INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX Hilliard, rigid, watched her. A was to beT They both knew in what phrase was beating heavily against his A GRIPPING capacity he was to face the world The consciousness one of the Proverbs they knew the brimming fullness of her MAN ROMANCE something about the bread of deceit, pardon and the brimming fullness of and ashes his regret. These truths were mutually The knot gave way and the tissue confirmed the shabby past was indistinguishably NOBODY wrapping, falling aside, disclosed an merged with the^fresh By OTILL1A F. PFEIFFER oblong pasteboard box. Carol lifted and vivid present their pledges to this the lid and Hilliard caught his breath. end were upon their lips. The world KNEW There were two cabinet photographs was lying helpless at their feet (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) Know Your uppermost was a very excellent likeness the wonderful, sensitive, receptive Let Us Wants "Coddling, my dear—that is the system of Hilliard himself. She looked world which had respected and honored we are to employ with Cousin at him perplexedly he was getting out and admired him in the days of Roylston. The men all likejt." his fountain pen. His hand was cold, his regeneration, and would continue, By "Is he really a cousin?" inquired paying the reward of his request. unsteady. If not in stock we will get it for you. Prudence Blake of her sister, a spinster "It lacks something, doesn't it?" he In an irresistible passion of humility like herself, though ten years her said, in an undertone. "Let me have and shame and courage, he tried to tell Holworthy Hall senior. it a moment." While she followed her the sums of his deceits her lips "Well, maybe third or fourth, removed, his every movement, he wrote, with prevented him. but he hasn't many of near kin, his left hand and somewhat painstakingly, "You mustn't!" she murmured. and it is probably because of our relationship, Copyright by Dodd, Mead Company. Ine. j» an inscription and gave back the "Never! You let me choose—I want distant though it may be, picture. it this way." Just received from Northwestern Can­ that he has chosen our home to recruit "Christmas, 1916," she read, "with Dazed, triumphant, he was re-living his health in." love from Henry Hilliard." She by-gone incidents, seeing faint clues SYNOPSIS. "Why, is he an invalid?" questioned flushed hotly. develop into mighty revelations, comprehending the seemingly artless Prudence. ada—Car nice potatoes. "Now look!" he said, ignoring her at last the supreme love CHAPTER I.—In a base hospital at "No, but he has been a victim of the reaction. "The next one." Mechanically and supreme faith of the two who had Neuilly, France, his face disfigured beyond prevailing grip epidemic and his doctor she took out the second waited for his victory, and kept his recognition, an American soldier said a few weeks' convalescence photograph it was a duplicate of the serving In the French army attracts attention secret shut within their hearts, that away from business cares was necessary." by his deep despondency. Asked picture of Dicky Morgan on the Doctor's he might stand the ordeal, and prove by the surgeons for a photograph to guide desk. Her cheeks were suddenly triumphant. And now, the reputation them in making over his face, he offers "Yes, we must be helpful and kind devoid of color, she stared fearfully at that was already his the loftier In derision a picture of the Savior, bidding S. E. THOMPSON & SON to the sick and weak," sighed Prudence them take that as a model. They do reputation which he should consecrate him without speaking. pathetically. so, making a remarkable likeness. himself to build not "That lacks something, too," he said "You mean we must seize all golden only for the pleasure of the building, and his voice was yielding to the tremendous CHAPTER II.