she gave.Richard fliafp 1 attitudetoward warnlng that he sent at once for Nina, both was pleasantly- impersonal, but and with a clouded brow and* angry wasmove like his. suggestion,' which a eyes briefly requested Harriet to be and t»mmand, that she ran upstairs KELX.OGCS, present while he spoke to her. dress early so that they might have "IhCom Jack! I May any I Willi Mothn Nhia came at once, with an innocent amid you could buy KBL•LOGG'S, a talk before dinner, sent the_girl Hying, could carry *mm expression on her rather heavy and he and Harriet could speak bomel I aay but I I mill—I will-—!" young face. She seated herself near more freely. Harriet, and her father went to the •y. "Well, Harriet I congratulate you I —IP"** point at once. How does it feel to be a married woman? "Nina," he said, seriously, "you saw I saw your name in an evening Royal Blondln this afternoon, didn't paper of course I was delighted for WSf' you?" And as Nina answered only yoH£ with an ugly glance at Harriet, the betrayer, "Money and position don't really he,-added, "Didn't I ask you S^IIuxfraiiatr Ourwaidfarit! not to see him any more, several months ago?" "Yes, you did," Nina said, in a low tone, and with a heaving breast*. "I hope, and we all hope, that you Ipm neverJtnow how delicious will marry some day," Richard said. "But you are too young now to make Gfrn flakes can be till yon a wise choice. And until you are a j^ptiriqKt1 bq KbHtleen Norr is little older, you will have to take my word for it that such an affair would templation of their father's affairs^— eat Kelloggs SYNOPSIS. only lead you to misery and regret" Harriet had not dared to hope that CHAPTER IX.—In the new home Harriet, Nina mumbled something bravely. with Madame Carter and Nina, settle they would accept the situation so down for a vacation. lira frank talk MI didn't hear you," her father said. quietly, or that the world would. with Nina Harriet endeavor* to show her "I said, I didn't see what you could Blondln'a unarorthlness, but It has little There were callers on the terrace Positively—the most joyously good any-time-cereal effect on the Infatuated girl. On Richard do about -it!." the girl repeated, desperately. every afternoon, there were pleasant any man or woman or child ever put in their mouths! Carter's insistence, Harriet la installed B'3~ but as mistress of the household,' find­ congratulations and good wishes, Such flavor, such crispness! Such big sunny-brown ing her position untenable, declares her For a few moments of silence Richard there were a few paragraphs In the Intention of leaving. Richard makes an Corn Flakes! How you'll relish a generous.bowl-filledmost-to-overflowing merely looked gravely at his offer of marriage, as a way out of the social weeklies. Richard- had for and a pitcher of milk or cream! situation, but Harriet, considering Such a daughter. Then be clasped his flnq years been too busy for mere entertaining, thing Impossible while Mrs. Carter hands on the desk before him, and Never was such a set-out! Never did you get such (though divorced) Is still alive, refuses, and the dinner parties and and leaves the house. To her oldrfashloned cleared his throat. a universal vote as there'll be for Kellogg Corn 5^ luncheons to the new Mrs. Carter, It ideas, the fact that Richard Carter "I cannot do fis much as I should was generally felt, must wait until has been granted a divorce from his erring Flakes! Big folks and little folks will say "Xollogg's, wife does not free him from hit marital like, Nina," he conceded, "but I shall next season. please, mother!'' Leave it to tlieir tastes ties, and marriage with him Is Impossible. do what I can. But first let me ask To glance at the "gold ring on" her —and yours! Prove out all we say! you: have you promised to marry Mr. CHAPTER X.—At her sister's home finger made Harriet feel as if a happiness For, Kellogg's Corn Flakas are a Harriet helps to bring her small nephew Blondln?" almost shameful was bared to safely through an attack of diphtheria. Silence'. Nina looked at the floor. revelation in flavor a revelation in ail- Linda cordially approves Harriet's stand view. Her new position, modestly as on the question of marriage with a divorced Richard repeated his question. TOASTED the-time crispness! Kellogg's are never she filled it, was yet a high position. man. David Davenport, Linda's "Yes, I have—and you can't kill me She saw Richard's growing affection AAflll tough or leathery or hard to eat! Insist brother-in-law, warmly presses his suit, and Harriet has about made up her mind for it!" Nina said, and burst into and trust, if he did not. She could CORN upon KELLOGG'S—the original Corn to accept him when Richard Carter appears tears. afford to wait. with the announcement that Isabella «I AlfFS Flakes—the kind in the RED and Is dead and no obstacle to his marriage "Well," the father resumed, when "But when are you and Dick Carter package! "Money and Position Don't Really fLAfV" GREEN with Harriet remains. The girl Harriet had supplied a consolatory going to dine with us?" Mary Putnam yields and the marriage Is jquletlv solemnized. Harriet 8aid, Mean Much to Ms," Harriet offers to tell Richard murmur and a handkerchief, "Fm said, one afterhoon, at tea. Madame Unencouraglngly. the circumstances of her entanglement sorry, of course. Mrs. Tabor carried Carter, whose Victorian ideal of romance with Blondln, but he refuses to listen. letters between ycu, did she? You mean much to me,'1 Harriet said, unencouragingly. was not, at all dissatisfied with XL CHAPTER The news of their met him occasionally?