WRKLEYS JtfUr every meal / iMtt kcttcf« yyjl jR|« 1 I ©-§ SPRINGLESS SHADES Last Lo«4cr_Look Bettv cases of Distemper. I Influenza, Coughs, Colds, Heave* and I Worm among horses and Male*. I Used and endorsed by leading stock I farms, breeders and drivers of united I States and Canada for thirty yean. I Sold la two afaca at all drug stores. ASSUBUSMWBWMCSANEMM [xmmmm mm—m rsssk^mm That YSmMatcybuFitTomornm aMII | I MiM.Hiu.cn, osruoiT. Nirtnre never explains; always teaches bj abject lessons. It r»w tra won, lit Roman 1 y Balaam. Apply M at nlfbl and you ar« fc»ata4 to ■■>»!— 171 Paarl St., N. T. Adv. A penny saved Is a penny earned, nnu .. uuiiur saved is one you didn't loan. A go-getter usually has no time to dully and eujoy life with you. i ————————- Trv llvlnc on 15 cents a day If yon are troubled with dyspepsia. There's this about a genuine hop# In heaven: It makes one happier on earth. When Yon Catch Cold Rah on Musterole Muaterole is easy to apply and it gets a its good work right away. Often it prevents a cold from turning into "flu" or pnri—nnia Just..apt>ly Musterole with the fingers. It does all the good work of grandmother's mustard nlaster withoat (he Mister. Musterole is a dean, white ointment, awls of aH of Bastard and other home simples. It is recommended bjfmany ■doctors and nurses. Try Musterole (or acre throat, cold on the chest, rbenma tMn.ksabap>, pleurisy, stiff neck, bron *thia. asthma. neuralgia, congestion, pains and aches of the back and joints, sprain*, sore imnclea, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet-colds of all sorts. TmMaihmmt MostaroU It now ■aada la milder form for hahlsa and small children. Aak far Children's Mustarol*. 33c and .ind tubes. hos {Mis' Lift Off-No Pain! DwaaTt hart one bill Drop a little "rraenssMr* ea aa aching corn, instant- If that cas steps hart tag, then short ly jraa Ml It right iff with fingers. Tsar hauiat sells a tiny bottle of Tisi s—s~ far a lew to rassssrs arsry hard corn, soft corn, or .am hatwnea the toss, and the fool lei—la*without soreness or Irritation. «JL U, CHAM.OTTK, NO. 11-182*. Three Men and aMaid v-s - * v \ 1 • • $ Bij P. Q. U7ODEHOUSE Copyright by George H. Doran Co. CHAPTER XVl—Continued —lft She pushed the curtains apart with a rattle and, at the same moment, from the direction of the door there came a low but distinct gasp which made her resolute heart Jump and flnit* ter. It wus too dark to see anything distinctly, hut. In the instant before It turned and lied, she caught sight of a shu'dowy ibnle figure, and knew that her worst fears had been realized. The figure was too .tall to he Eustace, and Eustace, she knew, was the only man in the house. Male figures, therefore, that went flitting about YVlndles, must be the figures of burglars. Mrs. Hlgnett, bold woman though she was, stood for an Instant spell hound, and for one moment of not un pardonable panic, tried to tell herself that she had been mistaken. Almost Immediately, however, there came from the direction of the hall a dull chunky sound as though something soft had been kicked, followed by a low gurgle and the noise of staggering feet. Un less he was dancing a pas seal out of sheer lightness of heart, the nocturnal visitor must have tripped over some thing. The lutter theory was the correct one. Montagu Webster was a man who at many a subscription ball had shaken a wicked dancing-pump, and nothing In the proper circumstances pleased lilm better than to exercise the •kill which had become his as the re sult of twelve private lessons ai hulf a-crown a visit: but he recognized the truth of the scriptural aduge that there Is a time for dancing, and'that tills was not it. His only desire when, stealing Into the drawing room he had been confronted through the curtains by a female tigure, was to get back to his bedroom undetected. He supposed that one of the feminine members of the house party must have been taking a stroll in the grounds, and he did not wish to stay «pd be compelled to make laborious explanations of his presence tjjere In the«dark. He decided to post pone the knocking on the cupboard door, which had been the signal ar ranged between himself and Sam. until a more suMable occasion.' In tlte meantime be bounded silently out Into the hall, and Instantaneously tripped over the portly form of Smith, the bull dog, who, roused from a light sleep ti> the knowledge that something was going on, and being a dog who always liked to be In the center of the mael strom of events, had waddled out to Investigate. lly tlie time Mrs. Hlgnetffiiad pulled herself together sufficiently to reel bruve enough to venture Into the hall, Webster's presence of mind and Smith's gregarlousness had combined tto restore that part of the house to Its normal nocturnal condition of empti ness. Webster's stagger had carried him almost up to the green baize door leading to the servants' staircase, and he procertled to pass through It with out checking his momentum, closely