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i I tuc jxsom. imx;s, lehoie, k. o. CALOfM LlftKES YOU SICIt UGH f ITS HI! O SALIVATES Straighten Up! Don't Lose'a Day's Work! Clean Your Sluggish -. Liver and Bowels With "Dodson's Liver Tone." DARK HOL LOW - A .t t-t ? V V" SYNOPSIS. ' A curious crowd 1:1 neighbors Invade the mysterious home of Judge Ostrander. coupty judge and eccentric recluse, fol lowing a veiled woman who has gained entrxinf through the sales of the high double barriers surrounding the place. The woman has disappfared but the Judge Is found in a cataleptic state. CHAPTER I Continued. It was an awful and a terrifying Bight to little Miss Weeks and, scream ing loudly, she left her window and ran Into Judge Oetrander's presence, and. gazing wildly about, wormed her way toward a heavily carved screen guarding a distant corner and cowered down behind it. The gasping, struggling men, the frantic negro, were in the next room now she could catch the sound of the latter's panting breath rising above the clamor of strange entreaties and excited cries with which the air was full; then a quick, hoarse shout of "Judge! Judge!" rose in the doorway, and she became conscious of the pres ence of a headlong, rushing force struck midway into silence as the fro zen figure of his master flashed upon the negro's eyes then a growl of concentrated emotion, uttered almost In her ear, and the screen which had been her refuge was violently thrust away from before her and in Its place she beheld a terrible being standing over her, in whose eyes, dilating under this fresh surprise, she beheld her doom, even while recognizing that if Bhe must suffer It would be simply as an obstacle to some goal at her back' which he must reach now be fore he fell in his blood and died. What was this goal? As she felt herself lifted, nay, almost hurled aside, she turned to see and found it to be a door before which the devoted Bela had now thrown himself, guarding it with every Inch of his powerful but rapidly sinking body, and chattering defiance with his bloodless, quiveriug Hps a figure terrible in anger, sub lime in purpose, and piteous in its falling energies. "Back! all of you!" he cried, and stopped, clutching at the door casing on either side to hold himself erect. "You cannot come in here. This is the judge's" i Not even his iron resolve or once unequaled physique could stand the sapping of the terrible gash which dis figured his forehead. He had been run over by an automobile in a moment of blind abstraction, and his hurt was 'mortal. Already his head, held erect by the paesion of his purpose, was ' Turning, They Beheld the Judge Upon ,'r Hit Feet. ; ) 'Sinking on his breast; already his glaz . ing eye was losing its power of con - centration, when with a final rally of Ms decaying strength he started erect "" again and cried out in terrible appeal : v.n"i have disobeyed the judge, and, as you see, it has killed him. Do not make me guilty of giving away his se j"i crej.. Swear that you will leave this .door unpassed; swear that no one but ,:!jM ton shall ever turn this lock; or I will, haunt you, I, Bela, man by man, 1 -till you sink in terror to your graves. )). Swear! aw " ' His head fell forward again and in that intense moment of complete ni lence they , could hear the splash of bid lifeblood as it dropped from his . forehead on to the polished boards ' beneath then he threw up his arms .. and fell in a heap to the floor, v, "Dead!" broke from little Mies Weeks as she, flung herself down in . reokless'abandonment at his aide. She ' bad never .known an agitation beyond some fluttering woman's hope ehe had stifled as soon as born, and now she knelt la blood,; A solemn bush," then a mighty sigh' of accumulated emotion swept from Itp to lip, and the crowd of later in Waders, already" abashed if not terri fied by the unexpected spectacle of By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (Copyright, 1014, by Dodd, Mead & Companf) suspended animation which confronted them from the judge's chair, shrank tumultously back as little Miss Weeks advanced upon them, holding out her meager arms in late defense of the secret to save which she had just seen a man die. "Let us do as he wished," ehe prayed. "I feel myself much to blame. What right had we to come in here?" No one in authority was present; no one representing the law, not even a doctor; only haphazard persons from the street and a few neighbors who had not been on social terms with the judge for years and never expected to be s6 again. His secret! always a source of wonder to every inhabitant of Shelby, but lifted now into a matter of vital importance by the events of the day and the tragic death of the negro! Were they to mles its solution, when only a door lay between it and them a door which they might not even have to unlock? Miss Weeks was about to utter an impassioned ap peal to their honor, when the current of her and their thoughts was changed by a sudden sense or some strange new influence at work in the room, and turning, they beheld the Judge upon his feet, his mind awakened, but his eyes still fixed an awesome figure; some thought more awesome than be fore. Death was present with them he saw It not. Strangers were making havoc with his solitude he was as oblivious of their presence as he had been unconscious of It before. His faculties and all his attention were absorbed by the thought which