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“JOHN!”
John Michelson,
just beginning his career, becomes
resident physician and companion
of Homer Sidney at Hartley house
Mr. Sidney is an American, a seml-
invalid, old and rich and very de-
sirous to live Mrs. Sidney
Synopsis. — Dr,
is a
Spanish woman, dignified and retl.
cent. Jed, the butler, acts like &
privileged member of the family
Hartley house is a fine old Isclated
country place, with a murder story,
a "haunted pool,” and many watch.
dogs, and an atmosphere of mys-
tery. The “haunted pocl” Is where
Richard Dobson, of a former
owner of Hartley house, had killed
his brother, Arthur Dobson Jed
begins operations by locking the
doctor In his room the very first
night. Doctor John fixes his door
so he can't be locked in. He meets
Isobel, daughter of the house and
falls in love at first sight. In the
night he finds the butler drunk and
by the wrist
He interferes, Mrs, Sldney ex-
plains. John buys a revolver. John
overhears Jed telling Mrs. Sidney
he will have his way. In reply she
says she will not to kill
him Mrs. Sidney asks John to
consent the announcement of
his engagement to Isobel
young people to the make-
announcement. Jed tries to
John
son
hesitate
to
The
consent
believe
kill
CHAPTER I11—Continued.
amin
Mr. Sidney never
vicarious drinking
i
]
hove his
but he
natured. "
now?
liked to
interrupted,
1] was good
“Well,
Is Jed
health?”
At no
I juor would have
The
Ways
doctor,” he said, *“
drinking too muce
=
that moment
wretch mu
ders for me.”
Jed was
but he still
“No hurry,” 1 said.
: ’
ii be in
recovering
i
SHOW
here
nnd
10 ane fr }
afternoon. One I addre
sr I knew,
wnell, Jed
finished
sso]
to
door ao
and the
the other
knocked at the
ther,
im the letters
moistened his lips
of to talk, Jed,” 1 said
all the
I ain not going
talking that's
away. I
tay right here, and y
ful of health
tonight. The men
keep their mouths
am ll If
poen to me, whether you ha
to do with it
ive a difficult time w
“1%
wold not do you any harm.
an rabbit,
“ry
neces.
am
ound
be very of
are
my
letters go out
ve,
or t
ith a Ju
was a mistake,” h
» with a pistol, wh
a shotgun?” I said. “You
the rabbit.
CHAPTER IV,
Jed eame to me the nest da
of his candid moods,
“1 did
said
shoot at Sou
“1 know you did.”
“And you're
you're wondering
again.”
“1 don't
do.” 1 said. “And
you do it again,
pared against you.
fectly safe, 1
ard.” #
“No, I'm not a coward,” he said. as
if he were stating a fast and not mak-
ing a boast. “I neser do anything
without a purpose, and when I have a
purpose, | it no matter what the
consequences may be. The reason I
wanted to shoot you was because you
were engaged to Isobel. 1 intend te
marry Isobel. Now 1 know that you
are not going to marry Isobel. You
are just the foolish fence that ‘her
mother thought she could build up
around Isobel and keep me from try-
ing to marry her. Isobel doesn’t want
you. She is laughing at you. So we
might as well be friends again.”
“You preposterous old fool!” I sald.
“You sealle alcoholic! You are a vio.
Iation of decency. You enfeebled, ex-
asperating old goat! You would sicken
the moral conscience of a mummy. If
you ever associate your aspirations
with the name of Miss Sidney again,
I'll cut your throat with a paper
knife.”
Jed smiled and made me feel ridicu-
tous,
“I am a more Intelligent man than
youn,” he sald, “You are too simple for
the complexities of life. You could not
possibly be sufficient for a girl of Miss
Sidney's character. She would die of
I replied.
wonderin
if I int
why and
wl to do it
8
ef
wonder nat
you
anything yon
know that if
the evidence is pre
I think I am per-
you are a
know COwW-
do
S. RAYMOND
By CLIFFO
boredom ia six menths, There is noth-
ing preposterous about my candidacy
for Miss Sidney. I am older than I'd
“You are a hideous old fool,” I sald,
"w
“I am going to be quite friendly,”
Jed,
“You flatter yourself,” I said.
