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St 12.10 8.30 " Bl3rth.- ' 12.98 a 3.48 .. . . I. 00 p. m. 92i-" Connections at Linwood for Listowel. Con eotions at Guelph letwith main line for Gait Itoodetocic, London, Detre ud Chiozga Au I al eteonediate 11 THE LAW By MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY or BAYARD VEILLER Copyright, lala by tit WIY eoinpany. "You. ought to know, since you have arrested him." "What's tele reason he hassrtr Burke roared out wrathfully. "Teem:me he didn't do it." "Well, he says he did it!" -Many; In ber turn, resortedate a bit of finesse, in order to learn Whether or not Gerson had been arrested. "But how could he have 40u. it Vi'h-21:1 he went"- she began. ' "Where did he go?" - 5, "Yen ought to know, stoce Yee rave ested him, and he has cortfessed." Burke Was frantic over being worst - ,ed thus. To gain a di remion,he re- tverted to his familiar bullying tactics. "Who shot Griggs?" be shouted. "My husband shot a burglar," Mary said languidly. "Was his na me Gritggs?" "Oh, you know better that that," :Burke declared, truculently. "You dee, we've traced the Maxim silencer. Gar - son himself bought it uti in Hartford." For the first tinae, Mary was caught off her goard. "But he told me- she begane then ettecked herself. "What did he tell, you ?" Burke flues - done& 1 - "He told me that he had never ;sae one. -Surely, if he had bad anything of the sort, helvould have shown it to me." ' . Burke pressed the button on tile desk, and, when the doorman appeared, ordered that the prisoner be returned to her 'cell., 't suPPO*" Mary said, "that itti useless for me to claim my eonetitu- tional delis, and deaubed to see' a lawyer" "Yea" Burke agreed, "yon've guested it right, the first time." Cassidy came hurrying In with a grin of setisfadtion on his stolid face. e'Say7"chief,". tfie detective said with animation, "we've got Garson."_ Burke asked Gilder and the district attorney to withdraw, while he shOuld. hare g private convereation with tile prisoner. ' he Pahl whop they were ;done together, dletagoing.to be your ',friend." "Iregyeur Mary's tone was non - Burke declared,- heartily. mend I mean' it! Give up the truth about young Gilder. I know he shot Grikgs, of course. But I'm not taking any stock in that burglar story -not a tittle bit! No court would eitber. What was really back of the killing? Was bt jealous of Griggs? Well, that's what he migbt do then. He's always been a worthless young cub. A rotten (mos iike this would be about his gait. I guess. Tell me, new, why did he shoot Eddie Griggs?" There Wag Con rseness a -plenty in the a solitary ftmdamental virtue; it play - questioned, aroused it to wrath in-de- fease of her Mate. In at secoud, all [wise tied from this girl whose soul was blossoming in the blest realization that a man loved ber purely, unselfish- - le Itet is rods came stumbling in their imete; "-He didn't kill him! He didn't kill hlrnr- she fe My 13 Issed. "Wine he's the most wonderful tnan 'In the world. hurt him! Digit to the end of my lifesfor Dick Gilder!" tturke we beaming joyously. Sst.hi. with arena .eonteitt "And now. inspector's pretense, but it possessed et; on tile ueart of the woman whom be You shan't hurt Mull Nobody shall '"Well, that's just what I thought,' _ MitiSigaMON8S0 tiVRON-', EXPOSITOR:: • then, *Who did shoot or1gke7 wewe S d Alh P I *I all crooks. See here," lie went on, * got every, oue ,of the gang They're u ere um pt a - with a sudden 'change to the respectful bon of the. ileart In „his manner, "whr don't; you start fresh? 