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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA 'CITY, NEBRASKA. y.-....-n ,-. rT ASPIRIN The Man Nobody Knew Name "Bayer" on Genuine tim By HOLVORTHY HALL Mend A Co., Inc.) II jjj (CopyrlRlit hy Dodd. r a. ! X "g- 38 "HAVE I A CHANCE?'' Synopsis. Dick Morgan of Syra cuse, N. Y,, a failure In life, enlist ed In the Foreign Legion of the French army under the namo of Henry Milliard, Is disfigured by shrapnel. The French surgeons ask for a photograph to guldo them In restoring his face. In his rago against life ho offers In derision a plcturo postcard bearing the radi ant face of Christ. Tho surgeons do a good Job. On his way back to America ho meets Martin Harmon, a New York broker. The result la that Morgan under tho namo of Hilllard, goo back to Syracuse to sell a mining stock. Ho Is deter mined to make good. He tells people of the death of Morgan. He finds In Angela Cullon a loyal do fender of DloX Morgan. He meets Carol Durant, who had refused to marry him. Sho does not hesitate to tell him that she had loved Mor gan. Hilllard finds ho still loves her and Is tempted to confess. Hil llard tempts. Cullen. his former em ployer, with his mining scheme. He discovers a rival for Carol's love In a nice young fellow named Armstrong. & ifi CHAPTER VIII. 9 For thirty days Hilllard had listened to the eulogies of his secret self. He had heard from a hundred sources the same belief repeated, that Dicky Mor gan, given tlmo and counsel, would have made the city as proud of him for his Intrinsic worth as It now was proud of him for his rallltury valor. Tills praise of Dicky Morgan had at first stunned Hilllard; after that, It had exalted him; still later, It had abased his soul. He had longed, ceaselessly, during that third period of his introspection, to take the elty to his heart, to reveal himself, to an swer for Dicky Morgan's failures and to pledge himself anew to the achieve ment which Dicky Morgan's friends had prophesied; and then he had been overwhelmed by the recollection that he had made this course impossible. If he had only known that all his de ceptions were needless.! If he had only known that Dicky Morgan could have come home, and been forgiven! What anguish ho could have saved and what repentance! And the prob lem was f.tlll the same should he continue, safe In his masquerade, to the goal he had set for himself, or hould he risk the worst, and salvo his conscience by renunciation? By far the most distressing factor In this puzzle was his relationship to Car- Jl Durant. He had seen her only half a dozen times during the month, and never alone the fates or Armstrong had circumvented him but ho was head over heels In love with licr again, and he sensed, from fugitive glances and a stray word or two on her part, that she wasn't entirely averse to him. But what would Carol think if she knew that this grave and tender stranger was hiding behind the wraith of Dicky Morgan it was a thousand times the worse 1 If she were ever truly In love with Henry Hilllard, It was Impossible! And then there was llttio Angela Cullen And in addition, there was the seri ous business of making good; he wns no longer impelled to it by resentment, but rather by unadulterated ambition ; this, too, ho would see destroyed by nny admission of his deceit. To con tinue in tho game was to lose his prob ity; to relinquish It was to lose all. else; and even now, his joy and pride was contained In precisely those things which he must give up, If ho decided to tear off the mask of hypocrisy; and his self-respect was rising out of the mud of what he never should have done at nil. "When he thought of his worldly am bitions, he was profoundly regretful that ho had talked professionally .with Mr, Cullen. To bo sure, the matter had come up casually and naturally, and the opening had seemed too good to be missed; at the same time, Hil llard couldn't help reflecting that It had been premature. It might prove, eventually, to have been just tho prop er course to produce results; It might be that Cullen would become so impa tient that he couldn't be restrained, and would leap without looking, and leap further than ho intended, and yet, ever since that preliminary Interview, Billiard had known that he had made 'a breach in his own fortresses; that he had rendered it possible for an in formal (and logical enough) Investi gation to begin, or for mild suspicion to arise and gain momentum before he had devised the means of combating It And although Hilllard believed Implicitly In tho goods he had to sell, he knew the dlfllculty of the market; he knew how timorous Is the average Investor: and he knew that there mlgl't very easily come a time at which his