the lot HatT brought with" me7 Then J^f*'S*SfOf8S*«S(8*«)t8)eSSiK!S»)(8SS«JSS«S8St)S:«8)8KSS85S8K!SK3SK!S»3SS!SKiata»»)S8S:«8aS{5!S»)8KSSa: 3BS8S8S eral gold pieces" towanTme. „, JACQUELINE I advanced stealthily until I stood be* A I staked again and again and won neath the cataract and here I found every time. Within five minutes the $ $62 the spray no longer drenched me. I whole heap of gold pieces lay at my came upon a door In the dark wing side. and, turning the handle noiselessly, The dotard looked at me with an expression F. 0. B. FACTORY found myself Inside the chateau. And of Imbecile terror. at once my ears were filled with yells "You will give them back to me?" and coarse laughter in men's and EST! he pleaded. immm women's voices. I thrust the heap of coins towr.rd TOURING CAk As my eyes became accustomed to him. "Now, RI. Duchaine," I said "in GOLDCNRIVER my surroundings I perceived that I return for these you will conduct me was standing near the foot of an uncarpeted ro Mile. Jacqueline." g. the 1920 Ford wooden stairway. There was "I am here, monsieur," answer'-*! a dark room with an open door Immediately voice at the door, and I whirled, to see in front of me, and another at Jacqueline confronting me.- the farther end of the passage, from Br beneath which a glimmer of light Issued, CHAPTER XIII. and it was from this room that With Electric Starter srd Limits also 30x3 1-2 the sounds of laughter and music Some Plain Cperking. VICTOR ROUSSEAU came. I took liree steps toward her and tires all ronnd Z2 I tL::. ountable rims I turned to the left, and advancing •stood still. I"«r tiiis was Jacqueline, I suddenly found myself face to face bsrt ft was not my Jacqueline. It with Philippe Lacroix. CAR OF might have bean Jacqueline's grandmother THE THE HOUR a. Oopyit|ht W. Okapmu He was seated at a table In a room when she was a girl—this writing, and I came right upon the haughty belle with her high waist and CHAPTER XI—Paul follow? the 1rand door before I was aware of it. I saw reaches a cave. Pass in? 'hr^ugJi It side curls and her flounced skirt and he sees the chateau close at hand. his thin face with the little upturned arpect of cold recognition. mustache and the cold sneer about the CHAPTER XII—Hewlett rrp' -s hif vr-7 She did not stir as I approached her Into the house without be'r sr rfc'efte' mouth and I think I should have shot there finds Charles Duchninp an aged but stood still, framed in the doorway imbecile. He meets Jacquel'ne. him if he had looked up. But he nei- looking at me as though I were an re«-rlr?lv CHAPTER Xill-The girl jinwelcome stranger. My outstretched taken a violent dislike to Paul ar 1 repulses arms fell to ray sides. him. Leroux appears mj Bfnvlrtt Flu!' learns that Jacqueline is tha wife of ".T :cqueline!" I cried. "It is I, Louis d'Epernay, who ha-* disappe.ired You i:now me, Jacqueline?" Jacqueline detests d'Eper-av and fled from him the day of th ^lr —Triage, going Jacqueline inclined her head. "Oh, to New York willi $^C,.00 of her yes I know you, monsieur." she :niswered. father's money to play his "system" at roulette. Her mind continues a blank as "Why have you come here?" to the happenings there. "To save you, Jacqueline!" She made me a mocking courtesy. CHAPTER XI. '1 t• ni infinitely obliged to you. men-ieur, for your good will," she sjiid Under the Mountains. Our allotment has been increased and shipments "hut I do not need your aid. 1 am The dog was standing on a rock at vith friends now, M.—M. Paul!" the base of the hill immediately before "Do you'-want'to see me. .1: cqueine?" are coming through every day. We can give you me—and calling. I almost thought I asked, watching her tlinui.uli that it was calling me. whirling fog. I took a few steps toward it, and it prompt delivery. Our best driving season is now "No, monsieur," she answered cliilingl.v. disappeared immediately, as though "No, monsieur!" alarmed—apparently into the heart of "Do you wish me to go?" on, summer and fall. Ask us about our dollar a the mountain. She said nothing, and I wa!k?d n: When I reached the spot where it ie i(!l!.v toward the door. She followed had been it was nowhere to be seen. me slowly. I went out of"'the day time payment plan Car works for YOU and And the pad-prints ran toward a tiny room iin.i pulled the door to r, hind hole no bigger than the entrance to -ie. knew that after it had '•Is-ed a fox's lair—and ended there. pays for ITSELF. Come In. should never see Jacqueline At this spot an enormous bowlder She opened it and stood confn tins lay, almost concealing the burrow. I :ie. r.nd then burst into a flood of un "Jewett's Want to See You" put my shoulder against it—in the tjiKsioned speech. hope of dislodging it sufficiently-io enable !kmh! "Why have you follow pi! mj me-to see into the cavity. To my so persecute me?" she cried. -"Are astonishment, at the first touch it you under 'he illusion that 1 am helpless? rolled into a new position, disclosing Do you think the friends who a wide natural tunnel in the mountainside, C. W. Jewett Co., Inc. rescued me from you have forp-tten through which a sleigh might He Neither Heard Nor Saw Me. that you exisl? You too!: advan'age have passed easily! :if my helplessness. 