Tfc&.Y^V'' Al internatiok falls press^ PAGE SEVEN wffcfiiag yonf*" Btitsoddenly life became significant a?ored her, whispered Eer long confidences. and 'thrilling again he heard her "Oh," she said, considering earnestly, BORDER HEMSTITCHING CO. volc4 her laugh. She., came swiftly "I have a much handsomer one than Coming home in the limousine they and quietly out to them, smiling at that. Blue and silver. You've not seen had neighbors with them, old Doctor Mr*. R. Liljeblad, him, settling herself in the chair beside It." and Mrs, .CaTmichael, so be might not "Blue and silver, then." Richard his mother. She wore white, have the word alone with her for which 822 Seventh Street Phone 152 transparent, simple there were coral felt a distinct regret when the men he he had been longing all evening. But beads about her firm young throat. expected appeared. There was but one he stopped her in the wide, dim hallway Button Holes Made By Hand. '•i* The dew of her deep sleep made her figure of any interest to him on the when they reached Crownlands. bine eyes wonderful her cheeks were shady, flower-scented terrace, and that "Tired?" he said, at the foot of the as pink as a baby's. was a woman's figure in a white gown. stairs. For two or three days he was conscious "Not a bit!" There was an enchanting "Aren't the June days delicious?" O. G. SNYDER, D. O., R. O. of a constant interest in her appearances vitality about her. She had she said. Richard studied her, smilingly, slipped the thin wrap from her shoulders, without answering. What would and disappearances, a constant Registered Optometrist and she turned to him her lovely, she say next, where would she move desire to please her. He was conscious and Optician happy face. "Did you want me?" of one mastering curiosity.:" he her eyes, or lay her white hand, he S*HflWtrrfion/ At Gledhill'. Jewelry Store "I wanted to say something to you," wanted to know just how Harriet regarded wondered. When she murmured to his him. It seemed suddenly of Richard said, feeling awkward as a mother in an undertone, he tried to Fort Frances boy. catch the words. supreme importance. He thought of it "In there?" She nodded, suddenly "Did you have a good sleep?" Richard in his office, and smiled to himself during alert, toward the library. asked. She flashed him an eloquent N O E N I N N E S O A important business conferences, "Why in there?" he asked, with a look. O S I A jfopMriqht bq Kathleen Norris wondering about it. It seemed incredible little husky laugh. His one impulse "Oh—the most delightful of my Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and to him, now, that his experiences was to put his arms about her. whole life! Eight hours without stirring Surgeon in Charge of the past year had been so largely "I thought—bills, perhaps?" Harriet (Continued From Last Weelc) Now, he just felt lazy. concerned with Harriet. His wife's Office Phone Hospital Phone 79 said, innocently. It was the third day 30 The Hoyts arrived a handsome "No tea today?" he asked, presently. companion, his daughter's governess, The check flattered to the table between of the month he had often consulted Office IntT State Bank Building mother and two equally handsome People usually went to the club on his own capable and dignified housekeeper, them. There was a long silence. her as to expenses before this. daughters. Harriet went to them International Falls, Minnesota Sunday, said his mother. She added, the woman he had so hastily Then Blondin ground out his cigarette "No," Richard said, wi^h another unsteady gracefully Richard saw that she was Irrelevantly, that Harriet was asleep. !n a stone saucer, rose, in all the easy married, all seemed a different person, little laugh. "It wasn't bills. I accepting good wishes. She took the, Richard said that she had looked tired a quite visionary person, with whom beauty of his white summer clothes, was Just wondering—if I had been callers to his mother, and filled their JOHN H. BROWN this morning sleep was the best thing his flowing scarf, his dark, romantic just such business-like arrangements very stupid," he said, taking one of her cups herself. for bet. Attorney at Law locks. He lifted his straw hat, put it had been possible. hands, and looking up from the fingers "She certainly is wonderful!" Richard on, picked up his stick, and laid it on But Harriet was beginning to seem that lay in his to the face that Office over O. M. Carr & Co. said. He perfectly realized his the table.. Then he took the check to him a stranger who possessed at now wore an expression a little International Falls. Minnesota own suddenly deepening feeling