* the idea of the employer marrying his mother's death, shocking to Ward and "Two or three times," Nina said, -Nina, is softened by Harriet comforting. "My first sefisation," Blondln went daughter's beautiful governess, smiled The three take a trip to Bermuda, sniffing and drying her eyes busily. on, '"was one of satisfaction. I thought significantly. and on their return Richard Carter realizes "You know my reasons for disliking to myself that my own cause, with that he is deeply in love with Harriet "They're very odd lovers, my dear," CORN FLAKE though their marriage has simply Nina, wa^safe now. That you trusted him, Nina," her father said. "He is a she said to Mary with an eloquent been one of convenience. me, and I hacT every reason to trust man more than twice your age he glance. Mary laughed, and looked at (Continued From Last Week) has a certain sort of unsavory reputation you." Harriet, whose face was suddenly Ana she looked off toward the river Harriet looked away for. a brief in his affairs with women. He Abo maksrs of KELLOGG'S KRUMBLES BRAN, and KELLOGG'S cooked and krusibled crimson, though she tried to laugh, with an expression as composed as has no income, no profession, ne too. The visitor, with Instant kindness, silence, brought her eyes to his face. I that of Madame Carter herself. home all those things tell against covered the little break. She felt suddenly sick. 4 "I suppose you know that old saying: him. You're only a child—" "Whenever they're ready, they're "Roy, you're not "Mill serious about 'A secret bride has a secret to "I shall be of age Tuesday! Nina going to dine with me!" she said^patting Nina?" hide!"' the old woman pursued, pleasantly. WHAT EVERY burst forth, resentfully. Harriet's hand with real affection "I have never been anything else," COMPLEXION NEEDS "You will be of age Tuesday. True. and understanding. But Mary was free he said, delicately. "I never heard it. I did not play But you will be my ward, as far as to reflect. She had t^e eyes of a contented "But—but why?" Harriet asked. much with the children of the neighborhood your Uncle Edward's legacy Is concerned, woman, freed from her own VI like the girl," he reminded her Once every day your skin should when I was a child," Harriet for another three years. Now, problem for those of others. "And Harriet be gently but thoroughly cleansed of answered. "My father was very anxious pleasantly. "I hope she Is not entirely Nina, if you persist In this folly, all accumulations ot dirt, perspiration, is certainly mad about Richard," indifferent to me—" to protect us from picking up expressions cold cream, rouge and powder. against my most earnest advice, I can Mary mused. "Indifferent! She's at the age that of that sort!" Every tiny pore must be freed only forbid the man the house, and There was a silence. Harriet, beginning But with the rest of the world she marries anybody!" Harriet said, indignantly. from dogging accumulations, so that lock you in your room in the good oldfashioned tv be ashamed of.herself, did" had to decide that there was something the net work of minute glands can do way. That I shall do. 1 "You give me hope," Royal said with not look at her companion. in the affair that she did not understand. their necessary work. If you fail to shall then give out to the world—that "A girl of your age has a great deal a bow. cleanse the skin daily it will get sluggish has already had a rare treat at the of confidence when she marries into a "Her father very violently opposes and inactive, lifeless and sallow. Blackheads expense of the Carter family—the will develop the filled up pores family like mine," the old lady said, it," Harriet said, after a troubledsilence. When everyone else had gone from news of my utter disapproval of the will enlarge into unattractive coarseness presently, in a tone that trembled a the terrace, and the late afternoon and dirt infections, irritation and match. If you manage the marriage "I am well aware of that, my dear. little. "My son Is a rich man—he is light was throwing clear shadows pimples will result. in spite of me, I shall forbid you and a prominent man. He has used his Her father forbade me the house last across the warm red bricks, Nina and For this cleansing you must use a Blondln my house, and as a matter own judgment, of course. But I confess Decemher. I submitted the girl submitted: Ida Tabor remained, talking. "And mild soap. Palmolive is made from of course use my right to withhold that in your place I should not But we made' our plans. I now we positively must go in, Nina I" Palm and Olive oils. For thousands the payment of your legacy for three •fancy we, will not have any difficulty carry myself with