Readily" aivd all the RuwiKj iJ^PjPf The Four of Hearts A Serial of I'oath and Romance Ily Vlrulniu Van Dc Water CHAPTER h (Copyright, 1918, Star Company) The Illness that called Milton Van Saun so abruptly from his betroth ed's side did not prove as serious I as was at first feared. Edward Van ' Maun had had a slight paralytic shock, but after the first few days it was evident that he was on the way to partial convalescence. "I have been afraid of Dad's hav ing an attack like this," Milton tel ephoned to Dora on the morning after the seizure, "but the doctor thinks that in a little while he will be almost as well as he has been for the last six months. Of course, he will never be a well man again— but we have known {.hat for t>otne time." "Poor dear —and he is so patient!" sympathized Cynthia when she heard this report. "It is hard on Dora and Milton," Mrs. Livingstone commented. "I im Klad Dora persuaded Milton that they were not to live at the Van Saun's after their marriage. It would not be fair to either of them." "■I did not persuade Milton," Dora corrected. "It was Mr. Van Saun himself who made the decision. He said we would be happier by our selves. That was why we decided to take a suite at a hotel for a few months, while we look about to see where we want to live." "It will be lonely for Mr. Van Saun, won't it ?" Cynthia suggested. Mrs. Livingstone raised her eye brows. "What else must parents expect ? lam not complaining that Dora must leave us. If her father and I can spare her, Mr. Van Saun can spare his son." She waited in vain for further comment from her niece. But the girl did not remind her aunt that husband and wife had each other, while Edward Van Saun would have nobody to share his loneliness. "Well," Mrs. Livingstone con tinued when Cynthia did not speak, "we must get ahead immediately with the wedding preparations. You, Cynthia, my dear, have not an hour to lose." Again Cynthia made no demur. 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S t Mft I DIONT FOR NOT KEEWN' * I WONDER IF I rn THAT DINNER EN<;*SENENT f ' &UT I DETAINED - MTCCIi ' " up town for an afternoon's shop ping to see Mr. Van Saun, telephon ing his nurse to that effect. Her heart ached as she thought of how lonely the sick man must be. "Don't you vant to stop. too. Dora?" she queried as the two girls rode up the avenue together. "No," Dora said, "I don't care about it. You are more in the habit of going to see Mr. Van Saun than I am. 1 guess he likes you better than he does me." "Oh no," Cynthia protested. "X don't blame him if he does," j Dora declared frankly. "You arej lots nicer than I am, Cyn. So tsj Milton. I will say for him that he is a good son. I have oiily seen him for a few minutes at a time since his father's attack. He goes to the office, stops at our house for a flying visit on the way home, then goes back to his father. But," with a shrug of the shoulders, "I don't care. 1 hpve not had a real talk with him since that night that they telephoned to him about Mr. Van Saun. By the way, did you know what Milton wanted to talk to me about that night?" Cynthia shook her head. "No, I had no idea." "Well, I'll tell you so you can be on your guard if he asks you about the same matter. Well"—she stop ped as if finding it hard to continua —"to tell the truth, Cyn—he wanted to ask me about that afternoon that I sent you into the library to see Gerald." "What about it? I don't under stand," Cynthia said. "Oh, I can't explain, Cyn!" Dora replied desperately. "It's all a mix up! You'll just have to take my word that it's all right. Only—if Milton should ever say anything to you about it—l mean if he should ask you when you got home that day—Just forget what time it was. What makes you look so queer ?" "Because," the other said slowly, "I was just remembering that he did ask me that very question awhile! ago." "And what did you tell him ?" | Dora demanded breathlessly, sitting j up very straight. A liiglit to Know "I told him the truth. 1 told him that it was after six o'clock. Why j Dora? What is it all about? What] difference does it make when 1 got; home that day ?" "Oh nothing!" Never mind!"l Dora exclaimed impetuously. "Please try to forget it all, Cyn! 1 I've gotten myself in a mess —but it will blow over. You need not wor ry." "But," Cynthia demurred, "if it concerns me, dear, I have a right to know about it." "It concerns me!" her companion insisted. "Don't bother your head about it." Then, as her cousin con tinued to look anxious sh burst . for impulsively, "For pity's sake, Cyn, why need you fuss over the thing ? You are quite safe. You are going to be marrieo to the man you love—everything has come your way.