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r 11 jjmb ?eML?r-7!r~--r:::?7.T;. wantraa X mi F"|"? I lne 1 rey1 I A Novelized Version of the Motion I Produced by the I | | Bt LOUIS in* I Author mf "Tim Fortum Hunitr." "TU Dlnttrated with Pkotofripki I ( t Copyright, 1914, by L CHAPTER XXII. Th? House Divided. Alone In that strange place of si| lence and shadows?that den of the devil's livery, crimson and blackchained to the Invalid chair wherein, day In, day out, for years on end, he ) had suffered the Promethean torments) of the life that would not die out of j his wretched, wrecked carcass, though without cens ing sharp-beaked envy, j hatred, malice and all uncharitable-1 ness pecked inset l>ly at his vitals: | Seneca '"rine sat v.; .sr, with the Impassivity of a grav n "sure \v?.lting! on the Imminent hou of ultimate avengemqni for th< wrong that had made him what he was. "Another hour! . . . Tn sixty j minutes more they will be here, Judith and Marrophat and Kose?poor fool! ?and him! ... In sixty minutes j moro tl.ey will put him down before ; me, bound and helpless, if not dead A slight pause prefaced words that were a whimpered prayer: "God send that he be not dead! Have 1 lingered Wmm s> . ' > ?" V: _ : *' 1 Rosa Tum?H an M?p DsaaU.^.i.. jr. here in anguiah all these weary years for the fulfillment of iny revenge only J to be cheated at the end by Death? | God grant that Alan Uw may be laid down still living here at my feet! . . . Then . . A bitter smile twisted his tortured features: "Then shall my will be done to him! And then, when I have seen him die as his father died?then?Ah, God!?then at last 1 too may die! N There was a long silence, then a groan of exasperated protest: "Why do they not come? Why does Judith delay, when she knows how I suffer? Why have 1 been put ofT from day to day with her telegrams that begged for more time and promised everything?but told nothing!?until yesterday. . . . Where are those messages she eent me yesterday?"His one sound hand groped out like a claw and sodght a mans of papers on the desk beside him, sorting out from among t|em two yellow forms. Painfully he blinked over these and slowly his paitl-bent lips conned their wording; " 'Alan and Rose safe with me?will bring both home tomorrow night without fail,'" he read the ilrst aloud; and then the second: "'Have motorcar waiting for me tomorrow morning , from three o'clock till called for New Bedford waterfront ?Judith.'" "No!" he affirmed with the fervor of one persuaded by his own desires: "I must not doubt the girl! She has promised, she has performed: So still was he, indeed, that he eemed to sleep, but so deceptive wtos that semblance that he was alert for ' the least sound. The girl entered soft- 1 ,ly, as If fearful of disturbing his slumbers; but she found him with head ' erect and eyes a-blu/e. "Judith!" he cried, his great voice vibrating like a brazen bell. "At last! Where is he? You have brought him? 1 Where is he?" With no more answer than a sigh, the girl drooped her head and let her ' hands hang limply with palms ex- ' posed. 1 After an Instant of Incredulous disappointment the man shot a single, frigid question at her: "You have, failed?" i obt? imiea, ?ae confessed. "Why?" 1 She shrugged slightly. "Who knows 1 why one falls? I did my best: he was c too much for me, outwitted me at 1 very turn. Time and again 1 thought 1 I had him, but ^Iways he escaped, either by his cwn^wlt and courage or f with another's aid. Only yesterday " night they were all three In the hoi- I low of my hands?but now 1 bring you> .only Rose." C -- - ?