1 do no want to I saw at once the explanation. The ther heard nor saw me but wrote *ee you. I" hate you!" International Falls, Minnesota Telephone 15 bowlder was a rocking stone. It steadily, and I crept back from the "You told me that- you loved me. must have fallen at some time from door. and I believed you, Jacqueline." I answered the top of the arch, and happened to I turned back and followed the cor* miserably, watching the color be so poised that at a touch it could AND THE FOLLOWING DEALERS ridor to the right and came to a little flame Into her lovely face. And I be swung into one of two positions, hall toward the rear of the building. could see she remembered that. C. W. JWETT CO., Inc.. Bemidji, Minnesota alternately disclosing and concealing Beyond me was an open door, and behind "When I wus ill you used me for the tunnel in the cliff wall. It I saw the dull glow of a stove J. M. REED Blackduck, Minnesota your base schemes," she went on with I stepped within, and, striking a and felt Its heat. cutting emphasis. "And you—you followed LATTERELL HARDWARE CO Kelliher, Minnesota match, perceived that I was standing I approached cautiously and looked me here. Have you not had inside a vast cave—a vaulted chamber & H. W. LESEMAN.. Northome, Minnesota in. money enough? Do yon want more?" that ran apparently straight Into the Facing me, above a cracked and ancient 1 ARROLINE LIVERY & GARAGE. Gemmell, Minnesota I seized her by the wrists. Thus I heart of the mountains. mirror, were two rusty broadswords, held her at arm's length, and my fingers HARDING & DUGAS.. Cass Lake, Minnesota The Interior was completely dark. and In the mirror I saw a tightened until I saw the flesh At intervals I struck matches from GEO. A. JOHNSON. Grygla, Minnesota large oaken table reflected. Seated at grow white beneath them. The Intensity the box which I had brought with me, It, clothed In a threadbare coat, of very LESLIE REIMER Gonvick, Minnesota of my rage beat hers down and but the road always ran clear and ancient fashion, was an old man with made It a puny thing. straight ahead, and I could even 8 2 long, snow-white hair and a white, "Jacqueline! Only a few nights ago gutde myself by the ruts in the ground. forked beard. He was busily transferring you said you loved me that you would I advanced cautiously until the light a stack of goid pieces from his never send me away until I wished to grew quite bright I saw the tunnel right to his left side and then he began go. What Is It that has happened'to end In front of me, and emerged inn said curCy. scribbling on a sheet of paper. He win notlifng of fifm—hut I die Before change you so, Jacqueline?" fffce before my eyes. an open space in the heart of tn I saw his face turn white. He staggered paid me not the smallest attention as he claims me as his wife!" I had her In my arms. She struggled The room was completely dark. I hills. entered. back, and then, with a bull's bellow, And then I had the measure of Leroux. fiercely and I let her go. heard Leroux tramp in and his voice rushed at me, his heavy fists I glanced at my watch. It seemed I perceived that the top of the table He laughed and he beat down mingling with the click-click of the "How dare yon, monsieur!" she aloft. that I had been traveling for an interminable was very curiously designed. It was her scorn with scorn. ball In the rouette wheel. panted. "Go at once, or I shall call But he stopped short when he saw time, but it was barely eleven marked off with squares and columns, "You have underestimated your "Who is here?" he demanded. for aid 1" my automatic pistol pointing at his o'clock. I felt drowsy, and somehow, and in each square were figures In "I am," answered Jacqueline. price, madame," he sneered. "Since So I went Into the passage. But befor. chest. And-he saw in my face that I before I was aware of any fatigue, 1 black and red. Upon one end of the "Maudit!" he burst out explosively. you have learned so