past; but little or uuthlug bad aba ever
known definitely.
“ You wereu't a strong child, and we
form'd the effect uu you o f the Atlantic
voyage. Botddon, our engagement was
to last eight weeks ouly. So we left
you in Mrs. Qrumiuls's on re. Five
weeks after wo nvu-hed New York
yi*ur mother rarac down with fypbold.
A month luter she died; and when 1
had i « l d funeral expense« 1 was pen
niless in a strange land, our (»iiq itn y
laid gone hack home, and my chance
o f ever seeing England again was to
earn enough money for my return pas
sage. I wrote Mrs. Urummle to look
CLOTHING
AUTH O R o /^TNETLONC
WOLF,” 'THE: 5RASS
BOWL/ETC.
COPYRIGHT BT LOUIS JOSEPH VA HCC
LYDIA CRAVEN LEARNS SOME AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
HER FAMILY HISTORY— AND HER FATHER EX
PLAINS THE NATURE OF HIS MYSTERIOUS
BUSINESS
S Y N O P IS .— A well-bred young Englishwoman, nervous and sus
picious, finds when she boards the steamer Alaatla, bound from L iv
erpool to New York, that her stateroom mate is Mrs. Amelia Boggar-
staff, a fascinating, wealthy American widow of about sixty years.
The girl introduces herself us Lucy Carteret and says che is going to
America to meet her futher. Lucy's behavior puzzles Mrs. Beggar-
staff, who is vastly surprised to find the girl in possession of a mag
nificent necklace, stolen from a museum some time previously and
passes the news on to her friend. Quoin, a private detective on board.
Lucy, dressing in the dark in her stateroom, hears a mysterious con
versation between two men Just outside her window and recognizes
one o f them as Thaddeus Craven, her father, whom she hasn't seen
for five years. She confesses to Mrs. Beggar-staff that she is in reality
Lydia Craven, goes on deck, and searching around, discovers her fa
ther making love to Mrs. Merrilees, wealthy, benutiful young widow
and friend of Mrs. Beggarstaff. They and Lydia are much surprised.
Mrs. Merrilees has Just promised to marry Craven, but he has always
posed as a bachelor and this fact she doesn't relish.
C H A P T E R V.
] wns hanging fire— young Keyes n lilt
backward about coming forward. He
In humor as radiant as that o f a i must have been blind!
Y’ ou don’t
child presented with a long-coveted mean to tell me It’s fallen through?”
plaything. Craven returned to find his
“ I mean to tell you,” the girl cried,
daughter as he had left her, alone. passionately, “ I didn't like him ! One
“ Lydia ! My dear, dear g ir l!”
| of Mrs. Hicks-Lorrimer’s tame ca ts!
She yielded without struggle to his He may have money and family, as
embrace, instantly supple to the spell she claimed— I don’t know— but he's
o f that .blind and unquestioning devo abominable, and I loathe h im ! And
tion which never before that night had she wouldn’t let ine alone. I stood her
wavered from his image. In those I incessant nagging till 1 thought I ’d go
arms the old enchantment regained mad. Worst of all, my letters to you
full power, doubts and misgivings were got no answers, save indirectly— I
all forgotten. Craven became to her mean, she said it was your wish I
once more the most splendid o f men. should marry him.”
and the handsomest, dearest of fa
“ I never said that,” Craven observed
thers.
thoughtfully. “ I did say that, if It
And then he was holding her by the was your wish and for your happiness,
shoulders at arm’s length looking her I gave my consent gladly. It wouldn’t
fondly up and down, wagging an indul j be like me, would It, to wish unhappi
gent bead. “ The saints preserve u s! ness to my own flesh and blood?”
But you’ve blossomed out into a wom
“ No— it wasn’t like you: that’s why
an, Liddy, m#- dear, to turn the heads I didn’t understand. It— It seemed as
of half the w orld! As tall as your ! if you'd turned against me.”
“ Liddy— dear!”
old dad, as sweet ns cherry blossoms,
as lovely as the break of a day In
“ Oh, I know I was wrong; but what
.Tune! It’s like seeing your mother j could I think? Y’ou wouldn’t write.
again, the way she was the day we , But I knew if I could see and talk to
were married— though she was only ■ you, I could make you understand. So
eighteen then, and now you’re more I pawned some things— some of your
than tw enty! God forgive ’em. but presents— and got enough money for
the years have magieked me into an my passage. And now— ”
old man before my tim e! The father
H er voice was breaking.
Craven
of a woman like yourself— I can’t be passed an arm round her nnd drew her
lieve i t !”
| close to him. “ There, my dear girl,
“ You haven’t aged a day, daddy there!”
dear.”
