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as That the Only Reason Why You
Haven't Set the Dogs on Me?"

tried in every way to warn you, even
to pointing out the man who is shadow
ing you. To do it, have had to de-
ceive my father. l have been hoping
that you would understand and go
away"
Wait a minute" he commanded.
Let me get it straight! you still be-
ieve that the thing l did was a GRIM
inal thing?"
I'VE needn't go into that part of it
again." she returned, with a sort of
placid impotence. Once 1 thought
that there might be some way in which
you had justified yourself to yourself,
but now"
That isn't the point" he interrupted
roughly. What want to know is this:
Do you still believe it is a crime?"
"Of course. it is a crime; / know it,
you know it. all the world knows it !"
Again he sat back and took time to
gather up a few of the scattered
shards and fragments. When he smoke
it was to say: Il think the debt is Oh
the other side. Miss Charlotte: l think
you owe me something. You probably
won't understand when 1 say that Won
nave robbed me of a very prectous
thing-my faith in the ultimate good.
ness OF good woman You believe
you nave always believed-that 7 am 8
criminal; and yet you have been - !,
enough TO let expediency seal your
iips ! am truer to my code than you
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You have Just come from Doctor
Bertie's?" she inquired.
Yes"
And Charlotte doesn't want to
marry you?''
Heavens and earth!" he exploded.
Who put the idea into your head thar
l wanted to marry her?"
You did':-calmly
Then, for PHYS sake, let me take
it out, quick If 1 were the last man
on earth, Miss Farnham wouldn't
marry me; and if she were the last
woman. I think I'd go drown myself
in the lakeI''
The young woman of the many met
amorphoses was laughing again, and
this time the laugh was a letter-perfect
imitation of a schoolgirl giggle-
My" she said How dreadfuIly
hard she must have sat on you!"
Please don't laugh" he pleaded;
unless you are the heartless kind of
person who would laugh at a funeral.
I'm down under the hoofs of the horses,
at last. Margery. girl Before you
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view avenue. striding along modify
with his head down and his hands be
hind him. when he colIided violently
with Raymer going in the opposite d.
rection. The shock was so unexpected
that GriswoId would have been
knocked down if the muscular young
iron founder had not caught him
promptly. At the saving instant came
mutual recognition
Hello. therel" said Raymer You
are the very man I've been looking for.
Charlotte wants to see you"
Not now she doesn't" was the
rather grim contradiction. 4 have just
left her"
"Oh."
There was pause, and then Girls
void cut in morosely.
so you did take my way out of the
labor trouble, after all. didn't your"
Raymer looked away.
81 don't know just how you'd like to
have me answer that, Kenneth. How
! much or how little do you know of
what happened?"
Nothing at aH''-shortly.
well, it was Margery who wrought
! the miracle. Of course don't know.
yet, just how she did it; but it was
done, and done right"
And you have asked her to marry
you?"
Suffering Scott. how you do come
at man! Yes. I asked her. if you've
got to know"
tWell?" snapped GTiswoId.
''She-she turned me down. Ken
meth; got up and walked all over me.
That's a horrible thing to make me
say, but it's the truth"
Il don't understand it. Raymer. Was
it the No that means Mop"
81 don't understand it. either" re-
turned the iron founder. with grave
naivete. And, yes. guess she meant
it. But that reminds me. She knew
1 was looking for you and she gave
me note-let me see, I've got it here
| somewhere; oh, yes, here it is-gilt
| monogram and all"
Griswold took the note and pocketed
it without comment and without look
! ing at it.
Were you going to Doctor Ber-
| tie's?" he asked
Il was. Have you any objection?"
Not the least in the world It's a
good place for you to go just now,
and 1 guess you are the right man
| for the place. Goodnight"
At the next corner where there was
an electric light, GrisWold stopped and
| opened the monogrammed envelope
The enclosure was a single sheet OF
perfumed note paper upon which, with.
out date, address or signature was
written the line:
"AIr. Galbraith is better-and he is
grateful"
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CHAPTER xxx.
Dust and Ashes.

