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* « • THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL, 8. C. / Brown g.nd~ Company ^ ‘•YOU DARLING!'' SYNOj^SIS.—Occupying a dllap!- dateU siiai k In Uie Silent City, a squatter a«ttiement near Ithaca, New York, I-’oily Hopalna Uvea with her father, small Jerry, and an’^il woman. Granny Hope. On an adjacent farm, Oscar Bennett, prosperous farmer, is a neighbor. He la aecretly married to Kvelyn. Robertson, supposedly wealthy girl of the noifhUun.oud Marcus Mac- Kenzie, who owns the ground ttie aquatters occupy, ta th«lr «ieter- mlned enemy. Roily overhears a conversation between MacKenzle and a stranker, in whlth the former avows his intention of driving the squatters from his land. The stran ger sympathizes with the squatters, and earns Polly's gratitude Evelyn Robertson discovers from her moth er that they are not rich, but prac tically living on the bounty of Robert Perelval, Evelyh's cousin Roily learns from Evelyn that the sympathetic stranger Is Robert Rerclval Kvelyn charges Roily with a message to Bennett, telling him she cun give him no more money. She already bitterly regrets her marriage to the Ignorant farm er Roily conveys her message and • >erar makes threata He Insists Evelyn meet him that night. Roily has her father and Ijirry Bishop, a squatter, take an oath to do Mac- Kensle no injury Evelyn unsuc cessfully trie# to get money from tier mother with which to buy off Bennett and induce him to leave the aountry, giving her her freedom She and MacKensle avow their love At (he arranged meeting that night Bennett threatens Evelyn with expoaure unless she gives him money Roily meets Robert Rer- etval. and they are mutually at- traited Roily's feeling being adora tion Oscar kill* Roily's lamb and Rerclval thrashes Oscar tliun Old Mure that he would help them. And thus she brought smiles buck to the faces of her miserable friends; and as they went away, each woman kissed her, and each man rev erently placed his hand on her curly head«ln blessing. CHAPTER VII—Continued. A sound of boots moving on Ixuinls v»g* his only answer Polly roughed nervously. “Now this Is whtt Pm going to offer.” went on MacKenzIe. “No one <wn make me raise the price pne cent. I'll give you men twenty-live dollars apiece; >ou algn over to me your rquatler rights, then take your wom en and kids and go ' There was not a word In answer to this Only Wee Jerry felt I biddy Hojy- kins clasp him tighter Realising that the atony slletn’w that met his offer was practically a re f u • a I MacKetule got to his feet. "I on can take It, or or go to h — I for nil I •••ire"' he exchilmrd lie turiied toward the door; and Hon 1‘ollyop got lack her breath, and while the squatter men watched sul- leniy. she s ( e|>|>ed in front of him. "\t*u're m w r<*ng, mister," she tl.ired 'Ai'iTre il- .1 generous, jun't \ou? fwentj live dollars w.uiohi't take m ail’where, an when* would we g ( any how? This amt movin d.iv in the Silebl I'itv. ton ve rTia• le ypur talk. IJOW m it H ItWl^ Milieus ti\e I !ier with eyes angry hev.oel desi r,|il loll. Ilcr own hla/<%! I'ii< k at him us she pointed toward the • Iiht "Scoot out," sile he coinin' iigu ii." MiicKcn/ie lift,.' tlireiitciiing!y, and grow 1 CHAPTER VIII.. Then enme the days through which the inhahitnnti* of the Silent City Jived w!th nothing to comfort them but I'otly Hnpklrii. Scarcely an hour posaed without strangers walking over the rough road through the settlement and ever'y one knew that these men. so curious and yet sorjinwllling to speak even a “good-day," were doing service for Marcus MacKenzie. At last one day, crushed with ap prehension and despair, Jeremiah Hopkins decided that one of them should go to Robert Perelval to ask his aid iu keeping the settlement t«>- gether. Polly was so sure he would keep his word to her—now they would give him the chance. j _ “It’s « choice of the three of you. Poll." said Ljre Hraeger, "you or your daddy or Larry Bishop.” "He wouldn't