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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1917)
“Yes," said Lydia, slitiug up. “IX laying for somebody to buy (ho diluir lie hud the counterfeit all reudy, of you want it?” " if convenient." course." Without another answer she rose am. “But that’s what l don't understand." “Simplest thing iu (lie world. went to tht* bureau, found her hand- Chance Is he found the copy rently made hug, produced the puzxlo box, umt to Ids hand. Nine out of ten of these silently, with uverted face, gave il tv ! smart Frenchwomen, like the original her father. owner of the collar, have their best ills footsteps were audible crossing i pieces duplicated in paste for public the sitting room. Then she heard him | Ufi© (ìrundnia'M Sam* Tea and wear. Somehow or oilier he must have closing tils bedchamber door. Sulphur Recipe and Nobody got hold of that. The only question Is. will Know. With some effort Lydia pullisl her when did he make the substitution? self together, rose, bathed tier face nnd Betty swears it was the genuine ar eyes with cold water, then sought her Tho uso of li.oui’i been . ............ ................ . 1,10 USO °* Hugo and Hulphtir for re- ticle she received, and It 11 1 mirror to survey and repair as best she storing faded gray hair to Its natural out of her possession since, ex. opt ( could Ilio ravages of tears. I oolor dates hack to graudmothar’a A U T H O R o /" T H E : LONC while In the purser's safe, and when l time. Hhe used It to keep her hair W OLF,” " T H D R A brought It to her, up there in the | beautifully dark, glossy uud attractive. veranda cafe, day before yesterday. B O W L .'T T C . Whenever her hair took on that dull, Do you suspect Craven of be Looks as if it was up to the purser— faded or streaked appearanc«, this COPTW1CHT BT lOUIS JO iLP » VAftCC ing up to some trickery? Why simple mixture was applied with won unless you care to point the well known should he become grouchy to his derful effect. finger of suspicion ut me— or Deter!" J daughter? There Is a big devel But brewing at home Is mussy and “How absurd!" opment of the story in tho next out of date. Nowadays, by asking at LYDIA BEGINS TO SUSPECT HER FATHER OF DECEIVING “Think so? Well. I'm glad you do. j installment. any drug store for a 60 cent bottle of my dear." ills humor had softened. "W y e th ’s Sage and Hulphur Com HER IN SOME MANNER AND SHE IS DEEPLY GRIEVED Drawing near, he pinched her cheek pound," you will get this famous old affectionately. “Not that there's tiny (To UK CONTINI!ED.) preparation. Improved hy the addition —SOME MYSTERIOUS THING SCARES HIM reason for you to worry. Only, If Betty of other ingredients, which can he de- still wants to play Lady Bountiful at SMOKED HIS CIGAR BY PROXY I pended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. your wedding, she'll have to dishursc Synopsis— I.yilia Craven, traveling ns Lucy Carteret, runs away A well known downtown druggist the price of another necklace." from her English home to go to her father, Thaddeus Craven, iu New Bismarck Gave Cherished "Weed" to says It darkens tin* hair so naturally “Daddy ! As If I thought of that!" York, whom she hasn't seen for the years. Three days out on boa"d Wounded Soldier and Enjoyed nnd evenly that nobody can tell It has “Probably you don't, being yourself. the steamer Alsutla, she runs plump Into Craven, tunking love to Mrs. Watching Man’s Contentment. been applied. You altnply dampen a Still— you'll marry some day. and pearl Sponge or soft brush with It and draw Merrilees, a young widow, engaged to marry him. Later Craven ex coliurs don't grow on every hough of With all tils hrusqueness nml even, this through your hair, taking ouo plains his mysterious conduct and supposed bachelorhood by telling orange blossoms.” By morning the Lydia he is a British secret service agent iu America. She Is attacked at times, brutality, Bisumrek, snys strand at a lime. gray hair disappears, and after an “I'm uot thinking of being married," at night and a small box containing supposed valuable documents, Frederick Marvin, had much of the other application or two. It becomes Lydia murmured, looking away. which iu lias given her to