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/ / / / / Held in T ru st IT hs touched It. It's committing sui cide," he added Jocularly, "tonight! ‘‘Keep out I" he broke off to cry. “ If you know what'a good for you!" For now the servants— or whoever was In the hall—evidently bad decided It waa time to do something, to break In. "Is a .“ said Stanford Gorgam. second ing him, "keep out." For he felt— by Instinct as well as by reason— that he would have a longer and a better chance to manipulate this thing If left alone. “ What Is It you want." he asked the man whose eye he held. And he saw with growing satisfaction the hand holding the revolver now somewhat lowered—held for support more closely to the body of the other. “ A little more!" he thought, as the other waa discr urging "You I" replied Hasbrouck Ruther ford simply, with a gleam of high sat isfaction In hla eye. "You first! You thought you'd get It, didn't you? You thought by this move now you'd taka over all the Gorgam money as residu ary legatee? Yon won't. Not now— or e v er!" It was soon clear to Stanford Gor gam that It was not bis old acqualn- tancs's purpose to set before he talked —and at considerable length. He could see, he thought, that the pleasure to which this man looked forward Is settling old scores by murdering him 1 GEORGE K1BBE TURNER Illustration* by Irwia Myera m m n n m n m m n n n n m ii fl M i ' i i ' i i ' i i" * m ir; Copyright Metropolitan Newspaper Service 8YNOPSI3 C H A P T E R I— J a s p e r H a i g and H « i b r o u c k R u t h e r f o r d w e r e ■«•arching fo r a y o u n g w o m a n — a g i r l w h o r e se m b l ed A d e l a i d e R u t h e r f o r d e n o u g h to se r v e aa he r double. F o r H a i g w a s m a n a g e r o f the g r e a t a i x t y - m i i l i o n - d o l l a r G o r g e in t ru st -o en e ft t, c r e a t e d by old D a n iel G o r g a m In hla w i l l f o r the benefit o f his d a u g h t e r A d e l a i d e d u r i n g her l i f e t i m e ; R u t h e r f o r d , t h e husband o f A d el a id e, sh a re d h er great w ea lt h . A n d — A d e l a i d e R u t h e r f o r d waa d y i n g waa a l r e a d y unconscious. C H A P T E R I I — T h e y fo u n d the y o u n g wom an— M ary Ma n ch e st er , a work- w e a r y but s t i l l b e a u t i f u l y o u n g sh op g ir l who was th o ro u g h ly discouraged w i t h life, and a r r a n g e d f o r a m e e t i n g C H A P T E R I I I — M a ry liv e d with a d r u n k e n s t e p f a t h e r w h o had no In t er e st | in her, so it h ap pe n ed th a t w h e n H a i g — a f t e r e x p l a i n i n g tha t A d e l a i d e and he r husband had l i v e d a p a r t f o r so m e i y e a r s — o ffe r ed her grea t w ealth he 1 fou nd he r In a r e c e p t i v e mood, but sh e de m a nd ed to see t h i n g s f o r h e r sel f. C H A P T E R I V — F i n d i n g c o n d it io n s as t h e y had been d e s cr ib e d to he r she a cc ep te d the p r o p o s i t i o n and on tha t n i g h t the r e a l A delaide Ru therford dlad C H A P T E R V — T o th e n e w s e r v a n t s w h o re pl a ce d the o l d o n e » In the R u t h e r f o r d hou seh ol d It be c o m e s a p p a r en t th a t t h e ir m is tr es s wa s r a p i d l y i m p r o v i n g — t ho u gh they, li k e e v e r y o n e else, had been g i v e n to un d ers ta n d tha t h e r mind wa s unbalanced. H e r p h y s i cia n confided to S t a n f o r d G o r g a m a cousin of A delaide and H u sb r ou ck R u t h e r fo r d , and a pe r so na l e n e m y o f t he la tter, th a t his p a t i e n t w a s not i n sane. CfTATTER V I — Stanford prom ptly w e n t to see his cousin and w a s den ied a d m it t a n c e by a n e w d o o r m a n Suspi cious, he e m p l o y e d a l a t c h - k e y to a p r i v a t e en tra nc e, a k e y o nce g i v e n him by the el de r G o r g a m . Con frontin g “ A d e la id e ,” he r e c o g n i z e d he r fo r an Impostor. “ A n d y e t, “ he i n c r e d u l o u s l y said to h i m s e l f a f t e r w a r d , " m u r d e r — w i t h th a t f a c e ! " CHAPTER V I I — Ig n o ra n t o f Stan f o r d ’ s id e n t it y , A d e l a i d e a ss u m e d f r o m his