INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE THRE1 Hllllardlaugtied affectedly. You're the Man to be Satisfied" credibly few—people^ who make you Of course, It would be absurdly simple "You call it poison? And you a doctor—and feel like that. One In a thousand. Or, if I were going away from Syracuse, The MAN smoking?" one in ten thousand. People who lift If I were going to leave you "Ah, but it's the pleasantest poison you clear of your trivial little self— here, and go—but I'm not. I'm going says the Good Judge there is. I'm always having to and make you think in terms of principles, to stay here. And I can't think it's explain that to Carol. Matches? NOBODY and not of your own selfish decent not to tell you now that if you Well, what have you been doing to You get a whole lot more satisfaction ideas—and still don't preach. knew all I know what I've yourself?" It must be a privilege." been, what I've done you wouldn't from a little of the "I?" Hilliard didn't look at him. KNEW "It fsn't only for me," she said. "He marry me If I were the last man left "Nothing important, doctor." Real Tobacco Chew than you has enough sympathy for anyone who to ask you! ." He gestured impatiently. "But that's not quite true, is it?" asks for It. He isn't very worldly— ever got from the old kind. "We're childishly hopefn! The tone was gentle, but it filled Hilliard you've noticed that? He can't believe sometimes al! of us hoping with portentious qualms. "You've that anybody, or anything, is really for what we know is impossible The good, rich tobacco taste been enjoying a little attack of insomnia, By bad and perhaps that's why what we know always will be impossible. haven't you?" lasts so much longer. You people come to him so. Of course, it I've been like that—and Hilliard winced. may be that just because he's my father, what I hoped was that don't need a fresh chew so you could t:ik "Why—yes. As a matter of fact—" Holworthy Hall I—" me on the basis of what I've beeu The doctor attempted a smoke ring, often. That's why it costs you "No." Hilliard shook his head. for the last few months since and smiled at the dismal failure. "I've seen a good many fathers, and July because that's the I less. way take "I'm sorry. Business \yorries next to mine. My own was a tnyself. Just a man—a man—like Dodd, Utad A Copyright by Company. In& "Why—in a way, yes." wonderful man, too, but I never appreciated Jack Armstrong. I hoped Any man who uses the Real Tobacco we could The doctor achieved a perfect clrclet, him. And seeing the doctor simply eliminate the past, and and beamed at it. Chew will tell you that. has made me wish oh, it's too I can't get away from it. It's on m.v "Something else?" childish to talk about!" heels every minute. It's what I ani, SYNOPSIS. "A good deal else," said Hilliard, abstracted. Put Up In Two Styles "If you were really as old as you try now but if I went much further "But that's no reason for to be," she said gently, "you'd know back than that, you and the doctor me to bother you with It. I didn't know a at CHAPTER I.—In base hospital RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco that It Isn't ever childish to be serious would both think just what I do about Neuilly, France, his face disfigured beyond it was so apparent." about such things as that. On the contrary myself and I'd have to say goodby recognition, an American soldier Silence. W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco ^Serving in the French army attracts attention And yet there was a time when to you anyway just as I'm doing "It's not my habit," said the doctor by his deep despondency. Asked you wanted me to think you were well tonlghjt. I hope you can see that presently, "to offer any advice unless by thft surgeons for a photograph to guide over thirty. Why, Mr. Hilliard, you're I'm not telling all this to you from any them in making over his face, he offers I'm asked for it. Gratuitous advice a boy!" Nevertheless, she regarded other motive except to be quite honest in derision a picture of the Savior, bidding never did anybody any good. And nobody them take that as a model. They do him not as one would regard with you. Quite honest—for once. I takes it unless it costs something—and can't under— I'm telling you so, making a remarkable likeness. a mere youth, but with appreciably BRO^a0E(M. CARD* care too much about you to let you not often then. And I'm I'm not worth the powder to blow me more uncertainty. live another day without knowing that neither your regular physician nor CHAPTER II.