“ And now— I’m in your w a y !”
Craven would have none of that.
"L y d ia !” He had lost none o f his
“ It’s of grandchildren I must be think old-time trick of quieting her with a
ing now.
Don’t bang your pretty show o f righteous Indignation. “ You’ve
head: let me look my fill of my g ir l! no right to talk like that to your old
But you might be so good as to tell daddy!”
me how it comes you’re here. I f you
“ What am I to think? I surprise
dropped from the skies— ”
you making love— you are angry with
“ Surely you know, daddy,” the girl me— ”
protested.
“ I ran away— I had to.
“ Not angry, dearie, but so surprised
You know why.”
I was hardly myself. Do be quiet now
“ Devil fly away with me if I d o !” for a time, and let me do the talking.
“ But I wrote you about it, every Listen, and learn never to Judge a
thing, from the very beginning; and man hastily. Has It never struck you
when you didn’t answer, I thought how little you really know about our
there was nothing left for me but to fam ily history?”
run away.”
“ How often have I asked you— ”
“ I tell you, Liddy, I ’ve not heard a
“ Ah, but that was long ago, when
word from you for months'!”
you were— ah— too young to under
His manner carried conviction—
stand. I never meant to keep you per
credulous thrall that she was to the
manently ln the dark. In the first
magic of that dear, earneying tongue!
place, you’ve always believed yourself
“ You didn’t get my letters?”
the child o f American parents.”
“ Never one. i f I hadn’t been the
“ But surely— ” the girl exjaxjtulated.
busiest man alive these last three
“ Mrs. Qrurnmle told me— ”
months, I ’d have written to ask what
"What she believed, too, no doubt.
was the matter. Not that I worried—
The
truth is, your mother was an Amer
Mrs. Hicks-Lorrimer’s letters were reg
ican; but I ’m British to the marrow o f
ular and reassuring.”
An ominous gleam Informed the eyes me. Craven's a good English name,
o f the girl. “Then she stole them 1”
i you know. Not that it matters. I cut
away from my people forever when
“ Who stole what?”
“ My letters to you— Mrs. Hlcks-Lorri- they tried to prevent my marrying the
woman I loved, an American girl
mer must have stolen them !”
who’d taken to the stage and somehow
“ My dear girl, be fair to h er!”
“ I f my letters didn’t reach you, i drifted to London. Well, we defied
someone must have Intercepted them. the family, and It disowned me, and I
One might have gone astray by itself, went on the stage with my wife. When
you were born— yes. In Mrs. Grum-
y es; but it Isn’t likely five would.”
rale’s, Bloomsbury— our combined pay
“ Lydia, I don’t get this at all.”
“ You knew that woman wanted me didn’t run to anything much. Most
o f the time .one o f us was out o f a
to marry a man I didn’t love?”
“ She wrote roe you were about to Job. Still, we were happy enough till
become engaged to young—what’s-hls- we went to America.”
name*— Keyes; gave a good account of • He was silent for several mlnntes,
apparently lost In memories.
him. I wrote to you at the time.”
“That was three months ago.
I | Lydia, fearing to interrupt, waited
haven’t heard from you since. Her In mute fascination.
Something o f
later letters must have told you I had ! this history she had guessed; much
refused him.”
she might have guessed from words,
"They didn’t. She said the thing hints, clues, carelessly sown In the
J
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“ Pm quite sure y»m uugtiint to
know," ba u U grnvrty ; “but I'm quits
s i n you've gi4 to. If in r reluUona
are fin continua In kwo and trust
Miwwwet, I know I oun trust yon. kim I,
were I to keep you In tgixinmoa, much
might hapjxin that you wouldn't under
stand, that mlgtit make you doubt mis
judge. mistrust tuo. You may on occa
sion si«> ris* In coufurcmu with strange
men. of u class I’d normally buvu
nothing In coumion with. You’ll huve
to Istcome accustomed to my keeping
strange hours- and help me keep them
secret You may even heur «nid whls-
pers about me— rumors tlint I’m not
altogether whnt I seem. Well, tiiey’ll
he Juxtllhil; for I’m not. New York
knows me as a feather-brained fnsh-
lonuble, with a dtwent income from the
real estate business I tunintuln ns a
blind. I’m nshuTned to have no object
ii ex stem » other ban amiable idling.
Whereas. In reality— "
Though their solltudw was absolute,
Craven came closer to his daughter
and lowered his voice:
“ This Is u grout secret, dear girl.
out for you, nnd— But this Isn’t a
hard-luck story. Ultimately 1 left the
stage for employment more attractive
and better paid; but It meant perma-
nent resilience in America. However
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since you were In good bunds. I think
we muy say that for Mrs. (¡rumíale.’’