followed by Smith, who, now convinced that Interesting .events were in prog ress which might possibly culminate In cake, had nbandohed the Idea of sleep and meant to see the thing through. He gamboled In Webster's wake up the stairs and along the passage'lead ing to the hitter's room, and only paused when the door was brusquely shut In his face. Upon which he sat down to think the thing over. He was In no hurry. The night was before him. promising, as far as he could Judge from the way It had opened, ex cellent entertulnment. Mrs. Hlgnett had listened fearfully to the uncouth noises from the hall. The burglars—she had now discovered that there were at least two of them — appeared to be actually romping. The situation luid grown beyond her han dling. If tills troupe of terpslchorean marauders wss to be dislodged she must have assistance. It was man's work. She made a brave dash through the ball, mercifully unmolested: found the stairs: raced up them: and fell through the doorway of her son Eus tace's bedroom like a spent Marathon runner staggering past the winning poet. Episode Two. In the moment which elapsed before either of, the two could calm their agitated brains ,*« speech. Eustace be came aware, as uts., vw»» w. pf the truth of that well-known line, "Peace, perfect I'tace, with loved ones fur away!" "Eustace!" Mrs. Hugnett gasped. hand on heart. "Eustace, there are -men In the house V , This fact was Just the one which Eustace had been wondering how to break to her. ' M I know." he s*lrt uneasily.* "You know!" Mr&~Hlgnett stami. "Did you hear theni:" "Hear them?" said Eustace, puzzled. "The drawing room window was left open, and there are two burglura In the half "Oh, I any, no! That's rather rot ten !" aald Eustace. v "I aaw and heard them. Come with roe and arrest them." "* k "But I can't. I've sprained my lakla" ■ ••Sprained your antytf? How very Inconvenient! Wbeh ii/d you do that?" "Tills morning." • "How did It happen?" Eustace hesitated. "I was Jumping." "Jumping! But —oh!" Mrs. Ilig nett's sentence trailed off Into a sup pressed shriek, as the door opened. Immediately following on Eustace's accident, Jane Hubbard had consti tuted herself his nurse. It was she who had bound up his Injured ankle In a manner wj)lch the doctor on his arrival had admitted himself unable to Improve upon. She had sat with him through the long afternoon. And now, fearing lest a return of the puln might render him sleepless, she had come to bring him a selection of books to see him through the night. Jane Hubbard was a girl who by na ture and training was well adapted to bear shocks. She accepted the advent of Mrs. Hlgnett without visible aston ishment, though inwardly she was wondering who the. visitor might be. "Good evening," she said placidly. Mrs. Hlgnett, having rallied* from her moment of weakness, glared at the new arrival dumbly. She could not place Jane. She had the air of a nurse, nnd yet she wore no uniform. "Who are ,vou?" she asked stiffly. "Who are you?" countered Jane. "I," said Mrs. Hlgnett portentously, "am the owner of this house, and I should be glad to know what you are doing In It. I am Mrs. Horace Hlg nett." *■ . A charming smile spread Itself over Jane's finely cut face. "I'm so glad to meet you," she said. "I have heard so muchsrbout you." "Indeed?" said Mrs. Hlgnett. "And now I should like to hear a little about you." "I'vie rend all your books." said Jane. "I think they're wonderful." In spite of herself. In spite of a feel ing that this young woman was stray ing from the point, Mrs. Hlgnltt could not check ,a,.fllght Influx of amlnblllty. She was an authoress who received a good deal of Incense from admirers, but she could always do with a bit more. Besides, most of the Incense came b.v mall. Living a quiet and re tired life In the country. It was rarely that she got it handed, to her face to face. She melted quite perceptibly. She did not.ceAse to look like a basi lisk, but she began to look like a basi lisk who has had a good lunch. "My favoiffe," siiid June, who for a week hod been sitting daily In a chair In the drawing room adjoining the table on which the authoress' complete works were assembled, "Is 'The Spread ing Light.' I do like The Spreading Light'!" said Mrs. Hlgnett with something ap proaching cordiality, "and I have since revised some of the views I state In It, but I st.ll consider It quite a good text book." "Of course, I can see that 'What of the Morrow?' U more profound," said Jane. "Bat I read The Spread ing Light' first, and of course that makes a difference. T ean quite see that it would." agreed-Mrs. Hlfcnett. "One's first step across the threshold of a new mind, one's first glimpse . . "Yes. It makes you feel . . "Like, some watcher of the skies," said Mrs. Hlgnett, "when a new planet swims Into his ken. or tike . . ." "Yes. doesn't It!" said Jane. Eustace, who had been listening to the conversation with every muscle tense, In much the same tnental atti tude as that of