liaten to me. lassie." Hopkins mourned. "Mebhe he would ! to you. I dunno, but mebhe." Before the girl's sensitive mind flushed the face of Robert, and she hid tier red cheeks against the speaker's knee. "«»h. I couldn't never go to ‘Im, I biddy honey,” she murmured. “Please, Daddy." "We ain't got a chance without some one's help, Poll,” insisted Brae- get. “You go along, an' do your d—deal for the squatter* *” "All right. Lye." she managed to say. “1*11 go slier Jerry's in bed. an' the supper's over.” * . So It came to pass that nightfall found Polly Hopkins struggling up the hill to the railroad tracks. She turned south on the IsNilevsrd and stole cau tiously along the edge of the road. She had no desire to meet Old Marc or Kvelyn. As she went on she mur mured to herself some of the love word* Cranny Ho|»e had planted lo her ificmory. and when she turned Into the cMrriMgeuay leading tod lie Rob- j ertson home, she held her head a little ) higher and walked with lews nervous ness. * Around and around the house she crept, until with trepidation she ! mounted the steps lending to the front I , |*or< h and tiptoed to a long Krench j window It was prti'tly open am] there, seated before a fable, was the nuHi she j | sought.- " Polly knocked fVt.ce. hut the -seuflU ^ ■ was »•> faint It »hcn did mrr hear it. "Ilist," came ffom lebw^Wi Polly's lip-, and the young man glanced up. At I •• sigh id er lie t.> his feet 1 ' ••lowlv. TIicii PoHy sliovsitr flu* win- i • low open a ^cii' k and squeezed Into | ijie rixun./" A sirrfnge mixture of conlllctlng ex- | "You've got to alt down,” he aald gruffly. "I want to talk to you." "In a minute, then," returned Mar cus. "I’ll get the book first.” Very white, Robert walked before Mackenzie to the hookcuae. Then with one sweep of his arm h^ moved aside the curtiiin mid with if—Polly Hopkins. He could feel beneath j the thick juaterial the slender, quivering l»ody. And there, as the tw^ %i(*n stood facing the shelves laden with the musterpleces of the world, and Marcus was* running his eye up and down, Robert Telt that first wonder ful protective love that comes to a mint- when he is shielding a woman. “Kvelyn said it was here.” observed MucKim/.ie carelessly. “Let me look! A-—B—O—Here's D. It ought to be on this shelf." He read aloud the names of the hooks under his eye while still the strong hand of his companion held up the curtain and the girl. "All, here it is," came in exclama tion. “There! Thanks, Boh! Now I’ll sit down a minute." He walked hack to the table, and Perelval carefully dropped the drap eries. Keeping his eye on the other man's back, he ran his fingers over the curtuip until he came to the curly head of Polly Hopkins. Two tender pats fell upon It. Tlien lie, too, crossed to the center of the room. ..' “You're a fu^gflfTahle chap, Boh." laughed Marcus. “Heigh-ho! but to day I’ve been some busy. I’ll bet yon a quarter of a dollar it won’t he three months before I get every squatter off that shore. The fact of It Is, I’ve only got to catch Hopkins, and the rest’ll be easy. He’s a had actor; and that girl of his is a saucy baggage^*— "She's a. very good girl,” Robert In terposed In deep tones, “and very pret ty, too.”' The bookcase draperies moved ever so little. Polly Hopkins almost hurst with Joy when she heard those words. “Pretty enough, I suppose,” Mansis conceded, “but not good. Mhe's like the rest—had clean through.” The curtains mdved a little more; and Robert caught the sway of them out of the tall of his eye. He felt that if MacKenzie did not go soon, he would | throw him out. What the girl would do If Man- started a tirade against her father. Robert did not dare contem plate. *T,ook here, Marc,” he burst forth. “you’re all wrong about those people. I all dead wn»ng. They don’t hnno any one. a* I can see. Why can’t you live and let live?" , III* eyes flashing. Mardia stood up. “No harm, no harm, you say.” he flared. "Wpy, they steal everything in night, and In a few more year* there