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JULY 1 , 191L X PAGE THREE-" S33 3- -A ' " ' ' iiiimii m-n rr'n ii. . --. -, i r,V,tv":.,";?., ten1'- :i lie TV ; In1 YOU"" ' 11'. ei;tly - v liiv: v 1v Ti'I!" ':' Mr- ' 1' n had come down from n aily train. The rector w (i of erred fishing trip, - changed his clerical J i at all and having blisV Mr. Wardwhistled as lull. As the hill vfas , proved two things his u'lML'sron was dead, and vio- o ileath. But to Mr. Ward i- the aatewayto a larger ,,,,'lv very sad in tlie young, noi yet lived. ; was young, a broad-shoul-n': man, with clear, rather :nl a firm mouth. The i'dnt .TihIo's prophesied that ' " - w ITT J would hear ot Mr.- wara. injy one bar to his progress.: .'nich "humor. It seemed to 110 '' , : . f Samt Jude's that religion tl-, !"TU thin-', forgetting that good i? a of the tilings it must bring, nr-'l if 1 Tore in WiTld the IY.1 "Sd Hi: acnnrn'f TTpiy scd-his' happened ih .St Louis several years DUt inn nnnn woo fcnw&t,i j,. - - y. . - nf w, nnn7- t7" I . ' " " ITM.t, totfty-and there are other things.'- Quite suddenly a light caminto his eyes. Of WS coat." If onlv the hpmnrrhnirP dil not start again ! He braced him self and watched. "It was a robbery, you know that?" sahl Ward, in the library. " He picked his words carefully. '"As t '"'mK ih el V.'i :! 1 Till story, a taxicab on its.way tolhelbank was held up-near the RecoFd office. Your father had stepped to the curb to hail the! taxi, and it happened then, a a stray "bullet from one of the bandits' guns." Boroday, eyes on the car, hard the statement, and, with the chief doming up the steps from the road to the gar den, took the time to repudiate it. "i'arcion!" he said. "It was not weapon in the hands of the bandits. It was therevolver of the bank messen- "Ah!" he said, bending forward to ward Boroday.- "I told you I'd get it. ! It was in gjt. Louis t saw you!" Their glances clashed, the chief s in tent, the Russian's' cool, aiuused. . . "Tho dog," said Boroday, "holds-on well, but to the wrong throat." -'You have never been in St. Louis?" "Never. Old . rvliir'nm. ., , u.t Ward in the hall. ',, ulwt:iirs hy that time, lying J hod. All the doors and v'0v0 (lpon, an( sunshine filled u-.irri thmurht it an un- house o$ mourning. to see the sun," he said, "y ivenle closa things up." 'kiW'tou wished things undis- I e: 1 a,o ' 1 r'-'u M'.e to tell her but I suppose to see anyone mc holiday. .I'll wire ger. Ward turned in surprise. Borcday's eyes werefcd on Elinor's, with reas surance in their depths. The assistant ! rector was not subtle, but he had "a curious teeling of something behind all this. He was uncomfortable. - "I trust," he said earnestly; "that these various ..outrages will be at an end now. Surely the police'1 "Possibly." The anarchist's gaze wandered to the garden, where even then the chief was making his way to ward the house. "Or course, these bandits are trained men of unusual intelligence. If the police were of in telligence Jo cope with them" . CHAPTER IV. Elinor lived alone after the funeral. Henriette, who had now a chance to practice her favorite vice of thrift, was for sending away the ether servants. "I can manage," she said. - "For all you eat " But Elinor protested. "I shall want to "keep up the Satur day dinners. Let things stay as they are for a time." It had been 'old Hilary's custom to have such members of the band as were available dine with him of a Sat urday. Henriette raised her hands. "Things are changed," she cried. "You are alone here now. To have those four "men ' "That is better than having one man, Henriette." , - ' ., ' z ;'" ' A " ""-V lives, the things they believe we.think they are- narrow, but, I wonde-rj' after alL Jfypu tiud I, ;who. believe nonVcf those, things, are not the narrow ones.'! '"Huff was . not. subtle. Possibly. he would not have: understood, had not the Saint Jude chimes rung just then,' , -4;?ymbols;;Kke that seem tpmean s(o much lo them," said Elinor, and fell silent - ' t ' I . In the 'warm silence, Huff felt for and found her hand. -"All this triae, wheix I couldn't see you," he said unsteadily, ."I've been thinking of ycu here alone, and inNfe trouble. Sometimes I thought I couldn't stand it, that I'd hate to come out 4ind i.x . a - tri 11 iw.