111 give yOu -every chance in aud Nervous Trouble the world. I'm dead on the level With ' you this time." 1 J- Co By now Mary had herself well in m ohn Dennison,mbermere, hand again vastly ashamed • of the "derntowi ttuddy :--"1 "Hain Pnlii utetalarrt's short period of self betrayal Caused by- near/ and Nerve PM. _ inu4 rot the official'sartifice arainet her heart, years I entfered wlth dttat1o. df the ' As Wire listened to the inSpector's as- heart and neter.out trouble,, sol'thitt surances, the. mocking expression of her face was not encouraging to that astute ledivifinal, but be persevered manfully. "Just you wait," he went on _cheer- fully, '"and I'll prove to on that I'm on the level about this, that I'm really ' your friend. There was a letter came . for you to your apartment My men 1 brouglat it down to the. I've read it gere it is. read it to your r He picked tip an envelope, which had been lying on the 'desk, and drew out the single sheet of paper it contained. Mary watched bim, wondering much more than her expression revealed over this new development. Tben, as she named, quick interest touched her features to a now -life. • This was the letter: can't. go without telling:you how sor- ry I am. Tiler° won't nener be a time that T Won't -remember: it was 2110 got you sent up; that you did time in ma Placa ain't going to forgive ramie ever, and 1 swear I'm going straight always. 'Your true -friend. IIELEN MORRIS. For once, Burke showed a certain delicacy.- When he bad finished the reading,- .he said nothing for a long minute. Mary's eyes were luminous in the Joy a the realization that for her, after all, rehabilitation -might be in a mea- sure possible,though nothing could ever repay the degradation of years infinitely worse than lost . Barke's harsb voice, cadenced to a shatMar sympathy, broke in on her reverie, of pleasure and. of pain. "Yon knew this?" he inquired. "Yes, two days ago." "Did you tell old Gilder?" he asked. iklary shook her head in negation. "What would be the use?"i she re- minded him. "I had no proof. No oue would believe me," -They'd beliere this. Why; this let- ter sets fon elev. If old Gilder should see this letter. there's nothing be wouldn't do to make amends to you. He's a square guy himself, if it comes to that. even if he ,was hard on you. Why,this letter, wipes out everything." Then, the insistent question beating at his brain forced him to speak roughlybuilding, hope on the letter's inestirnable worth to the woman be - fere him. -, - roWho killed Griggs?" ',There was no reply. And, presently, he went on, half *Shamed over his own intrigue ageinst-her. "Say,' he -said,. and, for Once*, his voice was. curiously 'suppressed, "you tell me who shot Griggs, and PH show this letter to old Gilder. Now, listen," he cried eagerly. "I give you my wOrd of honor that anything you pay in here Is just between you and Me." Uneon- scionsly his yes darted to the window. behind *hi& 'tlib'-'s_t'eno'gtap'hei'' was bay with his notes._ - That single involuntary glance weds, enough for the keen histtactiof he woman to make a guess es 'to the verity. "Just tip me off to the truth," Burke' - went on ingratiatingly, "mad get the, necessary evidence in my*, own way. - Now, there's nobody here but just you and me. Come on, now -put` me wise!" "Are you sive not one • will ever know?" t "Nobody btit you and me," Burke declared, all agog* with anticipatioo of victory at last. "I give yon mji wordr Mary met the gaze of the Inspector fully. In the singe instant, she flasbed on him a smile that was dazzling, the mile of -a woman triumphant in her, mastery of the situation. • Her face - waa radiant,. luminous with honest mitth. She spoke in a most casual desplte the dancing deligbtan her face. The tones were drawled 10 the. mat- ter. of fact fashion of statement that leads a listener to answer without heed to the exact import of the ques- tion, unless very alert indeed. This Is what she said: "I'm not speaking loud enough. am is stenogritpherr' • • - And thitaindustrious writer of alinrt band - notes, nbeorbed 1 in Ma instrored instantly from Ms hidden elm in the ieorritior. eN0 ma'am not quite " fts - ••- • Mary . laughed 'aloud, while Burke tat dumfounded. She rose swiftly, and went to thenearest window, and with a .0111 •at the cord sent the ehade dying upward. There was revealed -the busy stenographer, bent over hie* pad. A growl.: of distress* buret