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[ 1 ^ LT^T-^T-^T-^T-^T-t-Tjr-S r°i 9 In ju 1 SHE! EP S CLO TH ING f n u fu j J By LOUIS JO SEPH V A N CE i ID lS H 5 2 S S E 2 S B S H S a S 2 5 7 í5 a s a 5 ia S 2 G H S a 5 E S 2 S a 5 a S c ra S a !rd £ S S ? S lí5 H 5 a 5 E 5 H S B S a S e ¿ a t2 S ^ S a S B l ö l layed uly to say good night to Peter Traft on the upper companlnnway landing, near the doorway to the port side of the boat deck. One half of After one year of ex|M*rimcuting in ihls^ double door whs open. Beyond | it was nothing n ess ii fiat wall o f grny my Ulatratory, I have perfected a Por i hut fe ebly tinted with artificial light. celain and Cast Gold Inlay Crown for Then, descending to the promenade bridge attachment whii'h is so superior deck, she turned aft to her stateroom, to the Gold Crown or the Gold Baiai and was about to enter when she I lu*nrd her nnme called In Craven'« and Porcelain Crown, (hat it gives me voice, and since she had left him only pleasure to demonstrate the toehnique a few minutes before the center of an of making it to other Dentists. i animated group In the music room— Fortunately, I have enough lm|sirU<d with pardonable surprise she discov German Novoeain to last me over one ered the man coining swiftly toward her from the after part of the ship. year. I can now alisolutely promise to “Just to say good night I” he ex work on your teeth without |tain. It plained hastily, folding his daughter is the most wonderful synthetic substi in the tenderest of embraces; and then tute for Cocaine ever usta] by the In n rapid whisper, "Meet me on deck Dental Profession. Dr. Klof T. tied- (Ids deck- to port fifth stanchion lund, l»r. L. Bogan. I*r. S, S. Skiff. aft from the door- In an hour. If Dentistry, "N ot the rheu|M>st i#t anyone seems to be watching you, go hack!" And again aloud, "Good-night, the best. " dear child, good-night I” he murmured Lr.r. IMt Morgan Building, fourth fondly, releasing her. und hurried for Ihsir, Washington at Broadway, Port ward. land, Oregon. Almost without her knowledge the Telephones, Marshall UH; A 336.1. knob turned In Lydia's grasp; and when she found herself alone In that Open Evenings. Nurse in attendance. dark stateroom her hands trembled -o with excitement that for u moment she fumbled In vain for the switch. i of amusement that precluded discour agement of his eccentric wooing. LYDIA IS VASTLY AMUSED BY PETER TRAFT'S WHIMSICAL "1 want you to kuuw me as 1 really am,” he informed her on one occa WAY OF MAKING LOVE. BUT SHE IS MORE SERIOUSLY sion. “If I should seem as sober-sided i and solemn as your next adorer, you'd IMPRESSED WITH THE PERSONALITY OF QUOIN marry me in ignorance of my true WHO SEEMS TO HER THE TYPICAL YANKEE character.” “But I haven't the slightest Intention of marrying you, Mr. Traft." SYNOPSIS.—A well-bred young Englishwoman, nervous autl sus “That's u tine line," he commented picious, finds when she boards the steamer Alsntiu. bound from Liv admiringly, “What you heroines of modern fiction would do without it erpool to New York, {hat her stateroom mate ir. Mrs. Amelia Beggar- heaven only knows I It's certain our staff, a fascinating, wealthy American widow of about sixty years. novelists don't, or they'd Invent some The girl introduces herself as Lucy Carteret and says she is going to thing less stereotyped. But you America to meet her father. Lucy's behavior puzzles Mrs. Beggar- mustn't forget It really means nothing staff, who is vastly surprised to find the girl in possession of a mag ' In the first chapters. Along about nificent necklace, stolen from a museum some time previously and page three hundred and twenty-one passes the news on to her friend, Quoin, a private detective on board. Watch for startling develop it's n signal either for the clench or Lucy, dressing it. the dark in her stateroom, hours a mysterious con ments described in the next in for the bouncer.” versation between two men Just outside her window and recognizes stallment—something big com "I do wish you'd talk seuslbly in lun- one of them as Tltaddeus «'raven, her father, whom she hasn't seen ing! | guage I can understand.” for five years. She confesses to Mrs. Beggarstaff that she is in reality "As for the Inngunge, If It cramps Lydia Craven. The girl discovers her father and young Mrs. Mer- 1 your style, Miss Craven, believe me, riless, a charming widow, engaged to be married. Mrs. Merrlless Is (TO 1IK CONTINUED.) I’ll slip the rollers under it and give ' bewildered for a moment because Craven had