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Out of my own experience I can sincerely say that to my daughters I owe what ever of success 1 have made. Indeed they kept me from being a complete failure. And this has been so from the first day I stepped out from 11 sheltered home to earn my own living and theirs as well. ? Oenevleve I'ankhurst. In Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan. Many a man would have been worse If his estate had been better. Mer.Jn mln Franklin. Forbear to Judge, for we are sin ners nil. ? Shakespeare. Sure Relief OLIVER. L OCTOBER^ /^XiEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON COPYRIGHT.BELL S VN 0 ICATE.(w.N.U, 5E.R.VICC) JEALOUSY SYNOPSIS ? Oliver October Baxter, Jr., was born on a vile October day. His parents were prominent In the commercial, social and spiritual life of the town of Hum ley. The night that Oliver October was born a gypsy queen reads his father's fortune and tells him what a wonderful future his son has before him, but adds that his son will never reach the age of thirty, that he will be har.ged for a crime of which he Is not guilty. Ten years elapse. Mrs. Baxter died when Oliver was n ear ing seven. Josephine Sag*, wife of the minister, caused a sensation when she goes on the stage Her daughter Jane and young Oliver become greatly at tached to each other. After finishing college, young Oliver accepts a position In Chicago with an engineering company. He goes to China. I'pon his re turn he enlists In the Canadian army. The war over, Oliver re turns home. He hears Jane Is In love with Doctor I, arising. De spite Mr. Br.xter's pleading to Oliver to remain In Rumley. Oliver gets a Job In Chicago. Mr. Baxter accompanies Oliver through a swamp on the way to the Hage home. On the way they quarrel over Oliver's refusal to stay In Humley. Mr. Baxter falls to return hon e. CHAPTER IV ? Continued No one could be found who saw him after he took lea^e of his son on the I swamp road. Oliver October related l all that transpired between them on j that moonlit byway. He did not spare I himself In the recital. No one blamed I him, however. An inspection of Mr. Raster's closet the following morning led to a puz zling discovery. A comparatively new suit of dark gray material ? rather too heavy for summer wear ? was missing, while the wrinkled, well-worn garments that l^e wore dally at the store were found hanging in the closet. The excitement In Rumley was in tense. The Raxter home became a magnet that drew practically the en tire population of the town to that sec tion, and there was not an hour of the day that did not see scores of peo ple trudging through the safer portions of the swamp or tramping along the uplands that bordered It. Detectives from Chicago, brought down by Oliver October, agreed with the young man that his father had "skipped out," to use the expression of Michael O'Rourke. It was Mr. O'Rourke who advanced the theory that the old mnn had taken this nmaz ing means of forcing his son to remain In Rumley. "Why," said lie, "It's as plain aa the nose on your face. He Is dead sot on having you stick to this town. You say 'nix.' Well, what's the smartest thing he an do? The only way to make you stay In thlR town Is for him to leave It. He sneaks off without letting anybody know where he's going. Why does he do that? If you or anybody else knew where lie whs you'd have him back here in no time, nnd all his trouble for nothing. He thought It all out before hand. -Now he has his own way. You've got to stay here until he gets good nnd ready to come back. Rome body's got to bo In charge tff his af fairs. There Is a chance, of course, that he wandered out In the swamp, hut I don't bellove It. If you want us to go ahead and rnke the country for him, we'll do It." "t want to find him," said Oliver, firmly. "You may he right In your sur mise? I hope you nre. Rut Just the same, I don't Intend to leave a stpne unturned, Mr. O'Rourke." Rut the days rnn Into weeks nnd the weeks lnt<V months, with the mystery no nearer solution than In the begin ning -no word, no sign from the old mnn who bad vanished, no clue thst led to anything s^ve disappointment. There wns something grim, uncanny nbout the silence of oi<\ man Raxter ? it wns Indeed the silence of the dead. "He might ns well he dead," was a re mark thnt became common In Rumley whenever his ense was discussed Strangely enough, no one now t*>llovod him to he dead. Everybody agreed with the detective that the enntnnker otia old man had "skipped oi%t" wtth the sole Idea of frustrating bin son's plan to return to Chicago. Oliver October took charge of the store and, as self-appointed mannger, conducted the business to the best of his ability. There wns nothing In the young man's myjpner to Indicate that he rebelled ngnlnst the turn In bis af fairs. On the contrary, he took hold with nn enthusiasm that left nothing to bo desired by those who at first shook theli* heads dubiously over the situation. "I am to hlnme for all this." he pro tofctftri Arualr. "If m? f*th*r !? rln*A I urn accountable for his death. \N hat ever his present condition may be, 1 am responsible for It. Don't put all the blame on that gypsy fortune-teller. I should have realized the state of mind he was In and I should have given up everything else In the world to help him weather the next year or s<> of doubt and distress."' ? ?????