A & THE INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PAGE SIX S'! *S£ spoke, ft was as if tEe muscles of her "Frnttar, Jimmy, fatter MUt throat were constricted. Ymm tumm imuthmr "Yes, I see. Certainly, I see. We thmr• wn't mny be brtmUmmt tOl brimg will have to let them talk. This Is— thm Kmllmgg'm Corm simply ute best-arrangement possible under the circumstances!" "It is an arrangement that a man :i & perhaps has no right to ask of a woman," Richard said. "Love means a 4 1 great doal in a girl's life, and I suppose there is nothing else that makes up for the lack of it. But you are /F.f. not an ordinary woman, and I assure *you that In every way that I can I mean to prove to you how deeply I Compare flavor crispness! and appreciate what you are doing for us Zlj?" all." KELLOGGS "Thank you!" Harriet said, almost against a& Inaudibly. "Simply change your name on your Corn Hakes you ever ate! cheeks," Richard said, thoughtfully. "I shall have Fox step into the bank ^opqriqht' bq Kathleen Norris with the authenticated signature. And if there is anything else, use your ewa Takes the rough edges off hopping out of the covers Judgment. Perhaps, If I tell my aether, twitched by a sudden dimple. (Continued From Last Week) these snappy mornings just thinking about that lusty you would like to write to certain She glanced at the dock, went slowly SYNOPSIS. bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes waiting down-stain! friends—? You can continue te draw to the door, and slowly down the on the Corn Exchange, that's simplest, Big and brown and crispy-crunchy flakes—a revelation big square stairway. Richard and his CHAPTER I.—Harriet Field, twwaty|ht and I hope you'll remember that you children were In the lower hall, and In appetizing flavor, wonderful in wholesome goodness— years old and beautiful, la the have a large personal credit there." he 1 secretary of the flirtatious Mrs. Isale they all glanced up. the most deUcious cereal you ever tasted! Carter, at "Crownlands," Richard added, with a smile. "It occurred to Down In the soft glow of light came iter's home, and governess of 17-year•Id Instantly you like Kellogg's, not only because of appealing me tonight that you—you mustn't let Harriet, smiling as she slipped her left Nina Carter. Ward, twenty-four years Cveand flavor, but because Kellogg's are not "leathery"! impressionable, fancies himself In your sister worry about that new arm about Nina, and gave the free "That's All—My Dear!" He Said with his mother's attractive secretary. house. If you want your own car—" Kellogg's area delight to eat, as the little folks as well hand to Nina's father. She was apparently Mrs. Carter's latest "affair" Is Obediently. "Oh. good heavens, Mr. Carter!" with young Anthony Pope,, and the youth as the big ones will tell you! And Kellogg's ought to cooj and unself-conscious inwardly Is taking: it very seriously. Harriet said, suffocating. she felt feverish, frightened again. He was still smiling when she be best—they're the original Corn Flakes! You have "Ask me anything that puzzles you," CHAPTER II.—Presiding over the teacups and excited and happy, all at once. closed the door. only to make comparison to realize this summer afterntf&'n, Harrlqt la the man said. And with a brief goodnight Richard was In evening dress, too) h6 that quickly! profoundly disturbed by the arrival of a. he was gone. Harriet, who had visitor, Royal Blondin. Next day, at a looked his best his dark hair brushed CHAPTER XII. tea party in the city, Blondin makes himself dropped back into her chair, sat absolutely to a shining crest, and his gray eyes KELLOGG'S Com Flakes for agreeable to Nina, and leaves a deep motionless for a long, long time. full of pleasure. impression on the unsophisticated girl. It was the gayest spring that Harriet tomorrow morning's spread! They Her eyes were fixed on space she TOASTED "Well, Miss Field—I" he said, a little had ever known at Crownlands, get the day started right! Insist CHAPTER III. Harriet's agitation hardly breathed It almost seemed as breathlessly. "Well! Tour vacation for even at her best, Isabelle had been over the appearance of Blondin at #*ADll upon KELLOGG'S Corn Flakes in "Crownlands'1 is explained by the fact if her heart was stopped. hasn't done you any harm!" socially an individualist, devoting herself the RED and GREEN packagi that he bad been a disturbing element In Richard went downstairs, surprised "We had to make an occasion of to one man at a time, and to nobody her life ten years before, and she fears FLAKES the kind that are not leathery! him. The man is an avowed adventurer, to feel still vaguely unsatisfied. He our coming home!" Harriet said, with else, and the whole family had living on the gullibility of the idle rich. had had his word with Harriet, had a nervous laugh, trying not to see the necessarily accepted Isabelle's attitude. He frankly announces to Harriet his intention said indeed much that he had not ex'pected of marrying Nina, who, as the