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\ IT ' -3 ' -v t . V : • 7 BARNWELL SENTINEL, B Lady Became a Nervous Wreck From Three Years Suffering ,>"• With Head.'Says Cardui Well.: ^ Texas City: Tex.—Tn an intcilcsjting ~ statement, Mr-*. G.- H. «Sch1ll,. of,, Ihl* ^ town, says; j*For ih-rec yr^rs I suf* ^ fered. untold agony •\vith my head. I » ^ 1 , . . wns unable to do any of my work. I just wanted to sleep nil the time, for that was the only ease I could get. when I was asleep. I became a ner- ' vous wreck Just from tlx* awful .suf- - fering with my head. •... „ 1 »i “I was so nervous that' tjie 'least fioise would inak(>'mi-* '.imn]four of niy” lied. I had no energy, and was uu- I »hie to do anvtiiimi.- Me s«.n. n-ii)MUg— r s , boy, had to do all my household' duties. r ' .*.*; was not able t<i • 1<» any tliing untU. k I took Oirduir I'.touV-tliree^bottles In ail. and it surely rured me of those aw AtHiecdaWifs. ■'/Fhjtfhas hcen+hree' year^ng**. and I ! now'ilto cure is per-, man'ent, for I 1 -iv«* never had any r hetf.latlH*. since -raking t’aniui. . . . Nothing relieved me until I took*' GnYdhl. It did \\,om!ef-s-;_for me. t Th^eo bottles of it did more fo’F. me than ~’uT) the iiiiMuino or. doctor's •treatments, or baths I ever took.” 'j Try UHtloi for .youf~ troubles.—It should do' for you what It has done for so many thousands of other women. Begin taking Curdui today.—-Adv. a li. ft i. ■TiTTnini u I IS He was a famous man who had lost himself through fear, but found courage in an inspiring woman’s love / j -iL* Mary Roberts Rinehart ^ - : tells the storsf > v. her and [hell ( nero. Vr.Ainafhl, this: the.honest : pride of a woman in FftiiiFWf in i it 11111 n .i rg?' r " r T|ie voices weft* very clear, s eating her-hcart utit.’ u r> Need . ' f'Y<> yMi^think He• b:r> really broken with her?’.’ >s s ' .' v-' •*. • r - ‘ probably rn>b^isiin* irrpms it's com* i.n.g11lmFkhU.-1-y . “Sometimes I litiv<* wondered _ VS«* have others. She ougiTftkt to' . . ... be here, of course. Hut among so umuy*. Ar8 You Weak and there is bound to |*e on^now and then ’ h—*w •- ... ~ who—Who Isn't quite—” ” . , -RUIl"QOWH • . , 7 She hesitated, itt a l.o-wf Ar a Wfrrily, — -- / • • •>.. . . SIDNEY LEARNS SOME VERY PAINFUL TRUTHS AND FEAR ENTERS DOCTO.R MAX’S SOUL ■0 - . " ”T ' - A mysterious stranger, K. 'LcMoyne. takes a room‘ *nt the Page home, presided over by/ Sidney, her mot tier, Anna, and jier Aunt Har riet. a fashionable dressmaker. Through. the 1 influence o.f’-prj Max Wilson, a hr! 1 Hunt, yoving surgebti smitten with infr ch irm Sidney becomes a hospihtl jiursi^ ~ K. btves her from a .dilute•<* ;-so tloes erratic Joe Drummoufi,., an old schoolnmte. At tfu* 'lidspitai Sidney imtk/es the anpiaintanee of (kirjotta Harrison, : who ln{.s ! (i On 1 . i n iTniTrrr tnnr TT;.cro r^ITiTTn 17T ^rTs^lcT^ms ortho' imT/.Tcmnew^ Comer. Kidney’s chum. Christine Lorenz, marries rainier Howe, a young society rake and they take rooms with the Pages. Howe turns traitor to his bride. M** nrtu. is bnikertJti a Joy-rhliiig aeddent and Johnny--Kosenfeldfhis chatTlfTeiir, is fatally hurt. —Kidney's mother (Tkys. Doctor Wilson discovers Llui.f- LeMoyne is a-famous 1 toctor-JGd- " wardes.* living incognito, anti ket-ps the -weret. w t-*jrrtmtn' HarrisotV poisons/jnhnny, a patient in the li«»spital. anil jttits the* blanie on Si<l- „ Trey! Christimv secretly adi'nitliYg-K., asks him to.warn Sidney, against Itocior Wilson, who_, she thinks would• prove .unirue to‘the girl if he • married/- li,*r. 