TH E G A T E C IT Y J O U R N A I
Do you yearn
for a clear
complexion?!
been dosing me,” Lancaster resumed, you and our father’s fund, and lf he
without paying the least attention to were alive he would thank me for It.
— 16—
"1 shall skip nothing. The woman the secretary. "H e waa to take my And as for this girl, she can go, and.
I was to have married left me the place In Avonmouth. while I could as if her ravings receive credence any
T r y the keainol products a week and
evening before, and disappeared wltl sume charge here, pretend to have an where, I’ll face a Jury and tell the
watch your skin improve I
Resinol
another man. Had he been free to illness, which would account for any truth fearlessly.
Soap thoroughly cleanses the tiny pores
"But you haven’t explained every
Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are
marry her she would have had n« change in my aspect and character.
and rids them o f Impurities.
Resinol
Ointment soothes and heals the in
need to escape In secrecy. I gave u| Nobody would know the difference, thing to your poor dupe, John. You
not
getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe
flamed, irritated spots. The most ag
my work. I hunted them through the and nobody has known the difference. haven’t told her where your sweet
Here,
he
told
me,
I
could
be
free
to
heart
is.
You
haven’t
said
that
all
by
millions
and prescribed by physicians
years for
gravated cases o f skin affection havs
Southern states. My mind was oh
readily responded to this treatment.
sessed with the Idea of redeeming my brood over my unhappy life, while he. the while you have been making love
Can bn obtained from all druggists.
honor. I f I had found them f should the clever schemer, taking up ray past, to her your fiancee is under this roof,
Colds
Headache
have killed him. They knew It, and could adapt it to his own. He con hopelessly Insane, that she came hack
in her madness, and that you took her
j they fled before me. I gave them n< vinced me."
Joan gasped as she began to under into the institute and cared for her
Pain
j rest. For five years I pursued them
Neuralgia
stand the enormity of the crime. And when her own people had discarded
: running down every clue.”
it
was
true:
she
could
read
that
truth
her,
because
you
still
loved
her.
And
“ You’ll permit me to correct you
Fam ous A m ericans Born
Toothache
Lumbago
I
on that point, John,” said in Lawson’s face, his pride In the ex I’ll tell you something, John.
in M onth of F ebruary J I memory
Lawson suavely. “ For live years you ploit. Lawson was actually smirking, brought her hack; I was In touch with
Children born in February have all
Neuritis
Rheumatism
| wandered among tramps and hoboes as he had smirked in the operating her from first to last; and I brought
the oddaS of obtaining greatness in
her here as an additional lure to keep
theater.
I to the scandal of your former friends
their favor. Figures compiled by Dr.
" I consented, and he went away,” you at the Institute after I had gone
| thinking that you were looking for
Hubert Underwood .Johnson, director
Accept only “ Bayer” package which contains proven directions.
! your fiancee, but actually doing your said Lancaster. "M y recollection of to Avonmouth. Just tell Miss Went
of the Hull o f Fame, show that more
the months that followed is necessa worth who Mrs. Dana is.”
Handy “ Bayer” boxes of 12 tablet«— Alao bottles of 24 and 100— Druggists.
searching in morphine visions. Slid
men ttnd women enrolled in the hull
Joan's eyes met Lancaster’s, and
AevlrUi is U s trails mark o f Barer Manuiaccurs of Munoaceltcacldaster or Skllc/llckcl*
delusions of phenomenal activity are rily a dim one. I know, however, that
were born during February than In
1 was In no state to take car • of the she saw in his the supreme moment
a recognized symptom of your dis
any other month. Twelve of the six
S h a k e H a n d s W ith M r . Y i
T r a v e lin g L ib ra rie s
ease. De Qulncey Imagined that he funds. They disappeared, and * was of his anguish. She braced herself to
ty-three persons who have niches in
More than 500,000 books were cir
It you should happen to be on the
visited every corner of the earth while accused of having embezzled them. If meet the shock; she told herself that
the hall had their birhduys that
I did that I did it in my dreams.'