~ 1 s 9 O' Hearts] Picture Drama of the St me Nome | Universal Film Co. f ? rr ;eph v^ce I . Brau Bowl." " Tht BUk(4 Bo*.", (tc. I from tki Picture Production I Aula JoMoh Vance She faltered, awed by the glare of his Infuriated eyes. "Let me explain," she begged. Ho snapped her short: "You cannot explain. The thing is impossible, that you should have failed. There is something beneath this, something you will not tell me." She endeavored to speak, but ho enforced silence with a sonorous "No!" Ills hand sought the row of buttons on the desk and pressed one long. Almost Instantly n servant glided noiselessly into the room. "My daughter Rose?have her brought hero to me at once:" in another moment the ropflva of j his daughter Judith was usher >d into I his presence T'port this one bp loosed the light ! nlngs of his wrath without ruth Rose suffered him in silenco. Ills most galling recrimination educed no retort from this one. In a lull in Trine's tirade, Judith hose to interject: "Don't be so hard on the silly fool: she's not responsible; . she's sick with love for that good-looking simpleton!" "And you!" Rose turned on her passionately?"what about you? If I love Alan Law, at leaBt I love him openly. I am not ashamed to own it? and I don't pursue him, as you do, pretending I mean to sacrifice him to a wicked family feud, and then spare him every time I meet him, to lead him to believe 1 haven't the heart to injure him?as you do. hoping so to work upon his sympathies and earn a kindly word and a pat on the flead from his hand!" Fiercely she leveled a denunciatory arm at her sister. "There!" she cried to her father?"If you need to know? there stands the daughter who has betrayed your faith?as I have not, who have never even pretended to approve your villainy!" "I think." Trine announced In a voice of ice?"1 have learned now what I needed to know." Mis fingers sought the row of buttons; and when a servant responded, he inquired: "Mr. Marrophat has returned?" "He is In the waiting room, sir." "Conduct Miss .lyrlith to him and tell him 1 hold hi?n personally responsible for her safe-keeping. He will understand." And for a long time thereafter the father, alone with the daughter who had been estranged from him since birth by every instinct of her nature, essayed in vain to break down her mutinous silence. At last Trine summoned two of his creatures and had her led weeping from the rooms to be held prisoner in her bedchamber on the topmost floor of the house. CHAPTER XXIII. A Sporting Offer. Some two hours later, that same evening, Mr. Alan Law, very much alive and, in spite of a complete new outfit of ready-made clothing, looking much more like himself than he had in a fortnight 'ahVi *??? w , vu iiuui iUC Grand Central station, hailed a taxicab, and had himself conveyed to the Hotel Monolith. Hut if he looked his proper self once more. It speedily was demonstrated that his wish was otherwise: for after learning from the room-clerk of the Monolith that a suite was being held in the name of Arthur I^awrence, that was the name Mr. I^aw inscribed on the register. On the other hand, it was his true name that he gave to the person whom he called upon the telephone immediately at'ter being shown to his rooms. But then he was speaking to his old friend and man of business, Mr. Digby. Within another ten minutes this last was in conference with his employer: "I think you mu9t be out of your head," he insisted nervously, once llieir first greetings were over. "You might Just as sensibly throw yourself from the top of the Metropolitan tower as come to New York while Trine lives and knows you're this side the water." "Nonsense!" Alan laughed. "Remember this is New York?not tho backwoods of Maine!" Alan paused and emote his palm with a remorseful fist. "By the Eternal, I'm forgetting Barcus!" "Barcus?" ' "Chap whose boat I chartered in Portland sheer luck on my part: he's one of the salt of the arth. First, something must be done for the boy. You've got influence of some sort In Mew Bedford, surely?" Digby reflected: "Some. There's Jeorge Blaine, Justice of the peace?" "The very man. Telegraph him in Barcus' Interests Immediately. And j elegraph Barcus as well?send him ( k i uuiiud'u iur espennei, and tell him o Join me here In New York as quick 1 ib he can!" "Your friend's address?" Dlgby In- 1 luired, mildly ironic as he sat down r it the desk and fumbled with the sup- 1 >ly of stationery. 