'Wlteh this nyst illnuMit, opens, J\. is trying to explain to r 4 Celestlue why , ne / (•atr l CTlnterfere in ^Ia.x and Sid- . ney’s affairs. ■ . . ^.. . "Phi you v^lid-you ever thjnk mvr utt Trouble with'''Miss' l‘age about the’ that. trotUUeavltli JHss i’age .medicines? That would, have been Max had- renclHsi-That 1 -ptrinf that -oc» easy. jhyTT'TttTe—h ri r.**—“ ’ A-- . cars in all' relationships between ineit ' ’“ifhe bab*- MV-*. I*. ge„ of c-otir-e. but uiul wymenCUhen things_ must cither t hanlly think— If that's true, it was. go forward or. go .hack, but ; ca nnot re main as they are., The condition had existed for the last, three.mouths- It exasiMO-uted tlte ntan.—^ : — As a matter fact, Wils<tn. cb'uld pot go ahead. The situation with Curlntta had become tense, irritating, tie'fell that she stood ready to Mock any move Uo’imyde. He would, hot g - back, and ho dared not go forward, — Sidttey- wa s- pn?.r,ti -4. sjn’ kPftt tl r bravely to herself. In her little room! at night, .with-.tire door carefullyl locked, she. tried to.'think tilings, out'.*1 that slfe; nearly .^murder." , There were two voice a ypung one. I'tilf ot soft southern intfections. and an ‘ ' In the_Wrong Place. An old g<*nt’rT"\vaj'keiI up, to tin* pretty gi'rl attendant at the counting* room of a <iaiiy newspaper otliee a few days ngo and >aid : CHAPTER XVII—Continued. ■ -^14— ■‘T think yyu catr understand.'^ "said K. rather weaTily, “that if I. cared less, Christine, it .would he easier to Inter fere.” . After all. Christine had known this, or surmised it, for weeks. But it hurt like a lresh stab in an old wound. It was K. whcTspoke again after a pause: 'The deadly hard! .thing, of course, is "Miss, I would like tii- get copies of j fo sif hy and see things happening that y~our paper for a w'eek bark." — one—that one would naturally try^to “Y«n imd diet t er get a porous pins- prevent." ter,” she abstractly,replied. “You get “I don’t believe that you have al- Itheni lust aeross tlic street." j wavs been of those who only stand and said Christine. a )) ON LIVER; No sick headache, biliousness, — bad taste or constipation- - by morning. Get .aLlQ.cenA bQx t Are you keeping your bowels, liver, and stomach clean, pure and fresh with pa 8 caret a, or merely forcing a issageway every few days with ts. Cathartic I’ills, Castor Oil or PurgaHye Waters? * Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let ■CaBcarets thoroughly deanse and reg ulate the stoniabk^ remove the sour and fermenting food foul gases, take the exces-s bile from the liver and carry, oul^)f the^ system all the . cilnstipaLnd wastes matter and poisons ~in the trowels. ” A Cascaret tofTigfit WtM—make yertr feel great by morning They work i wait," said Christine. ^Sometime, K„ ! when you know me better and like me better. .1 want you tfc tell me about it. will you?’’-' i *. "There’s very little tp tell. I held trust. When I discovered that I was unfit to hold that trust any longer, I* quit. That’s all.” -His tone of finality closed the discus- sidu. But Christine’s eves were-bn him often that.evening, puzzled, n^lier “amt: :—^—~— They talked of hooks, of music— Christiiie played welRn a da siring way. K. had brought her soft, tended,IBtie Things, and- had stood over her until her noisy touch lieqame gentle. She .played for him a little, while he sat hack in the big chair with his hand screening his eyes. When, at last, he rose and- picked up ins cap,'if w as nine o’clock. — "Tve taken your whole 1 eVehing,’’-he said remoFsefuliy. - "Why don’t you tell me* I am a nuisance and send me off?" haps K. woufd- imve takelp'ber in his arms. He was hcart-hungrv enough, He was hyart-hungrv those daAX for anything. And per haps, too, being Thtuitive, Christine felt this. “But she had no mind to force him into a situation against his will. ‘ } “It is because you are good,” she