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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."
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inhospitable Baltic, Ilea the great
CHAPTER VII.
retorted with entire good humor. . ....
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Island of Gothland, with It* capital of
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forget the ‘child’ is of age—or will
be you re Incurably frivolous?'
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Wlsby.
Little visited and little known,
Mrs. Beggarstaff was right, who j in another six months. She can n take
f ii Ir
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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!
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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!’
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elsewhere.
I’m In command
the clasp had worked loose when she see your mistake, remember, rny home
"Certainly
you must he an , Incurable
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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
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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.
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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.
Mrs. Ilrldey—Want to dine out
again? Why do you prefer hotel food
to home cooking?
Her Husband—At the hotel I can al
ways look at tho menu and see what
1 am eating.—Boston Transcript.
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