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"LET 'EM MAKE ME LOOK LIKE THAT!"
Everyone knows about the Legion Etrangere the
famous Foreign Legion of the French army. Well, Rich
ard Morgan of Syracuse, N. Y., enlisted in the Foreign
Legion in the great war under the name of Henry Hilliard.
So you can guess that the hero was not in love with him
self or with life. The Hun sent him to the hospital with
a wounded knee and arm and a face pretty much shot
away with shrapnel. The surgeons fixed up his knee and
his arm. When they proposed to restore his features, he
lied and said he had no photograph of himself. And in his
rage against life he caught up a picture postcard bearing
the radiant face of Christ and cried:
"Let 'em make me look like that! Or anything else,
either I don't give a d n!"
The French surgeons were interested and did a good
job. And presently "The Man Nobody Knew" is back in
Syracuse, telling of the death of Dick Morgan and selling
mining stock and falling deeper in love with Carol Durant,
the "only girl" of his old life who had refused to marry
Dick Morgan, the failure.
Complications! Well, rather especially when the
mining stock apparently turns out to be worthless and the
only man in the world who knows Hilliard's secret dies of
apoplexy and the hero finds out that the heroine did love
Dick Morgan. And Holworthy Hall handles these compli
cations and these real, human characters and this Ameri
can community in the masterly way that makes him read
from one end of the country to the other these days.
Good reading!
CHAPTER I.
In the beginning of things, ho was
.merely a' number; but even thnt was
creditable, because his number was
low enough to signify that ho had re
sponded pretty promptly to the rally
ing call. After that, and with tho
cataclysmic suddenness which marked
all changes of military status on the
western front, ho became, one frosty
morning, a Case, and "got himself
roughly classified (and tenderly han
dled) as a Stretcher Case, a Grand
Blesse, ami, In consequence, a proper
temporary Inmate of a field hospltnl
on the Belgian plains.
There, he was unofficially known as
Joyeaur, or Joyous One; not because
he displayed o very buoyant disposi
tion far from It I but because ko be
longed to the Foreign legion; and In
the course of another day or two ho
wus routine-ticketed as an Evacue,
and provided with a lukewarm hot
water bottle and a couple of evil
smelling clgnrettoAto console him on
the road to the base hospltnl at Neu
My. ,At Neullly he became, for the first
time since his enlistment, nn Individ
ual, and at the very outset he was dis
tinguished by certain qualities which
had passed unnoticed in the frying pan
and firo of the trenches. For ono
thing, he was obviously Immune to
kindness; and for another, he was ap
parently Immune to hope. He wns a
man of Inveterate silence; not the
grim silence of iortltude in suffering
(which Is altogether too common a vir
tue In base hospitals to earn any es
pecial merit), but rather tho dogged
reticence of black moods and chronic
bitterness. To bo sure, speech was
physically difficult to him, but other
men witli similar mlsfoitunes spoko
blessings with their eyes, and gavo
back gratitude In voiceless murmurs.
Not so tho Joyous One. From the day
of ills arrival he demanded nothing,
desired nothing, but to brood sullenly
aloof; and so, when ho became nn In
dividual, he also became a mystery to
the nursing staff. It was rumored that
ho was an Implacable woman hater,
and there seemed to be something in
It. '
Kegardless of the care of the Amer
ican nurses (all hoverlngly attentive
to one of their own nation who had
fought for France), his spirit remained
abysmal and clouded in gloom. Only
twice, in (ho Initial month of his con
finement, did he betray the weakness
of an ordinary emotion ; on each occa
sion a gold-laced general hnd come to
salute, in the name of the republic, ono
of tho Individual's neighbors, and to
deliver u bit of bronze which dangled
from n ribbon striped red and green.
It was said (and doubted by those who
hadn't Been It) that at these ceremo
nies tho Individual had grown fever
.lsh. and let tears come to his eyes, but
subsequently ho had relapsed Into
still greater depths of stoicism than
before; his own bed-Jacket was Inno
cent of cross or medal, and his depres
sion was apparent, and acute. Tho
nurses, arguing that perhaps his prldo
wus wounded as seriously at his flesh,
offered quick condolence and got them
selves rebuffed with shrugs of the In
dividual's shoulders, and Inarticulate
sounds which had all the earmarks of
suppressed profanity. He didn't even
soften when LMerre Dutout, a hard-hit
territorial in the next bed, squandered
a dny'a supply of energy to lean ncross
and whisper sympathetically to him:
"Old man . . Vleux especo dc chour
erouto ... I know bow It U . . .