Lancaster no longer cared for his poor Cote d'Azur nnd should chance to culated last year In Saskatchewan hy
lying at home In an opium stupor.*
month.
"That’s Just the trouble with you. charge. She faced Lawson and Myers meet u young man who signs himself the traveling libraries that reach the
” 1 never touched morphine until you
They were Mark Hopkins, February
John,” said Lawson. "You dream too unflinchingly. But the spring of hope Henry I*u Yi. know that you have en- settlers and the smaller municipalities.
gave It to me," said Lancaster.
4; William Tecamseh Sherman. Feb
much. The question Is, what did you that iiad been bubbling in her heart eountereil the erstwhile emperor of There are mure than 1,000 of these li
“That delusion la | art of your dls
ruary 8; Daniel Boone, February 11;
China who Is touring Europe because braries. It Is said that each book Is
j
ease.
No, John, you may have do with them? Bury them? You can’t seemed to have gone dry.
Peter Cooper, February 12; Abraham
Lawson seemed to be animated by he has nothing else to do.—Baris read by 17 families In the course of
searched the suburban districts of have spent thirty thousand dollars
l.incoln, February 12; George Pea
the year.
some infernal deviltry. He seemed to Figaro.
| Avonmouth, but you can’t have gone upon morphine.”
body, February 18; Alice Freeman Pal
" I have accepted and borne the bur be throwing off the mask he had as
| far, because every few months you
mer, February 21; George Washington,
would turn up at the Institute, looking den of the guilt,” cried Lancaster. sumed ; he leaned forward and shook
February 22; James Russell Lowell,
shabbier and more disreputable on ’This man Myers was placed in his finger in Lancaster’s face.
February 22; Emma Willard, February
"And there’s another thing, John,"
each occasion, and more and more charge. Thereafter he was ever at
23; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
morphine soaked. And every time I my elbow, urging me upon the down he said. "You remember that when
February 27, anil Mary Lyon, Febru
tried to set you np and help you. I ward path. When I would make an we were boys together I resented the
ary 28.
was sorry for you, and you knew It eflTort to break off my habit he would difference between your position and
Doctor Johnson’s list showed that
and traded upon my p ity; 1 was whisper to me that my life was ruined, mine. Because of a few written words
April was second with eight Hall of
shamed by you, and you knew that that the charge of embezzlement upon a legal document you, the
Fame members. June was last with
would be pressed if ever I returned to younger, were the honored heir of
and traded upon my shame."
only two.
Lancaster hung his head; Joan
Id Avonmouth. He would advise me to John Lancaster, Sr., living in the big
house on the estate, while I was the
her hand lightly on his, and after that take my drug and forget—*’
"You are lying, you dreamer!” unacknowledged child, the shame of
he continued to return Lawson’s gaze
.veiled the secretary. "You lie, and my poor mother, ostracized even by
steadfastly.
the meaner whites of the district.
“ I went to you, Jim Lawson,” he you know I t !’’
When you came, Joan, I was all Your friends pretended not to know
said, "because I had placed you In
FOR INDIGESTION
charge of the Institute when I elected but hopeless. I had caught at your who I was when they rode by."
Lancaster made a gesture of depre
to head the other branch o ' the t-ust aid as my last hope, because that day
IIIDIGisTIOM/j
fund, the Avonmouth hospital. I had you came to me your face looked good, cation as Lawson's voice shook with
given you the charge here because you und strong, too, and you spoke so sin passion. "That’s true, Jim,” he said,
erely, and It was years since I had "hut can you blame me? Did I not
were— ’’
M O T H E R : - F le tc h e r ’s
6 B e l l - a n s
And you give you the position here?"
“ Your
Illegitimate
half-brother,’ known anyone like you.
Hot water
Castoria is especially pre
" I hated you because of that, John,”
aald Lawson bluntly. “ We are not seemed to have been sent to me."