—Invalided home, on the to hades." He laughed oddly. "That's Hilliard had flushed warmly. I can't go on—it's over. I'm not boat he meets Martin Harmon, New York your confessor. ^But if I had made a proved already, over and over again. "That was when I wanted you to broker, who is attracted by his remarkable fit to be even your friend. That's diagnosis at this present minute I'd Don't you understand? features. The ex-soldier gives his all.". think a good many things that weren't at bow say that you need a preacher a great Carol ." His voice broke. "Why. name as "Henry Hilliard," and his home true." She sat motionless. Hilliard had deal more than you do a doctor." as Syracuse, New York. He left there Carol I'm not fit to talk to you. •ver O. If. forr ft Co "About you?" Her inflection was an turned back to the fireplace. under a cloud, and is embittered against I I a a That's proved, too. I'm proving International Falls, Minnesot his former fellow townsmen. Harmon Invitation to further confidences, and "Were you as bad ... as that?" she ing up sharply. "Only it's out it now! I'm saying it—don't you hear makes him a proposition to sell mining it drew Hilliard incontinently along whispered. of the question. Just personal things, me? I'm saying it now. And you—" stocks in Syracuse, concealing his Identity. the path he had planned—and feared "Once," he said bitterly, over his He accepts it, seeing in it a chance doctor—nothing I can very well talk He put his hand to his forehead, and —to take. DR. H. H. IHRIG to make good and prove he has been underestimated. shoulder, "I used to be a gentleman. about." brushed back his hair, which was "Some of them," he admitted. ''And But that was a long time ago." "Your trouble," said Doctor Durant, Dentist strangely wet. "I can't make it any some were about you. The fact is, I She raised her head. "Nothing "Isn't physical as much as it is spiritual. CHAPTER III.—In Syracuse "Hilliard" plainer," he said, with helpless finality. I've come on a peculiar errand." Office over Holler's Coafecti onec) could ever make me believe," she said, (in reality Richard Morgan) is accepted It's nothing but taut nerves. It's "No matter what's happened," she as a stranger. He visits James Cullen, a He cleared his throat violently his "that you haven't always been just as nothing but your struggle against the lBf*'aatinn" UHMO* said earnestly, "I can't believe it isn't former employer, relating a story of the eyes suddenly adored her. "I've come I've known you—since July. Nothing death of Richard Morgan, and is surprised restraints you put upon yourself. How coming out all right. So if you'll just to straighten all that out. Please don't can, and nothing will. What you may at the regret shown by Cullen and do I know? You've told me so keep on living, and working, and trying imagine I've suddenly gone crazy or his youthful daughter Angela. While at J. J. HADLER every time I've seen you. It's in your and ." Here her the Cullen home Carol Durant, Morgan's or anything and please don't face, my boy. It's in your eyes. Constantly. eyes were so appealing that his own former fiancee, makes a call. uwns take anything I say tonight to mean And it looks as though the dimmed to behold them. "And you weakness because, honestly, I've CHAPTER IV.—Hilliard repeats to Carol conference is about over ... because haven't been so very dreadful after all, international State Bank BuU t| his story of Morgan's death and is deeply thought about this so much that it's if that Isn't Carol coming up the have you?" moved by the evidence of her deep feeling rather disintegrated me but I've steps, my ears aren't half as good as for the supposed dead man. He resolves, Hilliard retreated once again, not got to tell you some things I don't however, to continue the deception. they used to be." trusting those hungry, lawless arms of NORTHERN MINNESOTA want to." His shoulders squared in Both men were on their feet as she his. resolution and at the look of pain in came in, swirling. HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION CHAPTER V.—Next day Hilliard gathers "I'm just wondering," he said, with his eyes, of pain and despair, her from Angela that Carol had always "Oh!" she cried to Hilliard. "I a terrible smile, which was entirely whole womanliness went out to him— loved Dick Morgan, and while delivering Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 196 didn't know you were coming up tonight devoid of mirth, "if a man happens to to her a letter supposedly from her former and had to be crushed, because she Dr. B. L. Osburn Phone 79 Suppose I'd missed you!" be in a a sort of transition fiancee realizes that his affection is was, after all, a woman. unchanged. His welcome by Doctor Durant, He merely smiled, and made no answer Hospital Phone 79 period, you know—half-way between Her look to him was first of astonishment Carol's father, also shakes his resolution nor did he speak to her until I wonder what's coming to him. Office over International State Bank to continue the deception, but he at his surrender, and, after after the doctor, protesting a sudden I wonder what is coming to him. conquers it that, of swift, ineffable pity for the unnamed Phone 155 desire for solitude, had waved them I wonder If the whirlwind doesn't get forces which were influencing International Falls, Minnesota Is hospitably out of the study into the CHAPTER VI.