“ She was ulwuys kind.” Lydia uf-
tlrm.il gently.
“ When I could afford a trip back to
Kngland, I found you In tin* best of
condition, and It scemai hardly right j ( *ui,r'1 “ •* * ou wou,d Jrour4 *,.°’ 1 “
to uprtMtt and transplant you to a ln rh* rBe uf ,bo
‘,1»'lo,nu,,c
bachelor establishment ln a strange H* nrlco representing Um-nlng Street
country. Moreover, my new work, you In tile Unitisi Statisi !”
see, hud divorced me wholly from my
stuge associations, and none o f my
Does it teem to you that ths
] new friends knew anything about me
nature of Tad Craven'* work a*
before I come to them, properly Intro
a British secret service man Jus
duced. and I was careful not to excite
tifies his posing as a bachelor
their curiosity for reason.» that «111
for many years and hi* treat
apl>enr. So | never mentioned \ottr
ment of Lydia?
: existence. This reticence grew Into n
habit as years went on. Ami when
Mrs. Grunuule din] I had come to
»To in: CONTINUED.)
■ think It best for you to attain woman
hood In Kngland. and If possible marry
some decent Englishman.
“ W ell— a substitute had to he found
, for Mrs. Grutntnle. Mrs. IIk-ks l.orrl Public Could Buy Its Seafood Much
Cheaper If Industry Were on
tner presented the strongest creden
Efficient Basis, It Is Declared.
tials. I can only say I'm sorry she
turned out badly— and surprised. That,
If the entire fishing Industry were
however, is well over nnd done with.
put on un efficiency basis, the general
Henceforward you live with me.”
“ Oh. daddy, daddy dear!
You public would buy Its nonfood much
cheaper and better, Is the opinion of
mean It? I’m not In the way?”
“ It would have been better If this William K. Beardsley, manager o f the
could have been postponed a few New Kngland fi*h exchange. He as
serts. however, that even under pres
ent conditions fish Is the most economi
cal of foodstuffs In this country.
“ The fishing Industry lias been con
ducted In a more or less haphazard
manner,” he says. **Snmli competition
has developed It. hut up to dute little
i lias been done to put It on n sound
buslni'ss basis. Those Intimately con
nected with the Industry do not seem
to realize that the extensive waste
must lie eliminated and efficiency
brought in.
“ For example, dealers still ship fish
In small quantities everywhere. This
necessitates enormous trnns|»ortntlon
expenses wlih slow service, when the
same goods could ho shipped In car
load lots to control distributing points,
and much needless exis-nditure saved.
“ Kish is the coining f<xxl o f America,
and It therefore behooves this country
to awuken to the value o f Its fisheries.
It Is ulso necessary for our fish mer
chants to awaken to the value o f e f
ficiency and place their trade on n sys
tematic basis. Every dollar wnsted
comes out o f the public's pockets, so
that the people us a whole have a vital
"T h is Is a Great Secret, Dear Girl. Interest ln this matter.”
Guard It as You Would Your Life.”
Continuing, lie states that govern
weeks,” Craven returned without en- ment experts contend that before long
thuslusm. "But there is ho helping this country will be actually forced to
look to Its fisheries for food.— New
what mischief has been don<
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to her— ” Lydia fultered.
He silenced her with a gesture e f
fective if a shade theatric, und walked
with her to a closed hatch, where they
seated themselves.
“ But I — ”
“ Hear me first, if you please, Lydln.
Although your futher, I ’m by no means
nn old man. And— love is paramount!
When you come to me und say, ’I
love this man,’ whosoever he may be,
I sha’n't Interfere— even as» now, when
you say, *1 can’t love this man,' I re
frain from insisting. Mrs. Merrilees
and I love each other. She pays me
a great compliment; for I ’m fifteen
years .her senior. I can’t permit my
daughter— ”
“ But if you will only listen to m e!”
"W ell?" Craven demanded severely.
“ I haven't the least desire to come
between you and Mrs. Merrilees. I
think she’s very lovely, nnd I wish
you both every happiness.”
“ That Is my own dear g ir l!” Clip
ping her face between Ills pnlms, ho
lifted it to receive his kiss.
“ I only meant,” the girl resumed, ” 1
hoped you could make hor understand,
as you have me, by explaining— ”
“ Make your mind easy.
There’s
ixi-n no real harm done. I’ve already
received her assurance that our rela
tions w ill continue ns before.