always posed as a it the gntel But ns for talking sen- ONCE BUSY CITY NOW QUIET bachelor. I ut she and Lydia like one nnother. Craven tells Lydia he slbly—not I, not while sparring for secretly represents the British government In the United States. Peter wind and trying to figure how 1 stand Wlsby Has Little to Show That It Was Traft falls in love with Lydia and Mrs. Merrilees displays a mag with you. It wouldn't be fulr to snare nificent necklace which she says she’s going to give Lydia for a wed at One Time Liveliest Place of your affections with the impression ding present. Its S.ze In Europe. that the architect of my dome used any building material more substan To the eastward of Sweden. In the tial than funny-bones." . . . . inhospitable Baltic, Ilea the great CHAPTER VII. retorted with entire good humor. . .... Yon Do you mean me to understand , , : , .. . . . . . ... . I , . ,, , , , Island of Gothland, with It* capital of —8— forget the ‘child’ is of age—or will be you re Incurably frivolous?' . ..... , ._____ , .... f i t .. h f t P f ... " Wlsby. Little visited and little known, Mrs. Beggarstaff was right, who j in another six months. She can n take f ii Ir “ H * Ituther!' herself admitted that she was always care of herself. If It turns out she 1 “Isn’t It a pretty poor recommendn- Wlsby is one of the most Interesting cities of northern Eur<>i>e. It Is In thu right: Lydia was a very happy girl. can t. I give you permission to use j tlon for a suitor to advance?” She had. indeed, never been so happy jour well-known arts of morul suasion ! “Do you think so?" He nppenred track of half the Itusslnn und Scainb- since those memorable days when Cra and nag her until she's mad enough to j to ponder this gravely. "But I can’t nnvluu sea commerce, but few ships make the land today iu which was once ven's rare, capricious, and always un hitch up as companion to a saw- 1 see that. Think how deadly life would expected appearances in England had toothed destroyer of reputations like ' he with a man who took everything the busiest of northern harbors. Lund at Wlsby and you find a quiet invariably signalized his amazing yourself. seriously—htmself, for Instance, and little city witli Ivy-covered bouses and sprees of paternal indulgence—frolics "She could do far worse,” the Dow gnrdens of roses, going about its unim from which, as from the nirvana of ager Dragon sniffed ; "and w ill—if l portant affairs In an atmosphere of fairy tales, one emerged in childish de- let you have your way." placid calm. It takes n considerable moralization to renew acquaintance "Which is Just what Is going to hap- effort of the Imagination to cull up u with the hard and grimy facts of life pen. Ly(11a and ! understand each picture of the times when Wisby wn* as lived in Mrs. Grummle’s Blooms- other. my home's the place for her to the Baltic nnd the North sea what bury lodging house, or with the chilly and there she goes, struight from the ! Venice in the height of her power was routine of the Misses Stint's Select steamer.” to the Mediterranean. Wlsby In those Academy for Daughters of Gentlemen. when he had detachpd hlg flancee days was the wealthiest and liveliest She lived those days in delicious ex- und departed, the Dowuger Dragon i city of Its size In Europe. citemenL She would be a strange girl | took up tte thread of her discourse I The men of Wlsby seem to have he«« of twenty had her imagination not with Lydia. traders from the beginning. Back In quickened to the romance inherent in “It’s up to you, my dear,” she an- the ancient Norse chronicles there Is the words secret agent. To think her nounced. "I mean to say, It’s for you mention made of Wlsby galleys that self the object of stealthy surveillance, to decide. I w nrn you you'll never be j went all over the known globe and as daughter and confidante of a past happy. Tad’s not old enough to be a traded the treasures of the Levant master of devious diplomacy; to think father. For that matter, he's not old | with Norse kings. Today they are still she must ever keep her courage bright enough to be a husband. He's heed digging about In a desultory fashion in the shadow of nameless dangers, be less, irresponsible, as flighty us Betty on tiie Island In search of historical forever jealous of the great secret, Merrilees. He never has grown up, | relics nnd the shovel* bring up coins comport herself always warily—in and he never will. He’s Peter Pan. | of all the ancient nations—coins of old these persuasions lay delight as deep with all the innocence