—In Syracuse Hilliard him both ways." him. Womanliness hung in the balance looked upon as a capitalist and mining living room. Carol was in the old familiar expert, and in that capacity, in pursuance and then, in a flash of perfect corner of the sofa Hilliard was After the street door had closed behind of his object, interests Cullen in the possibility comprehension of his plight, she knew LAWRENCE'S PHARMAC* standing by the fireplace, peering of wealth in mining properties. him, Carol went slowly along the that she could speak to him without The Cullens and Hilliard go to the Durant down into the empty grate. He coughed The Rexall Store corridor to the doctor's study and home for dinner. reserve. He had passed beyond the harshly, and an expression of utter knocked, out of sheer habit. His pleasant S. N. Rubin, Prop. bounds of conventionality she put hopelessness crept into his eyes. He CHAPTER VII.—Observations at the baritone came to her reassuringly. herself, mentally, at his side. Durants' convince Hilliard that the doctor turned abruptly. nternational Falls, Minnesota "Yes?" and his daughter had always been his "If it hurts you to say it," she said, "Well," he said, "just how much "Are you busy, dear?" Few men, on true friends, and his love for Carol becomes "I've known you've been fond would you have cared if you had?" hearing her voice, with that suggestive stronger. He realizes he has a dangerous Of me. How could I help It? And why SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS rival in Jack Armstrong, also very catch In it, would have confessed to Shouldn't you have the right to think much in love with Carol, and the two men There was a stately old lamp standing a previous engagement. tacitly agree to fight it out fairly. of it? Why shouldn't you have the at height behind the sofa its "Not when you're around," said the right to be yourself? Why shouldn't shadows were gracious and its light, doctor, appearing on the threshold. CHAPTER VIII.—Despite his success in you have the right to talk to me, and Interesting capitalists of Syracuse in his as it crept through a shade of painted His tone altered suddenly. "What's mining venture (which he believes to be a to expect me to hear you, and try to vellum, touched Carol softly, in a "Don't! Don't!" wrong?" he said. sound proposition) Hilliard regrets having understand? You haven't thought that delicacy of radiance which was infinitely "Daddy," said Carol, "he's gone. placed himself in such a false position, my father is the only one of us to do think about yourself makes no difference but in justice to Harmon feels he must go caressing. Her hands were lying You saw him, too what that, have you?" The reproof was exquisite. to me. I—" on. He makes confession to Carol of his idle in her lap she bent her head, ami is it? What is it?" She was trembling love for her, and she admits the possibility 2BO MODERN ROOMS "Don't!" he said, and his tone was viewed them studiously. violently the big doctor gathered her of his affection being returned in agonized. "Don't you see—" LOCATED IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT "Ever since that day the time time. "Why, I should have cared a great up in his arms without ceremony and $1.25—ONE PRICE—$1.25 you played to me," he said, "I've "I don't believe you," she said steadily. ileal." she said. "I'm always disappointed carried her over to his favorite leather RATE FOR TWO PERSONS S2.00 CHAPTER IX.—Rufus Waring, youthful fought against it—fought like the chair. when I mi«s seeing a friend of suitor of Angela Cullen, jealous of PRIVATE BATH. SHOWER TOILET AND EXTRA very devil, and—" Hilliard's voice was unstable with nine. What makes you so pessimistic "Fires burning." said Doctor Durant, Hilliard, becomes angrily watchful of the COMPLETE SAFETY, AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS "I've known that, too—and you've his great bitterness of failure. "You AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION, latter's business. Harmon visits Syracuse, all of a sudden?" quietly. "Burning and burning come to see me so seldom. I'd hoped flatter me," he said harshly. "And besides—you're INSURANCE RECORDS PROVE THAT NEVER and a prominent business man of and burning like the ones Hilliard reddened, and his eyes grew HAS A LIFE BEEN LOST IN ANY BUILDING the city, seeing them together, warns at least that you'd give yourself the wrong." you've seen down in the blast furnaces PROTECTED BV AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS. brighter. Hilliard of Harmon's reputation. Disturbed, chance you said you wanted." She was up, and beside him, smiling EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD WATER. white hot, and crucible steel Hilliard asks Harmon for an explanation, "Friendship!" he said tardily. STEAM HEAT. