are WJ^sSi- sa "Ci. •n INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, OCTOBER 30th, 1919 PAGE SIX had experienced, and 7n aif Instanfthe "Help me 1 Help me 1" PROFESSIONAL CARJte two men were struggling at the edge I raised myself and tried to struggle JACQUELINE What Is the Cost of Cheap of the platform. to my feet. I found that I could move They bent and swayed, "and now my limbs freely. I tried to rise upon JOHN H. BROWN Leroux was forcing Pierre's head and my knees, but the roof struck my head. snoulders backward by the weight of Attomoy at Law I stretched my arms out, and I touched Furniture? his bull's body. But the Indian's Office over 0. M. Carr & €e the wall on either side of me. sinews, toughened by years of toil to I must have been stunned by the International Falls, Mineeset- steel, held fast and just as Leroux, concussion of the landslide. By a confident of victory, shifted his feet miracle I had not been struck. and inclined forward, Pierre changed "Help me! Help me!" DR. H. H. IHRIC You may say it's mighty little when you purchase it, but cheap furniture his grasp and caught him by the GOUm RIVER I tried to find the voice. I crawled soon outlives its usefulness. It isn't the original expenditure throat. three feet toward it, and the wall Dentist Leroux's face blackened and his eyes that determines the worth of good furniture, but the amount of stopped me. "But the voice was there. Office «er Holler's Confecti tnec) started out. His great" chest heaved, happiness and comfort you derive from the number- of dollars you It came from under the wall. I felt •a*' and he tore impotently at his enemy's about me in the darkness, and my -aaeiSfe spend. That is why you cannot afford to overlook the offerings strong fingers that were shutting out hand touched something damp. I presented in this store. air and light and consciousness. They whipped It back in horror. It was the rocked and swayed then, with a last J. J. HADLER face of a man. BED BARGAINS convulsive effort, Leroux swung Pierre VICTOR ROUSSEAU There was only the face. Where the IiAWYKR off his feet, raised him high In the air, body and limbs ought to have been was and tried to dash his body against the Handsome 2-inch post steel tubing Vernis Martin bed, heavy fillers, international Stat* Bank Boil 1* only rock. The face was on my side projecting rock at the tunnel's mouth. an amazing value for this week only $9.75. of a wall of rock, pinning down the But still the Indian's fingers held, body that lay outstretched beyond. Copyright W. Q. Chspniu and as his consciousness began to fade RUGS NORTHERN MINNESOTA I recognized the voice now. It wasthat Leroux staggered and slipped and .CHAPTER XX—Passing through the of Philippe Lacrolx. HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION Cave Paul encounters Leroux and Pierre with a neighing whine that burst from "Ah, mon Dieu! Help me. Help Caribou, the Indian bent on taking Leroux's Recently we received a large assortment of rugs in Wilton Velvets, his constricted throat, a shriek that Dr. Craig Phent 32 life. The two fight and both fall me!" from the cliff Into the torrent below. pierced'the torrent's roar, he slid down Axminister and Tapestry in all sizes. The rug market is in a serious Dr. Elizabeth Monahan.... Phone 223 He continued to repeat the words In Lacrolx appears and Hewlett grapples the cataract, Pierre locked in his arms. condition, the manufacturers are not able to deliver one half with- him. Lacrolx had planned to blow Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 every conceivable tone, and his suffering up the cave, with the Intention of killing I cried out in horror, but leaned forward, of the business that is offered. This coming season promises to be was" pitiable. I felt one hand come Hospital Phone 7S both Leroux and Hewlett, and while they fascinated by the dreadful spectacle. struggle the explosion occurs. through the tiny opening in the wall even worse, the prices will be much higher and selection not so Office over International State Bank I saw the bodies glide down the and grasp at me. good. We offer the best quality Axminister rugs in a good line of Pkeae 155 straight jet of water, as a boy might "Who is it?" he mumbled. "Is that patterns at prices within the reach of every one. International Falls, Minnesota slide down a column of steel, and CHAPTER XX. you, Hewlett? For God's sake, kill plunge into the black caldron beneath, BATHROOM RUGS 36x72 SPECIALLY PRICED me!" around whose edge stood the mocking Leroux's Diable. I crouched beside him, but I did not LAWRENCE'S PHARMAC» Fot this week only $1.95. and fantastic figures of ice. The seething I went back toward the cave. But know what to say or do. I could only lake tossed them high into the The Rexall I could not bring myself to see Jacqueline. Store wait there, that he might not die alone. Heaters that Are Priced Right air, and the second cataract caught "Give me a knife!" he mumbled S. N. Rubin, Prop. them and flung them back toward the I had reached the verge of the cataract again clutching at