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v oice ; but th is atm osphere o f ju b ila tion le ft him feelin g dry and m eager. It was, as he told him self, too diarned prem ature. Charlie had his super stitions. " Y e s ; an d it's Hope, too," R anger declared'. " W e couldn't be fooled on that point," " Oh, y e s; it is certain ly H ope." M rs. R a n ger's voice trem bled with emotion. " H ow can w e ever thank you, Mr. -- ?" She hesitated, flushing fa in tly. She fe lt that she ou gh t to know his name, and y et she could n ot remember ever h aving heard her hus band use it. She com prom ised hastily A teasp oonful o f on " M r. Juarez." Gillett's Lye sprinkled " I 'm m igh ty glad to have the chance o f m eeting you, M t . Juarez." H igby in the Garbage. Can i e l d out his hand. " Y ou 've been the prevents flies breeding sole person to th row any ligh t on the puzzle." " That absurd h a t!" M rs, R anger Use Gillett's Lye for all C H A P T E R IX . smiled deprecatingly. " A n d yet you Cleaning and Disinfecting Juarez Charlie w as beginning to w ere righ t about it, M r. Juarez. It & -j B y does prove conclusively th at the pic feel oppressed and uneasy. Three M k y W iu b O N W o o d r o w ~ days had passed since the hat w as ture w as taken w ithin a day o r tw o, ilUUiTRATtO By taken ou t o f Ranger's car, and there doesn't it ? " U.W.< >*vn-ER.viE-ux>" They snapped her when she w asn't had been no succeeding developments. A gain and again he had explored the expectin g it, I guess," C harlie ex stra gg lin g neighborhood w here he plain ed; " an d she's laughing at her lived, searching each~ fence-pose and se lf in that sky-piece." " B ristow began tappin g on the arm h oarding f o r another o f those cabal To C harlie's relief R anger reminded B E G IN H E R E T O D A Y . o f his chair, but he w as as cool as istic communications, but w ithout suc him ju st then that he had not yet read L orin g R a n ger offers a hundred the letter. thousand dollars rew ard fo r th e re ever. " It looks as i f your usefulness cess. Femininity H e took it, ran over it perfun ctorily, On the fou rth morning as, a fte r an turn o f his m issing daughter, Hope, here is over,' he agreed. `I regret it. He is as&isted in his search by his ^at Y ou w ould have been a valuable other fruitless hunt, he brou gh t out and laid it back on the desk w ith ou t Do not get the false idea that fem i torney, E ustice H igby, and b y his life m an.' " the m otorcycle which R anger had in comment. ninity should be associated with long frien d , Juarez Charlie, adven " Speak a little low er," she cau- sisted on his accepting in order to " W ell, w hat do you th in k ?" R anger w eakness. A woman can be just as turer. tioned. fa cilta te his movements, and prepared w as grow in g a little im patient a t this strong in her fem ininity as a man Charlie tells L orin g that he feeJs " Thanks, I fo r g o t f o r the moment. to start fo r town, he had the air o f indirectness. can be in his m asculinity. And the certain H ope is held prisoner by a W ell, I le ft him then, and w ent up to a discredited prophet w ho has lost " Seems fa ir ly plain ," he said. " They vitality and buoyancy associated with frou p o f cridnals called the " Combine." I 've told you how I at honor even w ith himself. tell you, i f you leave $100,000 under a strong m uscles and firm tissues are an A m essage com es to R anger tellin g m y room. A s he drew up before the entrance railroad crossin g on the Lone Hill im portant factor in beauty culture. him to bu y a hat f o r Hope and leave tem pted to get aw ay and failed. A fter it at a specified place. F ran k Bryan that, I tried to get to B ristow again, to L orin g's office the outer guard to road at fou r o'clock tom orrow a fte r but he w ouldn't see me. So I turned whom he w as now a fam ilia r figure noon, you r daughter w ill be retu rn ed ; S u n b u rn ? Use Minarcf's, Lin im e n t. Is R anger's p rivate secretary. George K elsey is detained a t a pri to M orton." waved him along toward the the office and they w arn you that if you fa il, or vate sanatarium and he meets and " M orton?" she repeated in terroga with the jocu lar announcement that try to doublecross them in any w ay, Italian firm has presented Mus visits with a girl w ho closely resem tively. the boss had been ju st on the point you 'll never see her again. T h at' s solini with a handsome new autom o bles a nurse named Copley. Dr. B ris " Y es, the other house physician. o f sending ou t a general alarm fo r about all there is to it, so f a r as I bile. II D uce's foes, no doubt, hope he tow is the superintendent o f the in H e's a quiet, non-com m ittal sort o f a him. can see." w ill try to drive down main street in stitution. fellow . I didn't go into the whole G lum ly he pushed up the corridor H igby, m ore astute than the others, Venice. N O W GO ON W IT H T H E S T O R Y thing w ith h im ; ju st told him I 'd had and opened the office door; then stop realized th at be w as not g oin g to be A responsive shiver passed over her a