yjbur name, 1 presume oat of a sense comes to women.- "Jfina, Ida,' im^piip, presently! Harriet Brought- heavy of generosity to yon. I could have Harriet—all of them pay for the manmade eyes to meet hers, and stood considering BORDER HEMSTITCHING CO. wished," he added, "that yon had been rulel I shouldn't have forced a minute, as bringing her If similarly generous, and had seen fit her hand in this business marriage thonghts back a long distance. Mrs. R. Liljeblad, to leave her, and leave my daughter It was taking an advai^age of her. No "I—going away? Yes," she said, alone. I think I mast ask yon to excuse woman wants to marry for anything slowly. "Yes, I may." 822 Seventh Street Phone 152 me," said Richard at the door. but love, and if she had married for Nina stood watching which seemed Vlade His tone was one of absolute suffocation. Bnttojt Holes By Hand. love, stle would have made a dean vaguely to trouble Harriet, who gave "I can see no object In your bigast of this old affair, of course. I her a restless glance now and then as frankness tonight, unless to distress didn't exact that. We've made a nice she went to and fro. Presently she and humiliate Mrs. Carter. My daughter, mess of it, all around! spoke to Nina again. and not myself, is the one entitled "I mustn't let her* work herself Into "Good-night, Nina O. a SNYDER, D. R. O. to your- confidence, and you are well a fever over all this!" he found himself "Good-night!" snapped Nina, and aware of my feeling where she is concerned thinking. the door slammed. Registered Optometrist I would to God,** said Richard, But Nina must be the first consideration. Harriet continued to move about for and Optician with bitterness, "that I had never He must plan for Nina. He perhaps half an hour before Nina'a At Gledhill's Jewelry Store seen your face! Mrs. Carter has been brought his thoughts back resolutely— a useful—and Indispensable!—member his daughter must break her engagement odd manner recurred to her, on a wave Fort Frances of this family for many years If there now, there was that much gained. of memory, and she seemed to hear was in her past some unpleasant arid And for the Journey to Rio— again Nina's ungracious tone. painful event, that is her own affair—!" "But why didn't she tell me!" he "He told her!" she said, suddenly. N O E N I N N E S O A interrupted himself, suddenly. The "She saw Royal, and he told her! Poor O S I A "Not when she marries a man who ^ofHjriqKt' bq KoHilegn Norris reference was not to Nina. Again he child—" Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and is unaware of it," Blondin suggested, saw the superb white shoulders In the And she went to Nina's room, with Surgeon in Charge In his pleasant, soft tones. soft flood of lamplight, and the flash a vague idea that she would sit beside (Continued. From Last Week) that now." He was silent, frowning Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 "That is mine I" Richard said, sternly. of the blue eye? that turned toward the weeping girl for awhile, one heavy faintly. He put up a fine hand and •i •.. And he opened the library door. Blondin. Office Intl State Bank Building heart close to^the other, even if no adjusted his eyeglasses with a little CHAPTER XIV. "Good evening!" he said. International Falls, Minnesota "She could have killed him!" Richard words could pass between them. impatient muscular twitching of his "Good evening!" Blondin, with his said. "My God! how she will love But Nina lay sleeping peacefully, whole face that Harriet knew to be The curtains at the French windows light, loitering step, crossed the threshold, when she does love!" and Harriet, after watching her for a characteristic of his worried moods. in the library at Crownlands stirred and Richard closed the door. He few minutes, went back to her own JOHN H. BROWN "Mr. Blondin," he said, wearily and in the breeze of the warm summer took his chair again and reached room. She went to the open window, Meanwhile, to Harriet had come the Attorney at Law politely, "I have had a great deal on night, the pendulum of the big clock toward the bell that would have and stood staring absently out at the bitterest hour of her life. She had my mind, lately, and have perhaps behind Richard Carter moved to and Office over O. M. Carr & Co. brought Bottomley to summon' Nina dark summer night, the great branches reached a crossroads, and with steady been hasty In my condemnation of you. fro, but for a long time there was no International Falls. Minnesota in turn.