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CHAPTER TX.

Scarcely had she finished when a
sudden Ianguor seized her. She knew
that she ought to battle and dress
quickly, for M'sungo would be keen
for his breakfast after his white"
night. Why did all Latins call sleep
less night ''white," anyway? Her
brows puckered over that problem and
it seemed as though she must puzzle
it out before she did anything else.
She crept into her cot to attend to 1t.
4 cold wave swept over her body and
left it frozen; pain stabbed into her
side.
The pain was like a knife, red-hot
It terrified her. In an instant her
tongue was parched, her eyes were
burning. So suddenly had sickness
come upon her that even in the face
of its clamoring presence, her mind
declared it incredible. Surely it would
pass swiftly as 1t had come. She
was a look in her face as though she
listened.
The pain ceased. When it came
back again 1t was no longer a knife
but the raving fangs of wolf tearing
their way toward the svitals of her
body. She tried to clench her teeth,
to keep silence until the spasm passed
but she could not hold out. white
Mani" she moaned and then, realizing
that she must make him hear now or
never, she gathered all her strength
and screamed.
She heard quick steps coming from
tie craal. a laundering on her door
and then his voice. Am / to come in?'
She tried to cry out again and could
not; tears poured down her cheeks.
But the white man did not wait; an
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eyes or air to breathe. He was cold
as though the sun in setting had
slippetkdown and out beyond any ris-
ing. He leaned over and put his face
close to her lips. They were parted.
Her hand was lying outside the COW
erlet. He took it up gently. It was.
warm and moist. She was sleeping.
He drew erect, his body tense in the
first realization of a great and over
whelming relief; then his spirit melted
within him and his nerves relaxed from
the long, hard strain. His limbs crum-
pied, his head nodded and fell for
ward, lower and lower until, one arm
outstretched, he lay with his face half
buried In the covers of the cot. When
again he awoke. the sun had changed
it's mind and come back; day was
streaming across the floor in a single
band of light; but he did not stir. On
his head he felt Andrea's hand, and
in his ears was the lingering caress
Of her voice. "Lots of good it did to
tell you to go away, White Man. she
was murmuring. "You came back.
You brought me back. White Man, z
love you little"
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ADDYJ Evening
|EA|RY TALL
A 81 nory Graham
ANOTHER RAccooN TALK.

