W3 r^'?r^ *"?7Trv5\ f^j-^'yrri"' swrm ,, r^. «*V r** mmu .« /.T* ^BhlERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX IKS very unpalatable to her. ~gfie iulked to change'to one of the new gowns, ^aye to coax all the way home andMadame Carter, of for Harriet had a moment contempt meeting them at Crownlands, gazed the new-fotind intimate, who could so rather stonily at the newcomer, granting unscrupulously play upon the girl's tide to eat her only the briefest greeting. But hungry soul. But with this situation oh, how homelike and welcoming the it was possible to cope there was definite beautiful place, mantled in snow, ET O comfort in the fact that Nina had l&Baggk Corn Flakes looked to Harriet's eyes. The snapping not mentioned RoyaPBlondin. fires, the warmth and fragrance Brave in the new gown, who^e lusterless of the big rooms and the very Obvious black velvet made even more by Kathleen NorriJ1 welcome of the maids, all were enchanting brilliant her matchless skin, Harriet •s to her. Her first duty was went to find Ward. She met, instead Just as soon as you serve to make a brief tour below stairs, after' one of his house-guests Corey Eaton, Kellogg's you'll note fussy and which she went up to her own a man some years older than Ward, a faded appetites getting mighty ^S^illuxtwrtiair If?" room. big, rawboned, unscrupulous youth, sharp you'll find big bowls being When they returned from Huntington with a wild and indiscriminate laugh. handed back for "just a few more WS'?./,:-. in the fall, sjhe and Nina, at Richard's "Mr. Eaton," Harriet said, in an undertone, .Jnf" Kellogg's, mother they'rq 1 suggestion, had taken Isabelle's making another strategic decision, wonderful!" handsome rooms, turning both into "come in here to the library, bedrooms and sharing the dressing will you? I want to speak to you." And, that'll make you glad, for rooms and baty that joined them. It "When you speak to me thus," said Kellogg's Corn Flakes area great was here that Harriet found Nina Corey Eaton, passionately. "I can refuse speed-start for the day's doings! awaiting her, still with her hat on XppqriqKt bif Kathleen NarriV you naught!" They make, for health and happy, and loitering with obvious discomfiture. But he sobered instantly into tremendous digestions! Kellogg's are never gravity at Harriet's first confidence. (Continued Frond Last Week) night an5 announce it whenever you leathery or tough, but always joyously "Miss Harriet!" Nina said with a She told him simply of Isabelle's see fit. I may seem a little matter-offact 8YNOPSIS. rush. "You are so sweet about things crisp! death. about this. Miss Field, Btat I am like this, I wonder if you will mind "Well, that surely is rotten—the Kellogg's—the original Corn hoping you understand. I am making CHAPTER I.—Harriet Field, twanty«lffht taking the yellow guest room—it's poor old boy!" said Corey, affectionately. years old and beautiful, Is the so«dal you an unsentimental business offer. Flakes—will be a revelation to really much larger—and leaving this "Ward's mad about his mother, secretary of the flirtatious Mrs. Isa-, I need you in my life and I offer you your taste if you have been eating belle Carter, at "Crownlands," Richard room? You see, when I have friends—" too! Well, say, what do you know Carter's home, and governess of 17-yearold certain advantages which it would be imitations! For your own enjoyment, Harriet, at the dressing table, had about that? We'll beat It, Miss Field, Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four years silly and schoolboyish for me to deny do this —compare the big, old and impressionable, fancies himself in raised her hands to remove her hat. Nixon and I. We came In my car, and I possess. I have a certain standing love with his mother's attractive secretary. Like„ any general, she realized the we'll go to the Jays' for dinner. Say, sunny-brown Kellogg's Corn Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" is in the community which even Mrs. crisis of the apparently unimportant with young Anthony Pope, and the youth that is tough, though, isn't it?" Flakes with other "corn flakes." Carter's madness has not seemed to is taking it very seriously. moment and met It by instinct. It was not eloquent, but it was sincere, Eat some of Kellogg's—then try impair seriously. The boy and the "But you have an extra bed, besides and Harriet made her thanks so CHAPTER II.—Presiding over the teacups the imitations! You'll realize girl both love you, and you have my this summer afternoon, Harriet is the couch, in your room, Nina!" personal and so flattering that the profoundly disturbed by the arrival of a then why Kellogg's Corn Flakes warmest friendship. Your position In Nina cleared her throat, threw "back young man could only fervently push visitor, Royal Blondin. Next day, at a my household will be as free and independent are the largest and fastest selling tea party In the city, Blondin makes himself his plans for departure, swearing secrecy, her head, regarded Harriet between agreeable to Nina, and leaves a deep as was Isabelle's. I do not cereal in the whole world! and evidently torched by being half-closed eyelids in a manner Harriet impression on the unsophisticated girl. know whether you will consider this realized was new, and drawled: taken into her confidence. The