Eight Page MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Feb. 7, 1924 "Good “Good for he 1" exclaimed. Phllbriclr his you put hand head to one “Quit he would binding talked. time At other the Bible in black,” any which he has asked publishers •on to The for talk Czech the Let’s sit down and It language is state and groaned. you. reserved have been entirely to Dr. Charles Sheldon, too M. author say says binding. O 1 , attractive The book .use an There’s Wo all hurry. got over. “No, no no! They’re la in the desk in the - f Caecho-Slovakia . and anything Fortier about the picture to " euaee ° is of His “In Steps.” He is is setting compiled from the American an night re- John library—two boxes of ’em. Stonea. I Now, however, with the mantel. on t £ht in all schools and example in secondary compilation what he vised of and au cersion, work represents a “You’ve been drinking In lot out a don't know what. Lavergne brought the Nautilus the man’s mental gone, regards the ( in essential Bible, of the evenings for the parts twen- all past artining spare the colleges canebrakes?” he asked. for teachers 'em home from Asia with him—he’s barriers down. He frankly spoke were being published in the East, ty j throughout now the “Aye," hlccuped Philbrick, with years. republic. a keeping them for somebody. They detached enough. In though way Solomon, a as ghastly grin. “Aye. Nothing do to don’t belong him. Jewels, to maybe. he telling other man’s tale. were some but drink an’ dream. You know what Oh, Lord! To think of her coming my He of the influence exerted told upon Aeschylus said about old men? ’Dreams home tomorrow—and like this! A photograph, and of the me him by that Incognito left wandering in the day.* That's dream mo. left wanderin’ in the day—“ He apprised resultant ©N EMIHSEB consequences. I’m far gone.” “Shut and talk,” snapped Wrexham. Manchu called up that the who Fortier “You look It," said Wrexham brutally. “Jewels? Balderdash! More of Ah Lee friend and himself was a a “Why don’t lay off whisky?" you nonsense! See here, where's that your be trusted, and into the went to man “Can’t." Philbrick lifted the bottle schooner o’ mine? Can find her?" |F-^^ this. for you reasons satlsfied users and drank “It’d again. kill me.” “Four mile down the bayou, moored * wondered. Fortier laughed.* Wrexham “Cure inside that little island," you, you said Philbrick Lavergne,” of Aline “The he eyes mean! I'd quick if enough, in dazed He cure you voice. groped for the aloud, when the had a mused seaman I had aboard the Nautilus. By the bottle, found it, lifted you it his lips to silent, “seem have fallen to strange a Lord Harry, I’ve but I’d you! for long swallow. cure a reach Wrexham! a to A power men, notion do It, I’ve notion to too. to “Ah!” a exclaimed. “I thing—■” he singular must get out H. Bedford Bq Jones shanghai PhiU make o’ - you, a man you, of here before she home, of it,” said the “Not bit skipper cap’n! comes a brick. Can do. You’d tight like h —l Mus’ here, Not of unnerstand? coolly. “Not bit of It! singular get out I’m a first, but at few weeks ud see you a all a Not Lee to pieces. bad It’s Ah said—that girl Ah all. like gone at as as I tell you!” new man, Lee, ! though He'll be dead in purity of flower. few has the Well, sweet a a Copyright H. Bedford-Jones by “You leave ’lone,” said Philbrick. days. me Says himself. Devils When bad like eatin* Ah then! un so a me or “By the Miss Lavergne him Inside—arrh! way. comes I like hers, But made him Lee looks Into up eyes somethin’ home here tomorrow,” observed Wrexham. laugh, all right, when I told him that r stirred Inside ’em. A who is *No, I shouldn’t blame for man you Joke Made laugh!” lived hard, who has life, him has it.” he on said last, you. struggle in his at seen effect this remark Philbrick The of "Huh!” upon growled Wrexham. cursed wonderful “What knows what thing voice. “No—no! Pm Just fool, a a extraordinary. joke’s that?” was good. And that’s all.” be God it is the devil to ma’am. has been or For the absolutely moment sat man Philbrick a uttered wild and ivnlled. laugh Fortier waitin’ the around