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SYNOPSIS
Dan Blair, the 22-year-old Bon of the
flfty-niilllon.dollar copper Itlng of Blalr-
town. Mont., Is a guest at I he English
home of Lady Gulorey. Dan’s father had
been courteous to Lord Galocey during
his visit to the United States and the
courtesy Is now being returned to the
young man The youth has an Ideal girl
in his mind He meets Lily, Duchess of
Brcukwater, a beautiful widow, who Is
attracted by his Immense fortune and
takes a liking to her. When Dan was a
boy. a girl sang a solo at a church, and
he had never forgotten her The Ga-
loreys. Lily and Dan attend a London
theater where one Letty Lane Is the star.
Dan recognizes her as the girl from Ids
town, and going behind the scenes Intro-
duces himself and she remembers him.
He learnH that Prince Ponlotowsky Is
suitor and escort to Letty. Lord Ga-
lorey and a friend named Ruggles deter-
mine to protect the westerner from Lily
and other fortune hunters. Young Blair
goes to see Lily, he can talk of nothing
but Letty and this augers the Duchess.
The westerner finds Letty 111 from hard
work, but she recovers and Buggies and
Dan Invite her to supper. She usks Dan
to build a home for disappointed the-
atrical people. Dan visits Lily, for the
time forgetting Letty, and later an-
nounces his engagement to the duchess.
Letty refuses to sing for an entertain-
ment given by Lily Gaiorey tells Dan
that all Lily cares for Is his money, and
It Is disclosed that he and the duchess
have been mutually In love for years.
Letty sings at nn aristocratic function
Dan escorting her home. Dan confronts
Gaiorey and I.lly together. Later he In-
forms Letty that his engagement with
Lily is broken, asks the singer to marry
hint, and they become engaged. Ruggles
thinks the westerner should not marry
a public singer, and endeavors to Induce
Letty to give him up. She runs away,
fearing she Is not good enough for Dan,
and Buggies makes the latter believe she
has abandoned his love Finally Dan
finds Lelty In Paris, where he Is per-
sistent In pressing Ills suit. The western-
er meets Ponlotowsky at Letty’s rooms
and a challenge results. Dan, with his
mind in a turmoil, arranges for the duel.
CHAPTER XXIX.—Continued.
One of his companions offered Blair
a cigar. He refused, the idea sick-
ened him. Here the gentlemen ex-
changed glances, and one murmured:
"Is he afraid?"
The other shrugged.
"Not astonishing—he’s a child."
At this Dan glanced up and smiled
—what Lily, Duchess of Breakwater,
had called his divine young smile.
The two secretly were ashamed—be
was charming.
As they got out of the motor Dan
said:
"I want to ask a question of Prince
Ponlotowsky—if it is allowed I’ll
write It on my card ”
After a conference between Prince
Ponlotowsky’s seconds and Dan’s, the
slip was handed tie prince.
“If you get out all right, will you
marry Miss Lane? I shall be glad to
know "
The Hungarian, who read it under
the tree, half smiled. The naivete of
it, the touching youth of It, the crude
lack of form—was perfect enough to
touch his sense of humor On the
back of Dan’s card Ponlotowsky
scrawled:
"Yes."
It was a haughty inclination, a sa-
lute of honor before the tight.
The meeting place was within sight
of the little rustic pavilion of Les
Trols Agneaux, celebrated for its pre
sale and belgnets; the advertisements
had confronted Dan everywhere during
his wanderings these miserable days.
Under a group of chestnut trees In
bright leathery flower Prince Ponlo-
towsky and his seconds waited, their
frock coats buttoned up and their
gloves and silk hats In llielr hands.
As Blair and his companions came up
the others stood uncovered, grim and
formal, according to the code
Twenty-five paces They were
measured off by the four seconds, and
at their signal Dan Blair and the
prince took their positions, the re-
volvers raised perpendicularly In their
right hands
Still more Indistinctly the boy saw
the sharp-cut picture of It all
the diving bell was sinking deeper—
deeper—Into the sea
”If I atm," he said to himself. ”1
Bhall kill sure—sure"
Blair heard the command: "Fire''
and supposed that after that he Hrtd
CHAPTER XXX.