possession o f the k e y tha t he w a s h er sup posed husb and and sen t f o r H a s b r o u c k — w h o cams, fou nd h e r p l e a s i n g and In sis te d t h a t w h e n he c a m s n e x t sh e be k i n d t o him, o t h e r w i s e he w o u l d h a v e h e r c o nf in ed aa insane. CHAPTER V I I I — S tanford G orgam In a eecond i n t e r v i e w a l l bu t accused h e r o f b e i n g a murd ere ss. CHAPTER I X — D e s p e ra t e , A d e l a i d e t r i e d to esc ap e a nd w a s p re ven te d. C H A P T E R X — T h e n she fo u n d a note f r o m G o r g a m u nd er h e r d o g 's c o l l a r o f f e r i n g to co m e a nd t a k e he r a w a y . B y th e sa m e m a l l c a r r i e r she a n s w e r e d : “ T o n ig h t at eig h t-th ir ty .“ C H A P T E R X I — T h e n o t e Is I n t e r c e p t ed b y a maid, a s p y in th e e m p l o y ol H aig H a i g and R u t h e r f o r d , In a panic a t the fe a r o f ex po su re , pl ot to k i l l y o u n g G o r g a i n and fix t he b l a m e on Adelaide T h e pl ot g o e s w r o n g and Ja s p e r H a i g is k i l l e d b y R u t h e r f o r d . CHAPTER XII Was It pure accident which at the laat moment held back Stanford Gor gam from the appointment for which he had waited Impatiently all day— a prlaoner first of a broken crunk-shaft In the Inttrin old tnxlcub he had sum moned, and again of the law In the second cab, which he had finally ob tained and In which he waited, de tained Inexorably a mile uwny from his destination by the Inflexible maj- esty of a traffic officer affronted by speeding? He thought so certainly at the time. He thought so again, with sharp regret and apprehension, as he stood turning the key In the Inside door of the passageway to his dead uncle's study. The sound of a woman screaming warning, pounding upon the opposite side of a door Is- In spite of Its obvi ous purpose—not really calculated to stay for long Its opening—especially with the sudden ceasing of the out cries Immediately following the other most suggestive sound of a body thrown violently npon the floor. The door opened quickly, and through the entrance came Stanford Gorgam. ''Stand still 1” said a voice which, though strained to an unnatural pitch, he still recognised He stood still— rigidly staring Into the muzzle of the revolver In the hands o f hts old Ill-wisher Hasbrouck Ruther- ford. Behind the latter, at one side upon the floor, lay the body of the young womnn he had come to meet — apparently unconscious. “ What Is this? asked Stanford (lor gam sharply. He had noticed with hope a certain unsteadiness In the weapon aimed at such close range at his own body. He caught, he thought, the condition of the man e mind and nerves. He was not a bad wrestler, and there are cer tain advantages, as he knsw, before a physical struggle of any kind. In the catching and diverting of atten tion— the holding of eves of your op ponent. I f the other man did uot shoot at tlrst, that »a s something! “ What Is this?" demanded Stanford Gorgam—and waited. “The end!" said Usshrouck Ruther ford rather slowly. "The end of the Gorgam Trust It will slop bare— and everything that Is in it—or that J , ! j j lying Just before him on the floor. But this, he now saw. would be impos sible. Like a brown projectile the dog was on him. It was un ugly thing—vicious, w iry ; It must have weighed seventy- live pounds. He flra<l and missed It. Fortunately, though, the brute Itaelf missed lta aim In a way. It caught Instead of flesh the breadth of the coat upon his shoulder, too lightly to hold— and struck, confuted for a sec ond, against the wall. He started to fire again at the beast, but before he really could recover himself to do ao, the thing was up again It tore at bis extended hand, unfortunately, and he lost hla weapon —It fell clattering on the floor. There wus nothing to do now but to escape from this thing, for that crowd on the other side of the room could never Interfere In time to save him from It, probably— even If they tried to. The nnmangled hand of Has brouck Rutherford was on the knob of the outside door Into old Daniel Gorgam's private passageway. He opened It with what quickness he