|]iH Redding fgrWyaeiv and all ike RmvJlxi "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" Copyright by International Nem Service On the way home that night. Helen |l hardly knew whether to confide In i Warren. She wondered what he would I i lay If she told him, and she was really j Sying to take him Into her confidence. 1 It was Warren himself who opened the |i way toward a confidence when he said 11 is they entered the apartment: ji "I wonder if that little Nesbitt girl!' Is as crazy about Carp as she appears ] to be?" 1i Helen smiled knowingly, and justj< *s she had intended. Warren caught the • •mile. I "Well, what are you grinning about j In such a superior manner?" Think ; 1 you know something that no one else I suspects?" < "Perhaps," Helen returned, deter- i i mined to elicit a certain amount of H curiosity before she imparted her news. j 1 Warren capitulated after a time. I: "Well, if you really know something, j out with It. Can't you see that I am j eaten up with curiosity?" His manner 11 was at once confidential, and Helen, j i only too ready to return to their in- 1 formal relations, responded with: "You will think I know something 11 when X tell you what I overheard to- j i day." "Oho," Warren chided, "eavesdrop-! 1 ping, eh?" "Well, I couldn't help overhearing; this," Helen defended. 'I began to ' 1 get a headache after I had been there j a little while to-day, the cigaret 1 smoke was so thick, and I didn't feel ; 1 very well anyway, so I slipped into!: that little room next to the dining room ,1 to get out of It for a few minutes." 11 "I wondered where you had gone," i Warren said. I: "Well, the door was open into the din- > ing room, and I heard someone talking I in there, so I went across to close it softly. I didn't want to be discovered I where I was, Frances might have im- I agined that I wasn't enjoying myself. | s Well, whom do you think 1 discovered ! i in there together?" |1 "Carp and that little witch; well. I'll l I be darned!" exploded Warren. 1 "And X heard enough. Warren, to ; l convince me that that Nesbitt girl is ! ] impossible." js Warren opened his eyes. "Must have been exciting," he remarked. "Well, i go ahead." i "Of course I have only Frances' in- i terests at heart, and I am too fond of j 1 lier not to detest anyone who tries to : 1 make trouble for her," Helen continued, j I "Well, Carp's entire conversation with j I the girl was about love." j i "They were making love?" l "No, the girl was making love to . him. You should have heard it. Xf she i is a sample of what the world is com- i ing to, I shall be afraid to bring Wini Fashions of To Day - By May Manton fTUST such simple frocks as this one will be exten- J sively worn during the late Winter and the Spring. 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Now I suppose you will agree with me that a good publ!" school is good enough for any girl." "I guess I do," said Helen meek ly. "Well, go on with the story," War ren persisted. "Well, this Nesbitt girl was telling Carp how much she eared about him. She said she hated Frances, and she told Carp that he must know that she had schemed to get down and visit in New Yolk, just to see him." "And what did Carp say to all this?" "He was a dear, of course. I know that Carp is mad about Frances, and I thinks that girl is a fool. He told her that he could not have her here if she felt that way about Frances. He told her that sho would have to get those silly notions out of her head entirely." Helen stopped here. A knowing grin was spreading over Warren's face. "What's the matter, Warren?" "I have to smile to think how ut terly you are taken in, my dear." "Taken in, what do you mean?" "I mean that you are mistaken In thinking Carp entirely Innocent. Don't you really think that he has encouraged the girl at all? Oh, I don't mean that he cares for her. but no man could be utterly immune if a girl as attractive as she is shows that shfe cares." "Warren, I don't see how you could think that of Carp!" "Of course you don't. Because this girl is dangerously attractive, you take the average woman's stand. You say that she is a regular Circe, and that of course Carp is innocent. Well, 1 say that I'm sorry lor that kid. She's been left too much to herself, and she has some ideas that are bad, I'll admit, but she's not entirely to blame In this matter, and I don't think that you should condemn her so bitterly." "Of course I condemn her," Helen returned quickly. "Frances is one of my dearest friends, and she married a man who loved her. Their married life is nothing like ours, let me tell you that. Do you think I'm going to stand by and see a little vixen come in and break it all up? Didn't you think I would believe my own ears when they told me that Carp was In the right?" And Helen, with a sudden relapse, burst into tears. (Wateh for the next Instalment of tbla Interesting aerlea.) TRe Godi'a/ Copyright by Frank A. Munity Co. (Continued.) Tars Tarkas, who was at the wheel , ns I talked with my son, called to ! me and told me there was some diffi culty with one of the airship's ray j