple sound of the word
he turned the handle anil walked Into
“love" coming at that precis«* Juncture
the room.
changed tiie whole current of I.oder’s
It look«*«! precisely ns It always look
thought. It fell like a s«*«*d. anil like
ed. but to Loder the rich, subdued col
a see«l in ultraproiluctlve soil, It bore
oring of books and flowers—tile whole
fruit with amazing rapidity.
air of culture and repose that the place
Tiie word Itself was small ami the
conveyed—seemed to hold a deeper
manner In which it was spoken trivial,
meaning than before, and it was on the
but Iasler’s mind was attracted and
Instant that bis eyes, crossing the In
held by It. The last time It had met
animate objects, rested on their owner
his ears bls environment had been
that the true force of his position, the
vastly different, and this echo of It in
enormity of the task before him, made
atmosphere
stung
him
«an uncongenial
Itself plain. Kealization came to him
to resentment, The vision of Eve,
with vivid, overwhelming force, and It
the thought of Eve, became suddenly
must be accounted to hlr credit In the
«dominant.
summing of his qualities that then. In
“Love?” he
1 that moment of trial, the thought of re
"Outline the story for him, Lennie," she
Hove Is the motive?"
treat, the thought of yielding, did not
said.
“Yes." This time It was Kaine who
present Itself.
trespondeil In Ida methodical, contented of all stupid ¡»eople who, instead of
Eve was standing by the mantel-
voice. “The motive of the ploy is going through life with a lot of delight ple«*e. She wore a beautiful gown, a
Jove, as Lillian says. And when was fully human Mumbles, come just one long s'ring of diamonds was twisted
Jove ever serious in a three act com big cropper. She naturally ends in the aliout her neck, and her soft, black
«sly on or off the stage?" lie l«*iiii<*d divorce court!”
hair was coiled high after a foreign
forward in Ids seat, screwed In his
They all laughed boisterously. Theu fashion and held in place by a large
ryegluss ami lazily scanned the stalls. laughter, story and denouement were
diamond comb. As he entered she turn
Ths orchestra wai playing a Him all drowned I m a tumultuous crash of
ed hastily, almost nervously, and look
gariatt dance, its erratic harmonies music. The orchestra ceased; there
ed at him with the rapid, searching
nnd wild nltertintlons of expression was a slight hum of applause, and the
glance lie had learned to expect from
falling abruptly across the pinks anil curtain rose on the second act.
her. Then almost directly her expres
blues, the gliding and lights of the
sion changed to one of quick concern.
pretty, coiiveiitlnnn) theater. Some
CHAPTER XXXI.
{ With a faint exclamation of alarm she
thing til |l>a Hiiggestjoii of unfitness
FEW minutes before thn c.\
stepped forward.
appealed to Loder. It was the force
tain fell on the second uCt of
“What lias happened?" she said.
Of the real as opposed to the Ideal,
“Other Men’s Shoea” Loder “You look like a ghost.”
With a new expression on his face,
rose from bls scat and made
Loder made no answer. Moving into
be turned again to Kaine.
his apologies to Lillian.
the room, be paused by the oak table
r -‘‘And how does it work?” he said.
At any other moment he might have that »t«)o<l between the fireplace and
•‘Thia fitment that you find so
I
pondered over her manner of accept the door.
French?”
ing them the easy ludlfference with
»
They
made
au
unconscious
tableau
Ills voice as well ns bls expression I which she let him g«>. But vastly
ns they stood there—be with his hard,
had changed. He still spoke quietly, I keener Issues were claiming his atten set face, she with her heightened col
ibut he spoke with Interest, He was tion, issues whose results were wide
or, her Inexplicably bright eyes. They
no longer conscious of Ills Vague and black.
stood completely silent for a space—
uneasiness; n fresh chord had licori
He left the theater and, refusing the a space that for Lo«l<*r held no sugges-
struck In his mind, and his curiosity overtures of cabmen, set himself to
tion of time. Then, finding the tenslon
had rt «ponded to it. for the first walk to Chilcote’s house, His face
time It occurred to him that love the was hard ami emotion le.na as he hur unbearable, Eve spoke again.