from bin and,hktpd the place in ignemini- , ons rout, N . The smiling Mary was returned to her cell. .CHAPTER XVIII. - The Oonfessien. URE pressed the' button call and ordered the "doorman to send in- Cassidy. When the de- tective appeared he asked: "Does Gerson know we've arrested the Turner girl and. young Gilder?" . And,i when he had been answered in' the negative: "Or that we've got Chi- cago Red and Dacey here?' ' "No," Cassidy replied. "He hasn't ' beext spoken to since we Made .the col- lar. He sem e worried," the detective volunteered. "He'll be moreeworried before I get through with him!" he growled. He regarded Cassidy speculatively: "Do you remember the third degree In- spector Burns worked Jan McGloin?' sast - • could not he down to sleep. 1 tried al- most all other Medicines, and got no reliefeenitil I Was advised by a friend, who lia.d 'been betafited by Your pills, to try them, I did so, and after taking four boxes I found I was almost Cured, and I am going to continue taking theni(itr I • never got anything to do Me so itch good. I would advise any one troubled with their heart Or nerves to do the same as I am doing." Milburn'h Heart and Nerve Pips are 5.0 cents a iota or 8 boxes for 0.28; at all diadem or mailed direct on Aceltst of price ASTORIA For Infants ail& Andrea In Use For Over'30Years Alietaye Nara the , Signature •cl • xerr-tao_- • 1 by, The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto. Ont, tie went on, as the detective nodded assent, "that's what I'm going to do to,darsont He's got Imagination, that crook! The thirgs he don't knovr alowly, very hesitatingly, daemon went back to the chair, and sank down on it in a limp attitude of dejection wholly unlike his customary postures . of strength. Again, WI fear reinitiated eye t went to the row of cells that stood Nal?' menacing .on the other side of the corridor beyond the windows, ills 'fittieewese dew(' mitit gray, A phyatcal X-1 it.slthfl him, as his theughtsi held insistently 0010211Leiti to the cataitrophe that threatened. His intelligence was too keen to permit a_ belief that Berke's manner of almost fulsome' kindliness hid nothing omin- ous --ominous with a hint of death for him in return for the .death he had wrought. - 1 Then, terror cristallized. His eyes were caught by; a figure, the figure of Cassidy, advancing there in the cor- ridor. And with the detective went a man whose gait was slinking, craven. A cell doer swung open, the prisoner stepped within, the door clanged to, the bolts shot into their sockets noisily. 9.11113011 sat huddler', stricken -for tte had recognized the vieVia thrust into the cell before his eyes. "limns Dacey, one of his own cronies crime - Dacey, who, the night beatereo bad seen him kill Eddie Griggs. There • was something concretely sinister to Ger- son in this fact of DaCey's presence there in the cell. • Of a sudden the forger cried out rau- cously: • " about are the things he's afraid of. Say, inspector, if you've got any - After he gets in here, I want .you to take his pals. one after the other, and - lock them up in the cells there in the corridor.. The shades on the corridor windows here will be up, and Gerson will see them taken in. Tbe fact of "their being there will set his imagina- tion to working overtime, all right." Burke, reflected for a moment, and then issued the final directions for the execution of his latest plot "When you get the buzzer from me, you have young Gilder and the Turner woman sent in. Then, after a while, you'll get another buzzer.