- ,"-r. - i-"Xi ' . Cl i. A jj - - i-.'i-,,- 1 M "fK c-'ive-'l V! "Yes?" "They would not be on the force, at meager salaries and petty graft. They would be" he shrugged his shoulders (;;'.' lie " "I ig the rector brk?" he i a little late for the vlSgifti." ;i cave lavishly to the 'iiatever the church can think," said Boroday po he gave, not to the church, eor." V h n1 ye give unto one of ,.: these," Ward replied, .: V relay's gaze. .1 )-iie;i herself together. -:t.v!!"d that had ruled .ic-iod how her father's n'i oat ra-av on n vu'e.' j j v h"i the way into the library j v.wtnv bad so recently re- j -1- He turned and eyed "bandits themselves, very possibly." ' Ward left after that left with an i uncomfortable feeling of having got nowhere. He was convinced of one ; thing, death, which for him was an fopen gateway, was for this girl a closed and fastened door. And he i knew something else. No other woman ; had ever so profoundly impressed him j as this girl who without hope in her grief met it with a high head and ! courageous eyes. j He felt a certain comfort in one ; thing. Elinor .had made a concession, ; and Hilary Kingston, lavish giver to ' the parish poor, was to be buried from Sftint Jude's. , a ; race and took off his hat. Boroday, face to face with ner, . 1f rtfoJn Mt1C3 nf see you, if only for five minutes." "I have always been more or less lonely.' Sometimes I think if I had been sent away to school, had known other girls it would have . been better. I have never had any friends except you, and the others." Huff released her hand and faced her. "J don't want to be your friend, Eli nor. I -want to be much more." She was rather shockedat first She stood, looking up at him, her lips slightly parted. "I? You you want " . "I love you. I want you to marry me, dear." There was no doubt of the boy's sin cerity. It rang true. He stood with his arms out, and' after a moment she. went-into them. Except for 'the father who was gone, this was the first love n-'oeme mm. yam DISEASE csd e3 era r in- filth, fcod on Sivb ;arrv filth with them wherever they caighvVFs' hatching your family So Elinor had her way. The Satur day dinners were resumed early in j tjiat m& come into. her life. She took September, Boroday coming with in- , hungrily. In the starlight she held finite caution from bis cheap boarding ' up her lips like a child for his kiss.... house in the South side, Talbot and j The police were still active. So in Lethbridge from the bachelor, apart-' sistent was Boroday on caution that all ment they rented together. Walter . 0f September went by without so much Huff was late. j as a plan of campaign. Talbot played "I had to be careful," he told Boro-' g0lf and established friendly relations day, aside. "They've got wind of some- that might be invaluable later. Huff, TTILTH and earrv today in an onthcuss. sttblsyird or xa c-roage, may enng cisires-,ra 7 later on -in ir.s Emtnerf urcy tnzy onng. xypuoiu iv.-i, Enmmer corn The fly is almo: smong children and babies. plaint, consumption, xnelaria,, or perhaps ir.fantila paralysts.. Imos'c the exclusive conveyer of diarrhoea cad - csestery ren p.tA babies. i Eats tiling, I don't know what. My room was searched today." - ' Boroday swore through his beard. i "Then why did you come here?" he demanded. Young Huff laughed, glanced at Elinor, and back impudent ly at the Russian. "You know why I came," he said, in high good humor. "But I was careful. It's all right." Old Hilarys chair had been placed under protest, work. "It's a dog's life," he said. retained the taxicab "They're Hrfs wonderful Lye eats up filth, and leaven i.bztei)f nothing fcr fkca lo feed on or breed in. Just f springs it once cr twice- a wck m tha privy or outhouse. ' It does the. work. Encouraga yo-r .neighbor to clean his out-hcuse also, because what's good f:r youi-s is goou for hs. RED DEVIL LYE . is also simply Iwcndorfd fcr making soap, con ditioning hogs, and fcr