A I E licious, secret game of hide-and-go-seek the most delicious emotion that he had1 cently.- "^ro don't think she's hiding made everything else in the world insignificant. anything?" she asked, anxiously. ever known. BORDER HEMSJ1TCHING CO. Harriet opened the boxes "I—-no, I hardly think so," Richard Nina complained of a headache •^of flowers he sent her with a heart suffocating answered, confusedly. Their eyes met, when they reached home, and went Mrs. R. Liljeblad, and the with joy.- Richard consented and he smiled vaguely. Tbeh Harriet early to bed. Harriet, when she had to be absent from the dinner table slowly crossed the hall to the door of tubbed and changed to an evening 822 Seventh Street Phone 152 PIPER over which she presided with an agony the guest room, where "she was spending gown, glanced in at Nina, and thought of renunciation that almost made Button Holes Made By Hand. the night, and gave him an only the girl asleep. There were men him feel ill. When he chanced one day half-audible good-night. Richard stood guests for dinner, and afterward there to meet her with Nina, in a breezy, watching the door for a moment or two was bridge. Harriet sat with Madame awninged summer restaurant, the after it had closed upon the slender, Carter for awhile, for the old lady had O. a SNYDER, D. 0„ R. O. sight of the slender figure thrilled dimly seen figure. Then he went to also dined upstairs, went about the by Kathleen Norvif as he had never been thrilled by any his own room, and began briskly house upon her usual errands, and, Registered Optometrist enough to move about between the mirrors woman he had ever known. He was going to her own room, found Nina and Optician and dressing room, windows and to speak to her, to hear her voice! One reading, at about ten o'clock. Nina At GledhiU's Jewelry Store bed. Bnt two or three times he did not look up or speak as Harriet day he bought her shoes in the shop stopped short, and found himself she looked at him for approval. He came in. Fort Frances staring vacantly into space, all movement thought the shoes, low shoes with The door that led to Richard's room arrested, even thought arrested buckles, that showed the silk-clad ankle, was not only unlocked, but actually for whole long minutes at a time. very suitable and pretty. He was ajar. Harriet gave it a surprised N O E N I N N E S O A Harriet, entering her room, closed glance, and spoke to Nina, in the next thrown into sudden confusion when O S I A the door noiselessly, and remained for room. the shoe clerk turned to him with a ^fopqri^Kf bij Kbfaleen Norris Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and a long time standing with her hands murmured mention of the price. "Nina, did you unlock this doorT' Surgeon in Charge resting against it behind'her, her eyes "What door?" Nina called. "Oh, Ten dollars? Richard fumbled for (Continued From Last Weefc^ alert, her breath coming as if she had yes!" she added. "I did." Office Phone 38 Hospital Phone 79 his purse. He had met her walking "And, Father—" been running. There was only a night aldhe in the Avenue she had said that "Oh," Harriet murmured. And she Office Intl State Bank Building "Now, Ward—look here," she said, "And the wonder was that we didn't light in the bedroom the covers wcHre she must get shoes. Hundreds of other stepped to the door, and looked into sternly. "What sort of honor do you International Falls, Minnesota die of fright—" still tumbled back from her sudden Richard's room. men were presumably buying their call this! Half an hour ago I thought "Now, look here," Harriet said. In flight toward the rioting youngsters in It was a sort of upstairs sitting wives shoes, up and down the brilliant all this nonsense was stopped. Shame the babel, "I'll give you all exactly two the hall. She got back .into her bed room, furnished simply, in man street. But Richard found the JOHN H. BROWN on you! Those girls promised me—" minutes to quiet down. Never In the fashion, with deep leather chairs on I and opened her book. But for a long adventure shaking to the soul. She saw Richard, and laughed, the Attorney at Law course of my life—" time she neither slept nor read hei each side of the fireplace, broad tables "They're lovely shoes," Harriet said, color flooding her face. Office over O. M. Carr & Co. Richard thought her maternal Indulgence eyes widened at the faintest sound ol carrying only the essential lamps and as they walked out into the sunshine. "Aien't they simply shameless!" she International Falls. Minnesota delightful he thought the the summer night her heart thumped ashtrays, a shabby desk where Richard She told him that she was to meet «aid. "I had them all settled down, young people who clung about her madly when the curtains whispered at kept personal papers, and bookshelves Nina at his mother's at five. Richard, once! 