" haven't got tiny friends either.
Inc.)
-I want you to take my Croix de
Guerre. . . . When I go nowhere."
Even when speech returned to the
Individual he was a man of curt re
sponses and stinging monosyllables
a problem to the surgeons, a problem
to the nurses and (if tho expression in
lite eyes meant anything), an over
whelming problem to himself. It ap
peared that, after all, It wasn't simply
women that ho hated It was the uni
verse. His military book Implied that ho
had no parents, no close relations, no
friends to notify, no fixed abode. He
received no visitors, no letters, no
packages freighted with mngical de
light. But to those who pitied him In
all his loneliness ho was utterly con
temptuous; he even went so far ns to
fillip sidelong to tho floor a religious
post card tendered him by a devout
and sentimental passer-by, and ho did
it In her presence, unashamed. Later,
when a smiling orderly picked up thnt
post card and tucked It under his pil
low he wns no less contemptuous In
permitting It to remain. But the one
stupendous fact which, more than all
else combined, made him an object of
bewildered curiosity was this that of
tho scores and scores of men with
head-wounds who were, reborn at Neu
llly that spring and summer, ho wns
tho only one who had never asked for
a mirror.
This, of Itself, wouldn't have been
astonishing as long ns ho delayed In.
thorellmtnary stages of recovery, for
now and then u man with head-wounds
proves to be super-sensitive; but in
tho second stuge it was remarkable,
and In the third stage It was unique.
Tho stuff held It to bo extraordinary
from a social as well as from a path
ologic viewpoint, that n man so ter
ribly disfigured .should have no Inter
estnot even a morbid interest In
his own appearance. And It wasn't
that tho Individual was simply indif
ferent to the mirror; on tho contrary,
his aversion to it was native and ener
getic; ho flinched, and motioned it
frantically away as though the mero
conception of seeing himself as others
saw him was too repellant. and too
unthinkable to endure.
There came a day In April when a
photograph was requested of him.
Surely ho know where there was a
likeness of himself, didn't he? Ills
old passport photograph, which had
mysteriously disappeared, or
The Individual glanced up from his
present task; the wound In his arm
wns still annoying and lie was ab
sorbed in learning to write wllh his
left hand.
"What for?" he muttered.
"Why," said the nurse, cheerfully,
"for a model. To help tho surgeons.
They'll tnke your picture for a guide
and mnkc you look almost exactly the
way you did before."
The Individual from America sat up
straight, so that the nurse was startled
by his animation, which was without
a parallel in his local history.
"What!" he said.
"Certainly!" The nurse spoko la
tho tone one uses to an ailfog child.
"You've known that, hnven't you 7"
The Individual's voice wns queerly
unmanageable and strained. "You
mean to say they're going to make mo
look tho way . . . Could they do that?
Could they? Even now?"
"Why, of course," alio assured hlra.
"You never told me that!" ho said,
passionately. "Why didn't you? Why
couldn't you have told me! And hero
I've been . . ." ' Ho put his hands to
his bandaged face and seemed to
trbrtalc within himself, Tben all at race
By HOLWORTHY HALL
ho burst out: "Well, there's nothing
to provent . . . Then they could mpko
mo not look like It, If they wanted tol
Isn't that so?"
She regarded him In vast perplexity,
and thought of summoning a surgeon,
for the man hnd begun to quiver ns
though from shell shock which ho
hadn't undergone.
"Why, I don't understand whnt you
menn," she said soothingly. "But If
you'll Just bo calm and"
The Individual gestured wllh fierce
impatience.
"It they can do whnt you say,' and
make me look like any old thing they
choose to, then whnt In the devil nre
they asking for a photograph for?"
"Why, to go by," sho said helplessly.
"You want to look like your old self,
don't you?"
"No, I don't!"
The nurse gasped. His tone had been
churlish, but tho echo of It vngncly
suggested triumph mid relief. Ills
symptoms hnd subsided . . . could
It bo that ho actually was relloved?
DumfQiiuded, sho. made nnothcr effort
to convince him.
"But you want to look just as near
ly' like"
"Don't you suppose I know what I
want?" ho Interrupted rudely.