Sodawater Fountalr Girl.
His next sensation was that a warm
Btream flowed about his heart
'•\1y life's blood," he could dltniy
think "my heart's blood ’ Redder
ttinti coral, more precious, more costly
than any gift his millions could have
bought her Tve spent It lor the
girl I love " The stream pervaded him,
caressed him. tolded Ills limbs about,
became an enchanted sea on which he
floated, auri Its color changed from
crimson to coral pale, and then to
w mie and became a cold cold polar
sea—and he lay on It like a frozen
man, whose exploration had been In
vain, and above him Greenland’s icy
mountains rose like emerald, on every
side.
That Is it—"Greenland’s Icy moun-
tains.” How she sang it—down—
down. Her voice fell on him like
magic balm. He was a little boy in
church, sitting small and shy in the
pew. The tune was deep and low
and heavenly sweet. What a pretty
mouth the soda-fountain girl had—like
coral; and her eyfes like gray seas.
The files buzzed, they droned so loud-
ly that he couldn’t hear her. Ah, that
was terrible—he couldn’t hear her.
No—no, It wouldn’t do. He must
hear the hymn out before he died.
Buzz—buzz—drone—drone. Way down
he almost heard the soft note. It was
ecstasy. Sky—high up—too faint. Ah,
Sodawater Fountain Girl—sing—sing
—with all your heart so that it may
reach his ears and charm him to those
strands toward which he floats.
only knew bow . . , the flies
buzzed, and how the droning was a
living pain. . .
She said to Ruggles: "He wants
something so heartbreakingly—what
can we do?” She saw his hands stir
rhythmically on the counterpane—he
didn’t look to her more than ten years
old. . . What a cruel thing—he
was a boy Just of age—a boy—
Ruggles remembered the nights he
had spent before the footlights of the
Gaiety, and that the pale woman trem-
bling there weeping was a great sing-
er.
“1 guess he wants to hear you sing.”
She kneeled down by him; she
trembled so she .ouldn’t stand.
The others, the doctor and Ruggles,
the waiters and porters gathered in
the hall, heard. No one of them un-
derstood the Gaiety girl’s English
words.
"From Greenland’s loy mountains,
From India’s coral strands . . ."
They were merciful and let him
listen in peace. Through the blur in
his brain, over the beat of his young
ardent heart, above the short breaths
the notes reached his falling senses,
and lifted him—lifted him. There
wasn't a very long distance between
his boyhood and his twenty-two years
to go, and he was not so weak but
that he could travel so far.
He sat there by his father again—
and heard. The flies buzzed, and
he didn’t mind them. The smell of the
fields came in through the windows
and the Sodawater Fountain Girl sang
—and sang; and as she sang her face
grew holy to his eyes—radiant with
a beauty he had not dreamed a wom-
an's face could wear. Above the choir
rail she stood and sang peerlessly,
and the church bslgan to fade and
fade and still she stood there In a
Dan Blair and the Prince Took Their Positions, the Revolvers Raised Per-
pendicularly in Their Right Hands.
The expression of anguish on tne
young fellow’s face was so heart-
breaking that the doctor, his ear at
Dan’s lips, tried to learn what thing
his poor, fading mind longed for.
From the bed's foot, where he stood,
Dan’s chauffeur came to the gentle-
man’s side, and nodded:
"Right, sir, right, sir—I’ll fetch Miss
Lane- I’ll ’ave 'er 'ere, sir—keep up,
Mr. Blair"
He was going barefoot, a boy still
following the plow through the moun-
tain fields Miles and miles stretched
away before him of dark, loamy land.
He saw the plow tear up the waving
furrows, tossing the earth In sprink-
ling lines He heard the shrill note
of the phoebe bird, and looking heav-
enward saw It darting into the pale
sky
“What a dandy shot!” he thought,
"What a bully shot!"