tanks. This he rectified. W* had With Drawn Swords Thpy Mad* For Me. slightly reduced our speed with the dawning of a sense of security, but now I took the helm once more, and we raced north again at terrific velocity. The next day we were flying over the land of Barsoom when something seemed to go amiss with the engine, and we descended to a small hill In order to better make any necessary re pairs. We had hardly descended when wo heard the report of a gun from above us. and on looking upward wc saw, just clearing the tops of the nearer hills, a great battleship swing ing majestically through the air. As she drew nearer I could not suppress a wild cry of elation, for upon her bowa I saw the device of Helium. As Carthoris, Tars Tarkas and 1 stood gazing at the magnificent vessel, which meant so much to all of us, we saw a second and then a third top the summit of the hills and glide grace fully after their sister. Now a score of one man air scouts were launching from the upper decks of the nearer vessel, and in a moment more were speeding in long, swift dives to the ground about us. In another instant we were surround ed by armed sailors, and an officer stepped forward to address us when his eyes fell upon Carthoris. With an expression of surprised pleasure he sprang forward and, plac ing his hand upon the boy's shoulder, called him by name. "Carthoris, my prince!" he cried. "Kaor! Kaor! Hor Vastus greets the son of Dejah Thoris, princess of He lium, and of her husband, John Car ter. Where have you been, O my prince? All Helium has been plunged in sorrow. Terrible have been the ca lamities that have befallen your great grandsire's mighty nation since the fatal day that saw you leave our midst." "Grieve not. my good Hor Vastus," cried Carthoris, "since I bring not back myself alone to cheer my moth er's heart and the hearts of my be loved people, but also one whom all Barsoom loved best—her greatest war rior and her savior—John Carter, Prince of Helium!" Hor Vastus turned in the direction Indicated by Carthoris, and as his eyes fell upon me he almost collapsed from j sheer surprise. Hair Often Ruined by Washing With Soap Soap should be used very carefully, j if you want to keep your hair looking ! its best. Most soaps and prepared 1 shampoos contain too much alkali, j This dries the scalp, makes the hair | brittle, and ruins it. The best thins for steady use is' just ordinary mulsified cocoanut oil ! (which is pure und ttreaseless), and is better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use. One or two-teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves the scalp soft, and the hair fine and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, and a few ounces will supply every mem ber of the family for months. "John Carter!" lie eiclaimed, and then a sudden troubled look came into lils eyes. "My prince," he started, "where hast thou"— And then he stopped, but I knew the question that his lips dared not frame. The loyal fellow would not be the one to force from mine a confession of the terrible truth that 1 had returned from the bosom of fss. tlie river of mystery, back from the shore of the sen of Ko rus and the valley Dor. "Ah, my prince," he continued, as though no thought had interrupted his greeting, "that you are back is suffi cient, and let Hor Vastus' sword have the high honor of being first at they feet." With these words the noble fellow unbuckled his scabbard and flung his sword upon the ground before inc. Could yon know the customs and the character of red Martians you would appreciate the depth of meaning that that simple act conveyed to me and to all about us who witnessed it. The thing was equivalent to saying: "My Bword, my body, my life, my sotll. are yonrs, to do with as you wish. Until death and after death I look to you nlotie for authority for my every act. Be yon right or wrong, your word shall be my only truth. Whoso raises tata hand against yon must answer to my sword." It Is the oath of fealty thit men oc casionally pay to a Jeddak whose high character and chivalrous acts have In spired their enthusiastic love o* his fol lowers. Never had I known this high tribute paid to a lesser mortal. There was but one response pos sible. I stooped and lifted the sword from the ground, raised the hilt to my Hps, and then, stepping to Hor Vastus, I buckled the weapon upon him with my own hands. "Hor Vastus,"' I said, placing my hand upon his shoulder, "you know best the promptings of your own heart. That I shall need your sword I have little doubt, but accept from John C.tr ter upon his sacred honor the assur ance that he will never call upon you to draw this sword other than in the cause of truth, justice and righteous ness." "That I knew, my prince," Up re plied, "ere ever I threw my beloved blade at thy feet." As we spoke other fliers came and went between the ground and the bat tleship, and presently a larger boat was launched fronf above, one capable of carrying a dozen persons perhaps, and dropped lightly near us. As she touched, an officer sprang from her deck to the ground and, advancing to