"But hnven't you n photograph, any
way, time I can "
"No, I haven't!" ho snapped. "1
hnven't." It was a lie; the passport
photograph was In tho lining of n cer
tain wallet, and ho hnd hid It there
for reasons of his own. But now that
one grent danger was definitely past,
nnd n still further bulwark of protec
tion offered, if the nurse spoke truth,
the Indlvldunl could afford to come
out from nmbush. "And I don't want
to look the wny I did before, and
what's more I never did ! But If your
doctors nro half as smart as they
think they nro let 'cm make md look
like that! Or anything else either
I don't give a d n I"
Shocked nnd horrified, sho was gaz
ing nt' a picture postcard he had
snatched from under his pillow und
thrust upon her.j It was a reproduc
tion of a religious painting by Rem
brandt. It was the radiant face of the
Christ.
CHAPTER II.
Nine o'clock on a night In June not
i Juno evening, heavy-starred on vel
vet, but a furious June night, with
Stygian blnckness looping overhead,
and Stygian water battering nnd boil
ing against tho hull plates. The ship
wns dark as the night Itself; blind
dark, without n single ray to play the
traitor. On deck n solltnry venturer
hugged tho rail, and apathetically
watched the waves tenr past.
Out of tho warmth, nnd cheer and
tho vitiated atmosphere of the smok
ing oom came Martin Hnrmon, big,
florid, exuberant. A heaving lift of
tho deck sent him lurching sldowlsc;
ho saVed his balance by struggling
"Let Them Make Me Look Like That."
toward tho rail, when suddenly tho
slope was reversed, and he slipped
nnd slid to the barrier of safety,
clutched It, nnd found himself at arm's
length from the lonely watcher, who
hadn't stirred, or even turned jMs
head.
"ncllo!" said Harmon, his surprise
tinctured with easy fnmlllarltv. "Some
night l"
"Yes, It Is." The tone of the re
sponse was curt, so curt thnt Harmon
instinctively leaned forward to dis
cover what expression of countcnanco
went with It. The nlitht was so black
that he might as- woll have tried to
penetrate a curtain of solid fabric,
"Seen any U-boats yot?" ho asked
humorously.
"Ndt yet." The taciturn one moved
a trifle nway; a man less thin-skinned
nnd less dined and wined than Hnr
mon would probnbly hnvo taken the
hint nnd removed himself, but Har
mon's was nn Inqulsltlvo disposition
and hn nover nttempted to curb It
he was the sort of traveling compan
ies -wh" makes Christians reflect up
m it i
ml
on the definition of justifiable homi
cide. "What Is your line?" ho Inquired
nftcr n pause.
The other man laughed queerly.
"The first ... It it makes so
much difference to you."
"Beg pardon7 I don't quite get you.
You said . . ."
"I said tho first line. I meant the
first-line trenches. I've been In It."
Hnrmon Jerked his head upward In
comprehension.
"Oh, I sco I You mean tho war!
And you've been right on the spot
where tho fighting Is? Pretty lively
up there, Isn't It? Something stirring
most nil tho time?"
"I Imagine so." Tho other man's
nccent wns ntiinzlnply diffident, nnd
Hnrmon peered nt him, Incredulous.
"Good Lord, don't you know?"
"Not n great deal. I happened to
get hit tho first day I was In tho
trenches."
"But you got in it ngnln nfterwnrd,
I suppose? I'll bet you did!"
"No."
"What! You nover got back nt nil?
Just ono dny, and you'ro through?"
"Yes. After I wns discharged from
hospltnl I wns discharged from the
army too. Permanently unfit."
"Hngllsh tinny?"
"No French."
"Well, .that's some record!" said
Harmon appreciatively. "That cor
tnlnly Is some record! Not to sny
tough luck the toughest kind. Going
back homo, I take It?" .
"Looks thnt wny, doesn't It?"
Hnrmon Ignored the snrensm,
"Back to work, eh? Whnt did you
say your lino Is?"
"I didn't say. I hnven't any Just
now."
narmon pondered n second.
"Oh! Gentlcmnn of lelsuro? Sol
dier of fortune, eh? Well, I wouldn't
worry If I were you. You're disap
pointed ; Unit's nnturnl . . . hut the
world hnsivt come to an end yet. OT
course It Is something of a come-down
to leave the nnny and get Into hnrness
ngnln, but nfter nil there's plenty of
excitement right in tho United States.
Big work to be done, son I Big money
to mnke. And It helps the war nlout;.
too. I tell you there never wns n big
ger opportunity to make money than
there Is right this minute. Tho hnrd
job Isn't to find tho scheme; It's to find
the men to run It. Don't you worry
. . . you'll land something right off
tho bntl"
"Thnnks for the compliment!"