Sure Relief
pared to relieve Infants in
Religious hallucination,” said Law- resumed Lawson. " I hated you, and
mincing our words. Because you
robbed me of my own birthright as son, tapping his forehead significantly. I vowed some day to turn the tables
arms and Children all ages
your elder brother, by reason of the Nevertheless, Joan could see that he on you. I wanted to be a surgeon.
of
Constipation, Flatulency,
fact that my mother was not legally was growing uneasy as the plot was What a struggle I had, working my
25* AND 75* PACKAGES EVERYWHERE
Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness prising there
way through Johns Hopkins, while you
married to our father. Yea, go on.”
unraveled.
‘‘At last, Joan, I was broken down
"It was a miracle, that meeting, one were spending your father’s money
from, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the
S ecret o f L o n g L ife
completely,” continued Lancaster. “ It
f those chances that seem reserved there! The struggle soured me, John.
assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
Seventy years old, looks about fifty i
And
once,
do
you
remember,
I
was
was
a
monomania,
that
search
of
to uncover such conspiracies.
For.
and feels even younger, Is an apt de
operating on a rabbit under curare,
scription of Elmer Gray, assistant mine, as 1 came to understand after though this man had stolen my
T o avoid imitations, always look for the signature o f
ward,
a
perverted
pride
that
had
eat
name” —and here a touch of pride was which had paralyzed the motor nerves
county attorney of Hennepin county,
and lefr the beast to suffer? It was
Absolutely Harmless - N o Opiates, Physicians everywhere recommend it.
Minn. He says it is all because for en Into my heart and left no place for visible on Lancaster’s face— "there
more than Bf> years he has gone with other thotighta. But I did not become was one thing lie could not do. He an experiment such as I had often
thought
I
should
like
to
make
on
you,
T im b e r L a s te d W e ll
M is s e d H is O ffs p rin g
out eating noon lunch, liy not eating addicted to morphine until this man could not perform the Lancaster op
Believed to be the last old timber
A farmer sent the following letter
tlie 13,000 meals he conservatively es urged it upon me, under the guise of eration. though he had picked my and you flung a vile word at me and
timates that lie lias saved $3,250, but medical care. And even then I could brains during the weeks In which he killed the creature. I told you then bridge to be used for heavy traffic in to the admiralty:
“ My youngest son has gone away
wishes some one to tell him where have broken off the liahlt at any time, kept me here, a prisoner in one room. that I would get even with you some England, the bridge at North Seaton,
but I had no heart to, and It gave me And so, from time to time, he com day. The time arrived. I got ray own Northumberland, over the River Wans- and enlisted In the navy. I can't get
it is.
relief from thoughts that tortured pelled me to go to Avonmouth, tinder back, and more, but there is one thing beck, has been In use for well over him out. Won’t you help me? He is
me.”
ihe charge of Myers, in order to op that I never told you. Your fiancee half a century. It Is to lie replaced by a good boy and I was bringing him up
“ So they all think,” said Lawson.
for my own use.”
erate. He laid down the regulations: was tlie victim of a misunderstanding. a new steel viaduct 1,041 feet long.
"It was he who told me that I could I was to dress and mask alone; I was There was no other man.”
never hreuk It off, who urged me to to speak as little as possible and to
John Lancaster’s deep breathing
Hides o f water buffaloes are being
A "pick-up" motor sweeper, with
continue the use of It with sophistical leave hastily after I had finished my seemed the only sound in the room; shipped from China to the United gutter broom, for cleaning streets, re
arguments which I had not the energy work. And he always sent me there und, as if galvanized into full strength, States for manufacture into suitcases. quires only one man for operation.
to oppose. I had been live years away with a full Injection of the drug In he stood now like a panther, poised
from Avonmouth. The people at the my body. I was too weak to resist, for a leap, every muscle grown taut,
j Southern hospital believed me dead. too much under the thumb of Myers and his eyes gleaming. Joan, para
lyzed by tlie sudden unleashing of
and I did not undeceive them. I never here."
j meant to return. When I came hen1
"Doctor, won’t you stop this painful Lawson’s venomous revenge, could not I
Chapped llaaJa A
It was always hy night, to this man recitation of hallucinations?” pleaded utter a word.