1 "New Bedford Jail, of course!" Alan 1 buckled?but cut hia laugh in two as ( H?at,i!i?wi' - THK LANCASTER NEWS omethlng fluttered froin the pack of nivi lopes which Digby hart disturbed and fell to the iloor between the two men. Face up, it grinned sardonic mockery of Alan's confidence: it was a trey of hearts. With an ashen face and a trembling hand, Digby stooped to pick the damned thing up; but Alan was beforehand with him, and got his fingers first upon the card. , . "Now wijl you believe?" Dlgby do- ' nut tided huskily. "In what? A simple coincidence?" i Alan flouted. "Not I! Who knows I'm in New York?or that the Arthur Lawrence for whom your agent engaged i these rooms was Alan Law. No, my | friend: it's u bit too thick for me. Take my word for it, this is nothing more nor less than a souvenir of a pokerparty held by yesterday's tenant of 1 this suite." "Perhaps?perhaps!" Digbv assent. I ed, stroking tremulous lips. "Hut I'm i afraid for you, niy boy. Who knows ( that Trine's spies were not watching my man when he 11. ?de this rcscrvn- ' Hon'' Who knows but that 'Arthur 1 Lavrcnce' was too thin ; ;uise f<>r Alan Law ? ' tell you, I'm Irphtened Jo \ m ivitiTVOW ( . ! Vs Oni ! I . in- ; t.iv r at 1 est, iny boy now that < u'vo been warm d, \ i tin r by accident, or design?wi won't argue 11mt?do leave town? ?<> incognito to some quiet place near by an 1 wait ' there for the railing of the next transatlantic steamer. Oh, surely you can't ? deny me this one wish of my loud old | heart, my boy!" With a gesture of unfeigned affection Alan dropped a hand on Digby's ! shoulder. 1 "There's nothing on earth I would I not do for you," he said: "you've been , a father and a mother to me ever since I can remember, even if we were sepa- j rated, most of the time, by three thou- i ' sand miles of salt water. Hut this ; thing?I can't do it, even for you. I ( can't do it even for myself. Rose Trine is here In New York, in the ( hands and at the mercy of her father ' and sister: and you may judge what ) their mercy will be when you learn i all that she has done for me. I won't j ( go and I can't go until I find her and take her with me. And that is tiual." ( "Then," Digby struck In, grasping , wildly at a straw of hope, "I have your ( word you'll go. providing I flud und re- ( store Roee to you?" "You have my word to that, unoues tionably. Bring Rose to me, and I'll ( gladly shake the dust of New York from my shoes, and never return till ' Trine is put away comfortably in his ' grave." ' "It shall be dono," Digby promised. "It must!" I "You believe that?" "In twelve hours Rose shall be restored to you." "Will you make a book on It? I'll ' bet you something happens?and hope I lose into the bargain. If you believe ! you can carry out your promise, wire 1 the White Star line to reserve the ' best available suite on the Oceanic, 1 sailing tomorrow morning at ten? and make arrangements for a mar- | ] riage before the boat sails." ', "I'll go you," Digby agreed: "and If ( I fall, I forfeit the cost of the reser- , vatlon. But about thlB marriage?" He hesitated. i "You'll have to have a license in 1 this state?and can't get one except,!: by applying In person with your bride-11 to-be. There won't be time?" "Then we'll marry in Jersey!" Alan insisted. "Dig up some clergyman over there, if you don't know one your-| self?" "Oh. I'm well acquainted with the | very man!" !] TO BE CONTINUED ! ' 1 WATERLOO 1 Why have the mighty lived? why ' have tin y died? I Is it ever thus with idle wreck to strew Fields such as thine, remorseless , Waterloo? I Hopeless the lesson! Vainly hath 1 ever cried e Stern fate io man ?"So per\-h ' ' human pride!" fl Still must t1".- many corai-^: r? > s t lie few '' earth bedew; ? Still must the noblest blood fait ? fair earth bedew; n Tyrants, aslves, freemen, moldering ti side by side! n On such a day the world was lost and won i e Hy Pompey at Pbarsalia; such a day u Saw glorious Hannibal a fugitive p sun ' 01 So faded 'neath the Macedonian sun Persia's pale star; so empire pass- I g ed away ^ From Harold's brow, but he disdained to live! --Sir A. de Vere. II The Lancaster Boosters under the }_ eadership of Mr. Luther Ellison, p lecretary of the Chamber of Comnefce. rolled Into the city at 11:05 >'clock this morning in a special ? rain over the LAC Rwy., and re- y nained here fifty-five minutes, ad- v? 