* The winter wore away, spring came and quickly melted Into summer: the first anniversary of the unexplained disappearance of Oliver Baxter passed. Three ninths remained of the last year allotted to Oliver October by the gypsy "queen" on that wild, shrinking night In TO. Rut by this time prac tically everybody In Rumley was count ing the days -md Jokingly reminding Oliver that his chances got better every day ! "I see by the paper this evening that your Uncle Horace has announced himself as a candidate for state sen ator," said Mr. Sage one evening as he sat enjoying his customary half hour on Sage's porch with Jane and Oliver. "Well, I know one vote he will not get," said Oliver, "even If he is my uncle." "I know of another," said the min ister dryly. "Why, daddy, I . n really beginning to take quite a fancy to you," cried Jane delightedly. "Only last week you said he ought to he tarred and feath ered for turning those two old Rannes ter women out of their house over at I'leasant Ridge." "But he didn't turn them out," said Oliver quickly. "Somebody came along at the last minute and lent them the money to redeem their little house aid farm." "You don't really mean It, Oliver?" cried Mr. Sage. "That Is gf>od news splendid news." *?1 hate that old Gooch man," cried Jane. "Jane, my dear, you really are be coming quite a vixen," remonstrated her father. An automobile prfme to a sudden stop In front of the house, nnd an agile young man leaped out, leaving his en gine running. He came up the walk with long strides. "Say, Oliver, you old skate, I've been looking all over town for you," shouted Sammy Parr. "This Isn't your night to call on Jane ? don't you know that? Good evening, Jane. Evening, Mr. Sage. Say, the Rannesters told me all about you, you blamed old skate ? I mean Ollle, not you. Mr. Sage. Gee whir., Ollle you certainly did throw the hooks Into Uncle Horace this time, didn't you? You certainly ? " "Shut up !" growled Oliver, scowling fiercely at the excited Sammy. "What on earth are you talking about. Sammy?" cried Jane. "Out with It, Sammy, out with it," counseled Mr. Sage, coming down the steps. "Well, what do you think, Mr. Sage ?what do you think? Why, this chump here Is the guy that lent Mrs. Bannes ter the money to redeem her house." "Oh, Oliver!" cried Jane. "Did you really do It? I could squeeze you to death for It. And you never told me? you never breathed a word ? " "Tt was only about a thousand dol lars," mumbled Oliver. "Sure it was," agreed Sam cheerful ly. "But right there and then the destiny of the great American nation was shaped along new lines. The words were no uooner out of the month of old Mrs. Rannester when the boom was born ! Yes, sir, ?t that very mo ment ? " "Oh, for the Lord's sake, Sammy, slow down ! What the db'kens are you driving ar, anyhow? Boom? What boom?" "Your boom, you Idiot ! The boom's been started for you as candidate for state senator against old man <!ooch." "Why, you darned chump," roared Oliver, "I'm not going to run for state senator oi anything else. You must he crazy. I'll head It off tomorrow. I'll telephone -" "Won't do you a darned hit of good," cried Sammy exultlngly. "They'll nom inate you, anyhow. Why, you're the only man in this county that would stand a ghost of a show, Ollle. And the best of all --popular nephew run ning against Shylock uncle! Gee whir,! I'm going down to see Al Wilson at the Despatch office. Put ? him wise and warn him not to let a Word of It leak out In the paper till he gets the word. Night, Mr. Sage so long. Jane." "Walt a minute!" called out Oliver, springing trt his feet as Sammy darted down the walk. "Nix !" shouted Sammy over his shoulder. ? The three of them watched him In silence as he leaped Into bis car and began his swift, reckless turn In the narrow street. "What are you going to io about It?" Inquired the minister, the flrat t? speak. Jane did not give Oliver a chance te reply "Do about It?" she cried. "Why, he's going to run against old Gooeh nnd bent the life