Cracked Knuckles
Lancaster spoke.
"You said you
whom I believe«, to be my friend, to the secretary to Lawson. "You know,
avoid shaming our name In the eyes tomorrow he will retract everything.” were In touch with her and brought |
Huh "V a s e lin e " Petroleum Jelly
on your hand« before working in
of Millville. Thus none ever saw us
‘The day came.” continued Lancas her here after she became insane,” he
the cold or wet and you’ ll avoid
together and Lawson and I resembled ter. "when a committee of visiting •Bid* "H ow did you do it?”
c h a p p e d h a n d « and c ra c k e d
"You have had your full say, John |
each other as much as we do today.” surgeons was to witness the opera
knucklea. For cuta. hurna. bump«,
brU,#e* . * " d #<,re# or «kin troublea.
“ More. I hope, John,” sneered the tion. He thought that he had learned Lancaster,” replied Lawson, "and now !
H E N you are constipated, poisons
apply “ Vaaalinc” JeMy liberally.
j other. “ The life one leads tells as the it. His vanity led him to go to the I am going to have mine. Under the
form in the accum ulated food
A lw ays safe, soothing and healing.
| years go by.”
1. sag /sr the trade- mark “ V a u lin s ' '
waste and are carried to all parts o f the
hospital In person, after he had delusion that your intention was to
I
“ Nobody In these parts hail seen me brought me to Avonmouth. The pa elope with her, on the day before that
•»every package. I t it y r protect f » .
body. Headaches follow. Biliousness, in
j since I was a hoy. I had left home tient died, but he alone was responsi fixed for the marriage in the parish
C h -a e h ro u g h M Ifg.
f | Company
State Street
somnia, lack of energy, all result from con
• ’*
New V a
young, and studleil at Johns Hopkins ble for that. And that is where you church— a romantic plan to evade the (
stipation, which if unchecked will lead to
anil abroad. Lawson had taken my come into the case, Joan. I managed family and curious neighbors— Miss
| name. The old neighbors had gone to get word with you, ami Myers fol Reid went to Savannah, to meet you
serious results.
away, wvwl If any of the country folks lowed you to this Institute, in order there. I needn’t go into details of the
* « o . u. a . . . o „
trap that your unacknowledged enemy
have long memories, they have close to forestall me If possible.”
Avoid Laxatives— Say Doctors
P C T S O L IU M JELLY
| tongues, too. The matron and Jenkins
Doctor Lancaster, you did not steal set for you, hut when she learned that \
A
noted authority says that laxatives
i are both newcomers. I had passed the funds,” said Joan calmly. "Do >ou she had been tricked It was too late
to return. Her life was ruined, John; j
I out of memory.
and cathartics do not overcom e constipa
not
see
the
hold
these
two
men
have
BATHE YOUR EYES
“This devil saw his chance anil managed to obtain over you? They and it was I, impersonating you, who
tion, but by their continued use tend only
line l»r. Thompson's Wj.-water
I lu j ai yt>ur drUMglHl'M or
j grasped at It,” he went on with ud stole the funds, ami their object in sent her there."
U « Hiver. Tn»jr. N Y
Booklet.
to aggravate the condition.