expurgated.” I Britain, of barbarian Itussia, of the and abiding as that of a girl playing Here the Dowager Drugon paused numberless German states, of Franco the mischief at her first bal masque. and, receiving no response, regarded ind Spain and north Africa. Wlsby Not infrequently she would catch with suspicion the object of her sollci- gathered the gold of every land with Craven regarding her with his dark tu(j e. “What are j’ou smiling at, her venturous trading keels, in times and quizzical smile; and then she pray?” she demanded in dudgeon. “Do when a little business trip had ns much would flush and smile spiritedly in re- I y 0 U think I’m merely blustering for “But I Haven’t the Slightest Intention romance nnd danger ns the forays of a turn, thrilled to think he read her your amusement?” of Marrying You, Mr. Traft.” knight errant lighting over Ids Indy's thoughts and understood. "I beg your pardon," Lydia said eyebrow. One circumstance alone flawed the meekly, hastening to erase a smile; the candidate for president on the I’ro- 1 perfect Jewel of her happiness—the the idea of the chief agent of Down- | hibition ticket, nnd Lloyd George, nnd j Dignity and Impudence. second and final disappearance of her ing Street in America being heedless, j —ah—the Anti-Woman Suffrage move- 1 A trawler one evening came Into n sardonyx cameo. irresponsible and flighty having proved rnent. There’s only one tiling I’m ! port where lay at anchor a destroyer The first time Lydia had missed it too much for her sense of the ridicu- ready to promise to take seriously. 1 | flotilla. She dropped her "hook” foul it had turned up safe and sound be lous. “You made ine think of some- Now pretend you don’t get m e!” | of the first and second ships nnd the fore bedtime in its place on top of the thing funny. But please, Mrs. Beg- “You are quite. quite hopeless! j efforts of the officer of the watch on chest of drawers. But the next day it garstaff, don't say any more. The Wrong again: I was never more ,Pndln(i s!llp inovo »„.r were vanished again and finally. And thing is quite settled; and you don’t hopeful. First thing you know you’ll ; frum ej,s though for a time her hope ran high know how stubborn he Is—and I’m his he lying awake nights wondering if On the matter b<*lng reported to the that the finder would return the trin daughter!” I can possibly he as silly us I sound, commodore he went aft and hulled tho ket in view of the rather heavy re The frown of the Dowager Dragon nnd thinking what a pity 'tls If true; ward posted by Craven, when noth relaxed, and a crusty smile succeeded. and when you come to thut stage. It’ll Intruder, “Hullo, there. You’re foul of my ing of the sort happened she felt “So be It! I sha’n’t contend with you be nil over hut the rice and old shoes billet, and you must clear out and forced to accept the hypothesis that or Tad another minute. But when you and Niagara Falls!’ ,,r, . ........................ . , i anchor elsewhere. I’m In command the clasp had worked loose when she see your mistake, remember, rny home "Certainly you must he an , Incurable ' * ............. . of this flotilla—who are you? had been lounging beside the rail, de is always open to you. You’re a cheer optimist!” livering the brooch to the sea. “You think so? I say, that's an aw- j Back catne the answer, appealing In ful snippet, and not a bit hard to look audacity and disregard of service In her new relationship with her fa at, and I believe I could grow quite fully good sign! You're thinking about j convention: ther Lydia found several friendships fond of you. Now promise j’ou’ll come, ] me already!” that, however young, promised perma If ever you’re In trouble. You owe' But of the four It was Quoin who “Ah'm the Star o' Bethlehem—nnd th' night."—London nence. me that consolation nt least—If only most impressed Lydia's Impressionable Ah v<’ For one, Mrs. Beggarstaff had un for being graceful in defeat imagination. His seemed an indivldu- Opinion. questionably taken a fancy to Lydia, Lydia promising lightly, a placated ality rarely simple and straightfor which the girl was quick to divine and j Dowager Dragon consented to let the ward, to which latency and Indirection ff roubles Were His Own. reciprocate with a frank and—If un- subject drop. One day after shoveling the snow must he altogether foreign. He was, demonstrative real affection. And Then there was Mrs. Merrilees, who Lydia understood, n criminal Investi from the sidewalk for two hours little the Dowager Dragon was dally wast- bade fair