"Oh, It's no compliment 1 Anybody
can mnke money these days. It's a
plnln stntcment of fact . . . Sny,
let's go In nnd have something. Como
In nnd bo sociable. Whnt you want's
n drink. Am I right or nm I wrong?"
"Well"
"And thnt's what the doctor or
dered! Come on! It's on me."
The other man hesitated, nnd nt
Inst succumbed, out of sheer uncon
cern, to n companionship ho realized
tn advance would be distasteful.
"All right," he consented briefly;
nnd together, nrm In nrm. they stum
bled nnd tacked ncross tho treacherous
dock, nnd presently crossed tho thresh
old into the hazy light of tho smoking
room. Hnrmon, smiling broadly, wiped
tho brine from his smarting oyes. ,
"Now, then," he said, "what particu
lar brand of poison do you " And
broke off short nnd stared, fascinated,
nt the extraordinary young mnii In
front of him.
He was anywhere from twenty-five
to forty, this American from the dis
tant trenches, nnd his ago wns as hard
to guess ns n clever woman's; there
wns something about him peculiar to
youth, and yet when his face was In
repose, ho might easily have claimed
two scoro of years nnd gono undis
puted. It wns n faco which suggested
both the fire of Immaturity and tho
drain of experience; there wns breath
taking grnvlty about It, a hint of tho
dignity of nimble, of ageloss permn
nonce. It was a slightly thin fare,
senrred by n heavy line or two, and
Indelibly stamped with tho evidence
of Intense thought and Inward suffer
ing; but It Incked the hollows which,
at tho first glance, should hnvo sup
ported the evidence. It was a thin and
oval faco, with a moutli of hug" and
sympathetic sweetness, a forehead
white nnd high, n prominent, delicate
nose, and Irises of clear, luminous
gray. It wasn't altogether nn Anglo
Saxon typo of countenance, nor was
it definitely European; It seemed
rather to huve taken nil tho better
qualities from severol races. It wns
u faco to Inspire immediate trust and
confidence and respect, and llnrmoti,
despite his luck of prnctlce In nil three
of these reactions, wns evidently at
tracted by it.
"Vichy-CeleBtlns for me," snld tho
old-young man Indifferently.
"I'll ... I guess I'll have vlchy
too," suid Ilnrmoi, relaxing. "If It
wnsn't for something I enn't Just de
scribe I'd suy . . . woll, never
mind, Er . , , what business have
you been In,( by tho wny?"
Tho younger man's reply was tardy
and not particularly gracious.
"Why, tho longest time I over put
In nt any ono business was selling In
surance. The Inst thing I did was to
sell bonds. Why?"
Harmon itliTcned. "A salesman t
Good Lord! Thnt's the hist thing In
the world I'd havo . . . but, say!
You must hnvo been a whirlwind!
Why, a man with n presence like yours
would hnrdly hnvo to open his moutli I
You've got n sort of . . . I'll bo
hanged if I know whnt to call It . . .
but u kind of feeling. If you know
what I menn. Salesman! Why, all
you need Is nn Introduction and a dot
ted lino!'1,
Tho young man lailghed rather for
lornly nnd sipped lite vlchy.
"Just nt present I haven't cither."
Harmon's gnzo wus unfaltering, and
his Interest nnd admiration bounded
higher. Mechanically, In accordance
with his hnblts, ho 'wns striving to dis
cover Iipw this now ncqualntnuco
might ho gt to practical use. "Was
"Meanlno What7"
I right, or was I wrong? Playing In
hard luck don't strengthen a man's
courngo much, even If ho tries to bluff
himself Into thinking It docs. Cut out
tho regret stuff; that's my ndvlce, nnd
you can tnko It or lenvo It. Forget
all that tough luck you had over here,
and got busy figuring out how you'ro
going to cash In on nil your experi
ence. America's full of chances
you'll hind something big in no time.
Can't help It If you try. Salesman!
Son, you'ro carrying your best recom
mendation right on top of your own
shoulders I" .
Tho young man gave him back a wry
smile nnd finished his vlchy.
"I only hopo It comes true," ho said,
Harmon looked at him steadily,' and
falling under tho spell of those radlaut
feuturcs stared and stared until ho
came to himself nnd all nt ouco
brought his fist down on the table, so
that tho glasses rang again.
"Woll, why shouldn't it? As n mut
ter of fact, why shouldn't It?"
The younger man's expression hadn't
chnngec. "Meaning whnt?"
