THE GATE CITY JOURNAI
TAeTRUANT SOUL
by Victor Rousseau
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g o ; and not even that; nothing shall
make me falter till 1 have Won you
again.”
CHAPTER X — C ontinued
The man’s eyes blazed.
“ You’re
— 15—
'
right; you’re dead right there, Joan!"
“ It's the drink In you. She isn't
better-looking than any average wom he cried, and caught her In hls arms.
an In Avonioouth. See here, are you He pressed hls lips to hers.
She struggled wildly In his grasp.
! going to bust up the game or are you
“ Let me g o !” she panted.
But she
j not?"
"I'll show y ou !” shouted Lancaster, could not free herself. She screamed.
The matron's voice shrieked through
breaking from Myers’ grasp and rush-
the door.
“ Shoot him 1" she cried.
Ing from the room.
“ Shoot him dead 1 Shoot h im !"
He met the women at the foot of
Joan wrenched her arm free and
the stairs. Hls face was flushed, his
hair disordered, hls manner maniacal. struck at the man, but he pinioned It
again.
“ You sneak, what are you butting
“ I’ve got you, Joan!” he cried tri
Into this show for?” he demanded of
umphantly, “ and nothing under heaven
Mrs Fraser.
shall make me let you go."
The matron, cowed by hls violence,
Pound for pound Alabaatine
Held as she was, Joan got her
trembled. 8he tried to pull Joan to
fingers Into her pocket. She grasped
covers more wall surface than
ward her room ; then caught her eye
the little revolver and pulled It forth.
any substitute.
and made the slightest gesture indica
She thrust It upward Into the man's
So easy to apply you can do a
tive o f shooting.
Lancaster raised
face.
He recoiled with an oath,
satisfactory job yourself. Ask
his first threateningly.
squinting st the weapon, hls face con
The matron did not lift a finger to
your dealer for colorcard or
vulsed. And In that moment knowl
defend herself. She stood quite calm
write Miss Ruby Brandon, the
edge came to Joan Wentworth.
ly.
awaiting
the
expected
blow
;
per
Alabastine Company, Grand
“ You are not John Lancaster!” she
haps It was some atavistic trait in
Rapids, Michigan.
cried.
herited through generations of poor
AUbsstine—a powder in whiteand
As 6he spoke they heard the sound
ancestors; and yet. servile although It
tints. Packed in 5-pound packages,
of halting footsteps on the porch. The
ready (or use by mixing with cold
might have been, the look on the wom
d oc- swung slowly open.
Joan’s
or warm water. Full directions on
an's face was almost heroical.
hand dropped to her side, she slid the
every package. Apply with an or
The man let hls fist f a l l; he seized
revolver mechanically Into her pocket;
dinary wall brush. Suitable for all
| the matron by the shoulders and
interior su rfa cea —plaster, w all
she tried to cry but could not.
pushed her back Into her room. He
board.brick,cement.orcanvas. Will
Upon the threshold of the door, look
| turned the key In the lock and put it
not rub off when properly applied.
ing out with a wry, distorted grin on
In hls pocket.
hls pale lips, was the man who had
“ That’s settled, I reckon,” he said
held her. And on the threshold, look
; with satisfaction.
ing In, with eyes drug-clouded, sway
Joan's hand went into her pocket.
ing and clutching at the door-pillars
Her fingers closed about the revolver
to support himself upright, was the
handle. But at that moment the sec
John Lancaster o f yesterday.
And
retary,
who
had
come
out
of
hls
room,
Spectacular H ighw ay
even Joan, with all her love and hate,
went
up
to
Lancaster.
The uew motor road through the
could not have told the one man from
“ See here, now,” lie began to re
Canadian Rockies, the Banff-WInder-
the other.
mere highwuy, Is the tlnul link In the monstrate, “ have a little sense, doctor.
But with a cry she ran to Lancas
great 0,000-mlle system known as the If you’ re bent on busting everything ter. and caught at him, und felt bis
“ Grund Circle Tour,” said to be the up. yon and I part company.”
arms about her.
The other turned on him with so
most spectacular motor route In the
menacing
a
gesture
that
Myers
filing
world.—Compressed Air Uugazlne.
C hapter XI
up hls hands In despair and went
hack
Into
hls
room.
Joan
stood
fac
Cutlcura Soap for the Complexion.
It seemed to Joan, long afterward,
ing the doctor alone. At that moment
Nothing better than Cutlcura Boap
her decision was nearly ripened, and like some dreadful picture, the sway
dally and Ointment now and then as
she felt conscious of no fear of him ing man upon the threshold, to whom
needed to make the complexion clear,
she clung, and hls double within; and
at all.