—Invalided home, on the opportunities," reported Dorcas tartly, but also because there were those to boat he meets Martin Harmon, New York strain upon him. With conspicuous valuing the simpering platitudes of broker, who is attracted by his remarkable whom he owed it care he shifted the pen to her sister at their true worth. "Cousin features. The ex-soldier gives his his right hand held it poised for a Behind them, a firm footfall. Hilliard name as "Henry Hilliard," and his home Roylston is a man of means, a comparatively was on his feet, his arm instinctively moment, gave her a smile of ineffable as Syracuse, New York. He left there young man, and—who ililillililllliiiilHIiuHillil under a cloud, and is embittered against protecting Carol. Doctor Durant pathos, closed his teeth hard. "I have knows?" And Dorcas prepared to put his former fellow townsmen. Harmon was smiling on them from the doorway a very useful little trait," he said her coddling system into practical THE DAIRY COW makes him a proposition to sell mining "I'm ambidextrous." And wrote his grave, benevolent, paternal. stocks in Syracuse, concealing his identity. operation, and Prudence hunted up He accepts it, seeing in it a chance He, too, became a common message. her most captivating ribbons and laces. to make good and prove he has been underestimated. partner to the understanding an interchange She had the evidence before her— Ward Roylston heaved a sigh of relief of glances was sufficient. He the inimitable, unmistakable, ornamental anticipatingly of coveted peace and came in swiftly his hands outstretched, CHAPTER III.—In Syracuse "Hilliard" script of another personality. rest as he reached the isolated town (in reality Richard Morgan) is accepted his head lifted high in the pride of "Christmas, 1916—and love from Dick of Clyde. as a stranger. He visits James Cullen, a Governor Lowden of Illinois recently said:— a father who has looked upon his children, to Carol." "You do not look very well, Cousin," former employer, relating a story of the and found them true to each other, death of Richard Morgan, and is surprised were the first encouraging words of "The real gift is underneath," he "The cow is a most wonderful laboratory. She takes the at the regret shown by Cullen and and to him. Dorcas. "Our brother Ezra has Just said, and his diction now was foreign his youthful daughter Angela, While at "What!" he said. "Have you proved no go received his medical diploma and he grasses of the pasture, and the roughage of the field, and converts even to himself. "But no, the Cullen home Carol Durant, Morgan's it already—my son?" will call to look you over." former fiancee, makes a call. Hk them into the most perfect food for man. In that food "Why, I am not sick," said Roylston. THE END. CHAPTER IV.—Hilliard repeats to Carol there is a mysterious something which scientists have found Her uncertain, exploring fingers had *'We never know in a case like his story of Morgan's death and is deeply touched a smaller box it sprang open yours," observed Dorcas in a dolorous moved by the evidence of her deep feeling essential to the highest health of the human race, and which CEDARS MANY CENTURIES OLD In was a for the supposed dead man. He resolves, her palm within, gorgeously tone. "They say the after effects are can be found nowhere else. Men have sought for centuries howeVer, to continue the deception. set flashing, scintillating, living gem, sometimes very severe. But you will That Much Sure, but It Is Impossible in platinum. Her hands, unsteady now the fabled Fountain of Youth. The nearest approach to that have at hand faithful nurses." to Tell Age of Lebanon's as as CHAPTER V.—Next day Hilliard gathers were his own, closed over It Roylston made a wry face, unobserved fountain which has yet been discovered is the udder of the from Angela that Carol had always Famous Trees. it. though to guard and shelter Her by his officious relatives, when loved Dick Morgan, and while delivering cow. Without her milk, children languish, the vigor of the eyes sought his, and held them—fright he sat down to his first meal. He was to her a letter supposedly from her former The age of the famous cedars of was meeting fright. adult declines, and the vitality of the human race runs low" fiancee realizes that his affection is hungry as an ox, but cream toast, thin Lebanon has long been in dispute. Local unchanged. His welcome by Doctor Durant, gruel and a single poached egg were "And in my thought," he said, "are Carol's father, also shakes his resolution tradition says they were planted -Scientific dairying will bring millions of added wealth to proffered him. all the sweet memories have of you to continue the deception, but he by God at the creation of the world "Brother is very strict as to the conquers it. this locality, as it has brought millions to the timber and and all the fragrance of you and that they will endure until the last alimentary regime," droned Dorcas and in the stone there there's a prairie lands of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. CHAPTER VI.