"Meaning," snld Hnrmon deliberate
ly, "that tho first thing I've got to do
when I get home Is to hunt up a cotiplo
of good salesmen myself. Aro you
hunting for n good Job, or aren't you?"
"Aren't you n llttlo hasty?" Tho
young man's Intonation wus sardonic,
"I've cleaned up most of my money,"
sold Hnrmon very slowly to the cell
ing, "by rtnklng quick decisions. I
mnko up my mind pretty fast. If you
can Interest mo on short notice you
can Interest other people. Mind you,
we're Just discussing this sort of
thinking out loud. No obligation on
cither side. Doesn't do any lulnn to
talk about it, docs It?"
"Then supposo," said tho young man
placidly, "yon define your Idea of a
good Job. I'm rather purtlculur."
"But you ndmlt you're out of luck,
hnd"
"But you ndmlt I'm n whirlwind."
Tho young man smiled with fnlnt
amusement.
"I said you ought to bo with train
ing." Tho young man's mouth turned up
ward at tho corners.
"Go ahead and describe the Job."
"Weil, my Idea of n pretty sweet Job
for a man of your ngo Is to start, of
course about twenty a week and
commissions."
"Yes? What per cent commission?"
"Oh, eight to ton per cent"
Tho young man glanced at Harmon
and lnughcd quietly. n
"You're n bicker, of course, but thnt
doesn't sound much like conscrvatlvo
investment securities to mo. Whnt
Is It Industries?"
Hanuon grlmuced.
"Yes, I'm n broker." ne set down
his glass nnd fumbled for a card.
"There! But I was thinking more
about stocks than bonds. Somo now
Montnnn properties copper and zinc.
Metals aro tho big notee theso days.
I guess you reallzo thnt, don't you?
Munition work."
"I'll show 'em whether
I can make good or not!"
(TO DB CONTINUED
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Furred Tongue, Bad Tnsto, Indiges
tion, Sallow Skin, and Miserable Head
nches como from n torpid liver nnd
Blugglsh bowels, which cause tho ntom
nch to becomo filled with undigested
food, which sours nnd ferments, form
ing acids, gases, and poisons. Cns
enrcta tonight will give your bilious
liver nnd constlpntcd bowels a thorough
cleansing nnd straighten you out by
morning. Cascarets nover sicken or In
convenience you llko nnsty Cnloinel,
Snlts, Oil, or griping Pills. They
work whllo you sleep. Adv.
Father' Amendment
"And what do yotj propose to do
now, Wllllnm?" asked tho fntlier of
tho son who has Just como homo after
graduation nt college.
"Oh," yawned tho optimistic young
man, "I think I'll go over to Now York
nnd look for n position at five thou
sand per you understand? At fivo
thousand per."
"Oh, yes," said the old man. "I un
derstand. You menn nt five thousand
perhnps." Pathfinder.
County-M hl0' Clt ot ToIodo Lucns
n J'. chon.8y, makes oath that ho la
senior partner of tho tlrm of P. J. Chonoy
& Co., dolnp business tn tho City ot To
low' nCou,llyad Stuto aforesaid, ami Unit
nnimnni !' FtiS V' BUm of ONK 1IUN
hked DOLLAIlS for any caso of Catarrh
mat cannot ho cured by tlio inn of
HALL'S CATAmtll MKDfCINK.
Sworn to borons mo nnd subscribed tn
royjroaonco, this 6th day of December,
A, ljt 1550.
JvI'Lui aiiJion, Notary Public.
HALL'S CATAItlUI MEDICINE Is Ink.
on tho Muooub BurfacoH ot tho System.
1 r.J,TCIJf.noy &PX Toledo, Ohio.
P. J. Chonoy & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Now What Did She Mean?
A busy business woman had en
gaged outside liolp to wash and clean
up house. As they entered the kitchen,
on nrrivnl of the help, who hnd been
recommended ns a Jowol, the mlMrcss
said :
"This kitchen's in an awful state,
Mary. I"
"Never mind, mlssoy; I'so used to
white folks." Ladles' Home Journal.
Don't Fernet Cutlcura Talcum
When nddlng to your toilet requisites
An exquisitely scented fnee, skin, bnby
nnd dusting powder and perfume, ren
dering other perfumes superfluous.
You mny roly on It hecauso ono of the
Cutlcurh Trio (Soap, Ointment nnd
Talcum). 25c etiqh overywhere. Adv.
Too ninny men wult until they hnve
been done to n turn before turning
over n now leaf.
Quack doctors nropnticnt workers.
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