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THESTANDARD
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
BARGAINS

At SOC. Ladies Chamois Gloves;
all colors and all sizes; value Use.
f.. At SIPS. Ladies 16- Button
Channels Gloves; all colors; all
sizes.
At S1.OO. Ladies' French Kid
Gloves; drummers' samples; in per
feet condition; values up to $500
At $3.50. Ladies' French Kid
Gloves; all sides; value $500.
At$1.98. Ladies' Fine Kid Gloves;
German make; all colors; all sizes,
AT SOC. One case Mems Heavy
Fleeced Lined Underwear; shirts and
drawers.
At soc. One case Ladies' Bleached
Ribbed Vests and pants; good weight.
At $1.00 About one hundred
pairs Ladies Low Shoes left to close
values up to $500.
At 19c. One case heavy fall
Outings, plain white and plain colora;
heavy TWILL regularly 25c,
At $1.O0. One case Duplex Window
Shades; I feet long, 3 feet wide;
value SIPS.
At 39c Silk Striped Poplins, black
and all colors; full regular width.
At $1.85. White and gray blan-
kets; good size; good weight; value
$3.50.
At 15c Yard. One bale 39-inrh
heavy Sheeting; fine smooth weave.
At $1.49 Bolt One case English
Long Cloth, channels finish; value 10
yard
At $2.35 Very heavy Crochet Bed
Spreads woven firm of best yarns;
value, $500.
At II lie. White and Ecru Cur
tain Scrim, wide satin borders, SO
inches wide and unmatchabIe value.
At 100. Plaid Marquisette Curtain
Scrim, white and acru, 36 inches
wide; value 25c.
At 35c. Black Satteen, SO inches
wide; satin finished for boomers, I'M
dergarments, etc.
At $4.95. Choice of one rack of
Silk Sweaters, plain and fancy colors
values up to $3.50.
At $3.50. Mems Heavy Winter
Weight Union Suits of the best stand
ard makes; sizes "a to 46.
AT $3.98. Mems Sample Sweaters
of heavy wool, dark coiors; values
up to $3.50.
AT $3.50. Mems Satin Calf Shoes,
black and brown; new toes; values up
to $500.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

Monday morning, no paper pub
iished.
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WHY SOM, OF US
cELELE>ATE COLUMBUS DAY

este1day was Columbus Day
1t celebrated The feet dat time history America
was sighted from he dec; Of ship and Columbus from
Genoa 'aia claim to the hst,sght OF the new Land
H. many cities the Italians and Catholics celebrated the
day.
q in majority Of the cities ii unobserved
The reason is obvious 1t conceived largely as
holiday rot much comaenora definite event in history
as to ianortaize a religious sect
- rs always bad and dorbt bad Try in his country
uinous Day wall never be popular holiday for festival as
we tx upc other fce days such as WASHINGTON
ah4ay Fourth Of July Thanksgiving Day When our fore
fathers divorced the church from the state bey made such
ee'p.ese ob OF i that We have never got over it.
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.

Monday morning, no paper pub
iShed.
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nightmare comes running.
Down deep in a valley lives Halloo-
Halo,
He's been living there since long
time ago,
He fools with the echoes and
changes them round,
Till you're mixed up completely
about every sound.
There's Comet-Lcgs, too, who ride,
on star,
One minute he's near, the next min
ute he's far,
he fools with the weather, hampers
too with the Moon,
And he never seems tired from Sep
TENDER to June.
Another bad fairy is Mr.. Light
Fingers,
Who is always in trouble wherever
he fingers,
And then there is Mr.. Flap-DoodIe,
my dears,
The mischievous fairy, who flies
with his ears. -
Nancy sang on and on, but I've no
more room to tell you.
ITO be continued.)
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THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
C7uom the Times-Recorder Oct,
u, 1922
Miss Viola Bell entertained a par
ty Of young friends at her home on
College, street Thursday evening.
rhc Barbecue club will entertain
the many friends Of that organlza-
ton with tempting cue at Mag
1ola Dell today. This viii be the
last spread of the season and the at
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Muse. sp!CAIs lie
Is -STkAL AN ASSET