"Children," said Mother Raccoon.
ST was going to tell you of a creature
you must watch out for-an enemy
you must beware of. So listen while
Mother Raccoon goes on with her
story"
The little raccoons listened with
their sharp eyes fixed on Mother Rae
coon:
AS / told you, it is not long now
before you must look out for your
selves in the world. You must work for
yourselves and for the little ones who
will come TO you. A Daddy and a
Mother Raccoon look after their
children for whole year-then they
must look after the new family which
comes in the spring.
"As the spring is not so far of
now, even though 1t is still winter.
/ want to give you all the advice and
help can. so you'll all live to be
fine. big raccooOnS and make your
mother and father and all raccoons
proud of you.
There is one enemy YOU must look
out for and that is the weasel. He
is sly fellow, a dangerous fellow,
wild fellow and one to look out for.
Never make friends with him. He
does not know what friendship with
a raccoOn means.
Il am sure it isn't really necessary
to tell you that. But l do want to
warn you that you must look out for
him and never let him get the better
Of you.
sTd not be friendly with cats Ell
ther." Mother Raccoon continued. i
don't like cats-never have and |
don't suppose l ever will.
BE brave, my children, be very
brave. Never let any one call you
cowards but never fight unless you
have to fight far your life or for the
lives of your little ones.
you can do we'll in fight with
the sharp claws which Nature gave
you Yes, it is very. well that you
can do.
"For / won battle and saved you,
my little ones, when you We're really
little ones. and SO did your father.
All, how he fought to help me and to
save you
Don't forget what l told you about
washing your food before you eat it.
told you that only the other day.
Some folks think IFS just habit of
ours, that we don't really want to
be clean. There may be some rae
coons like that but l can tell you one
thing-Ive yet to meet them!
Il shall miss you, my children, but
I shall have other things to take up
my mind and shall feel I'm doing
the raccoon world good it | hring mp
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barley, remonstrance on his lips, but
he had forgotten that in the tropics
God walks only at night.
He turned, went back to his post and
sat down, dismissing Bathtub with
nod: Andrea's eyes were still fixed In
lightless stare. Presently she began
to speak You bring me here. you
let me fall i'll, you shame my body.
You are like the men that strap down
little dogs and open them. You are
like that. You have been staring at
my heart, at my bare lungs and all
the unnamable beastly things Inside
of me. You leave me alone with a
nigger-when I'm torn open. | don't
hate you. You are nothing"
Her voice went on for long time.
He dropped his face in his hands, but
he did not try to stop his ears. They
listened to all she said, they told him
she was suffering as he had known no
one ever to suffer before. Her spirit
spoke from beyond pain, In that hour
he learned a great truth. Pain is a
wall, barrier. So far and no farther
can flesh go and still hold to the mem
cries, the fears and affections of every
day life. Beyond that barrier is void
where love Itself is a stranger. where
life and death are one and equally of
no account.
He did not know when he fell asleep
or when her voice ceased. but on awak-
ening such silence met him as struck
his heart cold. She was still-stitI as
death. Night had fallen, but he was
unaware of darkness. He felt that
never again would ne need light or
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four or six little raccoOns each year
and give them whole year of mother
love and schooling and training.
"And as I've given you a great deal
of advice I'll tell you a story before
we say goodnight, for it is nighttime
by my watch old Mother Nature gave
me-the watch which tells when it is
dark by the sun going to sleep and
when it is daylight by the sun wax
ing up and shining and making even
dark woods quite light
'There was once an old raccoon
who was very fond of himself. He
sat on the top Of high tree which
had no leaves, for it was dead tree,
such as we all enjoy when it's resting
time. There he sat and dreamed away
his time and slept and did nothing
at all.
'He let everyone else wait on him
and was very lazy. He was very self
lsh, too, and didn't want to go to any
trouble for anyone.
81 will fare better, he said if
take my life easily and don't go
rushing and scrambling around max
ing a great fuss about working and
so forth. l will not work at ALL
.'Well, he found he didn't have
much to eat when he didn't do any
thing himself. His raccoon friends
and relatives got tired of seeing him
rest while they worked, and did not
like it because he was so lazy and
selfish.
zone by one they began to leave
him alone. He sat up on the top limb
all by himself No one came near
him. He had to get down and get
some food after while, but even
then no one would bother about him..
He was too selfish. He made every
one around him unhappy.
~ see,' he said to himself, that
I'll never have any friends unless I'm
friendly and share the work and the
fun-so l won't sit up here any more.
$50 he joined the raccoons who
worked and played and told them of
what a mistake he made. He was
happy from that time on" ended
Mother Raccoon.
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Pero daughter Of Lord PeIo hnpeeunious arra
discovers
be fight
Andrea in
ntntoh
reconcied to
With Man
gainst another warning
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fists, laughed and then threw out both
hands to him.
Take me back" she said.
The book fell from his hands. He
turned and stared at her with the
hungry eyes of man who sees for the
first time one of the rarest of Gods
creatures-nalnely. woman whose
youth stands by her in the dishevele'l
morning, defies the ugly finger of
gross sIumber and proclaims her love-
Iy beyond the limits set by the wrin-
king seams of coarser and less
blessed fabrics. For moment his
gaze wavered as though before too
strong light, then it steadfed and his
face grew stern. He arose.
Come on" he said.
She threw her arms about his neck !;
he picked her up, sarong and all, and
passed solemnly the length of the COW
cred way He could feel her face
pressed hard against his shoulder and
her Ioosened hair was like a cloud
beneath his chin. Her arms chung to
him tightly, her body trembled, her
eyes twinkled and her lips murmured
audibly, Remember, Andrea Pellor,
you're just a kiddie."
He dropped her on her cot with a
thud that surprised the six straddling
legs of that sturdy campaigner into
stringent protest and incidentally
startled one young lady.
'"rhere you are, you little devil" he
growled and strobe from the room
with the satisfied air of dog who has
just carried home eight pounds of
prime roast intact.
Andrea watched him go, then she
arose, took the cord from her bath
robe and advanced upon the door to
the covered way. She closed it, let
down the bar and with the cord bound
it in place. She tied knot after hard
knot, and as she drew each one of
them tight she said, "Just to give you
time to think twice, Andrea Pellor."
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away gong rang out above the din of
the droning rain. Following it instant
" came the thud of q falling chair.
The door, released, swung slowly open
with a long-drawn creak Of unoiled
hinges Andrea was suddenly fright
ened
Coming through the covered way
she could hear the swift crush of hur-
rying steps. M'sungo, fully dressed,
shot into the center of her room and
whirled. In his hands, held at the hip,
finger on trigger, was a villainous
ing to look twice before he fired saved
Andrea when his eyes brought him the
startling conviction that besides him
self she was the only other living thing
iii the room. She stared at him. wide
eyed and trembling. She saw his fig
ure. keyed to one sort of combat, relax
only to grow slowly tense again. He
turned, laid the shotgun aside and
came toward her with swift sure
strides. For an instant his eyes
wayered but as he drew nearer they
steadied to transfix and hold her
pinned against the wall.
she felt herself struggling as against
an unjust accusation. Under her
trembling hands, her heart beat with
great irregular throbs. A lump rose
In her throat and it seemed as though
1t must strangle her if she did not let
it ont. In her desperation she hurled
herself forward, threw her 4s1ns about
M'sungo's neck, pressed her face
against him and sobbed.
"Oh, White Man." she gasped, 81
was so lonely am so lonely"
The embrace of a woman is one
thina the clinging of a child quite an
Other. The sternness in M'sungo's eyes
die6 suddenly; the hard look in his
face faded, vanished and gave place to
one of great tenderness. He gathered
Andrea up in his arms and carried
her quickly through the covered way.
He told himself there was every rea-
son TO hasten, for he could feel her
soft warm body, shaken with sobs,
wrapping itself round his heart and
crushing it beyond repair. He laid her
on the couch in his room, made a nest
for her in the many pelts with which
it was covered, pillowed her head in
bundle of furs and drew over her a
gayly figured sarong.
"You were cold" he said, as he
tucked her in; then he knelt beside
her. took her hand in both of his and
suddenly laid his face In her open
palm. still moist with her tears.
Andrea drew long wkimpering
Sigh - pessed down against the
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The other white man ap-
pears.
CTo BE CoNTINUEDo
SINGAPORE TO HAVE TAxIs
Far Eastern City Will Abandon the
Rickshaw, Long Used as Method
of Transportation.