had filled his brain when the cogs of that 6ubtle mechanism had slipped and his faculties paused inert. "Where is the woman?" he cried. It was a cry of fear; not of mastery CHAPTER II. The Veiled Woman. The intensity of the question, the compelling, self-forgetful passion of the man, had a' startling effect upon the crowd of people huddled before him. With one accord, and without stopping to pick their way, they made for the open doorway, knocking the smaller pieces of furniture about and creating havoc generally. Some fled the house; others stopped to peer in again from behind the folds of the curtain which had been only partially torn from its fastenings. Miss Weeks was the only one to stand her ground. When the room was quite cleared and the noise abated (it was a fright ful experience to see how little the judge had been affected by all this hubbub of combined movement and sound) she stepped within the line of his vision and lifted her feeble and ineffectual hand in an effort to attract his attention to herself. But he did not notice her, any more than he bad noticed the others. Still looking in the one direction, he cried aloud in troubled tones: "She stood there! the woman stood there and I 6a w her! Where la she now?" "She Is , no longer in the house," came in gentle reply from the only one in or out of the room courageous enough to speak. "She went out when she saw us coming. We knew that she had no right to be here. That is why we intruded ourselves, sir. We did not like the looks of her, and so fol lowed her in to prevent mischief." "How dared you! How dared she!" Then as his mind regained its full poise, "And how, even if you had the temerity to venture an entrance here, did you manage to pass my gates? They are never open. Bela sees to that." As she watched she saw his" eyes, fixed up to now upon her face, leave it and pass furtively and with many hesi tations from object to object, toward that spot behind him where lay the source of her great terror, till finally, with fatal precision, they reached the point where the screen had stood, and not finding it, flew in open terror to the door It was set there to conceal when that something else, huddled in oozing blood, on the floor beneath, drew them to itself with the irresist ibleness of grim reality, and he forgot all else. Dead! Bela! Dead! and lying In his blood! The rest may have been no dream, but this was surely one, or his eyes, used to inner visions, were playing him false. Grasping the table at bis side to steady his failing limbs, he pulled him self along by its curving edge till he came almost abreast of the helpless I fl8"re which for bo many years had been the embodiment of faithful and unwearied service. Then and thon only did the truth of his great misfortune burst upon his bewildered soul; and with a cry which tore the ears of all hearers and was never forgotten by anyone there, he flung himself down beside the dead negro, and, turning him hastily- very gazed in his face. ' . " "And where was I, when all this happened?" he "demanded nhr r voice made low by awe and dread of its own sound. . "YouT You were seated here," mur mured the little woman, pointing at the great chair. "You were not quite quite yourself," she softly ex plained, wondering at her own com posure. Then quickly, as she saw his thoughts revert to the dead friend at his feet, "Bela was not hurt here. He was downtown when It happened; but he managed to struggle homeland gain this place, which he tried to hold against the men who followed him. He thought you were dead, you sat there so rigid and so white, and, be fore he quite gave up, he asked us all to promise not to let anyone enter this room till your son Oliver came." yuderstanding partly, but not yet quite clear in his mind the judge sighed, and, stooping again, straight ened the faithful negro's limbs. Then.' with a sidelong look in her direction, he felt in one of the pockets of the dead negro's coat and, drawing out a small key, held It in one hand while he fumbled in his own for another, which found, he became on the Instant his own man again. Miss Weeks, seeing the difference in him, and seeing, too, that the doorway was now clear of the wondering, awe struck group which had previously blocked it, bowed her Blight body and proceeded to withdraw; but the judge, staying her by a gesture, she waited patiently near one of the bookracks against which she had stumbled, to hear what he had to Bay. "I must have had an attack of some kind," he calmly remarked. "Will you be good enough to explain exactly what occurred here that I may more fully comprehend my own misfortune and the death of this faithful friend." Then she saw that his faculties were now fully restored, and came a step forward. But before she could begin her story he added this searching ques tion: "Was It he who let you in you and the others I think you said others? Was it he who unlocked my gates?" Miss Weeks sighed and betrayed fluster. It was not easy to relate her story; besides it was woefully incom plete. She knew nothing of what had happened downtown, she could only tell what had passed before her eyes. But there was one thing she could make clear to him, and that was how the seemingly impassable gates had been made ready for the woman's ea trance and afterwards taken such ad vantage of by herself and others. A pebble had done it al! a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands. As