sntrt; and* held Out her" hpnd: “tlood- idglit.” • . Le-Moyne t<K)k It and beut over_ond kissed It lightly. .There was in tlie 1 kiss all,that he could not say of re spect, of affection und understanding. “fJood-nijdit, A’hristine,” lie said, and went into the hall and upstairs. There" were a few trea-ur. lo/iked-over regularly : a dried fiower fnun. the .Christinas foses j a label tiiaf- he had pasted playfully oil the buck of lier hand one day-after, the rush of surgical dressings was <fcerbnd which said : "tt. Taker onrc and forevep." There was anmher pi< i e of paper ovelr \VhTch Sidney,spent inucji time. It was a page torn out of 1 -an^order book, and it read: “Sigshee' nuiy have iiglit diet: Bosenfeld massage.” .Underneath was writtetir-very' small: - You are the most beautiful Yierson in the world. Two reasons>Jmd prompted Wilson :e Sidne; He wanted / olde*'voice, a trillediard. as. front,dlsib .T lusbtn. . ~ . They were w'orkmg'as i hey. t if tired. ■; Sidney cotild hear, the clatter of bot tles on the tray, yhe .scraping.'of a moved table.. r “He was cra/.y-ahout Her last fall.” " ~ fl MlsjTT~*?ig«-?”' TfKc youfig,T yeii-e, with a thrill in it,). 1 j “Carlotta. -, Of qoursc this is eonti- detitlnl.”- I^kjifelyT? “I saw ‘her with him in his carone her Is the Appetite Poor, the Liver Lazy or the llowets Cbnstfpated? t j R y % HOSTETTER’S a •til vacation Hast Barkers Kirv »ijjl HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation ot *Mtll Help* to erasl lost* dandruff. For R*«torinn Color and Doautr to Grey or Faded Hair. . Me. and kLO* at Crurrlata. BFMTI FMFM (iarr*tt»ol4 *Spr»7 Pomp* ULniLLllLni *nd Au»« W»4H.n,lB»d»r»; ProOuKt " ~ - ---v . „ ^evening. And summer—” The-voices dropjled tp- a whisporTT Sidney, standing, cold ifnd white by the 5 sterilizer, put out. a lia^nj to steady herself. - SoMlial watfit! No wlthtler-* CarJouu liaU ha,i,i h*- Sir « CANE SEED, yri gi.'ZZl steady enough in a inbinent, c«s»l uud”i o«»tr*<n tt«ixi cioren un—**. ■ ... , *!»spx Kap^, Corn, Sud»n Gfbm. calm, tnoving about her work with lee- wriu a* for pne* u»u Seeds and Plants CANE SEED, to request to have ^Sidney iu the oper- her With him, atlug room ■and he wunted her to see him at work : the age-old Instinct of the male -to huve his womsiu, see Win at ids best. , — The deepening and, broadening of had been very-no-- The lump -was not lighted in bis room, buA the sitreet light glowed .through.jjhe windows. Once again the waving fronds of tlie allanthus tree flung ghostly shadows on the walls. Tty>re was a faint sweet odor of blos soms, sir soon to become mnk and heavy. , CHAPTER XVIII. -Sidney went inln tlit* npemting room late in the spring as tlie result .of a conversation between-tlie younger Wil son and tlie Head. •‘‘When are you going to put my protegee into the —operating room)” asked WMls'on, fneothig Miss -Oregg in a corridor one bright spring afternoon. “Thusually comes in tlie second year, Doctor \\A)soii.” ... — He smiled (lownjit her.: “That isn’t tx rule, isltr “Not exactly. MissNC/ige is very other tlcealile in the fast few months. - She had gained in decision without beeom*. ing hurd; had learnetHo see things as they are, not through tlie rose misT’bf early girlhood; and, far from being SWEET POTATO PLANT? Inc true u> name seed and June iblpmenui. O PLANTS.0 eed stock Jteat ». VarietteaT? rvwn frean ^enu- cohl liamis and slightly-narrowed eyes. Ty a sort of physin'J uau.seawas su^ v . eeedjng anger, a blind fury of injured pride. He had been in love with Car- lottu and hud tired of her. lie was bringing her his warmed-over emotions. She remembered the bitterness of her tbonth'g exile, and 1U W.im SHOES .IN MOSCOW Ip . P •Rico Yam. PattAuaw Tam and Triumph. TO.UOO at St AO per thousand; 20. Ou thousand; M.UUO and aboTe Book your order-earfr-an* ,< prompt dellrery and good plant* K<-mrm guarantee count and taf* deUvery to your azpreat Office. Iradi Cavity Ptaat **4 Track Par*. Berwick. (Iiiipc d* tor Bprif. Map ‘■ncy Hall. Porto Humph. 