a peaceful citizen in- a Wild West saloon who holds himself In readiness to dive under a table di rectly the shooting begins, began to relax. What he had shrlnklngly antici pated would be the biggest thing since tho> Dempsey-Carpentler fight seemed to be turning Inte a pleasant social and literary evening not unlike what he Imagined a meeting of old Vassar alumnae must be. For the first time aJnce his mother had come into the room he Indulged In the luxury of s deep breath. "But what are you doing here?" asked Mrs.. Hlgnett, returning almost reluctantly to the main lasue. Eustace perceived that he had breathed too soon. In an unobtrusive way he subsided Into the bed and pulled the sheets over hla head, fol lowing intf excellent, tactics of the CTeat duke of Wellington fn his Penin sular campaign. "When In doubt," the duke used to say, "retire and dig your self In." "I'm nursing dear Eustace." said Jane. * Mrs. Illgnett quivered, and cnst on eye on the hump In" the bedclothes which represented dear Eustace. A cold fear had come upon her. "'Dear Eustace'!" she repeated me chanlcally. •"We're engaged," aald Jane. "We got engaged this mornlnThat's how he sprained, his ankle. Wheu I at cepted him, he tried to Jump a boll* hush." "Engaged: Eustace, Is this truer' "Yes," said a muffled voice from the Interior of the be«T. poor Eustace la so worried.' continued lane, "about the kouae." She w,«n( on qulcklv. "He doean'l ■' - « THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM. N. C. want to deprive you of It, because he knows what it means to you. So be Is hoping—we are both -hoping—that you will accept It as a present when we are tnacried. We really shan't want It. you know. We are going to live tn London. So you will take It, won't ytAi—to please us?" We all of us, even the greatest of Uf, have our moments of weakness. Let us then not express any surprise at the sudden collapse of one of the world's greatest female thinkers. ..As the meaning of this speech smote on Mrs. Horace Hlgnett's understanding, she sank weeping into a chair. The ever-present fear that had haunted her had been exorcised. Wlndles was hers In perpetuity. The relief was too great. She sat in her chair and gulped: and Eustace, greatly encour aged, emerged slowly from the bed clothes like a worm after a thunder storm. ' * " How long this poignant scene would have lasted, one cannot say. It Is a pity that It was cut short, for I should have liked to dwell upon It. But at ttha moment, from the regions down stair's, there suddenly burst upon the silent rHght such a whirlwind of sound as effectually dissipated the tense emo tion In the room. Somebody had touched off the orchestrion in the drawing room, and that willing instru ment had begun again in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off. Its wailing lament for the passing of summer filled the whole house. "That's top bad!" said Jane, a little annoyed. "At this time of night!" "It's the burglars!" quavered Mrs. Hlgnett. In the stress ot recent events she had completely forgotten the ex istence of those enemies of society. "They were dancing In khe hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!" * "Light-hearted chaps!" said Eustace, admiring the sang-froid of the criminal world. "Full of spirits!" "This won't do," said Jane Hubbard, shaking her head. "We can't have this "Murder Mel" Shs Bald Amusedly, "I'd Like to Catch Them at Itl" sort of thing. 11l go and fetch my gun." "They'll murder yon, dear!" panted Mrs. Hlgnett, clinging to her arm. Jane Hubbard laughed. "Murder roe!' r she said, amusedly. "I'd like to catch them at It!" Mrs. Hlgnett stood staring at the door as Jane closed It safely behind her. , , "Eustace," she said solemnly, "that Is a wonderful girl!" s "Yea I Bhe once killed a panther— or a puma, I forget which —with a hat pin !" said Eustace with enthusiasm. "I could wish you no better wifej" said Mrs. Hlgnett. She broke off with a sharp wall. . .. Out In the passage something like a battery of artillery had roared. The door opened and Jane Hubbard appeared, slipping a fresh cartridge Into the elephant-gun. "One of them was popping about outside here." she announced. "I took a shot a{ him. but Tm afraid 1 missed. The visibility was bad.\ At anr rate hex-— In this last was per fectly accurate. Bre^m Mortimer, who had been aroused 6y the orchestrion and who had come out to see what was the matter, had gone away at the rate of fifty miles an hour. He had been creeping down the passage when he found himself suddenly confronted by a dim figure Which, without a word, had attempted to slay him with an enormous gun. The shot had whistled past his ears and gone singing down the corridor. This enough for .Bream. He had returned to bis room lif three strides.