that she was to marry fiair long, and—well, yon never saw telling Richard answering passion in return, trader "the car's downstairs. Wait for me his Son. Those eyes would women act so about anything or anyhow keen read all her reasoning and counter-reasonlng there run you home in half the her through and through, and while He's haying dinner with the in the night there crept the knowledge time the train takes. I'm playing in her father-in-law might love, her, and Cai. /s tonight.^ To this Linda'could that she had known that this was the tennis finals, Mother—" see her and charm with all only ejaculate an amazed: r,\ beauty coming, had known that only a tew a Harriet, turning for just nod and the world, knew rest of the "Harriet "Royal Blondin!" And is1 Harriet days of encouraging friendliness, oaly smile, heard no more. But as she entered that actual she must begin an campaign merely nodded, in the gloom, she added, a few appealing glances from uplifted the lift, the girl said to herself, for his esteem on her wedding vigorously, "Why, he hadn't a blue eyes, and a few casual touches of with a passionate sort of gratitude: 9 day. had The prospect an unexpected penny! He was always an idiot—he a smooth brown hand must bring ttis "Oh, I like you! You're the only genuine piquancy, She had little fear of didn't have enough to eat ten years hour upon her. And back of this hour, and unselfish and kind-hearted one Its outcome. She would make Ward ago and of a man's joy in winning the in the whole crowd!" Wj": a his Carter wife for whom father woman he loved, she had seen the hazy "Well, he has enough to eat now! She went down to the street, and must come to feel genuine gratitude future of prosperity and beauty and Ward told me that he gets three hundred saw the small car waiting. He was and devotion. There would be children, ease, the gowns and cars and homes, dollars for his drawing-room driving himself today. With a great there would be hospitality and the position of young Mrs. Ward Garter. talks—his 'interpretive musings,' he sense of comfort and relaxation Harriet music and a garden. And Ward called them."' got into it, and was comfortably should seriously. settle down to his She had let him turn her face up. In G^uIariwrttoiV .Jjij "Well, that—" Mrs. Davenport was established, and tucked in snugly, business, whatever it might be, and the strengthening moonlight, and kiss still dazed with astonishment and indignation. when Richard came down. He smiled show himself a worthy son of his her hungrily upon the lips, and she "That really—" she be­ at seeing her, got into his own seat 1 clever father. had sent him in to his dinner half-wikl gan, and stopped, shaking her head. the machine slipped smoothly into motion, "Why not—why not?" Harriet asked with the joy of knowing himself beloved. the hot and sordid streets began herself, as she reached Madame Carter's Harriet had gone in, too, shaken to glide by. pretentious apartment house, and and half-frightened, and with his last fopMriqht bt| Kathleen Nor is. "Ever think how illuminating it to was whisked upstairs. She was whispered prophecy ringing in her would be, Miss Field, if we kept a list evening of reading. 'Well, she .would, meet Nina here, and she glanced about Continued From Last Week) ears: 1 of the things that are worrying us see Linda on Saturday, and have Sunday for the big limousine at the curb, as an "Wait a year—rot! I'll go to the sick, and read 'em over a few weeks SYNOPSIS. with her and the children, and Indication that the old lady might be Bellamys', because I promised to, buc later?" that meant always a complete change to ready to accompany them back the day I come back, and that's two "I suppose so!" the girl said, a little CHAPTER I.—Harriet Field, twentyeight and a shifted viewpoint, even when, as Crownlands. But there was no car in weeks from today, well tell everyoneand the social years old and beautiful, is surprised, and yet with fervor. "We'd frequently happened, Linda took the sight. The maid's first statement was secretary of the flirtatious Mrs. Isabelle this time next year you will kave have a fresh bunch then, and be worrying Carter, at "Crownlands," Richard (rider-sisterly privilege of scolding. that Miss Carter had gone home with been my wife for six months!" Carter's home, and governess of 17-yearold away just as hard!" her brother, and then Madame ^Carter Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four years The spontaneous response in her old and Impressionable, fancies himself in (To be Continued}" came magnificently into the room. When Harriet had chaperoned Nina tone made Richard Carter laugh. love with his mother's attractive secretary. and Amy to the Friday afternoon matinee, "Well, our bird has flown!" said the Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" is Harriet was content -to enjoy this with young Anthony Pope, and the youth A Cruel Condition. and had duly deposited Amy afterward old lady. Harriet could see that she restful interval between the hurry and Is taking it very seriously. Edith—Why is Alice always so short in the Hawkes mansion, and was pleased about something. crowding of Linda's house and the of money didn't her father leave her CHAPTER II.