7 1 '-Hi INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS -pahf. TX A f\ S* something to eafffrifT MIsaHarrtet the world with- mysterious half-lights laced Amy," $at, down on the edge of march of' events. Richard announced will look oat for us." and long wet shadows, she crept ~out the, bed, .and. shook. the girl slightly. that after consideration he had decided Into the dew-drenched garden and, with "And I'd like to see you for a moment "Ton mustn't give way! Come now, that it would be wiser for the a triumphant sense of being alone, in the library. Miss Field," Richard my dear, you must face this like a family to weather the storm of ia1k\ went into the wood. Early walks said, rather wearily. "I want woman. Think how your father and that wonld follow Isabelle's disappearance were one of her delights. It was almost something sent to the papers," he explained 4w Ward will look tp you—" %. in some neighborhood less connected seven o'clock when she came in an undertone. Acting, all of it, said Harriet in her with her. He had therefore r* back, glowing, beginning to feel warm Ah—they all wanted her, and needed soul. But despite the youthful appetite leased an establishment on Long and headachy, beginning to realize her! How quick, and how efficient, for heroics, there were real tears Island, where the children could have that the July day would hot, beginning and how self-effacing Harriet was as be in Nina's eyes, as there had been In their swimming and tennis, and his to be conscious of the eight she went about the business of making her grandmother's a few hours ago. mother her, usual nearness to town, but them all comfortable! mile tramp. In the garden at Crownlands "Yes, that's true!" she said, wiping where they would be comparatively she met Royal, leaving the They talked deep into the night, a pwollen face on the handkerchief inaccessible to a curious press and house. Harriet knew, for she herself was SB#"", Harriet supplied. "But oh—I don't believe pnblic, and might disappear for a He studied her approvingly. sleepless, and she could see from the it, and* my father will sue them grateful interval. The life at Huntington "Harriet, do you know that you are upper balcony that a stream of golden for libel, you see if he doesn't! My would be less formal than at extraordinarily easy to look upon? ^^uliwfwiiioiu -JjJT light was pouring across the brilliant mother's the purest and sweetest and Crownlands, but the house he had What gets you up so early?" flowers beneath the library windows. best woman alive—^and I'll kPl any on taken was comfortable and rooaiy "I've been walking," she said briefly She reviewed the incredible events who says any different!" there would be plenty of room tor and unresponsively. His social pleasantries of the past few days, and the actors "Oo-oo, to see It in the paper there Nina's girl friends and Ward's guests. Instantly antagonized her, and drifted before her vision fitfully: Isabelle, right on the bed," said Amy. in Miss Field, Bottomley and Hansen he saw it. white-bosomed and beautiful, in reedy, colorless little voice, as Nin» would please see to It that the meve Xopqriqht by Kafhleen Norris her prime Tony Pope, passionate and "Well, I thought perhaps I had better stopped suddenly. "Oo-oo. I though* was made with all possible expeditton. get out. I'm at the club for a day wretched Royal, low-voiced, dreamy, Nina would die!" Nina began to orj er "I have explained to my mother sad vContinued From Last Week) two. Ward tells me," he added, giv­ poetic, with his eloquent black eyes boy home at once! He must know. the children," he said, quietly, to Har­ But there is of course a chance that again, but more quietly. "I guess I had SYNOPSIS. Nina, newly awakened Ward, weak, ing the girl a sharp glance, -"that you Mrs. Carter Is-—is planning to return. better go—" Amy finished, plaintively. riet, "that Mrs. Carter has asked for boyish, ardent Madame Carter, full of and he—eh?" There may be a woman friend with "Oh, not" said Nina, in a choked CHAPTER I.—Harriet Field, twentytight a divorce, which will, of course, be theatrical dignity and well-rounded Harriet flushed. the years old and beautiful, ia ao«tal her—it's not probable, but It's possible. voice, aa* she (clung to her frined. "N/, immediately arranged. Now, Miss Mrs. phrases, ., and lastly—simple, strong, secretary of the flirtatious Isabelle "I'm sorry he told you!" I don't want any one In the darlingl you stay with me. Oh, I Field, you will understand that you Carter, at "Crownlands," Richard anxious to protect them all, even from "Oh. my dear child!" Blondln made Carter's 17-yearold home, and governess of house, or out of It, to suspect, and if must go see my father, and my poor are in charge from now on. My mother years their own follies—Richard. Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four a deprecatory motion of his fyands. you think It Is possible, I should like grandmother! Oh, Amy, perhaps you will—well, you know how to handle old and impressionable, fancies himself in "Not one word of blame, not one "Of course, I think yeu're very wise," love with his mother's attractive secretary. Nina protected!" had better go, for my family will need her! She is old—enjoys her little bit ugly Insinuation," she mused, "yet she he added. Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" is "I understand," Harriet said, quietly. me tonight. My mother—" said Nina, of mischief sometimes! Anything uausual with young Anthony Pope, and the youth has shamed him, and he is so honorable This smote upon her new-born selfrespect, She crossed the hall, and for the is taking it very seriously. crying again. you can refer to me I shall be and she has made him conspicuous, and all the glory departed first time In four years entered Isabelle's She and Amy parted solemnly, with there every week, anyway." when he Is so modest!" OH A PTE ft II.—Presiding over the teacups from the day. The man saw her breast suite unannounced. It was In many kisses. this summer afternoon, Harriet Is He paused and ruffled the scattered She thought of Isabelle, fresh from rise and fall with some quick emotion profoundly disturbed by the arrival of a exquisite order streams of late afternoon "It's a thing that might happen to papers that were on the flat-topped visitor, Royal Blondln. Next day, at a Germalne's careful hands, lying In her as he half-smilingly watched her. light were falling on the gay me, or to any girl," said Amy gravely. tea party in the city, Blondln makes himself desk before him. Harriet watched 'exquisite white against the cushions "The lad gets a beautiful' and wise agreeable to Nina, and leaves a deep walls and the bright chintzes. The Harriet had an upsetting vision of him anxiously. She thought he looked impression on the unsophisticated girl. of a deck chair, smiling, in the rosy and very discreet wife," he was beginning, novels Isabelle had been skimming, stout, high-busted Mrs. Hawkes, panting tired and old, and her heart ached at flattering light under the green awning, but Harriet silenced him angrily. CHAPTER III. Harriet's agitation the gold service of her dressing table, as she discussed the details of the the troubled attempt he was makktg at the infatuated man beside her. over the appearance of Blondln at "He loves me. I don't know what the great four-poster with its deeps of Red Cross drive, but she was, very "Crownlands"^ is explained by the fact to simplify the tragedy for them aM. "Ugh!" said Harriet, with a healthy a boy's love is worth he's only twenty-two, transparent white embroideries over that he had been a disturbing element in sympathetic with the young girls, and He was not handsome, she reflected, uprush of utter disgust. These few after all. But he does love her life ten years before, and she fears white, all spoke of the beautiful woman but surely there had never been him. Tlje man Is an avowed adventurer, me! But believe me, Royal, you months would not be cloudless for Isabelle, who had spent so many hours here. living on the gullibility of the idle rich. keener «r pleasanter gray eyes, and a by any means. And after them, couldn't hurt me—as you are hurting He frankly announces to Harriet his intention On the dressing table, with Its splen- mouth so strong when it was in repoee, of marrying Nina, who, as the me!—if there was no truth in what what? Was it conceivable that those daughter of the wealthy Richard Carter, so honest when it smiled. Not fflfce fatal sixteen years would fall to identify 1« a highly desirable "catch," and urges Ward's ready and incessant laughter, her to aid him. She is In a sense In his Tpny and Ifcabelle wherever they power, and after pleading with him to not like Royal Blondln's carefully calculated went, even though the press was not abandon his scheme agrees to follow a amusement. policy of neutrality. eagerly assisting them? Supposing (To be Continued) that Isabelle never thought of Crownlands, CHAPTER IV.—Harriet visits her married sister, Linda Davenport, with whom of her handsome son and her she had had her home during her unfortunate young daughter, of the man whose patience acquaintance with Blondln, and and cleverness had lifted her to tells her of his reappearance. The two women, realizing the unscrupulous nature all this luxury from an apartment in a t&P of the man, view the future with apprehensioij, small town, would no memory of the place she had held, and the friendships CHAPTER V. Knowing the tender she had commanded, haunt her? feeling she has inspired in Ward Carter, Harriet is tempted to marry him for the Truly there was always society for the position and wealth he can give her, Isabelles, but to Harriet's clean sense WEBSTER'S though realizing she does not love him. Blondln has ingratiated himself with It seemed but the society of a jail. Madame Carter, Richard's mother, and "I wouldn't change places with her!" NEVTINTERNATIONAL she is whole-heartedly in favor of his marriage with Nina. Ward urges Harriet Harriet decided, in the soft silence and to marry him at once. She procrastinates. darkness of the summer night. From Isabelle's problem her thoughts DICTIONARIES are in use by business CHAPTER VI.