me. "A knife, Old Angel. International Falls, Minnesota and stood beside the little platform, No. 11 Oak Heaters, this week only $5.95, Hewlett! Don't leave me to die like At last they slid down into the looking down. I gazed in awe this! Bring Pere Antoine and my No. 13 Oak Heaters, this week oniy $7.95 depths of the dark lake, to lie forever at the great stream of water, sending mother. I want to tell her—to tell there in that embrace. And still the Its ceaseless current down Into the her—" cataracts played on, sounding their troubled lake below. He muttered in his delirium until loud, triumphant, never-ending tune. Double boiler aluminum kettles, this And then I saw Lacrolx. He was his voice died away. I thought that he "uji.iniiuauu I was running down the tunnel again. peering after me from among the would never speak again. But presently 1 was running to Jacqueline, but week only, specially priced, value $2.75 he seemed to revive again to the rocks, and as I* turned he was scuttling something diverted me. It was the away into the tunnel. consciousness of his surroundings. $1.39 face of Lacroix, peering at me from "Are you with me, Hewlett?" he I followed him hotly but he must among the crevices of the rocks with whispered. have known every fissure in the cliff, the same evil smile. I knew from the I placed my hand in his, and he for he vanished before my eyes, apparently look on it that he had seen all and had clutched at it with feverish force. through the solid rock, and when BETTER DENTISTRY been infinitely pleased thereby. "You will have the gold, Hewlett," I reached the place of his disappearance I caught at him I wanted to get my he muttered, apparently ignorant that I could find no sign of any pas-, hands on him and strangle him, too. I, too, was a prisoner and in'hardly FOR LESS MONEY sage there. and fling him down, and stamp his better plight. "I. tried to kill you, Hewlett. C£/£»Phono^raphyTfarvelousTone And at that moment I heard Leroux's features out of human semblance. But Are you going to leave me to die voice hailing me, and looked he eluded me and darted back into alone in the dark now?" round to see him emerge from the tunnel the cliff. Bridge Work "No," I answered. "It doesn't matter, We are agents for the Sonora and at my side. He was staring In bewilderment Cold Crowns ... OR AA Lacroix." And, really, it did not I caught him near the entrance and M.UU Vitanola talking machines. You wili at the cataract. White Crowns matter. held him fast. also find a complete line of Singer "By Heaven, Hewlett, don'| know Plates I "I wanted to kill you," his voice He struggled in my grasp and sewing machines. All these articles what possessed me to take the wrong GUARANTEED WORK rambled on. "Lacroix is dead, screamed. turn tonight," he swore. "I have come can be purchaser' on our easy payment 10 YEARS watched him die. I thought if—you "Let me go I" he howled. "Ah, you through that tunnel a hundred times plan. We will be pleased to died, too, no one but I would know the will repent it I Monsieur, let me go I and never missed the path before." secret of the gold. I tried to murder show you the very 'latest in home I will give you a half-share In the gold. GET OUR ESTIMATE FIRST He swung round petulantly, and at you. I blew up the tunnel I" furnishings.. What do you want with me?" that moment a shadow glided out of He paused, and I heard him gasp What did I want? I did not know. Special attention given to for breath. His fingers clutched at my It must have been the same instinct outef*town patients. Write us coat sleeve again and hooped themselves that leads one to stamp upon a noxious COME IN WHILE OUR STOCK IS MOST COMPLETE about your teeth troubles. Wo round mine like claws of steel. Insect. I think It was his joy In are glad to answer any "I had a knife—once," he resumed, and all the hideous spectacle beneath the cataract SHAPIRA'S, relapsing Into his delirium "but I left questions. Write us. Complete Home Ontfitters that had made me long to kill It behind me and the police got It. him. Isn't it odd, Leroux," he rambled on. DRS. NORCROSS & CLARKE But now a dreadful fear was dawning "that one always leaves something behind on me. One block from the Main street. Union Dentists when one has killed a man? But "Jacqueline!" I screamed. Opposite Paper Mill Office. Phone 212 the newspapers made no mention about "I have not seen her," he replied. knife. You didn't know he was the "Now let me go! Ah, mon Dieu, will CASH IF YOU HAVE IT. CREDIT IF YOU NEED IT. Bemidji dead, did you, Leroux, for all your you never let me go? It is too late!" cleverness, until that fool Hewlett left Suddenly he grew calm. that paper upon the table? You knew "It Is too late," he said In a monotonous enough to send me to jail, but you voice. "You have killed both of didn't know that It was I who killed us!" OUND THE WOULD WITH him. Help me!" He screamed horribly. And, with the sweat still on his forehead, "He Is here, looking at me!" he stood looking maliciously at AMERICAN RED CROSS. "There Is nobody here, Philippe," me. APPLES I