According TO advices from Consul
General Edwin N. Gonzales at Sinsa-
pore, that city is to have an Internal
transportation system of thoroughly
modern taxicabs.
Whether American automobile man.
ufacturers will secure the order for
these motors is problematical, but The
most significant part of the news Is
that 1t marks a further development
of the use of modern methods in the
far East.
For several years in Singapore
there has been most consistent and
vigorous agitation against the insti-
tuition of the well-knOwn rickshaws.
Most of this agitation came from the
tongue and pen of the educated Chi
nese. who maintain that the system of
making a horse out OF men is wrong
from the standpoint of the degrading
influence which it has on the individ-
uaIs as well as the harm it is claimed
to work upon the coolies.
Distances are great in most far
Eastern cities. and while the rickshaw
makes transportation reasonably con-
venient and comfortable. the rickshaw
most certainly is a primitive vehicle
and doomed 20 early abandonment be-
cause of the rapid advance now be-
ing made in the industrial and social
life of the far East.
The new company to operate in
Singapore is to be officially known as
the Singapore Motor Taxicab and
Transport company, Ltd, and will
have capital OF $35OO00. The initial
equipment will be made up of 40
landaulet taxicabs, five one-ton trucks
and five three-quarter ton trucks.
Singapore has a population Of 100000.
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over her twisted body. She looked up.
The stricken look in her frightened
eyes was as nothing to the sudden
terror that had come into his own. He
sank to his knees. "You are ill.," he
breathed.
He passed his cool hand across her
forehead, held his fingers to the pulse
in her throat, grasped her wrists and
found them burning-all burning.
sLast night" he said, when you were
in here, you didn't use your curtain
You left the light on?"
She did not answer beyond stare
from CLASSY eyes. Her face was white,
her lips straight purple line. Her
shoulders were rigid, but beneath them
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Instruction for the YOUNG.