1.U0Q to to 60 000at tl «0per fl.K per thousand.' assured of getting Iher. wo Mux hail stood by her tlte^, might, if he suspected- the-truth. - •— — For just a moment she hud an illumi nating: flash of Wilson as he really'WKIT -\- whjlo von skiiip uevc.r-gripe,-RUiken- or cause any inconvenience, and cost only 10 cents jAJiox from-your storeT” Millions of men and wOmen take a rascaret na^.. and then and never have. Headache. Biliousness, Coated Tongue. Indigestion,. Sour Stomach or rniiaf ipation. Adv. * \ - . J . • ! Christine was- st4B at th<‘ piano, her hands on the keys. • She spoke with out looking at him: Y^m’re never a nuisance. K.. atid—*’ Sohiethihg in her tone caught liis at- tentioji. ^^ ~ N “I forgot to .tell you,” she wout mi. 1 ‘‘i''.itho;- -lri*t given-. Hirtmor fru r Thttrr snil'd -rtmhrrs."—He’s going—to Itnrp'u share in a business.” . / I .->,,1 < AOVU.l. miw 'lilgo young, and of course thera 1 art daiiuted,' 1 had" developed a philosophy that-had for its basis God in his heaven und all well with the world. ■ v » k ■ But her new theory of acceptance did not comprehend everything. She wns in a state of wild revolt, for in stance, as to Johnny Bosenfeld, and more remotely but not less deeply "con* cerned over Grace Irving. But her revolt'was to lie for herself too. On tlie day after her appointment to tho oiieratlng room, >lio hud hoi- half-lioliday, and when,^ after a restless night, she went to her new station, .it was to learn that Wilson had been calledout of the city in-consultation and would not tqierute that day. IVllnra Would, take advantage of the free afternoon to Tun in some odds and ends of- cases. Tlie operating room made,gauze that morning, and small packets of tam pons: absorbentTCTTtTim^Toyerial witli^ selfish and' self-indulgent, iust a trifle too Carefully dressed, daring as tq eye nnd speech, with a carefully-calculated daring,- frankly pleasure-loving. -She put her hunds over her eyes. i. file voices in the next room- had tlsen above their whisper. “GerviUs has privileges, of course," said the edder voice. "He is a very great surgeon. Tomorroxjv he is to do the Kdwahles operation again, I am glad I am to see him do it.” Sidney still held her hands over her eyes. He was a great surgeon: in his Even With Freight and Import •— Charges "Addctr Erlc« Lower—r Thitt Russian Footweir. » * * ** • " 1 ———— ^ American shoes which were put on sale in Moscow; late In the autumn, seem to have made a good impression, remarks Russia, h Journal,bf Uussian- American trade. The Journal of the All-Russian Company of Tanneries suyfc of them: "Shoes Imported from America have appeared on the market in Moscow. Some firms have already put them on sale, and speak very high ly of them. The workmanship of-the shoes seems on first impression to be hands lie held the keys of life and ] rough, but the prices (in spite of the death. And p rliaps- He hud never fact - that the price of footwear has cared for A:urlotta: she migbthave risen by l!f> per-cent in Amt*rica)7 plus • thrown herself at him. He was a man, the import duty and cost of transpor- at-the mercy of any scheming woman, tatiou. are lower Vby two or three rubles a pair <$1 to $1.50) than cur rent Russian prices. Onexjs forced [ to believe that the import of these slioes must increuse in the dear future. Site tried-to summon ids image to her afd. But a curious thing happened: Khe could nut visualize him. .Instead, there came, dear and distinct, a pic ture of K. Le Moyne in tlie hull of the' although, on the other hand, it must imi>h ii \ An Essential Step. - The i-etvohlii: of l- , aimn>iT»r'jhns had "S Gr:-vt bank’ failure;, and feels that It Is cutting its teeth as an infirnt in .