—Angered at his wife's went to her own, to Royal Blondin. She men, engineers, bankers, too open flirtation with young Anthony judges, architects, physicians, was wakeful and restless tonight simply Pope, Richard Carter markedly shows his resentment. Isabelle, ardently returning farmers, teachers, librarians, clergymen, because she could not decide just her youthful lover's attachment, elopes men and by successful I Is how much she need fear him. Firstly, with him on his yacht, and pursuit women the world over. useless. The news of the sensational affair, was there any reason for antagonizing exaggerated, of course, by gossip, Are You Equipped to Win? him, and secondly, would he hurt her is kept as much as possible from being public property. if she did? For Royal could not punish The New International provides her without punishing himself, and the means to success. It is an allknov/ing »ti*r could not banish her from Crownlands teacher, a universal question "Why not have it at night, with lanterns?" answerer. if he ever hoped to show his own face Harriet said, quite Involuntarily. "Oh—It's a Lie— It's a Lie! My If you seek efficiency and advancement there again. But Nina And again a pang of self-contempt Beautiful Little Mother!" Nina Was why not make daily Was Blondin so bad? She tried to swept over her. Tt was hateful, Sobbing. use of this vast fund ci information? ask herself the question honestly, and it was incredible, but she was playing "The Geisha, Pulled Out at Half Past "The Lad Gets a Beautiful and Wise even agreed with Nina, when Amy was an honest shudder answered it before his game as calmly as if doubts and 400,030 Vocabulary Terms. 270C1Pages. Six." and Very Discreet Wife," He Was gone, that it would be much more sensible it was fairly framed. She tried to picture 6000 Illustrations. Colored reluctance had never entered her 30,000 Geographical Subjects. Beginning, But Harriet Silenced Him did length doubled in the mirror, was to1 take her bath, and put on her Nina's marriage, their early days heart. Biographical Entries. Angrily. the great fan that her hand had idly white organdie, and then go find her together, the breakfast table, where At four o'clock Richard came home, Regulai and India-Paper Editions. wielded, only a few days ago, in an father. the crude little girl blundered and and the instant Harriet saw his face you say. Ward has had three years Writcforspec- hour of domestic felicity and happiness floundered in conversation, her helpless They dined almost silently, and were she realized, with a shock even sharper at college—I've not been a member of irn-n iliu-str^tions, about to disperse quietly for the night, devotion, that would annoy and exasperate than the original moment of incredulity, the family all that time without knowing et". i-'ree, a What tell Nina?--she wondered, .after an hour of half-hearted conversation him. She saw Nina's nearsighted to that he had had no success Packet that he is not a saint! He has ft of MLIOS if you going downstairs. But Nina proved in the drawing room, obviously eyes-welling with hurt tears in his search. He was alone. His lived as other men do—as women permit a in a this Nina's check book eagerly surrendered pleasantly Indifferent to the maternal endured by Richard simply for his papur. face was drawn and gray, he looked decent men to live, 1 suppose. absence when she and Amy came up mother's sake, when Ward burst in. to win from her lord a few delicious G.&C. hot and rumpled and utterly weary Nina's different. She's younger. She MERR1AM hours of the old flattery, the old attention. the tennis court for tea. To the He had traveled almost four hundred more, he who had always been the from has never had an affair—" CO., guest or two who came calling Harriet. miles by motor that day, his face was pink of well-groomed perfection "We were not discussing Nina!" Springfield, Mass. Installed quite naturally now behind streaked with dirt and oil, and ghastly looked old. He asked Bottomley "It would take a clever woman to "No, I know it. But you reminded the cups and saucers, explained with fatigue. He went straight to briefly If Madame Carter was in her hold him," Harriet thought, "and it me that what I object to in you. with Carter visiting with his father. room, rind, being Informed that she that Mrs. was wouldn't be worth a clever woman's her. I myself am doing with him—or friends—having a beautiful time, too, va«. went hastily upstairs. "Say, what's all this!" he said, in a while." something very like it! Except apparently. was voice hardly recognizable. Harriet Nina—Ward—Royal—Richard. The It to the old lady's beautiful that—" Harriet floundered a little, SEEPS SEEDS SEEDS Perhaps Nina suspected that something room saw that he had been drinking. "I got wearying procession began again. Royal sitting that Harriet was summoned but regained her thread—"except that knew was unusual. She looked from your wire, and we started. I thought With a Northern a few minutes later. She might treat her with honesty and he does care for u)e." she repeated: REPUTATION' her father to Harriet, and after a the Mater was sick, perhaps. My God at once that he had told his mother honor. He was not small in everything, "he loves beauty—I can say that to Supplied to the Great Northwest all he knew and feared. moment's silence asked abruptly: —that worried me!" he .broke off bitterly. and she had never done him harm. you without your misunderstanding!