- When you hear that, come right in *here, and tell me that the gang has squealed. I'll do the rest. Bring Gerson here in just five minutes. Tell Dan to come in." .As the detective went out, the door- man entered,- and the ceeded with the flirt necessary to the car scheme. • "Take the chairs (yap of the office, Dan," he directed, "except mine and one other -that one!" He indicated a chair standing a little Wei from one end of his desk. "Nowa have all the shades up." He chuckled as be added: "That Turner 'woman saved you the trouble with one." He -returned to his chair, and when the door opened he was to all appear- ances busily engaged in writing. "Here's Gerson, °hien" Cassidy an- nounced. "Hello, doe!" Burke exclaimed, with a seeming air of careless frieridliness, as the detective went out, and Gerson stood -Motionless just within the door. "Sit down a minutegwon't you?" the inspector continued Affably. He did .not look up trent tils writing as he spoke. Garson's usually strong. face was, showing 'weak with fear. His chin, which was commonly very firm; Moved a little from uneasy' twitchings of biss lips. His clear eyes were slightly * clouded to a look of appeehension as they roved the room futtively. He made no answer to the inspector'a greeting for a few Moments, but re mained standing, without movement, poised alertly as if sensing, some con- cealed peril. Finally, however, his weeds. at Burke pro- er instructions mg out of his expression in His tone wail pregnant with alarm, though he strove to make it merely complaining. "Say, what am I arrested foe?" he protested. "I ain't done anything." . Burke -did not:lookup, and his pen continued to hurry over the paper. - "Who told yen you -were arrestedr be remarked cheerfully in his blandest voice. , Gerson uttered an ejaculation of dis- gust. • tI don't have to be told," he retorted huffily. "I'm no collegapresident, but. when "a cop' grabs me and brings me down here I've got sena* -enough to know I'm pinclied." "Is that what they did to yob, Joe? 1'11 hate to, speak to Cassidy about that. Now, just . you,: sit dolt!), Jeld won't you? 1 want to have *a little talk with you. I'll be through here in thing on 'me, I-1 would"- The etw dropped into unintelligible mumbiings. Burke retained his manner of serene indifferenee to the other's agitation. : Stilt, his pen hurried over the paper. 1 . and he did not trouble to look up as be expostulated, half banteringly. I"Now, now! What's the matter with you, Joe? I told you that I wanted to Iask you a few questions. That's all." But, after a moment. Garson's emo- tion forced him to another appeal, I"Say, inspector"- he began,- Tben, abruptly, he was silent,his mouth still open to utter the words that were now held back by horror. Again, he saw the detective walking forward, out there in the corridor. sand with him, as before, was a second fig- ure, winds advanced stinkingly. Again the door swung wide, the pris- oner slipped within, the door clanged but, the bolts clattered noisily Into tlir sockets. , rid. in the watcher, terror grew - for he bad seen the face of Chicago Red, another of bis pals, another who had seen him kill Griggs. At last be licked hio dry lips, and his voice broke in a timority whisper. 1 "Say, inspector, if you've got any- thing against me, why"- I "Who said there wag anything against you; Joe?" Burke rejoined, in a voice that was genially chiding, anxiety found 1 "Say, inspector, if 'you've got anything on me - "What's the matter with you today, Joe? You seem nervous." Still, the official kept on with his writing.. "No, I ain't nervous," Gerson cried, with a feverish effort to appear calm. "Why, what makes you think that? But this ain't exactly the place you'd pick opt as a pleasant one to spend the mording." He was silent for a little, trying with all his strength to regain his self control, but with small success Burke belleyed thathis opportunity was come. His hand slipped into the aiocket where was the pistol, and Clutched it He stared at Gerson fiercely, and spoke with & rush of the words:- • "Why did you kid Eddie Griggs?" "I didn't kill him!" The reply was quick enough, but' it came weakly. a second." He went on with the writ- Again, *Garso.n was forced to wet 'his Ing lipsavith a dry tongue, and to swallow Genoa moved forward .slightly to Painfully. "I tell you, I didn't kill the single chair near the - end of the himy' he repeated at last, 'with more desk and there seated, iihnseli median- force. ically.