keep for him, is stolen. Quoin, un amateur "live and let live" philosophy, and It beautifully dark and glossy. •“Oh. 1 presume not- no more than humanized him so ttint men loved him detective, recovers it for her, and when the party lands at New York, W yeth’s Huge and Hulphur Com the next girl of your age! Nothing do I.ydia. carrying the box openly, has no trouble passing the customs In and willingly followed after liltn. The pound is a delightful toilet requisite ing with Deter Truft. eh?" spection. When Mrs. Merrilees declares u $00.00) necklace and the story of the last cigar at Kocnlggratt for thoso who desire a more youthful "Oh, daddy! Don't he silly!" inspector finds it an imitation worth $300, she is held and searched as a illustrates what lias been said, says1 appearance. It is not Intended for the Lydia met his gaze fairly and hon cure, mitigation or prevention of die smuggler. Despite past tricks, however, Mrs. Merrilees is honest this the Yorkshire (E n g.) Dost. estly. laughter In her eyes, and Craven ease. time. “The value of a ^;< mm I cigar," said accepted her disclaimer without ques TO BKKAK IN NKW HHOKM AI.WAVH I NK Bismarck, as he proceeded to light an tion. AIU-n'« Knit t W . IS « anttM>t>tlr i«iw.l«-r It excellent Havana, “is last understood “ Well, Dm sorry for Deter. He's n iM-Vf’ i i t » t l i t l i t i i » > am i t>llataring. Kt-hcw-a l om > , when it Is tin* last you possess and ( C H A P T E R X — Continued. lutikuua. amt Hwollan. H a n illiiir A r h ln g K«nrt. "Which? Oh. I see!” Here the cur good hoy— well off too. And he's mighty ( l l v i a rr.1 am! rum f.irt A n -a p t mi ■ u ln titu tc. drew away, so that Black Dutch was no strong for you. Mustn't let yourself be there is no chance of getting another. Ham pin K K K E A.klraaa, A l i m H. O l m . t « l . I* . After a brief conference he turned longer visible. “I’m not dead sure," misled by Peter's reputation. Just I«*- At Kocnlggnitz 1 tiad only one elgnr Roy. N. V. back to Lydia and Deter. “A had busi Deter resumed, “but he looks a heap cause he’s got the name of a gay young left Iu my pocket, which I carefully ness he doubted iu an undertone, like a chap Quoin pointed out in the butterfly is no real reason why he guarded during tin* whole of the bat wagging his head. “Betty's played the smoking room one night— one of a shouldn't he in deud earnest this time." tle, as a miser does tils treasure. 1 did not feel Justified In using It, game straight as a die this trip; but brace of deep-sea sharks we had “I wish you wouldn't say such nothing on earth will make these )***>• aboard. Chap with a queer name— things.’’ “I painted in glowing colors in my mind tin* happy hour when I should pie believe that, after the way she's Lefty— no, I've got it— Southpaw “ W ell— don’t forget him, when you carried on in the past. Looks like an Smith. \\ hy do you ask? You cer enjoy It after the victory. But 1 mis do come to think of marrying. And,” all-day session— no good your sticking tainly can't know the fellow I" calculated my chances. And what was Craven dismissed the subject airily, “of round; nothing either of you can do. Lydia sank back into her corner, course you would be happier as mis the cause of my mlscalculatlona? A Quoin und I will stand by Betty; but with a head awhlrl. “No," she said, tress of your own establishment thun— |M»or dragoon. He lay helpless, with you'd better cut along. You won't tnind “no, I don't know him. I— iu*— some well— playing second fiddle in mine." both arms crushed, asking for some N o humbug! Any corn, whether dropping Lydia at the Great Eastern how reminded me of something very thing to refresh lit in. I felt In my hard, soft or between the toes, will Had he shipped tier tin* girl could unpleasant.