Synopsis.—J. Montague Smith, for dead and flees the state when esty and wants him to take mitted by Dunham. His who tion ditch construction camp. Williams, the superintendent, Smith, in 8 more important place, able property. Smith finally retary of Baldwin's company. acquaintance with Corona at his new job, but his past history cashier of Lawrenceville Bank and lenves him of dishon- senseless, Dunham accuses Smith later, Smith appears as a tramp intelligence draws the attention of thinks he can use the trump, John The ditch company is in hard lines 8 are working to under- lJaldwin and take over valu- appointment as financial up a pleasant winsome daughter. S00 the colonel's bobs up to trouble him, CHAPTER XIi-—Continued. Dai tions. A rumor had been sent afoot— by Stanton, as Smith made no doubt— hinting that the new dam would be un- safe when it should be completed ; that its breaking, with the reservoir behind it, would carry death and destruction to the lowlands and even to the city. Timid stockholders, seeing damage sults in the bare possibility had taken the alarm, and Smith had spent the greater part trying to calm their cause, and some others, ragged edge when Bal on his home from protested. “Look here, John; you're overdoing this thing world without end! You break it off short, right now, and go home with me and get your dinner and a good night's rest. Get your coat and hat and come along, or I'll rope «down and hog-tie you.” For once in a way, Smith fouad that there was no fight left in him, and he yielded, telling himself that acceptance of the Baldwin hospitality, colossal fears. he was on the iwin dropped I the and way dam “You Broken-Down Samson.” more or less, could make no difference; jut no sooner was the colonel's gray roadster headed for the bridge across the Timanyoni than the exhilarating re in. In a twinkling the business cares, and the deeper worries as well, fled away heart-hunger After dinner, 8 meal little and was well the hunger of his soul by the road of Smith went out to the portico = of moun- tain sunsets was painting itself upon wetion set wis loosed, at which he ¢ ite content to satisfy the eye to smoke. The most gorgeou over the he had nana the sky but for grandeurs, and no ears for any sound save one—the ing for. It came at tried to look as tired as he had been when the colonel made him close his desk and leave the office; tried and apparently succeeded. “You poor, broken-down Samson, carrying all the brazen gates of the money-Philistines on your shoulders! You had to come to us at last, didn't you? Let me be your Delllah and fix western no eyes length, and he fortable.,” She said it only half mock- ingly, and he forgave the when she arranged some of the ham- mock pillows in the easiest of the porch chairs and made him bury him- self luxuriously in them. from that afternoon of the name ques. tioning, that she had in some way dis- covered his true identity, Smith was watching narrowly for danger-signals when he thanked her and said: “You say it just as it is. I had to come. But you could never be any- body's Delilah, could you? She wns a betrayer, if you recollect.” He made the suggestion purposely, but it was wholly ignored, and there was no guile in the slate-gray eyes, ‘You mean that you didn’t want to oume 7” “No; not that, etre every time your father has asked me. But there are reasons-—good rea- sons—why 1 shouldn't be here.” made no sign, | too to the flagstones for the swinging push, had for a background the sunset, but he could not see the more distant glories, “We owe you much, and we are go- ing to owe you more,” she said. “You mustn't think that we don't appreciate you at your full value. Colonel-daddy thinks you are the wonderful somebody that ever lived, and so do a lot of the others.” “And you?” he couldn't resist saying, “I'm just plain ashamed-—for the { way I treated you when you were here I've been eating humble-ple "” most before. ever since, Smith breathed freer. consummate simulated her frank sincerity. Nobody but a most actress could have ai n-addition She lid (now the story of the absconding bank cashier. conclusion. not i i 1 ¥ | and make the fight; but that doesn’t help out in this other matter.” Starbuck smoked in silence for long minute or two before he said: “Is there another woman fn it, John?” “Yes: but not in the way you mean.” “Corry's mighty fine little girl, John,” sald Starbuck slowly. “Any dozen fellows I could name n a vice I'm needing,” was the sober re- “No; but it was the kind you were wanting, here,” laughed the ex-cowpuncher, “I know the symptoms, Had 'em myself for about two years so bad that I could taste ‘em. Go in and