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The highest quality in a 25 ounce can fcr 25 cents, Garfield Tea Grande remedy For every stomach and intestinal {il This good old-fash- foned herb home remedy for consti pation, stomach lls and other derange ments of the sys tem so prevalent these days is In ever greater favor ss a family medicins than io your grandmother's day. or. HUMPHREYS® GRID INFLUENZA ltt It Pl Nill CHAPTER Vill—Continued Fm She nodded happily. “I am ashamed to feel so gay when you are unhappy,” she sald. “l am not swered. Y] Joan,” he an- thought over everything last night, and I see now that vou were right. I shall go back. Of course I shall go back. I shall regain what 1 have lost, and I shall face my enemies and beat them.” At ten o'clock the horse was nessed and the drive back began. At first Joan, seated at her lover's | side, breathed in the mountain air, | the sense of freedom, the scent of the | pines, the joy of the sunlight. Then | the peaks began to tower above thom. | The dulled valley alr struck some | thing from her joy, but not too much for her to dream. She looked fondly { at Lancaster, who drew her hand into { his “l am again } Later the sun went into clouds. The i alr grew moister, the tnclosed | them, the familinr landmarks hegan reappear. And something of mndency of over unhappy, har- going back to win," he sald hills to now asters despe the mood, he re oh is it tute came long, gaunt bull inst r the girl's heart. wuntgin villog ¢ leaped from Joan down. “I'll few moments,” i¢ reins over th the bug be he e | neil unrufiled ; wed hin ulready neanor of Ms ed win pac strength 1 was unbearable in mute fear as arelessly upon to go to Avonmouth at said. "1 bave no cholee in It is a patient 10 operation-—-my operation— hours. It the buggy, because 1 ive time to ecateh the aft. into Avonmouth who must twelve have just ha ernoon train at and get looked at her white fear in it. I'll say.” he sald, patient? whispered Joan, No, of cours uld keep me from going. you, my dear. But you would me stay.” “You are right. Yes, must go. But I am afraid,” “YI am afraid of Myers.” { He started, as if he, | thinking of the secretary. jut the | man can’t harm me, dear,” he said. { "The message came from him!” i cried Joan in fear. Lancaster looked away. she repeated the swered, “No.” “He is nt Avonmouth, there?” she asked. “Well, Joan, 1 think he Laneaster reluctantly. “But he may not be. I only know that the message { was not from him.” | “It was not from the. hospital? Not from MacPherson?” “It wns from a man connected with the hospital,” said Lancaster. “But it was not from MacPherson and not from Myers, and it did not mention Myers’ name. Why, my dear, you musn’t give way to nerves now that 1 am losing mine. It is a simple request for me to operate tomorrow.” She pulled herself together. “Of course you must go, John,” she said again. She put her arms about his neck. “Dear, If you should see that man, you will not fall into any trap that he may set for you?" she asked. “You are so strong, you will not let him trample on you? You are yourself again, and you will remain so for my sake?” “Never fear!” he answered cheer fully. “1 am not going to take mor phine again. Why, 1 shall have none with me, my dear Joan, and 1 should have ne opportunity to buy any, even If 1 wanted to. I shall operate per haps us soon as [ reach the hospital, and return on the morning train, 1 and read me to gay “And "Will die. i Nothing { not even i not have too, jut, question he Is he not 1s," said may not even go to my house at all” “1 am not afraid that vou will take morphine,” sald Joan. “But you will not see Myers?” “Not if 1 can He help It. can't he will dare to lie in the station. If he does, Lie'll find me a tough customer to kidnap in broad daylight. There, my dear, and sensible, and when | shall tell you everything must know." He kissed her pack his suitcase. He came out few moments and placed it in buggy. “Good-by, Joan, dearest Joan,” he said. engagement to Mrs, gone? |] for this" She be that you and hurried in to Fraser while I am have very special and and all heavier, her head and returned his kiss, the while her heart grew And long after the buggy had disappeared from sight she the porch looking after it. shook stood upon Chapter IX That night was sleepless as the last the joy that had ft Lier 1 i eart in the hill cabin was me, nt { fed steeping to the rain that wondering. How strange her life d ome infdm but her 8 across the ae trable darkness, conscious of a Dressing, she was stronger presentiment not shake away. It was a gloomy day, came down in torrents, o'clock Doctor Jenkins arrived In bis buggy and inquired for Luncaster. He seemed surprised to learn that he had gone to Avonmouth, He was preparing to return. but Joan felt the need of speech with him Irresistible, She did not mean to cross-examine him, she only wanted to shnke off the feeling that Lancaster had passed out of her reach by speak- ing to one of his associates, She