“lias anytlilng happened?” she ask
dangerous, mysterious gardcu whose ried forward, but the chaos in Ids mind
ed. “Is anything wrong?”
paths had so suddenly stretched out found expression In the unevenness of
IIa«I he been loss engrossed the in
I m » fore Ids OWIl feet was a pleasure his pace. To a strong man tiie con
tensity of her concern might have
ground that possessed many doors and fronting of ditHcultles is never alarm
struck him, but In a min«I so harassed
an Infinite number of keys. He was Ing ami Is often fraught with Inspira
as Ills there was only room for one
Mlrred by the desire to peer through tion, but this applies essentially to the
consideration the consideration of
another entrance than his own. to see difficulties evolved through th? weak
himself. The sense of her question
tiie secret, alluring byways from an ness, the folly or the force of another;
reached him, but its significance left
other standpoint, lie waited with In when they arise from withlu the mat
him untouched.
terest for the answer to Ills question. ter Is of another character, It ta lu
“Is anything wrong?” she reiterated
For n second or two Kaine continued presence of his own soul, and in that
to survey the house; then Ids eyeglass presence alone, that a man may truly for the second time.
By nu effort he raised his eyes, No
dropped from his eye, and he turned measure himself.
mnu, hi* thought, since the beginning
I
round,
As I Aider walked onward, treading of tiie world was ever set a task so
’ *‘T«> understand the thing.” ho said the whole familiar length of truffle cruel as lijs. Painfully and slowly his
plcidtnntly. “you must have road Un filled street, he realized for the first lips parted.
book. Have von read the book?”
time that he was standing before that
"Everything In the world la wroug,
. •‘No. Mr. Kaine.” Mary Essaityn In solemn tribunal—that the hour had
he
said In 11 slow, hard voice.
terrupte I, “Mr. Chllcote hasn't read come when he must answer to himself
Eve said nothing, but her Color sud
the b )ok.”
for himself. The longer and deeper un denly deepene«!.
f Lili an lauglit-d. “Outline the story oblivion the more painful the awaken
Again Loder Was unobservant, but
for him. Lennie.” she said. “I love tc ing. For months the song of self had
with the d«>gg<*il resolution that mark
see other people taking pains.”
beaten about his ears, deadening all ed him lli* forced himself to bls task.
Kaine glanced nt her admiringly other sounds; now abruptly that song
“You despise lies,” he said at last.
•‘Well, to liegln with,” ho said amiably, had ceased, not considerately, not lin
•'two men an artist and a millionaire, geringly, but with a suddenness that "Tell me what you would think of a
man whose whole life was one elab-
exchange Ilves Seo ?”
made the succeeding silence very ter oral«*«! lie.” Tlio words were slightly
“You may presume that he does see rlble.
exnggi*rat«*«l, but their utterance, their
Ixunile.”
He walked onward, keeping his di
painfully brusque sincerity, precluded
“Right! Well, then. ns I any, these reetlon unseelngly. He was passing all suggestion of effect. Resolutely
through
the
fire
ns
surely
ns
though
hleiitltles.
They
’
re
a»
beggars chan : •
holding her gaze, lie repeated his ques
like as pins, ai i to ell appearances out actual flames rose about his feet, and tion.
chap’s the otl » chap and the other w hatever the result, whatever the flbet
“Tell me! Answer uie! I want to
of the man who emerged from the or
chap’s the first cliap.
«
Bee?”
know."
Iasler laeghcl I The newly quickened deal, the John Loder who had hewn
Eve’s attitude was difficult to read.
Interest was enhanced
*
by treading on his way through the past weeks would
exist no more The triumphant egotist, Siu* st«M«l twisting th«* string of «lia
dangerous gro mind
“Well, they f change for a lark, of the strong
v lu» by Ids own mon«ls tictweeu her Angers.