* But halfway to the bell his of the trees moving in the restless fingers and an anguished heart she However, this does not particularly other sound in the library. Richard resolution wavered, disappeared. Instead, wind, and the oblong of dull light that' prepared for the only stjep that to her help your cause with my daughter. had dropped his eyes, was Idly staring he rested his elbows on the still fell from the library window. whirling brain and shamed soul There are a great many aspects to the at the blank sheet of paper before A E table, and his head In his hands, and She could not see the horror as seemed possible. She must disappear. matter, and I—I must take time to consider him. Royal Blondin, who had folded there sounded from his chest a great Richard saw it: she could not see herself Lawyer There was no alternative. them. Nina must be my first his arms, for a moment studied Harriet*between sigh that was almost a groan. as only a mistaken woman, a She had harmed them all, they could International State Bank Bldg. coiii'deration, poor child! Her mother half-closed lids, but presently Oh, he was tired—he was tired—he woman with youth, beauty, and intelligence only think of her now as an unscrupulous failed her—we have all failed her! his eyes fell, too, and with a International Falls, Minnesota was tired It was all a mess—the boy, pleading for her, one problem and mischievous woman who had She has a right to know of this conversation—" rather troubled expression he studied the girl, their mother, his own arrangements more in his life, it is true, but only by chance entered their lives when the pattern of the great oriental rug. for their protection and one among many, and not the greatest. they were all In desperate need of wisdom Harriet stirred, and his eyes moved Harriet stood motionless, turned to safety. All a mess. She did not see him as he saw himself, SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS and guidance, who had played to her. Without a word, and with a stone. If there was anything to be She had been beautiful, that girl, his family as the somewhat troublesome, her own contemptible game, and added stricken look to her beautiful, ashen said in her behalf, she could not say a with her golden hair in the lamplight, With Northern and yet quite understandable, one more hurt to the hurt reputation face, she turned, and went slowly REPUTATION It now. For the first time the full and her white arms a little raised to group of selfish human beings in whose of the house of Carter. Supplied to the Great Northwest toward the door. When she reached measure of her responsibility and the rest her locked hands on the chair. perplexities he had always played the White for New Illustrated Harriet got out of her evening gown it, she steadied herself a second by full measure of her deceit smote her, Like some superb actress of tragedy, part of arbiter. CATALOGUE pressing one fine hand against the and into a loose wrapper. She went and in utter sickness of spirit she soma splendid and sullen prisoner at Duluth Floral & Seed Company To Harriet the thing loomed momentous, about somewhat aimlessly, yet the dark wood, then she opened it and was could advance no excuse. It was not the bar. The slender figure in the dull unforgiving, incalculable. It assumed DULUTH, MINX. suitcases, spread open on the bed, gone. that she had failed Blondin, or that Flowers and emblems supplied on wrapping of satin, and the white bosom, to her the proport!6ns of a murder. short notice. Phone, telegraph, write "I'm very sorry—" Blondin said hesitatingly, were gradually filled, and her personal she had failed Richard, but the extent had looked so young, so virginal, Richard, in her estimation, was possessions gradually disappeared when the men were alone. of her failure toward herself appalled the blue eyes were so honestly frightened not what he thought himself, a somewhat from tables and walls. Now "Mrs. Carter," Richard said, getting her. She was not the good, brave, cultivated and ashamed. And she had been ordinary man in the forties and then she stopped short, heartsick to his feet, and very definitely woman she had liked to think that bounder's wife—in his arms! Divorced! whose life had already held poverty and trembling once her lips quivered indicating an end to the conversation, Order Your Needs From the herself she was one more egotist, Harriet Field? Poor girl, and disillusionment and wholesome "before she consented to the—arrangement and her eyes filled, but for the most Nursery Farthest North with Nina, and Isabelle, and Ida, unscrupulously cornered by this unscrupulous scoundrel, disappointment, whose nature had part she did not pause. into which we entered, of course playing her own game THE BELTRAMI NURSERY this bully, with all the ugly past been tempered to humor and generosity Nina, at about eleven, had come to for her own ends. took me into her confidence In this Otto Brose, Proprietor. 17 years dragged up like the muddy bottom of and philosophy to Harriet, he was the door between their rooms, and "I'm extremely sorry," Richard said, matter!" a resident of Beltrami County a river, staining and clouding the the richest, the finest, the most deserving opened it. The girl was undressed, presently, in a somewhat lifeless tone. "She—she did?" Royal stammered. clear waters. 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