—In Syracuse Hilliard is day. "Prudence be sure that Cousin Roylston's story for you to read bigger than looked upon as a capitalist and mining That there was a great grove of room is ventilated just right and any book could hold ." She still expert, and in that capacity, in pursuance Remember this strong Bank stands ready to help all our cedars on Lebanon in the days of King a warming pan pressed between the of his object, interests Cullen in the possibility made no answer she was holding her Solomon there can be no doubt, as it worthy farmers finance the purchase of good dairy stock. of wealth in mining properties. sheets before he retires." And then three gifts tightly, and staring at him, The Cullens and Hilliard go to the Durant was from them that he obtained the came Brother Ezra, a cadaverous staring not in the revulsion he home for dinner. wood for building the temple. Whether young man who gloomily kept his eye had imagined, not in the measureless any of those now standing were there CHAPTER VII.—Observations at the on Roylston as though he was analyzing FIRST NATIONAL BANK contempt he had feared, but with the Durants' convince Hilliard that the doctor in Solomon's time is a matter of speculation. him with view to protracted medical wraith of a smile trembling on her and his daughter had always been his treatment. true friends, and his love for Carol becomes pale lips. "Only one of the photographs INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. At the present day the grove contains "I shall send over some medicine in stronger. He realizes he has a dangerous is to keep," he said thickly. rival in Jack Armstrong, also very 389 trees, of which only 15 are of the morning." he announced sepulchrally, "One of the two I'm giving you much in love with Carol, and the two men large size. It is in the center of a great 9TS. "a few gargles and lotions," the chance to say which it is tacitly agree to fight it out fairly. basin in the mountains, 6,000 feet and he left a phial of pellets which which one of the two you want to live above the sea. A Maronite chapel is CHAPTER VIII.—Despite his success in Roylston promptly tossed out of the if you want either of those men to Interesting capitalists of Syracuse in his on a mound in the shade of the trees, window when he reached his room. go on loving you ... or if you want mining venture (which he believes to be a and here mass is said and on the feast In the morning there arrived a package sound proposition) Hilliard regrets having them both to go away—for always!" of the transfiguration a great festival of counter-irritants, lotions and placed himself In such a false position, Automobile Tourists In her eyes, there was another miracle but In justice to Harmon feels he must go takes place. the like, and all that day the sisters on. He makes confession to Carol of his her eyes were soft, and indicative Several efforts to calculate the age watched Roylston with an assiduity love for her, and she admits the possibility of a great relief, rather than of a great of the cedars now standing have been and vehemence that nearly drove him of his affection being returned in shock and as he watched, spellbound, made by counting the rings in the time. wild. To cap the climax, after dark When In Minneapolis Stop at he saw that tears were creeping into heart wood of those that have fallen. Dorcas solemnly tendered a little CHAPTER IX.—Rufus Waring, youthful them, and not of sorrow but of great These estimates, according to Prof. package. suitor of Angela Cullen, jealous of joy. In that moment his most stupefying A. Henry of the Royal College of Sciences "A blister Brother Ezra sent," she Hilliard, becomes angrily watchful of the Hotel Lincoln latter's business. Harmon visits Syracuse, discovery was made, and the magnitude for Ireland, in an article in Country explained. "Drastic he says, but and a prominent business man of of it, the portent of it, set his Life, vary from 2,230 years to 2,500 sure to prove beneficial. Prudence and the city, seeing them together, warns brain at naught, and left him destitute years, although it may be that they are I will sit up to night, Cousin Roylston, Hilliard of Harmon's reputation. Disturbed, of reason. N)f slower growth than the specimens and you must promptly call us if you Hilliard asks Harmon for an explanation, and the broker unguardedly NICOLLET AVE. AT NINTH ST "Carol!" he said, petrified. "Carol!" tested in other countries. feel any bad symptoms. The after effects admits a former swindle, and also that The largest of the cedars is 13 feet of the fatal grip must be warded Mute, she shook her head. Looking the mining proposition is a "fake." Hilliard in diameter. off, you know." him full in the eyes, she flinched suddenly, threatens to make the knowledge OPENED SEPT. 1st. 1918 public, but Harmon shows him he has "Grip," muttered Roylston, a& he and a great sob burst in her made himself an accessory. Hilliard sees reached his room. "Of all the busybodies. throat. The photograph of Dicky Morgan nothing to do but go on with the deals. TOTEM POLES TELL HISTORY The only grip I am interested was in her hand she held it a Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollet Avenue in is this," and he opened his single CHAPTER X.