"Tell me!" lie said again.
bls even upon one
course, but th<
me fact they boti strength
She contltiui'd to look at him for a
ovorlo »Led They’re men, you kinmv point, refmdiu: to »«••> In other «lire»*
moment: then, as If sonit* fresh lm-
(ions. Und oea«. ■*l 1 . I*e.
litui tlie.v forgot these little thins
«* i I her, she turned away
Ilo Immiti ><l dclltrlhtedly “They otrer
Keen though It *.v:is. 111« renll zntlon puls«*
towaril tin* tin*.
look (he f net that one of ’em has trot of this crisis in til« life told coni'e with
ehnrneterlstl.’ s 1 Hv i'.*s« \y lien Lllllnn
h u Ifo!”
There wi
<h of mtwlc from th« Astrupp had lien her «llctum. n lien
oroliestrn I..hier sit Rtrn’ghtrr In I
the nmsle of tl i<* .*rehe«tr:l limi i*e:1««*<l
o»’ .»nd the urlali»
Meni. Ite
nd act
had ri^he.11 Itilo hh
• o’,. M
> said quickly. •’< »•.« *»tu;•«• f: 1 « t .*i 1 !
d. In
<»f thrill h nd ti " 11Pc
■ i « a!
I»’ S. m I»»
••Exactly
• in Kaine chuck •pd lene.sl, not by
• \ 1
point of the Joke Is that
cldent that e mid1 have
wife In th. » least Itiirky person under th« lent dlrnltj t » its end. but. w| th the and her
Fini. Hee?'
fui! n- rasure of life’s Iron», by n trivial "Yes. I have read It,
ild without
first sen looking round.
A arconti hot »
si over
"It Is tlu> story of an extraordinary
Itlcs had
«ter s face A «elise of montai illsgnsi
iiuuns1«
»r of an likeness be tween two men. Do you be
tlllcd bini. Thl.s. tlieti, su« thè wonder
that f.illownl t e rise of the cur Move such a liken«*«« possible? I»o you
fui garden «eoli frolli atiollwr stand
n he had Mt sta ing st the stage, think such a thing could exist?" He
polnt! He Itatkt-d from I.llllau. grave
g n >thlni hearing nothing, filled •pokt* with d iticuity. Ills brain and
fui. akepticnl and atiafion to thè youtif
the « non tty of the void that sud tongue both felt numb.
«Iti beside him. to frankly modem h
r nurrou ded him. Then from
Eve let the diamond chain slip from
ber Apprectatlon of Ilf?. Thlt, theta,
an constitutional tendency. h« her fingers
Yes,” she said nervously,
was lov? a«
by the eyes of the
run alow
"Yes. I do ‘lleve It. Such thing*» have
A lid
world (he world that ar vpts, Jtxl<v4
first om thr<*n«
been"
nt phraee or
I
blood iweded
an*l
qu t
•
t
!mw hi
dit
I*
»ry F* he Mlc/d
p
It. I
an
It
t V
ihl
•ud et eourse
lb»» a od U m * tv*#
IS
aver
het
By KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON,
0
I
dire difficulty he labored on.
“Eve,” he began once more, “such a
likeness is a serious thing-a terrible
flauger, a terrible temptation Those
of lt^canDot
who have no
— experience
—.
possibly gauge Its pitfalls"— Again he
paused, but again the silent figure by
the fireplace gave him no help.
“Eve,” be exclaimed suddenly, “U
you only knew, if you only guessed
what I’m trying to say”- The perplex
ity, the whole harassed suffering of his
mind showed In the words. Loder, the
strong, the resourceful, the self con
tained, was palpably, painfully at a
loss. There was almost a note of ap
peal in the vibration of his voice.
And Eve, standing by the fireplace,
beard and understood. In tkat moment
of comprehension all that had held het
silent, all the conflicting motives that
had forbidden speech, melted away be
fore the unconscious demand for help.
Quietly and yet quickly she turned, her
whole face transfigured by a light that
seemed to shine from within—some
thing singularly soft and tender.
“There’s no need to say anything,”
she said simply, "because I know.”
It came quietly, as most great reve
lations come. Iler voice was low and
free from any excitement, her face
beautiful In Its complete unconscious
ness of self. In that supreme moment
all her thought, all her sympathy, was
for the man and his suffering.
To Loder there was a space of In
credulity; then his brain slowly swung
to realization. “You know?” be re
peated blankly. “You know?”