—Presiding over the teacups had escorted Nina to her grandmother's "Gone home with Ward?" Harriet currents and cross-currents that she this summer afternoon, Harriet is lot? a apartment, she was free to direct asked. Madame Carter never shook profoundly disturbed by the arrival of a must encounter at Crownlands. She Madge—Yes. but you see she's not visitor, Royal Blondin. Next day, at a Hansen to drive her to the Jersey hands with her there was conscious watched the green country go by, the tea party in the city, Blondin makes himself to get it till she's thirty and she'll tube, and to spend a hot, uncomfortable superiority in the little omission. She agreeable to Nina, and leaves a deep trees silent and heavy with their rich never own up to that.—Boston Transcript. hour in a stream of homegoing impression on the unsophisticated girl. sank into a chair, and Harriet sat foliage, the villages blazing with the commuters, on the way to Linda's down. last June roses. CHAPTER III. Harriet's agitation over the appearance of Blondin at house. "Ward and his friend, this Mr. Blondin," They flew by the great gates of the "Crownlands" Is explained by the fact Before and After. She mounted the three cement steps Madame Carter said. "A very country club, and turned in past that he had been a disturbing element in Mr. Pester—Cleaning house just because from the sidewalk level, and the four her life ten years before, and she fears Interesting—a most unusual man. A Crownlands lodge, and Harriet got out a few women are going to drop him. The man Is an avowed adventurer, shabby and peeling wooden ones that very good family, too—excellent old at the steps, and turned her happy, living on the gullibility of the idle rich. in this afternoon? You never make rose to the porch. On this hot summer He frankly announces to Harriet his intention family- Yes. Nina assured us that she flushed face toward the man to thank such elaborate preparations when I of marrying Nina, who, as the afternoon the front door was had to wait and go home with her him. Whatever she saw in his face as daughter of the wealthy- Richard Carter, entertain my friends. open, and Harriet stepped into the Daddy, but that—" Madame Carter is a highly desirable "catch," and urges he smiled and nodded at her pleased His Wife—No, but clean up five I her to aid him. She Is in a sense in his odorous gloom of the hall, and let gave Harriet a deeply significant smile her, for she went upstairs saying again power, and after pleading with him to times as much after they leave. the screen door bang lightly behind —"but that didn't seem to please abandon his scheme agrees to follow a to herself, "Oh, you're real—you're policy of neutrality. her. Somebody very much!" she added. "So honest—I like you!" Immediately, in the open archway I told Nina I thought Granny would be It was delightful to get back into And Suddenly the Bright Head Was Into the parlor, a girl of fifteen appeared, able to make it all right with Daddy, CHAPTER IV. the familiar atmosphere, to catch the in Linda's Lap and She Was Sobbing a pretty girl with blue eyes and off the^young people went." fragrance of flowers in the orderly Bitterly. arid brown hair, a shabby but fresh She rocked, with a benignly triumphant Again Harriet fled through the quiet gloom downstairs, to take off her hat little shirtwaist belted by a shabby expression, and a complacent house as if pursued by furies, and and her hot, dusty clothing, and have "Tell me everything you said!" she but clean white skirt, and a napkin rustle of silken skirts. Harriet, beneath again reached her room with white a leisurely hot bath to put on fresh commanded. dangling from her hand. an automatic smile, hid a troubled cheeks and a fast-beating heart. Nina and fragrant summer wear, and to go "I will!" Harriet's voice fell flatly. "Oh, Mother—it's Aunt Harriet! Oh, heart. Royal was losing no time, was not there. She crossed to the window, downstairs presently, rejoicing in being "I came home to talk It over with you darling— WEBSTER'S Ward his innocent instrument, and this and stood there with her hands young and comfortable, and tremendously you." But it was fully five minutes Harriet, laughing, went from the fatuous old lady of course playing his clasped on her chest, and her breath interested in life. The significance later that she began the inevitable NEW INTERNATIONAL child's wild embrace into the arms of game for him! coming and going stormlly. of Richard Carter's parting confidences. "We talked—Roy and Linda herself, a tall, broadly built, Harriet saw that she was pleased she I—" she said, briefly. "He doesn't look, its honest admiration and friendliness, "Oh, he's clever!" whispered, pleasant-faced woman with none of He never and flattered by an older man's apparent augmented by her own glance half aloud. "He's clever! belong in my life, now, any more than Harriet's own unusual beauty, but DICTIONARIES are in use by business admiration