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'Come up to the villa and meet the folks. . . . Hang it, 1 forgot. They're up to Caxley-Webster's to tea; pifllo water and sticky sponge cake. I want you to meet my wife and daughter." "I should be very pleased to meet ihem." So tin's was Nora's father? "Won't you come along with mo to the colonel's?" with sudden inspiration. Ilcre was an opportunity not to be thrust aside lightly. "Why, I just begged off. They won't be expecting me now." ".-Ml the better. I'd rather have you introduce mo to your family than to have the colonel. As a matter of fact, I told him 1 couldn't get up. ltut I vhuiig* d inv mind. Come along." Tire first rift in the storm-packed cloud -; and to meet her through the kindly oH.ccs of this amiable man who was her fathr r' "Hut the pup ana the cigar box?" "8 ml them up." llnnigan cym ius own f-i'uui*?i* Ilamul? and compared tlu-in wi;h ilie ether's. What v. a* good enough for the foil of a millionaire was ceit.ui:.;> good enci);-'h for him. lit.*ides, h would l" a bully i: < J jc'.te on No:a and Molly. "You're on!" brt erivd. Here vr.u n lark. Ik* turned the dog r.nd the parch; s over to the propri'.!?\ promised that tlit y hhculu arr.ve stunt!y ;:t the villa. Thin t':o two iijen sou;.lit the fpn.y to oi.-a * a.boat. T!i?y \...!!:* d shoul* drr 10 :.;!d: r, flat*b:ickcd, with it:;)* jile swingiug limbs, taniud faces and clear animated eyes. Perhaps liarri( gan v. :*.s Id or 15 pounds heavier, but the difference would have been noticeable only upon the'scales. ******* "Padre, my shoo pinches." said Nora hot wr n h#?r f?vps Willi tl |/uvi\* 1 wti." .. '".My child," replied .he padre, "rover carry your vanity into a shoemaker's shop. The happiest mau is he who walks in loose shoes." "If they are his own, and not inherited." quickly. The padre laughed quietly. lie was very fond of .this n< v-found daughter of his. Her spon?. noity, her blooming beauty, her cart Jess observation of convention, lu-r mdept ndc uce, had captivated him. Seme times he believt d that he thoroughly understood her. when ail at once he would find himself mentally peering into some dark corner into which the penetrating light of his usually swift deduction could throw no glimmer. She possessed the w s'.ui' of the butte/fly and the latent L postibliluetf of a Judith. She was tlie Pp"" trutier.-'SV i7 u- problem he ii<iu in ins long j e;ie enc ia;cri d. 1 h.-> cerrod with the immediate business cf superintmdii.-r ?!. .-ervice. CourilandL had never been a man ro surrender to impulse. It had been his habit to form a purpose and then to go about the fulfilling of it. During the last four or five months, however, he had swung about like a weathercock in April. tli? victim of a thoucoriH n,,a ram inirniTll.1t mom ing he would have laughed had any one prophesied his presence here. He "had fought against the inclination strongly < nough at first, bat as hour after hour went by his resolution weakened, llis met ting Harrigan had been n stroke cf luvk. Still, he would have come auyhov.. "(Mi, yes: I am very fond of Como." he found him. t If replying mechanically to Mrs. Harrigan. lie gave up Rao as hop* less so far as coming to his rescue v. as concerned. He began, d? spite his repugnance, to watch Nora. And nil the while .Mrs. Harrigan was talking and lie was replying; and she thought kirn charming, whereas he had ! ! ; r,y n!i : < " ..-r .ill. nor later could .'.member a ward r V... n- r ".n^-ili.,11 "T< ' ' 1. f' th" rn'rnol. The vc'i had :* diMtpot u.-< s. and oat p ?? rally atipl > .1 ii u? th<* colonel's ontbttrsfs wiilic : 1j< in*; d< pressed by the feelins of isu ic;ain T! .o is i'.;-.;'r!;:b!y pome slipht hesitation in llie fcelecticu of chairs nirntni a tia table ;r\ the op?*:i. Nora -. en d ill" lirst point, of ibis singular batik* by sciiiinp the padre on oil" ?ido art! lor father on tin* other and pullinx tin ni down on the bench. It was itilroit in two ways: it put Courtlundt at a safe distance and in nowise offend'd the younger men, who could find no cause for alarm in the close proximity of her two fathers, the spiritual and '.ho physical. A few moments later Courtiundt saw a smile of malice part her lips, for he found liitt:.