* You are one of the fortunate women—but my dear, please believe that I am glad you are happy, lj wish I were, too !" "Dora!" Cynthia caught the trem bling hands in hers. "Dear child, what is the matter ? Are you un happy ?" "No, of course not !"' with an hys terical giggle. "That's just it ! I, I silly little Dora Livingstone, '.vho I never had a serious thought in her HJLRJUEOMJBG TELEGRJLPH! life! lam supposed to be perfectly care free and happy, so I must be, even though I am marrying a man I don't really love, just because.it's expected of me !" "There, dear," as the car slowed up in front of the Van Saun house, "forgive my foolishness and love me in spite of it, please! And forget all the crazy things I have said!" To lie Continued I Daily Fashion j I Hint I i H Prepared Especially For This H I p Newspaper Sfl AN EMPIBE NEGLIGEE. Negligees of the most delightful tind are displaying themselvea in .he smart shops and many are In •xtremely simple effects. The exe rinclos of war times have taken toll )t frills and all unnecessary fulness nd draperies are resorted to to ivoid straight, skimpy lines. 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My usual course would have been to go around it—through fields, back yards, woods or whatever else lay in my way—but X had gained so much time by going through the last village instead of detouring it and my appearance seemed to be so un suspicious that I decided to try the same stunt again. I stopped humming and kept very much on the alert but, apart from that 1 walked boldly through the main street without any feeling of alarm. 1 had proceeded perhaps a mile along the main street when I noticed ahead of me three German soldiers standing at the curb. , Again my heart started to beat fast, I must confess, but I was not nearly so scared as I had been an hour or so before. I 'walked ahead, determined to follow my previous procedure in ev ery particular. Heart Stops at "Halt!" I had go to about fifteen feet away from the soldiers when one of them stepped onto the sidewalk and shouted: "Halt!" My heart stopped beating fast— for a moment, I believed it stopped beating altogether.' I can't attempt to describe my feelings. The thought that the jig was up—that all I had gone through arid II I had escaped would now avail me nothing, bin gled with a feeling of disgust with myself because of the foolish risk I had taken in going through the vil. lage, combined to take all the starch out of me, and I could feel myself wilting as the soldier advanced to the spot where I stool rooted in my tracks. I had a bottle of water iA one pocket and a piece of bread In the other, and as the Hun advanced to search me I held the bottle up in one hand and the piece of bread in the other so that he could see that was all I had. It occurred to me that he would, "frisk" me—that is, feel me ovei; for arms or other weapons—then place me under arrest and march me off to the guardhouse. I had not the slightest Idea but that I was captured, and there didn't seem to be much use in resisting, unarmed as I was and with two other' German soldiers within a few feet of us. , Like a flash it suddenly dawned on me, however, that for all this soldier could have known I was only a Belgian peasant and that his object in marching me, which he proceeded to do, was to ascertain whether I had committed the com mon "crime" of smuggling pota toes! Were After Potato Smugglers The Belgians were allowed only a certain amount of potatoes, and it is against the laws laid down by the Huns to deal in vegetables of any kind except under the rigid super vision of the authorities. Neverthe less, It was one of the principal vo cations of the average poor Belgian to buy potatoes out in the country from the peasants and then smuggle! tjiem into the' large cities and sell them clandestinely at a high price. To stop this traffic in potatoes, the German soldiers were In the habit of subjecting the Belgians to fre quent' search, and 1 was being held up by this soldier for no other rea son than that he thought I might be a potato smuggler! He felt of my outside clothes and pockets, and finding no potatoes seemed to be quite satisfied. Had he but known who I was he could have earned an iron cross! Or, perr haps, in view of the fact that I haa a heavy water bottle in my uplifted hand it might have turned out to be a wooden cross! He said something in German, which, of course, I did not under stand, and then some Belgian peas ants came along and seemed to dis tract his attention. Perhaps he had said: "It's all right; you may go on," or he may have been talking to the others in Flemish, ibut, at any rate, observing that he was more In terested in the others than he was in me at the moment I put the bot tle in my pocket and walked on. NO ADVANCE IN PRICE MEURALGIA JL For quick results rub the Forehead /SsMfiV and Temples with fa 3ts\ ▼ y Lil'ltody-Guard VICKSvSPo^gS 25c—50c—$1.00 After I walked a few steps I took a furtive glance