making compost for fertilizer. RED DEVIL LYE is cold by ail grocers. Demand 10c. cans. Ona dime can contains more than two nickel cans. Send Posts! Per Frce-geoff?. WM. SCHIELD MFG. CO., 615 fi 2nd Si., ST. LCU5S, HQ. not after me now. , Give me something else to do, or else let me take a vaca tion." But they kept him at work. Huff fell into the way of seeing Eli nor once or twice a week. Talbot took him out, picking him up on the edge of town after dusk, on his way in hjs car T T ichalile. well the last month, was rather more slender, certainly more appealing. The 'quality of wist fulness was mere appar ent than ever around her mouth. Huff, j content. Nothing could have been more , stan:; acres?, hardly took his eyes i -iiKiiifiniK fonlfl hsive set his stage fvnm imr ttp wm vnnni. nnd women a li.'ii ill one, save for the Russian ::rd. 4.T ' i to "I cii-l have no relatives. whon I was born. My mother j I I have a i curimis feeling that everything in me . world has stopped as though I'd cached the end of things." j It seemed to Mr. wara wui should offer some of the.-comfort of his faith to this shrinking, wide-eyed girl kfee him. But what? Rumors had cmae to him, of course. TVnth is only a tragedy when we think of it as an end and not as a be cinninu'." he said. "It is always sad. I U..T... vnu understand that I know by Elinor's order. She had borne up to a dance or dinner at the country club, and taking him backthe same way. And the boy's infatuation for Elinor grew and thrived on those late rummer meetings. Her sweetness and elnsive ne mnrhionorl him. Sometimes he ; better for his little drama, than the ia i1;uj n0 place until now in his ac- thought her never so far from him as when she was in 'his arms. "Do you love me?" he would demand hoarsely. "I think so. I know I want you to love me." And he had to be content with this. On the evenings when she was alone Elinor sat in her arbor, and watched calm, ai- ,1 her very Icvely, tec, i- votiU'T eyes rest on TT v;ns wise, ner m.- j presence of the young clergyman. The to mil!, one tciuvu i 'A 1.J y en b oara ,o hereby life. wliole scene gained tone, decorum. Tiie chief's visit was short. They had followed the bandits' car and lost in do liiivuuiii;, iic : if an.i tiniling nimseir in me neiguoor- your relatives anyimug : nom- im But Elinor of her small "Be assured," he said to Elinor, in his best manner, "that we'll not rest until "this thing is cleared up. The community" he cleared his throat 1 "the community will not lose one of j its best citizens without a violent pro- test" ! With the coroner he wenf up the cfoirc. onri intn nld Hilarv's room. The OLUIIO U1U - V. W't b-rrible all this is for you. But h; ,o lived one's life, active and !! ; md useful to the end, and then d. ;'.! f. in the fullness of days, for : i ; 1 vi ; i es some where else " !;": ;- shivered in the warm sun- do t:oii: X.. ;'.;;. til." fit ' ' - v.-'' sho s-nid drearily, "I no ' :;,-ve thso things. I should like . iinv." Then, almost defiantly: 'II- ir ofuk You will never know :': - ; :.!t.: - he did that were helpful. P.r.t ; .-.-rinps we would not agree on tli::t. illloiv' '1- llussian was walking up and donn the hall, impassive, watchful. Undor his stoical indifference, he "was suffering tortures. A buliet from the autn!!,;itic had gone through his left firm, grazing the bone. Luckily, the hullet was not in the wound. Henri ette had bathed and cleansed it, but ho v,as in agony. He was suffering pain, bereavement, defeat. His face expressed only decorous and conven- rocrret. and then he glanced in at the door, but generally he watched 'id un the hill. As he had d the Church ascending, so rfow v tirop mifrbt Pnmp Law. e won!: j he prepared. Ho had grown a beard since the. St I-"''iis matter. That would help. And -i' hurt waited to return and claim old 'i v's body, until the Record extra 1 announced his killing. Walking ml down the wide hall, his keen d "" as going back, detail by detail - the da v. Talbot and Lethbridge !i:f ear had kept on. They had ' ' hancres of clothins: in the ma ' By now they should be at the v f.