Without answering, she walked to a
cabinet that stood In the window, un
locked a drawer and drew out several
sheets of flimsy white paper, crumpled
in ¡»laces and closely covered with
writing, Without a word she carried
them back and held them out.
He took them In silence, scanned
them, then looked up.
In a long, worthless pause their eyes
met. It was as if each looked speech-
lessly Into the other’s heart, seeing the
passions, the contradictions, the short
comings. that went to the making of
both. In that silence they drew closer
together than they could have done
through a torrent of words. There
was no asking of forgiveness, no elab
orate confession, on either side. In the
deep, eloquent pause they mutually
saw and mutually understood.
“When I came into the morning room
today,” Eve said at last, “and saw Lil
lian Astrupp reading that telegram
nothing could have seemed farther
from me than the thought that I should
follow her example. It was not until
afterward—not until-he came Into the
room—until I saw that you, as I be
lieved, had fallen back again from
what I respected to what I—despised—
that I knew how human I really was.
As I watched them laugh and talk I
felt suddenly that I was alone again—
terribly alone. I—I think—I believe I
was jealous in that moment”— She
hesitated.
I d
"Evel” he exclaimed.
But she broke In quickly on the
word. “I felt different in that moment.
I didn’t care about honor or thiuga like
honor. After they bad gone it seemed
to me that I had missed something
something that they possessed, Oh,
you don’t know what a woman feels
when she is Jealous!" Again she
paused. “It was then that the tele-
gram and the thought of Lillian's
amused smile as she had read it came
to my mind. Feeling as I did—acting
on what I felt—1 crossed to the bureau
and picked It up. In one second I had
seen enough to make It impossible to
draw back. Oh, it may have been dis
honorable, It may have been mean, but
bis deductions, all his apprehensions,
bail b«*en scatter«*,! and disproved He
seen the true meaning of Lillian
amused indifference-the ln-
of a variable, flippant ua-
robin*«! of any teal weapon
mls.-btef, soon tires of a game that
nines to t«e
». He saw
this and
it with a
litv t*om r
pnt; never-
>speak the
ini was not
discovery
of It. It
□aterlal to
any t
•v^rst
T al ill I* 'l”lte Pla,n
J’°"
the vlorld.
"fr»'ii the first moment I took yom
"Eve" be r-.ld. “tell
genv. 'lri’i tusba id’s place I was ambitious. Yot
thought—youk first thought -f ’ the um-< jsclous'y aroused the feel! <• whet
shock and the surprise-when ,* oa re- you brought me Fralde's me»»J* or
*
membered me."
tiie first night. You ai’*ised It by yom
There was a fresh pause but one words, but more strongly, though more
of very short duration: then Eve met obscurely, by your underlying antago
his glance fearlessly and frankly. The
nlsm. On that night, though I did not
name pride'and dignity, the same in I know it, I took up my position; 1 made
re-
describable tenderuess that had re my determination. Do you know wbut
sponded to his first appeal, eboue in that determination was?"
her face.
She shook her bead.
“My first thought was a great thank
“It was the desire to stamp out Cbll-
fulness,” she said simply “A thank cote’s footmarks with my own, to
fulness that you—that no man—could prove that personality Is the great force
ever understand.”
capable of everything. I forgot to reck
on that when we draw largely upon
CHAPTER XXXII.
1 Fate she generally extorts a crushing
S she finished speaking Eve did I Interest.
not lower her eyes. To her
“First came the wish for your re
there was no suggestion of spect, then the desire to stand well
___ shame in her thoughts or her 1 with such men as Fraide—to feel the
_______________
words,
but to Loder, watching and lis stir of emulation and competltion-to
tening, there was a perilous meauing prove myself strong in the one career
contained in both.