hardly knew the purpose of her ac. costing Jenkins until she saw the look of concern upon his face, “Miss Wentworth, you aren't well" he exclaimed. “You have been over doing it!" “No, Doctor Jenkins, but-—Doctor Lancaster has gone into Avonmouth-—" “Yes, Miss Wentworth, But he won't come to any harm there, thanks to you. You've taught me a thing or two about morphine patients, Miss Wentworth,” hie went on, in his polite, complimentary fashion. “I never saw anyone get well as fast as Doctor Lancaster, nor any nurse that could handle a situation as you did” he added. “Yes, but it was not really mor phine, you know,” said Joan, and then ghe almost gaped In astonishment. What had she sald? Why had she sald 1t? Doctor Jenkins was staring at her too, “Not morphine, you say, Miss Wentworth?" he stammered, “1 mean, the symptoms weren't those of morphine poleoning” sald Joan and the rain About eleven | “Oh, well, body takes it nnswered, Miss Wentworth, every. in a different wav,” he “Yes, I reckon it was mor- phine right enough. They wouldnt put the wrong label on the hottie You certainly did set things de A Miss Wentworth.” he added, laughing and raising his hat, “Wait a moment, persisted Joan. “1 the doctor He not gone: he was In no condition to go, and yet a man's life Is at stake.” The face nt impenetrable, He Doctor Jenkins” am BO ought to doctor's became once seemed to know Doctor Lancs it was humiliating that had than she, knew: ironical, but him, minded, She more and Joan saw OS. if she ORE {to 4 even becn so sel minded. That toward wns was not he a disloval act her lover and meanwl ile her fears Soon she would know : She wats with sin} the drive And away heart somehow more pa sued, afternoon were lead at lk The hours of Five o'clock came of the I pad endlessly, cessation Joan went out and anda 3 anxiously in the nixi direction thoug! he knew that at least nfraid something doctor” she wn a ia said Mrs t a trying dos en Lancaster will and there went own hospital,” she adde L But she spoke withou an's hysterical mood nereasin ng her own fears Es “I reckon you Miss Went worth, uch Jenkins and I feel we owe to you for taking care of the doctor,” she said ing self at the girl's side “And for ting that man out of the piace, dear. Man? He's a devil "8s devil, Miss Wentworth. rm cay come fo the doctor with you watching for him and praying for know, how m Doctor seat her get my him.” Joan looked up at her with troubled face. “Mrs. Frazer, I am so much nt a loss” she said “Doctor I am like a child in comparison with yon, Lancaster Is concerned. 1 have heen fighting his physical troubles, aud I do not know his mental ones. That is what pits me at a lose. How can 1 know that Doctor Lancaster's ene mies are not walting for him, or have not hurt him? The matron placed her hand on the girl's knee. “Why, my dear, Doctor Lancaster has no enemies” she gald. “How could such a splendid man have enemies? Of course there are trou- bles; who hasn't them? And it may be there's things that Doctor Jenkins and I don't know-—I've thought there might be. But we've only been, here three years, and that was long after the doctor's troubles began. And of course we never listened to the vil. lage gossip. But oh, Miss Wentworth, you can't imagine the sorrow In our hearts when we saw that splendid man giving way to his habit, and let ting It creep over him little by litle and gain the mastery, (TO BE CONTINUED) “News” in “Newport News” The origin of the name of the city of Newport News is uncertain. It Is believed to be derived from two proper names Newport and Newce. Captain Newport commanded the first vessel to bring immigrants to Virginia and Wil liam Newce was one of the early treas urers of the colony John Smith wrote the latter name “Nuse.” After One Year Landlady (at Bow)--8he is a violent woman ; her husband was as bald as a budger a year after they married, THE SAME THING denying it, M to who It young I'm It's ax too dark but 1 saw in the Ho Use aud Or me see Koine mun q bogwt f ashamed of garden, inud—-1 I've Sybil don’t often see why you should kiss George) seen George {to but George -Y es (engaged allow nobody Maud Well, kissed me nobody but Many a Trae Word ! nt is 0 low-brow ? funny sho doesn’t “And “A hig who Hd Bovi vhint h-brow wor ual en) DM. ad Clashes of Authority ue Good to Chang yok & 80 1 aon t e 10 me you Differentiation shand in hopin “Why does he sit so fur back In the shadows In thurch on Sunday?” “To rest his eyes from sitting so far front in the stuge lights In the theater all week” That Woman He gently opened the locket, And scanned the preity face; “It suits my mind.” sald he, "to find This woman in the case™ A A Wouldn't “Are in favor of a tax on bachelors? asked a heckler, knowing that the eandidate was unmarried, “1 thought, sir,” was the reply, “that 1 had already said 1 did not favor a or tax on raw material! —_—— wiih Much Occupied “Flubdub seems to be flustered ah the time. 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