admiration In his eyes. Richard had been too busy to daughter of the wealthy Richard Carter, to say. However, it was much "You look wonderful!" Nina said. notice or protest, the old lady helpless, is a highly desirable "catch," and urges better to let the world know their relationship "Why, you saw this gown at Nassau," and Nina a child. her to aid. him. She is In a sense In his power, and after pleading with him to he was perfectly satisfied Harriet protested. But now there was a beautiful and abandon his scheme agrees to follow a to have it so. But still, as he settled "Louise—or (whoever she was of gracious woman in Isabelle's place, policy of neutrality. himself to an hour's reading, the Prussia, or whatever you call It, and long before the world knew that CHAPTER IX.—In the new home Harriet, plaguing little impulse persisted. He turned In the family vault when you Harriet Field was really Harriet Carter, with Madame Carter and Nina, settle down for a vacation. In a frank talk would like to go upstairs again he walked down those stairs!" Wardsaid. there was a very decided change with JJina Harriet endeavors to show her missed her companionship. CORN FLAKES "Oo-oo—caught you under the in the social atmosphere. Richard began Blondin's unworthiness, but it has little There was something very appeal* effect on the infatuated girl. On Richard mistletoe—oo-oo, you would!" he to bring his friends to the house Carter's insistence, Harriet is installed ing about this woman, thought Richard, added, with an effort to envelop her he was proud of his smoothly running as mistress of the household, but finding suddenly closing his book. Her her position untenable, declares her to his embrace. establishment, and proud of the Abo maker# of KELLOGG'S KRUMBLES and KELLOGG'S BRAN, cooked and krambled intention of leaving. Richard makes an beauty, her silences, her complete subjugation "Ward, behave yourself!" Harriet charming woman who neither flirted offer of marriage, as a way out of the of her own interests to his, situation, but Harriet, considering such a said, evading him, and walking toward with nor ignored the men he brought thing impossible while Mrs. Carter he found strangely fascinating. the dining room with his grandmother, home. (though divorced) Is still alive, refuses, "By George, she has made a most and leaves the house. To her old-fashioned who came downstairs In her turn, and Always beautiful and always busy, Ideas, the fact that Richard Carter interesting woman of herself!" Richard joined them. constantly In demand on all sides, she has been granted a divorce from his,erring THE REAL REASON decided, opening his book again. wife does not free him from his marital Richard Carter watched her, the Incatenation went about his house like a smiling ties, and marriage with him is impossible. "She ought to be right in the middle FOR A PRETTY SKIN of young and beautiful worker of miracles, and Richard of things, that girl!" womanhood. Clever he knew her to watched her. When she went home CHAPTER X.—At her sister's home Why is it that one girl has a be, capable and conscientious, but tonight 7 Harriet helps to bring her small nephew to her sister for a day or two he fresh smooth complexion and another safely through an attack of diphtheria. A day or two later Madame Carter she was in a new role. He liked missed her strangely, and wandered Linda cordially approves Harriet's stand a skin which is lifeless, dull came out to the terrace at eleven to see her there at the other end of on the question of marriage with a divorced about the empty rooms with a/ desolate and sallow? Is it a gift of nature or o'clock, beautifully groomed and man. David Davenport, Linda's the table he realized that she was the sense of loss. some guarded beauty secret? brother-in-law, warmly presses his suit, gowned, and with an imperative hand center of things, here in his house, and Harriet has about made up her mind She was presently back, and amused It is a secret, but an open one arrested Harriet, who was tumbled to accept him when Richard Carter appears and that he had missed her. in the young people at the dinner table which every woman may share. with the announcement that Isabelle and sunburned from the tennis court After dinner it chanced that Bottomley It consists in knowledge of the care with a spirited account of her sister's is dead and no obstacle to his marriage and was going toward the house. with Harriet remains. The girl called her to the telephone, which keeps the skin free from move into a new house—"really an yields and the marriage is quietly solemnized. "Just a moment, Miss Field," said clogging, poisonous accumulations and that a moment later she passed old house," that she and her family Harriet offers to tell Richard in the removal every day of all dirt, she, magnificently. Harriet obediently the circumstances of her entanglement the call on to Richard. had been watching for years. oil secretions, exces$ cold cream, with Blondin, but he refuses to