I knew myself fitted for. For a time
"Thankfulness?" he repeated slowly. the second ambition overshadowed the
From his newly stirred sense of re ' first, but the first was bound to reas
sponsibility pity and sympathy were sert itself, and In a moment of egotism
gradually rising. He had never seen I conceived the notion of winning your
Eve as lie saw her now, and his vision enthusiasm as well as your respect.”'
was all the clearer for the long ob
Eve's face, alert and questioning,
livion. With a poignant sense of com suddenly paled as a doubt crossed her
passion and remorse, the knowledge mind.
of her youth came to him—the youth
“Then it was only—only to stand well
that some women preserve ill the with me?”
midst of the world when clrc cum-
“I believed It was only the desire to
stances have permitted them to see stand well with you. I believed it un
much, but to experience little.
til the night of my speech—if you can
“Thankfulness?” he said again In- credit anything so absurd. Then on that
credulously.
night, as I came up the stairs to the
A slight smile touched her lips, gallery and saw you standing there,
“Yes,” she answered softly—"thank- the blindness fell away, and I knew
fulness that my trust had been rightly that I loved you.” As lie said the last
placed.”
words be released her hands and turn
She spoke simply and confidently, but ed aside, missing the quick wave of
the words struck Loder mere sharply
joy and color that crossed her face.
than any accusation. With a heavy
“I knew It, but it made no difference.
sense of bitterness and renunciation he
I was only moved to a higher self glori
moved slowly forward.
fication. I touched supremacy that
“Eve,” he said very gently, “you
night. But as we drove home I experi
don’t know what you say.”
enced the strangest coincidence of my
She had lowered her eyes as he came
life. Y’ou remember the block in the
toward her. Now she lifted them in a
traffic at Piccadilly?”
swift upward glance. For the first
Again Eve bent her head.
time since he bad entered the room a
"Well, when I looked out of the car
slight look of personal doubt and un
easiness showed in her face. “Why?” riage window to discover its cause the
first man I saw was—Chllcote?’
she said. “I—I don’t understand.”
Eve started slightly. This swift, un
For a moment he answered nothing.
He had found his first explanation over expected linking of Chilcote’s name
whelming. Now suddenly it seemed to with the most exalted moment of lief
him that ills present difficulty was more life stirred her triple:-, rt.t’y.. Some
Impossible to surmount. “I came here glimmering of I. .. . s intention in so
tonight to tell you something," he be linking it broke through the web of
gan at last, "but so far I have only disturbed and conflicting thoughts.
"You saw him on that night?”
said half”—
“Yes, and the sight chilled me. It
“Half?” ’
“Yes, half.” He repeated the word was a big drop from supremacy to tiie
quickly, avoiding the question in her remembrance of—everything."
Involuntarily she put out her hand.
eyes. Then, conscious of the need for
But Loder shook Ills head. “No,” he
explanation, lie plunged Into rapid
said; “don't pity me! The sight of him
speech.
“A fraud like mine,” he said, “has came just la time. I had n reaction In
only one safeguard, one justification—a I that moment, and, such as It was, I
boundless audacity. Once shake that acted on ft. I went to liim next morn
audacity and the whole motive power ing and told him that the thing must
crumbles. It was to make the audacity end. But then—even then—I shirked
Impossible—to tell you the truth and being honest with myself. I had meant
make It impossible—that I came to to tell him that it must end because I
night. The fact that you already knew had grown to love you, but my pride
made the telling easier, but It altered rose up and tied my tongue. I could
not humiliate myself. I put the case
nothing."
Eve raised her head, but he went before him in another light. It was a
tussle of wills, aud I won, but the vic
resolutely on.
“Tonight." he said, "I have seen into tory was not what it should have been.
my own life, into my own mind, and That was proved today wheyi he re
my Ideas have been very roughly shak turned to tell me of the loss of this
telegram. It wasn’t the fear that Lady I
en into new places.
“We never make so colossal a mis Astrupp had found rt. It wasn't to
take as when we imagine that we know save the position that I jumiied at the
ourselves. Months ago, when your chance of coming back. It was to feel
husband first proposed this scheme to the joy of living, the joy of -seeU^- you,
me, I was, according to my own con if only for a day!” For one seeitrf he
ception, a solitary being vastly 111 used turned toward her; then as abnijitlj
«
by fate, who, with a fine stoicism, was he turned away again.