“Well, anyway,” he sald, “I'm friend-
He proved to be so. The life of the
house went placigly from day to day.
with a sense of our posturing
made mocking ges-
affection which shocked her
She particularly delighted to
when was serving
thought would end by
of
Jed
she
had rated me finally as unimportant,
which did my egotism no good. For
such a rascal to discard me, formally
hetrothed as I to in his
scandalous pursuits of that beautiful
girl, was preposterous,
If Mrs. Sidney had known that I was
in with Isobel,
relief from her
which
was Isobel,
fdiotically love she
by the arran
me her da
The only t
credit for in this :
that Mrs.
the state of my feelings.
sement
ughter's
hing 1
urd situation w
protecii ve
fiance, could take
HE
not allowed to
Sidney was
I was as sensible as a corrupting ro-
be, 1
place
to
n I might
real
if not
he
lon was a and serious
! } controlled
might lead to tphappiness, That con-
sciousness had steadied me, but it had
veered
Isobe?
me,
i with as much
srgy and promptness as I could, fol-
lowing of our on
gagement. 1 did not to confess
u fool. I did not
could help it,
I be
ax much out
the ancouncement
want
nyself a
if 1
I overdid It
intend to do
HO»
4.4
mie disagreeable
,
¥ a
Isabel's presence
18 possibie, I never willingl!
I did my best to av
meeting her or speaking to her
» i K Hel
me with her,
*t th gituation with
ankness after 1 had
1 hoped
did not
be glad to be as agreeable
I said after some mental
“I want to be, but 1
awkward,”
stuttering am
<€)
"
* said Isobel ; "and
-
tad be, shall
each other
mother does not
“1 want to he, too,
Ww
e both
to
want we not
glower every
meet. Even
suld detest it.”
it she
ig more,
me see tha used a cheap
of
very
that
cool
to escape the
lish
consequences
The girl ina
fashion had shown’ me
oldanes of her was marked,
It was wholly rea-
standpoint, but
affection
unreasonable,
nable fron my poor
no other
that
running away
NW I was nieting my difficul-
3 1 rom it, and I nod
did not like the timidity of escape
is fashion. but furthermore, I did
like the opinion Isobel formed of
me because of it. I had to face the
\ ind after that 1 did. It ought
not to have astonished me that 1 felt
better iastantly. I knew that a cow-
ard only increased his troubles.
I imagine if I had not seemed such
a professional stick, such a thing aloof
from human emotions, Isobel would
have been merely friendly and kind.
As it was she was tantalizing. She
liked me well enough, but that meant
very little. If she did not drive, ride,
walk or play tennis with me, she had
a choice of the servants, It was I or
nothing.
I was with Mr. Sidney a number of
hours every day. They varied, some
times seven or eight a day in different
periods, sometimes three or four, Very
little of this time was occupied in pro-
fessional duty. Life at Hartley house
would have been Intolerably lonesome
if I had been there merely as a prac.
titioner. And therefore I welcomed a
routine that was outside my profes.
sion. Mr. Sidney had a delicacy of
perception which told him when ats
tention upon even so amiable an In-
valid might be drawing upon the phys-
teal reserve of the people waking updn
him or being with him. He always
managed that they never should feel
the fatigue of It.
We saw no company at Hartley
house, We made no calls and received
none. We extended no invitations and
received nope. The estate was baron.
+t
thr IH
usic,
eg we ESS Peer >
It was nearly always with regard to
that the condition un-
For an lovalld Mr, Sid-
Mrs. Sid-
seemed
like
in professional duties; and
for Jed and the servants in the house
it was natural to be content with what
of
and
will,
which
mig!
ght
wns Isabel's
duties for
which they
But this
they were
abandon
life.
opening Into human
And she was en-
prospects
who to be
available
happened
thing
the only
when her
Later Isobel sald that
she knew of course that
but this is fiction.
no such thing,
#8 a woman
I loved her,
evident She did
and it would be an un-
kindness to hér to think What
only comedy If 1 as’ she
thought I was, an Iagifferent, unfeel-
ing man, would have been crugity if
it had kaown position
mockery of denied
Isobel used
affected
me John"
SO,
was were,
heen bat t}
ie
wins 151) pes,
me to
fat
derisi
“old dear.”
gain
She
or
pain
“We
should
“You
than
you i
st Jed
vot John?”
COUTTS
Isobel Used Me to Gain Her Liberty
w ell
most no
it is really
It is al
as
wonderful
comp ¢ description well
#8 a charming elintion. 1 adore it
ul
I said
app
object to unnecessary freedom,”
¥
“But it helps to deceive Jed"
He
while. Then he
“Nothing deceives Jed was de.
f short
vf orl
tried
to kill
ward for his mistake.
me. He apologized after
He the
character of our engagement.”