A full moon, blood-red from the
smoke Of forest fires far to the east
ward. was rising over the Wahaska
hills when Griswold unattached the gate
OF the FaTnham inclosure and passed
quickly up the walk.
Since the summoning note had
stressed the urgencies, he was not sur
prised to find the writer of it await
ing his coming on the vine-shadowed
porch. In his welcoming there was a
curious mingling of constraint and i'm
patience, and he was moved to marvel
Miss Farnham's outlook upon life, the
point Of view of the ideally well bal
anced, was uniformly poiseful and self
contained, and he was wondering if
some fresh ENHANCEMENT were threat
ening when she motioned him to a
seat and placed her own chair so that
the light from the sitting-room win
dows would leave her in the shadow.
You had my note?" she began
Yes. 1t came while l was away
from the hotel. and the regular trip
of the inn brake was the first convey
ance 1 could catch. Am 1 later"
Her reply was qualified. That re-
mains to be seen"
There was a hesitant pause. and
then she went on: do you know why
sent for you to Gomez"
No. not definitely"
Il was hoping you would know; it
would make it easier for me- You owe
me something, Mr. Griswold."
1 owe you a great DEAL" he admit
ted. warmly. 1T is hardly putting it
too strong to say that you have made
some part of my work possible which
would otherwise have been impos
sibie."
Il didn't mean that" she dissented
with touch of cool scorn. 81 have no
especial ambition to figure as a char
acter, however admirable, in a book
Your obligation doesn't lie in the lit
erary field; it is real-and personal
You have done me a great injustice
and it seems to have been carefully
premeditated'
The blow was so sudden and sc
calmly driven home that Griswold
gasped.
IAN injustice-to your" he protest
ed; but she would not let him go on.
Yes. At first. l thought it was
only coincidence-your coming tc
Wahaska-but now l know better
You came here. in goodness knows
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Surely Prize seareerow.

An American tourist had been boast
ing again in the village inn. says Lon
don Tit-Bits-
Talking OF scarecrows-" he said
Nth 2 drawl, why, my father once
mt one up. and it frightened the
Crows so much that not one entered
the field again for year
He looked triumphantly around MS
audience Surely that had settled
those country pumpkins
Put he was to meet his match
THAT'S nothing" retorted one farm
ar "A neighbor o mine once put
scarecrow into his potato patch and il
terrified the birds SO much that one
rascaI of a crow who had stolen some
notatoes came next day and put then
back"
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tons. ! had falnung spells, bloated,
and could hardly stand the pain In my
left side. My husband insisted that
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and an so thankful did,
for am now a well woman I sleep
better, do all my homework and take
long walks. Inever fail TO praise Lydia
E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
my good health Mrs. J. II. RESCH,
1900 West Broadway, Louisville, KY.
Since we guarantee that all testimo-
mails which We publish are genuine, is it
not fair to suppose that If Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has the
virtue to help these women It viii help
any other wonan who Is suffering In .
Ike manner?
If you ara i'll do not drag along until
an operation Is necessary, but at ones
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Write to Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co, (coafidentiaD Lynn,
Mass. Your letter vii be opened.
read and answered by q woman
and held in strict confidence.
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CHAPTER XXX.
Apples of Istakhar,
grateful