much I will tell I reached the end of the little hall was ready to shoot to kill. was asleep. table at which the old man sat was a "Where is d'Epernay? I am tired of you more. You have cost me twenty Jacqueline came running back to me. "You thief—you spy—you treacherous It was three o'clock when I awoke, cup-shaped, circular affair of very dark waiting for him!" thousand dollars, and not ten for besides hound, I'll murder you!" he "Monsieur!" she gasped. "M. Paul! and at first, as always since my journey wood—teak, it resembled—once delicately "I have told you many times that the ten thousand paid to your roared. For the sake of—of what I once began, I could not remember inlaid with pearl. But now I do not know answered Jacqueline. father Louis got ten thousand also, The dotard, who had been looking where I was. And, as always, it was most of the inlay had disappeared, "How long will you keep up this upon the signing of the marriage contract. at me, came forward. the thought of Jacqueline that recalled leaving unsightly holes. So swallow that, and be proud pretense, madame?" cried Leroux angrily. "No, no, I won't have him murdered, me to my surroundings. At the bottom of the cup were a "What have you to gain by concealing of being priced so high! And the Simon," he protested, laying a I sprang to my feet and made hasty number of metallic compartments, and the knowledge of your husband seigniory is already his, and I am trembling hand on Leroux's shoulder. preparations to resume my journey. the whole interior portion was revolving waiting for him to return and sell me from me?" "He has almost as good a roulette Id the first cave that I explored I slowly at a turn of the old man's the ground rights for twenty-five thousand "M. Leroux, why will you not believe system as I have." __ found a stock of provisions—flour and fingers. more, and if I know Louis that I remember nothing?" answered canned meats and matches—snugly The ball stopped and settled In one d'Epernay he will not wait very long Jacqueline. "After my father (To be continued next week.) stored away safe from the damp and of the compartments, and the old man to get his fingers round it." had turned M. Louis d'Epernay out of snow. Near by were picks and shov-' took a goldpiece from one of the "Listen to me. Simon Leroux," said his home, whither he had come to beg els and three very reputable blankets, FRENCH STAR TENNIS squares on the table,- transferred a Jacqueline, standing up before him, as money to pay his gambling debts, you with a miscellany of materials suggestive little pile of gold from his right side brought him back. You made my father PLAYER IN ACTION Indomitable in spirit as he. MA11 your of the camping party's outfit. to his left, and jotted down some figures take him back in. He wanted to plots and schemes mean nothing to I might have been more surprised upon his paper. marry me. But I refused, because I me. My only aim Is to take my father than I was, but my thoughts were all And suddenly I was aware of an had no love for him. But you insisted away from here, from you and M. centered on Jacqueline, and the waning abysmal rage that filled me. It seemed I should marry him, because he had d'Epernay, and let you wrangle over of the light showed me that the like an abominable dream. I had endured gained you the entrance to the seigniory your spoil. There are more than fourlegged sun must be well down in the sky. so much for Jacqueline, to find and helped you to acquire your wolves, M. Leroux there are I must go on at once if I were to myself immeshed in such things in the power over my father." human ones, and, like the others, reach the chateau that night. end. I stepped forward and swept "Go on," growled''Leroux, Diting his when food Is scarce they prey upon As I proceeded I kept looking to the the entire heap ©f gold into the cent-er lips. "Perhaps I shall learn something." eajfc other.'', k.b^-"Pardieu, left to endeavor to locate the narrow of the table. I like your spirit!" exclaimed passage into which I had strayed, but "M. Duchaine 1" I shouted. "Why "Nothing that you de not already Simon, staring at her with it must have been the merest opening are you playing the fool here when know, monsieur,she flashed out with franS~~Bdmiration. in the will, so small that only a miracle your daughter is suffering persecution?" spirit. "My father came here, long And Jacqueline's head dropped then. of chance had led me into it, for ago, a political fugitive, In danger of Unwittingly Simon had pierced her I saw nothing but the straight passage The old man. seemdd to be