= Muscle SHOALS may never be developed by private
enterprise
a4 II quo unit will still have
OF The greatest boons the South has had
has attracted his section country as no
other project could have done.
All he United States the S3uh has been an active
topic under discussion for the years because
Muscle Shoals is down here
Men vi thought South as an industrial center
worthy of development have fit look toward land
and invest their money.
Investment Of outside capital are what make country,
great.
- The South needs outside capital has to compete with
the East and Vest hdcstriail Is at a great disadvantages
because is ooed upon agricultural country purely
The truth with mild seasons its sanitary conditions
lis lack of labor ror the South of tie fields
ahe who country for industrial developments
1t alose the fields and the law product in the
manufacture o. cotton products
Il close to the non mines for the production of
manufactures
1t close the toaes that furnish cheap power for
manufacturing purposes.
1t is close ne farms where the fruits and vegetables are
raised that keep great canning industries eo..7.
L close to the farm where the pork products can be
secured.
H2lly part of the South thai does oo lie upon some
navisabe river close enough get benefit directly
or ndirect II water comp tion and lower freight
L Muscle Shoals does noh.1g taan to call the at
tenton of Northern AID Easern capital to the splendid
industrial advantages hat exist the country
will have Justified lis existence
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MUST SELL

Best offer buys Broom house. cellar.
large back porch. fruit, grapes, IL peach
trees. Lots 175x160 feet. Room for 800
chickens. This home must sell, $500 first
payment. You say the rest. Phone 1858
XII
IL EAST FRONT LOTS at 1905 Grand
avenue. paved street and sewer tax
nearly all paid out: water, electric. gas,
telephone. cement sidwalk, etc. Washburn
way, Elmhurst addition. must be sold at
once; cash or terms. owner, COL E. 4th
ave. Phone go or 1G01.
$500 FOR GOOD building site on Bolles
ave, 2 blocks east of Washburn Campus.
on pavement if desired. S1.400 for IL lots
in 1900 block on Lane. old shade, gas,
electricity, water and sewer available.
Phone Blue 2351.
FOR SALE@Seven east front lots. 1000
block. Lane st, price 81, 100. clear; 13 lots
1900 block. Fillmore ST. $3.50 eaeh. Fur
mans Real Estate. JOG West sth.
FOUR east front lots in Elmhurst. II. B.
Jenkins, 422 New England Bldg. Phone
14O5-4T4S.
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FOR sALE-VACANT LOTS
COTTAGE

Seven-room, partly mod
ern cottage, 5 blocks from
business district, in good
neighborhood, price reason
able if taken at once. Call
6245 ].
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wANrED-FEMALE HELP.

WANTED-JO neat girls for dining room
and lunch counter work. good wages,
steady positions. women cooks, private
family help. pantry women chamber
Eaaids: housed keepers: women for country
R0nles. several married couples for farms.
Furman's Employment Office. 10G West Sth.
EXPERIENCED WAITRESS. Tcpekafe,
ia West Eighth
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FOR sALE-sUBURBAN.


FOR SALE-House, 3 large rooms. cellar,
well cistern, chicken house. large barn.
fences, blocks of car line, east side. Price,
s., 500 Clear. Terms on part. ia acres.
A. L. Furman, 100 West Sth.
HIGHLAND PARK lots in blue grass,
city water in front, electric lights in al
ley close TO car line. Priced reasonable.
D. v. Taylor. Phone $3.50 NJ
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Office Of the City Clerk,
Topeka, Kansas. Apr1 p, 1922.
4.