fastnesses Do more than ask for "corn CHAPTER III. Harriet's agitation a fair return for what I ask, for after were yielding one after another "I know. But if you would be so over the appearance of Blondin at if.Sy. flakes." Insist upon KELLOGG'S all you are giving your services for "Crownlands" is explained by the fact Harriet could have laughed as she very kind—?" that he had been a disturbing element In life to the Carter household— £°rJL:fTlakes RED and in the left him at the foot of the stairs. Bottomley, "Do you know, I'm afraid I shan't be her life ten years before, and she fears ages of Kellogg's GREEN package! My. but it's "Now, this is of course entirely subject Mb#* him. The m^n Is an avowed adventurer, the butler, respectfully addressed so very kind!" Harriet said, briskly. to what pleases you in the matter," ZVZ.V.tJZI worthwhile! living on the gullibility of the idle rich. her as she turned back into He frankly announces to Harriet his intention he broke off, to say, emphatically. the hall: of marrying Nina, who, as the "I 'merely throw It out as a suggestion. daughter of the wealthy Richard Carter, "Miss Field, I wonder If you'd be so is a highly desirable "catch," and urges It would please me very much. good—?" her to aid him. She is In a sense in his I would draw1 a long breath of relief power, and after pleading with him to She nodded, and accompanied him abandon his scheme agrees to follow a to have It settled. Mrs. Tabor is Instantly into the pantry, where they policy of neutrality. there—stays there takes the head of could be alone. CHAPTER IX.—In the new home Harriet, my table. I topent last night at the "It's Madame," said Bottomley, bitterly, with Madame Carter and Nina, settle club I had cabled Pope—and expected down for a vacation. In a frank talk "she's just 'ad me up there agine, CORNFLAKES with Nina Harriet endeavors to show her an answer, but my mother telephoned It's really tryin'—that's what it is. Blondln's unworthiness, but It has little me at three o'clock this morning to effect on the infatuated girl. On Richard It's tryin'!" Carter's insistence, Harriet is Installed say that Ward and some of his friends "Now, just wait one moment, Bottomley," as mistress of the household, but finding had gone out ic^skating. Ward's Harriet said, soothingly. Al* »km of KELLOGG'S KRUMBLES «sd KELLOGG'S BRAN, cooked and knmMe* her position untenable, declares her been dropped from his university. I intention of leaving. Richard makes an want to talk to you and Pilgrim, Is offer of marriage, as a way out of the can't have that sort of thing, you she In her room? Suppose we go situation, but Harriet, considering such a know!" thing impossible while Mrs. Carter there?" (though divorced) is still alive, refuses, "When—did you want me?" Harriet Pleased with the consideration in and leaves the house. To her old-fashioned Feature Articles ideas, the fact that Richard Carter brought her beautiful eyes back from her manner, the outraged Bottomley has been granted a divorce from his erring some far vista. led the way. The housekeeper was wife does not free him from his marital ties, and marriage with him is impossible. "I thought that if you could meet enjoying a solitary cup of tea she me at my office tomorrow I would bustled hospitably for more cups. CHAPTER —At her sister's home have all the arrangements made. "I want to tell you that your comin' Harriet helps to bring her small nephew Written Expressly For Tke International Falls Press Nina is to be at the Hawkes' I send safely through an attack of diphtheria. has taken a load off my soul," said Ldnda cordially approves Harriet's stand the car for her at three. I thought divorced Pilgrim, a gray, round-visaged woman on the question of marriage with a These are Big, Vigorous, Vital Messages, Inspiring, that you and she could go home together man. David Davenport, Linda's who had a sentimental heart, "and so brother-in-law, warmly presses his suit, to Crownlands. I'll have to be Educative Sensational. I said to Mr. Carter not three days and and Harriet has about made up her mind in town that night." to accept him when Richard Carter appears since! It's been very bad, Indeed, with the announcement that Isabelle "Home—to Crownlands!" Suddenly Miss, since you went, as we was iellin' We have the Exclusive Right of Publication of These is dead and no obstacle to his marriage Harriet's lip quivered and her eyes with Harriet remains. The girl you a bit back. Impudence, orders Articles in This Community. yields and the marriage Is quietly solemnized. brimmed with tears. "I'll be very this way and that, confusion and Harriet offers to tell Richard glad to go back," she said in a low the circumstances of her entanglement what not, and Mr. Ward very wild, with Blondin, but he refuses to listen. voice. really very wild, and so at last Bot Articles In This Issue "Good!" he said. "I needn't tell tomley said he couldn't stand it." "I came here to discuss my own you how I feel about it it helps me "I'm hoping he will reconsider plans, Miss Field," he said at the gate, Ml Know—But If You Would Be So "MAKES PLANS FOR MOTORIST HEAVEN"— out tremendously. Now, about tomorrow, that," Harriet said, pleasantly, with "but a hint from your sister has made Very Kind—V how would you like that to be?" a glance