of Nina and that she a I do In his! We simply agreed to a at a chance mirror on her way upstairs, made a threat. He never made men, engineers, bankers, with a family resemblance to her knew that he woald further the girl's first definite stayed with her pleasantly. threat of any kind! He sort of mutual minding of our own judges, architects, physicians, younger sister nevertheless. had me just affair in every way that lay in her At one end of there was had me—he knew that he business." the terrace farmers, teachers, librarians, clergymen, "Well, you sweet good, child!" she power. It was maddening it was exasperating And what he an awning where he wanted me! "Thank God!" Mrs. Davenport said, whose s!iai!e upon the by successful men and said warmly. "Fred—here's Harriet! way with this beyond words. An honest brick flooring h: mi: does here, in making his fervently. "He—he doesn't want to— and the in women the world over. Well, my dear, isn't It fortunate that warning would have merely flattered me! Nina to he doesn't still feel—he won't worry and this family, doesn't concern afternoon Are You Equipped to Win? her with its implication of her importance belle, in old enough to decide for herself." you, then?" she asked somewhat diffi­ a. bns' we were late! We'd hardly commenced The New International provides ah, no, Isabelle and Harriet hound, and Nina had been experiencing what i' dently. Harriet's laugh had an unpleasant the means to success. It is an allknowing were among the pleasantest hours of The remaining members of the family might try to hold the child hack—but them a passing glance. and wondered teacher, a universal question edge. her life. A school friend, Amy Hawkes, now streamed forth:.Fred Daven- Granny knew girl nature better than answerer. a little in her haart. The boy was "He is after bigger game than "I wfyo was romance personified, under ar port, a thin, rather gray man of fifty, either of them! If you seek efficiency and advancement handsome, and fascinating, and rich, am. now!" she said. plain and demure exterior, had observed why not make daily with an intelligent face, a worried "Well, then, I must follow them hut it was just a little unusual to have "The brute!" her sister commented use of this vast fund of information? Nina's long conversation with forehead, and kindly eyes Julia, a home," Harriet said, pleasantly. "You Isabelle so openly Interested in any in a whisper. "It—it is all right, Royal Blondin, and had found an arch don't come back tonight?" blonde beauty of twelve Nammy, a one. then?" she asked, a little timidly. .400,00!) Vocabulary Terms. 2700 Pa jes. allusion to it so well received by Nina fat, sweet boy of five, with a bib on To this Madame Carter very pointedly Undefined and vague, this was still "All right!" Harriet echoed, bitterly. 6000 Illustrations. Colored Plates. that she had followed up that line of 30,000 Geographical Subjects. 12,000 made no answer her plans were and Pip, a serious ten-year-old, with somewhere in the background of her "I haven't drawn a happy'breath Biographical Entries. conversation, ever since. black hair and faded blue overalls. not Miss Field's business. thoughts as she returned to Crownlands, since I saw him! All that time came Regular and India-Paper Editions. Amy was to sleep with Nina, and "The child is growing up!" the old Fred was a newspaper man, one of and when she met Ward Carter, up again, as fresh as if it were yesterday—except Writeforspec- Harriet realized, as she superintended the submerged many, underpaid, overworked, lady said, smiling at some thought. wrestling with the engine of his that I have climbed imc:i their fluttered dressing, that she, Harriet, unheard, yet vaguely gratified "Well, we must look for love affairs own rather disreputable racing car, il lustr ti oas, a little way, Linda I was happy—I L-e, etc. Fr a would be obliged to go to their now!" through all the long years by the feeling out in one of the clean, graveled was busy and useful—and I had—I sot of Pockoi door five times, between eleven and ii yuu that his groove was not quite the Harriet felt that there was small spaces near the garage. MUDS had my self-respect!" namo 3 one o'clock that night, and tell them profit in following this line of' conversation. groove of the office, the teller's desk, Harriet felt a little quickening of And suddenly the bright head was paper. that they must stop talking. or the traveling salesman's "beat." She glanced at her twisted her pulses as she saw him. There was G.