up at the college the other day, and won't t»e a fl*h left Jn the lake. There he *ald the lake Mectlon could in* made ^ charming. We can build our house on the hill just ■hove there "Ami tlie farm." Kvelyn ii»ter|M*sed. “that would Just round out your place perfectly. Oh. honey, do that right away.' Mr. Bennett will n*k more for It as soon a* you get rid of the squut- I ters.” Manns lighted a cigarette thought fully. "The Bennett farm wouldn't lie of any use to me." he explained slowly. ! “unless | ran make a clean sweep of the whole thing It's a crime. I tell yon. Kvelyn. Think of It! I had to send out of the county to get my men to watch fh<>*e fellow* down there. | Irlin<-a make* me tired. It's a good "Poor little girl, poor little Polly* murmured ILibert, brokenly. Then a* she swayed toward him, bis arms went around her, and for a moment he pressed her hearf^against his breast. “Polly. Pollynp,” he whispered, kiss ing her hair; "Oh. (h.d, if [ owned that- lake property I’d—I’d—” -/ r A— certain, deeji—nme in- his v<ftee brought up. Pollyop's head; and she saw In. ^iis eyes an expression that made her struggle from his arms. I* leefng to the porch window, she wag go,lie before Robert could stop her. ••••••• “Bob’s queer fish, Eve,” laughed MacKenzie, as lie came into the music nxihfcesvhere Kvelyn Robertson was waiting for him. “If I hadn't kept my temper just now, we should have parted had friends.” “That’s like you, dear.” she-smiled, “But then, of course, you wouldn’t let him bother you. Fussing about the squatters again, I suppose." Kvelyn Rw»k his big fingers in her hand and occupied herself in examin ing the white spots on one of the pol ished nails. “My big man mustn’t mind.Bobs,” she exclaimed persuasively, noting the frowning lines that had come in his face. "He’s sentimental, Robert Is, full of half-baked notions about broth erly love and helping the downtrodden, snd that sort of thing.” ^The man laughed indulgently. It delighted him to have the gTrl of his choice Express his own sentiments so well. “You precious!," he murmured. ‘They can’t fool my Eve much, can they?” By a simple twist of his wrist he captured her hand. Then he took up a favorite topic with new zest. “I want to improve my property, dear. The Silent CUr’s an eyesore! If I could get the squatters off th«ti. lake side and buy (he Bennett farm, I could make my place the handsomest In the county.” At the suggestion about Oscar’s farm, a different -light flashed Into the girl’s eyes. Her hand twitched in his. “That would lie wonderful, dear." she ejaculated. “If—If the squatters weren’t there, you could make a very lovely drive right along where their road runs, couldn’t you 7** This had lieen MacKenzie* Idea, also. What a nipahle girl Eve was! He took her pretty face between hit hand* and kissed her once and then ■gain *nd again. “Yon darling!“ he murmured. “You’re the wisest little woman in the world! My whole ambition I* to make our home Just to suit you. I was talk- lag to oiie of’those landscape chaps <£•' ONLY A COLD HIT MOT NEGLECT IT -/ si / ^1 •3 I A cold is an scute cs- (^W yEV*v42i|| tarrh which can easily be come chronic. A great manlLdiseascs may be trac- ed'to a catarrhal condition of the mucous membranes lining the organs or parts. PE-RU-NA IN IDEM. EMERGENCY REMEDY Just a few doses taken in time have saved thousands from serious sickness. For fifty years Pe-ru-na has been the popular family medicine for coughs, colds, catarrh. Stomach and bowel disorders and all diseases of catarrhal origin. . - v KEEP If IN THE HOUSE Tablets or Liquid Sold Everywhere 1 HORSES CtlCGHING? USE Spohn’s Distemper Compound to break It up and tret them back In condition. Twenty-eight .yeers' use has made "SPOHN'S" lndl*pen»able in treating Cough* and Colda. Influenza and Platemper. with thalr resulting compli cations. and all dlaeaaei of the throat, noae and lunga. - Act# marvelously a# a preventive, acta equally well a# a cure. Obtain able In two alzea at drug ztorea. HPOHN MElffCAX COMPANY t _ GOSHEN, INDIANA Rather Unwrapped. . j Poligh New Shoe*. Otto Kahn, the New York financier. Brown boots or shoes should he objects to the modem girl's bathing at- rubbed over with a slice of raw potato tire—a maillot or one-piece suit, no before the polish is applied. Then skirt, no stockings. "Look there!’’ he said one morning at Coronado, as a very pretty girl In a black silk maillot ran, down the bench. “You could never say that girl had a rapt look now, could you?"- they are easy to Hean and take a good polish. / A small hoy’s idea of a hemrd of health Is a chance to eat whenever ho Is hungry. r•■{■••ate I. “an' don't prexM«>nx , swept over hi* fa«*e, hut pleasure at the sight of her predomi- Mated them all. I 1 his ri'lihg/Xvhlp ’Tellyop!" he exclaimed. "Polly every mjprwith a Hopkins, what’s the matter?”, tarted t uru unLxbut a* Hie "ti|i| Mare's goin' to turn us all'out, "hip fell Imek to his -Side, they sank mister," she whispered huskily, search- tlowtt again • ' ' tng his fne**. "atr Pad.TY seuT nie f'fl Then j; u a sjifaf he shifted the whip ask yoq to help us. - ” - to his hit errand -and look from his Robert drew one hand across his pis ket a- slnsiiu' pi'tol; and although brow helplessly. I’.dly.Avtiitened. she held her gMimd. Tve said everything i could to ' ni * '"'h •' ” l >'d’u I. at huzzy." 'make him understand the crime of It st,apped MacKenzie "what have you all." he apologized. “He’s like a crazy g-t to do witlrit? What are you. any- man! I can't see how. hea-an thinkWf ' ' such a tiling, evep though your peo- il spit*' ot t!i<‘ ili'a lly t.iirik: in pu» \vt»rv willing to lV>liy " the white, strong lingers. Polly's head L "We ain’t ; we can’t ’go.",she replied, u *' a qui'••ring. "There ain’t a piace in the 1,1 h,.ie a t tiiammy in tin* wttrW for. squatters - bur tdnr Silent world." >he said simply. "I m mammy (.'i t \ to this hull sctlemeat. A ,' us s,,uat "I know It." he rHumed gloomilv. ters stays in the Silent t 'ity see';" “ Vi- | The jiixtol cauie up wi'h a click and ' imp MacKenzie. enraged heyond cotHfol, I R can, an once I-I heard yqtTWM struck Rollyop rue STiugtWg Mows wTHTj 'tw ,s 'he t). • tli^r.Jns .Id,.. Ttlm Iu- 1 s „ un „ ,, f mtd the open, and. -iiolUing high the : f,, .t>t, olau't tiirust .-mt hjs^ hand, 'grasped n WARNING I Say “Bayer** when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name "Bayer” on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only "Bayer” package which contains proper direction!. Handy “Bayer" box** of IS UbleU—AI*o bottU* of 24 and 100—Druggnta. A*fU1a *• o*** aa/t «r Ba/.r Maaofartws tYaaaa«MSca«i^ai*r «r HaJicrlldoaM i'hriil—W hat Mm* iittinr fellow do*-* when you get the worst of the tqir* gain. Don't Forgot Cuticura Talcum When adding to your lolUq r»**|iiiiiiren. An exquisite rare, skin, hahy and du*t- njher |M*rfonie* sii|>erfiu<ms. Yon may ret) on If t*«*-anse one of the •'utienr* Trio (Soap. Ointment and Taieum). LTm- ea<h everywhere. —Advertisement. lU*wiite of the mail win lairping on his honesty. I* forever And can't Love do^m^faR for us?" dored the girl, “l JrjjlMtiy Tfope says . ... *ps Wjis heard outside in the half weapon, passed through the. trowning Robert-thrust ljhe of watching w041,011. He gave them hut., a Hashing disdainful glnm-e, amH wJien he turned around, Roily Hopkins 1 was statnling in the door, motioning the’ wdiiieu into tin* shuck. He came ; to a direct halt and shouted at her: “I'll never offef"'money again, lint out you’ll hJI go. if I have Coburn your 1 butts about your heads.” * As if he had not spoken, Rollv Robert Drew One Hand Across *• Brow HSiplessly. His gav«.| “Kveivn sent him no heed hut ushered woman after eo*. e^Maine.l - Polly hy^Uie shoulders, and in another moment sh> found iierseif behind *he >hi(|< <urtain hanging in heavy, folds over rows of books which mse to the ceiling. I he door opened ; :md Perelval,spun an Kind to gpieet Marcus MaeKep*^ He crushetl dowHi^h'.s emtairrassnietit and offered his visiti>r."a chair. woman Into the shiMity. I'd ruther tie'd a’nit me than uhv- -Jx..... „ .. , Sa* ■ ' me J>r a h«pk," Mnr- ctls- e^piained • ' "Ra- 'o„ me JW. 