could, managed to start through It. But unfortunately the dog came with him. The spring loek clicked behind; he found himself at the head of those long white stalra, that hare, empty eplral staircase, with nothing but one hand for defense—and that half-mad dog upon him. Caught like a rat with would lose a great part of Its piquancy a weasel at the entrance of a stone If he could not discuss It beforehand rat-hole I with the man be proposed Anally to No wonder Hasbrouck Rutherford execute. cried out so hoarsely that they heard Rutherford did so now— ventilating him through the thick door, with that hla soul, discussing at length hla griev great beast at his throat I ances of all kinds—first against Stan They found him when they came In, ford Gorgam, and bis uncle, and Jus- far down at the bottom of the shiny per Haig; and then at still greater stairs, a great, loose hulk agalnsl the length agHlnst that Immaterial thing, outside door— the dog standing over now grown more real than flesh and him. blood Itself In hla mind— the Oorgam "They’re that way,” said the English Trust. It was a curious thing to watch servant who had lifted him, comment and hear; he seemed both to hate the ing afterwards, “those dogs I I’ve seen Trust and to be In terror o f It, as a then) In the old country. They never groat, Implacable, living enemy. touch a thing that’s dead 1" “ Neither you nor I nor this thing on “ He must have fullen backward the floor,” he said, again Indicating when the beast Jumped at him—from Jasper Haig, “ nor all the other men Just near the top." said the other to and women It has managed were a whom he spoke, discussing the prob match for It. The thing,“ he ex abilities of what no limn actually suu plained. “ le cunning. Cunning!" he “ What could you expect?” asked the repeated with an unpleasant smile. other. “ A heavy man like that—strik “ As cunning as It Is powerful! It's ing backward on his neck." that— really that paper devil that’s to But whatever may have been the blame, that’s brought us here together exact and unanticipated cause of Has now, and Is going to kill us. brouck Rutherford’s own death, his "Did I think," he Inquired, "when I prophecies concerning the extinction came here that I'd kill Haig? Or this of the Gorgam Trust hud not yet been girl here? No. Not for a minute! fulfilled. In fact, a very singular situ You—but not them! It wasn't I that ation had been created by Ills last did this thing, or planned It. Nor act. The two chief active agents— Hulg either! It’s this thing— this Ink- the physical brain and body, so to and-paper devil— that planned It all. speak, of that great legal person- and Is doing It now. I can see that had gone. But the Trust Itself lived —anybody can but a fool. on. And It still held In Its Incorporeal “ It's ns simple as can be. I thought grasp the young ward around whose for years,” he explained, “ that I could person It had been constructed. fool It. This thing here," he said of Jaaper Haig again, "thought so, too. C H A P T E R XI II Nothing doing! We did always what It planned for us to do— In the end— To students of large financial affairs like now I It will be of more than ordinary Inter “ Like now I I'm not doing this," he est to know— what has never been an protested with a touch of self-pity In nounced so far as yet—the intimate his voice, “ not myself I Nor this and Inside story of the steps leading thing here,” he said, Indicating Haig up to the final demise of that now once more, “nor anybody In the world. wldely-famous creature of the law, the This Is the doing— the act of this Gorgam Trust— and Incidentally of the thing that’s got us all. It's big—It's termination of Its power over the cunning. It's got us all, ending us! young woman with whom It had been It’s always done exactly what It want brought Into such a remarkable and ed. I've overheard It too, plotting and dominating relation. The end actual planning several times lately,” he stat ly came, It may now he announced ed, "plotting, planning I Coming —as so often In legal Intricacies of this around, speaking to Itaelf— In my bed kind—by means of a compromise. room nights— when It thought I was