fi ti--'^- hl Jui' ~v, 'v V/^*^ tH"- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1919 PAGE THRU TEe oppressive stillness" was not that of solitude. She must be awake she must be listening in terror. I went toward the curtains and when I spoke I beard the words come through my lips in a voice that I could not recognize as mine. "Jacqueline!" I whispered, "it is Paul, your friend. Are you safe, Jacqueline?" the national joy smoke Now I saw, under the curtains, what looked like the body of a very small animal. It might have been a woolly dog or a black lambkin, and It was lying perfectly still. I pulled aside the curtains and stood between them, and the scene stamped New Record! itself upon my brain as clear as a photographic print forever. The woolly beast was the fur cap of a dead man who lay across the floor of the little room. There was a tiny hole in his breast over the heart, from •TXHE 1919 exhibit of which a little blood had flowed. The farm products will wound had pierced the heart and break all records at the death had evidently been instantane- M1& It was the man whom I had seen Minnesota State Fair staring at us across Herald square. Beside the window Jacqueline and crouched, and at her feet lay the Eskimo Victory Exposition dog, watching me silently. In her hand she held a tiny, daggerlike Aug. 30 to Sept 6 Copyright 1919 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. jisif- N EVER was such right-handed-twofisted smokejoy as you puff out of a jimmy pipe packed with Prince Albert! That's because P. A. has the quality! You can't fool your taste apparatus any more than you can get five aces out of a family deck! So, when you hit Prince Albert, coming and going, and get up half an hour earlier just to start stoking your pipe or rolling cigarettes, you know you've got the big prize on the end of your line Prince Albert's quality alone puts it in a class of its own, but when you figure that P. 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And Her gray eyes, black in the gaslight, the sagging floor beneath its double was she? How could she sleep so SYNOPSIS. there will be no cause there to separate again I saw nothing. stared into mine, and there was neither burden. I put the fur cap on the grotesque, calmly after that night's deed? The us, my dear. So let us go on." A moment later I was hurrying back fear nor recognition in them. She nodding dead head, and, pushing CHAPTER I—Paul Hewlett, loitering at mystery seemed unfathomable the night In Madison square. New fork, is "Yes, let us go on," I muttered dully. toward the apartment house. My was fully dressed, and the bed had a chair toward the wall with my girl alone In the city, the robbers, the approached by an Eskimo dog, which She leaned back against my shoulder nerves had suddenly become unstrung. not been occupied. foot mounted it and managed with a seems desirous of attracting his attention. dog, the dead man, and the one who He follows the animal to Daly's gambling and held out her hands to the firelight. I felt sure now that some Imminent I flung myself at her feet I took great effort to squeeze through the had escaped me. Place. As he reaches the house a girl She had taken off her left glove, danger was threatening Jacqueline. I the weapon from her hand. "Jacqueline!" hole, pulling up the body with me as I •merges, evidently in a state of great agitation, Jacqueline's bag lay open on the who displays a large amount of and now again I saw the wedding ring could not bear the suspense of waiting I cried in terror. I raised her did so. bureau and disgorged bills. There money. She is the owner of the dog. upon her finger. till morning. hands to my lips and caressed them. She is attacked by two men, who seek Then I felt with my foot for the were rolls and rolls of them—eight to force her into an automobile. Paul, I raised her In my arms and carried And as I ran I thought I heard the She seemed quite unresponsive. little platform at the top of the Iron with the dog's help, drives them away, thousand dollars did not seem too patter of the dog's feet pacing mine. "Jasqueline," I cried, "you are not her inside the tent. She did not and, the girl telling him she has no stairs outside, found It and dropped. much. friends in the city, he takes her to his I was rounding the corner of Tenth waken but only stirred and murmured hurt? Thank God you are not hurt Afterward I dragged the dreadful burden rooms. She Is bewildered and all he can I raised her hand and held it In my my name drowsily. learn from her Is that her name Is Jacqualine. street now, and again the folly of my What has happened?" down from the hole. own, and I sat thus until the room began He leaves her in his rooms. behavior struck home to me. I stopped "I don't know," she answered. *1 I carried the dead man all the way to lighten, watching her all the and tried to think. Was it some Instinct don't know where I am." (To be continued next week.) CHAPTER II—Puzzling over the situation, down the fire escape, clinging and while. Paul walks for a time, but a presentiment that was taking me back, or was "Jacqueline, dear," I said, "will you straining against the rotting, rusting At last she stirred, her eyes opened, that she is In danger sends nim Have just installed a new Marvel It the remembrance of Jacqueline's not try to think? I am Paul—your bars. back to his home. There he finds a man and she sat up. She gazed at me with dead, 8tabbed, and believes Jacqueline, to Cylinder Reboring machine. If you beauty? Was it not the desire to see friend Paul. Do you not remember At the back of the house was a little apathy, but there was also recognition have killed him. She is in a semi-stupor, her, to ask her about the ring? me?" ,. have any old gasoline engines that and is unable to remember anything. vacant space, filled with heaps of debris in her