for frightened, despite the smile. and read it thoughtfully. once the most mysterious and childlike, her, but he dared not analyze it yet. "Never with Ine!" Harriet said, in a "Thank you!" he said. Yet the the most beautiful and the most When Mrs. Hoyt hinted at a dinner, he Shameful thing struck him, an adept baffling personality that he had ever low tone. A E took part in the conversation. "Thursday? now In evading and lying, as surprisingly known. He made excuses to go home "Never so blind," Richard said, Why not, Harriet? We have no Lawyer easy, and as he sauntered away early, just to catch glimpses of this "never so matter-of-fact that I hurt engagement for Thursday?" International State Bank Bldg. your feelings? Nothing of—that sort?" wife who was not his wife. That he She flushed brightly, signaling to ln the June warmth and silence, it "Always the kindest friend I ever had ever taken a fatherly, advisory International Falls, Minnesota him that she had already indicated an was not of Nina, or her father, or even had!" the girl answered, unsteadily. tone with this woman was unbelievable excuse. They had never dined together of himself that he was thinking. her mere approach made him away from home. He need not He had met the widow of Joe Hopper and with suddenly wet eyes. "The— catch his breath and lose his coherency. think, said Harriet's anxious manner, a few nights ago: a faded little the most generous!" SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS He had walked into her room—he that he need carry the appearance of pleasant woman of fifty, pathetically He looked at her hand again, looked a had patronized her—he had asked her marriage so far. With Northern grateful for his casual politeness in up at her as if he would speak. But REPUTATION casually to marry him as if she had "But—but aren't Nina and I to be her strangeness and shyness. He had instead, she felt her fingers pressed, Supplied to the Great Northwest been fifty, and as plain as she was In town Thursday?" she ventured. chanced, quite idly and accidentally, White for New Illustrated and felt her heart thump with a delicious lovely! "Shopping. You can make that next to make an impression on her. She CATALOGUE terror. Richard shuddered as he thought of week!" Richard said. He loved her Duluth Floral & Seed Company had promised to come to the studio Bottomley came noiselessly, discreetly, it. He made constant efforts to engage confusion. and look at his rugs. DULUTH, MIXX. across the hall. Instantly the her in personalities, but she evaded "Then we surely will! Thank you," Flowers and emblems supplied on Royal wondered why she dressed so write woman in blue and silver was all the short notice. Phone, telegraph, she said to Mrs. Hoyt. him. There was a real thrill badly she needed simple materials foi mistress. "Thursday, then, at eight!" the him in the quiet dinner at the Hoyts'. and flowing lines. He heard himself "Is Mr. Ward in, Bottomley?" caller said, departing. Richard sauntered Mrs. Carter, said slow old bewhiskered telling her so. John Hoyt, was an extremely pretty "He dined at 'ome, Mrs. Carter." with them to their car, and returned Order Your Needs From the woman. "My wife"—Richard in answering to find Harriet half-scandalized, "Oh, thank you! You may lock up, Richard sat on, on the terrace, Nursery Farthest North called her that—"looks particularly then. Good-night, Mr. Carter! Goodnight, half-laughing. thinking, and presently his mother well in an evening gown." Indeed she THE BELTRAMI NURSERY "But do you want to dine with Bottomley!" came out and joined him. Wasn't he, them?" she asked. looked exquisite in the blue and silver Otto Brose, Proprietor. 17 years (To Be Continued) the old lady asked elaborately, going dress, laughing—still with that adorable "Why not?" His smile challenged a resident of Beltrami County to the club? It was almost five mist of strangeness and shyness her, and she laughed hardily. Bemic(ji, Minnesota. o'clock, her son reminded her. Two Tired, overworked, run-down men about her—with her neighbors at the "I suppose there is no reason why Gardeners, Nursery Men, Florists or three of his business associates table, and afterward in the drawing and women find in Tanlac just what not, Mr. Carter!" Then He Took the Check and Read It Complete Line of were coming to dinner Hansen was room, waving her silver fan slowly "You can wear"—he gestured—"the they need to regain health and Thoughtfully. General Nursery Stock to driye them all into the city later. while Freda Hoyt, who quite obviously black and goldy thing. 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