all this while a corner motionless, outstretched, maudlin flung arm his Wrexham departed, out by I Presently hit when lookin’, wasn’t that’s arm. to me grin frozen his lips. Then, his on over “Joke, launch that had brought himself, in the all right! You all. And I’m hit, mistake and that picture. about no tattered and filthy body tremulous ran a He Fell Lost Fortier from for in love with that that! Well, I’m done in. town. picture— grip was gone my shudder. of the ho, ho!” afternoon, remainder searching things. This affair the has —well. It’s on “Oh, Heaven!” he groaned. The my and of the Wrexham's bayous nooks hand fell his clear the keelson. shoulder, Jolted But I to corners on me fairly words seemed of his out wrung twisted the suddenly. around The for those boats. he missing When man returned, can't blame girl. I don’t know you, heart. fingers gripped and bit like iron. The told the shoulders his stoop to •bout I’m fool.” It. just a matter “What’s the o’ you?” demanded voice seaman’s cold Ice. its was as tale of failure. own He mantel rested his the arms on Wrexham In astonished wonder. “Spill it! What’s that joke, old During this afternoon, Fortier you was and looked the photo into of the eyes “Ain’t glad? Thought you’d you fool? What about it?” added idle. Uncle Neb he not From graph for Presently brow time. his a be glad her. And that to Fortier’s see man “Picture of dead woman!" mouthed a to Wrexham's and gained story supplemental down stood his and he went on arms here. He’s real and mistake, a un no Philbrick wildly. “Dead learned details. woman— Also, he a there all motionless. He lost to was I tell you! A real can man. Aline’s mother! And thought— you extraordinary fact about that picture most things, completely extraneous enwrapped Worth dozen o’ and Here, a you me. thought it her all the while— you was the library—a mantel in the over in his wretched thoughts. own what’s the matter?” you—” fact which he did dare breathe to not At length, compelled by some agency There quick, low sound the was a Captain Wrexham, however! as outside himself, he lifted his head and fist of Wrexham home. Philbrick went With heavily dinner, Wrexham drank He and slowly turned, stood erect. fiuflg staggered, his whirled out arms, had fallen and and into black a perceived that the door was open half around, then fell heavily. He lay ugly fetch The mood. meal helped to A •gain. standing stranger, man, a was his face, motionless. on him of it, but Fortier plainly out saw there, silently regarding him. Don’t buy until have the For Wrexham moment stood a of that over the ripe for sort any man was you Wrexham the seen returned look in astonishment. him, looking down. One would have action that offered itself. The mention The strong, inan was thought that he about to lash Into was of Aline, made Wrexham too, uneasy. hearty, and frank, of keen One eye. the senseless old with his boot— man One Minute Line Suddenly his struck Fortier at eyes up perhaps, indeed, he But he stood was. with incisive force. keen, motionless, silent, for long moment. a “See here! D’you of the hear ever Whatever emotion lay in his bearded Gemini, the Sea-moon So —ah! or you face, could be under the Hand, Electric and Belt Power. not starlight. seen have, eb?” Fortier had able been to not repress Suddenly he stooped. His hands involuntary those start at an names. Philbrick’s caught ripped them rags, “There’s it,” about he mystery some savagely. In he had moment bound DECKER BROS. a responded. “Mr. Lavergne suddenly. died the old hand and foot, bound him man He left those scribbled names hard and fast. Then he lifted the bit of paper—that’s all know. on a we bound, senseless body and laid it In I'd hoping been Philbrick might have the canoe. information. Did tell he more you Without word, Wrexham turned a ?” about them and strode the house. As to matter up a “No such luck,” Wrexham’s face of fact, his brain in whirl, was a fell. “I don’t like I mysteries. tell can he knew exactly what yet he was going What’s the you! these Macartys game I do. It all to him to In came a playin'? Tell that!” are me freel flash him to he had stood —came as “I I wish knew it,” said Fortier uneasily. there looking down. Despite his confusion “David Macarty is trying FREE now For 1 Week of mind, despite the Jumble of induce Aline little to take cruise to a thought, he knew exactly what he aboard his yacht. There's something do. must here they grab. She’ll probably to want He quietly walked into the house, be here and tomorrow, can we go the library, and went to down sat at detail.” In matters I over Man Was Urging Canoe A the Forward. the desk. There he penned short, a Wrexham fell into frowning silence. 