“ hotel. Deter?" pockets and found only gold, and that loosen right up and lift out. without hardly hnve suffered deeper pal.; and “No— I won't precisely what you would lie of no use to him. But stay. a particle of pain or soreness. humiliation. He wanted to in* rid of This drug Is called freezone and Is might call uiind.” Deter declared, C H A P T E R XI. 1 had still tny treasur<s| cigar! I tier! That truth was out ut last. H ow a compound of ether discovered by a lighted tills for him and placed it be Cincinnati man. brightening. ever kindly Craven’s primal Impulse to tween tils teeth. Yotl should liuve S4*en "I engaged rooms by wireless yester From the manner of the room clerk Ask at any drug store for a small deceive, the time hud come when he day. It'll take a day or two, you know, Lydia inferred that tne name of Thnd- the poor fellow’s grateful smile I I bottle of freezone, which will coat but could or would no longer dissemble. to readjust tny diggings to receive a deus Craven was well esteemed hy the never enjoyed a cigar so much ui a trifle, hut la sufficient to rid one’s Her thoughts worked swiftly. Since feet of every corn or callous. daughter. Now cleur out— like good management of the Great Eastern. Nor that one which I did not smoke.” he found her a drag, she must cease to Dut a few drops directly upon any was this impression at all modified by children!” be such ut once— instantly— tonight. tender, aching corn or callous. In Lydia bade hurried farewells. Giving the rooms to which she was shown— u An Odd Collision. Until she could find some way to be stantly tho soreness disappears and Quoin her hand, she hoped he wouldn't suite so complete and luxurious In ap- "One would Imagine It t<> in* safe. In shortly the corn or callous will loosen come self-supportiug the hospitable forget to call, as he’d promised. Quoin ; pointinents that its appeal was strong doors of Mrs. IJeggarstafTs home of preparing n list of Improbabilities, tc and can be lifted off with tho fingers was persuaded that such oversight i to the sybaritic strain with which This drug freezone doesn’t eat out fered a haven where Lydia felt sure Include such a thing ns a collision be would be symptomatic of insanity. His heredity hud endowed the girl. of finding a welcome, sympathy, uffec- tween an airplane nnd a steam roller,” tho corns or callouses but shrivels Toward six o'clock she dropped, worn tone was light; but his direct and pene says the Popular Mechanics Magazine them without even Irritating tho sur tlon. rounding skin. trating gaze embarrassed the girl, and I out, into an armchair beside an open With n brisk trend nnd n cheerful "A rear etui crash of two s<> utterly *11 f Just think! No pain at all; no sore she was fluttered by consciousness that window in the living room. Wearily countenance Craven returned to the sit ferent machines seems extremely In ness or smarting when applying It or bn r cheeks were unaccountably aglow, the girl's eyelids drooped. Insensibly congruous. Anti yet this Is precisely ting room. “Hello! What's troubling afterwards. If your druggist don’t her fingers tremulous in his firm grasp. she drowsed, drifting into a sort of my girl? Something on your rnlnd, eh?" what occurred not long ago at an avi have freezone have him order It for Betty Merrilees offered a cool cheek halfwaking nightmare, wherein she ation field near Buffalo. N. Y\ Th* you. She eyed him gravely. “ Do you real to Lydia’s lips. “Don't worry about with her father waged incessant war xtenm roller was being used on th* m e!" she protested pettishly. “Besides, agnlnst powers of darkness, shapeless, ly wunt me to marry Deter Truft?" «In- turf when an airman attempted tc demanded. in your heart of hearts you believe I’m featureless, inscrutably malign— make n landing. In doing this he cither "W hy consult my desires? You'll do guilty— you know you d o !" The Inst rays of the sinking sun flood by C U I T H ' I B l A C K l f Q f i l l * mlcal'-nlnti <1 the relative positions of L t i v 1 1 • c -i. “I don't!” Lydia insisted, and in the ed her face, even as It Impregnated her as >oQ please anyway— Just as I did at his craft and the heavy roller, or be If' h ( p r r l a r r r . t l»y ’ your age. It’s a good match, and If you next breath. “You didn’t— honestly?" dream, with the hue of blood. Twilight, c a m e 'object struck,’ for the nose of wra'.rrn at • k • I*-* vc they ' Betty’s mood melted transiently. succeeding, caught together the gap find you cure enough for the young- 1 the plane wns plunged with consider »h en * »(h er ' »aceIn** fall. “Honest In ju n !” she declared with ing arras of the sky. Minutes wove a ster,” he raised Ids bunds in mock bene a b l e force against the rear of tin- other if W r’fo f* » k M *r. 1 tc»* muntoli, diction, "bless you, my children 1 But mirth in her voice, but downright can web of hours— machine. Fortunately no one wns had in don Pkf. Blachl*! P 111 . 