yjfll all ike KHIMKI BlPljl The I Yukon Ry William MacLeod ltaine (Continued) CHAPTER XI Slii'lui Says "Perhaps" Obeying tho orders of tho genoral In command, Peter took himself to his den with the excuse that he had blue-prints to work over. Presently Diane- said she thought she heard one of the children crying and left to Investigate. The Scotsman strode to the tire place and stood looking down into tho glowing coals. He seemed in no hurry to break the silence and Sheba glanced at his strong brood ing face a little apprehensively. She knew of only one subject that would call for so formal a private talk be tween her and Macdonald, and tny discussion of this she would vory much have liked to postpone. He turned from the fire to Sheba. !t was characteristic of hini that he plunged straight at what he wanted to say. "I've asked to see you alone, Miss O'Neill, because I want to make a confession and restitution —to be gin with," he told her abruptly. She had a sense of suddenly stilled pulses. "That sounds very serious." Tho young woman smiled faintly. His face of chiseled granite masked all emotion. It kept under lock and key the insurgent impulses that moved him when he looked into the sloe eyes charged with re serve. Back of them, he felt, was Ilie mystery of purity, of maiden hood. He longed to know her better, 1o find out and to appropriate for himself the woman that lay behind the fine veil of flesh. She seemed to him delicate as flame and as vivid. There would come a day when her innocent, passional nature would respond to the love of a man as a waiting harp does to skillful fingers. "My story goes away back to the Klondike days. I told you that I knew your father on Frenchman creek, but I didn't say much abont knowing him on Bonanza." "Mr. Strong has told me some thing about the days on Bonanza, Buy Your Home Save Money A RELATIVELY small A initial payment will I secure a home. 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My stomach is right, nerves have settled, sleep well, aches and pains have gone, I feel strong and better than for years." Sanpan is being introduced at Keller's Drug Store, 405 Market Kt., Harrisburg, where the Sanpan man is meeting the people.—adv. Reasons for our Optical omA Sue cess lur (experience—practical anil thor ough. '►'ir Equipment—modern anil com plete. t'nr Service—painstaking anil accu rate. [ar Courtesy—extended to nil. Bur Patrons—talking advertlMern. War tIasNCH—saver* of slight. Eyesight Specialist 28 NOItTH THIItD STREET Sehldmer lluildlng SATUTTTMY "EVENING, Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service *— * *— * By McM i\ U ~ l ) II I I ™ 6 E /r^ T IIU|II '^- T I [yt&s?. k and I knew you would tell me more some day—when you wanted to speak about it." "Your father was among the first of those who stampeded to Bonanza. He and Strong took a claim together. I bought out the interest of your father." "You told me that." His masterful eyes fastened to hers. "I didn't tell you that I took advantage of him. He was —not well. I used that against him in the bargaining. He wanted ready money, and I tempted him. "Do you mean that you—wronged him?" "Yes. I cheated him." He re solved to gloss over nothing, to offer no excuses. "I didn't know there was gold in the claim, but I had what we call a hunch. I took the claim without giving value received." "But I don't understand." Her brave, steady eyes looked directly into those of Macdonald. "If he felt you had—done him a wrong— why did he come to. you when he was ill?" "He was coming to demand, just j ice of me. On the way he suffered I exposure and caught pneumonia. ] The word reached us, and Strong | and I brought him to our cabin." "You faced a blizzard to bring ' him in. Mr. Strong told me how FiGHT FOS YOUR LIFE Duty Demands Robust Health Fight to get it and keep it ! Fight—fight day In and day out to \ prevent being overtaken by ills and alls. 