9to Saturday. Feb. 16 Saturday, Feb. a Fortier, telling note curt to him what he had learned from Philbrick. His Wrexham in alarm. For Philbrick Dinner they rose sought the library over, had his to feet and smoked. and Fortier showed the skipper come was Mpe curved twist the in sardonic at a swaying unsteadily. that scrawl made by Lavergne mention of jewels. He concluded: on Brand Deals This Week —Every “Quality” FREE Big Four “Can’t fool?” groaned the the back,of the document, but you see, it threw “The old tool's drunk be. can as “Look I—l’m me! drunk. Put them at them winner. light the He overseer. of at situation. his put dead I He'll be if take no in week don't on a a one I’m all DOMI pieces. Can’t live to PA ma with the others, in the safe, and gone an So I'm papers hand. I’m taking it. going MALAnViNI to a and list head of the hour without grocery come whisky. All Look your the content to await of gone. return of him We’re off was make yet a man me! Think I let her at Aline before probing can deeper. see me the EARLY to to sea. liky this—ever?’’ and , v Kre- M .. It still “The Shellettes early when Fortier said plantation's hands. I've . in Spaghetti, _ „ t was your It Under the I starlight true. A Stranger Was Standing was There. good night, followed Uncle Neb and resigned. Yours truly, size, 10c *T Full 8 T* Me-Kut*. "W "W "W’V. 'fl O Iv oz., I 1} Wrexham could that the face man’s see prepared him. to the for "TOM WREXHAM." room c 25 4 working terribly with fear he stood foursquare. the that could that was see Not Captain After Wrexham. (Continued issue.) so next FREE him. Those Wrexham inwardly that days of steady acknowledged was on for pacing and down the library a up Y drinking he have been frightful liked this must in sight. deal W man One customer on to Some people will long stuffed spend dollars’ while, the two a seaman some their effect. “Hullo!” he exclaimed. “And who cigars into his Jacket pocket and worth of gasoline bad roads just escaped I on “Well, slow, now,” said Wrexham the devil you?” go are avoid dollar’s He passed worth of the air. to to taxes.— open a “I coolly. somethin’ big, The owe you my c stranger in, ignoring the strike 25 Sure came down the w’harf and his resumed to MATCHES OIL CREME man! You show where to that got TICKING THROAT me in which he had surprised Wrexham. pose ceaseless striding and down the up schooner is laid savvy? But wait He held up, his hand. out Under length of the planks. the glow Always when annoyance, an worse minute —I ask to want a “You're Captain you something. Wrexham, of course? it afflicts night. You at starlight, his tip burned of cigar steadily, you can Toilet Oil of Olive Ever The hear of the Gemini? Or My it quicklv with name’s Fortier—l reached stop cream Just dot of light. red a Q 4 (3 I the Sea-moon? Or the Queen of Sheba? c 39 here. Glad captain!” CHAMBERLAIN’S to meet OATS ROLLED you. Wrexham in mood meet to no was Fortier Regular 10c know about ’em. So wants to Soap. Wrexham his hand, pounds put out 10 confusedly. Aline Ijivergne the As he COUGH REMEDY on morrow. .. does Macarty. I. So do What the for bars Bars, 3 Fortier turned and beckoned gazed the bayou the darkness at across is Every friend deiice they, anyhow? Stars?” user a are another I man. w’hich enveloped the Macarty house, FREE And Bar 1 “And this is friend John Solomon—he he promised himself raid with torch my 10c a Can Tall Camp’s Van nm II lay low for wants to while, bullet and in the dawn, unless a ItIILiL R something 5c LOANS FARM Baby