'diV turtiinj^tjjq, tdd chap." ' . <nie ('ifyou" s!fi- said. itPf' ties}] thug-. Ml;jr wjtli os In. "H you’tj a’ pounced ini.. JtL. tJaddv, or.you., Lurry, he'd'a’ i»oppefL one of you dead. Now listen, to me." Then.she told them that R<d»ert I'er- dxal had K#id the aquaMers .should ■lay In the settlement SW said she Lad had a promise from s man belief stopped him. iiU effort. ♦ Mufyu* shook his he TtL, “I can^ he replug "Eve and-f are nmfabing^er something. dSidd her, Pd get a Mkik ami come right hack.” He made a nwvennr.t to WRjk won’t he anything to catch in season or out, if tlie squatters keep up their Infernal poaching. Hunting and fish ing are for gentlemen, my dear -flub! Don't forget that!’’ . . “fientlemen lie <1—d!" ejaculated Robert, and then the curtains swhyed so that he got' to his feet and started toward the door. "Marc," he continued, “perhaps we can’t .agrve on this matter at all. hut I really, do w ant a lieart-to-lieart talk with you aimut it. But not now! The^ fact is I was busy when you came in—” “Thinking up a few more pleas for the squatters, eh?" I lie oilier majn tensed., “Well, old fellow, just remem ber this. I’ve got at least twenty-five men watching everything that scamp of k—Hopkins does, and when I get something on him, there won’t'lie twen ty-four hours between that time and his arrest." • Robert 411 most shoved the speaker out of tlie door; but Marcus only chuckled good-naturedly as he went away. When Robert turned the key in the lock, lie stood quite Still, breath-' big hard. Frotii behind the curtain. Polly thrust nut'"her head, her small face wrinkled and tears, standing thick In her eves. \ thing I came hack to put mime snap l"K powder and |M*rfume. rendering Into the fight against the squatter*.” The girl's w hite This made a curtain iietween hi* .shining eye* and her own. Kvelyn was wishing, olr, how very much she dewir^vl that Marcus would buy the farm. Then' Oscar could ‘leave the country, and in another stale he would *ef Iht free! Sli** studied Ma*’- Kenzie’s fuc*» covertly through half- ' closed eyes, considering wh;a to ,xay 1 and how' to sav* it. MacKenzie tiling his cigarette Into tlie grate. He found tlie suggestion of her veil«*d look so alluring that he gathered her into his arms and rained kisses upon her face. “I love you sc. sweet. I could almost eat you!” he panted. A .happy .sigh, like the perfumed breath of a rose, slipped from her parted lips, and when she laughed again, his deep chuckles, joined hers. AGENTS MR1.L ORION « »M K>TR ITKIl KI.WOR- -*•••1*1 2&*- fur •aftil'l*. full si#*, aaj As*-»< v l‘r<i|M»aiilon •n twwr-- than J<* Guar- an'r^u T»lia( Artirl--a. ate. Man* fr>.in I '• |« 111 a tla> Th- oriun Co H<*i<lavtli». N C. \gritl% Rake ISe on Tverj Kerrherk. |1# tu II## w-«k with ..ut kovrh-rk mtflt Kltllar ae« JKW KI. RRTCMKCk • «• Sh-l»y. Ohio t*k \oi k •.him # k oh hkmm.imt ron • ar»* V -1 ' iivr o K-k Ratww*1l**a. K«*tti-.’1i«*o Citr u I r.onrn .n jllaraa*-#. r^aottii # om r.«r 1.-^4 ..r ne-n-y bs< k WtRe f. r KIUCK K#m»r'a ■V-tei marjr U«Me II tvlla about treatiueat • •f Itveatork .1ia-„«..s CAI'.ol.lN'A ItlCMK- MKS t'oMt’A\ V ||.>x jij I'NIoN S C I’RKK I.AMl Ifl b-tifi-a-ea*l# »*iH •elf ad- »'KH* «. HUAV. WHUIIAF |UIW WTO. ii “Look at me, dearie, you, little girl.” I love ' *•’ •!•'•'•• * jic••••>" !-qq.Med with "l'"> ^ tlfttfX that pup an' swat -him," :*he hissed stnrmily. “He lies when he skys niy daddy’* a aeamp.’^v Perciviil ilftetl a precautionary liand . '“Not t«K> loud," lie warned. “Come here.” iihe went slowly forward, her head hanging: hut when he held <*it hu Linds slie -snatched them and bent ward the book shelve*; hut Roteii j (> er curly heart over the strong fingers | mod kuaed iheui (Numutkteljr. K1X) BE CONTINL - ED.R Traded Pipes for Land. 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