- His face thin; was tufted to.- 'You killed him lest night --with ward the windows 'that gave milt* this!" Burke cried, viciously. . On the.. corridor, and hiseyes grew yet more instant tbe Pistol leaped into view, clouded asthey rested on the; irpi pointed straight at Gerson, "Why?"' doors of the cells He writhed in hrgy , the Inspector Shouted. .."Come on, nowi chair, and his gate jumped from the Why?" cells to the impassive figure of the 1 "I didn't I tell youl" Garsen Woe man at the desk. Now the forger's growing strenger, since at last the nervousness Increased momentarily. It crisis was upon' him. He .got to. Ms swept beyond his coatrol. Of a Bud. feet with lithe swiftness of movement den he sprang up and stepped close to and sprang close to the desk. He bent the Inspector. - his head forward challenghigly, to meet "Say," he Said, in it husky voice, ibi'd the glare of his accusees eyes. IU. like ta haie 'ewer." ie. There 'passed many seconds, while "What's the matter with you, Joe?" , the. two Men battled in silence, will ° the inspector returned, always with • ,warring againlit will. In the end it that imperturbable air, and without W88 the murderer who triumphed raising his head troth' the work that ; t s Suddenly, Burke dropped the pistol so engrossed his attention. "you into his pocket, and lolled back in his know, you're not arrested, Joe maybe - ._Chadr. His gaze fell away from the Iii - of Mike, keep still and let me finish - , iCian _confronting him., in the Same in- stant, therigidity of Garson's form you never will be Now, for the love Olio lottargs . I relaxed, aid he straightened slowly. Dr. lviorse•o I rid i an Root .P11111 • ,are just the tight medicine for the - children. 'When they are constipated --when their kidneys are otitoitorder --whenover-ind9Igencti in some, favorite :iood gives ;theta indigestion -Dr. Morse's Indian R,00it quiciciy and 'surely put them right. ' Purely vegetable, tbdineither sicken,' weaken oraripe, like harsh purgatives. Guard your childcen's health ,by always keepingh bolt' of Dr. -Morse% Indian Root Pills in the house, They 51 Keep I he C\Itaildroaa le "Oh,. well," Burke . exclaimed anti - ably, "I didn't really think you did, but I wasn't sure, so I had to take a 'chance. You understand, don't you, tJeal" "Sure, 1 understand," Gerson replied, I : with an amiability equal to the inspem tors own. 1 Burke . pressed the buzzer as the . agreed signal to Cassidy. "Where did you say Mary Turner was last night?" At the question. all Garson's 'fears ter the woman rushed back on him 'With aPpalling force. , "1 dordtknowekbere she was" he exs claimed doubtfully. He realized bis blunder even as the words( left hist tips. and sought to correct it as hest he' might- "Why. yes. I dotoo,- he went en, as if wailed by sudden memory. tommingte, eitatith „ "I • dropped into her place kind- of late, and they said she'd gone to bed - headache, I guess. Yes, she was home, of course. She didift go out of the house all night." His -insistence enthe point was of, itself suspicious, but eagerness to . protect ber dulled bis wits. _ "Know anything about Gilder?" Burke demanded. "Not a thing," was the earnest an- swer. The inner door opeaed. and Mary Turner entered the office. Gerson with difficulty suppressed the cry of distrees that rose to his lips.' For a few mo - /meats the silence was unbroken. Then presently Burke by a gesture' directed the girl to advance toward the center' of the room. As she obeyed he laimielf went a little tOward the door, and when it opened again and Dick Gilder appeared he interposed to eheek the young man's rusk forward as his gaze fell on his bride, who stood regarding him with sad eyes. Then, while still that curious, dy- namic silence endured, Cassidy came briskly into the office. "Say, chief." the detective; said -rep- idly, "they've squealed." "Squealed, eh? Do ,they tell the same story?" And then 'when the de- tective had answered in the affirma- tive he wept on speaking in tones pon- derous with sett complacency. . "1 was right, then, after all -right all tha time. Good enough." Of a sudden his voice boomed oomberly. "Mary Turner. 