&C. in Linda's lap, and she was sobbing There was a modest knock at the wrist. Here in the little suburban town his •W mistaking the pleasure in his eyes MERR1AM bitterly. Linda, with a great ache in door, and Rosa came in with a box. CO., opinions gained some little weight "I think I will make that two o'clock as she came close. her heart, circled her arms, motherfashion. Springfield, Mass. She smiled, and put it on Harriet's train, Madame Carter, unless there is from the fact that he had been ten "Spark plugs?" she asked, with the as she had circled them a desk. years with a New York evening paper. sympathy of one to whom the peculiarities hundred times, about her little sister. "For me?" the girl said, smiling in Mrs. Davenport was interested in everything of the car were familiar. answer, and with some surprise. Rosa her sister had to say knew "She's fixed now I've just cleaned CHAPTER V. nodded, and went her way, and Harriet the Carters, and even some of their 'em," Ward announced, flinging away went to the box. It was not closest friends, by name, and asked his cigarette and straightening his SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS Harriet slept in the room with Julia large, a box of dark green florist's nil sorts of questions about them. back. "^She'll go like a bird, now. Say, and Josephine that night, or rather a With Northern cardboard: Hsirriet untied the raffia get in and try her, will you?" he asked, Later in the evening Fred was at tossed and lay wakeful there. At REPUTATION string, tinrl investigated the mass of eagerly. "Come on—come on, be a the piano. It was a poor piano, and Supplied to the Great Northwest about two o'clock the wind streamed silky tissue paper. Inside was an orchid. White for New Illustrated sport!" But perhaps he was as much lie was a poor player who smoked his mercifully in, hot and thick, but She opened the accompanying CATALOGUE surprised as delighted when she very old pipe while he painstakingly prophetic of rain, and Harriet, wandering Duluth Floral & Seed Company envelope, and found Ward's card. On fingered Mendelssohn's "Songs Without simply stepped into the low front seat. about to make windows fast, the back lio had written, "Just a little DULUTH, MINN. He gave her more than one sldewise Words" or the score of "The encountered Linda, on the same errand. worried he's afraid you're Flowers and emblems supplied on because glance as they went dipping smoothly Geisha." But Linda loved him. When the worst of the crackling short notice. Phone, telegraph, write cross at him up and down the green lanes, and said "He will putter away there, perfectly and flashing was over, the girl Harriet stood perfectly still,-the orchid to himself, "Gosh—when she crinkles content, for an hour," she told glanced at her watch. Three o'clock, in one hand, the card crushed in those blue eyes of hers, and her mouth Harriet. "And at ten you'll see him but she could sleep now. She sank the other. Ward Carter had sent orchids. sort of twitches as if she wanted to starting to get Josephine. They're A E deeply into dreams, not to stir until no doubt, to other girls. But laugh, she is a beauty—that's what she great chums—she thinks there's no Linda's alarm clock, hastily smothered, Lawyer Harriet Carter had never had an orchid is!" one in the world like Daddy!" thrilled at seven, and the small International Stale Bank Bldg. before from man. About a week later they met for a Harriet's thoughts had wandered. girls rose with cheerful noise, to let International Falls, Minnesota She put the card into her little desk, few moments in this very side garden. "How's David?" streams of hot sunshine upon her face. and tiie orchid into a slender crystal It was early evening, and twilight and "Lovely. He always comes to us Immediately after breakfast the vase. Then she went back to advise JOHN H. BROWN moonlight were mingled over the silent for Sunday dinner," Linda said. "And two small girls attacked their Saturday Amy and Nina as to gold beads and roses, and the trimmed turf, and the Attorney at Law he always asks for you!" she added, morning's work with a philosophic the arrangement of hair. But a little low brick walls. Office over O. M. Carr & Co. with some signficance. David Davenport, vigor that rather touched their aunt. later, when she was in the big housekeeper's They came straight toward each Fred's somewhat heavy and plodding International Falls. Minnesota Fred had hurried away after his hasty pantry, where several maids other, and stood very close together, brother, a successful Brooklyn meal: the boys were turned out Into were busy with last-minute manipulations and he took both of Harriet's hands. dentist, had never made any secret the backyard, which Pip was expected N O E N I N N E S O A of olives and ice and grapefruit, of his feeling fofr the beautiful Harriet. "Now, what is it—what is it?" the to rake while he watched his small Ward came out and found her, soberly O S I A man said, quickly. "I've been waiting brother. busy in her old checked silk. F. Dr. B. Osburn, Physician and long enough. I can't stand it any "I like David!" Harriet said, in answer Harriet's heart ached deeply for "Why didn't you wear it?" Surgeon in Charge longer! I can't go away tomorrow, to some faint indication of reproach^ them all as she watched the Jersey "Wear it—you had, extravagant perhaps for two weeks, and not Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 78 in her sister's tone. But immediately marshes from the car window a few "A Very Interesting—A Most Unusual child! I'll wear it to town tomorrow." know!" afterward she added, in a Office Int*l State Bank Building hours