Yells from the nursery brought the
mother, who found baby gleefully pull
ing Billy's curls.
"Never mind, darling" she COM
forted. Baby doesn't know how it
,4urts.''
Half an hour later wild shrielzs from
the baby made her run again to the
nursery.
"Why, Billy she cried, what is the
matter with baby?"
Nothing. mother" said Billy, calm
w: "only now he knows. "--Tit-Bits.
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CHAPTER vIlI.-contlnued.

She decided to cry little more and
found she couldn't. Tears had with
drawn before an Intellectual rage. Her
face hardened. Well, If she couldn't
cry. something must happen; If not on
it's own. then 1t must be forced. She
wondered what the white man was
doing. Perhaps he was sound asleep;
perhaps lie was even snoring What
did she know about this man, anyway?
Was he human? Had he live points of
contact or was he an impalpable crea-
zion of her sick brain? Perhaps she
wasn't here at all If she screamed,
would Aunty Gwen come running in
or Her eyes, following the sequence
of her thoughts, fell upon the barred
door.
She arose, put on her slippers and
her bathrobe. walked deliberately to
the door, grasped the bar with two
trembling hands and threw 1t up with
all her strength. The clang of the far
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KILLS PAIN
IN s MINUTES
Agony of Rheumatism and Gout, Neu.
raIgia, Lumbagc, Chest Colds and
Sore Throat Ended in Half the
Time 1t Takes Other Remedies.

Mustarine won't blister-it is always
ready for use-it's grandmother's old
fashioned mustard plaster with other
up-to-date pain killers added.
The best and quickest remedy in the
world for lameness, sore muscles, stifx
neck, cramps in leg, earache, backache,
headache and toothache.
Begy's Mustarine-ask for it by name.
Is made Of real honest, yellow mus
to draw the pain from those sore feet
it's great for chilblains too, and for
frosted feet. Ask for and get Mustarine
always in the yellow box.
S C. Wells e Co LIE Row. N Y
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but have never had one of these spells
since / took the first bottle of DR.. Pierce's
medicine. | can recommend these medi-
cines Judging by what they have done for
me. have also written DIR. Pierce's In
valids' Hotel, in Buffalo, N. ", in regard
to my case and have always received prompt
replies and much valuable information in
regard to my particular ase."-JOHN G
JOHNSON, 1917 Tower Ave.
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OF the head, Oh
nasal catarrh. i
used DR.. Pierce's
medicines for about
Eve months, the
Golden Medical
Discovery and DR..
Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and am
feeling better than
/ have in ten years.
/ used to have
soxzoro haadcnhoS
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cuticura Soap for the Complexion.
Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear.
scalp clean and hands soft and white
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum and you have the
Cuticura Toilet Trio.-Adv.
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His Figure.

Hes a spare sort Of man, isn't
he?" "Not If you try to borrow money
from him.
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MUS zSi;1.lNl
81

Three hundred thousand children
die annually in this country of pre-
ventable disease >Coffman.
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Bad Sickness
Caused by
Stomach

II people only realized the health destroy
ing power of an acid -stomach-of the many
kinds Of sickness and misery 1t causes-of
the lives 1t literally wrecks-they would
guard against 1t carefully they do
against deadly plague. You know in an
instant the first symptoms of acfd-stomach-
pains of indigestion; distressing, painful
bloat; sour, gassy stomach; belching; food
repeating; heartburn, etc. Whenever your
stomach feels this way you should lose no
time in putting it to rights If you don't,
serious consequences almost sure to fol-
low, such intestinal fermentation auto
intoxication. impairment of the entire ner-
vous system, headache, biliousness cirrhosia
of the liver; sometimes even catarrh of the
stomach and intestinal ulcers and cancer.
If you not feeling right see If it isn't
Acid-stomach that is the cause of your i'll
health. Take EATONIC, the wonderful mod
ern stomach remedy. EATONIC Tablets
quickly and surely relieve the pain, boat,
belching, and heartburn that indicate acid
stomach. Make the stomach strong, clean
and sweet. BY keeping the stomach IN
healthy condition that you can get full
.Gtrength from your food, your general health
steadily improves. Results are marvelously
quick. Just try EATONIC and you Will be
&s enthusiastic the thousands who have
used it and who say they never dreamed
anything could bring such marvellous relief.
So get a big 50-cent box of EATONIC
from your druggist today. If not sattsfac-
tory return it and he will refund your money.
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Some women derive as much pleas
IRE from weeping as some men do from
laughing.
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suffered from Catarrh