— White for New Illustrated "When is Mother coming back?" "Blondin came with me we agltaredA But—there might come the terrible moment and then, lie knows me. we have been Madame Carter was shockingly CATALOGUE stopped on the road for dinner, and when she had to face Richard intimate for years, we are congenial!" Duluth Floral & Seed Company She had a deep sense of the "1 don't know!" her father answered, the man had a paper there. Is that "He knows everything about you." dramatic, but she was not entirely acting quickly. with the confession. Yes, she had OrLDTH, MINN. what you wanted me for—I don't believe If known him before. Yes, they had entered Royal repeated, innocently, as the Flowers and emblems supplied on now. Her face was pale under Its "Say, listen are we going to dress?" short notice. Phone, telegraph, write It! It's a dirty lie, and the bounder into a tacit compact. Yes. she defense she made were perfectly acceptable. rouge, and the painful tears of age asked Amy. Nina, instantly diverted, that put that in the paper—" had kept from Nina's father a secret But again she was stung to stod In her eyes. suggested that they go In. Nina's silence. "Miss Field!" said Madame Carter, "I'm glad you came home, my boy," that, while it might be unimportant, awkward bigness and Amy's mousy "we have just had a most terrible—a Richard said. "I've been waiting for certainly should have been told him. "I am going to tell him frankly, exactly A E neutral tones Njjvere as well displayed unexpected—blow you—" what you have said to me," Harriet in one garment as another, but both Impossible to think the thing to any Lawyer most said, presently, with decision and Harriet simulated expectancy. Harriet heard no more she slipped conclusion! Too many possibilities girls debated over pinks and blues, Internationa! State Bank Bldg. relief in her voice. "I shall remind crepes and mulls, every evening, as from the room. There were genuine might alter the entire situation. If she "There is every reason to believe," International Falls, Minnesota him that I have always been poor, and if the world was watching them alone. tears in her own eyes now for the were married safely to Ward, for example—? pursued Madame Carter, majestically, that It is utterly impossible for me to Harriet lingered for only word. boy had flung himself face downward But then she dared not marry "that my unfortunate daughter-in-law, a JOHN H. BROWN separate the thought of him from the Mr. Carter's wife, Isabelle, has yielded against a great chair, and was crying. Ward until Royal's attitude was "Mr. Carter, It occurred to me that Attorney at Law thought of what my life as his wife All the household knew it Harriet finally defined. For If her position to the passion of her lover! No, old Mrs. Singleton is going to California, would gain." Office over O. M. Carr & Co. "let me talk, Richard," she Interrupted in her own car, tomorrow. could read it in Bottomley's carefully were dangerous now, what would it be "Be careful how you play your hand usual manner and quiet speech. In the if she had committed herself irrevocably International Falls. Minnesota herself, as the man raised haggard I was wondering if we might confide little music room across the hall Royal to deception by marriage? Ward's alone!" the man said. "Half confidence eyes to watch lier impersonally, "far in Mrs. Singleton—she was always Blondln was waiting. isn't much more than none at better to face the facts, my dear! My very fond of Mrs. Carter—and young, crude intolerance sitting In N O E N I N N E S O A all!" son tells me, Miss Field the—the give out the impression that Mrs. Carter judgment upon his wife!—Harriet "This is a terrible thing!" he said, O S I A well-nigh incredible statement that— seriously. shivered. A moment later they parted the had suddenly decided to make the Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and forgetting the honor of womanhood, woman entering the house for a cup trip with her." Suddenly she fell upon her knees, "Oh, frightful!" Harriet agreed. A Surgeon in Charge 'of coffee, and some conference with and the tender claims of maternity—* and dropped her bright head against "That's an idea," Richard said, rather flat silence ensued. She seemed" Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 "Miss Field," Richard did not have butler and housekeeper, and the man thoughtfully. "I could see Mrs. Singleton to have nothing to say to Royal now. the wide balustrade. For a long time the manner of interruption, but his starting off briskly for his early walk. Office Int'l State Bank Building tonight—and—and talk it over." Harriet had not