win, great big stumbling-block you're wor- about wouldn't mean anything to an open-minded young woman like Corona; most likely it wouldn't.” “If she could know the whole truth —and believe it,” sald Smith musingly. “You teil her the truth, and You needn't lose any sleep Smith drew a long and re moved his pipe to say: breath She knows that I—" Starbuck broke in with a laugh. “Yes; it's a shouting pity about your nerve! You've been putting up such a blooming scary fight in this business that we all know RY any nerve, If I had your job in t I'd be going around here toting two and wondering if I couldn't make room in the holster for another.” Smith shook his head. you hat, guns CENTRE HALL, PA. Smith changed his street leisurely after Starbuck had gone, and when he went downstairs stopped at the desk to toss his room key to the clerk. The hotel register was lying open on the counter, and from force of habit he ran his eye down the list of late ar- rivals. At the end of the list, in sprawling characters upon which the ink was yet fresh, he read his sen- knew the meaning of panic fear. The newest entry was: “Josiah Richlander Chicago.” Smith was not misled by the place name, There was only one “Josiah Richlander” in the world for him, and he knew that the Lawrenceville me nate, in registering from Chicago, was only following the example of who, for good reasons or no reason, and daughter, @ 1K those place for a registry address, CHAPTER XIL A Reprieve, Smith's blood ran cold and there was attack of shocked sternation, comparable to nothing that any past experience had to offer jut Jus cons there was no time to waste in curls o the why and where- safety the prim With Jos Richlan and him were speculations as fores Present wns ni same roof with guests under the a disgrace He Josia} lander would do If discovery came iscovery, Identification the ns door. could hor no doubt to what s0 long a time as should be con in telegraphing between Brewster ¢ Sr 1 might But that Lawrenceville, self a free Yen ture to man. Was ton thought I was the resident mana- vhere he had before been walk. | “I do. | shame me. I belleve you gave up your place at the dam and took hold with daddy more to show me what an {ncon- sequent little idiot I was than for any other reason. Didn't you, really?” He laughed In quiet ecstasy at this newest and most adorable of the moods, “Honest confession is good the I did,” he boasted. “Now beat that for frankness, if you can.” “I can't,” she admitted, laughing | back at him. “But now you've accom- plished your purpose, I hope you are not going to give up. That would be a little hard on colonel-daddy.” “Oh, no; I'm fot going to give up— until I have to." “Does that mean more than it says?” “Yes, I'm afraid it does” She was silent for the length of time for soul : But he un- til now I guess he {8 pretty well con- rinced that I actually had the audacity to play a lone hand; and a bluffing at that, That makes a differ ence, of course, Two days after I had climbed into the saddle here, he sent a couple of his strikers after me. I don’t know just what thelr orders were, but they seemed to want to fight—and they got it. It was in Blue Pele's doggery, up at the camp.” “Guns? queried Starbuck, “Theirs: not mine, because I didn't have any. I managed to get the shoot ing-irons awsy from them had mixed very far.” “You're just about the biggest, long- eared, stiff-backed, stubborn wild of the wallows that was ever let loose in a half-reformed gun before we nss “You're fix- ing to get yourself all killed up, Smith you sense enough to see that | western sky to fade to salmon. coming toward them, slipped from the stood up. “Don’t he The young wom- an hammock and said Smith, feeling as if losing an opportunity and leaving much unsaid that ought to be But was a quiet i | “good night” or ” £9, were sald. the answer and she was gone, Smith went back to town with the the next morning physically be sure, but in a frame of bordering again upon the sar- One thing stood out clearly: | he was unmistakably in love with Corona Baldwin, Hence there another high re- { solve not to go to Hillcrest again until he could go as a free man; a resolve colonel rested, to | mind | donle. most was made up their minds that you are the High Line main guy and the only one?” “Of course.” said the wild ass easily. If they could lay me up for a month "we “Lay up, nothing!