-lub, and halfway around the . The car, with its changed li- dates, would be standing in the -ntly respectable country club "I had risen. He towered far Elinor. Because of his heavy 1 he never looked his full ' -hit. BoKKhiy, in the corridor, stola merit frjom his anxieties to find young clergyman every inch of a 1 er,d to throw him the grudging o';tieii 'of defeated middle-age for ' and vibrant life. - ' rhen I shall not send for the rec- "!'ioase, no." - ""is there anything at all that I can tive, unscrupulous held him in the i liand. They missed old Hilary, his saturnine humor, his beetling gray brows. And inaction was telling on them. They were growing restive. Boroday, advis ing caution in view of what he knew, felt the disaffection among the younger the road up the hill. Ward had called men. ! twice, and each time she had been out It was Lethbridge, who, waiting un- 0n the long rambles she took almost til the ..servants bad. withdrawn, rose tfaily. After his second visit, she and glanced around "the table. - , -stayed in the house for days, expecting "It seems to me," he began, "that we him; But he did not come again, have a lot to decide tonight. I've been , she was not in love with Ward, just chief glanced about while the hasty " thinking about it ever since for some ag Sue. was not in love with Walter examination was being made.- j time. The nrst tmng, oi course, is Huff. But tne ciergymau reycut, "Nice room" he said.- "But a jolly whether we are going to bang together n her strange and lonely life, some- lot of good it does the old- gentleman or not.' , J.Xfri$2u&XX'--' -: ! thing; new and ditterent. tie typiutu now ' Nice little girl downstairs, too. Talbot had rather a weird sense of an that she had never known. He was I've 'een that chap in the hall isoine-, humor. He suggested that the word the priest, rather than the man to her "hang" be changed to "remain.". : at first The time was coming wueu uc "We've been doing well. We'll do vrould be man only, and after that all right again, too, as soon as this , Late in September Boroday was ar thing blows over. It was unlucky, but rested. The arrest came as a shock to we've been pretty fortunate. Now we the band. As a matter of fact the po can do one of two things. For Elinor's lice C0VL& pr0Ve nothing, but the chief., sake, I suggest the first." ! had a long talk with the Russian. It "And that is" Elinor's voice was was the Agrarian affair, of course, ine unsteady. "Send Boroday to Paris to dispose of Then get a conservative where." The coroner drew the sheet over old Hilary's peaceful face. "The preacher? They all look alike. It's the vest and the collar.-, .. "The other man, with .the accent. German, I take it, or Russian." Boroday was waiting for them at the foot of the staircase. In the li- and town commissioners notify all persons owirfg- town taxe-s and notes for side walks, that all taxes ancUiotes, must be paid 'between this and the 1st day of August 1917. After that date, all persons whp,baye;ii6t idmr Jtxes and notes may expect to pay cost on the same. Respectfully . ; A. P. CLAYTON " Tax Collector.' I July 3rd, 1917. it ti r i K,.r,r Ti-nc trnv. with drinks 011nvipi,ps. The 'Shades liau Deeu your jcyeis. lawyer ro invest me muuey. "And after that?" "Forget vou ever knew any of us." owered. The chief ate and drank.-. And as often as he raised, nis giass ue watu ut the Russian over it. At last : ; "Haven't we met somewiiere, mi. "Boroday. I rather thinkf not" i "Ymi remind mo of someone I'll . i i place you, or the person you resemuw. chie had recognized him. But so nrm ly had old Hilary's respectability been rooted in the public mind that the chief connected Boroday only casually with him. "You know that I cannot prove this l tja-nw, m'l'irrir - ayil nil kJT, Tl" u'lt"llV' '' ' wfMi z wmm Ml I . p. slB i "Do the the police ,know ' about This?" . , "Surely. I suppose yon have been th'd what happened." ; .. -'"Thov wilt tpil 'mp nnthlnc r There was a car earning up the bill. P ' Huff, across the table from her, went thi on you he said, "but you know white, but said nothing. also perfectly