she described this and insisted upon the fact in face of the judge's almost frenzied disclaimer, she thought she saw the hair move on his forehead. Bela a traitor, and in the interests of the woman who had fronted him from the other end of the room at the mo ment consciousness had left him! Evi dently this intrusive little body did not know Bela or his story, or Why should interruption come then? Why was he stopped, when in the pas sion of the moment he might have let fall some word of enlightenment which would have eased the agitated curiosity of the whole town! Miss Weeks often asked herself this ques tion and bewailed the sudden access of sounds in the rooms without, which proclaimed the entrance of the police and put a new strain upon the judge's faculty of self-control and attention to the one matter in hand. The commonplaces of an official in quiry were about to supersede the play of a startled spirit struggling with a problem of whose complexities he had received but a glimpse. The library again! but how changed! Evening light now instead of blazing sunshine; and evening light so shaded that the corners seemed far. and the many articles of furniture, cumbering the spaces between, larger for the shadows 'in which they stood hidden. Perhaps the man who sat there In company with the Judge would have preferred to see more perfectly that portion of the room where Bela had taken his stand and finally fallen; but from the place where he sat there waB no getting any possible view of that part of the wall or of anything con nected with it; and so, with every ap pearance of satisfaction at being al lowed in the room at all, Sergeant Doollttle from headquarters drank the judge's wine and listened for the judge's commands. "Sergeant, I have lost a faithful Bervant under circumstances which harfl called an unfortunate attention to my house. I should like to have this place guarded carefully guarded, you understand from any and all intru sions till I can look about me and se cure protection of my own. May I rely upon the police to do this, begin ing tonight at an early hour? There are loiterers already at the corner and In : front, of-the -two gates. I am not accustomed to.Jhese attentions, and sab tn have fnv fence cleared."' ''fTw e'n "are1 already detailed for" the' jobyoufc hohdrl 1' heard th Order. given Jhsras I left headquarters.:'! , ; ' The1 Judge "showed ismall satisfaction;; "Two eo0'l4r-.,tnrM One, for1 each Ma'KW bhU io patrol the fence separating these grounds from the adjoining lott" 'h -y vJ; - -"if two men are not enough to In. sure you a quiet sleep you shall have three or four or even more, Judge Os trander. Do you want one of them to stay inside? That might do the business better than a dosen out." "No. While Bela lies above ground, we want no third here. When he Is buried I may call upon you for a special to watch my room door. But it's of outside protection we're talk ing now. Only, who is to protect me against your men?" "What do you mean by that, your honor ?" "They are human, are they not? They have Instincts of curiosity like the rest of us. How, can I be made sure that they won't field to the temp tation of their position and climb the fences they are detailed to guard?" "And would this be eo fatal to your peace, judge?" A smile tempered the suggestion. "It would be a breach of trust which would greatly disturb me. I want no body on my grounds, nobocry at all. Has not my long life of solitude within these walls sufficiently proved this? I want to feel that these men of yours would no more climb my fence than they would burst into my house with out a warrant" . "Judge, I will be one of the men. You can trust me." "Thank you, sergeant; I appreciate the favor. I 6hall rest now as quietly as any man can who has met with a great loss. I shall always suffer from regret that I was not In a condition "Who Is to Protect Me Against Your Men?" to receive Bela's last sigh. He was a man in a thousand. One seldom sees his like among white or black." "He was a very powerfully built man. It took a sixty-horsepower rac ing machine, going at a high rate of speed, to kill him." A spasm of grief or unavailing re gret crossed the judge's Tace as his head sank back again against the high back of his chair. "I should like to ask a question," he finally observed. "You were not at the Inquiry this afternoon, and may not know that just as Bela and the crowd about bim turned this corner they ran into a woman leading a small child, who stopped the whole throng In order to address him. I saw that woman myself, earlier. She was In thiB house. She was in this room. If you will consent to look for her, and If she Is found and no stir made, I will pay all that you think it right to demand." (TO BE CONTINUED.) English Lads Shout "Marseillaise." Never say that the English are not a musical people You shall meet seven little muddy boys, keeping loyally to the gutter, clad in not many inches of old clothes, and none of them so much as ten years ojd. Yet they will all be shouting the whole of the "Marseil laise," which is not an eight-bar tune, but a very complex melody, without a mistake. ' Whether the London urchin has been furnished with a translation of the French battle hymn ft would be hard to say, for though the muelo is well rendered the words are indistinguish able London Chronicle. ; Curing Cholera by New Method. Doctor Renault, director of the sanitary service of French India, re ports to the Indian Medical Gazette that, he has had remarkable success in curing Asiatic cholera by hypoder mic Injections, of chlorhydrate of eme tine, in , doses ranging from one centi gram, tojr babies to four centigrams for persons above the. age of twenty-five, in severe epldemio of cholera he cured "78 'Pf bent of his cases, and says this would have been greater but for the excessive teal of his assail ant;, who administered it t patients in the last stage of the disease, when it Is absolutely; useless.:' v ' ;ry tTght Calomel makes you sick. Take 4 dose of the Tils, dangerous drag to night and tomorrow you may lose a day's work. Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when It comes into contact with" sour bile crashes into it, break Ing it up. This is when you feel, that awful nausea and cramping. If yon feel sluggish and "all knocked out," it your liver Is torpid and bowels consti pated or you hare headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath Is bad or stomach sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Here's my guarantee Go to any drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent bottle of Dodson's Liter Tone. Take a spoonful tonight and' if It doesnt Europe's tallest and peoples, the Norwegians Lapps, live side by side. shortest and the CUTICURA SHAVING Up-to-Date Shaving for Sensitive 8klns. Trial Free. Prepare razor. Dip brush In hot water and rub It on Cuticura Soap held in palm of hand. Then make lather on face and rub In for a moment with fingers. Make second lathering and shave. Rub bit of Cuticura Oint ment over shaven parts (and on scalp If any dandruff or Itching) and wash all off with Cuticura Soap and hot water, shampooing same time. One soap for all shaving, shampooing, bathing andvtollet. It's velvet for sen sitive skins. No slimy mug. No germs. No waste of time or money. Free sample each if you wish. Address postcard, "Cuticura, Dept. XY, Bos ton." Sold everywhere. Adv. The Zealous Youth. The Employer If my wife calls up say that I have just gone out. The Office Boy Yes, sir, I'll say It every time she calls up. The Employer You mustn't do that. My wife would have a poor opinion of your truthfulness. The Boy--Yes, sir; s"he has it now. The Employer What do you mean? The Boy Why, she called up this morning and asked me if I was the new boy,. An' I said, "Yes, ma'am." And she said it was no place for a truthful boy. She said you had no use for a truthful boy. Then she said, "Did you ever tell a lie?" And I said, "No; ma'am." "And what did she say?" "She said. 'You'll do!'" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Kissing Microbes. Belle I see a Swiss scientist de clares that microbes do not exlrt in mountain air at an altitude of over 2,000 feet How do you suppose he's discovered that? Beulah Oh, he'B probably Acne eome kissing at high altitude." Precaution. Nodd You don't mean to say you fceep a diary? Todd Not quite sb low as that I'm just looking up Ao see what day I was married. This year I propose to pass a safe and sane wedding anniverrary. Life. MAY BE COFFEE That Cauaes all the Trouble When the house is afire. It's about Jie same as when disease begins to show, it's no time to talk but tlm to act delay is dangerous remove the cause of the trouble at once. 'For a number of years," wroto a Kansas lady, "I felt sure that coffee was hurting me, and yet I was so fond of it, I could not give It up. At last I got so bad that I made up my mind I must either quit the use of coffee or die. 'Everything I ate distressed me, and I suffered severely most of the time with palpitation of the heart I fre quently woke up in the night with the feeling that I was almost gone my heart seemed so smothered and weak in its action. My breath grew short and the least exertion set me panting. I slept but little and suffered from rheumatism. "Two years ago I stopped using the coffee and began to use Postum and from the very first I began to improve. It worked a miracle! Now I can eat anything and digest it without trouble, I sleep like a baby, and my heart beats strong and regularly. My breathing has become steady and normal, and my rheumatism has left me. "I feel like another person, and it is all due to quitting coffee and using Postum, for I haven't used any medi cine and nope would have done any good as long as I kept drugging with coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "Tbe Road to WeUvUle," in pkgs. .. ; Postum comes in two forms: Retiular Postum must - be ell boiled, 16c and 25 package". & ' - Instant Postum Is a soluble pow der. -A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot Water and, wlth.oream and sugar, msies a delicious, beverage Instantly; 80o and BOo tins; ; Both kinds,, are . equally 1 delicious. and cost per cup about the same. .i "There's a Reason'' for, Postum. straighten yon right up and make too feel fine and rigorous. by morning"! want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Uver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel. b-, cause it is real liver medicine; entire ly vegetable, therefore it cannot sail Tate or make yon slckv ' .';- m JVC I guarantee that one spoonful; of Dodson'i Lhrer Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and, consti pated waste which Is . clogging your system and making you feel miserable. 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