"He said I had been. Not that 1 was a hotel,! suddenly wanted my sister.~1 "And—" Harriet stdpped, and began now!" wanted to be home again. •••'-. again: "And do yon. want things to go The man looked at her, looked away BORDER HEMSTITCHING CO. **We were talking and planning on just as they are?" she asked. at the river, and shrugged his shoul« naturally enough. Royal was coming For answer Richard smiled at her in Mr*. R. Liljeblad, ders as if he we 'e mystified by the and going in the* two rooms I had av. .. silence. .*1- ways of women. plenty of chance to—to -escape. Every 822 Seventh Street Phone 152 "No," he .said, finally. "I can't say "But—you were never his wife?" he' time I let one go. by my heart beat that I do. I want you to worry less, said, flatly. Button Holes Made By Hand. harder." and to buy yourself some new gowns, jv "Oh, no! You didn't think," Harriet He could tell from her voice that her and to begin to enjoy life! Shakespeare said, hurt, "that I would liave married heart was beating hard now with the had you down fine when he you, or anyone else, if I had been memory of that old time. s. talked about conscience making cowards "You let him blackmail you for "If I had let them all go by,"'she recommenced, of us all. What did you do it for? that?" Richard further, marveled. O. G. SNYDER, D. O., R. O. "my life would have been A young, capable, good-looking girl "I knew—in my own mind, of course, different. In a few weeks we would Registered Optometrist scared by a lot of old women! Now, that I was not to blame,'' the girl said, leave come back to Watertown, as, man we'll take up this Nina question, later and Optician anxiously. "But it sounded—horrible." a *nd wife, and perhaps had studio on." You'd better go up and get yourself Richard bit his lower lip, looked At Gledhill's Jewelry Store *^euIuHrtt?tau' some coffee, and go to bed for near the Streets', land perhaps fouod a critically at his racket, slowly shook, Fort Frances awhile. Better plan to be In town for solution. But I couldn't! his head. a day or two, for you'll both need "I caught tap my coat left my hat 'T tdidn't minS what any one clothes for the steamer—" ahd bag. I went down the stairs, not thought," Harriet said, reading his N O E N I N N E S O A "You're very kind," the girl said, eyea daring to wait for the elevator. And I thought. "But they did!" averted, voice almost inaudible. They O S I A went to Mrs. Harrington's.. She was cfopMHqKt bi| KaHileerv Norris "They?" Richard repeated, patiently: were both standing now, Harriet's head very kind and took me in she said Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and "Everyone," she supplied, promptly. turned aside, so that he could not see that perhaps it would be better to wait Surgeon in Charge "Your wife, your mother, Mary Putnam v,Continued From Last Week)*' "It was a time of horror," Harriet her face, but her soft fingers resting in —until I was older. I cried all night, Even Mrs. Tabor." Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 said, smiling a little, after a moment of his. and the next day Mrs. Harrington lent "I suppose so!" he conceded, after a Office Intl State Bank Building thought. "The strange women and the She paused Richard did not speafc. 'Tm not kind at all!" Richard said, me the money and I went back to pause. And beneath his breath he added, International Falls, Minnesota She had told him this much in a simple, strange room, and Royal coming in. with a rather confused lauglu He patted Linda. "Isabelle—Ida Tabor!" childish voice, a voice that was an with flowers, and sitting beside me. her hand encouragingly. "The sea "Of course, it was terrible, at first. His tone was all she asked of exquisite echo of that old time, he knew. Presently The doctor said it was a touch of poisoning, trip will shake both you and Nina up, But they were kind £o me, in their reassurance. JOHN H. BROWN she went on: and I was ill only a few days. and do you a world of good!" he said. way. And I was—cured. I went into "I hoped you wouldn't!" she said, "There was music, and then they all But the homesickness, and the strangeness! "You think—" Harriet raised the Attorney at Law hysterics at th first mention of the standing up with clasped hands and a kissed me, and we had supper, andthey Somehow, I didn't feel married, soft,, dark lashes,' and her splendid, whole hideous thing. They saw Roy, Office over O. M. Carr & Co. sudden brightening of her tired and col* drank our health. I went back felt like a lost little girl. I wanted weary eyes met his, "You really aren't I and they told me that I need never see International Falls. Minnesota orle'ss face. "That's what I tried to that night to my sister's Royal to be back in Linda's kitchen again, worried about Nina?" him again. The papers—for it got to make myself believe you would fed! 1 stayed with his mother. We planned safe, and scolding because nothing interesting! And she tried by a very faint stirring the papers!