The swinging arc light suspended
above the street crossing sputtered
and died down to a dull red dot of in
candescence as Griswold returned
Margery's note to his pocket and
walked on.
There are crises in which the chief
contention looms so large as to leave
no room for the ordinary mental proc
esses. Griswold saw no significance
in the broken line. of Margery's mes
sage The one tremendous revelation
the knowledge that the dross-creat-
ing curse had finally fallen upon the
woman whose convictions should have
saved her-was plotting out all the
subtler perceptive faculties; and for
the time the struggle with the sub
merging wave of disappointment and
disbursement was bitter.
He was two squares beyond the
crossing of the broken-circuited arc
light, and was still following the curve
of the lakeside boulevard, when he
came to the surface of the submerg-
ing wave long enough to realize that
he had entered Jasper Grierson's por-
ton Of the waterfront drive. The great
house, dark as to its westward gables
save for the lighted upper windows
marking the sick room and it's ante
chamber, doomed in massive solidity
among its shelteTing oaks; and the
moon, which had now topped the hills
and the crimsoning smoke haze, was
bathing land and lakescape in a food
of silver light, whitening the pale vel
low sands of the beach and etching
fantastic leaf-traceries on the gravel
of the boulevard driveway.
There was no inclosing fence on the
Mereside border of the boulevard, and
under the nearest of the lawn oaks
there were rustic park seats, Jasper
Grierson's single concession to the
public when he had fought for and
secured his property right-of-way
through to the lakes margin. Griswol6
turned aside and sat down on one OF
the benches. The disappointment was
growing less keen. He was beginning
to understand that he had made no
allowance for the eternal feminine in
the idealized Fidelia-for the feminine
and the straitly human. But the dis
ISud1lGO- QS
stay and fight it out? Or should he
take pity upon the poor prisoner Of
the conventions and seek to postpone
the day of reckoning by flight?
He had not fitted the answer to
either of these sharp-pointed queries
when a pair of Iight-fngered hands
came from behind to clap themselves
upon his eyes. and a weIl-known voice
said, Guess
"Margery!" he said, and she laughed
with the joyous unconstraint of q
happy child and came around to sit
by him.
81 was doing time out on the veran
da, and 1 saw you down here in the
moonlight, looking as if you had lost
something" she explained. adding:
Have your"
81 don't know; can you lose thai
which you've never had?" he returned
musingly. And then: Yes; perhap:
did lose something Don't ask me
what it is. l hardly know. myself"
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In the five years of its existe,o,
ot' Faufs club has registered $4,000
transient visitors and temporary
guests on Its books, has never asker
LOT alo and has deficit of only some
$50 The club has managed to mako
us humanitarian work among drunk
aros virtually self supporting 1t has
an active membership of 1876 men. of
which 80 are on its roll of STEADY So
oerness for periods CT from three
months 70 FIVE years.
The club started with the idea of
taking the helpless drunkarc OF the
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street and giving him a place where
he might room and board until abso-
Iutely sobered up and fit for work
again The drunkard is taken into tho
club Internationally The club is nom
sectarian and insists only that its
guests shall attend some church. no
matter what denomination. during
their stay at the club Every married
guest is given a week to sober up and
every single man two weeks They
are required to go out every morning
il search of work and assist in keep
ing the clubhouse clean
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After they have been sobered up and
are able TO go to work again. the tenn
porary guests are invited to enroll as
members. take part in the weekly bust
ness meetings and pay such weekly
dues as they can afford for the main
tenance Of the club and its rescue
work The dues vary according to
each members income. from five
cents to 81 a week Extra assessments
for the benefit OF club members In dis
tress are also collected IN varying vol
untary Contributions
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Value Of Hardship.