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND TELEPHONE bravely Into his eyes, and he was flogging and the broker unguardedly "Cheerfulness wasn't what you comes out of them strong SERVICE. "What an accordionlike sort of thing admits a former swindle, and also that his will to keep his hungry arms asked for." Hilliard swallowed hard. enough to make permanent things out rhat is!" the mining proposition is a "fake." Hilliard from snatching her, from sweeping her "I ... I came up here, Miss Durant, of ." He smoothed her hair, and "Why, Mr. Hilliard!" Her tone was threatens to make the knowledge SHIP SOUR close to him, and public, but Harmon shows him he has to have a really serious talk with she sighed quiveringly. and lay still. it the same time interrogatory and reproachful. made himself an accessory. Hilliard sees "What do you think women are?" "And the steel lasts ten thousand times nothing to do but go on with the deals. Hides-Furs she demanded, with sweet imperiousness. as long as the fires that made it. I "Oh. I'm not speaking of you." he "Nothing but marble statues— don't know what's blowing the flames, said. "Only of the thing itself. or putty ones? Just made to stand CHAPTER X. dear, but he'll do—he'll do." It's big or little, close or distant around and let the world go past, and it hasn't anything to say about it Deal Direct with the without having anything to say about Hilliard was waiting, hoping, praying You'll have to excuse me—1 Largest and Oldest (Continued next week) it?" was thinking out loud ." for a blow from fate, but fate, -.House in the West He retreated to the wall In self-defense. GERMAN WARSHIPS COMING which at other times had been ready "Please do!" she said. "You were "Don't! Don't! I'm the one Highest Prices and Immediate enough for fisticuffs, and often premature on the way to be interesting. Think Cash Returns. Write for price who's driven myself into this corner— with them, refrained from striking. out loud some more." Surrendered Craft To Be Brought Over tags list* and full Information* not you!" The interview with Waring had Hilliard glanced sharply at her. Next Month. O.B sOd. "But you don't have to stay in It passed without friction (and Hilliard ergman "Don't laugh at me!" he said, almost Washington.—Five German surrendered always, do you?" had so contrived to present his data roughly. "For heaven's sake, don't warships alloted to the United He stared at her in mystification. ST.PAUL. --M.INN. that Waring had finally declined the you know that the one time you States under the Armistice terms, a "Don't be silly," she said, "and don't risk) and the night passed and the shouldn't laugh at a man is when he battleship, a cruiser and three destroyers, be unreasonable I'm not!" She morning came, with Its accompanying deserves it?" will be brought to this country touched his sleeve his expression was horde of old regrets and a new and Carol's attitude was vaguely less next month, it is announced by the unchanged. "Don't make me think you sweeping inrush of fresh hallucinations. suggestive of ease. Navy department. are unreasonable!" she said compassionately. The navy plans to exhibit the ships "1 wasn't laughing at you," she, said, "If you're not satisfied, why To his tortured imagination, he was at Atlantic coast ports, it was said, in "truly. But what you said was so can't you make yourself what you a greater paradox than even Jekyll addition to a careful technical study of so aueer." want to be? Instead of brooding over and Hyde for he was Hilliard and them by naval experts. Later they "Oh, yes." Hilliard's accent was the past, that you can't help, why don't Dicky Morgan, the living and the dead, will be sunk at sea. Under the Supreme very flat. "I suppose it was. It must you think about things you can help? council agreement they must without the boon of the supernatural have been. ... I always seem to be Living is about all there Is to live for, be destroyed within a year after their to separate them. And yet he felt that more or less up in the air when I