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
( den vehemence. “ Here was the fa- drugging you was to get rid of you,
Medical science has found in lubrica
j
m
mens Doctor Lancaster, a broken man the sole evidence of their crime, by
^ r -1 ^ I F a
an —
’> AWI— O th
tio n a means o f overcoming constipation.
our death. And so, not daring t« A m ericans A ccorded
to he long since dead. And here was murder you, they planned that you
T h e gentle lubricant, Nujol, penetrates
Honors by B ritain
the Lancaster known to Millville and
hould commit suicide."
and softens the hard food waste and thus
Lancaster village, at the head of this
I
U u u k Relief ! A pleasant effective tr r u p . I
The
first
native
American
to
be
You'll answer for that!” shouted
33c and 60c «ite «
hastens its passage through and out of
Institute. Why shouldn't he get me the secretary, white with rage.
knighted hy an English monarch was
A n d 'U r r tia lly , u «e 1*190*8
the body. Thus, Nujol brings internal
T h roa t an d ‘ .heat
to take his place here while he went
Sir
William
Peppered,
who
was
born
Lancaster shrugged his sholders. "It
to Avonmouth nnd claimed to he 1? doesn't matter uow, my dear.” he said. in Kittery, Maine, June 27, 1U96. His
cleanliness.
I.awson was ambitious. He wanted to
Hut he had struck Lawson through father was a Welshman who came to
Nujol is used in leading hospitals and
New England as an apprentice to a
L. D. S. Business Colleae
hlgger than tlie superln
his triple hide of vanity at last.
Is
prescribed by physicians throughout
tlsliernian.
The
son
became
a
mer
SCHOOL o r trricicN C V
3
tenrient of a little hill Institute. And
"Hut that isn’t all," shouted Mie
the world. Nujol is not a medicine or
he wnnted to «et hi* Anger* on the man. "Admit that there may he a chant and amassed a large fortune.
A ll commercial hranchea. Catalog free.
trust fund at Avonmouth Do 1 wrong substratum of truth in these morphine As a military leuder he took part in
laxative, and cannot grip e. L ik e pure
# 0 N. M ela Sil*
S A L T I ARC C IT Y , UTAH
your* he denmnded. turning fiercely dreams of yours. John I*anea«ter. Ad several conflicts with the Indians and
water, it is harmless.
attained
much
distinction.
For
thir
upon the other.
mit that I was ambitious, and that I
Take Nujol regularly and adopt this
“ Not In the least; you honor me." did take the place my half-brother ty-two years he was a member of the
habit of internal cleanliness. For sale b y
*ald U w io n , with a suave how. "I had forfeited In order to be of use to royal council of Massachusetts, and as
wanted to take the fund out o f your the world, and In order to save yon chief Justice of common pleas he
all druggists.
e Strained, Puffy
duce*
worthless supervision and devote It to from a felon’s cell or a maniac’s won eminence as a Jurist.
* mptianjrtflM, Peli I
hie«. I.vn
Since Bepperell's time many Amer
proper uses ’*
P M « * . I Holla,
__ _ K w e ilin ««: St
grave. Acknowledge that I did Imper
L a m e n e s s and allays rain.
••This must he stopped!” shouted sonate you tonight, as before, tha* I icans have achieved knighthood and
Heala Aerea, in to . Bruises.
My era, with a sudden Interposition came hack with Myers in order to get higher British honors. Lord Astor and
Bool Chelae. I t i a e
I>ootor Lancaster, you are saying rid of this girl who threatened to dis Lord Shaughnessy, the former a na
Safe Antiseptic ud G m n k id t ” rhinga
that you will regret tomorrow. rupt the institute and pci a drug tive of New York and tUe latte, of
Does not bllatar or remo va the
Yon are turning to hit* the nand that drunkard in the office I hold. Well, Milwaukee, being among the more
hair and hcrae can be worhad.
Pleaaent to uae. W 30 e bottle,
prominent latter-day examples
fed you. Where would you be today what then? That isn't all the story.
delivered. DeecHbe your caee
save for Doctor Lawson?
A dead
fo r epee lai Instruction# a a d
"You hare played your miserable
Beeh A A free.
P ia n o M ost P op u la r
man tv a paupers grave!"
game craftily, John l4incaster after
W k 510 Lf— lL .lp h *M .I
"H e persuaded me. weakened aa I having made a fair agreement with
Nlno-tentba of the world’* anale
waa by morphine with which he had m*. Hut I ’ve done my dut) toward written for the plan*.
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