~.4.Uw^fainil.\ Of Tint'ionv Tlie process Ts 1 ever tvlmfty jrh*as-ttrahli■; tmt-dt-' has• lo-rojne. Bi'ooklvn laigle. CLEAR YOUR COMPLEXION While You Sleep With Cuticura-Soap ”nd Ointmeht—Trial Free. ^ “That’s tine.” *T > ussi.lily. I donT.hdievi* mu .Baliner's business vmijUiresjK*-- -y ■ —-ili-r Hut fun,' sliji held liiiii. . I’ndtT 7 p ti'-ath It Mie, divtineii strain and ropres don. : J . “1 hate to go and leave you alone,’ he sajil at last, from tlie door. “Havei you any idea when I’ulmer will be 1 lup/k ?” ——1— “Not the slightest. IU. will you come heri* a iiuiinCnt ? Stand held ml me; I don’t want to see you, and I want to tell you spinet hing. r lie did as-she hade him, rather pu/ - •, , t ■ a : .» zl cu. "1 lore I am” - • - yS~ : 1 ^— ~ _ On retiring, jjeirtly smear the face with Cutieuru Ointment, wash off in five minutes wltli Outieura._Soap nnd hot w«+**r,-tind'cor»tlmje bathing a few minutes with tlie .Soap” The influence of tiijs treatment on the pores extends , Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Out b urn, Dept.' L, Boston. Sold everywhere.-—Adv. __ Perhaps I uni sp. I have to get any Bult’l was terri 'then you came now*I listen for I can't lie '^■rornr ft*td- fey saying-thisr ;»ig the.only chance i; ppiness out of life. unhappy,- K., -and I > my life,.'and I— tr Mop In-the iialk a’ hyp i. ite sterilized gauze, and fastened togetli er—twejve, hy careful count, in each bundle. ’ , i . Miss Grange, who had been kind to Nljfvduey in her probation months, taugln 1 I her tlie method. ~ -- - little house, reaching one of his long arms to ■‘the chandelier over his. liead and looking up at -her as she 'stood on Chapter x*ix. “But, Sidney, I’m ukking you to mar ry nii‘!" ; ., —r -■ he regarded us a handicap that the American supplier makes it a condi tion that a third of the cost must be paid, in cSsh at the time the order is taken/ and the balance of the money on the arrival of the goods y: at Vladivostok.” “t phrrnv they. \.ere CiiUUt'ed each oj»eration ‘I—rl know tlnit. I am asking you d instead of sponges,”., she MgX”* , “l have never lieen in love wifh her.**" -l-Us-volut-was-sulk-yv lie hud-drawn the5-ar dose to a.hank, ami tiiey were before and after ()ne of these, missing •is wotfSA rhlms-Hn tmnk clerk out tf’TIoG iai' at the end of' H>e <Tiy TIuti‘\ no closing up unt.il it's feumK” \ Sidney eVetl file MimllG>acIaT before her anxiously. "\Vlm4—a —Aiideous responsibility !” she said^s,' ' ' - ' Fr^Tfr that tiiijo sli“ imuiiled tlie sitting in the shade,-on tlie grass. It terrr thw^unday afternoon after Sid ney’s experience in tlie oneratipg room. • --"Von took tier out. Mux, didn’t you?” Holds Broomcorn Championship. V- -Oklahoma raises more broomcorn than, ail of tlie rest of the . IJnlted States combined, A shortage of the crop 1 last year in other- parts of the hatU»ff--stiondated tin* farmers t>f Ok* “A fe\V times, iia.ve no friends. "That was all?' any hinp r, K, o» hind her, silent and t u.rt l e»F -si«w'l y about Hardly Possible. ~~ 'I’he Toll.h\ ing reSoliition wins .passed hy a if Irish corporation: “That a new, jail slieiiTd he 11ifiTi ; that thfsTTie done -OUt of the llliiterials of the pld one, S oO( ilot ujoving. silt tjnd faced him. He tntvered flfere in the litt le room, grave eyes on lu-rs. “It's*a long time since I have had ir wotiHin friend/ Ciiristind,” lie said so- herryr““Your friendship has meant a good -ienj. In a good many ways, 1'<1 •not care to look ahead if it f were not lor ymi 1 . . I value oilr.