come isn't it?" arrival here. the wickedness of what he had done BETTER DENTISTRY to see you, don't I? The last time we He drew in his breath perilously. was the wickedness of Dicky Morgan, talked about friendship—" "But I'm letting you go," he said, and that he, Hilliard, the soul, was sitting "But that was at least a month ago," WEALTHY WOMAN ENDS LIFE dazed. in Impartial judgment on Dicky FOR LESS MONEY she said hastily, "and in the meantime. She stamped her foot In tremulous Morgan, the flesh. He conceded the you've been just as nice and Commits Suiicde As Her Father Did severity. "No, you're not I won't allow wrong he conceded the penalty cheerful as anybody. I thought you Years Ago. It! Can't you see why? Do I were all over your troubles." St. Louis—Mrs. Thomas W. Wright, have to tell you that? Well nevertheless, his youth cried out to Bride* Work daughter of the late William J. Lemp, A because I want you for a friend even blm for mercy. Gold Crowns ... OR AA you .* really serious. It's been "Think Out Loud Some More." millionaire brewer, who committed if you don't want me." Whit* Crowns .. ytliUU delayed too long already. It took me suicide in 1904, ended her life by "Want you!" he cried, and remem­ At the maid's announcement, Doctor two solid days to get my courage up He stiffened heroically "You forget RUtn shooting herself through the heart. to it. And and now I'm here, there was a condition ... an imperative Durant, who had been occupied with GUARANTEED WORK Her husband, a wealthy metal manufacturer, bered himself, and froze to Immobility. nothing more momentous than filling a I don't even know how to begin." condition and it's only fair attributed her action to "mental 10 YEARS "Oh—as a friend !M pot-bellied calabash, rose hastily and to you to tell you that it's a condition He scowled heavily into the vacant depression." went out into the hallway. I can't ever meet—ever. That's why "Surely, as a friend—what else did fireplace, and held out his palms with you think I meant?" "Come in, Hilliard!" he said cordially. I'm here. I had to tell you.*' GET OUR ESTIMATE FIRST a mechanic gesture as though to warm The young man shook his head. There was a profound stillness. "Carol's off looking at somebody's them at an imaginary blaze. "You Williams* To 3ucceed Roper. Special attention given te "I don't know. Only I came up here trousseau somebody's always getting know," he said absently, "your father "Can't you explain?" she said at Washington.—William Martin Williams out-of-town patients. Write us to tell you I haven't any right to your married in Syracuse she'll Is a very extraordinary man—very." last. "I wish you would. You're making of Alabama will succeed Daniel me feel very bad, Mr. Hilliard. friendship. I can't tell you why about your teetfr troubles. Wo be in directly. Come smoke a pipe C. Roper as commissioner of internal The compliment to the doctor had You owe it to me—•" I haven't as much callousness as all with me, and be sociable." revenue. Mr. Williams' selection by are glad to answer any and its invariable effect upon her she all that but if I did tell you, your He had to exert his utmost will to Hilliard, lingering nervously by the glowed under it. President Wilson was announced at questions. Write vs. last atom of faith in me would be outer door, started at the kind voice. make the beginning. "All I can explain the White House. He is solicitor for "I've always known that I'm gone. And you can't afford to have me is that I've made another mistake the Department of Agriculture and "You're not busy?" glad you realize it, too." DRS. NORCROSS CLARKE even for a^ friend—now that I've said was recommended for his new post "Busily composing my mind," said After the first great effort He stood erect, and faced her. "I that, can you?" by Secretary of the Treasury Houston, Union Dentists the words came tumbling, passionately, the doctor. He ushered Hilliard into do ... it came to me, when I was unchecked. "It would have been "Yes," she said steadfastly, "I can who formerly was secretary of agriculture. the comfortable old study and motioned talking to him, what a great privilege afford it." Mr. Williams was born in towards a squat little smoking so infinitely better for both of us if it must be for you to have his advice— Georgia. He is a graduate of Harvard stand. "All kinds of poison there," he I'd never met you at all. My life "When when I've told you Bemidji and his sympathy when you law school and practiced in New has been a whole series of mistakes .** His lips were parted in «aid. "Cigar—cigarettes—pipe tobac- need it. And there are so few—so In- York until 1917. this is the worst. The worst. amazedness, his eyes roved dully. "I