Notice is hereby given by the Board
Of Commissioners Of the City Of IoDe ka,
Kansas, that on Friday, May u. 1872, at
900 o'clock a. m, in the Commission
Chamber Of said CITY, complaints VIII be
heard and protests may be filed. by any
citizen of said city affected thereby, against
the Improvement proposed in the following
resolution:
sioners Of the City of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kansas. that il becomes expedient
and a public necessity to permanently i'm
prove by curbing, guttering, grading and
paving that portion Of a certain street and
highway known as WASHINGTON AVE
NUE. from the south line. Of East Tenth
Street to the south line Of East Fifteenth
Street. Said improvement and pavement to
begin at the end Of existing pavement on
Washington Avenue in said City Of To-
peka and extending to the county highway
without the city limits of said city to the
said line Of the south boundary Of East
Fifteenth Street which Is less than five
eighths (5S) Of a mile beyond the limits
Of the said 'City Of Topeka. Said pave
ment to be constructed as follows: from
the south line Of East Tenth Street to the
south lire Of East Thirteenth Street said
paving to be two ~ inch asphaltic con-
crete on a ak go inch concrete base; from
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MALE AND FEMALE.

GOVERNMENT POSITIONS open to men.
women. Is over Hundreds appointed
every year. Good salary Write for free
iIsr positions C. W. Robbins, rs Pope
Hidr. Washington. d. g
MAKE $50 weekly mailing circulars, in
sfruction 20c. Narga Supply Company, Oh
oliver street. Cincinnati. Ohio.
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NOTICE


SEALED BIDS received on property at 229-
231 Adams st. For bids see L. Gustaf-
son, lis West 9th.
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FOR sALE-KANsAs FARMS.
Farm 16O Acres For Sale.

Farm 160 Acres For Sale.
Cash. terms, or trade for Topeka prop
erty, about half could be cultivated, bal
ance fine pasture, good spring, cement
dam, II miles southwest of Topeka, n mile
off of proposed cement road to Dover; has
to be sold at once. Owner, Col East 18th
FOR SALE-S0 acre Improved farm near
OIsburg. Kan, half in cult, bal. pasture
and meadow. . good wells, house. barn. cave,
old shade, fences Price 81 900; terms.
Furman Real Estate, Jog West Sth.
FOR SALE-New farms of 160 and 800
acre tracts in Haskell, Grant and Stanton
Counties, low price and terms New Rail
road building thru these counties. Fur
mans Real Estate. JOG West Sth.
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LOST AND FOUND.

REWARD for information leading TO re-
covery OF female Boston Terrier. Is lbs,
hrindle and white; disappeared March %
Phone 1906 j
LOST-pair OF gold beads with initial.
between 18th and high school. Please
cal White 1859
IUST-Black rims to eyeglasses, with
chain and button. Reward. Phone Blue
fq1H
I0~r-Boston Terrier, female, dark brin-
DIE and white. Phone 11O4.
LOST-Firestone tire on rim, size S0x3l7.
Phone 4717 NJ
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FOR sALE-AUToMoBILEs
RENEWED CARS

Buick coupe, 1921 model, four
passenger.
Buick touring car, 1921 model,
seven-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1920 model,
seven-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1920 model,
five-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1918 model,
five-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1919 model,
seven-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1913 model,
seven-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1921 model,
five-passenger.
Buick touring car, 1917 model,
roadster.
Buick coupe, 1918 model,
three-passenger.
1921 Haynes, seven-passenger
touring.
1920 Hudson four-passenger
P4idCbOA'
1920 Nash coupe, five-passen-
ger.
1920 Dodge touring, five-pas-
senger-
1919 Scripps Booth touring,
five-passenger.
1920 Apperson, four-passen-
ger.
Cadillac, seven-passenger
touring car.
1918 r o, seven-passenger
touring car.
Type "51" Cadillac seven-pas-
senger touring car.
1918 Chevrolet touring, five
passenger.
1917 Maxwell touring, five
passenger.
1917 Studebaker, touring,
five-passenger.
The largest selection of good
renewed cars in the city to
choose from.
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LANE ST, 1269-FoF sale, 7-room house
bath and summer kitchen, two stories
completely modern, newly papered thru
out, new furnace, new oak floors in every
kitchen enameled and white tile oil cloth,
second floor white enamel and mahogany
finish, outside reprinted. front room second
floor same as sleeping porch. This house
can be used by two small families as
duplex or for one large family. Separate
plate glass front doors to first and second
floors. 100 barrel cistern. Large barn or
garage, good place for chickens and gar
den. On paved street Good neighbor-
hood. one half block to car line, near good
school, few block to Washburn college
You cannot beat 1T as an investment where
you can live the first floor and get a
revenue from part all of second floor.
A fine property. Now ready to be occupied
Part cash. balance monthly like rent, or
will trade. See owners at COL East 4th ave.
Phone Go or 1601.
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LEGAL.
ORDER For PUBLICATION.