-friendship !so. | small gauze snonees alkiosf reverently. Tlie operatfhu-eo'fln—all g.l:is,s,'white ehumel.jjtiiL si lining nickel plate*—first frightened, tlieicdhrllled her/ It was i as if J haTTTig fovei'. a great actor, she «• now trod the enchanted boards up which lie achieved liis triumphs! Siie was glaTT that it was her afternoon off. and that she would not see soifle lesser star—O'Hara, to wit-—usurping his ace, ^But-Max iahonui to add r. few acres to the area of lOltj. Tlie Lindsay (jjtstriet,'in Ga-r- vj'n county, is the fu,voi t od~spot of the state. From- that section enough Sin- ^.seeuiea to-- "hruslVl. was siiipi'ed last year to make 10,000,000 hmoms.—Daily Okla- . ‘ Tinman. avens,.. yott'va —— . . I was sorry for lief.* pi; had not sent her any word, Tlnit. hurt. Tin* opcraTTug rooaf w:Of a TllVO Of industry, .and, t. agues kept pace, with i j ‘I Can’t Be a Hypocrite Any Longer, ". K” audithat the old jail he used until the new one is completed?’.. - . r~~ T Now It the Tim* to (Jet Kid. of Tbesu V*ly Spot*. "T^iere * (no longer the. »llghfe*t heed feeltPS eshamed of your froclclex. 1 . SS the eecrT of preecrtptton othine — dooble strength — is'“Kut tomorrow when we ore hnth guaranteed to remQVe-theae hotuely’ spots. -r * >ul lOlilorrou, until we urc DOtll Simply get an ounce of otbfne—doubt* —'strength—from your druggist, and spply tL, illtle of It night and morning and you -.■hnuid »oon *ee that even^Yne worst frecktas have begun to diaappep^ wfiffe the lighter one* bate, vanished, •'htlrely It ,1* seldotu that moj-^ithaij^one ounce is needed to com —pie♦-»“ r 'T.. j*-wTr^ts * b*autlful cl^r compjoxlon. *ure 'to aek ‘for th<Mf doubt* strength o-thlne. a* thl* I* *old ( .under guarantee of money bapk U 4t fall* to remote freeklea — Ad¥. , \. ’ Flepting Concrete Buoys. • *' Flofftlng buoys made of concrete for mooring vessels'lmve been invented bj sn Englishman. ) — much' tiiat I “Tlmf.jtoy'don’t want to spoil It," silt" finished for hilfl” “T L-nim- you don't c;uc for ttio ? K„ not tlie Wtiy^l—- But I wanted y.<m .to, know. It doesn't hurt a good—4nan, to know' su<’h a thing. And it—isn’t.going to stop your vcoming here,; is it?” - “Of course not,” said K. heartily. girls wlio have rmt yet./had the expo- ricncc. But if yoji make the rc<iucsj •t “I am going-1- Ir c some good cases soon. I-’lI hot nrffuT-v u n iia-M. of -course; hut, if you see fit. it would ho good tnfini tig f or Missl’agc/' ” ... J* '. ! til .on, knowing per- iingers. WIj.imh ; - of the world came iu through tlie great do rs \vas trans lated at mice kg.o.. > i:«4uj.al terms. What tln\ city forgot the liospitiFl re town left it ait its gates, ntol carried it on or Sfiiw' it eiideij, as tlie case might he, So these 'young**) omi n knew..tiie- Ending of p-umy stories, the lieginning of some; hut qf.jiOTfe’diri—they know ‘lofjr the first and. last, th>* beginning d the end” . . . ” “~ r put me through a catechism in the last ten niitiutcs!” ''‘If Tuy fsillier were • living, or. even niotlier, I—one of them would have done this for me, Max/ I’m sorry I liad 4 to, I’ve* been very wretched for several days/’”— It was tlie first encouragement she hsid .givon--him.. There wiisuo, coquetry idiout^her aloofness. It'was only that tier faith in him laid had a shock and was stow of reviving. '"You are very, very lovely! KidhejrT wonder if you-have any idea what 1 * ** ' Use Sewer Gas. An engine run by sewer *gas is the you mean .to me?," "You meant a great-deal to me. <f<o,“ she sail'trankly, "until a few' days ngo. 1 thought you were the greatest man