later. Josephine was to be a Man—A Very Good Family, TooExcellent "No but—" he sank his tone to one "Ward," the girl faltered, lifting an lower voice: "Ward Carter has had stenographer when she finished high International Falls, Minnesota Old Family." of enjoyable confidences—"but were exquisite face that wore, even in the Royal Blondin at the house this school, and little J^}i& had expressed you mad at me? You looked so glum faint moonshine* a troubled and intense week!" some errand I might do for you?" she an angelic ambition to teach a kindergarten at breakfast.'' expression, "can't we let it all said respectfully. Linda's rocker stopped as if by class some day. Nina, at their "Well, you had nothing to do with O. G. SNYDER, D. O., R. O. wait until you get back?" shock. There was an electric silence. This courtesy, from a beautiful ages, had her pony, her finishing it!" she assured him, in her blg-slsterly "Why, Harriet," and his arm went When she spokt again It was with school, her little silk stockings, and young woman to an old one, always antagonized voice. "And it was the first orchid Registered Optometrist about her shoulders, and he bent his awe and incredulity and something her monogramined ivory .toilet set, Madame Carter. Harriet I ever had, and I loved you for asJ Optician face over hers, "Harriet, why not let like terror in her tone. knew that she was casting .about for her trip to England and France and it!" me go happy?" he pleaded. "Royal Blondin! He's In England!" some honeyed and venomous farewell,, At Gledhill's Jewelry Store Italy with her mother and brother It was with something like pain and "You'll see a dozen younger girls at "He was," Harriet said, dryly. "He's and when the muffled thrill of the bell grandmother. impatience in his tone that Ward raid Fort Frances was the Bellamys' camp," Harriet reasoned, been in New York for two years now." Suppose that she. Harriet, right came to them, and the footsteps of gruffly: "girls with whom it would be Linda shuddered. Ella were heard. Immediately afterward in suspecting that Ward's feeling was "Yes, you do! You like me about as infinitely more suitable—" m'ore than the parsing gallantry of Richard Carter came quickly in. "I know—I- remember!" she said in much as you like Nina or Granny!" a a He met Harriet at the door. "Please!" he Interrupted, patiently. MORE whisper. And she added fervently, light-hearted hoy? It would be "I like you—sh! Just a little better "How are you, Miss Field? Tell And almost touching her warm, smooth "I hoped he was dead!" nine-days' wonder, his marriage at than I do Granny!" Harriet confided. Nina to hurry I've got about five minutes!" cheek with his own, and coming so MONEY* twenty-two with his mother's secretary, "So did I!" Harriet said, simply. "Don't spoil your dinner with olives, close that to raise her beautiful eyes more than four years his senior. he said, pleasantly. "Our meeting was entirely accidental. Ward! Don't muss that—there's a that "Don't keep Miss Field she is making was to find his only a few inches away, If Yon Ship Us Your But after that? After there He had no Idea of finding me was dear! Dinner's announced, by the her train!" said his mother, coming he added, fervently, "You love, me and HIDES FURS would be nothing to say or do. Young as surprised as I was." She stopped way. It's quarter past eight." I forward under full sail, and laying love you—Isn't, that all that matters?" Mr. and Mrs. Ward Carter would establish Write Us FIRST For abruptly, musing on some unpalatable EtttbUibed "I'm going!" he grumbled, discontentedly. ... Spccial Information both hands about his. "I'll explain themselves comfortably, and thought. "You wouldn't know" Did she love him? Harriet hoped, the elder Carters would visit them about Nina." him, Linda. He is a perfect freak. "At any rate, I love the orchid!" •sen rncESMnmuEBttiE tm as when she reviewed it ay in the. restless, Isabelle absorbed usual in her own Richard Carter gave his mother the New thought, and poetry, and the occult, Harriet' was KIMS. said, soothingly. He tossing hours of the night,that she mysterious thoughts, and Richard peculiarly warm smile that was especially for prica list, tag* and hilt and Tagore and the Russian write information laughing, too, as he disappeared, but O.B O had thought, in that moment, that she her own. novelists, and the Russian music he Carter— something In his face was vaguely did. sit was wonderful to feel that "Went on with" Ward, eh?" he said, about and been Harriet's thoughts, nonfe too' com-' lectures them he has troubling to her none the less, and she ergman d. Strong, eager arm about her, there was \v extremely successful! wears pongee fortable up to this poiht, stopped here, in his hearty voice. "That's all right, He and then with remembered it now ST.Paul -/AI a sweet and heady intoxication in his and she jiushed^ She woul^. not eq |ej. then. Oh, Miss Field!" he called, after N N coats jui3 red ties, and has his little compunction during her quiet -v Harriet's discreetly retreating back. passion, even If It did not awaken an iS** 'U