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION.
Upon the motion of the attorneys for
the petitioning creditors herein. and it
appearing to the court that o. n. Himel-
burger. the party sought to be adjudged
a bankrupt herein, is not an inhabitant Of
nor found within this District, and that
he has not voluntarily entered his appear
ance herein, and that personal service of
subpoena and COPY of the petition In bank
ruptey filed herein. cannot be made upon
him within the District of Kansas, and that
he has absconded, and that his whereabouts
are unknown.
It is hereby by the court ordered that the
said o. N. Himelburger appear. plead an
swer or demur to the petition in bank
ruptcy filed hereil' or before the goth
day Of April. 1922, and in default thereof
that the Court viii proceed to the hearing
and adjudication of this proceeding in
bankruptcy: that this order be published
in the Topeka State Journal. a newspaper
of general circulation, at Topeka, Kansas,
once week for two consecutive weeks next
succeeding this date.
Dated this 9th day Of April. 1922.
JOHN c. POLLOCK. Judge.
(Seal)
true copy: -... D.
Attest f. L. CAMPBELL, CLERK.
(First Published in The Topeka state
Journal. April p, 1927
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BUSINESS CHANCES.
& BROWNELI
wANrED-MALE HELP.

NvANTED-NIan and wife, ranch work, 800
miles sw- no children, no furniture :
cooks. kitchen helpers; blacksmith for
camp: - farm and dairy hands; baker
pastry man head cooks; i married farm
couples with furniture: labOrers; milk
driver. man and wife, restaurant WORK
Ilrman's Labor Agency. 1Q6 West Sth.
WANTED-A young man who
is a willing worker and who is
willing to learn a business. Ad-
dress w. A, care Journal.
ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON, either sex,
NAV earn 500 to $500 monthly CORE
IF TN spare time experience unnecessary /:
no canvassings subject suggested, send
for particulars National Press Bureau,
buffalo. n Y.
MEN LEARN BARBERING. A trade not
affected bv strikes Big money the year
round Jobs waiting. Write MOLER
BARBER COLLEGE, 54i Main St, Kansas
city.
TED-Married couple. ranch work.
furniture. $50 mo-. board and room. farm
hands FurmRH's Labor Agency. JOG w sth.
GOVERNMENT POSITIONS OPEN.
Men-Women- Big pay, File your name
with G.. Ozment. 204. st. Louis Mo.
WANTED-Noune man for soda fountain
work Mcfarland Drug Co, 30 Kansas
BOYS SATURDAY meet truck at Gordon
and Kansas ave- a. m charles Rude
WANTED-Clerk for Saturday. Will Mr..
Dyer call 13a Kansas ave.
roy WANTED 10 drive truck for Broom
Factory. 921 East 9Th.
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WANTED. TO RENT. by reliable people,
e or S-room modern house by May 10
W slhurn district preferred Would lease
and Ray six months in advance. Phone
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FOR sALE-HoUsEHoLD GOODS
CHEAP JACK