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
If he attempted violence she knew then the rasping voice of Myers broke
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
the long silence.
Cutlcura Talcum, and you have the what she would do. But he did not
"W ell, well," said the secretary,
Cutlcura Toilet Trio.— Advertisement lay hands on her. He stood leaning rubbing hls hands together, “ here’s a
against the newel post at the foot of
pretty kettle o f fish. It will all have
the stairs, watching her face.
B aseball and C oleridge
Joan wan searching his eyes for the to come out now.”
"Jones Is such n rotten shortstop
The Lancaster within the door
least sign of the man she had known,
he reminds me o f the Ancient Mariner."
and he broke off, scowling and wincing turned hls eyes from Joan to Myers;
"H ow zat?”
under her stare.
Above hls words hls passion and rage had frozen Into
"H e stoppeth one o f the three.’ "—
was the sound of the beating rain, the malevolence.
Rutgers Chanticleer.
"D on't put the blame on me,” said
lashing wind; and from within the
matron’s room Joan heard Mrs. Fra- Myers acidly. “ I warned you to get
rid o f her."
seV crying In prayer:
"O Lord, save h e r!” she walled. » Strangely, at that moment Joan felt
“ Save that girl this night! O Lord, that she. In spite o f her physical weak
from the devil I Save h e r! Save her, ness. was the dominating figure In the
play. xed the controlling mind as well.
0 Lord
John Lancaster advanced Into the
“ Maybe I got you wrong,” continued
His double, who had drawn
the doctor. “ But If I did, 1 ask you, hall.
who’s to blame? Didn’t you come to hack a pace or two, stood watching
me at my house In Avonmouth and hls efforts to steady himself with a
oak for your job back? Weren't yon scornful smile. Joan put her hands
as sweet as sugar when you wanted on her lover's a rm ; It seemed unbear
something out of me? And didn't you able that he should display hls weak
agree to come up here to work for ness for them to mock at.
and as a
But then, glancing Into hls face, she
me? Well, what's the Inference, then?
Preventive
You can have your job back If you saw that, weak as he was, and mor
want It. But I can do better by you phine-ridden, too, It was John Lan
than that. You’re too pretty for a caster himself, virile In personality
nurse'a Job, and X told you so that and mind, who had come back. The
day you turned on me In the theater devil who had been exorcised had re
like a wildcat. Now. then 1 It's up turned into Ills swept and garnished
chamber, hut he could claim only the
to you! Yout move, partner!”
Joan tried to push past him, but he
remained at the foot of the stairs,
blocking her way.
“ Let me pass, please 1” she cried.
"I’m going to leave the Institute at
•nee.”
“ Without your hat?” he sneered.
“ Let me pass at on ce !”
“ Well, I reckon I can't stop you,”
he rejoined. “ Just one word more,
though. Do you realize your situa
The First and Original
tion? Do you know what people will
Cold and Grip Tablet
say when you go to them with crazy
Stories about me? Nobody will tl.lnk
Proven Safe for more than
you came down here to the notorious
a Quarter o f a C e n tu ry .
John Lancaster after he’d tired you
The box bears this signature
Just because you were such a wonder- j
ful nurse that he couldn’ t do without j
you. What sort of reputation do you
expect to have In Avonmouth? You
can go, but you won’t go there. Not
Price 30c.
back to Avonmouth, understand that
well. I’ll hound you out o f the town,
you little double-crosser!’’
For the first time Joan felt her aplr-
It beglft to shrink from the ordeal.
She was cowed, she was almost as
helpless «8 If he had used physical
violence toward her.
And through
the baneful dream ahe was aware that
Myers had come out o f hls room and
was watching the scene from the end Hs Seizsd the Matron by ths Shoulders
o f the hall, wearing a «mug, compla
and Pushed Her Back Into Hsr
c en t smile. Myers was getting hls way
Room.
and haTing hla revenge In one.
And becaura the situation was too physical domain. The body was afire
horrible for belief. Joan could remem with the accursed drug, but the soul
ber only the Lancaster of the yester o f John Lancaster looked from the
day. She ran to the man and caught cloudy eyes, a man’s and not a weak
him by the arms, and looked Into hla ling's.
And Joan knew that It was through
face with pathetic earnestness.
"I’m going to atay. John I” she no fault of hls that he had come back
cried.
"My faith Is stronger than enchained, and that her love had
that. I remember what you have said borne him throughout the day and
to me, and I remember my promise to kept hls spirit whole.
Lancaster’s double turned fiercely
you. Some day yon will come to
yourself and everything will be clear. upon the secretary.
“ Yes, It Is t pretty kettle of fish,”
1 shall call to the John Lancaster I
know against the man who claims to he retorted, "end It’s going to he fried.