out of him'" Oliver looked up at her. She stood at tlie top o? (tie steps, the light from the open door fulling athwart her radi ant face, half 1 :i shadow, half In the warm, soft glow, ^tiodenlv his heart begun to pound -heavy. smothering blows against hi? ribs th:\' hnd the ef fect of making hhr, dkzy, :?s with verti go. He continued to stare, possessed of a strange w??uder. as she tinned to her tall, gray-hatred parent nnd laid both hands on hlr shoulders. "1 wish I could say 'gi>e whir' as Sammy says It," she cried. "I feel all over Just like one great big 'gee whlx,' Don't you. daddy?" The man of God took bis daughter^ firm, round chin between his thumb and forefinger and shook It lovingly. "One 'gee whiz" in the family Is enough," said he. "I am glad you feel like one, however. You take me bnck 2?r) years, my dear. Your mother used to say 'gee whiz' when she felt like It. It Is, after all, a rather harmless way of exploding." Presently he left them and Jane spoke Boftly. "Did you notice. Oliver, that he spoke of mother a little while ago? It was the first time In years. I wonder If I remind him of her In lots of ways." Oliver's thoughts leaped backward ft score of years and more. "I used to think she was th^tnost wonderful per son in all the world," he said. "1 was very desperately in love with your mother when 1 was sl\ or seven, Jane/' lie hesitated and then went on clumsi ly, almost fatuously: "I am beginning to think that you are like her In a loi of ways." She gave him a quii lc, startled look. His face was turned awav. ami so he did not see the tender, wistful little smile that flickered on her lip*, nor was he aware of the long, deep breath she took. From that moment a queer^ uneasy restraint fell upon them. There were long silences, dreamy on her part, moody on his. He left shortly after 10; his 'good-night'' was strangely gruff and unnatural He was Jealous. He knew It for a fact, he confessed it to himself for the tlrst time openly and unreservedly. He was Jealous of young Lansing. There was no use trying tc deny It. He did not go so far us to think of himself us being In love with Jane ? that. would be ridiculous, after all the years they had known each other ? hut he bitterly resented the thought that she might ho In love with some one else. Especially with the superior, supercilious, cocksure Lansing! CHAPTER V An Amazing Cablegram "Why, If Jane were In love with Lansing," reflected Oliver, "good Lord, what a fool he had been to think It would make no difference to him ! It would make a difference ? an appalling difference. All nonsense to think she wouldn't go out of his life If she mar ried Lansing or anyone else. Of course she would. Strange, though, that he should he ro consumed with Jealousy when he wasn't the least bit in love with Jane himself. He had been In love half a dozen times. He ought to know what love was ? and certainly his feelings toward Jane were nothing like those he had experienced In by gone affairs of the heart. Gee whial What had suddenly got Into him? The next morning he was down fit the swamp bright and early, inspecting the work of the ditchers and tile lay ers. 0 The task of reclaiming the land hriU been under way for several monthe and was slowly nearlng completion. "I wish you'd change your mind about not going out any farther. Oli ver," aald old John Phillips, who was superintending the work. "We could go out a quarter of a mile farther with out a hit of risk, and you'd add about 20 acres of good land to ? " "We'll have enough, John," Inter rupted the young man. "We'll stick to the original survey. Don't go a rod be yond the stakes I set up out yonder. It may be aafe but It Isn't worth while." "Well, you're the boss," grumbled old John, and added somewhat peevish ly: "But I can't help saying I think you're making a mistake. There's some mighty good land there, sfllte of them mudholes .1 little farther out." "I'm not denying that," said Oliver patiently. "Rut we'll stop where the stakes are, Just the same." A few minutes later old John con fided to one of the ditchers that young Haxter was considerable of a darned fool. Klther that, or else he had some thundering good reason of his own for nyt wanting to go out beyond the stakes. Ah?! Now they'll find Old Ollver'a body In the nwamp! The aypiy ?core? again. C l i > MFi CIINTINCKI) ) Stair a' Death Toll Fn the Manhattan Kectlon of Now York there lui v?? boon more Mian 100 (tenth* tn a sln?ip year due lo full* ?n Malr*. The total number of hiicIi fatal ities In the Uriltod Ktiite? U PHtlmnted to be about >aeh year. The, ma jority of these ThIIk are due either to slipping or tripping. 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