Hor Vastus, saluted. "Kantos Kan desires that this party whom we have met be brought im mediately to the deck of the Xava rian," he said. As we approached the little craft I looked about for the members of my party and for the first time noticed that Thuvia was not among them. Immediately Hor Vastus dispatched a dozen air scouts in as many direc tions to search for her. It could not be possible that she had a'iie far since we had last Eeeu her. We others stepped to the deck of the craft that had been sent to fetch ua and a mo ment later were upon the Xavarian. The first man to greet me was Kan tos Ivan himself. My old friend had won to the highest place in the navy of Helium, but he was still to me the same brave comrade who had shared with me the privations of a Warhoon dungeon, the terrible atrocities of the great games and later the dangers of our search for Dejah Thorls within the hostile city of Zodanga. Then I had been an unknown wan derer upon a strange planet and he a simple padwar In the navy of Helium. Today he commanded all Helium's great terrors of the skies, and I was a prince of the house of Tardea Mors, Jeddak of Helium. He did not ask me where I had been. Like Hor Vastus, he, too, dreaded the truth and would not be the one to wrest a statement from me. That It must come some time he well knew, but until it came he seemed satisfied to but know that I was with him once more. lie greeted Cnrthorls and Tars Tar kas with the keenest delight, but he asked neither where he had been. He could scarcely keep his hands off the boy. "Yau do not know, John Carter," he said to me, "how we of Helium love this son of yours. It Is as though all the great love we bore his noble father and his poor mother had been centered in him. When it became known that he wag lost 10,000,000 people wept." "What mean you, Kantos Kan," 1 whispered, "by 'his poor mother?'" for the words had seemed to carry a sinis ter meaning which I could not fathom. He drew me to one qlde. <To Be Continued) j SUITABLE DISHES : FOR THE MEAGER 1 DAYS OF LENTj • Occasional Abstinence From! ; Meat Is Good For f the Body j DURING Lent it is interesting to seek out the derivation of the word and the origin of the fast which is now so very light as hardly to deserve the name. Long ago it real ly meant privation. Even still in some parts people do not taste meat from one end of the forty days to the other, but we, degenerate and soft Christians as we are, think It a terrible hardship even to lessen the amount of meat which we eat and deprive ourselves of even a little. The word "Lent" is of Teutonic ori gin and originally meant spring, though now it la exclusively used to designate the penitential season that stretches for forty days before Easter, the beginning regulated by the time at which that festival occurs. It was ordained to commemorate Christ's fast in the wilderness and to prepare the heart of man for the great least which is of primary importance to the Chris tian: but the method in which the fast should be observed differs in every country. Throughout the Orient, with some few exceptions, six weeks of prayer and fasting were preparatory to the exceptionally severe fast maintained during Holy Week, but tho Oriental custom was to fast only five days of each week, Saturday and Sunday be ing exempt. At a later date the wish to realize the exact number of forty days led to the practice of beginning Lent on Ash Wednesday, but the Church of Milan ! even to this day, adheres to the more ; primitive arrangement. Some people abstain from eating any sort of crea ture that has life, while others of all living creatures, eat only tish. Still others eat birds as well, because of the Mosaic account of tho creation that birds, too, sprang from the water. Others abstain from eating fruit cov ered with a hard shell or skin and from eggs. At one time Christians were expect ed to pass twenty-four hours without | food of any kind during Holy Week, while the more austere subsided upon one meal daily for the entire forty days. In the early centuries the use j of both meat and wine was forbidden. In Germany dispensations known as Outterfreife were granted to persons j unable to fast, and instead they do nated alms and contributions, which built many fine structures, such as the steeple of the Rhine Cathedral, for this reason known as the Butter tower. The general prohibition of eggs and milk during Lent perpetuat ed the custom of making a gift of eggs at Easter and of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, i Apart from the spiritual benefits to be derived from fasting it is distinctly wholesome after the indoor life of winter, the late hours,'the heavy rich foods, the inadequate outdoor exer cise and all their consequent evils, and so let us not be too quick about dis pensing ourselves from at least the abstinence from meat specially as it is quite possible to have many sub stantial and economical dishes as sub stitutes. Here are a few meager receipts all of which have been tested by a friend: Lentil and Carrot Stew One-half pound lentils. Two tablespoonfuls