'crtising tho Lancaster County Fair, tl The party was accompanied by a w and and made a good impreslon. . lJj 'beater Reporter. PKCKMBKl? 8. ViM. 1'ouKi.V Plants There Is some talk to the etiVcl J hat the poultry parking industry in lie United States will heroine cen- ! nilized us has been the ease with he beef industry. Poultry special-I sts of the United Stutes Department >f Agriculture say there is a marked cadency in that direction. j This might be a good thing from lie standpoint of the packers, says j ho Louisville Courier-Journal, but t is not so good for tfie producers, I aid the consumers. At present here is some competition in poolry buying. There would be tnivli j ess ot it if the business of poultry y dnoglitcring were concent rated in | I'nu' .... />?.i .. .. .w.rv .n V IIU'UKU. III! spcciastlts ii tlx* I'Dpartincut of Agriculture above that it is to tin- best inteivd.. , l he farmer that there should he . . < 'I t in Kiim plan' Tin e >. ilhl'-llis, it is (>(>intod out, 11:i' Ite ; ' I ' I ' , i 111 .I , ; . . . .1 ?!;:'! ' a'lit . .lei- I , :; in many cu tea they have Induced . runners t<> replace mon ;rels by troeds which command i?et ii?r prices | The Department of Agriculture is > ncouraging the buildings of local " plants. Its- reasons are that the i l>ottltry packed and shipped from inch plants is in better condition ( than poultry that is shipped alive ' or long distances prior to slaugh-' ' or. Also the districts in which 1o;al plants are maintained benefit j , ?y the investment and the location of 1 an industry, while production is favorably affected. The movement in moRt lines of | business toward consolidation, sug- I ;ests the Courier-Journal. It is by no means improbable that the poul- j ry industry ultimately will lie prin-| ipally in the hands of the beef I trust or some other great combination of capital and that local packing plants will go the same way that so many of the butcher shops daughter houses and meat packing industries have pone. In which coningency it may well be feared tii.it lie producer would get less and the onsiimer would pay more for pouli ('olumbia Record. I\KKI? IT II \M?V FOP ItllKI MA. TISM No use to snuirf and wince and * try to year out your Rhcuttia' ism. [i will wear you out instead. Apply tome of Sloan's Liniment. Need not rub it in?just let it penetrate all through the affected parts, relieve the soreness and draw out the pain, j i'ou get ease at once and feel so much i Letter you want to go right out and 1 Loll other sufferers about Sloan's. I Set a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25 cents of any driggist and have it In the house?again.it Colds, Sore and Swollen Joints. Lumbago, Sciaiiack if not satisfied, out it does give nlmost instant relief. Huy a bottle today. A. Kidney Remedy Advertisement Brought Great Happiness I take pleasure in stating that I haVA IIQAfl T\t* *-% A 1 u W..*U tyi. 11IIU1U1 O OVVUIlip IlOOl, that I was greatly benefited by the lame and have used It in my family. [ had a son when qujte young he suf'erod from bladder1' of kidney affliction. I called '.n /my physician, he ittended him buy did him no pood. Mmogt by accidant I noticed an ad-1 rertisement abo/it the curat'** projertlcs of I>r Kilmer's Swamp Hoot, procured a bid tie and gave it to lira according to directions. T? cur d hint of what we thought was al_ nost impossible Vnd the same w tb ithers of my fanuLly. I have such trong faith In Swamp-Root that 1 lave never done \4ithout it itt my ainily since tlie wonderful cure of iij son as well as myself. I re>*omnend it to all why suffer from kldev er bladder tro/ibles and f a n led o believe that iyis one of th^? best jcdiclnes for tl^ purpose for which t is used that Ifag ever been diueov-, ret'. / This Is my experience from the; st of Swamp-Root. Wishing the romoters cf this wonderful mediIne a large tale to the suffering pub-: c, I am, I Yoilrs respectfully, \ W. H. McAfee 3 Uroydeg St. Atlanta, Oa. fitness, E. O. Williams, Notary Public. I/ftter to Dr. Kilmer A Co. ninghamton, N. Y. rove What Hw*mp~Hoot Will Do For You i Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co, lnghampton, N. Y., for a sample! re bottle It w^.ll convince anyone, ou receive a booklet of tluable Information, telling about i? kidneys and bladder. When rltlng, be sure .and mention the (infaster S<-ml.Wo?Vl? Vo?n x>..