fa llin g out with B ristow and resign ped short on the threshold and began led into expressin g his real opinion in THE P R O T E C T IV E A S S O C IA T IO N shoulders. i ed, but that when I attem pted to leave aw kw ardly to back away. the presence o f Mrs. Ranger, and tact of C anada " T here w as no use acting as i f I the place, I ' d been prevented. Inside, R anger and Eustace H igby, fu lly succeeded in gettin g her to leave E s t a b lis h e d 1907. hadn't taken it all in," Kelsey resum " He didn't show any surprise. H e'd the attorney, w ere in earnest discus w ith him. A s s e ts $289,157.00, su rp lu s to ed ; " and I didn't hesitate to express been primed. Just listened, and said p o lic y h o ld e r s o v e r $150,000.00 sion over a letter which H igby held (T o be continued.) TH E O K 1Y P U R E L Y CAN m yself. I w as leaving at once, I told now and then, ` I 'm sorry,' o r `T oo A D IA N C O M P A N Y issu ing' in his h a n d ; w hile over by the w indow h im ; didn't care to be hooked up with bad.' I didn't get his attitude at the S ick n e ss and A c c id e n t In s u r Need M ore Be S a id ? stood Mrs. R anger intently studying a n ce to M em b ers o f th e M a a bunch o f crooks. B ristow didn't time. M y idea then w as, that he w as so n ic F r a te r n ity E x c lu s iv e ly . a photograph. In July I go sailing bluster an y; ju st smiled in that mad too keen on his job to take sides. But A g e n ts in a ll p rin cip a l C ities and T o w n s The slight noise made by Charlie' s In a boat that needs bailing. In C anada. dening, superior w ay o f has and when |j gaine<, a clearer ligh t on him when e . e . G X tE A S o sr. j . a . r t il l e r . intrusion and his mumbled apologies I finished, condescended to explain, j final]y talked Bristow . P re s . & Gen. Mgrr. S ecy. A s s . M g r. M ln ard 's L in im e n t fo r In sect Bites. fo r blundering into a fam ily group _______ H ea d O ffic e : G R A N B Y , Que. He had been hum oring a lunatic h ej ,, He wi&s al, ready fo r all ready lo r me, and roused the three from their preoccu t a id ; m y experience should have didn't waste any time in la yin g his p ation ; and R anger, stepping quickly taught me the necessity o f som etim es, ca r(k on the table. over, cau gh t the r e l a t i n g Juarez by doing that. The^jfc.ry o f the stolen I It' s fo r your ow n sa k ^ th a t I hait'e the arm and ro«Hi_ jew els w as pure dementia, but inter i taken these restrictive m easures,' he " It's come, C h arlie!" His eyes w ere estin g as an exam ple o f unusual co - , sa-^ jn his best professional manner, shining. " Just as you said it would, herence. . . . |`I 'm not easily fooled, yet I confess I old boy. A photograph and the de " He made . p ^ |had no suspicions o f you. But your m and fo r money. Found them on my enough but it didn t sink m as he ex -1 v ;0j6n^ outbreak and the persistent desk when w e cam e back from lunch." P'Scted. I 'd heard the tw o o f them w av y OU have clung to your delusions He pulled Charlie across the room talk. There w asn't any m ak e-believe. j cave on]y one course open to me. Do to his wife. about it ; they w ere righ t down to vou rem em ber any great shock o r acci" M ary Lou, this is Charlie." bus'iness. A ctu al names and addresses ; ^ in y cu r life ? . She dragged her gaze from the w ere given and w ritten down. And t h e , saw where he w as heading, and snap-shot, and held the picture up fo r alleged patient w as allowed' to depart over him to see. free. _ _ " It's the hat all right." He tried " So I stood m y ground, and -blun tly! BCO U ndrel°*and" a th ief !V'T j u m p e d up to throw some enthusiasm into his told him th at I dion 't consider the fr&m m y ch a ir_ < o f course I see your my circum stances open to misinterpret®-1; game, D octor. I know too much fo r tion. ! m y health, and th erefore you are preI scribing a rest fo r me here under your eye.' " He looked at me w ithout m oving a I muscle, patient still, but a little stern. " ` In the la st fe w days,' he said, ` I ' ve gathered considerable in form a tion about your past life. Y ou are, I find, an A ustralian, an actor born in Melbourne. Y ou r name is not Kelsey but H aw orth, James H aw orth.' " That w as a bit too thick, and I told him so. The devil listened to me quiet ly, never altering his expression. He w as the grave, kind m edical adviser. 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T here w as an anxiety borderin g on pandc in her harsh, unmodulated voice. The g irl did not respond at once. Then she started and looked about her, as i f she had ju st returned fro m a fa r country and the present surroundings were unfbm iliar. But at another, " V e r n a !" she rosoob ed ien tly and held out the note-book and pencil. " Look," she sa id ; " see all I 've w rit ten. H e," w ith a gesture tow ard K el sey, " gave me the book and pencil." " H ow nice." The nurse w as com pobed again. " N ow g v e them back to him d^ar, and come in the house, have a hat I w ant you to tr y on." 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