1 want you for the murder Garson's rush halted the sentence. 'He had leaped forward. His face was rigid. He broke on the inspector's words with a gesture of fury. His voice came in a hiss: 'That's a - ile! I did it!" CHAPTER XIX. Anguish and Bash ARSON shouted his confession without a second of retection. But the result must have been ' the same had he taken years. of thought. Between him and ber as the victini of the law, there could' be no hesitation for choice. The prhbe necessity was to save hem, Mary, from the toile Of ,the taw that were closing around her. For himself, in the duys to come, there worild be a ghastly' dread, but there would never be regret over the cost of saving her. • • Ile had saved .her from the waters -he wound stoee her until the end, as far as the mower in him might lie. The suddenness of Tall held Mary voiceless. for long sec nds. She was frozeirwith horror of the event. When, at last, words came, they Were a fran- tic prayer of protest "No, Joe! No! Don't talk -don't woman,: 'who stood there in a posture ofan- . complete dejection her -white,. 7411e:has talked" Berke paid, didit to protect me," lithe stated, addressed ber, for 1118 Praessional "Joe ,trigulumahedvi In nacthe edionsevncaoeektoe‘ 0 vTohjecreewa tt• sb: earnestly • pride was full fed by this *Jewry ever I The inspector disdained such futile 1 1111.3.al woman, " Burke said ' brisk!' y, argument. As the doorman appeared . In answer to the buzzer,' h"it's just like I told youYou cant e directed. that the, stenographer be summoned at once "Well have the confession in due form," he remarked, -gazing pleasedly on the three before him. -- 411e's not gobtg to confess," Mary insisted, with spirit. But Burke disregarded her complete- ly, and spoke mechanically to Gerson the formal warning required by the law. "You are hereby cautioned. that any- thing you say may be used against you." Then, as the stenographer en- tered, be went on With lively interest. "Now, Jeer' ' ' Yet once again, Mary protested, a. little wildly. • "Don't speak, Jed Don't say a word till we can get a lawyer for your . The man met her pleading eyes steadily, and shook his head in refusal "It's- no use, my girl," Blvke broke In harshly. 4r/ told you I'd get yito. I'm getting to trY you and Gerson, and the -whole gang for -murder -yes, every one of you. And yeu, Gilder," he cofl. tinued, lowering on the young man - who. had defied him so obstinately, ."you'll go to the house of detention as a material witness." He turned his gaze to Gerson again, and spoke au- thoritatively: "Come on now, Joel" Gerson went a 'step toward the desk and spoke decisive* ."If 1 come through, you'll let her go -and him r he added as an after- thought with a nod teward-Dick Gil- der. • • "We'll get the best lawyers in the country's" Mary persisted desperately. "We'll save you, Joe-vresil save your 'Gerson regarded the distraught girl with wistful eyes. But there -was no trace of yielding in his voice as he replied, though he spoke very eorrow- f-ully. , ' "No, you can't help me," he sa.ld elm - ply. "My time has ome, Mary. And I can save you a. lot of trouble." He's right there," Burke ejaculated"! "We've got him cold. So, what's the use of dragging you two into It?" "Then , they go clear?' Gerson ex- claimed, eagerly. "They ain't even to be called as witnesses'?" . "You're on!" Burke agreed. "Them here goesr Gam= criedoatid he looked expectantly toward the :stenographer.iyas11,m.teu, sr 11.10 se u 4 :LI; er t(lei id - 1 "Alias nothing!" came the snorts re - I tort. ' "Garson's my_ monak-er 1 AO English Eddie. because he was a skunk and a stpol pigeon, and heego just what was coming to Mtn." Vitu- peration beyond the mere words beat In his voiee now. ' "Now. now? Burke objected, severe. le. "We ean't take a confession