Enows
“Just the same, he hax not bothered
mother since then as he did before”
“That ig because he Is a coward and
I have him where I can control him.”
Mrs, Sidney did not understand her
danghter. That not astonishing:
Isobel was a young American woman;
Mrs. Sidney had Spanish traditions
Isobel came naturally, through her
father, to a candor which never ceased
to amaze and-—oceasionaliy-~to dis-
tress her mother. Isobel sald what
she thought. Her frankness came
from honesty of character. Her lovely
mother regarded life as something to
be managed by reticence and denial.
Mrs. Sidaey was esthetic, and if a fact
were unesthetie, she denied it and put
it out of her consideration. It was, to
her, the only proper thing to do.
Isobel was a clever tennis-player
and 1 a poor one. She beat me three
or four sets every fine afternoon. She
liked to drive a car and ride a horse.
I drove and rode with her.
When Isobel sald for the first time
that she ‘wanted to take the for a drive
in the car, her mother made an gesture
of dismay. Isobel stood before her aud
smiled,
“You know we are engaged, mother,”
she sald.
I thought of the hen at the pond's
edge seeing her brood of ducklings In
the water. Mrs, Sidney was not in a
panic and she did not flutter, but her
distress was acute. She knew the girl
had to develop and she knew that she
had to live in North, not South Amer
fen. But knowledge is not a complete
anodyne to pain,
Isobel took her mother’s hand and
kissed it, and then her lips. She smiled
in such an honest, frank, perceptive
fashion-1 know that a smile can con.
tain all the human understanding in
-
was
oy
-
x
Ieee
CX
ow
-
Wee
Tee
ae
-
oe
.
»
then,
allowed
ment of distress with the intimate sup-
port of her own presence,
It may seem a small struggle that
mother and daughter went
witnessed It, and it had no rh®torieal
and little emotional expression,
Isobel knew her mother suffered, but
wns wise, Mrs. dreaded
her daughter's adopted of life,
but knew her daughter,
“Good-bye, mother”
she Sidney
mode
sha'n't be gone long. Come on, John”
That was the first time she had
called me Jolin honestly without
comedy. I knew She did
it to give her mother the comfortable
that not upon’ a
adventure of an automobile
with an unrelated man but
the strict intimacy of the Tamily.
We went driving, Isobel at the
She liked to drive fast and I do
I am timid. 1 think that
motion Is a genuine human pleasure
Possibly it behind either a fast
horse. 1 prefer the plodding
and
her finesse,
she Ww ns
sense going
ride
not.
do not {O00
is, or
a ploddi
horse
ig
Locomotion then merely
revenis
' SOPNE |
1 pyschaology
fmpris
suggested
He
ana rare
If he
that it
was, a
» good.
logical, reasoning
phenomenon in the human race.
lind been emotions! and sentimental, i
should have hud more doubt.
Mr. Sidney was important enough to
in the
warden of the prison came 10 mee him
be known neighborhood fhe
in the office as soon as we had entered
He very cordinl to Mr
who himself showed
aristocr
was Sidney,
more his
am a
of an
was Mr,
never
of democrac: i
fond
Such
ney
democrat. 1
aristocratic
Sidney.
am most
democrat.
Mr. Sidney visits the peni-
tentiary.
Civ Be CONTINU EL)
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Fiat Feet.
Symptoms of flat foot are pain
the legs, knees, thighs, hips or
or other troubles, The person stands
with feet well apart and toes turned
outward, The ankle bends inward and
the weight falls on the inner line of
the foot =o that the entire sole rests
flat on the ground.
Fox Squirrel’'s Nests.
In the South, instead of living tn
the hollow trees, the fox squirrels pulld
big nests in the tops of the pine and
other trees, usually of Spanish moss,
gays the American Forestry Magazine
In these they sleep] also carrying to
them the pine cones. In the hardwood
forests of the North, dry leaves take
the place of the Spanish moss, and a
conspicuous nest {8 built with an en.
trance hole at the side.
Every boy knows several men whom
he intends to whip when he grows up.
-
Grand Array Offered in the Gay-
est of Wearables.