SECOND HAND SIOREa
21o East 9th st. Phone 574s.
FOR SALE-Library set, two black leather
seat rockers, dresser, commode, bed,
kitchen cabinet. gas heater, 5-burner gas
plate. two rugs, sanitary cot, Acorn range
Phone $50 w, 1101 Van Buren,, upstairs
RIGS FOR SALE-An size rugs. bought
and sold. See Wesley Bunce. SO North
Kansas Ave, upstairs. Phone Red $3.50.
COMBINATION GARLAND 4-burner gas
and coal range, gas heater, coal oil stove
and sidebOard- 14O4 Byron avenue
FOR SALE-Child's tricycle., rocking chair,
dressing table. high chair and doll buggy.
Telephone $500 J.
FOR SALE-Sanitary couch. one single
bed. mattress and springs. 1885 Van
Buren,, 1856 J.
FOR SALE-Au kinds of household goods
for sale. Mrs. Walter Horton, Route n,
Topeka.
FOR SALE-Beautiful 3 piece over stuffed
living room set. 1913 Lane
.CLEARSAX RUG. sx10; one club rug, sx1o.
Phone 546s J.
HURRY-UP EXPRESS co. Phone 226.
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FURNISHED APARTMENTS.

TWO OR THREE very pleasant furnished
rooms close in best location Phone
Blue 267s.
FOR RENT-Close In, Furnished apart
mcnt; adults. Phone Red 1880.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
PHONOGRAPH-New. S2T5, mahogany !;
records; must sell at once, 500 cash. No
phone. as West Seventh st. Ring Ben
der's door be4
FOR SALE-Splendid Conover piano, oak
case. Phone 52S5 w
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SERVICES OFFERED.
Carpets Washed

At your home, Hamilton Beach machine
Topeka Electric Carpet Washing com
pany. Phone Black 615S.
LAUNDERING, bundle washing, family
washing and ironing. SILK work our spe-
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PHONE 4O49

Baggage and light moving. Trunks haul
ed. 80 cents; two for 10 cents.
and picoting. Special at
tention given to out of town orders. Sew
ing Machine Exchange, 1913 West 7th ST.
IIhnnn 22l
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son, she said--he did not know of
her illness. Barbara told her OF
Erskine's giving her his inheritance,
and that she had come to return it.
Meanwhile Erskine, haunted by
his mothers sad face, had turned
homeward, To his bewilderment, he
found Barbara at his mothers bed
side. A glance at their faces told
him that death was near.
His mother held out her hand to
him while still holding Barbara's.
AS in a dream, he bent over to kiss
her, andwith last effort she joined
their hands, clasping both.
A great peace transformed her
face and she slowly looked at Bar
bara and then up at Erskine. With
sigh her head sank lower, and
her lovely dimming eyes passed into
the final dark
Two days later they were married.
In the silence that fell, Erskine
spoke of the life before them, of its
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wondered why he sould be telling
er again. The general paused:
"You knew Erskine's mother was
not killed. He found her. The girl
looked up amazed and incredulous.
"Yes," he went on, the white wo-
man whom he found in the Indian
village was his mother"
"FatherW She lifted her head
quickly, leaned back with hands
caught tight in front of her, looked
up into his face-her own crimson
ing and paling as she took in the
full meaning of it all. Her eyes
dropped.
''Then," she said slowly, " that In
dian girl-Early Morn-is his half.
sister. Oh, OH" A great pity flooded
her heart and eyes. "Why didn't Err
skine take them away from the In.
dians?"
Ellis mother wouldn't leave them. y
And Barbara understood.
"Poor thing-poor thing"
II think Erskine is going to try
now"
Ibid you tell him to bring then
here?" The general put his hand OF
her head.
Il hoped you would say that.
did, but he shook his head"
"Poor Erskine" she whispered
and her tears came. Her fatheI
leaned back and for moment closed
| is eyes.
"There is MORE" he said finally
"Erskine's father was the eldes
brother-and Red Oaks"
! The girl sprang to her feet, agon
lied, shamed: "Belongs to Erskine,
she finished with her face in he
hands. God pity me-" she whis
pered, 81 drove him from his owl
home"
"No," said the old general with {
gentle smile. He was driving tn,
barb deep, but sooner or later it hat
to be DONE
Look herew He pulled an ole
piece Of paper from his pocket anc
handed it to her. Her wide eyes fel
upon a rude boyish scrawl and ;
rude drawing of a buffalo pierced b.
an arrow:
/ ut make me laugh. / have no use
| give hole dam plantashun Bar
bara."
ooh" gasped the girl and then
"where is he?"
Waiting at Williamsburg to ge
his discharge" She rushed swift,
down the steps, calling:
'Ephraim! Ephraimp
And ten minutes later the happy
grinning Erhraim, mounted on tn
thoroughbred, was speeding ahead o
a whirlwind of dust with littl
scented note in his battered sloucl
hat:
you said you would come when
ever wanted you. | want you t,
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.ome now.-RARRARAn