said, trying to soothe his agony of "If you had let me go," he said, Public Hea&h Nursing. soul. What a poor and stained soul "you would have died just as you are It was, traveling Into the next world going to die." alone! "There Is nobody but me, Philippe I saw the face of the cliff quiver I saw an Immense rock, half-way up, "You lie!" he raved. "Louis is here! leap into the air and seem to hang He has come for me! He deserved to there then the ground was upheaved die. He tricked me after we had found beneath my feet, and with a frightful the gold. He tricked me twice. He roar the rocky walls swayed and fell told Leroux. thinking that he would together. win: his gratitude and get free from And the rivulet became a cataract the man's power. And the second time that surged over me and filled my ears he told Carson. Then there were three with tumult and sealed my eyes with of us in the secret." sleep. "What did you do?" asked, though CHAPTER XXI. Faced Leroux in Silence. It was like conducting a post-mortem upon a murderer's corpse. The End of the Chateau. the darkness and stood in front of him. "I went to New York to get my Darkness impenetrable about me, It was Pierre Caribou, lean, sinewy share. I wasn't going to be ousted, I. and a thick air that I breathed with and old. He blocked the path and who had been one of the discoverers. Buy your winter apples great gasps that hardly brought relief faced Leroux in silence. 1 don't know limv much Carson paid to my choking throat. And a voice Leroux looked at him, and an oath now. Fine Johnathns out of the darkness crying ceaselessly broke from his lips as he read the In .jny, ears (To be continued next week.) other's purpose upon his face. Squaring $3.25 per box, for one In ti.e midst of Its multifarious war duties the American Red Cross did his mighty shoulders and clenching .not neglect its obligations to the civilian population at home. Throughout week only. Cooking ap­ his fists, he leaped at him headlong. fthe conflict it maintained its Bureau of Public Health Nursing, instruction in BACHFURCO Your Raw Furs ples $2.25 per box. tfirst aid, home nursing and sanitation, and disaster relief. Particularly In Pierre stepped quietly aside, and their work for the babies was effort by public health nurses Important. The Simon measured his full length within accompanying photograph shows a Red Cross public health nurse instructing the tunnel. But, when he had scrambled --it means a mother in the proper preparation of tfoe baby's diet. to his feet with a bellowing challenge, Pierre was in front of him again. "Here's a Friendly Tip" Highest ruling Market Prices. "What are you here for?" roared Leroux, but in a quavering voice that Honest Grading of the Sizes. did not sound like his own. "Get out S. E. Thompson & Son The Most liberal Assortment Mad'e. says the Good Judge of the way or I'll smash your face I" The Indian still blocked the passage. Courteaus treatment—square and "Your time come now, Simon. All finish straight. now," he answered. Phone 128 Men who know tobacco, Prompt Returns and sound advice. "You come here one, two year ago,** chew the best without its International Falls, Minn. As to the Market's fall or rise. Pierre continued. "You eat up home of M. Duchaine, my master. Old M. costing them any more. Ask for our pricelist—it will open Duchaine my master, too. I belong They take a little chew and your eyies as to what Raw Furs are here. You eat up all, come back, eat it's amazing how the good up some more. Then you sell Mile. worth these days.- Do not dispose of Jacqueline to Louis d'Epernay. You taste stays in a rich, high a single skin before you have had our made her run 'way to New York. I grade chewing tobacco. valuation. ask your diable when your time come. Your citable he say wait. I wait. Mile. BACH FUJR COMPANY For lasting tobacco 8atis- ti Jacqueline come back. I ask your The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel faction, there's nothing diable again. He say wait some more. aeo MODERN ROOMS Now your diable tell me he send yon Buyers—Merchants—Exporters I Stated ia Haart of BnfaMa DMet' like, a small chew of thal|i|j|§ here tonight because your time come, rich-tasting tobaccoj^^^^^ rtmnri??1Cg""OPri£ DOLLAR and alUfinish now." of **T*»»TWO PERSONS 91.SO NIWTASMTN, SMB TOILET .y The face that Simon turned on me •Hmtaa earn* American Raw Furs' ..JSPyW-gft SAFETY was not in the least like his own. It -THE REAL TOBACCd^HEwSp" Mp.. ai«^XIS!!£T,c sprinklers was tfiat of a hopelessman who knows 4 *NO Ewoor coNsfrrtuextoN 108-110 West Austin Avenue MM THAT that everything he had prized is lost. Put up in two styles .Ef liniR v. LIR* LOOT IFC MY Chicago, 111,^ Mta auii&na He had never cowered before anyone '•onetio av avroaame eramauAs RIGHT GUT is a short-cut tobacco IJGW WAILLM HOT AN O MO IUHRIMI in his life, I think, but lie cowered I«T, •IKOTRLO UUT MD now beforePierre Cariboo. OCMVIGE. W-B GUT is a long fine-cut tobacco TEyaewowa Leroux's Then a roar burst .from lips, and he flung: himself upon the Indian In the same deanerate way a*-I