so you've been camping?''
Yes. replied the sunburned man
of course you had a good time ."
No 1t rained almost necessarily,
the insects nearly ate me alive, and
didn't catch any fish Still, 1 derived
a great deal Of benefit from the expe-
Renee"
Il must say you are optimistic"
Yes Before I went away I didn't
know how to appreciate a hall bed
room
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came, I was wondering if the game
were at all worth the candle"
Her mood changed in the twinkling
of an eye. The battle is over, and
won," she said, speaking softly.
Didn't you know that?" And then:
"Oh, boy, boy! but it has been a des-
perate fghtI Time and again 1 have
thought you were gone, in spite of
all ]. could dol"
You thought was gomez Then
you know"
'Of course 1 know; 1 have known
ever since the first night; the night
when 1 found the money in your suit
case. What q silly, silly thing it was
for you to do-tO leave the Bayou State
Security slips on the packagesi"
But you said"
mo, I didn't say; I merely let you
believe that 1 didn't see them. After
that, 1 knew it would be only a ques-
ton of time until they would trace
you here, and hurried; oh, I hurried
I made up my mind that before the
struggle came. all Wahaska should
know you, not as a bank robber, but as
that way. Then Mr.. Broffin turned Up,
and the fight was on. He Swallowed
you, and 1 Swallowed him-or had
Johnnie Fergus do it for me. 1 knew
he'd try Miss Farnham first, and there
was only one hope there-that she
might fall in love with you and so re-
fuse to give you away. She did, didn't
she?"
Most emphatically, she did not" he
denied You have greatly misjudged
Miss Farnham. The reason-the only
reason-why she did not tell Broffin
what he wanted to know was a purely
conventional one. She did not want to
be the most-talked-of woman in Wa
haska."
His companions laugh was not
pleasant.
I'D rather be a spiteful little cat,
which is what she once called me, than
to be moth-eaten on the inside like
that" she commented. Then she went
on: with Miss Farnham out of it
and 1 knew she must be out of it,
since Broffin didn't strike-there was
still Mr.. Galbraith. You didn't know
why was so anxious to have you get
acquainted with him. but you know
now. And it worked. When Broffin
asked him to identify you, he couldn t
or wouldn't Then came that IN
lucky drowning accident"
Griswold nodded slowly. Yes, Mr..
Galbraith knows me now"
He Doesn't" she exulted. HE is
a dear old saint, and he will never
know you again as the man who held
him up. Listen: He sent for Brofin
this afternoon, and gave him a new
misunderstanding about bonds
in California. And he told him he
must go on the first traini"
Once more the castaway was run
| ming the gamut of the fiercely varying
emotions
Let me understand" he said. You
knew 1 had taken the money, and yet
you did all these things to pull me out
and make the holdup a success. Where
was your moral sense, all this time
little grip
She made a charming little mouth
at him.
Il am Joan. and the Joans don't have
! any moral senses-tc speak of-do
they? That's the way you are writing
it down in your book, isn't it," Then
with low laugh that sounded some
unfathomed depth of loving abandon.
ment: ut was a game; and / played
it-played it for all 1 was worth, and
won You are free; free as the air
Kenneth. boy If Brofin should come
here this minute and put bis hand
] on your shoulder. you could look VI
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Certainty Some Voice

Here is a little story that was told
by Congressman John e Bakwer Of
California the other night. when the
talk topic in the lobby of a hotel took
a musical turn:
Some time ago the guests al a
reception were discussing the rela-
tive merits of several songsters,
when one OF the party turned to a
man named Brown
BY the way, Brown said he.
you are something Of a singer. are
you not?~
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TOUCHES OF ECZEMA
At Once Relieved by cuticura Quite
Easily, Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal Nothing
better than these fragrant super
creamy emollients for all troubles al
fecting the skin, scalp, hair and hands
They mean clear skin, clean scalp,
good hair and soft, white hands.
Sample each free b? mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY.
Boston. Sold eTerywhere.-AdT.
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Not on your Iife." was the EN-
phatic response Of Brown l never
sang a note that somebody didn't
threaten TO send in a riot call You
are thinking of my brother"
Perhaps I am" was the thought
fuI rejoinder Of the other Has he :
heavy bass voice.?
Yes. smiled Brown; so derned
heavy that It makes him bOElegged
TO carry it-"-Phi.adeIphia Telegram
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CLUB SAVES THE 0RUNKARD
Philadelphia Down and Outs Are. So
berea Up and Helped to Get
Jobs Worth While

Old St. Paul's club. specialist in
giving first aid TO the down and out
, drunkard. SOLDERING him up. fitting him
for job and getting him a job. ceIe-
brated its fifth anniversary the other
day with a special meeting In the club
house. says the Philadelphia North
American.
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WOMAN REFUSES
OPERATION
Tells How She Was Saved
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Louisville, KY think If more emf
fering women would take lydia 3.

Pinkham's Vegets-
bic Compound they
would enjoy better
health. ! suffered
from q female trou-
bic, and the doctors
decided I had 9
humorous grow tn
and would have to
be operated upon,
but I refused as do
not believe In opera
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Every man who speaks in public. or
writes for print, puts an unnatural pol
ish on the truth
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ADRUG6ISTS FAVORITE KIDNEY
REMEDY FIXED HIN