thickened milk. Three carrots. Two large onions. Two ounces margarine or butter. Seasoning. Wash the lentils overnight and let theni steep for twelve hours or more. Then simmer in a pint of water until quite tender, add the carrots and onions, cut into small pieces. Stir in the butter and steam until the vege tables are soft. Pour the thickened milk over them and serve in a ring of mashed potatoes or rice. Macaroni Soup One quart fish stock, or milk and water. One teaspoonful cornstarch. Two ounces macaroni. Two onions. Seasoning. One-half cup cream. Cook the onions until soft and rub through a sieve into the stock, thicken with the cornstarch, add the /liaca roni, broken small, and cook until it is tender. Season well, and, lastly, be fore serving, stir i*> the cream. This addition is an imprpvement, but not necessary. Onion Savory Four onions. Three cold potatoes. Three ounces butter. Three ounces grated cheese. One egg. One-half cup milk. One ounce breadcrumbs. Seasoning. Boil the onion 3 until tender, break them up with a fork: add the cheese, butter, milk, the egg well beaten, and beat all together well. Season and add the potatoes cut into neat rounds. Put in a well-greased fire proof dish and cover with the breadcrumbs, dot over with butter and bake in a quick oven until brown. Vermicelli Patties Pour ounces vermicelli. Two ounces grated cheese. One-half pint white sauce. One ounce margarine. Seasoning. Pastr.v. Boil the vermicelli into small pieces, cook until quite tender and mix it with the margarine, sauce and seasoning. Line the patty tins with pastry and bake: fill with vermicelli and reheat in a moderate oven. Eggs With Black Butter Fry the eggs in margarine, allowing a scant tablespoonful to every two eggs, take them out and add vinegar and seasoning to the margarine, al lowing an equal quantity. Put. the eggs on neat rounds of toast and pour the sauce over, serve very hot, garnished with finely chopped parsley. MORE THAN GOOD "RESOLVES"' XEEDEI) TO GET OCT OF DEBT In the March Woman's Home Com panion is an Interesting article on debt and how to get out of it by a wafhan who was almost ruined by her hus band's carelessness and extravagance. Among other things she says: "If a family that has been living outside its income wants to start to live Inside, something more than a good resolve is necessary. Usually that man and woman have got to form a wholly new circle of friends. They must leave those who are living out side, and take up their abode among those who are living Inside. Man is a gregarious animal. His will-power needs all the help it can get from a congenial and approving public opin ion." Copyright, 1915, by DoutUday, P Bfl# AC*. (Continued.) While he was away we came to an other decision. It had been for some weeks preparing. The diggings- were becoming overcrowded. Almost every loot of the bar was occupied, and more men were coming in every day. No longer could the - newcomer be sure of his color the afternoon of his arrival, but> was forced to prospect here and there up and down the river until ho found n patch of the pay dirt Most trusted simply to luck, but some had systems on which they worked. I have seen divining rods used. The believers In chance seemed to do as well as any one else. But, also, our own yield was de creasing. The last week we had gain ed only nineteen ounces nil told. This might be merely a lean bit of misfor tune, or it might mean that we had taken the best from our ten claims. Since the human mind Is prone to changes, we inclined to the latter the ory. We were getting restless. No miner ever came to California who did J not believe firmly that he would have done much better had he come out one voyage earlier, and no miner ever found diggings so rich that he had not a sneaking suspicion that he could do even better "a little farther on:" Our restlessness was further In creased by the fact that we weve now seeing a good deal of Sain Bagsby, the hunter. lie and Yank had found much in common and forgathered of even ings before our campfire. Bagsby was a man of over fifty, tall and straight as a youngster, with a short white beard, a gray eye and hard, tanned flesh. He was a typical Itocky mountain man, wearing even in tho hottest weather his fur cap with the tail hanging behind, his deerskin moccasins and his fringed buckskin hunting shirt. Mining possessed no In terest for him whatever. He was by profession a trapper, and he had cross ed the plains a half dozen times. "No mining for me;" he stated em phatically. "I paddled around after the stuff for awhile, till my hands "But why don't you fellow* branch out?" Babsby always ended. swelled up like p'ison and my back creaked like a frozen pine tree in the wind. Then I quit, and I stayed quit I'm a hunter, and I'm makin' a good llvin', because I ain't very particular on how I live." He and Yank smoked interminable pipes and swapped yarns. Johnny and I liked nothing better than to keep quiet and listen to them. Bagsby had come out with Captain Sutter and told of that doughty soldier's early skir mishes with the Indians. His tales of