backward and no ticed the soldier who had searched me rejoin his comrades at the curb and then stop another fellow who had come along, and then I disap peared in the darkness. I cannot say that the outcome of this adventure left me in the same confident frame of mind that fol lowed the earlier one. I was sure I had come out of it all right, but I could not "help thinking what a ter ribly close shave I had. Suppose the soldier had ques tioned me! The ruse I had been fol lowing in my dealings with the Bel gian peasants—pretending I was deaf and dumb—might possibly have worked here, too, but a soldier —a German soldier—might not so easily have been fooled. It was more than an even chance that it would at least have aroused his sus picions and resulted in further inr vestlgation. A search of my cloth ing would have revealed a dozen things which would have established my identity, and all my shamming of deafness would have availed me nothing. Xearing a Big City As I wandered along I knew that T was now approaching the big city which my Belgian friend had spoken of and which I would have to enter if 1 was to get the passport, and I realized now how essential it was to have something to enable me to get through the frequent examinations to which I expected to be subjected. While I was still debating in my mind whether It was going to be possible for me to enter the city that 1 i Announcing a Timely Thrift Sale of i I WOMEN'S AND MISSES' | 1 Handsome Silk Dresses 8 I I i Beginningß:3oA.M.Wednesday| I Your Choice of 487 Dresses S 1 Divided Into 2 Big Lots | | $12.50 to $15.00 Dresses $18.50 to $22.50 Dresses i On Sale Wednesday For On Sale Wednesday For I sg.so ( | None on Sale Before 1 I Wednesday Morning at 8:30 O'clock 1 | See the Magnificent Display of These i I DRESSES Now in Our Show Windows I | Read This Paper Tomorrow | MAY 6, 1918, night, I saw in the distance what appeared to be an arc light, and as I neared it that was what it turned out to be. Beneath the light I could make out the forms of three guards, and the thought of having to go .through the same kind of ordeal that I had just experienced filled me with misgivings. Was it possible that I could be fortunate enough to get by again? As I slowed up a little trying to make up my mind what was best to do, I was overtaken by a group of Belgian women who were shuf fling along the road ,and I decided to mingle with them and see if I couldn't convey the impression that I was one of their party. As we approached the arc light, the figures of the three soldiers with their spiked helmets loomed up be fore me like a regiment. I felt as if I were walking right into the jaws of death. Rather than go through what was in store for me, I felt that I would infinitely prefer to be fight ing again in the air with those four desperate Huns who had been the cause of my present plight—then, at least, I would have a chance to fight back, but now I had to risk my life and take what was coming to me without a chance to strike a blow in my own defense. Passes Guards Tnchallenjted I shall never forget my feelings as we came within the shaft of light projected by that great arc light nor the faces of those three guards as we passed by them. I didn't look di rectly at them, but out of the corner of my eye I never missed a detail. I held a handkerchief up to my face as we passed them and endeavored to imitate the slouching gait of the Belgians as well as 1 could, and ap parently it worked. Wo walked right by those guards and they paid absolutely no attention to us. If ever a fellow felt like going down on his knees and praying I did at that moment, but it wouldn't have 5 done to show my elation or grati tude in that conspicuous way. It was then well after 11 o'clock and I knew it would be unsafe for me to attempt to find a lodging place in the city, and the only thing for me to do was to locate the man whose name the Belgian had given me. He had given me a good de scription of the street and had di rected me how to get there, and I followed his instructions closely. After walking the streets for about half an hour, I came upon one of the landmarks my friend had de scribed to me and ten minutes after wards I was knocking at the door of t the man who was to make it pos sible for me to reach Holland—and liberty. At least, that was what I hoped. , (To Be Continued.) NOHEADftGHE OR NEURALGIA Pi Get a 10 cent package of Dr. James' Headache Powders and don't suffer. , When your head aches you simply must have relief oi- you will go wild. It's needless to suffer when you can take a remedy like Dr. James' Head ache Powders and relieve the pain and neuralgia at once. Send someone to the drug store now for a dime package of Dr. James' Headache Powders. Dont suffer. In a few i moments you will feel One—head ache gonr—no more neuralgia pain.