well that I can fix you to ' "You said there was an alternative?" the tune of aDOut ten years." i Elinor was white, too. The room was ( perfectiy correct in both instances," profoundly still. ! sai(j Boroday. "You cannot prove any- , "To keepon as we are at present, and yQU can gend me yhat with you, Elinor, acting in your fa- is it you want?" j ther's stead, receiving and transmitting 4I wjmt the memhers of that band of ! messages, and keeping the vault in yours gaid the chief. "And I want charge." ! y01ir headquarters. You people have : Boroday was on his feet in a mo- trtavinir 'hell in this county long "ment, protesting. He would take the en0llgh. the neWspapers are laughing jewels and send tnem aoroaa. n at ug Sooer or later, we'll get you risky, but it could be done. But this ( M fee it sooner and outrageous arrangement that had been ( we,n et you Qff eagy;, suggested i How much time will you give me!" ; "What we are, we are by choice, he : cWef Qered twenty-four hours ! finished. "You have never had a choice, ; Boroday took it At the end of and now it is given to you. For 'God s , he reported sake, child, go away now, while you , guesg rn take what's coming to may." - i me he said. "You can fix it any way Elinor's .reply, when it came, waS ; y0ll like." " , " ' unanswerable., ! it was' a bitter disappointment to the "Where could I go? I know in all ; ce the world only you four, and old Hen-j 1 ' riette, and a' governess- of mine who i CHAPTER V. has gone into a convent ih France. 1 1 shall stay here with you all." j Boroday had used his day's freedom So it was settled. ! to warn the band and to make plans That was an eventful evening, with . f mi hi3 freedom. Of money Elinor, misty-eyed, moving into her fa-, he What Q had made UIlder ther's chair at the table, and the -band j leadership had gone back swearing ut $nuV uaiu C61UUVV tn Pnssin. dollar for dollar. ie nad ( fe Here are tke Self Starters innocent looking typewriter w that force an automatic speed gain 6f'15fto25 on or dinary" correspondence. A Tuiilt-iTi wart of the neW &, 3 B 4 M. A ' SfARTiNCS Nrt w&t llji Wou Have Never Been in St. Louis?" nrettv soon.- I have a slow mind. 's Tike an' Airedale dog it's a l?ng time Igetting started, but when ft begins it hangson like the devii." The drinks were eolef, and;the)use cool ' The' prospect of starting out ii Re heat and dusrdid not allure he .ii.t" offhls ease, tht two men. enuug - " 7. - . ichief ran over the points of the out- !!aKl 'loi Wnva.' be observed com- Ifortably, the affair resembles one thai which held them together. . And when ! ! thev had moved from the dining room Walter Huff, following Elinor out onto ; 1 : the terrace, told her he loved her. The,-starlight above, and'those near? er stars that outlined the streets be low,, threw a soft radiance. ove. her. She was dressed in white; old Hilary had disliked mourning garments. ' Eli nor was looking down into the village. The great spire o Saint-Jude's tow ered above the town. - Huff, young and ardent thrilled: to the girl's- presence close beside him. ;-' "You are fey aloof tonight," he said. She smiled up at him. . . -. t "Not that surely, i I was only thinks ing.". -- - ; I "Of wfcat ?'.. .... v ' 4 I ;0h, of different things of thepeo Inio down?tbere in their houses their ...L .-v-'- financed-part, of the Kiev defense of the Jews, had saved Prince Ovarsky from Siberia. There were other-things. Money would-'save Boroday. And there was practically no money. By unanimous consent ihey kept the news of his arrest from : Elinor. It was Talbot who planned the coun try club CQup. Thetiussianwas in jail then: on a trumped-up charge. Old j Hilary dead and-Borodaj mail there j wasno one to advise caution. "!-. . "Boroday ill I" Elinor "exclaimed. They , were accountinprf bis 'absence from her Safurday:tiigbt dinner. '-Why, theu"iie ihcmid i jberberev where, lie can "Wa tnM him thnt.'r. Lethbridge was X ilwavs readftstutbbiinguef : "But be'8 nor sick enoTigi3f;ttf 'need muclv n r vx? T? HI! mSSTi TT Grand ivir.c-'?ankgtaadf. 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