quite so much an of years these rare oils have been used Ida said. "We've wasted this whole years, and stop your present allowance, air of triumph! It seems to me—" now." by famous beauties. They were highly afternoon! I have to get packed If and your credit with the shops. "You mean that you are engaged?" prized by Cleopatra. Harriet determinedly regained her I'm going to the Jays'!" That's all I can do! And I do it, calm, and taking the chair next to the "An understanding. We have corresponded, Today these oils are blended to "But you're not going to the Jays' 1" Nina," said Richard In a softer tone, 10c produce the most famous of all modern enraged, old lady, quietly interrupted seen each other now and then Nina said in soft, sweet, confident reminder. soaps—Palmolive. It produces a profuse "I do it to hasten the inevitable, my the flow of her angry words. N through Ida Tabor. It's," he smiled, creamy lather which is as smooth dear! I do It to bring you back to "I hope I have shown no air of dreamily, "extremely romantic, of "But I must, darling!" as a lotion. It penetrates every tiny your father sooner.instead of later to triumph^ Madame Carter," Harriet course," he said. "No, you mustn't*!" pore and removes every trace of dirt, give you only one year of disillusionment Harriet felt she could have killed said. "You yourself—and most wisely oil and cosmetics, leaving the skin "But, dearest, I truly have to—" and suffering, instead of seven —pointed out to us a few months ago him. wonderfully smooth, fresh and rosy. "But, Ladybird," Nina laughed happily, or eight!" that the arrangement here was unconventional—" "You understand that she won't, You can buy Palmolive Soap at "I sent them a message this afternoon have one penny, Roy. I know her father. It must be a brave girl, thought all first class groceries and drug stores. that you were staying with Harriet, who could persist in any "Every one was talking, if you mind He won't yield. He'll forbid It me! So now," she finished triumphantly, THE PALMOLIVE COMPANY that!" the old lady snapped. But she he'll not hesitate. If she'does it course, after that But Nina had the "that's settled! And we'll go to Milwaukeer Wis. was slightly mollified, none-the-less. against his will, she will have to wait impregnable armor of Ignorance and bed early, with books, and talk, and pride, and she only sniffed pathetically "But upon my word, you'd think marrying three years for her money. Three maybe creep down for something to into the family was something years—! Roy, she wouldn't be happy again, and shrugged her shoulders. eat about eleven, as we did that other three weeks! Mr. Carter spoke to me to be done every day—!" she was beginning "You do everything In the world to night—" a pain, when Harriet inter-* about it the only time we've Spoken of make my marriage a failure!" she "Nina," Mrs. Tabor said, in a new rupted again. you. He said that he was glad the said with the Irrepressible tears. "And voice, interrupting her,-"you didn't telephone "No—no," she said, soothingly, conceding affair had ended naturally that you I suppose you'll be delighted If it Is! Mrs. Jay, did you?" the last words an amused were not the man to make Nina happy, And I don't see—if a woman can "Indeed I did!" smile that Itself rather helped to placate and that he would rather have her Suffer marry a rich man, why a man "Well, then, you were extremely Impertinent her companion. "It Is, of course, anything^and find out her mistake shouldn't sometypes be glad if a girl and officious," said a new the most serious step of my life! But at once, tHan have har heart broken, ftas money! I'm proud to help him voice, that Nina hardly recognized. the secrecy—as of course you will appreciate—was and her money wasted, through several, out if he'll let me. He says he won't Poor Nina! Harriet found her sob-, because there has been wretched years!" —why, we had planned going—well, blng on her bed, half an hour later, so much terrible notoriety this year! Blondln had listened to this quietly, just everywhere, Honolulu and southern and took it for a sign that the wound Why, Mr. Carter tells me that never his eyes moving from her lips to her California and just everywhere, would cure, that Nina did not resent In the history of all the Carters—" own earnest eyes, and wandering over only now he won't go! He says he is her sympathy and comfort. Nina was her animated face. This fortunate lead was enough. going tb stay right here, and take a has been decided for many still heaving with deep sobs, albeit "I count on you to be my advocate, Madame Carter launched forth superbly position with an art magazine that he taking steps toward a hot bath and a my dear Harriet," he said, after a moment's upon a description of the usual Carter just hates, and work It all off—before becoming gown, when Ida went away. silence. "Richard Carter believes weddings, the ceremony, the state. we go. If it takes yearn—" a math by just that one little Her farewells were made only to the in you he has great faith in Jn perhaps twenty minutes she was "Work whai all off?" Harriet asked, composed Interloper, who went with