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It puts Into you the springy snap and vigor you ought to have and puts life Into your body and mind that Inspires the con fidence that you confront the world on an equal footing with anyone. Hypoferrin may be had at your druggist's or direct from us for JLOO per package. It Is well worth the price. The Sentanl Remedies Co.. CUMUmat!. OhiA. , 7 N DR. FRANK F. D. RECKORD Will Discontinue Offices 922 North Third Street Beginning January First. Temporary Oilier*, Residence 220 Kelker Street you risked your life by carrying him through the storm how you wouldn't give up and leave him, though you were weak and stag gering yourself. He says it was a miracle you ever got through." "I'm not heartless," said Macdon ald impatiently. "Of course I did that. I had to do it. I couldn't do less." "Nor more," she suggested. "You i may have made a hard bargain with | him, but you wiped that out later. "That's just what I didn't do. Don't think my conscience is troub. ! ling me. I'm not such a mush j brained fool. It it had not been for | you I would never have thought of lit again. But you are his daughter. | What I cheated him out of belongs i to you—and you are my friend." "Don't use that word about what you did, please. He wasn't a child. If you got the best of him in a bar gain, I don't think father would think of it that way." The difficulty was that he could not tell her the truth about her father's weakness for drink and how he had played upon it. He bridged all explanations and passed to the thing he meant to do in reparation. "The money I cleaned up from that claim belongs to you. Miss O'Neill. You will oblige me by tak ing it." From his pocket he took a folded paper and handed it to her. Sheba opened it doubtfully. The paper contained a typewritten statement and to it was attached a check by means of a clip. The check was made out to her and signed by Colby Macdonald. The amount it called for was $183,431. "Oh, I couldn't take this, Mr. Macdonald—l couldn't. It doesn't belong to me," she cried. "It belongs to you —and you're go ing to take it." "I wouldn't know what to do witti so much." "The bank will take care of It for you until you decide. So that's set tled." He passed ' definitely from the subject. "There's something else I want to say to you, Miss O'Neill.'.' Some change in his voice warned her. The girl slanted a quick, shy glance at him. "I want to know if you'll marry me. Miss O'Neill," he shot at her abruptly. Then, without giving her time to answer, he pushed on: "I'm older than you—by twenty-five years. Always I've lived on the frontiers. I've had to take the world by the throat and shake from it what I wanted. So I've grown hard and willful. All the sweet, fine things of life I've missed. But with you beside me, I'm not too old to find them yet—if you'll show me the way, Sheba." A wave of color swept into her face, but her eyes never faltered from his. "Im not quite sure," she said in a low voice. "You mean —whether you love me?" She nodded. "I—admire you more than any man I ever met. You are a great man, strong and powerful— and I am so insignificant beside you. I—am drawn to you—so much. But —I am not mire." [To 1)0 Continued.] (Daily Dot Puzzle IB ,fc . . <7 16 19 2° • * 2 ' 22 ' I 2 13 * • 23 ! •" 4 25 J 4 I• 8 • * • # *26 5 " ; "L 2 . 8 . 29 : 7 ' 3 . 4 .* •33 ' 42 * 35 3b | ' • *39 • ' • . ! *43 47 . 44 ;\s This is little Rastus Black, Kind who struck him in the back. Drtiw from one to two and so on to the end. FTA RRISBURG TELEGRAPH S "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" | Copyright by International News Scrrioe "I hope you don't play with her," whispered Louise to Helen. "Why, what's the matter? "Well, my dear, this is the first time I have really been out to a social function since the baby came, and actually I feel as though I ought to go right back into the hospital and be treated for all kinds of ail ments." Helen could not help smiling. She was not a nervous woman her self, and could not Imagine that anything a stranger might say would affect her In the least. "All right, smile! Just for a pun ishment, I hope you have to play at the table with her all afternoon." "Very well, I'll tell you on the way home If I am at all nervous." And Helen left Louise with a laugh. Helen Is Curious Helen and Louise and several other women they knew were at a bridge given for charity. The wom an in question, whom Louise had pointed out to Helen and told her to beware of, was a simple, unos tentatious-looking creature dressed rather badly in a mussy frock that looked as if It had come out of the ark. Helen could not Imagine herself being frightened by anything a woman like that could say, not even when she discovered, much to her amusement, that the woman