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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., APRIL 12, 1945 The Jade God By MARY 1MLAY TAYLOR CHAPTER XVII "He -lie ■ iildiTi take me because of this. Uncle Herbert, I love him. Oh, please, please help me clear him!" She crumpled down again on her knees beside his chair, clinging to his hand sobbing. "I'm wretched!" •he wept. "I wanted to go with him and he wouldn't take me!" "Good heavens!" the old man murmured to himself. He felt no impulse of rage now, only the weakness that follows it. How extraordinary these new girls were! Then he added, aloud: "That's decent of him. I begin to like him, Pam." "Oh, you'd like him. He's splendid; he's big--he's generous, and he's suffered! It isn't right, Uncle Herbert, where's your old suspect? Fat and sleek somewhere, getting older and older--no use presently --and all Mark's splendid youth gone like this." "He'll live it down. He's young," Burleson argued hoarsely. "Besides, who knows? There are often deathbed confessions, one may clear him presently." She scorned that. "Do you think a man who'd done that--and let youth suffer for it-- would confess?" she demanded furiously. He nodded, moving his long fingers restlessly on the arms of his chair. "He might, Pam." "He wouldn't, Uncle Herbert, you'll clear him for me, won't your" Whether you overwork, worry or expend your energies in the social whirl, the result is the same -- chronic fatigue or nervous exhaustion. Your nerves and bodily organs are also tired so that digestion fails and you lie awake at nights unable to Perhaps there is nothing that can so definitely help you as Dr. Chase's NERVE FOOD. Many people find this to be the case. Why not benefit by their experience. Ask for the new economy size bottle of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food ISSUE 15--1945 "Do you care so much, child?" She lifted that flowerlike face of. hers. "It's killing me--he's so brave, 1 can't bear it, that he should be called--that!" "Suppose I'd done it, Pam? Would you want me--at my time of life--to go out and confess it? When the boy's taken his punishment and he's only to start fresh?" He leaned back i.i his chair, studying her. "I tell you what I can do, Pam," he said finally. "I've offered to do it already--told Fosdick I can help him to a new chance." She scorned that. "You mean money? That's nothing! He can work--I know he'd rather." "I didn't mean just money-- I've got a little pull on the railways. I could help him to a good berth. I'm like you, in a way, I think he should^ have a new "I don't think anything matters half so much as his good name, Uncle Herbert." She was still on her knees beside him; she twined her arms about his arm and held him. "Who was the man you sus- "That was only a suppositious case, Pam," he said hoarsely. "I suspect no one at all." She gazed at him wide-eyed. "Yon're not telling me the truth, Uncle Herbert!" fiercely, frowning. "You're treating me like a baby. I'm not--I'm a woman and I love a man you helped send to prison. Yes, you did! You testified Burleson seized her young wrists and raised her to her feet; he had to rise to do it. "Now, you listen! You go and sit down and listen! I'm going "Suppose 1 did help send this boy to prison," he said bitingly. "Suppose I testified against him-- what then? It was mere routine. I knew his uncle well--I knew him--a little; he was a boy, tall, lanky, hot' tempered, something of a daredevil and the uncle was hard and close as nails. He had a way of saying taunting things; he could be insulting--politely. Suppose . then, someone killed him, struck him down, found that it fitted on to the nepheTv like a glove--he'd been there, and all that. Suppose he let it go at that, and the boy took the punishment, got through with it and had his chance to make his life over. D'you suppose the ich--would step down don't think he made him. He's rho lets kicked!" SITTER FOR SETTER Mother instinct proved too strong in this red hen, owned by Mrs. Minnie Horton of Columbus, Ga. When her eggs failed to hatch she took over from the mother of these young pups, and now the dog is having a hard time getting back to her family . . . that is, until dinner time. them, weeping violently. Then she broke out again. "Someone did it--and I don't see how he can think of it, think of leaving Mark to face his sins, and sleep at night." Burleson gave her a long look-- a look she did not see. "Maybe he doesn't, Pam," he said dryly. "Come to think of It, I don't believe he does!" "He ought to die!" she cried fiercely. "He ought to have died long ago!" "Good God!" said Burleson below his breath, and turned away. (TO BE CONTINUED) How Can 111 By Anne Ashley Q. How can I prevent cloudy- A. Do not place mirrors where the sun shines directly on them. It will make the surface cloudy and Q. How can I prevent sagging A. The shoulders will not sag if a piece of ribbon, the length of the shoulder of the person from neck to armhole, is attached at each end of the ribbon to the sweater. Q. How can I avoid a disagreeable odor of the oil stove? A. When the oil stove gives off that disagreeable odor of oil, try dropping a small piece of gum camphor into the tank. Q. How can I renovate a sealskin s seal- er. How can I prevent rusting A. They will not rust when thi are packed away for any length time if they are rubbed with a lilt fat that contains no salt, such muttonfat. Then wrap them "You think you love this fellow?" he asked her dryly; "this convist?" he barked the word at her. She tried to answer quietly, but her courage failed her, she broke down. "It's killing me to think of him--facing all this--and he wouldn't take me with him! 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