Prince Ponlotowsky had made a
good shot
Ah. there was the smell of the hay-
fields—no—violets that sweetly laid
their petals on Ills lips and face. He
was back again in church, lying prone
before an altar If she would only
sing he would rise again—that he
knew—and her coral shoes would not
dance over his grave
He opened his eyes wide and looked
Into Letty Lane's She bent over him.
crying
"Sing,' he whispered
She didn’t understand
"Sodawater Fountain Girl—if you
shaft of light, and her face was like
an angel's, and she held her arms out
to him as the waters rose to his lips.
She bent and lifted him—lifted him
high upon the strands. . . .
CHAPTER XXXI.
In Reality.
Dan awoke from his dream, and sat
suddenly up In bed in his shirtsleeves,
and stared at the people in his room—
a hotel boy and two strangers, not un-
like the men in his dream. He
brushed his hand across his eyes
“Sit down, will you? Do you speak
English?”
They were foreigners, but they did
speak English, no doubt far more per-
fectly than did Dan Blair.
“Look here,” the boy said, “I don't
know what’s the matter with me—1
must have had a ripping jag on last
night—let me put my head in a basin
of water, will youT"
He dived into the dressing-room,
and came out in another second, his
blond head wet, wiping his face and
hair furiously with a towel. He hadn’t
beamed as he did now on these two
strange men—for weeks.
"Wen," he asked slowly, ”1 expect
you’ve come to ask me to fight with
Prince Ponlotowsky — yes? It's
against our principles, you know, in
the States—we don't do that way.
Personally, I’d throw anything at him
1 could lay my hands on, but 1 don’t
care to have him let daylight through
me, and I don’t care to kill your
friend. See? I’m an American—yes,
I know, I know,” he nodded sagely,
"hut we don’t have your kind of fights
out our way. It means business when
we go out to shoot.”
He threw the towel down on the
table, soaking wet as it was, put his
hands In the pockets of his evening
clothes, which he still wore, for he
had not undressed, threw his young,
blond bead back and frankly told bis
visitors:
“I’m not up on swords. I’ve seen
them In pictures and read about them,
but I’ll be darned If I’ve ever had one
in my hand.”
His expression changed at the quiet
response of Poniotowsky’s seconds.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
GOT TO THE CAUSE.
And Then All Symptoms of Kidney
Trouble Vanished.
C. J. Hammonds, 1115 E. First St,
Fort Scott, Kans., says: (‘I was operat-
ed on for stone in the kidney but not
cured and some time after, was feel-
ing so bad, I knew
there must be anoth.
| ( * er stone that would
have to be cut out. I
decided to try Doan’s
Kidney Pills and the
kidney action im-
proved right away.
Myi, Large quantities of
WE? sediment and stone
particles passed from
me and finally the stone itself, partly
dissolved, but still as big as a pea.
With it disappeared all symptoms of
dizziness, rheumatism and headache.
I have gained about 50 pounds since
and feel well and hearty.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Remember
the Name—DOAN’S.” 50c. all stones.
| Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
His Pose.
“Mrs. Hewligus, what is your hus-
band’s attitude on the woman suffrage
question?”
"One foot in the air, of course. He’s
one of the chronic kickers.”
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take tho Old Standard GROVE'S TA8TKLKS3
----- l’ONir ”
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Tho formula Is plainly printed on every battle,
thowtng It is simply (Jutnine and Iron In a tasteless
form, and the most effectual form, for gr^wu
people and children, 50 cenut.
Strike Breakers of Old.
Elijah was being fed by the ravens.
“I don’t care if the waiters do
strike,” he boasted.
lar
k id
iow what you are taki
Livkmg.
bottle,
Then and Now.
Prior to the last 15 years, by the
time people had attained their first
quarter of a century, they considered
themselves pretty much formed as to
physical and mental characteristics,
if they were ambitious and energetlo
hey perhaps carried on some kind
if exercise for their physical well-be-
ng, and guarded against mental de-
erioratlon as they advanced in years
y occasionally taking up new studies
ir reviewing old ones; as a dear old
idy of my acquaintance at the age of
"'ghty-nlne began to review her ai-
- :bra to keep her mind active.