The first Instinct of the Trust’s ward, asleep I after that terrible night, was to llee, •'But,” he said, now rather hoast- to get as far away from this place lngly—speaking In the manner of a j and Its Influences— from this great tn- man who talks s great and terrible , tangible power which held her—as pos secret Anally out loud, In spite of who sible. But a little reflection showed or what may hear It, “ there's some her how Impossible this would be. The thing else In this now. It's had us, Trust was still alive, and she Its ward. always. But now I’ve got It, too! And even If she could escape— which When we're gone," he cried out bold she probably could not do— she would ly, "when this Is all over—It «111 be he still In the eyes of the law Ade gone Itself! In fifteen seconds, now, laide Rutherford, still always liable the Gorgain Trust will be dead—dead to capture and return as a legal ward, as we are!” mentally Irresponsible. The more she Stanford Gorgam, standing rigidly considered the situation, the more she like a soldier nt attention, could see realized that she was still the prisoner quite clearly that the end had come— of the Trust, and would remain so un whatever It whs to be. The end of the til she was released by the one per lecture on his own shortcomings, the son who could do this. speaker's wrongs and the diabolical He still remained, that one person machinations of tbs Uorgsm Trust wus who was able to free her, like the now at hand—In action. And still the young deliverer from the monster In uncertainty in the muule of the re a Greek legend hound fast by his volver which he had hoped and weakness, his wound. Desperately watched for had not yet appeared hurt, he was slowly recovering, one There was nothing now hut action I outside can probably only faintly real But at that time an unexpected hap ize the suspense and apprehension pening Intervened. Suddenly, without with which the ward of the (lortrain any Intimation of life, the body of the Trust heard each morning the dally girl Iteldnd his opponent raised Itself news which came from behind the high from the floor and staggered, uncer dark door o f the sick-room Into which tainly. but with s surprising rapidity, young Gorgam had been taken. toward the hall door from tiehlnd For naturally she was terribly con which still came the whlsi>ers of peo cerned over what she had done and ple and the growling of the dog. caused to be done to others— taking An acute change In the situation the blame personally to an extent. It had been crested by this set. seems, not believed by other observ "Stop I” called Hasbrouck Ruther ers Justified by the actual part she ford. had taken In the matter at the Invi It waa a confusing development to tation of Jasper Haig. And not un s nilnd not exactly In condition for naturally she was more than all con quick decision—sfter twenty-four hours cerned over this .voting man for whose of persistent drinking. If he turned to dangerous condition she felt especial Are at her. he exposed himself to the ly responsible and guilty. enemy In front As Stanford Gorgam grew gradual ly hotter. It was a time of Intense “ StopI” be cried, but still the oh stluate little fool of a girl went on and more or less mingled emotions to toward the locked door regardless to the girl; finally after a number of re- let In that crowd outside anil the dog j quests on his part, he was allowed to She staggered hut did not falter. It I see her. The hap|>enlng8 of that last eve nlng were forbidden to discussion. To was necessary to do something. Has MHry Manchester's great remorse and broach Rutherford flred one shot mining. For before he turned, the shame, the patient did. however, men other men was on him. He had only tlon the matter of her having saved time to turn again and shoot him Some j his life— as he saw It. Feeling It was where In the body when the door whs not so. knowing what she had really •pened and that crowd and that d -d done to endanger his life, this was dog was In! The situation whs now an Intense strain upon the girl's emo auurely reversed. tlons, especially as she was forbidden any discussion, or contradiction of the It