—said that a divorce had wanted so to leave all behind. I thought to go away on our honeymoon the next ever happened. of her fingers to free them and, finding been arranged, but there was no need A E he had gone, that it was all over, that them held,*dropped her eyes again. day. I did not tell Linda and Fred "Well» I was sick for three or four for a divorce. It was all hushed up— what it was mattered more than what Lawyer that I considered myself married. I day's. It was the fourth day when I Linda and Fred never spoke of it. I— it sounded like! I thought I could save "I think I have Blondin's number," knew they would not understand and was well enough to go out. Royal International State Bank Bldg. ah, well, I couldn't! Richard said, with more force than eloquence. Nina better, with what I knew, than trould try to Interfere. thanked them, and paid Mrs. Harrington "But when Fred's brother, David, International Falls, Minnesota any one else! But last night," Harriet Then, with a little laugh that "The next morning I slipped away and the doctor and we went to who was in dental college then, began was partly amused and partly embarrassed, added, "proved to me that I had been from the house with my suitcase, anjl lunch downtown—it was at Martin's, to like me, then they began to. make he let her go. all wrong. I've been so worried," she met Royal Blondin downtown. We I remember, and Royal was so exeited I light of it," Harriet remembered. added, with utter faith in his decision. He watched the young, slender figure SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS motored to Syracuse and took a train and interested in everything. But I "There had been no marriage, of and the shining, bare head until "I don't know what you think we had there for New York. I had felt sick still felt limp and dull. We shopped course, either in law or in fact. They With a Northern they disappeared among the great better do." when I awakened—it was partly excitement, and went about seeing things after REPUTATION all knew that. And I suppose if I had trees about the house. For a full minute Richard watched and partly the supper the lunch, and then we went to the hotel Supplied to the Great Northwest married David it might have been happier her in silence. Then he said, mildly: (To Be Continued) White* for New Illustrated night before, when we had all eaten where he was staying. We were registered for me. But as it was, I angered "About Nina, you mean?" CATALOGUE and drunk too much. But I was very there as Mr. and Mrs. Blondin it them. I didn't want to marry David. Duluth Floral & Seed Company "About everything!" Harriet suddenly sick in the train, I thought I was gqing was all quite taken for granted." And so it was what folly girls got laughed gaily, like a child. Life DULCTH, MINN. to die. Royal persuaded me to eat my Harriet stopped her face was themselves into—what the world Flowers and emblems supplied on seemed once more straight and pleasant write lunch In the dining car, and that only The Old Reliable short notice. Phone, telegraph, drawn and white, her words coming thought of a girl who had been 'talked in this exquisite June morning made me worse. There was a nice with difficulty, the phrases brief and about'—what the least breath of scandal she felt puzzled, but somehow no longer woman in the train, with two little dry. Richard was paying her absolute meant!" INTERNATIONAL afraid. The menacing horrors of all girls, and she took care of me. And attention, his eyes fixed upon her "And you went back to Blondin?" the years, the vague uneasiness that when she got to New York—I had told face. Richard suggested. I E O A N Order Your Needs From the she had never quite dared to face, were her that I was on my wedding journey, "We had dinner upstairs," she said. Nursery Farthest North "I? No, I never saw him again until fluttering about her awakening spirit and perhaps that made her kind—she She paused, her lips tight pressed. a year ago in this garden!" Harriet THE BELTRAMI NURSERY IS STILL IN BUSINESS like Alice's pack Of cards. took us to her boarding house in West "I can't tpll you," she began again, said. Otto Brose, Proprietor. 17 years "Nina will come into /line,'' her father Forty-sixth street. The landlady was suddenly, "I can't tell you how it was "You never saw him again!" the man a resident of Beltrami County said, thoughtfully"she doesn't and will meet all competition a dear, good woman, a Mrs. Harrington, that I came suddenly to know that I eja cult ted. know what she wants. I wish—I wish Bemidji, Minnesota. and—I was very sick by this time! was too young for marriage! In Miriam "Not for nine years!" he loved her!" he added, with a faint INTENATIONAL ICE CO. Gardeners, Nursery Men, Florists —she put me into her own room, because Street's little studio, where they were "But—my God, my dear girl, he frown. "I'll see him about it again. Complete Line of the house was full, and sent for laughing about the baby and the supperj spoke of you as his wife!" Richard P. C. Richardson Phone 379 We'll take her to Rio. She'll get over General Nursery Stock her own doctor. it seemed different. But here, in said. it." International Falls Press' Representative Directory pSJjT1 Falls F. 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