prayed. But now, In But she was not surprised when, a quiet voice dominated the other voice But Blondin was smiling, as he went a few words, and quite without premeditation, International Falls, Minnesota "It might serve for only a few moment later, Nina came softly In, the none the less. Madame Carter fell silent, upon his way, and Harriet was white days," Harriet submitted. there burst from her the picture of girlish distress, with her wet and watched him with mournful with anger and impotence. most sincere prayer of her life. She "Yes, I see," he agreed, slowly. eyes and fresh white gown. pride. "Miss Field," he said, "we looked up at the stars. "I'll put everything else I have in "Well, I can give Nina a hint now!" "I thought it best to leave Ward O. G. SNYDER, D. 0_ R. O. want your help. The facts are these: this world in the balance, Roy!" she Harriet said, going. with Granny and Father," Nina said, "God!" she said, softly, aloud, "help Williams had all the roads watched said to herself, ln the sunshiny silence me! Make me do what Is right, however But it was too late for any soothing In vague explanation, going straight to Registered Optometrist they did not by motor. Mrs. Carter go of the breakfast room. "But 111 hold deception of Nina. A scene was In Blondin, who rose, ""dusty and weary, hard it is. Father, don't let me and Optician reached New London at five o'clock no more stolen conversations with full progress in Nina's bedroom, and but with a solicitous manner that was make another mistake!" yesterday Pope's boat, the Geisha, you! I'll break my engagement with At Gledhilt's Jewelry Store Infinitely soothing. Harriet's eye had only te go from pulled out at half-past six. From Ward, I'll go to Richard Carter and the prone forte on the bed to the His manner, Harriet had grudgingly Fort Frances CHAPTER VIII. what Williams' men picked up, at the humiliate myself, IH go back to Linda's crushed newspaper that had drifted to to admit, was perfection. When Richard house without a penny in the dock, Pope did not fexpect her, was to the floor, to know that the secret was and Ward joined them a few moments Sudden peace and confidence flooded hare sailed this morning. She arrived, world—but I'll be done with you! out: Isabelle's face, radiant and happy, later, he expressed himself with her spirit. She sat on, dreaming and and evidently he thought It wise Thank God, however the story may looked out from the page. It was manly brevity to the older man. He MOKE planning, but with no more mental distress. MONEY sound, especially with your Interpretations to hurry their start. The pier had a flanked by two smaller pictures, Richard's realized, said Blondin, simply, that he With the prayer she had gained, dozen bpxes for the Geisha on it, groceries .on it, you haven't my honor and Anthony Pope's. Harriet was absolutely de trop he had merely in adme irabtle fashion a new self-r*, and what not, that they left ln yonr keepIn th swm could see the big letters: "Young imagined, as "the lad" had imagined, spect. She would not let him frighten hnvAt" to have! If You Ship behind They will probably skirt the Millionaire—-Wife of Richard Carter." that the sudden summons from camp her again after all, while she commanded HIDES- coast for a few days, and put In The house was absolutely quiet The deluge was upon them. meant illness or ordinary emergency, her own soul, Royal Blondin somewhere for supplies. But that"— the clock on the stairs struck a silvery or he would net have intruded at this "Oh—It's a lie—It's a lie My beautiful could not hurt her. he passed his hand wearily across his seven. Harriet went noiselessly to her time. He would not express a sympathy little mother!" Nina was sobbing. "And he shall not marry Nina, own room Nina was sleeping heavily. forehead—"thftt doesn't concern us WBt TIC VES1 "Oh, no, it's not true! It's a that must sound extremely airy either!" Harriet decided, going in, now. We got there tot ten last night— She flung off her clothes, sank Into to the stricken family. And now. If lie! Oh, how shall I ever hold up my stiff and cold, but full of resolution. Wt he foe »rfc« Uh. up sb4 hours too late, of course," His voice bed. And now at last sleep came, they would lend him Hansen, he would a head again—to be disgraced—now She looked at clock—it was almost deep, delicious, .satisfying. fell, he mused, with a knitted brow. just when I'm so young—and ha-hhappyj" go over to the club— D.BERGMAN S OD. four. Three hours' sleep was not to be A day or two later there was a family "Well!" he said, suddenly recalling "Nonsense!" Ward said. "You're all despised, but Harriet was in no m6od ST.PAUL himself. "Now, Miss Field, I want conference in the library, and Harriet "Nina, my -child, control yourself!" dirty and tired and hungry, and so am -/•YIN:,'. get I for it. Instead she took a'bath, and Ward. want to hold of the realized more clearly than ever Harriet ignoring the storing and pale- L, We'll clean up, and then we'll have just as the dawn whs beginning to flood that it was to forecast the Impossible •m