like thiat." Gerson stook his heade-spoke witb fiercer hatreds "Because .betewas a sleunk and a • - stool pigeon," be repeated. "Have you got it?" And them as thestenograph- er nodded assentehe went 012, less vio- lently: "I croaked „hit just as lie was going to tall the Intl s with a police whistle. I usedm gun with smokOless powder. It had a Manilas silencer on It, so that it didn't make any noised' Gerson paused, and the set despair. of ins features lightened g little. Into his voice came a time of exultation in- describably ghastly. It was born of the eternal egotism Of the eritninal, fat- tening vanity ip gloating over his in- genuity for evil. Be stared at Burke with a quizzieal grin crooking his lips. "Say." he exelaimed, hill bet its the first time a guy was ever eroaked. with one of them things! Ain't it?" The inspector nodded. affirmation. "Some class to that, eh?" Gerson -de- mended, still with that grewlome air of boasting. "I got the gun and the Maxim silencer thing off a fence in Boston," he explaihed "Say, that thIng cost me $60, and it's worth every cent of the money. Why, they'll re- member me as the first to spring dine of them things,• won't they?" "'They sure will, Joel" the InsPector conceded. "Nobody knew I had it," Gerson con- tinued, dropping his braggart manner abruptly. At the words, Mary started, and her lips, moved is it she were about to speak. , "Nobody knew ,r had it -nobody #t the world," be 'declare& "And _no- body had anything to do with the id - lug but me." ."Was there any bad feeling between you and Eddiesoptiggsd" "Never till that very minute. Then I learned the truth atolut what he'd framed up with you," The speaker's voice reverted to 'its former fierceness, 10 recollection of the treachery of one VNOM le had trusted. "He was a sten] pigeon,and 1 hated him! That's all, and It's enough. And It's all true, 'so help me God!" - The Inspector nodded dismissal. to the stenographer, with anair of toilet, "That's all, William," he said hetivz ily "He'll trign It as ,seols as *You've transcribed the notes."' * Then as the stenographer left the room "rite- turned his gaze on the _to tteaf the law. Gerson thought wille could-tand now"- broke off, at a Wave of Ms band toward, the Dan Who had just sentenced-, himself to iteath in the electric chair. -"That's right," klarsen agreed, with somber intenidty. His eyes were groWla ,eg.d leoudledead-win,Tnit,,asnrigatid his vmaryoice .drolfo - repeated after a littlitianse. "You -can't beat the laver --fl hes- itated a little, then went on, with a centainIcutiOus endiarntsoment. 'Ufa this same old law lays a ',woman must stick to. her. man." -- Tbe girl's eyes met his wlth passion- ate sorrel* hi their Misty deeps. Gar - son gave ICiignificant glance toward ' Dick;G1140C. fben bus gat* XeturAitd.- to her. There was a moldering deapitir In that look. Where were, as Well, an: -entreaty and it command. "Se," he *mit on, "you must go along with him, Mary. Won't you? It's the best thing to do." . The girl could not answer. There was a dutch on her throat juat then, which would not relax at the tall of her will. Of a sudden, an isspiraticM came to =him, a means to snap the tension, to create a diversion wholly -Okada He would -turn to Ms bearding again, Would call upon his vanity, which he knew well as .bis chief foible, and make it serve as the fell against his lova. "You want to cut owe won7lng about me," he counseled, bravely. 4 I ain't worrying an, myeelf-not a lite bit! You see, it's something new rvei pulled off. Nobody, ever put over any- thing like It before." , He faced Burke with a grin of gloat - tag again. irril bet therein be a lot et stnff In the newspapers about this, and niy plc. -ture, too, in ixiost iof 'mill What?" , Tbe man's manner hiposed Ofl Burke, though Mary felt the tornieni that his vainglorying was Mean mask. "Say'- Gerson continued to the Itio, snector. "if the reporters want auk (• continued on Page la) Children Or FOR FLETCHER% CASTOR -LA