Superior, Wis.=''I had been great
sufferer for about ten years with catarrh
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found Andrea unusually suhdued and
still, but he was not deceived. He
looked at her eyes and saw that their
pupils still appeared convex and CLASSY
like the eyes of a fish. They stared at
him with an Unreasonable gravity.
When her dry lips parted, he shrank
even before she spoke.
II wish you would go away" she
said quietly. 81 don't like to look at
you; | don't wish you to look at me.
l will be glad if never see you again.
There Is no one in the world that
wish ever to see again. Please send me
that niger. Bathtub. If l must have
some one | would rather have him."
He arose, called Bathtub and made
him squat on the floor where her eyes
could quickly find him; then he went
to the door behind her and stood for
long time looking out across the
glaring craal. The rays of the sun
descended on that beaten space with
an almost audible contact. The leaves
of the acacias were shriveled: not
woman or child was visible, and even
the fowls crowded close in the shad-
ows of the caves.
He took one step out and looked I'D
into the bowl Of blue. His tired ewes
searched it from horizon to zenith and
back to the hot level of the earth. It
was empty. Its hollow infnity pressed
down upon his breast with measure
less weight. He had come out for a
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the power, even in her somber mood.
to draw a faint response In kind.
'If you're sure Il won't be. hard
ship to you"
Nonsense! It's settled. then. IA IT.
TIL send one Of my cars down for your
things"
Hilliard's eyes nickered at the In
Renuous vanity: he had recently
learned that Mr.. Cullen had made
more money during the past twelve
months than during the previous
twelve yearA
"well." he said, III you're 20 char.
table as to Insist"
II do. sir. I dol You're at
the Onondaga, Of ccursey'
Angela. who had been listening IN.
tentiy, started up ut the unmistakable
echo Of footballs on the walk.
"Here comes Carroll" she gasped.
"And and jack Oh, Mr..
billiard! Oh, dad! Who's going to
tell herr"
As Mr.. Cullen ninched. billiard put
out his hand In a motion of supreme
restraint. "Whatever Dick Morgan
may have been at home he said. II
knew him after he offered his life for
a great ideal, and I'm proud that he
called me his friend. TIL tell Miss
Durant myself, please It's my right"
And turned to face the girl he had
tried to die for, and failed.
Ito Be Continued.)
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SAYS ACID STOMACH
CAUSES INDIGESTION
EXCESS OF HYDRochLoRic ACID
SOURS THE FOOD AND
FORMS GASES.

Undfgested food delayed in the
stomach decays, or rather, ferTnents
the same as food left IN the open air,
says a noted authority. He also tells
us that Indigestion Is caused by Hy-
per-ac!dity, meaning, there !s an ex-
cess Of ro-chloric acid In the stom-
ach which prevents complete digestion
and starts food fermentation, Thus
everything eaten sours IN the stomach
much like garbage sours IN a can,
forming acid fluids and gases which
initiate the stomach like a top balloon.
Then we feel a heavy, lurnpy misery
in the chest, we belch UP gas. we
eructate sour food or have heartburn,
datulence, water -brash or nausea
He teils us to lay aside all digestive
aids and instead, get from any phar-
macy four ounces Of Jad Salts and
take a tablespoonful in glass Of wa
tor before breakfast and drink while
St Is etfervescing and furthermore. to
continue this for a week While relief
follows the first dose, It Il important
to neutranze the acidity, remove the
xas-maktng mass. start the liver, slim
ulate the kidneys and thus promote a
free flow Of pure digestive Juices.
Jad Sails Is inexpensive and IS made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon
1r1ice, combined with Hthia and sodium
phosphate. This harmless salts is used
by thousands Of people for stomach
trouble with excellent results.