Now everything is changed. We
annot settle down comfortably In the
: bought of anything in the regular
routine of life which we may not be
ailed upon to alter at a moment’s
otlce. Most of us have found that
ew of our established habits are
ight and that unless we are willing
o be left hopelessly behind our asso-
iates we must learn over again all
hat we acquired in Infancy, and that
>as since become a matter of auto-
matic action.—The Atlantic.
Arabia’s Laughing Plant.
The laughing plant is not a flower
i hat laughs, but one that creates
a lighter, if the printed accounts of
travelers can be believed, says an
English paper. It grows In Arabia
and is called the laughing plant be-
cause the seeds produce effects like
those caused by laughing gas The
flowers are of a bright yellow, and
the seed pods are soft and woolly,
while the seeds resemble small black
beans. Only two or three grow in a
pod. The natives dry and pulverize
them, and the powder, taken In small
doses, makes the soberest person be-
have like a circus clown or a madman,
for he will dance, sing and laugh
most boisterously and cut the most
fantastic capers and be in an uproar-
iously ridiculous condition for about
an hour. When the excitement ceases
the exhausted exhibitor of these an-
tics falls asleep, and when he awakens
he has not the slightest remembrance
of his frisky doings.
A Kansas Mystery Solved.
About five years ago Harry Cott-
man, a West Wichita grocer, missed a
kit of salt mackerel from the front of
his store and he never was able to
trace it. Some small boys “swiped”
that kit of mackerel and it is sup-
posed they ate it, and one of the boys,
now grown up to be a young man, has
recently paid for it.
The young man sent a bill to Mr.
Cottman with a note of explanation.—
Kansas City Journal.
Diet of the Teetotaler
*—
He Tells What He Ate and Drank
During Day of Golf and
Business.
"1 was Just recalling what I had
taken In the way of refreshment to-
day," said a teetotaller to his wife
when he came home to dinner on one
of the hottest days, "and It makes me
astonished that there nre not more
cases of upset stomachs
"You know I got up early and went
up to play golf Well, for breakfast
I had a lamb chop, cereal, coffee,
toast and a couple of bananas
"After I'd played the six ’hill’ holes
I had a drink of Ice water, and after
playing the fifteenth hole we repaired
lo the shanty of the flagman on the
railroad and had one of hts lemona-
des. which he makes for the thirsty
golfers and through which trade he
probably makes more than his wages
amount to
“After we’d finished 1 had a dish of
Ice cream and two large glasses of
excellent milk Then I took a show-
er bath, dressed and went down town,
tarrying for a pineapple Ice cream
soda and a glass oi Ice water
"For lunch at my usual downtown
restaurant I took a lettuce and toma-
to sandwich. Iced tea, a good sized
section of watermelon and a piece
of cocoanut pie. About fifteen minu-
tes after four o’clock I took an egg
chocolate at a soda fountain.
“And here I am, ready for dinner,
and not aware of any 111 effects from
the variety of foods and drinks I've
taken."
Goodness does not certainly make
men happy than happiness makes
them good.—Landor.
Which wins? Garfield Tea always wins
on ltsmerltsas thebest of herbcathartlcs.
There’s music in the squall of a
baby—to its mother.
WIFE’S HEALTH “
RESTORED
Husband Declared Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound Would Re-
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And It Did.
Ashland, Ky. — “Four years ago 1
seemed to have everything the matter'*
with me. I had fe-
male and kidneytrou-
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I could hardly rest
day or night I doc-
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best doctors in town
and took many kinds
of medicine but noth-
ing did any good un-
til I tried your won-
derful remedy, Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vege-
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Mrs. May Wyatt, Ashland, Ky.
There are probably hundreds of thou-
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who have been benefited by this famous
old remedy, which was produced from
roots and herbs over thirty years ago by
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Road What Another Woman says:
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If you want special advice write to
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