11 M B0-S sst SM - W s c b ls f flit« . 1* 00 dor in the eyes that held Lydia's. “And Abruptly Lydia found herself on her — upon my word !— never can tell about ly Injured, hut the propeller of the air l '*# any In}»* *«*, I aj ! ( itt**’ « %tm (>!«•% ( an*! «frun geat. I don’t blame anyone for climbing up feet, a low cry shuddering in her you women. Only two minutes ugo— ’’ craft was broken, the landing gear 7 h# B*»perl'»#tty ol I wtle» |>f'"lii* ts ia >1 .* *»» * -r It f«an of . • YAmNH an » ami'm "That was when I still believed you wrenched, and the radiator smashed." , on the fence, either,” she added in throat, aware that the room was ablaze ONLY. Ì U .131 UN CUI rKM X II w i n diro* t. cryptic phrase, “all except these de with light, that shr was no longer wanted me with you, when I thought I T bs C sttsr la b s rtt s ry . I s r b s lt y . Cantam i* ¿J spicable customs m en!" alone. Then, calming, she realized might be n help to you, not an obstacle , To Close London Churches. I'eter’s town car was waiting at the nothing more terrible than Craven’s iu the path of your happiness. Better The City of London will have forty j to marry at once— the first bidder— and or fifty of Its church«** dosed In tin pier entrance, and when’he had helped return. her into it, Lydia, looking out through He stood near the center of the room, repent too lute. If that must bt— thun j near future, till after the war, as n re the limousine door, viewed a section of staring, evidently at n loss to account to know I'm in your way.” mit t of the bishop's scheme for relean -1 “Llddy, my dear little girl I” The Ing clergy for national war work j the throng of passengers waiting for for her agitation, his face slightly tone was fond, the smile indulgent; hut | There a r e now only about 20,000 pen] taxicabs, in the forefront of which flushed yet lowering. stood two men. “ Well?” he demanded sharply. "W hat with sharpened vision she saw through pie resident in the city (the centro! I the pretense. One faced her and first attracted at the deuce is the matter with you?" portion of the whole municipality), nn<i! " N o !” she cried passionately. “N o l if present plans go through, only eight j tention by his singularly persistent “You— you startled me.” she fal stare— a stoutish body, by no means tered with a tremulous smile. "I must Don't— don't waste time trying to de churches will be kept open for theb| Restored to Health by Lydia E. tall, snug in a braided morning coat— have fallen asleep, waiting for you— ceive me, daddy!" Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. use. the London mode, glossy topper, white und then I had a horrible dream— ” Turning she stumbled blindly Into spats and all. down to the sliver-mount Craven’s look swept her from head her bedroom, shut the door, and threw To Explain Russian Minersl Deposits Aurora, III.— “ For seven long months ed stick of malacca— wearing a humor to foot, captious and ugly. “You herself ucross the bed, sobbing. An Important geological expedition] I suffered from a female trouble, with ous eye in his square-Jawed, scarlet haven’t dressed," he said— meaning After some time the door latch severe pains in my Is to he undertaken hy Busslan sei , face— one who would readily pass cur that she hadn’t changed for dinner. clicked. “L ld d y !” hack and sides until enlists Into the mountainous region I became so weak I rent as an elderly and retired gentle “Been asleep long?" The girl made no answer. She of Julian, South Caucasus, for the ex j could hardly wulk man of means, with a penchant for “Why— some hours, I presume. What couldn't; she whs struggling to hush plorntlon of mineral beds there. It from chair to chair, good cooking and outdoor life. time is It? It was just sunset, the last her sobs. Is hoped that the expedition will be and got so nervous His companion, some Inches taller I knew.” “Llddy!” Craven came to her side, able to recommend the exploitation oil I would jump at th.