She
understands— if not ns fully ns you do
now. I f I fold her all that I’ ve Just
told you, she might ask questions I
couldn't answer; not, at least, until
she Is my wife, perhaps not then.
Surely you must realize that your
faith has taken a great deal on trust.
You have refrained from putting n
question that, with Mrs. Merrilees,
would take the form o f n demand—
What 1» the nature o f this business
o f mine to which I have referred but
never named?”
“ You will tell me when you think I
should know, daddy.”
l C
Bays a glass of hot watsr with
phosphate befors breakfast
keeps Illness away.
This sxcslltnt, common-sense
health measure being
adopted by millions.
Physicians the world over recom
mend tho Inside txith, claiming this Is
of vastly more Importance than out
side cleanliness, because the skin pores
do not absorb Impurities Into the
blood, causing til health, while the
port« in the ten yards of bowels do.
M-n and WMMB are ur ged to drink
each morning, before breakfast, a
gloss of hot water with a teaspoonful
o f limestone phosphate In It, as a
harmless means of helping to wash
from the stomach, llv.-r, kidneys aud
bowels the previous day s Indigestible
material, poisons, sour bile and toxins;
thus cleansing, sweetening and purify
ing the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food Into the stomach.
Just as soap and hot water cleanse
and freshen the skin, so hot water and
limestone phosphate act on the elim
inative organs.
Those who wake up with bad breath,
coated tongue, nasty taste or have a
dull, aching head, sallow complexion,
acid stomach; others who are subject
to bilious attacks or constipation,
should obtain a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate at the drug store.
This w ill cost very little but Is suffi
cient to demonstrate the value of in
side bathing. Those who continue it
each morning are assured o f pro
nounced results, both in regard to
health and appearance.
,
Changed.
“ Crimson Gulch doesn’t seem like
the same town since it went dry.’’
“ That's right.” replied B ron ch o Bob.
“ It has changed both In Joy and grief.
The hoys don't have neither so many
Rescue Pigeons From ■ C a t
frolics nor so many funerals.” — Wash
Sometimes the crow inuy he suspect ington Star.
ed of being altruistic. Not long ago u
Hartford Courant man saw four o f the
birds in a tree watch a cat which was
stalking a pair o f pigeons In a field
u,.ur h jP tT h e cat came near enough to
its quarry so that It crouched for a
spring, when one of the crows leisurely
glided out of the tree und swooped
down to within a foot o f the cat’s head.
The cat was surprised and the pigeons
were warned nnd moved on n little.
Once more the cat made n forwnrd
movement, nnd another crow dipped
over it and said a few things which its
predecessor had overlooked. That end
ed tlx; cat’s pigeon hunt for the day.
The crows were safe at every stage of
Cleveland, Ohio.— “ For yearn I suf
the ganx*. but no one knows whether fered so sometimes it seemed as though
they took a hand In It through ¡Iking
I could n o t stand
for the pigeons or dislike for tho cut.
it any longer.
It
FOUR WEEKS
INHOSPITAL
No Relief—Mrs. Brown Fin
ally Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound.
Island Classed as Battleship.
Ascension Is a curious nnd onbof-tho-
wny little Island In the south Atlantic,
about ns fnr from any place else ns It
Is possible for an Island to get. Its
nearest neighbor Is St. Helena o f Na
poleonic fame, and that Is 700 miles
away. Ascension belongs to Great Brit
ain and, for some Inscrutable reason
known to the powers-of England, It Is
not carried on the lists o f jhe colonial
governments, hut perhnps bernnse of
Its Importance as a navnl station Is
governisi by the ndmlrnlty. It Is treat
ed as part of the British fleet, and Is
the only piece o f Innd on the globe that
Is carried on a roll o f ships ns part of
the naval force o f the nntlon. Instead
of being garrisoned by the array. It Is
manned by the navy. It Is classed ns
a battleship In the admiralty office«.
You enn’t convince n man with a
1918 model that there’s such a thing
as u car shortage.
was all in my lower
organs. A t times I
could hardly walk,
for if I stepped on a
little stone I would
almost faint. One
day I did faint and
m y husband w a s
sent for and the doc
tor came. I was ta
ken to the hospital
and stayed four weeks but when I came
home I would faint ju st the same and
had the same pains.
A friend who is a nurse asked me to
try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound. I began taking it that very day
for I was suffering a great deal. It has
already done me more good than the
hospital. To anyone who is suffering
as I was my advice is to stop in the first
drug store and get a bottle of Lydia E.
I’inkham’s Vegetable Compound before
you go home.” — Mrs. W . C. B rown ,
2844 W. 12th S t , Cleveland, Ohio.