*-' If I)' I'.vei'n Celeste and the inevitable frump. "Tcuchedl" he murmured, for he was a thorough sportsman and appreciated a f.'ot d point even when taken by his opponent. "1 in vi r saw anything like it," whispered -Mrs. liarrigau into the colonel s ear. "Saw what?" he asked. "Air. Courtlandt can't keep his eyes off of Nora." "1 say!" The colonel adjusted his eye-glass, not that he expected to see more clearly by doing so, but because habit had long since turned an affectation into a movement wholly mechanical. "Well, who can blame him? (lad! if I were only twenty-five or llicn abouts." Mrs. ilarrigan did not encourage 111 this regret. The colonel had never bcin a rich man. On the other hand, this Kdward t'ourtlandt was very rich; lie was your.g; and In ,^1 the entree Pl to the best families in hurepe, which S1 was greater in h i* eyes than either *' youth or riclus. Uilwcen sips of tea the buildcd a line castle in Spain. Abbott t;i;d the Parotic carried their caps and cakes over to the bench and sat doi-.n ()ii the grass, Turkish-wise, roth t iniultuncouiiy offered tin .r cakes, and >.'ora took a lady finger 1,1 from each. Abbott l:m?,hed and tho 41 1 aror.e su?ik-d. "Oh. daiiuy mine!" sighed Nora drollv. . "link?" "j.i n let mother see those shoes." ' | " \ii,alc iiiv' IDUttUr \?nll I'iil L v" I erybody's w?,ring the same." I "lis. !'.in 1 don't see how you man- " | age tn do it. Ot.e shoo string is vir | { .a v.. liu t.iul lite other is pagan i brown." "I've pot nine pairs of slices, and i , .to ; < in. s . .......s . uim lkmg liu* matI ur," rueiuiiy. *1 never noticed when j 1 i'Ut the m en. licsidts, 1 wasn't; coining." " 1 huts no defense, lut rest easy. |s 1*11 be us bcci\.'i as the grave." > "Now, i r one would never have . ... .i i at ticed ii >t.u hadu I called ray mtenlion," said j.v.dre, stealing a glance .^ at his own ia.maculate patent leailn rs. Nil, p?(..\, tJai wue ot mine has . eyes like a j ilot-lish. I'm in for it." " Borrow ^ne from the colon11 balore J you go home," suggested Abboit. j "That's not hoif bad." gratefully. ! iiarrignn began to recount the trials 1 j of iorg"i.uhiesa. ' j v? Siy iy from tiie corner of her eye V 1 Nora k'ok.d at Courtlandt, v.ho was 1 at that moment staring thoughtfully i ! ii'.'o Lis tea cup and stirring the con- j j l< l.ts industriously. His face was a ea lii.lc thinner, but aside from thai lie i Lad clraug. d scarce iy at all; and then, I I. cause tin so two years had left so j little marie u; on his late, a tinge of j : ui.n usonable anger ran over her. ".Men | nj. lmve died and worms have eaten | , tii :?," the ihoiighi cynically. Perhaps 1 j( . i!.u air between them was ru licient-' m ! Iy charged with electricity to convey j j I lie imp: e.-sion across the intervening tj| ! space: lor his eyes came up quickly, ; I but not quickly enough to catch her. j aj j She dropped her glance to Abbott, j ; transferred, it to the Baronc, and l:nal- . . ! Iy let it rest on her father face. Tour 1 ? I I U J handsomer rilen she had never seen, j CCJ ' "~\cu never told me ki.r'.v rfliri- , j len jr." said llarrigan, speaking to * Abb.rt. i ".in-t hspp' n-d that way. Wo went j to school together. When 1 was little 1 they os1. d to make me wear curls and vide collars. .Many's tiie time Court- J land' vn:I< ! < a iho school bullies for mussing me up. 1 don't sco him much . 0, up'se da.ys. Or.ce i:i a while he walks j ia. That still. Always seems to know ! . in.-.: his trhiids are. but none ever a i.urWf- wimp he ic." t ! ihut , record i to elaborate seme !'k j t,r ins in ad's < xy'oits. Norn heard, jtui ! . if f'. ai ai.-.r '. a m ; ly she caught a 1 ; . ' !.T:v:.> r of wh.:i 'he conl'vi was ;V(] I 1 ': u to h.. She could see cn!v a lit- . . li)1 i. e.' : till, s.iv was optimistically i ' v. . the result. She ws.: ready mmd, now that the si:crk of the on ..' .to t r 11i- unvi -uni drama which was <. in;!' din ' bel >ro her ? yes. To be pres -iwifi wi'h effects which had no appari at cnnie.-j was maddening, it was * r.-at d!.-: rail; r to being taken to the . s- > rnd act of a modern problem play I and being forced to leave before the t I curtain rose upon the third act. She ! ; t...i laid rll the traps her intelligent j minu oeuid irv? nt: and Nora had calm- e?i ly walked ov< mom or urounu. .\oui n mind was Celtic; French in its adroit- 1'* ness and Iri.