was to play opposite her at the next table. Helen was frankly curious about her, however. If there were anyone else to share the joke with her, she might enjoy the entire thing, she thought to herself. But the other two women were also strangers, or strangers to Helen, although they seemed to know Mrs. Sanford rather 1 well. "Go on with what you were tell ing us," said one, as Helen began to shuffle the cards. The woman looked across at Hel en, who smiled. "Oh, pease don't mind me," Helen said agreeably. "I was just telling Mrs. Williams about a rather unpleasant experience I had this fall," she explained. "If you are at all interested, it might be well for you to hear It, too." "By all means," Helen agreed. "You see, I followed the advice of my friends, who kept telling me that all physicians find something wrong the minute you go to them for an examination of any kind." "And you were so miserable, too," said the woman called Mrs. Wil liams, indignantly. "Well, you see, ttyey didn't think so. They all thought I imagined half of it." "Don't you think we often do that very thing?" queried Helen. An Argument Two of the other women looked at her coldly; the third looked half frightened. "I don't agree with you," said one. Helen began to deal the cards and said nothing. Mrs. Sanford went on with her story. "Well, as I was saying," she remarked, "they all thought I imag ined these symptoms, and I felt ashamed to really consult a doctor about matters, because of being ridi culed. It just goes to show how wrong my friends were and how foolish I was to have anything to do with them, or to listen to anything they might tell me." "You did wait, then?" asked Mrs. Williams. "Yes, I did wait I waited until It was almost too late, and I nearly died when I was finally operated upon." Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton No more practical knitting ? S or sewing apron than this one Yfl could be offered. It is, indeed, both apron and bag. The bag y7 " 11 is amply capacious and satis /1 Er§3 I \ factory. On the figure, it is r i Bp J \ made of cretonne that is such a f avor ite. In one of the small views, it is made of khaki i ■ J colored galatea with a Red Cross emblem forming the deco- I ration, but you could substitute / \l s ' m P' e ornament that you I I'ke. Outline "embroidery allil worked with heavy threads ia "IGUY used with good effect and there are numberless color combina /fVf \ tions that could be evolved. Ifi yJI ABgn|y The apron is stitched to the IrtJr £TM back of the bag and it can be gar% Sn turned down into the latter ! r\k when desirable. ■ ■JIIL aW For the making will be needed, \A M yards of material 27 inches wide, 1 yards 36 or 44. **>' v The pattern No. 9630 ia cut in one size. It will be mailed . _. _ _ „ to any address by the Fashion 9630 Apron Work Bag, One S.re. Department of this paper on Pnce 10 cent*. receipt of ten cents. "How awful!" exclaimed Mrs.] Williams, who seemed to be intense ly interested. Helen, who was only moderately interested in morbid women who liked to discuss their ailments in public, made no remark. She looked instead at the third woman, who had said little or noth ing. She looked rather white and pale. Helen smiled at her reassur ingly. "Can you make it anything?" she asked kindly. The woman .started. "Oh, yes, it is my bid," she remarked hurriedly. "One heart." The bid went around and nothing more was said until the hand was played. Then, while the cards were being dealt, Mrs. Sanford turned to Helen quickly. "You said that women often do imagine ailments, Mrs. Curtis," she remarked. "Why, yes, I do think so," Helen returned. "I know I often do. I think we all are apt to magnify little things." "That's what my friends said to me," Mrs. Sanford returned. "I used to imagine things were the matter with me for so long that when the time came and I really was ill I coudn't convince anyone." "Well, there you are," said Helen. "You see your remark proves just what I said." "Imagination certainly can do a great deal," said the quiet little woman on Helen's left. "I have worried myself almost Into a fit of illness often." "That's all right," said Mrs. San ford ,angry at the fact that her in formation had made no impression on Helen. "There may come a time when something is really wrong, and ' you won't have it attended to until too late." Helen saw the little woman pale suddenly, and her hands trembled. "You're frightening this lady," Helen said quickly. "Let's not talk any more about illnesses and, operations just now." The little woman looked at Helen gratefully, and the game went on. Helen wondered why women liked to talk of these things, but they did, and each liked to go the other one better in gruesome experiences, too. It certainly did the woman with a nervous temperament a great deal of unnecessary harm. (To He Continued) NEW YEAR'S MASQUERADE Tower City, Pa., Dec. 29.