aware of cfeath. You knew this, aind you played defenses. before me. my presence for the first time. He upon his fears. ¥m drained him of But he never knew, for befone he Presently I began to hear a murmur looked up at me out of his mild old his last penny, and then offered him of water in the distance and then a had time to know the graybeard rose eyes and shook his hesfd in apparent ten thousand dollars lo^gamble with upon his feet and rubbed his thin faint flicker of light. perplexity. in Quebec, telling hiuPof the delights hands together, chucklfng. The thunder of the cataraots filled "You are welcome, monsieur," he of the city and promising1"him immunity," "Never mind your money, Simon," my ears. A fine spray, like a garment sad, half rising with a courtly air. "Do "Monsieur!" She Gasped. the gicl went on remorselessly. he said. "I'm,going to be richer than of filmy silk, obscured niy clearer you wish to stake a few pieces In a "And for this he was to assign hfs any of you. Do you know what did thought you, I do not want you to be vteton but through aad beyond it, between game with me?" property to Louis, thinking, of course, seen. You are fh dreadful aangfer. with that ten -thousand? I gave It to two torrents that sailed above He gathered up a handful of the that he could sdon make his fortune Comeback!" my little daughter, and she has gone like erystal bows, I saw the chateau coins and pushed them toward me. a* the tables. And Louis was to marry to New York to make our. fortunes at "No, Mme. d'EperHay," I answered, before me. I have a system—at "You see, monsieur, m.e, and "in turn sell the seigniory to Mr.'Daly's gaming house.#- No, there and she winced again, as though I had-' Least I nearly have^'a system," you. And so I married Louis under she.is!" he suddenly.exclaimed. "She CHAPTER XII. struck her across the face. he went on' eagerly. "But it may no\ threat of death to my fajhen has come back!" A "For my sake," she pleaded, catching be so good as yours. Come. You "Oh, yes, monsieur, the plan was LCTOUX wheeled round and lotfced The Roulette Wheel. at my arm, an£ at. that moment I shall be the banker and see*if you can simple and well devised. And I knew from o,ne tofthe other. The building stood far back be^"* Win money .from me. 'But we shall heard a door slam underneath and my nothing of it. But Louis d'Epernay V'DiabLe! So- that was the purpose neath the overhanging ledge airil heavy footsteps begin slowly to ascend return the stakes aft^ward." blurted it all out to me upon our of your visit to New York?" he asked seemed to be secured against, the living the stairs. "M. Duchaine!" I shouted in his ear. wedding night. I think the shame of the girl. "So—you have not quite forgoken rock. It was evident that there "No, madame,." I answered, trying "Whoeei is your daughter?" knowing that I had been sold to him that, madame! Where is the was no other approach except the tunnel 60 Mlease my arm from her clasp. "My daughter?" he repeated in mild unhinged my ipind, for I ran out into money?" through'which I had come, for all •v "Then for the sake of—our love, surprise: Ah, yes she has gone to the snows. Jacqueline's lips quivered. I saw around the land that turbulent whirlpool Paul!" she gasped. New York to make our fortune With 9 "Now you know all, monsieur, for 1 her glance involuntarily toward the raved where the two cataracts I suffered her to lead me .back into the System. But make your play, monsieur." door behind which I was standing. Taken on the courts at Wimbledon, remember nothing more until I found contended for the mastery of the waters. the room. A& she drew me back and An^guddenly the last phase of the England, where famous stars met In myself''traveling back with M. Hewlett In desperation 1 thrust a" goldpieee closed the door behind us I heard the probl^n -became clear to me. Jacqueline in the sleigh. You say I was to championship tennis matches, our It was almost dark now and growing footsteps pause and turn along the upon one of the*numbers at the head thought I hnd robbed her. photo shows Miss Suzanne Lenglen, New -Sort^-Well, I do dot remember bitterly cold. I felt in my pocket corridor. of a column. wheel stopped, and The I stepped from behind the' door and famous French star in the midst of a it* for my pistol and loaded It with the I knew that heavy gait as well as the ball rolled into one of its compartments. f/iced. L^^'X E!V "I Have that money," "play." "And as for Louis d'Epternay. I know two carti-idges that alone remained of though already saw, Leroux's hard The old man thrust sev­ '&S m: '.3