come now.-BARBARA."
The girl would not go to bed, and
the old general from his window
saw her like some white spirit of the
night motionless on the porch. And
there through the long hours she
sat. The dawn came and with it
Ephraim. The girl waited where
she was. Ephraim took off his bat
tered hat.
"Marse Erskine done gone, Miss
Barbary," he said brokenly. He
done gone two days"
The girl said nothing, and there
the old general found her still mo-
tionless-the torn bits of her note.
and the torn bits of Erskine's scrawl-
ing deed scattered about her feet.
XRIV.
On the summit of Cumberland
Gap, Erskine Dale faced FREELY east
and looked his last on the forests that
swept unbroken back to the river
James.
That winter he made his clearing
on the land that Dave Yandell had
picked out for him, and in the center
of it threw up rude log hut in
which to house his mother, for his
remembrance of her made him be-
lieve that she would prefer to live
alone.
In the early spring when he
drought his mother home, she said
that Black Wolf had escaped and
gone farther into the wilderness
that Early Morn had gone with him.
Erskine, not knowing that Barbara
was on her way to find him, started
on hunting-trip. In few days
Barbara arrived and found his
mother unable to leave her bed, and
Lydia Noe sitting beside her.
| Barbara was dismayed by Err.
skine's absence and his mothers
look Of suffering and extreme weak
ness and the touch of her cold fin
lgers.
| There was no way of reaching mel
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tContinued From Our Last lssue.)
4 know more of your career than
you think, Grey. You have been a
Apr as well as traitor. And now you
are browning your infamy by weav
ing some spell over my cousin. can
hardly hope that you appreciate the
honor am doing YOU"
The black boy ran down the steps
and presently Ephraim was in the
shadow Of the thicket:
.sGivc one to Mr.. Grey, Ephraim,
and the other to me-"
.Erhraim,' warned Erskine, take
this pistol. You may need it, to
protect yourself"
Indeed, yes" returned Grey, land
kindly instruct him not to use it to
protect you" For answer Erskine
sprang from the misunderstanding
formal courtesies.
EN- garden he called sternly.
The two shining blades clashed
lightly and quivered against each
other in the moonlight.
Grey was cautious at first, trying
ont his opponents increase in skill :
You have made marked improve
ment.'
"Thank you'll" smiled Erskine.
s'Ycur wrist is much stronger"
Naturally" Grey leaped back
uard and married Ist in time vi
cioas thrust that @4 like dart of
lightning.
@Ahl A Frenchman taught you
that,
"a Frenchman taught me all the
little | know"
Il wonder If he taught you how to
meet this
.sHc did," answered Erskine, par
rying easily and with an answering
thrust that turned Grey suddenly
anxious. Grey began to breath heav-
lily.
Il think, too" said Erskine, that
my wind is better than would
you like short resting spell?"
From the shadow Ephraim chuck
led, and Grey snapped:
MAKE that black dvil--"
Keep quiet, Ephraim" broke in
Erskine sternly. To-
Grey was getting angry now and
was beginning to pant.