Newest Coats Are
Weave Silk Ratine; Smart Over-
Plaited Skirt.
| In a variety of pretty country clothes
these sunny summer days, asserts a
fashion correspondent. Now is the
{ time above all
‘SMALL HAT ALWAYS WELCOME
{ Assortment
Aress,
of beautiful colors
evening dresses and our negligees,
are offered, and there is so much
from that we need to exercise
taste and judgment in our selections,
The or must
| chosen because It appeals to you as a
| color that you have always liked, but
bought with a picture of the entire
| costume For instance, one
the mesh silk swenters
of no tawny gold hue Is charming with
ia rough silk skirt of blending
and a wide-brimmed old
hat with yellow trimming.
The plain type sport clothes
| made of colored tweeds and sim.
{lar cloths may be infinitely practical,
but why be practical the
of beauty? A woman should
picture in her sport
and swenters
choose
sWwenter Cont
in" mind
of new open
blue straw
of
irk
at
make a
clothes, Coats
portunities, It is well
for
these
new
take
ily on the lookont something
in thevwvay of jackets that
bi
the
piace f the
and Infinitely
pretry
The ne
west con
ts to wear over light
FAPE-LIKE COAT FOR FALL
A
The simpie tines of this cape-like
coat are particularly interesting on
this advance season wrap which Pa.
risian mecdistes have decreed milady to
wear this fall... The high collar is
another noteworthy feature.
-
Small hats are always welcome for
| motoring and general outdoor wear.
Here is one, olive green in color, with
brown Paradise feathers, affording a
most pleasing combination.
To Make a Placket.
The placket
either at tl
opening
necessary
and off ens
open for
walst, 8
hips
placket
terial, each
the plack
strip mus
the other
The wider
sewn to the
form 1
strip is faces
an
Dotted Swiss Is Liked.
For midsummer dotted swiss is ap-
“parently to be a great fa
dress fabric. Colored sw
dots jeads. The widest possible
of is in evidence, but there
seems be a pronounced for
brown. Frequently a sash of satin or
faille ribbon matching the frock In
color will girdle it at the waistliing Or-
andie also In
great demand and is sald that dark
flow ed cotton frocks will be
active rivals of the more
costly silk volles and chiffons.
vorite as a
iss with white
rMnge
colors
to fancy
and
voile dresses are
is
it
voile
this season
Neckwear Regarded as Most Important
Accessory; Organdie Laces or
Tuile Are Summery,
There is, perhaps, no accessory of
women's apparel so important at the
present moment as the frills
falals we call her neckwear.
With the ardent beams of summer
| 0' nights,
Nothing can be more summery than
the dainty garnitures of organdie
laces or tulle fashioned for just this
| purpose and giving a touch of light.
ness and grace to the most sober at-
tire.
To brighten a well-known dress they
are Invaluable. Last year's taffeta, for
instance, can readily be trangformed
into a charming creation by the ad-
dition of a collar, cuffs, belt and side
puffs over the hips, all made of or
gandie, cream or light echu, edged with
a narrow Valenciennes lace. The ef-
fect of newness and freshness is en-
hanced if the organdie is skillfully
employed. A wide surplice crossing
in front and fastening In the back
with a large bow is suggested. The
sleeves must be cut exceedingly short
and edged with the same banding of
organdie and lace.
Te «wear in the morning with the
gingham dress, a real novelty thai
will meet with approval from the
younger set Is the large Buster Brown
wwollar of very stiff linen. A ribbon of
black moire, or some color eontrast-
“
ing with that of the dress, passes une
| der the collar, ties in a coguettish lite
{ tle bow in front and falls in long ends,
loosely
Some fashionable women
natural colored pongee collar and
cuffs with their tailored suits, but
with the novel and original embroid-
eries real raffia, which comes In
every color. These are considered
more “elegant” than those of or
gandle,
like the
of
Bright Red for Summer,
A very bright red is considerably
featured in summer fabric frocks at
present. Both plain organdie and
dotted swiss appear In the vivid color
and frequently hat and parasol match
the dress. Fall styles continue to oe
cupy the time and attention of style
designers now to the exclusion of sum-
mer apparel:
Shantung Suits,
Summer sults of shantung are made
with plain two-piece slim skirts and
semi-fitted jackets, some on regular
tallored lines; others with threequar-
ter length sleeves, the cuffs, collar and
pocket flaps trimmed with knife plait.
ings of the shantung. A summer stole
12 of gray caracul edged with a plait.
ing of gray georgette,
Half.and Half Ribbon,
What is called half-and-half ribbon
is a new ribbon novelty soon to be
geen, The effect 1s obtained by strips
or blocks gf half-velvet and half-faille
or hy satin ta two colors \