—Tho P. O. of A. will hold a masquerade par ty for its members on New Year's night.—Watch night services will be 1 held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, starting at 10.15 o'clock Monday evening. The Women's Missionary Society will render a program and take up their thank offering collection previous to the watch night, services.—Many mem bers have been added to the Red Cross Auxiliary.—Lester TTpdegrave, of Philadelphia, is visiting his sister here.—Thomas Walsh has re turned to his home in Philadelphia after visiting his parents here.—Miss Edith English, of Eddystone, is spending her vacation here.—Edward Kline is visiting his" father at the Pottsville Hospital. Rene Koutx and family have returned from Philadelphia for the holidays. Mr. Houtz has gone back to his employ ment in the city.—Helen Reiser and her brother are visiting relatives at Hickory Corner.—Clarence Thomp son, of Pottsville, spent several days in town. —Robert Ludwlg and Clark Kantner, of South Bethlehem, are visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Landis Have Many Guests Tuesday Union Deposit, Pa., Dec. 29.—Mr. and Mrs. Devi Hershey, of Elizabeth town; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stover, of Stoverdale; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stauffer and Miss Lizzie Landis, of Harrisburg, were guests of Mr. and i Mrs. C. A. Landis on Tuesday.—Mr. and Mrs. Enos Fackler and children, of Elizabethtown, visited the for mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abrain Fackler, on Sunday. Preaching services will be held in the Reformed Church to-morrow morning at I0.:i0 o'clock by the pastor, the Rev. \r thur R. King.— Hoy Landis, of State Colege, is spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lan dis.—Mr. and Mrs. C. Groff and children spent Tuesday at Palmyra, visiting Mrs. Groff's mother, Mrs. John Batdorf. —Preaching services will be held in the United Brethisn Church to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock by the pastor, the Rev. J. R. McDonald. —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Feidt and the former's mother, Mrti. P. F. Feidt, of Steelton, were the guests of Mrs. Feidt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Dandis, on Tuesday. —Mr. and Mrs. James Brunner and daughter, Arlene, spent part of the week at Schaefferstown, visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Brunner. —Mr. and Mrs. Peter Can non, of York, spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. A. Hammaker. —Mr. and Mrs. Allen Ebersole, of Pal myra, visited the former's brother, Isaac Ebersole, and family on Tues day.—The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Patrick and left as a Christmas gift a bouncing baby. SOCIAL FOR RED CROSS Tliompsontowii, Pa., Dec. 29. Misses Mary Meiser's and Kathryn Keplar's Sunday school classes will hold a social in the borough school building on Monday evening for the benefit of the Red Cross.—Mrs. J. G. Haldeman and Miss Pearl Haldeman spent the Christmas season with J. E. Haldeman and family at Harris burg.—Mrs. Joshua Gross is spend ing the week with Harrisburg friends.—George Smee, of Lewis town, was in town on Monday.—Mies Isabelle Allen is spending the holi day season at home.—Miss Helen Ward is spending this week with her parents at Pennsylvania Furnace. — Earl Ward and Leo Burns, Soldiers at Camp Meade, Md., spent Christ mas with their parents here. —Miss Delia Knight, who has been at a Government hospital in New Mexi co for the past year, recently \ 'sit ed her sister, Mrs. John Baxtress. —Miss Kate Moore, of Germ.i!itov/n, ; is a guest of Mrs. Edward Shippen Thompson. Are You One of Them? Thousands Suffer With Catarrh and Make No Effort to Get .Rid of It. 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