We’ll have this out tonight. Curse
be he end Is not."
"What do yon mean?” shouted the yon, why didn’t yon stay here it your
other. "Whom do you take me for?" post. Instead of running to me? Were
“ Yon are not the John Lancaster you afraid of this girl?”
“ Who la thla man?" Joan asked
who won my love," crlod Joan, with
aa Impassioned gesture.
"Let your Lancaster.
"My hall-brother and my evil spir
hotter self hear and andarstand me.
f e s asked me to stay and fight year it,” he anewerod.
“ Why don't you order him to go?
tattle With you. and nothing shall
drive a a tram yea tUI yon toll me to Why don't you order thorn both to go?"
Cayynjhi tor W. G. O v m a
Alatastfne
instead of
Kalsomine
or Wall Paper
"Because,” replied the ether, sneer
ing, "John Lancaster told me bis
birthright for a tneas of pottage—
morphine pottage. That's why. Be
cause It Is 1 whom the world knows
as John Lancaster, and not that out
cast, who has sunk so low that he sold
his very name for drugs."
"T hat la a lie,” Said Lancaster.
“ You stole my name. You devil, you
have robbed me o f my manhood these
four years p a s t”
“ Gentlemen,” cried the secretary,
“ we’ve got to talk this matter over,
and this Isn't the place. If the agree
ment has worked any lnjuitice to
Doctor Lancaster, no doubt It ran be
readjusted. It Is clear that we’ve got
to come to a sensible understanding.
Let's face the facts like men. and talk
It over In the doctor's room.
And
this girl hud better go upstairs,” he
added.
"Miss Wentworth stays with me,*
said Lancaster.
The double and the secretary ex
changed Ironical glances. It was evi
dent that they did not feel themselve»
to be In the position of trapped con
spirators.
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order them to leave, Is It necessary
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that you should be drawn Into a dis
cussion no»’ ?” Joan asked.
“ Yes, It Is necessary,” said Lancas
ter. "I’ ll fight this thing with Lawson
to a finish tonight.”
“ Lawson?”
“ I believe that I am Lawson,” said
Lancaster's half-brother, with an Iron
ical bo«-. “ Though I have as good a
right to the name as Doctor Lancas
ter her»
Perhaps 1 should have In
troduced myself before. But now that
we are all Introduced I nin ready to
accept Mr. Myers’ sensible sugges
tion.”
They went toward Lancaster's room.
Joan perceived now that the doctor’s
weakness was purely a physical one;
he dragged hls limbs slightly, the
curious result o f the morphine poison
ing that she had noted before. But
he was gaining strength rapidly, and
hls will had never been stronger.
This was the last battle, of which
he had so often spoken to her. Thla
fight must end hls captivity.
She went Into the ro«m with him,
confident in that belief. Myers closed
the door behind them and placed hls
thickset body In front of it. It was
astonishing to see how Lancaster
braced himself for the ordeal.
He
drew himself up, standing erect, and
faced the others.
“ Doctor Lancaster has the lloor,"
said Lawson mockingly. “ At leust, I
understand that the proposal to revise
our agreement comes from him.”
“ Joan, I owe you an explanation,”
said Lancaster, turning toward the
girl. “ This morning, after I had op
erated, I was called to the house
which people think Is mine— which
should be mine,” he added with sud
den vehemence. “ I was told It was
an urgent case. I found these men
there. They drew me Into an argu
ment. and In the heat o f It Myers
plunged a needleful o f morphine Into
my arm.”
“ To quiet you, because yon were
becoming violent and Injuring your
self,” sneered the secretary. “ Yes, I
did, Rnd I left you In good hands."
“ They left me senseless In the con
sulting room, but I managed to force
my limbs to obey my will. John Lan
caster had still a little more will pow
er than they had counted on. And
John Lancaster's name was enough to
conjure up a special train this after
noon, though they had robbed him of
hls money."
Joan put her hands on I.ancaster’ s
shoulders. “ That Is all you need to
tell me," ahe said quietly. “ I knew
you had been trapped by them.
I
never doubted yon.”
“ Eight years ago,” said Lancaster.
“I was a man respected In Avonmouth
and everywhere throughout the Sonth.
Then a domestic trouble overtook me.
You know what that was. Jean. It
broke me down. I could not cope with
life. I lost my grip on rsallty, gave
np my work— ”
“ Yes, John, now weTe getting it the
truth." Interposed Lawson bitterly
“ You. the honored bead of the South
ern hospital, became a common tramp
and wandered about ths country with
hoboea. and I have been living down
your reputation for yea Go on John.
Don't skip the Interacting part. ’
(TO B E CONTINUED.)
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