* and built upon more rakish lines, stood “After nine o’clock now. Then you’ve and seated himself on the bed. “Little extensive beds of coni and certnln slightest noise. I half turned aside so that she could see hod no dinner?" was entirely unfit girl,” he said, with melancholy, “you’ve rare minerals. The expedition will be little more than the salient line of a to do my house Lydia shook her head. “I was wait hurt me terribly, misjudged rne so l**d by M. Androussov, u well-known dark, lean cheek, and a long and nar ing for you.” work, I was giving cruelly. But no matter. I realize that Busslan geologist. row back-head. But that was quite up hope o f ever be “You shouldn't hnve,” he grumbled. you don’t understand." ing well, when my enough to make her sit up with a start, | “Thought I told you not to count on No Use For Them. He touched her hair caressingly. She sister asked me to remembering that she had seen him me. I’ve been busy of course, flying To Richard, aged four, accompanied hy try Lydia E. Dinkham’s Vegetable Com once before in precisely that pose, out round all afternoon, getting Betty set- suffered this without response. pound. I took six bottles and today I side the window of her stateroom. He ) fled. Otherwise should have been home night her wits were keyed to u pitch of his mother, was watching a regiment am a healthy woman able to do my own divination. Beneath the cloying ten of soldiers, headed hy Its hand, march turned for a moment toward her bring- I long ago." I wish every suffering derness In his accents she read the ing hy. “Mamma,” he asked, "what’s housework. ing to her view his right eye— covered "I have been worried about Betty woman would try I.ydia E. Pinkham's the use of all them soldiers that don’t truth too clearly. Vegetable Compound, and find out for hy n black patch! j Mrs. Merrilees— ” “I’ve Just telephoned for dinner. It’ll make music?” themrelves how good it is.’’— Mrs. C aiu , Happily Deter chose that moment to | “Oh. that business I” n e smiled A. K ie s o , 696 North Ave., Aurora, III. climb into the car, arid so blocked out ] grimly. "It was over sooner than I ex- be up presently, und I want you to try Playing Safe. The great number o f unsolicited tes the disturbing vision. On the other petted. Unpleasant for her— to submit to eat something. Get up, please, and Eusebius was told hy his mamma timonials on file at the Dinkham Lab hand, he was quick to note the evi to being searched hy a female Inspec dry your eyes, compose yourself, nnd not to stay to menls at his aunt's with oratory, many o f which are from time be fair to me.” dence of her distress. tor. But of course they found nothing, out nsking her. Ho wns Invited to to time published by permission, are “Very well," Lydia said stiffly, with “H ello!” he cried In deep concern. and had to let her go. And now she’s proof o f the value o f Lydia E. Pink- dinner nnd his aunt said she would out stirring. “W hat’s up? Surely you’re not feeling threatening all manner of trouble.” ham’s Vegetable Compound, in the With a final approving pat Craven nsk his mamma hy phone. IIo sukl; treatment o f female ills. in r “Then the necklace was really “Don’t ask her, tell her." rose, "Thank you, my dear,” he said She shook her head vigorously, and stolen? I’m so sorry!” Every ailing woman in tho United gently. He sight'd, moved toward the Elates is cordially invited to write to in heedless agitation raised a gloved “Yes.” Craven eyed her curiously And Pay Dearly. the Lydia E. Dinkham Medicine Co. hand and pointed. "Peter, who is that j for an Instant. "Yes, It was stolen, door, but there paused. “ By the way," The road to ruin Is kept In good re- (confidential), Lynn, M ass ., for special he observed carelessly, "that thing I man— the tall one, there, with the right enough, and a clean-cut Job, if advice. • I t is free, will bring you health gave you the other night— the puzzle pair at the expense of those who ti black patch over his eye?” and may save your lifa. you ask me. The thief must have been ovar IL— Cincinnati Tlmes-Htar. box— It is safe. I presume?” LADIES! O H YOUR GRAY HAIR CLOT tWG £7 55 J SUFFERING CATS! GIVE THIS MAN THE GOLD MEDAL BLACK ^ S0RElr PREvn,TfB LEG MRS. KIESO SICK SEVENJONTHS