look. "No, monsieur," she sighed. I had actually swung around when from the demolished portions of need reboring, call and we will quote "Do you know me, Jacqueline?" I CHAPTER HI—Hewlett carries the I heard the ghostly patter of the feet "But, then, how did you come here, dead man down the fire escape and leaves the building and with refuse which you price on reboring and making asked. him in a little-used back yard. From the Jacqueline?" I asked. again close at my side. I made "my had been dumped there by tenants "My friend Paul." name of the maker, on the dog's collar, new pistons and rings. "I, do not know," she answered. decision in that instant and hurried he gathered that they came from Quebec who had left and had never been re* "Jacqueline, I am going to take you and determines to take her there. The Car Shop, And, a moment later, "I do not know, swiftly on my course back toward the moved. This yard was separated only home," I said, hoping tha^she would If Paul." apartment house. Ranier, Mian. tell me something, but I dared ask her by a rotting fence with a single wooden That encouraged me a little. Evidently When at last I found my door my no more. I meant to take her to Quebec rail from a small blind alley. CHAPTER II. she remembered what I had hands were trembling so that I could NOTICE and make inquiries there. I took up my burden and placed It Just said to her. hardly fit the key into the lock. County Board of Education, Koochiching "I am going to take you home, at- the end of the alley, covering It Back in the Room. There was something more to be I bounded up the stairs.. But on the Jacqueline," I repeated. County will pay the board roughly with some old burlap bags The situation had become more said, though It was hard. top story I had to pause to get my "Yes, Paul," she answered in that which lay there. I thought It safe to of those children living in this county preposterous than ever. Two hours "Jacqueline, who—was—that?" breath, and then I dared not enter. I docile manner of hers. assume that the police would look who are over two miles from before It would have been unimaginable "Who?" she inquired, looking at me listened outside. There was no sound "It is lucky you have your furs, because upon the dead man as the victim of school. Those wishing board should one hour ago I had merely been with the same patient, wistful gaze. from within. the winter is cold where your some footpad. offering aid to a young woman in distress "That man, Jacqueline. That dead make application at once. The two rooms that I occupied were home is." I did not search the dead man's now she was occupying my man." International Falls, July 2nd, 1919. separated only by a curtain, which fell pockets. I cared nothing who he was, "Yes, Paul," she repeated as before, rooms and I was hurrying along Tenth "What dead man. Paul?" short a foot from the floor and was G. A. Olson, and did not want to know. My sole and a few more probings on my part street, careless as to my destination She was staring straight at the slung on a wooden pole, disclosing two Clerk of County Board of Education. convinced me that she remembered desire was to acquit Jacqueline of his and feeling as though the whole world body, and at that moment I realized feet between the top of, It and the death, in the world's eyes. nothing at all. Her mind was like a was crumbling about my head because that she not only did not remember, ceiling. The rooms were thus actually That he had come deservedly by It person's newly awakened In a strange she wore a wedding ring. but did not even see it one, and even that might have been I was positive. land. But this state brought with it The shock which she had received, As I passed up the street the taxicab called small, for the bed in the rear no fear, only a peaceful quietude and Four .o'clock was striking while I supervening upon the nervous state which I had seen at the east end room was not a dozen paces from the GOOD WAGES faith which was very touching. was climbing back Into the room came rapidly toward me. It passed, in which she had been when I encountered door. again. Jacqueline lay on the bed in "Now, Jacqueline," I said, "we shall her, had produced one of and I stopped and looked after It I I listened for the breathing of the the same position she had not stirred have to begin to make ready for our those mental inhibitions in which the was Certain that it slackened speed sleeping girl. If I could hear her Wanted during that hour. Journey." mind, to save* the reason, obliterates outside the door of the old building, breathe, I thought I would go quietly 500 Good I took the knife from the floor I had just remembered that the storage temporarily not only all, memory of but again It went on quickly until It away and find a hotel in which to MILLINERS where I had flung it scrubbed it and company was to call that the past but also all present sights was lost to view in the distance, sleep. I listened minute after minute, placed it in my suitcase. Then I day. The van would probably be at and sounds which may serve to recall but I could not hear a sound. Had I given the pursuers a cine by scrubbed the floor clean, afterward the house early in the morning, and it it. At last I put my mouth to the keyhole my reappearance? rubbing it with a soiled rag to make was essential that we should be gone 1 saw that It was useless to say and spoke to her. "Jacqueline," I watched for a few moments longer, Its appearance uniform. before It arrived. anything more upon this subject I called. There was no answer. bnt the vehicle did not return and I I thought I had finally removed all "You are very tired, Jacqueline?' I showed Jacqueline the bathroom Makers and Trimmers Then a little louder: "Jacqueline!" dismissed the idea as folly. After all. traces of the affair but, coming back, tasked. and drew the curtains. Then