—In an Interview with moment, trembling, and then, while is the leading road from all point, and has no car tracks. Carol, deeply to"ched by her friendliness Have Peculiar Significance Among piece of baggage and proceeded to her breath came faster and her shoulders and interest in him. Hilliard almost determines the Up-Coast Indian Tribes of Within two squares of 5 large garages. Adjoining the cities' pack it. "I'll make my escape before quivered, she tore it across and to admit hi3 duplicity, plead for British Columbia. they poison me, if I have to jump across, finer and finer, until only fragmentary largest stores. forgiveness, and make a fresh start, but from the window." cannot nerve himself to the confession. scraps remained—and these Totem poles of the up-coast Indian That was just what Roylston had to she let fall in her lap, unheeded. The Rooms at $1.00 per day. With private toilet 25 cents t'HAPTETR ^CL—Armstrong, moved by a tribes of British Columbia tell the history do an hour later. Gazing thence he likeness of Hilliard, the lying, radiant rhlvalrous feeling, admits to Hilliard that extra with private bath 50 cents extra. In addition there of that race. The poles are of observed the reflection of a light in a he is going to Montana to investigate face of the man nobody knew—this ethnologic and folklore significance, are suites of rooms with separate toilet, each room having properties which Hilliard represents, and lower room. He could not leave the she had seized, and this she had the latter sees the end approaching. Harmon, have legendary symbolism, and carry house that way, without apprizing his clutched to her breast, spasmodically, connecting bath—an ideal arrangement and only found here. to whom he has turned over the details of the tribe, clan, family and jailers. He dropped his grip from the money he has collected, has paid him as though in fear to have it snatched individual. Their painted grotesques a window, followed with the aid of handsome commissions on the business away from her. of birds, beasts, fish and men are done done, and he determines to turn over to Cafe in connection—Hotel Lincoln guarantees an atmosphere trellis and made tracks speedily. Hilliard was very close to her and the subscribers all he possesses, in that in blue, red and white upon a black Roylston turned from the house and of home refinement. way undoing to some extent the wrong his whole being was concentrated in background. town. His idea was to seek the first toe had unwittingly done. his eyes. to The right use the totemic crest safe shelter that presented. At the "Carol!" he said to her again in that always descends through the woman. XII.— WM. B. CAMFIELD- 1 CHAPTER At the Cullen home -Proprietors- end of a five-mile tramp, wearied and -F. S. GREGORY stranger's voice. "Carol You Rufus Waring confronts Hilliard with the A tribesman uses the tribal crest of forlorn, turning a bend in the road he accusation that the Montana property you knew!" To him the fact his clan group in addition to those of For past ten years witk Minneapolis leading hotels. came upon a horse and wagon at a has little value. Cullen refuses to believe was unbelievable. one or more guardian spirits he may standstill. A shapely, golden-haired the story. Hilliard gives Cullen $8,000, all Tardily, unwillingly, she raised her have acquired. If he is easy in making he has, to hold in trust, pending an investigation. girl was mending the broken harness, From Angela, Hilliard learns head. friendships with birds, beasts and musically upbraiding and then petting that Carol has refused Armstrong's offer "From the very first day," she said fishes he may have a Noah's ark of the steed, who had attempted to run of marriage, for the reason that she is in brokenly. "Both dad and I them on his pole. The crests are also away. love with Hilliard. THE STUBEE and no one else not even mother carved on canoe prows, painted on Roylston came chivalrously forward CHAPTER XIII.