The Real j j Mai i: By——| J j| FRANCIS LYNDEJ g iiziu i j Illastr'.ticss ly iP.WIH HYEES I " | ► TI-R7l^-NS-SARRG;.7¥IT7-TT—[■! . Copyright by Clias. Siribr.er'a Scute (Continued) "Escape? From whom?" She Jcoked away and shook her head. "From Watrous Dunham, let *i> ay. You Uidr.'t suspect that, did j\su? It is EO, nevertheless. My father Cesire3 it; and I,suppose Watrous Dunham would like to have my money—ycu know I have something in my own right. Perhaps this may help to account for some other thing —'or your trouble, for one. You were in bis way, you see. But never mind that: there are other matters to he considered now. Though Mr. Kinzie has bopn put off the .rack, Mr. Stanton hasn't. 1 have earned Mr. Stanton's ill-will because I wouldn't tell him about you, and this evening at table, h3 took ii out on me." "In what way?" "Ha gave me to understand, very plainly, that ha hud done something; that there was a sensation in pros pect lor all Brewster. lie \va3 so c:<- uiUr.tly triumphant that it fairly frightened me. The fact that ho wasn't afraid to show some part of his hand to me—knowing that I would be sure to tell you—makes me afraid that the trap haa already been set for you." "In other words, you think he has gone over Kinzie's head and has tele graphed to Lawreneeville?" "Montague, I'm almost certain of it:'" Smith Etsod up and put his hands behind him. "Which means that I have only a few hours, at the longest." he said quietly. And then: "There is a good bit to be done, tCfrning over the busi ness of the office, and all that; I've been putting it off from day to day, saying that there would be time enough to set my house in order aft er the trap had been sprung. Now I am like the man who puts off the making of his will until it is too late. WiU you let me thank you very heartily and vanish?" "What shall you do " she asked. "Set my house in order, as I say— as well as I can in the time that re mains. There are others to be con sidered, you know." "Oh; the plain-faced little ranch girl among them, I suppose?" "No; thank God, she is out of it entirely—in the way you mean," he broke out fervently. "You mean that you haven't spoken to her—yet?" "Of course I haven't. Do you sup pose I would ask any woman to marry me with the shadow of the penitentiary hanging over me?" "But you are not really guilty." "That doesn't make any difference, Watrous Dunham will see to it that I get what he has planned to give me." She was tapping an impatient tat too on the carpet with one shapely foot. "Why don't you turn this new leaf of yours back and go home and light it out with Watrous Dunham, once for all?" she suggested. "I shall probably go, fast enough, when Macauley or one of his depu ties get here with the extradition papers," he returned. "But as to lighting Dunham, without money—" She Iboked up quickly, and this time time there was no mistaking the meaning of the glow in the magnifi cent brown eyes. "Your friends have money, Mon tague—plenty ot it. All you have to do is to say that you' ill defend yourself. I am not sure that Watrous Dunham couldn't be made to take your place in the prisoner's dock, or that you couldn't be put in his place in the Lawrenceville Bank and Trust. You have "captured Tucker Jibbey, and that means Tucker's father; and my father —well, when it comes to the worst, my father always does what I want him to. It's his one weakness." For one little instant Smith felt the solid ground slipping from be neath his feet. Here was a way out, and his quick mentality was showing him that it wa a perfectly feasible way. As Verda Richiander's husband and Josiah Richiander's' son-in-law, he could flg.' t Dunham and win. Anil the rewarcf; once more he could take his place in the small Lawrenceville world, and settle down to the life of conventional good report and case which he had once thought the acme f any reasonable man's aspirations, ■tut at the half-yielding moment a word of Corona Baldwin's Hashed in to his brain and turned the scale: "It did happen in your case * * * giving you a chance to grow and ex pand, and to break with all th : old traditions • and the break left you free to make of yourself what you should choose." It was the reincarnated Smith who met the look I |f J P^O^AX^ro^ _jj |j the job. Li^Si--.sz^r:. .1 I" |fjj|[\ THE ATLANTIC _ •** "I 1 |.gj REFINING COMPANY TUESDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Father -> Copyright, 1917, International News Service By _ t 1_ - A . UOM'T NEED HE LL ViE UNDER . H V ( " ' >33=-- y Mf*-Met) - A DOCTOR A DOCTORS CARE Sk' VEV AND tfft, ADVISE >rOU Nor I I ADVICE IN DON'T STOP [' ® BE UNOER A SJp i TO TO Rurs L * KE f Th AT fl-ua / \# doctors