-h in Us watchfulness and ?n tenacity. And now she had sot her arts of persuasion in motion (aided by a piquant h< ;v>ty) to lift a corner of ?h< veil from this man's heart. Check- < j mate! "1 should like to help you," rho said, truthfully. "In what way?" If?" It was useless, hut she continued: "She dots not know that you went m to Flora Desimooe's that night." "And yet she svnt you to watch me." i s*' 'Hut so many things happened afterward that she evidently forgot." "That is possible." ' |<j "I was asleep when the pistol went off. Oh, you must believe that it was in purely accidental! She was in a tor- ' ribie state until morning. What if j ( she had killed you, what if she had killed you! She seemed to harp upon | that phrase." ,, I Courtlandt turned a sober face to- , ! ward her. She might be sincere, and I J'i i then again she might be playing the se lirst game ovrr again, in a different , guise. "It would have been embar- I ! rassing if the bullet had found its j mark." He met her eyes squarely, and IJ'' she saw that his were totally free ; "V(] from surprise or agitation or Interest. rr, "Will you be here long?" Ki "It depends." ha "Upon Nora?" persistently. ti' "The weather." "You are hopeless." ^ "No; on tin! contrary, I am the ost optimistic man in tho world." She looked into litis reply very carolly. If lie had hopes of winning 3ra Harrigan. optimistic he certainly usl be. Perhaps ii was not optimal. Itather might it not be a purine made of steel. h< tidable but not i iak; li ". reinfcrc :1 Pv a knowledge conditions which site would have v< n v o: Id to learn? , "Is she rat hi airh;:l?" "I am not a po? t." "Wait :i it ! nv ' h r eyes widen ( |-i Ii. v?- .. : know who did unniit P. t outr V\;r t! ! r.-t t::ii" J:? frov.n."d. "Very \w!l; i pr-tnise net to asl: ty mor "Tit: v.ciu i very ogret iblc to C." as if h realised Urn rude- J i r !.'. ach "! < "io it I !!! 1*. 11 yen all \ou wish Ic , ; i at' ca:'i"..iion." "Vcn v 1! f >' nothing l'? any one, i :u rill rari.ijon < dther Mi..- 1 ?: r r;- , in nor my; If, i.or permit yotirsu.lt' be fjiir'f'liciH'ti." 1 "I agree." "And i.v. lil you not take ire cr to yi .i:r fn?nh<?" "Over ih.ro?" nnkast. "Wliy. v?i-. ViV can sit ui?on the ass. Tin y scc:n to bo having a good tin." What .*? n! Take him over, into v enemy's e. mp? Nothing would ore ngrt-oabV to her. Who would the strut.; < r, Nora or this provoV p mar.? So tliey cros: d over and joined I'm tuip. Tlie jiadr" srr.ih d It was a [nation such as he lovd to study: siren r matt and a strong woman, at nr. Hiti. no'hing happened; not a pple anywheie to disclose the c '.'tarn b'mrih. The man laughed aid o woman bvghed, but they ppnko it to each o .ht r, nor looked once into ch other's eves. The pun was dropping toward the E-stern < ;>s. Tho guests were leav g by twos and threes. The ccIo;?. I id prevail' d upon his dinner guests it lo bather ab"r.L going hark to the Ilage 10 Press, but to dine in the Dthes they wore. Finally, none reuincd but ilarrigan, Abbott, the none, the padre and Courtlnndt. And ey tulfci d noisily and agreeably conriling man affairs until liao gravely inoubced that dinner was served, it upis only then, during the lull hich followed, that light was shed ion he puzzle which had ben sub-L i,f<i? usiy s-ti.ring Harrl^ac's mind:^. an^.i'wi not < nry spoucn to the son* hi.- '.ill li. villi. . (To be continued) Child Cross.' Fcwrish.' Sick.' A ci peevish, list loss child, with a ted tongue, i ale. dxesu'lKleep; cats mutinies very little, then again tenously; stomach sour; breath id; pains in stomach. with i irreboa; grinds te< h while asleep, d starts up with terror all suggest A'erui Killer something that expels ir.ii,d nlmoi-i every child has c:i Wot m Killer is i-ii:'!. G' t a box to-day. Start a' < { < . Von won't have to coax, ??s Wo'in Killer in a candy nfcc Jjij.' fix.ha WO!Vis. tiic ii-< of year child's troiblc. 2"<c? at ir '.' "a --c and rtcncHics. It is nli.n. t :! tniico ; ii.v-' a! s t!?nt t!f i'ltr*. ini.iii.y <>!' a so may ! < imwsnivil liy the number "infallible" re!in?]ics for it whit-li o'ii titiic to time !:a\c liccii reeuiii- . i inli .1.- I.oii'loii Tillies. TIM"Til Tilinil'ilS. icraw Cili/i'its Testify fur the Public IM'iirui. A truthful s*ateniem of n ChcKiw j iz"ii. given in I.is own word*. should I n iin-f the i.iost skeptical about tin its of 1 i;>;iu's Kidney fills. 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