die mountains, the plains and the game and Indians were so much romance to us, and we both wished heartily that fate could hare allowed us a chance at such adventures. "But why don't ycvi fellows branch out?" Bagsby always ended. "What do you want to stick here for like a lot of groundhogs? There's rivers back In the hills a heap better than this one, and nobody thar. You'd have the place plumb to yoreselves. Git in where the mountains Is really mountainous." "If Sam Bagsby would join us it might be worth trying," we came to at last. But Sam Bagsby scouted any such Idea. "I ain't that kind of a tomfool," said he. "If I want to paddle my hands blue I'd do it yere. I couldn't make more'n a livln' anyway. I tell you I ain't got no use for yore pra'rie.dog grubbing!" Then McNally had an Inspiration. "Will you go, Sam, if we pay you for going?" he asked. "Sure." replied the trapper at onee. "I'm a laborin man. I'll go anywhar I'm paid to go." It came out that Bagsby's ideas of proper compensation were his supplies, slo a week in gold and a drink of whisky twice a day? In all this gold country he was the only man I met who genuinely despised money. I real ly think we were Lurried to our deri sion by this unexpected reasonable ness on his part. At any rate, we do elded definitely to go. There were nine of us—Bagsby, Tank, Johnny Fairfax, myself, Don Caspar, Vasquez, McXaily, Muck Bar ry and Missouri Jones. Bagsby got us up long before day light. The air was chilly, In contrast to the terrific heat to be expected later in the day, so wo hastened to finish our packing and at dawn were off. Until about 3 o'clock we journeyed through a complete solitude; then we came upon some men digging in a dry wash. They had piled up a great heap of dirt from a hole. We stopped and talked to them and discovered that they were working what they called "dry diggings." The pay dirt they ex cavated from wherever they found it, piled it in a convenient, place and there left it until the rains should permit its washing. They claimed their dirt would prove to be very rich, but I thought myself that they were labor ing in great faith. Also we learned what Bagsby had known right along, but which he had not bothered to tell us—that we were now about to cross the main overland trail. We stopped that night near the road j and at a wayside inn or roadhouse of logs kept by a most interesting man. I Fie served us an excellent meal, in | eluding real eggs, and afterward join ed us around the tire, lie was au Italian, short, strongly built, with close curly liair, a rollicking, good natured face, and with tiny gold rings in his ears. Johnny and he did most of the talking, while we listened. No part of the civilized world seemed to have been unvisited by this pair. Johnny mentioned Taris. Our host added na intimate detail as to some little street. London appeared to be known to them from one end to the other; Berlin, Ed inburgh, St. Petersburg even, and a host of other little fellows whose names I never knew before and cannot remember now. They swapped remi niscences of the streets, the restau rants and the waiters and proprietors thereof; the alleys and byways, the parks and little places. I knew in a general way that Johnny had done the grand tour, but the Italian with his gold earrings and his strong, brown, good humored peasant face puzzled me completely. llow came he to be so traveled, so Intimately traveled? He was no sailor. That I soon deter mined. The two of them became thoroughly interested, but after a time the native courtesy of the Italian asserted itself. He evidently thought we might feel left out of it, though I think the oth ers were, like myself, quite fascinated. "You lika music?" lie smiled at us engagingly. "1 getta my Italian tld dle? No?" He arose at our eager assent, pushed aside a blanket that screened off one end of the log cabin and produced his "Italian iiddle"—a hand organ! At once the solution of the wide wandering among the many cities, the intimate knowledge of streets and of piiblic places burst upon my compre hension. I could see our host looking upward, his strong white teeth flash ing in an ingratiating, fascinating smile, his right arm revolving with the crank of his organ, his little brown monkey with the red coat and the anx ious face elnmbering— Next morning we crossed,the over land trail and plunged into a country of pines, of high hills, of deep canyons and bold, rocky ridges. The open spaces wo had left behind and the great heats. Water flowed in almost every ravine, and along Its courses grew green grass and wild flowers. CHAPTER XV. The Strike. WE awoke the fourth morning to a bright day. The hel meted quail were calling. The bees were Just begin ning a sun warmed hum among tho bushes. A languorous warmth hung in the air and a Sunday stillness. It was as though wo awakened to a new world, untrodden by men. which was, indeed, a ilonl the cnse. (To Be Continued) jjYOMEj ■ I (P/mOVHttD Ht&f'O-ME) | ENDS CATARRH, ASTHMA, Bronchiti*, Croup, Cougb* and Coldi, or money back. 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