listen. stood still, and watched Madame "It's Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Carter. He Nina and Amy and Ward had rushed powder and rouge. Carter's magnificence settle itself didn't know that you were here, but ~Tda~ "Tabor "smiled automatically. from the dinner table to an early To do this, use mild soap, he would rather speak to you," Harriet "I don't suppose your father sees anything dance at the club, and Richard, after massage it thoroughly into your said. Richard went to the telephone, in Miss Field?" she submitted, a talk with his mother on the terrace, skin and remove with many rinsings. and as she moved' to make had wandered about with a vague The mildest soap you can lightly. choose for this purpose is Palmolive. room for him, and gaye him the receiver, "Oh, Heavens, 7no!" Nina said, hope of finding Harriet somewhere It contains Palm and Olive he had a sudderi breath of the with her book. But she was not studying herself in a handglass. There oils. These rare oils are the mildest sweetness and freshness of her, of downstairs. was a rather steely look in the eyes cleansers nature ever produced. They hair and young firm skin, of the of her friend Ladybird, but she did not He went back, and presently accom« are the oils used by Cleopatra rustling satin gown, and the little 10c see it. Her smile of pleasure gradually panled his mother to her door. The thousands of years ago. handkerchief that she dropped, and "I'm gave place to a pout. going to old lady stopped outside of Nina's Their combination in Palmoiive that he picked up for her. He smiled ask Father if we need Miss Harriet!" open door, from which a subdued light produces a profuse, creamy lather as he gave it, and flushed inexplicably, she said. streamed. which penetrates every tiny pore, 1 and his first few words to the bewildered removes every trace of dirt, oil, And that evening she did indeed attack "Oh, Miss Field—" said Madame Gardiner were a little shaken rouge and powder and leaves the Richard the subject, although Carter. on skin smooth and fresh as a rose. and breathless. But Richard was quite not as decidedly as she had planned. "Yes, Madame Carter!" The rich, You can buy Palmoiive Soap at himself again an hour or two later, ready voice responded Instantly. Richard all first class groceries and drug stores. He listened to her Interestedly enough, when he sent for Miss Field, and she hoped she would come to the door, with his evening paper held ready for came into the library. but his mother's message was delivered THE PALMOLIVE COMPANY his next glance. "I needn't say that I'm entirely too quickly to make It necessary. Milwaukee, Wis. "Let you roam about the country pleased with the way matters have "You're waiting up for Nina?" with Mrs. ibor," he said, as the girl's gone, Harriet," said Richard, when she "Oh, yes, Madame Carter!" Harriet faltering ictnts stopped. "No, my had seated herself on the opposite answered. The two exchanged goodnights dear, it's out of the question! In the side of his big, flat desk, and locking Richard loitered into his mother's first place, she is not the sort of companion her white hands on the shining surface, room, left her in her maid's hands, I would chooose for any girl, had fixed her magnificent eyes on and went back Into the dimly lighted, and in the second place I would never him. "Nina seems in fine shape, and spacious upper hall. He felt oddly know where you and your grandmother I have never seen my mother better. Destiny stirred there were letters downstairs, were, or what was happening to You seem to have a genius for managing his usual books and amusements, but you! While Miss Field is in charge I the Carters. Tm seriously considering he felt curiously impelled to try for shall .feel entirely safe. Of course. If tin offer from Gardiner he's one more word with Miss Field. Mrs. Tabor chooses to invite herself, got to take his boy out to Nevada for He opened the door of Nina's room, that's her affair!" his health. Ward wants to go, and and went in, and knocked on the halfopen "Then I don't want to go!" Nina would very probably like it when he door within that connected it stormed. But in the end she did go. got there. I hope he will try it anyhow! with Harriet's room. "No Reason to Disbelieve My Son!" Madame Carter, Nina and Harriet duly So that leaves Nina, who Is "Come In. Is It you, Pilgrim?" the His Mother Echoed, Scandalized. sailed, in the second week of January, safe enough with you, and my mother, has been decided for many pleasant, quiet voice said. Richard arid Ward joined them almost a month slowly In a basket chair. The old who seems perfectly well and happy. lady stepped to the doorway. later, in Nassau. And here Harriet Meanwhile, while you've been gone, freed an eyeglass ribbon deliberately, Harriet, seated in a square basket a man by just that one little had the brother and sister at their straightened a ruffle, laid her we've gotten the Brazilian company magazine chair, under the soft flood of light