at the face Bottomley tried me fear that perhaps I am too late. By Geo. C. Diehl, President American Automobile "Well," she laughed desperately "You're one of my duties here, you to make Inflexible. "For I'm going to She tells me that you may be making through her tears. "We're Church of know, little girl, and I think Daddy tell you two old friends some news. plans of your own." Association. England!" She laughed again when would prefer to have me near you! With no further preamble Harriet announced "David?" Harriet said, resentfully. he took out his notebook and wrote Now, If you like to ask him, perhaps Isabelle's death. "I have no plans with David!" she "ONE ACRE OATS, ONE DAY'S PAY"— the words down. he'll not agree with me In which case said, simply. The servants were naturally "Once it's done," he said, reassuringly, I shall move immediately! But meanwhile—" shocked. There were a few moments "I didn't know," Richard answered. By Eugene Davenport, Dean, College of Agricul­ "you'll see my mother and all of ejaculatory and sorrowful surprise. "I came to ask you to come back. the rest of them come into line! It Nina's face was scarlet she left the When this had died away, Harriet ture, University of Illinois. Things are in an absolute mess with puts you in a definite position, and room abruptly. A moment or two later had more news. us. We have not had a serene moment although I may seem to be rushing and into the adjoining since you left us—three weeks ago." Harriet sauntered "I'm going to tell ,you two some confusing you now, there is a more room, and found her again. The younger To go hack—back to Crownlands! thing," she began. "You are the very Watch for these articles written by the nation's peaceful time to come—we'll hope!" girl was assuming a ruffled and berlbboned Harriet's spirit soared. She knew she first to know, and I know you'll be leaders. They will appear in every issue of the International he added grimly. "Here's Hansen negligee, and tossing her must go hack She had only despaired glad. Before I left the house last October, Falls Press during the coming year. now. Lovely children," he added, of wraps and street dress about carelessly. of their ever needing her again. Every Mr. Carter did me the—the the young Davenports and some intimates Harriet noted this with disapproving fiber of her being strained toward the great honor to ask me to—to marry who were tumbling out of the eyes, but said nothing. There was old life. him." car, "lovely mother." an immense picture of Mrs. Tabor on "Linda, my sister, thinks it would It gave her inward delight even to the dressing table, and she found in "You'll not speak of this yet?" Harriet be unwise." she began. The man interrupted voice It It made the miracle seem said, suddenly thinking of David that a sudden solution of the strange her. more real. Bottomley and Pilgrim ex and Linda. "My sister might think change in Nina. "There has been a new turn of changed stupefied gJapces In a dead N We'll Back The "'With Ladybird's unending devotion, it lacked deliberation—so close upon events. Miss Field. I had some information silence. to Ninette,'" read Harriet, from Mrs. Carter's death. I'd rather have last night which may make a "I met him at eleven o'clock today, the inky scrawl across the picture. a little time, get things straightened difference," he said, gravely. "I Harriet finished, simply, "and we "Do you call her Ladybird, Nina? You reived a wire from Pope, in France. out—" drove to Greenwich In Connecticut, and she have formed a pretty strong "Oh,, certainly—certainly!" She My wife—Isahelle—died on an operating and we were married at one o'clock." friendship, haven't you??' Farmer could see he was relieved, was indeed table yesterday afternoon, in Bottomley and Pilgrim glanced "Oh, something more than that!" Paris." in cheerful spirits, as he gave again at each other, glanced at Harriet, Nina drawled in her new manner. Harriet, stupefied, could only,look his furred hand to the children's mlttened opened their mouths slowly. ones. They thanked him shrilly "She's the best sort!" at him fixedly for a long minute. Hei '"To think of you bein' Mrs. Carter!" "Does she have my room when she Hps parted, but she did not speak. and Hansen smiled warmly upon Harriet Pilgrim marveled In a whisper is here?" Harriet presently suggested, as he touched his cap. Then they "Oh, sh-sh-sh! You mustn't say it "Died?" she whispered sharply. The sympathetically. "Now, my dear," she were gone. Linda, watching from the even!" Harriet caught both their man nodded without speaking. "But— added, as Nina's quick self-conscious window, thought that the chauffeur's hands. "No one must know. I only but what was it?" Harriet said. and hostile look gave consent, "Mrs. obvious respect for Harriet was rather told you so that you would help me, For answer he gave her the crumpled impressive. She came to the porch, Tailor is too thoroughly acquainted so that you would understand! There cable, with the bare statement of and Richard waved his farewell to with convention to blame you if your This bank stands squarely behind all those things will be no change, anywhere—' at fact. She read it dazedly*, looked father keeps you under a governess' them en masse. Bottomley shook a dazed head but his somber face, and read it again. eye