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THE G AT E CITY JO U R NAL / A Sweet Breath at ait times y T & eT R U A N T S O U L b y Victor Rousseau Ceprnshi h , W . C. O i«pev»e CHAPTER IX— Continued A fte r or — nltln« W rlflcyb frrehrne thr ■ o n and nrrrtriu the breath. Nerrre are eoothed. throat la rehrrehed and digestion aided. Ty&c little yedwtf after ettery meatf,J§ Thought a of Trouble» W e should also think over the trou bles. for we should think over our whole life. The sweetness and good ness of things belong to us only at this price. They console us for dlsenchant- meuts and glra value to existence.— Jean Flnnot. When You Feel a\ C old Com’ ineOn\y \\ \ Take Laxative'' 'B ro m i Q uinine « table fs to work off the cause and to fortify the system against an attack of Grip or Influ enza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. Price 30c. The box bears this signature 6 ?fr S tr s Modern Mother Lady (meeting child In the park)— "You are a dear, sweet child! 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But after that tha hoodoo got him. That w ai when I was afraid.” “The hoodoo?" Inquired Joan. "Ulsg Wentworth, the devil who was at him so long got hold of him once or twice. I ’ve seen him come back from Avonmouth a different man. Miss Wentworth. That’s when I ’ve been afraid. Because the devil that can kill tha body Isn't much of a devil, but when he kills the soul there la no help but prayer. When he’s In those dreadful moods he's another man. He's a wicked man, Miss Went worth, and I ’d shoot him then, If he tried to harm me or any of mine, and I wouldn't think I’d killed Doctor Lan caster. It all began after they accused him of stealing the trust funds” “ It la not true,” said Joan. " I ’m sure It Isn't, Miss Wentworth. But you see old Doctor Lancaster didn't leave the charge of the fund to his son; he left It In the care of the trustees. And there were com plications about the hospital at Avon mouth. And then, after the doctor’s bride ran away on the eve of their marriage It changed all hla nature.” “ I have heard of that,” said Joan quietly. "But we must not discuss that In the doctor's absence.” "Why, everybody knows about that. Miss Wentworth. Before It happened they say the doctor was the moat re spected man In Lancaster. He’d been horn here, yon know, on the planta tion down In the valley Millville way. She was a Miss Reid. She came rrom Farnley county. She was the reigning belle there, admired and flattered, and It turned her heart to a atone to have all the men after her, crazy to marry her. The doctor was a young man then, and he couldn't see any further Into her heart, such as It was, than the rest of them. "She led the doctor a chase before she promised him, they say. But the very day before their marriage was to have been she left her home without a word to anyone, to go off with an other man who's never been discov ered. That broke the doctor up. He took to drugs then, they tell me. The Inatltnte had been a big place before; It stood over on Morley’s hill, but It burned down one night, and we took this old farm honae. And the doctor wag using the funds, they said, and wasn’t responsible at all. “The trustees found that the money was gone. Nobody knew where It went, because the doctor had his own Inheritance, and he wasn’t the man to iteal or squander. They wouldn't do anything to him, because of his fam ily, but they put Mr. Myers In charge of the finances. That's all. None of us liked him, but what could we do about It? He was here when Doctor Jenkins and I were appointed, and as soon as we understood how matters were we agreed to stay aa long as we could and try to help the doctor.” "Mrs. Fraser, I want to know why Mr. Myers Incited Doctor Lancaster to nse morphine,” said Joan. “ Miss Wentworth—” “ You know he did. You told me so. And Doctor Jenkins knows.” The matron looked agitated. "What could we do?” she cried. "Suppose we knew, what ran two people do against a man like Myers? Suppose we had said go, who would have be lieved ua? We did all we could do; and we all love the doctor and would rather stay with him and help where we could than be discharged and do nothing.” She looked at Joan piteously, like a child caught In wrong-doing. " I know you did your best,” an swered the girl. "But why should Doctor Lancaster stay here In Myers' power, Instead of at hla borne In Avonmouth, where he la respected and powerful? Nothing of all this la known there.” The matron wrung her hands. “ I don’t know,” she answered. " I sup pose that man has had him by the throat In more ways than we know. Whenever the doctor used to go to Avonmouth Mr. Myers would go with him, and generally he'd come back with him. Miss Wentworth, till you came here the doctor wasn't a man; what with hla drugs and the bold Mr. Myers had over him, he was Just a machine. And Mr. Myers was the driver.” Joan had the feeling that she should not listen to the matron’s talk about Lancaster; It seemed disloyal of h e r; but she felt, too, that she must know more, and apeedily, If she was to thwart that menacing evil which she sensed more and more clearly as the momenta passed. "Miss Wentworth," said the matron, placing her hand on the girl's aim firmly, “there’i something else I ought to have told yon about. Mrs. Dana—" “ H ark!” Interrupted Joan, holding up her hand for alienee. Then they heard, a long distance away, and Inaudible to one whose at tention was not strained, like theirs, tha sound of the wheels of Jenkins' buggy I TOUaG. lee. WS IsSMS «U > » S S Boon. Chapter X MOStsri > ( HIWIMJ A.ND euoaiM. TOBACCO I pound«. I l . l t ; IS poende. I l l » , IS pound». 