had been the intention of Has brouck Rutherford si least to turn to patient. She now frit an addsd sense of ro- spocsiblllty and guilt of which she could not rid herself, end bee use of which the Idee came to her, p ap pears. that It was her duty to <>ne personally fnr her acta In every poe- slhle way. And when she was finully. at the end of s considerable number of Interviews, allowed the possibility of freer talk with the patient, she broke Into a distinct and bitter vein of self accusation. The young man watching her from Ills Invalid's chair Interrupted finally with a gleam of characteristic amuse ment In his eye. He was of a humor ous uud quizzical temperament, evi dently. “ All this Is pretty hard on me!” be Interjected with a smile. "What?" she asked, surprised a lit tie. “One part eepecially— the part where I come In. You take It rather lightly." “ I,” (he stammered, “ take It light ly !” For that certainly was not true “ What do you mean?” “ About my life being saved, by some one we might mention In this room- at the risk of her own.” "Yes.” she said, her face flushing, "after planning to rob you I After bringing you In where you were al most killed I” “Don't talk to ms like that!” he said laughingly. " It ’s bound to make my temperature rise I" For of count, be was not yet vary strong. "You've got to let me go now," she said, aroused, seeing he would never j tuke her seriously. " I ’m going to leave here—stop this farce of prelending to | be what I am not— go away. And If I I’ve done this wrong," she said, for that was almost her obsession now. “ 1 want to come out und take my punish ment.” "And do what, then?” he asked her smiling. "Go where?” “ 1 don’t know yet.” "Then how can you go?" “ 1 shall. 1 must," she Insisted. “ Oh, what’s the hurry?" he asked her. He refused entirely, It seemed to tske her seriously. "There you go again," he said, “ rals Ing my temperature— opposing me. You wait. I can’t have you doing thls- yet." It was a surprise to her. In a «'ay all very different from what she had expected. She saw very clearly now what must be done by ber She must confess publicly, show who she was take whatever punishment there was for her a ct; end this Trust and turn the great fortune over to Its rightful \ owner All that was necessary wits for him to consent-—to help her show the situation, who she really waa. And thla she had supposed he would do most readily. She was therefore most surprised at his attitude. He might not care. It seemed to her, to keep the Gorgam Trust alive, hut he cer talnly had no hua'e about ending It. “What do you take me for?” he ! asked her with an approach to aerl ' ousness when she kept urging him. “ Do 1 you think I’ll lei yon do what you are I talking about? Dive this thing through courts— and Incidentally yourself? Gel smeared with publicity like a common criminal?" "Why shouldn’t 1 he? 1 ain one." j "There seems to he," he suld. “ a difference of opinion upon that point j between you and me. And besides." , he said with a rather masterful and peremptory way he seemed to he tak Ing with her at times lately. "I don’i propose you shall I You are not stronv 1 enough— well enough, for one thing; ' and you know It.” But she Insisted thst she «'as. and I that she would go In some way. Anil he must let her. Finally he mentioned j the possibility of a compromise. ■'I'll tell you what l will do, though." he conceded. “ 1 believe that between ua we can work out a compromise. Just wait. Be patient.” It was some little time—Hfter he was able finully to he driven out to tuke cure of business matters to some extent— before he brought out, one night when they were together in the smallest and most homelike of the great downstairs rooms, the conipro mise which he had been working out. Lately she had been more and more insistent on having mutters settled, more und more determined to get away from her false position—and In a way. from him, the man whom she had conspired to Injure and keep from his rights. ''I’ll tell It all to you In order," he said. nty sehetne for a compromise. I've been working on it for some little time." "Go on. please,” she said. "In the first place," he