Tu< ;nui mu m>m. i,i ‘ u ffTfa’ I tlien—I think I'd better tell you whut [ overhenfd. I didn’t try to hear. It clenr-)ieaded, we will tftlk this over. You are mistaken about this thing, Christine; I am sure of that. Things have not been going well, find Just be causeI am always around,-and olFthat sort nV thing, you think things that aren't really sa I’m only a reaction, CJiTistine." _ tie tried to make her smile up at him. But just then she could not •mile. *'_■ /' ^ , If she had crled, things might have been different for everyone: for per-1 Miss . Gi t gg v, fectly that at hjs next operation Doc tor Wi+son WuiiM expect Sidney I’age in Gic operating rooiir. Tlie other doc tors were not so exigent. She \Vould have liked*to have all the staff old nnd settled, like Doctor CFIiaru or the old er TVilgon. These young inen came in and, tore tilings up. just* Happened that way.” . .... .i 1 leHjsttyicd-Nloggedly tode'r account - of the hospital gossip, (htggedlv and* with a-sinking' sense/of fear, not of the . talk, hut of Carlotta fiorself. Usually ' 1»\ - liiaiiy small- kindnesses Sidpey ? uiiglit count on tT-• woman’s nl- liad made herselt popular. And there j ;her instinct for setf-protecFon. JmfLjqoEe.io it-lhgirrr.at. Sd'ic ,jlTf*>i*• tTT7 sllir.-cd. 1 he other girls lurd. Uuu.it”:.: gird; anyhowf! Sic speed ior ifer r; for _ * auot Ip Hang the girl, anyhow?! She liad kherwti from ot one honest work-**r.!J y» t .. si art thaj the affnir was a tem- j le* *. pisode that iia»l j..<>n«*; he hmt never prAtended svfspensiott segued entirely jiuvVjiih 1 ' else. /•-•*•;•• | ’Ihere was silence for a moment af ter Kidney, finished. Then: Sidney Ivent into the operating room that afternoon. For her blue uni form, kerchief, and*mp slip exchanged the Hideous operating-*room.garb / long, straight white-gown'with shofCkleeves and mob cap, gray-white from •many caused Ii\-.p forget ten. Tlic.V si lowed' her cirtefully what site was to do ; arid, because .she must know the ‘“why? of -.'everything;, they explained b<.si they could. '*"." It was.wlrile she- wim.standing by-the-f grtat stei iiizer thaCslfe heard, tlirqugh an open door, ^art ofTKcouversation? that sent'dter'through the day with her world iii revolt. The talkers wne putting the nn- esnietizing-ronin in readiness for the afterrTTffitL -Kidriey?---wrfting for, thej time to oijien tl\e sterilize^ <r.>s busy for the Tlrst time In lier hurried morning, sterilizations. But the jigly tostuine. with her, own’thoughts. Because she seemed, to emphasize her beauty, as the was very Htmnm, th*r,” »«« ^ * Do *yeu think th>t K. ought to swallow his personal fehlrng* and tell Sidney”exactly the truth abou^ Wilson? U‘ ooi^ she thirtk hibi caddish and ha’.e-him -if he tried to do so? , c (TO iVR < OisTUSiJMX)'.) BaBIt of a min often brings Out tlwr**tinle exulfattipn'fn her mind. What plact<^ satntiinT*ss*-qfcher feee.?- o- ■ wouhl these—girls Kfiy* * rHeti they -The relationship het\\<*en Si lncy and i i^rnt rl ef flaw things stood between t them about iL ' The Truth t ofjthfA Matter.* Some inen are t. loimdusly impor- Xlicy-rcgukUa-< Tlier men-and boast of**ic The rtulh Is they arr fool«, and ueopl^T^rv./ t^r 1 polite ttr t# T -*tr; - Have You Ever 'iff^ 1 1 '.?• 1 mi i'i! it. 1 ,! 1 fwagwessp-i 11 n , m Suspected that -the cause of varipus annoying ills might lie in the daily cup of tea or coffee? A sure and easy way out of coffee and tea troubles ip to shift to ■——— Instanl—- ‘ There’s no caffeirte nor anything harmful in this delightfuL pure food-drink —just thenouri: nes$ of wheat ' PoSTUIil has put thou^ sands of formei. tea and coffee drinkers on the Road to wellville. “There’s a Reason". \ r- T TV ' : *v;