Can Wrexham, and reach friend of his first turned That something a up ..... up. B | the bayou, Chinaman by the of would a he firmly believed. Macarty name turn up, Ah Lee. Do of the We make Farm Loans lowest would you suppose him with at one to come some BRITTS c I 25 SUNMAID boys could take him in canoe? He'll offer, bribe; he could the a have some delay. without rates, have be guided, —” packages of to 2 Nautilus back, course of sort upon some condition. - Wrexham shook himself Into Thus, it really for the Agents for the Federal Land Bank. a semblance was S Ammonia. Softens Powdered of action—only semblance. coming of Macarty that Wrexham a I | in and before Come He seemed fascinated by the round, waited here you the wharf. us see c r k NS4 upon ll RAIS SEEDLESS n ' c 13 ' blank features of Solomon. Time fled, however, Macarty and Felix place loan. I your package “What’s this?” he said brusquely. per Wrexham the not. watched came “Ah Lee? You know that beggar, do I State Bank. Farmers and Merchants with savagely burning waters eyes. Package FREE And One you?” He had almost I decided bed to to go Austin, Minn. c K. T" 31 PINEAPPLE “Yes, sir,” returned Solomon. “If and sleep get before his meditated some I find *lm, sir, 'e’ll take of can raid of solitary care when me vengeance, all right.” he discerned gliding shape down the a Wrexham waved his hand. “Canoe bayou—a long sliver of KITCHEN I darkness down there," he said abruptly. “Go against the starlit I 4QC endyou water. b Finest CDFEFF I H/f D ever into It. I’ll have get of the boys He -rO lighted fresh one cigar, patted the “$16.95 Special, lb. tasted, a KLENZER ? Don’t Say!” Y take you—those black devils know Ah pistol in his pocket, and waited grimly. ou Lee, right enough.” Slowly that dark shape drew near, I "Thank much, sir,” heading for the wharf, and you werry Wrexham returned Shred, OKC -|Lhfqqmat^" Three Cans for IQC Sweet Bullc Willard quality plate*, MITT FAT’D A n Solomon, and disappeared. that single JLo vOLv/illU 1 paaaier, saw a a man, was pound and FREE Per 1 selected wood insulator*, sub- can H urging the forward In silence. m canoe CHAPTER XII I “Come make deal, have to you?” stantial acid-proofed container, a said the seaman. 91 tested rubber mighty jar* i FEB. SAT. FOR “And where’s Miss Lavergne?” demanded a PRICES THESE SPECIAL maudlin laugh A answered him. with his first show Wrexham, reliable battery for only $ 16.95 you!" “News for said the | voice of of interest. Philbrick. 1 r luncheon. Hours I 1 The at I two sat best men Or if bat- the Wrexham stifled want and went a curse you had arrival Fortier. the of fi passed since DEWKIST down the landing. Philbrick, to by have WALTER a made Willard tery —we I During these hours, Wrexham miracle, ashorp and stood It want to * reeling. got you ‘\auel7l-2 CHOCOLATE BAKER’S fe Threaded Rubber Batteries had gradually recovered himself. PORK & BEANS as He he drunk. Also, tattered, was was I Latouche,” “She’s returned Fortier. at mud-stained, disreputable. His low $ beard 27.50 a* I “There business matters are some tangled wild, was a mass. | she attend T ’Z2. Ca c in to must 25 person. aboard “Just been boat,” he “ c your Ro ß 25 KRAUSERT RAFTERY WHOLE RICE Fan CO ” un:. y David Macarty had there, to stop too; said, with hiccup. “She’s about four a 3 po had trouble the and got I . way on we mile down the bayou, moored. Nobody ■; gy > held time. Only reached there for up a there. Got whisky. Htwe some a I I launch early this last night. got a drink?” AU Flavors, Brand 1 “ Silver T TFT V with Solomon." morning and » came on, disregarded Wrexham the proffered JELLI ±U jar per languished again. The The talk two stood bottle. He stiffly, staring this QUAKER at in silence. ate men | apparition. His schooner—safe! His Uncle Ned produced Luncheon doie X c c OATS ORANGES’ 23 over, again, for the taking. It incredible. SUNKIST tw 35 was L “ and the whisky decanter two men He shoved cigar into a Philbrick's a - By degrees gallery. adjourned the to hand, bottle seized the and drank lust air, and his sullen lost Wrexham, Dy, clapped the graybeard the back on