told her, ” 1 have done this: It was necessary, you see." he said, explaining, “ that some one he appointed to the position of Jas|ier Haig as active manager of the Trust." "Yes," she said, waiting. "So I had myself appointed. You don't object?" he asked her when she did not answer but sat looking at hint. “Object, no I" she said. "Why should 1? It's all yours, anyway— not mine. Yet I don't understand It," site added somewhat suspiciously. It seemed to her that It might he another scheme of evasion or delay on his part—to keep her from doing «h at she Intended to. "1 thought," he said, "that perhaps you might thank me for it I But you will— you'll understand It later. Tliut's the first point. Now the second point In my scheme: I've arranged It now what you wanted, so that you are no longer Adelaide Rutherford— that Is you will not have the unpleasant fea lures of her! I've flxed It so yon «III he no longer under that cloud of being legally insane." "Thai does out **" It was finally, through this com nation about Adelaide Rutherford," she objected, “ —the one thing that would promise, it seems, long before the be almost Impossible to bear." coming o l this matter into court, “ What?" that the widely famous termination ‘‘Her reputation of having been In and dissolution o l the Gorgan Tiust sane." “ Her reputation," ks suld, "— with was brought about — concerning whom?" which the reader no doubt has long She of course did not know direetl "I guess you don't," he said. “ Vo ago learned the more fam iliar feat Innocent I Do you Imagine that th ures thruught he public press. Gorgam family ever let that he known (E N D ) Is It customary to advertise fundi skeletons? Not half a dozen people h Changing fish to water o f a d if the world know It; and they, you inu> he aure, always huve been und will ferent temperature from that to be strangely silent.” which they are accustomed will, ac “ Even If they are," said Mary Man Chester, still obstinate, “ that will make cording to a Daman scientist, after no difference In my plans. I'm not several generations, produce a new Adelaide Rutherford. I’m Mary Man type,mod ified in form and struct Chester and I won't be Adelaide Ruth afford much lunger,” she said, flush ure, especially in the raya o f the ing, growing a little angry. fins and the number ol Uio verte "That's It," he said, smiling, “ that's bra«. Just It. The third point of our com promise I" FOR C O U N T Y T R E A SU R E R . “ Our compromise?" she echoed aftei (Paid Advertisement.) him. “Don't you know?" he asked, and I hereby announce my candidacy, caught her hand— but not yet her eyes subject to the will o f the voters at “ No." she said with somewhat ques the Republican Primary to be held tionable truthfulness. " I want you to be— let us say—Mrs. May 16, 1924, fo r the nomination, Gorgam,” he explained with his half- to the "T te of mocking but now comparatively seri for re-election, Theasurer for .«tiiheur ous smile. "W ill you agree— to my County compromise?'' county. He was greatly surprised by her C. C. M U E LLE R . r next action. “ No," she said, springing to her feet. "No," she said vehemently. “ No— FOR C O U N T Y JUDGE. no! I won’t have It so I’m Mary tPaid Advertisement.) Manchester. I’ve never been Adelaide I hereby announce my cand dacy Rutherford, und I won't —1 won't— I won't! I’m going back to be declared fur the nomination for the po«u.ou what ‘I am lagally. “ Another thing," she said, still find o f County Judge, subject to ‘.he ex ing objections, “ is that money. It pressed will o f the republican pri doesn't belong to me. It belongs to maries to be held on May 16, 1«. '. you. Why keep up this farce.” she this announcement ! asked, “ —this awful farce of a Trust In making >« for me, when you know Just who I pledge to the voters a busui. am?" ministration. J. F. W M v Hi "1 thought,” he said with a some what less certain smile, "that was one FO R D IS T R IC T A T T O R N £.1 of the fine points of my scheme. If (P aid Advertisement.) I controlled that, the Trust, 1 would 1 hereby announce my cautua j control all the money und incidentally you I” subject to the will of the votei* ... Hut