14» U S 1 TST) F A R B BUS. W 1NOO. ttT Ikf. N. U.. Set? la k e City. No. »1 9 2 «. Joan hurried oat - 310 a the veranda and stood peering under bar raised hand across the rain awaasped fields to where the carriage road wound la and out among the hills. The sun had set, and It waa beginning to grow dusk; a bat was flitting under the eaves, and the ateady downpour never ceased. Mrs. Fraser, who had moved to follow the girl, went back Into her room. There was a queer, troubled pucker about her Ups, and once she went to the door and looked Intently at Joan, who had not stirred from her position of expectancy. Presently, looking out through the dripping trees, Joan could see the buggy crawling up the hill through the mud. Slowly It moved along the road. Jenkins waa driving, and there were two men with him, not one. Joan recognized Lancaster; then she per ceived, first the hard hat, next Myers' face under It. She shuddered. The worst had come about, then. But the last battle was joined, and under her fears she felt a hardening of her spiritual resources. She would not falter. She went slow ly toward the top of the three low wooden steps, and stood there like a statue, watching the buggy pass up the weed-grown drive until It came to 1 standstill. Lancaster and Myers were laughing together, and, aa Myers saw the girl, he said something, and the other threw back hla head in merriment. Myers was the first to descend. He raised hla hat to Joan and grinned. “The doctor’s come back quite safe, you see,” be said, “ and feeling fine again.” Joan hardly noticed the man; she was bracing herself to bear what was to come. Lancaster got out, and Jenkins, con trary to hla custom, lashed the horse violently and drove rapidly away. Myers and Lancaster came up the steps of the porch together. Now Lan caster was raising his bat In turn, and under It waa the face of the smirking bully of the operating theater at the Avonmouth hospital. “ Well, I had a fine trip to Avon mouth, my dear, and I hurried back as fast as 1 could, to see you. 1 couldn’t stay away from you very long. Joan, after you saved my life. And I per suaded Mr. Myers to return with me. We're all going to be good friends. Mrs. Fraser! Mrs. Fraser I Where the devil are you?” he bawled. Mra. Fraser’s frightened face ap peared at the door. “ Here, air I" she stammered. “ Is supper ready? I f so. we’ll all eat together." "It's waiting, sir. I'll lay another place," said the matron. "Good 1 Then we’ll go in. What do you say, Joan, darling? Aren't yofl glad to see me?” he asked, linking his arm In the girl's and advancing his face within a few Inches of hers. W’ lth a sob Joan tore herself away from him and ran upstairs at the top of her speed. She waa choking with grief and shame. Hard as she ran, she knew her flight was an Incentive to Lancaster to follow her. He went after her aa fast as he could, and, as she slammed the door of her room, his hand was on the knob outside. She was Just too late to turn the key. "Joan I Joan 1 Open the door and don't act like a little fo o l!” he shout ed. "W hat’s the matter with you? Ain't you glad I’ve come back? Say, I've got a half dozen bottles of the fizzy stuff In my bag, and we three will make a night of It.” "Oh, won't you please leave me?” pleaded Joan. "Try to remember how —how different you were yesterday.” “ That's true 1” he swore. “ I'm dif ferent now. I was a sanctimonious mug yesterday. I'm In my right mind today. It gave me the blue creeps, being cooped up here in this uod- forsaken place. I tell yon, Joan, now that I've had enough good liquor to soak that morphine out of my system I'm feeling like a king. Say, now, come down to supper, like a good lit tle girl, and we’ll have a great time together. Myers doesn't bear any lll- feellng. And we'll pat hint out after a while and finish up the bottles our selves. And say— ” He was advancing toward her with hla arms outstretched. Joan sprang back to the waahstand and snatched up the half-filled pitcher, with such an evident determination to defend her self with It that the man fell back scowling. "Joan, don't be a little Jackass!" he shouted angrily. “ I know what yon mean when you look at me like that. You think you're above being Jolly and sociable, Just because I don’t choose to stand on my dignity tonight. Did you expect me to go about al ways looking like a sanctified mummy, aa I did when I waa III7” “ Listen, Doctor Lancaster,” panted the girl. ” 1 am