I went And then quite loudly: "Jacque-' New Tork was a civilized city, and I I perceived something upon the floor "Yes, monsieur," she answered, into the kitchenette and made coffee Makers $12 to $15 week line I" could be sure of the girl's safety behind which had escaped my notice. It was leaning br.ck against my arm. on the gas range, and, since It was Then, out of the silence, hammering the street door lock and that of the leather collar of the Eskimo dog, "And you would like to sleep?" too early for the arrival of my morning Trimmers $15 to $30 week on my eardrums, burst the loud ticking my apartment door. So I refused to with Its big silver studs and the maker's "Yes, monsieur." loaf, which was placed just within of the little alarm clock that I yield to the impulse to go back and silver name plate. I raise# her in my arms and laid the street door by the baker's boy every had left on the mantel of the bedroom. assure myself that she was all right If satisfactory we All this while the animal had remained her on the bed, telling her to close day, 1 made some toast and buttered I heard that, and it must have been I must find a hotel and get a good perfectly quiet in the room her eyes and sleep. She was asleep it ticking minutes before the sound give season of 4 months night's sleep. crouching at Jacqueline's feet and beside almost immediately after her head When I took in the breakfast reached me perhaps if I waited a As I went on new thoughts began the bed rested upon the pillow. Jacqueline was waiting for me, looking or longer little longer I should hear her breathing. to press on my imagination. The tale I came to the conclusion that there I watched her for a while until I very dainty and charming. She about the father, the assumed ignorance might have been a struggle that it heard a distant clock strike three. was hungry, too, also a good sign. I took the key of the apartment of the conventions—how much had run to its mistress's assistance, WRITE This recalled me to the dangers of She did not seem to understand that from my pocket at last and fitted It •could be believed? and that the collar had been torn our situation. I struck a match and STRONGER WARNER CO. there was anything strange in the situation noiselessly Into the lock. I stood Had she not probably left her husband, from it by the dead man. lit the gas in the bedroom. But the in which we found ourselves. I there, trembling and irresolute. I in some Canadian city and come yellow glare was so ghastly and Intolerable I picked the collar up and carried did not know whether this was due to dared not turn the key. to New Tork to enjoy her holiday In that I turned it down. it into the next room and held it under St. Paul, Minn. her mental state or to that strange Once more I ventured: her own fashion? Could she Inno* the light The letters of the And then I set about the tnaira before nnsophistication which I had already "Jacqueline! Jacqueline!" •cently have adventured to Daly's door me. maker's name were almost obliterated, observed In her. There was not the smallest answering and actually have succeeded in gain* but after a careful study I was able stir within. And so, with ah«irf«ig After the meal was ended and we ing admission? III. to make them out The name was CHAPTER fingers, I turned the key. had fed the dog, Jacqueline insisted yyj. Perhaps she was worse than I was Maclay & Robitaille, and the place of The room was completely dark, except on washing the dishes, and I showed even now imagining manufacture Quebec.. This confirmed Covering the Tracks. for a little patch of light high up her the kitchenette and let her do so, Perhaps, If I had not left her—perhape, my belief concerning Jacqueline's nativity. There was afire escape running on the bedroom wall, which came though I should never have need for if I turned back-— I clenched up to the floor of that room on the through the hole the workmen had the cheap plates and cups again. 2S0 MODKfM HOOKS my fists and hurried on. I would not outside of the- house. I saw that It I pried the plate from the leather Located in Heart el BhImm Dijkiet made when they began demolishing "Now, Jacqueline, we must go," 1 give rein to the thoughts that were would be possible by standing, on a and slipped it Into my pocket I put 01WV FRI66--0N£ DOLLAR the building. I hesitated a moment, said. ,, ,.^i mwiriwg my heart bound Uke a runaway chair to swing, myself up to the hole. the broken collar Into ny suit case, then I drew a match from my pocket 1 placed her neckpiece about her. 1 raiWTMATH, MOMi MfrlMUTOTIH horse. In the wall and reach down to the iron together with the dagger, and the® I and rubbed It softly Into aflame closed her bag, stuffing the bills inside, •I had turned up Fifth avqpue and stairs up which, I assumed, the dead set about packing my things for the against my trousers leg. and hung it on her arm. I wanted had reached Twelfth or Thirteenth Journey which we were to undertake. man bad crept aftef I had given him Ftmnoop •onsmocnoN aiso I reached up to the gas above the her to let me bank her money for her, street when I thought I heard the patter the hint: of Jacqueline's abode by When I had finished packing I went aacoaea enow Tturama table, turned It on and Ut the Ineao* but did not like to ask her. However, iw lost in mv amiAno nam of the Eskitiad dog's feet behind emerging from the front door. back to Jacqueline and sat beside descent mantle, lowering the light Immediately. 'aoneriB ev trawumt of her own account she took out the automatic «ne. I spun around, startled, but there her while she slept I raised the dead man in my arms, *00* MA* MOT AMD COVO MOMMIMO hl'LMind h»i"l"lL^p to ie^ -r But even then there was 3E3» only the ion* stretH IUCUU6 U«MT ARB 'ooklna cirorehpnatvety toward tho In. little while it would_legin to nq.«oqnL *. .. wnmom eawvicc. i&dSfc