Fifteen years ago I had an attack Of
acute kidney trouble I consulted a physi-
can who gave ne medicine which only Re-
heved me for time After disseminating
ms medicine my trouble returned as Sc
we're as before.
Having heard OF Swamp-ROot I gave II
4 trial and can honestly state that three
dollar bottles cured me, never having any
sickness IN fifteen years l have sold DR..
hIlmer's Swamp-Root as q druggist for
many years and can give 1t the very best
OF Recommendation AT ali times
You are at liberty to use this statement
any time you wish
Respectfully,
w c SUMMERS,
1919 Central Ave Kansas City, Kan
With Grand View Drug Co.
State Of Kansas
County of Wyandotte S.
On this llth day Of August, 1909. per
Eonaily appeared before me, " c. Sum
mers, who subscribed TO the within state
ment and made oath that the same Is true
IN substance and IN fact
CHARLES WILSON,
D,1,
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Most particular women use Red Cross
Ball Blue American made. Sure to please
At al good grocers. Adv.
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q widow and a widower when they
marry
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The Extent.

What ground of complaint hava
you against that dentist?'
oh, achers of it,
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During courtship an ounce Of la
terry is equal 10 pound Of ca7amels
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Prove What SwznD-Root VIII Do For w,

IIoFc " INT s'FelLE5-ENOOt NIlI Do TOT TOT
Send ten cents TO Dr. kilmer & Co,
Blnghamton, N Y, for sample size bot
tie 1t VIII convince anyone You viii
also receive a booklet Of valuable infor-
nation. telling about the kidneys and blad-
this paper. Regular ffty-eent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at ali drug
stores.-Adv.
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Call Phone Sol
For the 10 cent service ear.

For the 10 cent service car.
IL you want to meet any train, go
to any any hotel. so to any office, any
residence, to the show, or home after
the show, to go fishing or bathing, or
take the family for a drive in the
country, have the children brought
home from school in bad weather, or
have a package delivered.
Our price in reach of all, being only
10 cents up to 12 blocks. over ~ blocks
and not ever Is blocks, Is cents; over
Is blocks and not over "a blocks, &c
cents.
On boarding cars at any depot or
any point on the street, your fare is
only to your destination. as per above
scale.
In answering calls, we figure dis
tance from Fourth and Chickasha ave-
nue. to your destination.
For example. the combined distance
to your number and to your destina-
ton is over 80 blocks and not ever SO
blocks, your fare would be 30 cents
THE AUTO SERVICE co.
Phone sol. It
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by 4local applications, as they ocann0
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the Eusta-
chian Tube. When this tube is infiamed
hearing. and when 1t is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless the in
fiammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever: nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which Is nothing but an infiamed condi-
tion of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by Druggists. F5c
Take Halls Family Pills Tor constipation
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Grady County Express
rs Cents a Year

This great offer Is made for an In
definite period. We will send the
Grady County Express for one full
year. to subscribers In Grady county
only. on receipt of only 25 cents.
Think of 1t. the official county paper.
rock-ribbed Democratic, with all the
local, political ana official news every
week for 25 cents year. Cone run
ming. Remit in coin to
GRADY COUNTY EXPRESS.
Chickasha, Okla
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Spring planting time is here. We
have the correct things in well grown
plants for porch boxes and hanging
baskets, also pot roses that will grow
Geraniums, vincas, gailardies, Ian
tanas and. in fact, everything for the
garden. EARLY prolific tomato plants
the kind that grow tomatoes. Gray's
Greenhouse, Ninth and Arkansas.
Street car or jitney to door. /.
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CLUB HOUSE PLANS ADOPTED.

The directors of the Chickasha
Country club agreed on plans for a
club house yesterday and expect to
iet the contract next eek. 1t will
be frame structure containing din.
ing room and dance hall, so by 30 feet.
with dressing rooms and large ve-
randa. In the basement will be lock
ers and shower baths.
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Autos Blaze Trail.

The new Studebaker of II. N. Smith
and the REQ OF Ed Burton blazed the
trail from Oklahoma City to Chicka-
'sha yesterday, being the first cars to
make the trip since the flood. They
had some trouble crossing the river at
Norman and plowed through hud deep
mud for several miles this side of the
bridge. The trip was made in about
six hours. The party was composed
OF Mr.. and Mrs. H. N. Smith, Miss Al
berta Smith, P. G. Spinning, H. J..
Brownson, E. G. Burton, VIII Dwyer,
b. p Smith