not going to judge you by wha» you are saying now. Leave me, and tomorrow, If you are yourself, 1 shall be willing to hear your explan ation, because I know It Is not your better self that Is speaking. I.pave iny room now, please. Immediately 1” The man glared at her; but he waa dominated, In spite of himself, by her courage and apparent calmness. “Well, I'm not going to fight with you before I've had my supper,” he answered. "You think things over, and In a little while I guess you'll tee them In a different light. You can't fool me with those mock alra and graces, dearie. I've teen them In women before. Used to believa In them once, ton, till I found it meant that It was going to coat me more In the end. You come down and net straight, Joan— seer' He clemmed the door viciously be hind him. Joan fell apoa her knees betide her bed. Thera, tearless, hut shaken with her grief, ebe poured cut a wild prayer for the lost tool of the man. This was worse than anything she could have divined. Better by far that he had returned as on that earlier day, drugged and possessed by the morphine spirit than In the chains of this devil. Better that he had died. For Lancaster, even when the shifty, false, lying drug fiend was In control of hjm, had never been vicious and vile like this before. And yet this was the John Lancas ter of the Southern hospital. It waa the traditional Lancaster In hla hour of relaxation. He treated women shamefully, as a gossiping nurse had said. Joan had never been In fear of physical harm as she was now. She rose from her knees, looking wildly about her. Then she heard footatepa outside, and she sprang back across the room. But It was only the matron. Mra. Fraser cast a scared glance at her and ran forward. “ What did he say to you?" she cried. “ I am afraid of him. I dare not stay here. Where shall I go?” cried Joan, losing all self-control. In the midst of her terror Joan sud denly realized that the look upon the matron's face was the same aa on her first night, when they had held a brief conversation In the same room. For a moment Mrs. Fraser did not answer her. The women drew togeth er, listening. They were having sup per below, conversing In boisterous tones and laughing loudly. Joan heard her own name spoken, and a renewed outburst of mirth followed. “ Mrs. Fraser,” said Joan, “the Doc tor Lancaster whom I respect and honor Is not In that man’s body. I am going away. I am going at once. I shall ask Doctor Jenkins to protect me until tomorrow. He la a gentle man ; he will do so.” “ You can't go through this storm," exclaimed the other, and, aa she spoke, Joan realized that the wind had risen to a hurricane, and the houghs creaked and snapped like pistol shots. “ You must stay here tonight. Stay with me, and I ’ll swear he shall not hurt you. Look at this 1" She pulled a revolver from beneath her apron and handed It to Joan. “I've kept that ever alnce the last time he came back like this, when he went raving among the patients, mad with liquor. That was the end of the institution. He frightened a sick girl almost to death. Use It on him If you must—use it, because It won't be him you'll kill, but the devil that's got him.” She was almost Incoherent with fear and excitement. Joan took the re volver and slipped It Into the pocket of her uniform. Oddly enough, ahe felt that the Lancaster of that eve ning had so grossly wronged the Lan caster of earlier days that to kill him would he to avenge an Intolerable out rage. She hated him with all the Intensity of which her heart waa capable, hated him for the wrong he had done himself, the outrage on their love; and under the hate the flame of the love she had borne burned pure and clear. It was long since dark, but the maid had not lit the lamp outside Mrs. Dana’s door, near the head of the stairs. The moon had not yet risen. The women crept cautiously along the hall. Lancaster and the secretary were In Myers' room. The door was open. Joan heard a cork fly with a bang, and the gurgle of the champagne In glasses. Their voices were ralaed high, and there came the sound of a scuffle. "Sit down 1” the secretary was cry ing. “ Do you want to be a fool and spoil everything? Leave her alone until tomorrow.” "I'm d— d If I dot” cried Lancaster. "W alt a minute! Listen to met You agreed to come back here and put her out. Why don't you do It now?” Lancaster laughed coarsely. "B e cause she’s too d—n pretty, Myers,” he answered. (T O BE C O N T IN U E D .) Boy Wat Right There After Job He Wanted He waa a clean-cut, wide-awake young chap and he wanted a Job. “ I have nothing at present,” said tha corporation manager, “ but leave your name and If anything turns up you will be notified." “ May I ask If you have made tbe same promise to many others," said the applicant. “ Yes, quite a few,” waa tha reply. The boy grinned and remarking that It waa no monopoly he went out. A few days later a young man waa needed In a hurry and seven tela- grama were dispatched to seven wait ing applicants. 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