™ retorted buck. “Lay you down, about six feet underground, is what I mean!” * exclaimed the one whose in a far different Star- “Pshaw !" fears ran corporation violence. “This is Amer ica, in the twentieth century, We don't kill our days.” will be all right, too. respectable | was broken thereafter as often as the i colonel asked him to go. Why, in the | last resort, Smith should have finally chosen a confidant in the person of William Starbuck, the reformed cow- puncher, he scarcely knew, Bat It was to Starbuck that he appealed for ad- vice when the sentimental situation had grown fairly desperate, | “I've told you enough so that you ean understand the visenip of it, | Billy,” he sald to Starbuck one night | when he had dragged the mine owner : House, and had told him just a little, { enough to merely hint at his condition, “You see how it stacks up. I'm in a | fair way to come out of this the big- | gest scoundrel alive—the piker who takes advantage of the innocence of a I'm not the man she thinks Iam. Iam standing over a volcano pit every minute of the day, If It blows up, I'm gone, obliterated, wiped out.” {| “Is it aiming to blow up?’ asked Starbuck sagely. | than you do. It is the kind that usual- ly does blow up sooner or later. I've } Colonel Baldwin and the rest of you needed was a financial manager, and | chance—which was more than Timan- | yoni Diteh had when I took hold, If 1 should drop out now, you and Maxwell money-bags happens to be paying sion, wouldn't send out an have you killed off. Maybe Stanton himself, wouldn't stand for it If you'd But daddy in law, and Stanton, and all the others, men and thugs. while somebody takes a wink for a nod —and bang! goes a gun.” “Well, what's the answer? sald “Tote an arsenal, yourself, and be ready to shoot first and ask questions can live peaceably with such men as Boogerfield and Lanterby and Simms.” Smith got out of his chair and took a turn up and down the length of the room. When he came back to stand before Starbuck, he sald: “I did that, Billy. I've been carrying a gun for a week and more; not for these ditch pirates, but for somebody else. The other night, when I was out at Hill crest, Corona happened to see it. I'm not going to tell you what she said, but when I eame back to town the next morning, I chucked the gun into a desk drawer, And I hope I'm going to man enough not to wear it again.” Starbuck dropped the subject ab- ruptly and looked at his watch, “You liked to have done it, pulling me off up here,” he remarked. “I'm due and I've got just about three minutes, he had the hotel entrant the One minute later passing autocab at and the mil and Colonel Bald: to the rear that he had n dinner Invitation f« ning at Hillcrest, pleading business to Mrs. Baldwin In when had called at the office with her daughter Happily, the small social went unremarked, or at buked. Smith found his the ranch that of a privilege of dropping in unannounced four les hetween tossed bofore remem. bered expressly decd wr that same evs n person she offense least unre welcome at man who has the The colonel was jocosgely hospitable, as Mrs, Baldwin ciously lenlent—was good enough, in deed, to thank the eleventh-hour guest for reconsidering at moment ; and Corona Notwithstanding all notwithstanding, also footing in the Baldwin househ« to be that of a familys Smith could never be quite sure of t he always was ; was gra the last that had con that his id had to pass ; come bewitchingly winsome young who called her father “colonel-da ch When titude of the entirely unspoiled nature and the wide horizons he was with her she made him parency and absolute and utter uncon cealment, Yet there were moments when he fancied he could get passing glimpses of a subtler personality at the rE I Am Standing Over a Volcano" back of the wide-open, frankly ques- tioning eyes; a wise little soul lying in wait behind its defenses; prudent, all knowing, deceived neither by its own prepossessions or prejudices, nor by any of the masqueradings of other souls, Smith has three devils to plague him just now: His past in Lawrenceville; his growing fondness for Corona; and the enemies of the company for whose success he is working night and day. Important de. velopments come in the next in. staliment. (TO BE CONTINUED) Should Be Satisfied. “Jenkins claimed that I insulted him.” “Did you give any satisfaction?” “Il guess so. He pounded me until he was tired.” New York.