CARE (ql§SsS } *l'* * g LTI 7 ~ T V ' RONNiNCi m ' I' IP HE OOE"b- J in the beautiful eyes and made an swer. "No," was the sober decision; and then he gave his reasons. "If I could do what you propose, I shouldn't be worth the powder it would take to "Your Friends Have Money." drive a bullet through me, Verda, for now, you see, I know what love means. You say I have changed, and I have changed; I can imagine the past-and-gone J. Montague jumping at the chance you are offering. But the mill will never grind with the water that Is past; I'll take what is coming to me, and try to take it like a man. Good-night—and good-b.v." And he turned his back upon the temptation and went away. (To Be Continued) Daily Dot Puzzle ( r X' ( M] >ik } 9 'o Q • k Q : "* J^'y ■a v V - L : .w^ z !i ( * .. Z . >t ii 9191 61 Tills seems a funny tiling to trace, But fourty-four completes the cltnse. Draw from one to two and so on to the end. "The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER IjXX Copyright, 1917, Star Company His arms were about me, his hot breath on my checks, but I wrench ed myself free from him. Steps sounded on the steps below us. The boys were coming in—care fu'.ly, lest they waken the house hold. "Confound it!" my companion 1 muttered. He released me, then caught hand In his, and stood thus, waiting for Hugh and Tom to appar at the turn of the'stairs. A moment more and they would be here. "Let me go! 7 whispered, trying to disengage ray hand. It was too late. The boys reached the foot of the second flight of stairs and looked up. Both hesitated, and Itrcw3ter Norton addressed them in a voice that he meant to make light, but that quivered with suppressed emotion. "Ah, boys, so you are back, are you? I was just telling this dear If 111 good night." He had never spoken like this before in the presence of anybody but himself and myself. What would his hearers think? Even in the dim light 'I *ould see how every drop of blood left Hugh Barker's face. I also saw that a dark and angry flood of crimson swept across Tom's boyish counte nance. "Good night, Mr. Norton," I said with grave formality. He let my hand go when he had spoken to the boys, and I was free to return to my own room. "How is Grace?" It was Hugh who asked the ques tion, and he looked straight at me. The words themselves ware noth ing, yet they were proof of a self coutro' that amazed me. 1 did not doubt his love for me, and 1 had let him see that I cared fcr him. Yet, coming -pon me standing here at this time of night, alons with my employer who was holding my hand, ho could speak like that! Was it because he trusted me in spite of appearances? If he stopped to think, he must believe that I was engaged to Mr. Norton— l!iat I ought to be. .Was it posrible that a man could love a girl so deeply that he could trust her in spile of what seemed like 3uch con vincing evidence of her untrust worthiness? 13iip.li Beads Tom Awny Even then I did not know of what heights of loyalty Hugh Parker was capable. "Grace is better," I stammered, 'that is—she is a3ieep." "Come on, old boy," Hugh said, throwing his arm across Tom's shoulders, "let's go to bed." In a flash of intuition, I felt that these two, tutor and pupil, had grown closer together during the past hour than ever before. As I went to my room, without a back ward glance, that fact was borne in upon me. I thought of the mysterious tele phone message, and Tom's excla mation of irritation with rcgnrd to it. Hud he suspected its import, and had it been of a nature that so angered and worried him that he could keep silent no longer? I cov.ld picture his walking along the country roads with Hugh, talk ing perhaps as lie haci talked to me on the day when he had given me his boyish confidence, when ho had told me of hi 3 fathers 3ccond mar riftge, and of how the husband had for'.-otten the first wife, the woman who had been Tom' 3 mother. I stopped in the center of my room, smitten by a thought. If Tom had taken Hugh Parker into his confidence in this affair, what must lie and Hugh think or feel on finding me with Brewster Norton, my hand in his, he telling me goodnight in that intimate fashion? 