"I was still thinking of myself," hs
leading a clean life. That was what
I believed, but there, at the very out said. “I was still utterly wlf centered
set. I deceived myself. I was simply when I came to this room today and al
a man who shut himself up because he lowed you to talk to me, when 1 Mk«*d
cherished a grudge against life and you to see me tonight as we parted at
who lived honestly because he had a the club. I shan’t tell you the thoughts
constitutional distaste for vice. My that uneonsciuosly were In my mind
first feeling when I saw your busband when I asked that favor. You must
was one of self righteous contempt, understand without explanation.
"I went to the theater with Lady As
and that has been my attitude al)
along. I have often aiarveled at the trupp ostensibly to find how the land
flood of intolerance that has rushed lay In her direction—really to heighten
over me at sight of him—the violent my self esteem. But there fate or the
desire that has possessed me to look power we cal! by that name was lying
away from his weakness and banish in wait for me, ready to claim the first
the knowledge of it—but now I under Interest In the portion of life I had
stand.
dared to oorrow.” He did not glance
"I know now what the feeling meant. toward Eve as he had done In his pre
The knowledge came to uie tonight. It vious pause. His whole manner seem
meant that I turned away from his ed oppressed by the gravity cf what he I
weakness because deep within myself had still to say.
I doubt if a man has ever soon more
something stirred In recognition of It.
Humanity is really much simpler than In half au hour than I have tonight,” he
we like to think, and human impulses said. "I’m speaking of mental seeing,
have an extraordinary fundamental of course. In this play, ’Other Men's
connection. Weakness is egotism, but Shoes,' two men change identities—as
so is strength. Chllcote has followed Chllcote anil I have done—but in doing
liis vice; I have followed my ambition. so they overlook one fact—the fact that
It will take a higher judgment than one of them lias a wlfe^. That’s not my
mv
yours or mine to say which of us has way of putting It. It's the way it was
been the more selfish man." lie paus put to me by one of Lady Astrupp’s
party.”
ed ami looked at her.
8he was watching him Intently,
Again Eve looked up. The doubt
_______
_
mid
Some of the meaning in his face had question in her eyes bad grown unmi’s”
found a pained, alarmed reflection in takably. As lie ceased to speak her
and wonder of lips parted quickly.
still colored
’■John." she said, with sudden con
low of other viction. “you’re trying to sav something
their prot»er —something that’s terribly hard."
I lie thrill of «Agultation with
Without raising his bead Louer nn-
which tin* misgivings born of Chilcote’s sxiere«! her. "Yes,” lie answered, “the
tice had dropped away from her men hardest thing a man ever said"—
tal Image of Loder was still too absorb
His tone was short, almost brusque,
ing to be easily dominated. She loved, l ut to ears sharpened by Instinct It
and as If bv a miracle her love had ’va, eloquent. Without a word Eve
been Justified! For the moment the took a step forward and, standing quite
Justification was all sufficing. Some close to him, laid Doth hands on his
thing of «-onfidence, something of the shoulders.
innocence that comes not from Igno-
For a space they stood silent, she
ranoe of evil, but from a mlml slugu- with her face lifted, he with averted
larly uncontaminated, blinded her tc eyes. Then very gently he rais«*d his
the danger of her position.
hands and tried to unclasp her fingers.
I.isler waiting apprehensively for There was scarcely any color visible In
ev .«> aid. some expression of opinion his face, and by a curious
l“*«atne gradually conscious of «bls emotion It seemed that lines, effect of
never be-
M m *1 by a fresh fore noticeable, had formed about hli
d the small space mouth.
thn div
and caught her
‘“What Is It?" Eve asked apprehen-
bau
•’vtihv “What is it?”
he said gvntly. “I have beer
analyze myself and give yox
Continued next week.
th*
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Subscribe for the Weekly Guard.
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Suffers Three Years-HanA
Eye Most Affected-Ji
Doctor to No Effect—Now fl
Recovered and Will
CUTICURA REMEDIES it
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kept on with medicine for .J.’,
weeks until I saw the CutfamL
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set of the Cuticura Remedies I «w
improvement, and in just six
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any one suffering from this >
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Residence 194 E. 1^
BALM WOOD WANTED'^
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