your Judgment. If you represent to blandly patronizing* Harriet, giving simply and quietly. her pleasantly toN the hall door, and him that you believe this to be a wise her encouraging little taps with her dollar he has saved every "This money that a friend of his turned back with some remark for step ail round, we shall have no eyeglasses, warning her of mistakes really lost, but he has taken it upon Bottomley that was in the perfect tone further trouble—" that Isabelle had made with Richard. himself," Nina answered, a little mollified. of the mistress. Ida's heart was hot day for the last five years. "I can't honestly tell him so, Roy 1" Harriet knew that before three days ."It was eleven thousand dollars, within her as she looked her last at the girl Interrupted. were over her terrible mother-in-law and he has paid off about four, and Crownlands, in the mellow light of the "Can't you?" Blondln said. He would be telling the world just how anyway,. I hate so much talk about When your big opportunity summer twilight looked across the open hallway to wise, under the trying circumstances, money!" she finished, angrily. the whole thing was, and Just how Nina, descending In freah ruffles and "My dear," Harriet said, as Richard, CHAPTER XIII. ribbons, and raised his voice. "Here comes will you be able to clearly she had foreseen' It. She was with a troubled face, remained silent she Is—looking like the very rose of still listening respectfully, if a trifle "It Isn't the money that we are worry girls I Oome on now, Nina, you aren't confusedly, when Ward bounded from Royal. Blondln presently came to pay ing about Why, ask our father, seize it? going to belong to anybody else but the house, and gave her an effusive his respects to Harriet in her changed Nina! Ask him If he wouldn't write me for a while I" he sald. But as he embrace. position. Nina had told her that he/ Royal Blondin a check for any sum today, turned to leave Harriet, he added "Hello, Mamma!" Ward said. ""Harriet had been forbidden the house, in December mt any sum, if you tod he would, laughed,, as she pushed away the they had seen him only two or again: "Can't you?_ Think It over." promise solemnly to wait three yeani Open Your Savings Account ,e .% ft* filial_arm. Hardly knowing what she three times since their return from more. You will only be twenty-one ^ht.\ lr The jirl thought It over with a maddening tC sald~or did she made her way to the "Bermuda, knd then accidentally. Harriet then, Nina, still sudi a child! and feverish persistence thai liouse, and up to her own room. was thgnkful to believe the affair Today Harriet paused, glancing at Bichari were presently caused, her a ccusation of But here, in Nina's room, Nina between him and Nina well over. The for encouragement he nodded eagerly, K-&T actual sickness. fague speculations girl "was growing up now, there were and Mrs. Tabor, and from their eyes, and she went on: *5 v-r other men in her world, and for the churned and seethed in tip weary as she came in, she knew that they f™l "Marriage Is a tremendous thing, .•: V"- list of her eighteenth birthday party brain that-could find no beginning and 'knew. Nina got up, and came forward The Amount Doesn't Count-— Nina, and the only thing thait makes it no end to them. To have made a she had merely mentioned his name with a Sort of sulky gradonsness. right—" dean breast of the whole matter among others. r- 5 It*8 the Start—that's a "If you're going to say love." Nina months ago would have meant a delicious "I hope you'll be very happy, Miss Three days before the garden party, broke inr scornfully, "you didn't marry P? »#rl sense of freedom from responsibility. Harriet—I suppose I oughtn't to call that was to mark the girl's anniversary the Thing Father for love!" now, but then under those iyon Miss Harriet any,, more," Nina Boyal drifted In with the assurance circumstances would she, Harriet, sjdd, with an effort to smile that Harriet that was quite characteristic of him. (To be Continue have'been feere now? Certainly, even thought quite ghastly. She gave He rarely accepted an invitation, or In the present purely technical sense, Harriet one of her big hands, and hesl"Ttated waited for onp~ Perhaps he was'clever N O E N I N N 1 A she would not have been,the second over a kiss. But they did not First National Bank enoffeh to know that half his acquaintances O S I A Mrs. Richard Carter, nor would she iklss each other. detested him theoretically, but ,-^Dr. B.F.Osburn, Physician and have held her present position of trustf At luncheon everything was exactly, were glad to have him about. Nina tg&k$B8&&5 and responsibility. I ^ias usual* Richard had gone to the and Harriet came in from an afternoon SllfeJS* Sur**°» Charge 1^'CT While Nina and her murmur& 4jclty, not to return for a night or two, at the club to find him playing pfocm PkoaeJt Hospital PImm 71 on the- terrace Hartlet brooded on *Mand several, social engagements distracted with languid hands at the piano, and Oie# Iat*l Stake ^tsk Building these dinner that the young people from the con­ he lapily rose to. greet thera./WMle International FaIls,J Minnesota