for a little while longer. You're which serve to ea.se the problems of rural life and "He's very nice," said Linda. "Poor Pilgrim looked at the other woman "I can't believe it!" she said. the most precious thing your father fellow, he probably would have had with kindly eyes, and presently said: promote the general welfare of the farmers. "Well, now," Richard began presently has, Nina, and as I used to remind you an entirely different moral code, if "You'd have been a very silly girl I in a different tone, "we are, as years ago, you don't begin to have the his life had been different!" Harriet not to take him, and—as I always tell said, Miss Field, in a mess. I haven't restrictions that the European princesses inwardly writhed, but she did not stir the girls—love'll come fast enough aft told the children this. they have a lot. We're vitally concerned about poor yields, inade- have to bear!" in the sisterly embrace of Linda's erward!" of young people there over Christmas. This view of the case was always arm. The words came back to Harriet I My mother and Nina are planning pleasing to Nina's vanity she was quate market facilities, low prices, insufficient credits, hours later, when the house was quiet for Year's some entertainment New quite clever enough to see that a friend and when, comfortably wrapped in a At three o'clock the next afternoon night, and I suppose this will end all protected and confined, watched and loose silk robe, she was musing beside Nina Carter, leaving the Hawkes' mansion lack of transportation and every such problem affect­ that I should suppose that Nina and valued, would lose no prestige with in New York city, with a great her fire. Nina" was asleep to her of brother must have a period the charming "Ladybird." She pouted Ward, who was headachy and feverish, many laughing farewells, descended to mourning. I am deeply involved in a and Harriet saw that for the moment ing the farmer. her father's waiting car and discovered, she had paid a late visit. Madame big in meetings project Brazil, committee the battle was hers. sitting therein, an extremely Carter had not come down to dinner, all January—I can't through "Darling gown!" said Harriet of the handsome young woman, furred and and when Harriet had sent in a mes swing it, that's all. picture. We want each farmer in this section, whether a sage, had asked to .be excused from trimly .veiled, and deep in pleasant "Now, when we last talked of the "Oh, she has the most wonderful conyersscion with Hansen. any calls, iven from Nina and Miss subject together," Richard pursued in clothes!" It was the old Nina's voice. "Miss Harriet!" Nina ejaculated In JV'4, If evening. customer of this bank or not, to know that we accept t* a ^businesslike way, ''you objected to a tone that., bet rayed a vague resent* "Has she been here very muchfc Nina had chattered constantly during the suggestion of a marriage, because ment as well as a definite surprise. Harriet said, after a moment. the meal. Granny had had a ter my wife was then still alive. Am I his problem as our own and offer him our help to sat­ "Oh, lots! She loves to be here, and "Nina, dear!" Harriet accepted rible time with them all. And Ward correct?" "bettuse Nina's kiss warmly. "Are you glad I can't think why," Nina said, and Nina and Royal"—the name sud "Yes, that's correct 1" Harriet said, to see me?" And as Nina istumbled people are all crasy to get her, isfactorily meet these conditions. denly leaped between them again voicejessly. She felt herself beginning in and established herself, Harriet and she could go to the most wonderful had. been arrested for speeding. And to tremble. continued easily: "Your father and and things. But she really is dinners Daddy had threatened Nina with "My in coming today was purpose just like a girl, herself sometimes .we I had a talk, my dear, and he sug-. boarding school, and Granny had to suggest that, if that was your sole $¥••:'• ,,V" gested that I come back for a while. burst right out. laughing, because we cried. objection," the continued, pains-r* man So Hansen picked me up at the office think exactly the same about things! "Where is Mr. Blondin now, Nina?1 4#v' takingly, might feel the situation "you and here l^am! He tried to telephone And she just loves picnics, and to let "Harriet had asked. First National Bank ^'vL £. changed now. I need you. *We all do. her hair down—and she's so funny! you, I know, but you were out. And "Oh, he's round!" Nina had said, PS If it 18 my mother who makes it impossible, You'll just love" her when you know 1S1I now," salh Harriet, glancing at her it* airily. "I suppose you put Daddy up or 'some other thing that I wrist watch, "I think we will go right her—w 1 to saying that I wasn't to see ao much change—why, I must get along cannot home, please, Hansen!" Nina, Harriet reflected, had had a of *him!" she had added, with her International Falls Minnesota best But proposition is as I can. my thorough dose of poison. It would take, Nina had been her own mistress worldly wise drawl. that are quietly married f\ you and I poison to eure for several delicious weeks, and to like many diseases, more come-back tomorrow tomorrow you acounter dose. Golnj. to her room ha^e any sort of restrictiod jjgain was her. be Continue^ 'Vsi* y(To !k" -t' rC iaiitiiiiiiyiiiiiiH