1 could have cried out against the false position in which I had been placed. Why must thi3 .have happened? Had that strange tele phone message started into motion the happenings of to-night? It was all mysterious, and I could not unravel the mystery. I did not feel able to cope with the situation. My employer loved me —or, at least, wanted to marry me—had declared that he would marry me. Hugh loved me, and I loved him. Hugh must now that I was en gaged to one man while he must also know that I cared for him— Hugh Parker. Tom must think that I was willing to be his father's third wife! AH Grotesque It was all incongruous, gro tesque. I had an inclination to laugh and scream at the same time. I must calm myself and be rea sonable. Undressing, I put on a wrapper, and sat down deliberately to think of something that would soothe me. And what I thought about was Hugh and his love. That seemed to me the one stable thing on which my mind could rest. I told myself over and over that he loved me, 1 that, appearances had not made him doubt me, and that I loved him bet HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! ter than anything else in all the big world. "In all the big world!" The words brought back to me the sound of Grace's voice as she had said them to mo this afternoon. I could almost feel her arms about my neck. Dear little girl! I must go in and see how s-ho was before I went to bed. I passed through the dressing room into the nursery where the shaded light still burned as I had left it when the child's father came Sale That Tops Them £ll Extraordinary Values} Klurluils^alAN^S?^p2iS^ Starts Friday Next, July 6, Promptly at 8.30 y|| The Most Important Clean Sweep Sale We've Ever Launched In spite of the scarcity of merchandise and the higher cost of everything we are pre- Jt \ paring to make this Semi-Annual Clean Sweep Sale a record breaker for big values. Orders have been issued to buyers of all departments of the store to place sweeping reductions on all stocks of Summer merchandise. 1 That means the biggest kind of money-saving opportunities on this season's most desira ble Summer apparel for men, women and children. Styles that are needed now and will be needed throughout the entire Summer, as well as hundreds of household needfuls, at prices that are far below the normal. < See Broom Coupon •^ us Bigg es t store Closed All Day ! In This Paper J3(Z Tomorrow Wed. July 4th ; I H lll Sdc\ y Next ■ (Independence Day) Store Closed All Bay Held ill Hdr Also Store Closed All Tomorrow led. July 4th (Independence Day) A Big Xwice-a-Year Event ay 1 hurs day July 5 AISO otore Closed All That Tops TIICXH All For To Re-Mark and Rearrange , Day Thursday July 5 Extraordinary Big Values < To Re-Mark and Rearrange REMEMBER Nothing but this season's J Morning at 8.30 o clock. 1 1 Stocks For the Great Clean most dessrab!e Summer Merchandise will be of- _ ~ ' Sweep Sale Which Starts Fri- Prices will in every instance, more than oee DrOOIII vOUpOn 111 tillS day Morning at 8.30 O'clock] our reputation for ramarkable un - Paper Thursday Next j Remember Sale Starts Friday, July 6th--- Tom^;;V6d t n i° d S a e y d (indeJend" c e y Day> 1 Store Closed All Day Thursday, July sth, To Prepare For This Big Salej Details and Price List | j | Details and Price List I jin a while ago. Grace still slept I peacefully. | I stood gazing down at her. And, I as 1 gazed I had an uncanny sensa , tion. Anyone who has ever felt that an unseen person was watching her knows what I mean. I felt as if some one were peering at mo from the shadows of the room. I dared not move, so hypnotized and fright ened was I by the conviction that a pair of eyes was fixed piercingly upon me. To Ho Continued. ONLY TWO SLACKERS ' Of the two score complaints in vestigated during the last few weeks by local Federal authorities, only two proved to be slackers, and these will register for the selective draft, it was reported. The others are out l side the conscriptive age or were ! found to be registered. Kingdon Gould's Wedding Slighted by His Family New York, July 3.—With none of the settings that usually marked marriages in the Gould family, Kingdon Gould, eldest son of George J. Gould, and Annunziata Camilla Maria Luccl, former Italian gov erness in the Gould household, were married late yesterday. Under a special cardinal's dispen sation. the ceremony was performed in the reception room of the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral by the Rev. Mgr. Gherrardo Ferrante, Car dinal Farley's Italian secretary. 1 Gould weddings have been asso JULY 3, 1917. ciated with a spirit of pomp in the eyes of New York. But no squads of policemen, no flocks of detectives wero necessary yesterday. Instead, Only one relative or friend of the fans" were in evidence. When the tall, dreamy looking scion of the Goulds led his dark, flashing-eyed brid* to the improvised altar, a table set between palms, there were thir teen guests in the room. Most of tnein were women friends of the Itride hastily summoned by scribbled invitations. Only one relative or friends of the bridegroom was present. He was George J. Gould, Jr., brother and chum. 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