~ lar flfty_cent and one-dollar str.e'I >ttles for sale at all drug stores. sT: OyTT 7V j; \ bOuiiii BCAJ WA Vnd For Three Summers Mrs. Vin- b U cent Was Unable to Attend to Any of Her Hbusework. g Pleasant Hill, N. C.?'MsnTfcred^for s\ hree summers," writes Mrs. Wairkr 0 vincem, ot mis town, "and tlie third an! ast lime, was my worst. \ I had dreadful nervous headaches and Jn prostration, and was scarcely able to walk about. Could not do any of my . touse work. I also had d \ adfu! pains in my back snd sulcs and win n one of lit weak, n' i spells v.\ d conic on me, I v would have to give up and lie down, until it wore oil. (] I was certainly in a dreadful state of health, when 1 finally decided to try v Cardui. the woman's tonic, and I firmly | t Niillre to Debtors iiikI CH'ilKois. | All persons having claims against ^ lie estate of .1. I*. ('. C'askey, de- I leased, are hereby notified to (ile " he same duly attested, with the un- , lersigned, and all persons indebted ' o said estate will please make pay- :l inent to the undersigned. 1 M. S. WITIIERSPOON. 1 J. LEE CRAIQ. t W. J. CUNNINGHAM. 1 Executors under the Will of J. P. 1 C. Caskey. 1 Dated December 2, 1914. f 3 ? Equa A startling statement but a true one One teaspoontul^pf medicine and two your own ground l^ed (cost about 3 ci ?in what tliey do forjour animals and f pounds of any ready-mSte stock or p< (price 25 cents). There ybi^jare 1 If believe it, try it out 1 Buy, toua}>q^ai I Bee Dee fi? Changes feed into tonic?Makes it resolt-pi wmammmmmmmamaMmmmmmnmmammmmBMBBmmmmam Fresh Co Celery--Cr Silver Slice ) Pound Cake / Chocolate cake J Fresh shipment t\ Edwarrls / Get your coal from u< turns cold. We sell bi New Life in 0 THE FIRST FAIR>V JUMP IN 7?E Don't forget Head/ua House. Our stock is are here, and we expect out to have Christmas this yet Want every man, womai our store while here this \ votes in the Pony contest, settle same and we will se< Bennett-T 7 s>| jfv *7 7 ivULli ji JLK ABOUT elieve I would have died if I hadn't iken it. After I began taking Cardui, I was reatly helped, and all three bottles rteved me entirely. I fattened up, and grew so muck tronger in three months, I felt like anther person altogether." Cardui is purely vegetable and gentlncting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic N^ct, on the womanly constitution. C^dui makes for increased strength, nprov^s the appetite, tones up the ncrous sysSun, and helps to make pale, allow cheeks, fresh and rosy. Cardui has he ! d jn than a r i".' on /oak \v> nen, during the j 1 ) years, t will surely do for you, what it has lone for them. Try Cardui today. Vrite to: Chattanonra Mo.liclne Co., l.aJIrt' At iviry I'fpi.. (t.itl.inoog.i. I run., lor SiHciul Jtifrtirlimix i>n your cam.* and (rl-|v.gc |i,.U. "llumt ccatment (or Women." sent In plain wrapper. J-6S A Test for Liver i 'omplaiiit ? ntully fii?i'p,i,t?Physically, l>ult The l.ivcr, sluggish and inactive, Irst shows Itself in a mental state, unhappy and critical. Never Is here Joy In living, as when the Stora.eli and Diver are doing their v. ork. Ceep you Liver active and healthy >y usiug I)r. King's New Difo Pills; hey empty the Dowels freelv. inni> .p your Stomach, cure your Constlpaion and purify the Blood. 2 5s at )ruRRist. Bucklen's Arnica Salve or Piles. lis ? 25 in this case ?? pounds Of Write fori trial package :nts' equal. of Bee Dee STOCK A owls ? two POULTRY MKDICINE, owis, iwo also our 32 paKc. illustraJUltry tonic tril book, lull* explaining you don't its uses. Address: n of? Bee Dee Stock Medicine a Company, 'OULTRY Chattanooga. Tcnn. INE I?___J 25c, 50c nnd $1. per can. roduring. At your dealer's, p p ^ coanuts anberries " r". I ! I X V/C rice each week Sc Horton ; before the weather rick and shingles also Id Lancaster EEK THIS WEEK. [E SWIM. rters near the Court lplete. Holiday goods Customers and friends nland child to come in vAek. Buy goodt:?got Call for your account, g the Aeroplane go up. erry Co. 1