best, free to show the genuine childishness beside her on a table. well started, so that I shall have a little "There from a basket-shaded lamp, rose pre­ that was in them, to swim and was a little matter of which I more freedom than I've had for wished dollar he has saved every picnic and tramp, and here she indulged years. cipitately, and stood looking at him to' speak to you," she said, suavely, Nina in long talks, and encouraged "You look as if you needed it," Harriet with widened eyes and parted lips, bringing her distant glance to rest dispassionately her to associate with the young day for the last five years. observed. without speaking. She was plainly for a moment upon Harriet's people she met. "You look wonderful," Richard returned, frightened, though she made herself face. Harriet wrote once a week to Richard, simply. "Wonderful! Is that smile. The beautiful room was full of Harriet waited, amused, annoyed, When your big opportunity making a general report, and Inclosing a new gown?" shadows at the wide-open windows impatient. receipted hotel and miscellaneous "Well, I had it made last November thin curtains stirred in the cool night "I understand," Madame Carter bills. His communications usually just before I went away. Mrs. Carter comes will you be able to air. said, "that you and my son—for some took the form of cables, although once gave me the material a year ago. "Frighten you?" Richard said. reason best known to yourselves— or twice she received typewritten letters. Harriet glanced down at herself and "Is there something—?" Her eyes have entered into a secret marriage?" seize it?* smiled. werfe those of a deer that is afraid to "Your first object, my dear, is not to In mid-April they all came home "You might wear pearls—or something—with turn. antagonize his mother!" Harriet reminded again, and Crownlands, in the year's it," Richard said. "Do you "Why, I wanted to suggest that we herself. Aloud she said mildly first shy filming of green, looked wonderful like pearls?" tell our little piece of news to the "You have no reason to disbelieve Open Your Savings Account to Harriet's homesick eyes. It was astonishing to see the color family," Richard suggested, after a it, have/you?" Richard wgs to join them at dinner come up in her, dusky skin her eyes momentary search for a suitable subject. "No reason to disbelieve my son!" It had been impossible for him to met his almost pleadingly. Today "I came* very close to telling my his mother echoed, scandalized. "Why meet them when the boat arrived, but "Why—I never thought!" she said, mother, just now. Is there any good should I have! Mr. Carter is the soul Fox had been there and attended to in some confusion. reason for further delay?" of honor—absolutely, the soul. Upon the formalities. It had pleased them "I suppose a man may ask his wife /'Why, no, I don't—I don't suppose my word, I don't understand you!" aU to make the occasion formal and if she likes pearls?" Richard said, impelled The Amount Doesn't CountIt's there Is!" Harriet stammered. "There MI said you have no,reason to disbelieve to dress accordingly. .Nina looked her by some feeling he did not define. will be talk." him," Harriet repeated. "You prettiest in a white silk, and the old He had leaned back in his chair, the Start—that's "I suppose so," he answered, simply. said that you understood that we had lady was magnificent in diamonds and and half-closed his eyes, as he studied "But what we do is our own affair, been married. It is^ true!" brocade. Harriet deliberately selected her. \the Thing after all. I shall explain to my mother her handsomest gown, a severe black (To be Continued "Oh—please!" Harriet said in an that for us both It seemed a practical satin that wrapped her slender body agony. She gave a horrified glance and a—well, not unpleasant solution. with one superb and shining sweep, about, but the library was closed and There need be no change here, and left her white arms and firm, silent. "Some one might hear you!" N O E N I N N E S O A but you will simply have a more assured flawless shoulders bare. The firm First National Bank she whispered. And a moment later position—H O S I A young lines of chin and -throat, the she rose to her feet, and eyed him She had been watching him, with swelling white breast that met the encasing Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and quietly. "Was that all, Mr. Carter?" all June In her face. But as he went satin, the slippers with their '.Surgeon in Charge^ she asked. It was Richard's turn to on the color slowly drained away, and International Falls twinkling buckles—she could not but Minnesota look a trifle-confused. Offico Phono 30 Hospital Phono 71 about her beautiful eyes a look of find every detail pleasing, and her "That's all—my dear!" He said, 'strain and even of something like Officsfc Intl State Bank Building scarlet mouth* firmly. shQtf was obediently. The term made her flush International Falls, Minnesota shame gradually deepened. When she I.1 ..