—Hilliard receives three your eyes told us both, and house fronts and woven into baskets and assisted her in getting things to telegrams from Harmon, ordering him to or and blankets of goat hair cedar we've trusted- you so and rights, casually explaining his quest stop selling stock, and informing him he waited so surely we knew It bark. for some settlement or roadside inn. is on his way to Syracuse. On his arrival Harmon urges Hilliard to give up the A man gets his reputation and would come out all right in the end, "The nearest town is ten miles distant," game and make a start elsewhere, agreeing standing in the community, among Sash and Door Factory somehow and and his bright, sensible new friend to return all money collected. While the up-coast tribes, not by what he I do like my gift! It does told him, "but we live a little further they are talking it over, Waring and Cullen owns, but by what he gives away. If call on Hilliard. Harmon offers to make the day better." And then, in a on. Father will be waiting up, for I take back for cash all the stock they he wants to be regarded as a "hlyu have been delayed delivering some soft whisper, "Henry!" IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS have subscribed for. Before any arrangement tree," or person of special consequence, eggs and butter, and he will house She had called him "Henry" and can be arrived at Harmon is he aims to do it by \giving you for the night, I am sure." stricken with apoplexy and dies in a few even In the spell of his confusion, he away more blankets than anybody minutes. Hilliard then learns from Cullen But Ward Roylston was destined to ^throbbed to the significance of it. We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of of the discovery of an enormously else on tLj coast. remain at the home of Jacob and Irma The lover was eager, but the prodigal rich vein of ore on the property—of which Daniels for the rest his prescribed millwork of was startled back from the very threshold Harmon was of course aware—and realizes vacation. bluff, hearty, even-minded the depth of the brokers' duplicity, A of love. and also that his death has set Hilliard old man, the father showed him the Earliest Coinage. and you wil^ make no mistake by getting "From the first day!" he breathed, free. beauties and benefits of strengthening Coinage originated in Asia Minor, electrified. "And you trusted me like their prices before ordering elsewhere fare and real outside life, while Irma— CHAPTER XIV.—After a hurried Journey and as early as the time of Seven that when you knew what I to New York, where he had hastened Wise Men coins were in common use, Ah, fate had been kind and that was doing—" to safeguard the interests of himself and according to Mary Mills Patrick, in chance meeting had solved all Ward his friends in the mining properties, Hilliard She was laughing and crying at the Building and Contracting Specialty the National Geographic Magazine. Roylston's trouble, for when he went returns 1o Syracuse. same time his hungry arms went out The first coins were made of electrum, back to the city to look up his neglected AO Work Guaranteed to her and found her words were CHAPTER XV.—The Christmas celebration which is a mixture of gold and silver, business affairs there was to be takes place at Doctor Durant's coming tumultuously to him and he and which was found in natural form a speedy return, for Irma and he were home, and there Hilliard makes his pitiful said them as they came. Somehow confession to Carol, when he pleads in the mountains of Lydia. There were engaged. LARS STUBEE, Prop. the ring was on her finger and she for her love. He then learns that both no inscriptions on them, but emblems The Misses Blake and Brother Ezra had kissed it there. Between them, Carol and* Doctor Durant had penetrated of religious worship and of trade, the were not among the invited guests to his disguise from the first, and Carol partnered, a sacred understanding as 2nd Ave. and 6h St. Phone SO association simply indicating that the the wedding. "That horrid, ungrateful gives him her full forgiveness, accepting Imperishable as bronze had arisen in the person of Henry Hilliard the Richard two things which the people cared man" made sure never agaiii to get they both knew, without the necessity Morgan she had always loved and into their clutches. most for were religion and trade. of .prolonged speech, what his.future trusted. •V-V |%I '',ik %k'-l I ,t. W||__ £st asf"--