to prove the sister more than gator of unusual attainments; yet he Patsy, who lived right next door to ing much time in amiable bickering the stepmother, the girl friend more utterly lacked every idiosyncrasy of the Kerrigan, began to cry. "What's the with Craven about his daughter’s fu- than either, who, once Craven had "great" detective of fiction. He was trouble, my little man?” said Kerrigan. ture, openly discountenancing his In wheedled her out of her resentment of a long, lank man, with a thin face of "A had tramp come along nnd stole tention to make Lydia part of his me his putatively negative and innocent strong features. Ills wide, thin lips the snow shovel from the hoy next nage; at least until there should be deception, seemed to find In Lydia drooped- quizzically nt their coaners. door.” “Well, my lad. It's n very nice n second Mrs. Craven to keep his house just one more reuson for being fond of And his eyes were dark and, normally, thing to be sympathetic,” said Kerri in order—and Its master, Into the bar Craven and viewing with confidence deep with humorous expression. To gan, “but you mustn’t worry so over gain. their life after marriage. Though Lydia’s notion he was the Yankee type other people’s affairs.” “It Isn’t that," “Though," she once amended ac vain and avid of admiration, she Incarnate, hut without thut uncouth said the boy. " I ’m crying becuuse he ridly In the presence of Mrs. Merri seemed Incapable of any sort of mean ness she had been bred to expect. didn't steal my shovel, too." lees, “as for that, to my taste, Betty’s emotion, and wus ns generous as the • • • • • • • altogether too frivolous to make a good sunlight. An adorable creature I Because the Alsntla, groping her Embarrassing Mistake. proper duenna. Mark my words, Tad, Peter Traft, the third of three new blind way nt half-speed through wrap "I guess I’ll keep away from the Just as soon as that pretty feather found friends, was a riddle Lydia pings of fog ever more opaque, per music room hereafter," said Mr. Cum- weight head finds o it life with you Is couldn’t read, but found endlessly di sisted in making night hideous with rox. not one round of pleasure, she’s going verting. Publicly sentimental about her unearthly whoop of warning, the "I>on’t you care for music?" to cut loose and lead you a dance that Lydia, brazenly seeking every oppor concert all but fell flat. Only Cra "Yes. But not all kinds. I try to won’t leave a breath in your fat little tunity to seclude her with himself, ven’s inexhaustible enthuslnsm saved he classical to please the family. The body. And then what will become of once this was accomplished, he flouted the function. other (lay when we were giving a coo- the child?" sentiment, ridiculed the world (includ When It was over Lydia, announc cert, I broke In ahead of time und r a p “Oh, blow your meddling!” Graven ing himself), and kept her In • state ing her intention of going to bed, do turously applauded the piano tu n e r ." P e rfe c te d . YES! MAGICALLY! CORNS LIFT OUT WITH FINGERS You corn pestered men and women need suffer no longer Wear the shoes that nearly killed you before, aaya this Cincinnati authority, because a few drops of freezone applied directly on a tender, aching corn or callus, stops soreness at once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so It can be lifted out, root and all, with out pain. A small bottle of freesone coats very little at any drug store, but will positively take off every hard or soft corn or callus. This should be tried, as It Is Inexpensive and Is said not to Irritate the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't any freezone tell him to get a small bottle for you from bis wholesale drug bouse. It Is fine stuff and acts like a charm every time. Difficult "Is your daughter studying music?” "I wouldn't exactly call It studying." replied Mr. Cumrox. "She makes so much noise about it, I don't see how she can possibly get her mind on tho subject.”—Washington Star. MHAKK INTO Y O U K S H O W . A llr n '. -) j u , . t h . * n t l„ - p tlr tw w flrr. M .k r . U ght o r n«w .h o r , fnt'l n u y . It.U sv m Cornu. Hunion*. H ot. S . u l b n , A rh ln a t W i . Sold rv«*rywhorn. '¿be. Kam el« n t t ' E . Hoy, N. Y . Don’t «••ropt any auhatitut*. Aiklrnaa. All**n S . O lm atad. Getting th* News. “Why do you encourage that Inces sant talker, Mrs. Gaddy, to come hero?" "W ell, I save that much on sub scription to a dally newspaper."— Exchange. Why She Left Him. 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