~—Lucile firmly believes that the time has in American fashion for women to wear long, flow- ing lines of dignity and abandon the half bodices, lack of sleeves and short, transparent skirts which have us for three years, She is definitely committed to this come clothes in Paris and London the purpose. The to reason that her statement has such force 18 that no one denles that she revolutionized ballroom as the Vernon Castles its dancing and Irving tionized its music. The Castie-Berlin-Lucile combination has been in Europe, the of America, jut with Vernon in the aviation corps, with Mrs, Castle not dancing In public, and with Lucile her far-reaching to dressing revolutionized jerlin revolu- symbol (Castle stating purpose Here is the hat with the palette brim. It is built of thin black satin and gets its name from the curve of its brim. Its only ornaments are two large pins of white jade. and bring in seriousness ed her hoop skirts, gi whbbed halr and ta 8 wo s¢¢ a continent of wom + who ngo slippers, 2-11} will en inok as serious as the times. The vanced as been ad- what few models t forerunners of come this autumn, al seriousness ths of the community will have yout A » » "ie jignity and applaud and ir i ing of the and re 1d in medieval draperies cover the 2 ff i na the ng 1 t . Lanse GeColieilage ; tae 0O0E wing-like Arms n to the art ot a slightly high waist Il against the f + 3 the of the } ng tne Cab knees ; £ ing skirts sts iy srsra find ine fa ive Rt ] i Aig cover the feet, in eighteenth century It youth of the is not a gown for flapper dashing young editors day has termed it, poulet a la Ziegfeld. The Graceful Long Skirt, There nothing 4h gowns which will that we call f Of is te tiling » is startlingly n be and t expe rts come shown In and in a blaze of Oriental splendor they have rn by smart women cere monial functions, It is not, however, the gorgeousness of the Byzantine era, that is to be re- peated in the for the second half broca that Sun of the have been eT hecles since certain ever January, Wi at been newer style of dressing of the year 1 des that no look net, that resembles tulle, and the % of China that cling the fig- s, are the fabrics that will go toward gown for a1 M7. Soft satins, have wildy, georgettes like hiffon to making of the dignified the serious epoch, the black made There are inky ROW orn, of which are hat has no sheen, There are gowns of charmeuse that swirl and cling to the figure from shoulder to floor, The folds of the skirt are softly pushed aside by the slippered foot, as the | wearer moves, i About all of these gowns which are and which silver gray to come are beginning to} who dress well, there are no ostenta- tious ornaments, no sensuous girdling | faint reflection of the bazaars of | Delhi. The colors do not clash like symbols | There is nothing triumph- These are the clothes of women whose hours are given to war char is given to reading literature that keeps them abreast of the tremendous western front. Mind you, they are not poverty. stricken clothes, The American peo ple are in arms against unnecessary saving and economy that means ruin to others. But they are a revolt from what we have been wearing. Still the Chinese Touch, strength and Importance, It is ne longer advocated by the few, but bj There is no wholesale repetition of Chinese costumery in these modern French gowns, The single garment Mandarin coat, ning weap a superabundance It is used us an eves In America there has been of Chinese coats One York she extremely good-looking New has told that artist's drawings of constantly n the evening with a superb Mandarin coat her frock. Her black halr from the coiffure Bhe woman who been somewhat resembles the Chinese faces, appears | worn over brushed back compietes the pict 3 ure is a great tiny pedestal Chinese gown embroidery Paris the is Nes as teserin HOring. ides # in Ji and in the new it Is made to swing a gown vay from t , and then . i : he body in exce gather it BOT in n near the normal waistline by a There 12 8 dominant Chinese note in One is made of jade velvet, so thin that it The lining is of The Mandarin 3 sr the arms, and the straight widt , front and back, to the green looks like Chine sleeves satin wwe hlue crepe. Com long, drop gown 1 Tr of Chinese sft look are This evening gown revives the decol- letage of 1870. It is of black chiffon The barrel skirt has a deep hem of rose taffeta, and the Empress Eugenie sith, cock feather on satin and chiffon. cases, but often, the shape of the colors that a peacock never grew, One may be glad of that, for the intense blue and green which peacocks do sponsor, are not exactly becoming to every woman and grow tiresome and monotonous when constantly used as a motif for ornament. (Copyright, i517, by the McClure Newspa- per Byndicate) Reducing the Waistline. While these are the days of the Venus de Milo waists, still there are some women with waists that need re ducing. A very good exercise for this purpose is as follows: Placing the the finger tips touch the floor. Exhale as you bend down and inhale as you straighten up. Repeat this exercise four or five times dally.
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