/—"I?"?* 1 5p^siffiSSE PAGE SEVEN .•Str 1® •S 'Bat she was puzzled' by Nina's man-, Then fie was gone, and Harriet was day"P"shr presently continued. "And her: "Back to school-girl tricks!" die standing alone In tbe softly lighted —there were two or three women BORDER HEMSTITCHING CO. .said. room. For a few moments she. remained ther£ but It wasnt that. They were —wen, "Never back to a school-girl," Nina perfectly still, with her white perhaps'they were just, having 5 Mrs. R. Liljeblad, gaid, passionately, Til never be that hands pressed to her burning cheeks. fun. But—" And Nina looked pitifully "5^1 agalnp Harrief," she went on, *Tve Then, shaken with Joy and[ surprise, from Harriet's sympathetic face 822 Seventh Stre«t Phone 152 wfitten Royal three times, since my with a delicious terror and something to her father's troubled eyes. "But birthday, and I've seen him twice." Button Holes Made By Hand. I've not been having much fun!" she of a child's Innocent chagrin, she "You saw him today?" Harriet ventured. went noiselessly back to her own faltered, with a suddenly trembling room, closed the communicating -door, moufh. Tve been planning—praying!—that It to went therethis afternoon.** Nina' somehow It would come out and undressed with pauses for the O. G. SNYDER, D. O., R. O. admitted, heavily. Then suddenly, dreams that would come creeping right. H4 told me today that he had "Harriet, did my father pay him—did over body and soul, and hold her In promised, not to see or speak to me Registered Optometrist he take money—to1 break our engagement?" for two years," she, said, slowly. "I— their exquisite stillness for long minutes and .Optician together. Father, I knew that he had a reason! At Gledhiil's Jewelry Store "Nina, what a horrible thought 1 Of She was brushing her hair when He was changed. 'I n€ver saw him so! luirotioiif course not!" Harriet could fortunately Nina suddenly appeared, and came And7 two hours ago," she pointed to Fort Frances answer .In perfect honesty. lifelessly in to sit on the edge of the door that led Into her father's s^mfa^ijiit!r "Oh, Harriet," the girl caught her room, "two hours ago I went in there," Harriet's bed. "I want* to ask you something!" hands, turning sick and imploring eyes she said, "and I looked over your own N O E N I N N E S O A Nina said, In an odd voice. "And, toward her, "are you sure?" check book. Father, did you write O S I A "Nina, dear, your father would'have him a check? Was that the stub that ^opifri^Ht bi| Kathleen* Norris Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and told me!" had 'R. B.' on it?" Surgeon in Charge "He might not—he might not!" Nina Richard looked at her sorrowfully. think I couldn't have wanted you so said, feverishly. "But If he did—!w 4Tm sorry, Ninfe," he said, simply. Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 \Continncd From Last Week) without loving you If—if the time she whispered, half to herself. "That's "I told him you should not know, from Office Intl State Bank Building "Nina left the door open. I've never comes, -Harriet, when you can care for Pilgrim, I rang for her," she said, of me! I would have spared you that." International Falls, Minnesota been Jn herfe before," Harriet said, trying me, you'll tell me, won't you? ^That's a knock on her own door. "Askymy For a few minutes there was silence to make her voice as natural as all I want, Just to know that you will father to fome up, will you?" she said In the room. Then Nina said bravely, life own. Confused and ashamed, she tell me. You're going to tell me, yourself to the maid, when Pilgrim appeared. JOHN H. BROWN through tears was hardly she said. conscious of what I I'm going to make you love me! "Well settle It now!" "I don't know why you should be Attorney at Law ''Here we are!" Kiohard glanced at I'll be patient—I'll not hurry you—but "Mr. Carter is Just coming up," Pilgrim sorry for \frhat will save me months Office over O. M. Carr & Co. the paper he had found. "See here," some day you'll have to tell me that said. And a moment later Richard, of slow worry,, aft at one blow! You he said, presently, going to a window, International Falls. Minnesota I've—I've won you!" N with an interested face, came and Harriet needn't worry any more. "come here a minute, I want to He had spoken swiftly, almost sternly, through Nina's room, and Joined them. I'm cured. I've been a fool, let him show you this! You see," they were with a sort of desperate determination.^ Harriet had had time only to knot her flatter me and lie to me," said this A E both looking out into the moonlight Now he freed her arms as suddenly" hair back carelessly, and slip-into the new Nina, with' bitter courage, "but Lawyer now, '-you see, this is where I propose as he had grasped them, and most formal of her big Chinese coats. I'm over it now. Tm sorry I gave you International State Bank Bldg. to build on that big room downstairs, added, in a lower tone: "Father," Nina said, when they three much trouble, Father throw the library into the blue room, International Falls, Minnesota "Until that time I'll not—not even— were alone together, "did Royal Blondin "My darling girl," her father said, and have a big sleeping porch upstairs kiss the top of your hair, Harriet," take a check from you ten days tenderly. "I only wish I could spare here," he explained. "Perfectly feasible, he said. ago?" you all this!" and yet it will make a different Orde^ Your Needs From the In the mad rushing of her senses Richard, taken unaware, glanced "Better now than two or three years bouse of it I" Nursery Farthest North she could not find the right word, sharply at Harriet, who shook her after we were married,"' Nina said. Harriet commented interestedly but she detained him with an entreating head, with an anxious look. He sat THE BELTRAMI NURSERY "Plenty of girls find it out then! Father, enough. But she heard his voice hand. Her eyes, shining with 'a down beside Nina on the bed, and put Otto Brose, Proprietor. 17 years I want you to get that che^k, rather than his words, and saw only look that he had never seen there before, a fatherly arm about her. a resident of Beltrami County through the clearing-house, for me," tbe well-groomed, black-clad figure, the "Ah, Father, don't put me off!" the were fixed on his. But Richard she said, heroically, "and I want to Bemidji, Minnesota. shining patent-leather shoes, the fine did not look at her eyes, he looked girl begged. "I wrote him, after my keep it. If ever I'm a fool about a man Gardeners, Nursery Men, Florists hand that indicated the changes. down at the hand she had laid on birthday," she said, "and told him again, I'll take it out and look at it!" Complete Line of Perhaps he was conscious of confusion, that money made no difference to me. his own. "I have it I told Fox to get It today," General Nursery Stock too, for his words stopped, and "I don't think," Harriet said, breathlessly, He didn't answer. Then I got Bruce Richard said. "You shall have presently they were looking at each "that I can ever like you any Hopper to ask his mother to nave it!" mi ther in a strange silence, Richard still Blondln meet her at the club for tea, more than I do!" "And, Harriet, I Want You to Tell Me Nina had turned suddenly white It ing, Harriet wide eyed. and I saw him then. Bruce," Nina Sh^ had meant It for. surrender her the Truth!" was as if a last little hope had been suddenly his strong arms held heart was beating wildly with the cast In, still in the new, self-contained iii^' DEMAND AND-iNSlST killed. •lose, and her blue, frightened Harriet, I want you to tell me the glorious shame of a proud woman who tone, "has been wonderful about it! tvere close to his, and she felt "You have it!" she whispered. "He truth!" gives herself. But Richard was not I know he only seems a silent sort of on getting cashed it, then!" thing else in the world slip away Harriet, turning, faced her between looking at the betraying eyes. In the boy, but I'll never forget what he's "REPUTATION" her except the exquisite knowl*hat two curtains of rippling gold./ She "He cashed it the next morning," great new love that had swept him done for me! 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