-and was now under the bed. The -burglars might take everything In the bouae and welcome, m that they did not moleat hla pri vacy. That waa the way Bream looked •t It. And very aenslble of htm, too, I •-onulrier. •"We'd better so downstelrs," SfJd I ime. "Brin* a candle Mot JOB. Eustace, darling. Don't you stir oat of bed I" "1 won't," said Eustace obediently. Episode Three. Of all the leisured pursuits, tnere are few less attractive to the thinking man than sitting In a dark cupboard waiting for a house party to go to bed: and Sam, who had established himself In the one behind the piano at a quar ter to eight, soon began to feel as if he had been there for an eternity. He could dimly remember a previous ex istence lb which he had not been sit ting In his present position, but It seemed so long ago that It was shadowy and unreal to him. The or deal of spending the evening in this retreat * bad not appeared formidable when he bad contemplated It that aft ernoon In the lane: but, now that he was actually undergoing It, It was ex traordinary how many disadvantages It had. Cupboards, as a class, are badly ven tilated, and this one seemed to contain no air at all: and the warmth of'the night, combined with the cupboard's natural stuffiness, had soon begun t« reduce Sam to a condition of pulp. He seemed to himself to be sagging like an ice-cream in front of a fire. The darkness, too, weighed upon him. He was abominably thirsty. Also he wanted to smoke. In'addition to this, the small of his back tickled, and he more than suspected the cupboard of harboring mice. Not once nor twice but many hundred times he wished that the ingenious Webster had thought of something simpler. His was a position which would have suited one of those Indian mys tics who sit perfectly sttll far twenty years, contemplating the Infinite; but It reduced an almost Imbecile state of boredoß. He tried counting sheep. He tried going over his past life In his mind from the earliest mo ment he could recollect, and thought he had never encountered a duller series of episodes. He found a tem porary solace by playing a succession of mental golf games over all th« courses, he could remember, and he was jdif teeing up for the sixteenth at, ifulrfleld, after playing Hoylake, St. Andrews, Westward Ho, Hanger Hill, Mnd-Surrey, Walton Heath, Garden City, and the Engineers' * club at Ros lyn, L. L, when the light" ceased to shine through the crack under the door, and he awoke with a sense of dull incredulity to the realization that the occupants of the drawing room had called It a day and that his vigil was over. But was It? Once more alert, Sam became cautious. True, the light seemed to be off, but did that mean anything in a country house, where people had the habit of going and strolling about the garden at all hours? Probably they were still popping about all over the place. At any rate. It was not worth risking coming out of his lair. He remembered that. Webster had promised to come and knock an all-clear signal on the door.lt would be safer to wait for that. But the moments went by, and there was no knock. Sam began to grow im patient. The last few minutes of wait ing in a cupboard are always the hard est. Time seemed to stretch out again Interminably. Once he thought he heard footsteps, but that led to noth ing. Eventually, having strained his ears and finding everything still, he decided to take a chance. He fished In his pocket for the key, cautiously unlocked the door, opened it by slow Inches, and peered out. The room was In blackness. The jiouse was still. All was well. With the feeling of a life-prisoner emerging from the Bastille, be began to crawl stiffly forward: and It was just then that the first of the disturbing events occurred which were to make this night memorable to him. Something like a rattlesnake suddenly wettt off with a whirr, and his bead, jerking up, collided with the piano. It was only the cuckoo clock, which now, having cleared Its throat as was Its custom before striking, proceeded to cuck eleven times In rapid succession before subsiding with another rattler but to Sam It sounded like the end of the world. * He sat In the darkness, massaging his bruised skull. His hours of Impris onment In the cupboard had hid a bad effect on bis nervous system, and he vacillated between tears of weakness and a militant desire to gst at the cuckoo clock with a hatchet. He fell that It had done It on purpose and wa* now chuckling to Itself In fancied se curlty. For Quite a minute he rage* silently, and any cuckoo clock whlc> bad strayed wfhln his reach woul» have bad a bad time of It. Then hL attention was diverted. (TO BB CONTINUED.) f ^ —rr Naturally. "*• It Is diacult to take a good movln# picture of a lion. He becomes ten permental aa soon aa he dlncuvers h> la to appear on the screen. The Cure. "It would aoon pat the boot legif en oat of but! nest." "What would T The refusal of the law-abiding e* rena to bur llauoc tram Ik—.* WESTERN PIONEER TELLS INTERESTING EXPERIENCE Frank Rikert, Who Left Illi nois for California in Cov ered Wagon in 1864, Wouldn't Take SIOO for Bottle of Tanlac. 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