she was obstinate, he found— surprisingly so for so frail a creature. the Republican Primary to be "I've done wmng," she Insisted “ I I May 16, 1924, for the nomin know It. And I'll take my punishment ! to the office of District A. I'm going to In- Mury Manchester again some u’liy. And then I'm going as far | tor Malheur County, Oregon CHAU, k , C lo i.'i >)i away as I can—away from here and this and you." And she tried now des perately to wrench herself free. lA b ... “ So you don’t like my compromise?” P K O f r E S S l O l s A L lie said, releasing her at last with a rather wry smile. He was clearly both C H IR O PR ACTO R S surprised and disappointed. "No," she answered, “ It Is neither DRS. B RAD FO RD & E-vAD F iglit nor honest— nor anything.” Carver Me thou "L isten !" he said, catching her hand and holding her. He looked down Into Consultation and examine.io> her Hushed face. ‘‘Listen,” he said Nyssa, Oregon sternly, “ you young criminal I I want to talk to you— Hnd I shall. Let us ;o hack," he proposed, “ and take the U8TK O PATH 8 old method Jasper Haig always used lo use. Let’s work out the theory of a possible case. D R. H A R R IO T 8 F 4 ? "» “ Suppose,” he said, when she found Oetaopathle P h v b -'s herself unable to get away, but stll1 did not answer, “ a ease where a young Ontario, Orsrou woman— who is incidentally, I may say. P very good to look at— save’s a man’s Office: Wllaca Bldg 'ife nt the very great risk of her own “ ■the tried to speak then, hut he would w . u. h o x : k not permit her. “ And suppose she had a crazy Idea Goaded K eel Estate D-wie dint she had done wrong, and must go I N B I'H A A T T through and take her punishment— mil straighten everything out public Office at R e s id e »» P I a ly, In splto of all reason and common- A re a de sense. Calling herself a criminal I" Nyaaa. She tried again in vain to get away from him. “ And then suppose the man, whose CITY DRAY LINE life she had saved, and who was also for other good and sufficient reasons C. Klinkenberg absolutely determined to marry her, PROMPT DELIVER” offered her a most reasonable compro mise— by «'hlch, as his «ife . he would Reasonable Rate« have control both of her and of her money— and that she deliberately re PHONE 16 fuses—because she feels he would have too great control over her." he ATTO RN BY Eri A T LAW added, smiling Just the mere fraction of a teasing smile. "It's nothing of the kind," she an E. M. BLODGETT swered hlin. speaking for the first Attorney and Counsellor at Law time, “ and you know It.” Practica in all courts “ And supposing," he «-ent on, disre garding her remark, “ that under the Oregon law he hnd absolute control over her Nyssa legally already. What would he do," K. W. 8 W AG UES he Haked, “ especially when he saw that Attorney at L a w she was worrying herself sick over matters? What could he do.” he Rooms i t 14, 16 asked when she did not answer, “ ex W ils o n B ld g cept try again— offer one more com Ontario Oragoa. promise— which will be an ultima tum?'' "What?” asked Mary Manchester un H I H I I H H O O O I H O H O guardedly. “ This.” he said quickly, taking ad vantage of her question: “ Mary, will you marry nte?” "N o," she nnswered again more ve O IG AR 8TO KB hemently than waa necessary. :: Nyssa Barker Shop :: “ W a lt!” he commanded her. "That's ! SH AVING . H A IR DOTTING only half of my plan—the new com HOT AND GOLD B A T H * I promise. If," he said, bringing out the other half. "1 will let you after L. R HAMAKKR. Prep. ward go to court, publish yourself a Ovrqpra criminal, smash this Oorgam Trust lo| • Tyson. a million pieces— do anything you want I M M * M 44-M I ♦♦++4 to?" “ Shall I be Mary Manchester again?” demanded his opponent grimly “ Not for very long. You'll have to marry me beforehand, while I’ve still got you. You’ve got to marry me he forehand. And then we’ll finish up Call the that legal dragon of Jasper Haig’s— together! “ What do you say?” asked the offer er of the compromise. There was no answer: both stopped speaking for the time being. Bat this last compromise. It appeared, wag finally accepted For Quick Service Nyssa Transfer : P H O N E 70F1