'Nina, where's Francesca? You charming In their apologetic and the window, or the wicker chairs gave crammed with novels. Harriet, with sudden eagerness, wondered if A E see," Harriet said, in rapid explanation laughing promises. Ward and Bruce making a timid round, saw Bal£ac the faintest creak. It had not been she would spend the interval In having to Richard, "I gave the girls my Lawyer Hopper mounted to their own region only for Richard that the midnight and Dickens, Dumas and Fielding, te^ somewhere, but Instead they room tonight, so that they could all Richard went with the girls and Harriet International State Bank Bldg. hour Of responsibility and Informality several Shakespeares and a complete went into a bookshop, and she carried I be together, and this is my reward!" to the rooms that had been attacked. International Falls, Minnesota shared had had its thrill. Meredith, Jostling elbows with modern a new book triumphantly away. "It's I The girls, entirely unalarmed by Pilgrim, the tireless, was already novels in bright Jackets, and yellow One o'clock. Harriet closed her book a frightful day in town," Harriet said, her severity, had deserted Richard there, replacing pillows, straightening French romances losing their paper and snapped off her light. But first "and if^ we're a little early we may flow, and were clinging to her with beds, untwisting curtains. The covers. she went to the window and leaned out all get away to the country that much Order Your Needs From the I weak laughter and feeble explanations. girls, with reminiscent bubbles of Suddenly her heart turned to water into the sweet darkness. There was sooner!" Nursery Farthest North daughter, began to help her. some tiny sound In the silence warning shadow unbroken everywhere no light She established herself contentedly THE BELTRAMI NURSERY "Francesca unlocked that door, and After the last good-nights, Richard her that some one had entered. in all the big house was burning as beside him when they did finally start Otto Brose, Proprietor. 17 years rushed Into Mr. Carter's room!" Amy and Harriet had no choice but to cross late as her own. for Crownlands. Ward, beside Hansen, a resident of Beltrami County She turned, discovered here in the 'explained, wiping her eyes. "And the hall again, and they stood there did most of the talking N^na was very center of his own private apartment. then the boys locked her in there!" Bemidji, Minnesota. for a moment, laughing at the recent silent, and Harriet noticed that she CHAPTER XVI. He was standing not three The composed reappearance of Francesca excitement. Gardeners, Nursery Men, Florists was very pale. Richard was repeating feet away from her. For a second at this point, however, added to "After twelve," Harriet said, with Complete Line of After that life took on a mysterious to himself one phrase all the way they stared at each other with a sort the general hilarity. a smiling shake of her head. "Aren't General Nursery Stock fragrance and beauty that made every a phrase that he found so. thrilling of mutual trepidation. "You did not lock me In, Smarties!" they young demons! However," she hour of it an intoxication to the master and absorbing that it was enough to "Hello!" he said then matter-offactly, Francesca drawled, childishly. "They added in an undertone, "it's the best and mistress of Crownlands. The keep him from speaking aloud, or listening "I brought home a paper tonight thing in the world for Nina! This •climbed to the balcony, and we were fact that their secret was all their own to what the others said. I wanted Unger to see It! I —well, we were undressing," she said sort of nonsense will blow cobwebs DEMAND AND INSIST was all the more enchanting. To the "I love her—I love her—I love her!" left it in the suit I wore." to Richard, "and here they were hammering away!" domestic staff, to the children, to the thought Richard. And sometimes he He stepped to the dressing room, and yelling like—like Siwashes! Richard was only conscious of a on getting outsidfe world, life went upon its usual glanced sidewise at her, her beautiful and probed In a pocket, without moving We grabbed our wrappers, desire to prolong this Intimate little smooth way. Mr. Carter would be in hair rippling in thick waves under the "REPUTATION" his pleasant look from her. we wanted to—" moment of parental consultation. town tonight, Mr. Carter was detained thin veil, her face a little pale from Service and Quality "FLOWERS, "Giving my room the once over?" he "We wanted to lock them out "She doesn't speak of Blondin?" he and BULBS" also Sprays and Emblems at the office, Mrs. Carter was chaperoning the heat of the day, her glorious eyes said.^ (there!" Amy explained, laughing uncontrollably. asked. for Funeral Decorations the young people, there were flowers faintly shadowed. When the swift "But—" "Not at all. The birthday came and (To Be Continued) through local dealers. Or direct for Mrs. Carter. 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