harangue would be remembered, and remembered adversely. In this connection ho was Irrltnt ed by the tone of Harmon's letters to Aim from New York. Harmon was en thusiastic, and confident; he was re lying sturdily on Hilllard to break through tho ncuraen of the up-state capitalist; but he thought that Hil llard was making haste trn slowly; ho opined that all Hilllard needed to do "was to devote himself to a hard on slaught against Mr. Cullen, and, after that, to gather subscribers whero ho chose. He said that Hilllard was wasting time, and ought to begin to collect signatures. Hllllnra had men tioned, In n moment of Indiscretion, the nsslstanco which Angela had un consciously given him, and Harmon had appraised It highly; but it angered lilm, when he saw this referonco writ ten down In Harmon's letter, to have her name brought Into the Instructions, even by implication. Still . . . had he not Invited this upon himself? It was in a dizzying quandary, then, that Hilllard kept his next appoint ment at the Durants'. The problem, had grown so many branches, sent forth so many tentacles of bewilder ing confusion, that he hardly knew what to say, where to turn. Ills one consolation was that the miracle which had been performed upon him had given him a mask of Impenetrable calm. At least, ho didn't have to wear his forebodings on his countenance. And yet, almost the first words Car ol said to him were: "Something's troubling you. Mr. Hilllard." Ho was momentarily demoralized, and came near showing it tried to pass it off with a laugh. "Did I mako it as plain as all that?" "No," she said, "it wasn't plain at all." His laugh was remarkably hollow, but he persisted in it "Why, how did you think of it then?" "Just from your eyes," sho told htm. "What's the matter? Anything I could help straighten out for you? Or couldn't I listen? That helps a lot, sometimes " She dropped her eyes, nnd the color deepened In her cheeks. "Isn't there anything I can do?" sho said. "Or that father could? You frighten mo. . . ." "I'm sorry. . , . No, please don't think of it. I ought to bo shot If I've made you unhappy." The bitterness in his voice wns acute; and by paradox, it was caused mainly by her sweet concern for hlra, nnd his realization of how little he deserved it "You always seem to bo pushing the world away from you," she said, af ter a pause. "Why do you, Mr. Hil llard?" "I didn't know that I do," ho said dispiritedly. "And it would be a queer thing for me to do deliberately, when I want your friendship more than anything else I can possibly im agine wouldn't It?" "But a woman," said Carol slowly, "almost always has to be a confidante before she becomes a friend. . . ." They sat without stirring while the clock ticked off a dozen seconds. Hil llard, scarcely knowing what he did nnd, if he knew, indifferent had put both hands to his forehead, as though to calm tho vicious throbbing within. Presently, nnd so quietly that he never .heard her, Cnrol was gone sho hnd slipped across the room, to the piano. . . . A breath of music, light, dreamy, caressing. . . . And there, on the sofa where Dicky Morgan had sat, and smoked, and taken his happiness with the utmost nonchalance, sat Hilllard, In tensest "Something's Troubling You." desperation of soul, strained to the tenuous melody which floated across to him, an echo of youth nnd gladness which mocked him, derided him, In dicted him ... a translation of the unutterable sadness which welled up In his throat and choked him. . . . She wns playing the "Ltebe straum." His shoulders went up convulsive ly, and he was chilled to the heart Llebestraum! It was a taunt, a sav age cynicism, a challenge to his In ward self. Tho waves of It battered his unresisting conscience; the pierc ing tenderness of It damned him, while it awoke his dormant passion, and set his will to vibrating. Llebe straum and the dream of tils love was n phantasm which his brain reel ed to contemplate I The lump In his throat came near to strangling him. It seemed to HlUinnl that hours must have elapsed before ho had tho strength to rise, and cross the room. His bruin wns buffeted by wildly giddy passions; he was only partly aware that Carol, trying to rise from the bench, wns wide-eyed and Intuitive ap prehension. Volition hnd gone from him; he wns acting without reserve, without premeditation. "Toll mel" he snid thickly. "Have I got n chance? One in a hundred? One In n thousand? But a chnnce?" "Oh I . . . Mr. Hilllard 1" Her plea wns to his chivalry, and had to be. "Tell me . . . would I havo . . . If I should' shuro everything you " One hand was pressed closo to her breast; the other was outstretched, de fensive. 'Don't! Don't! Don't spoil whnt was " "You'll hnve to answer me. ... I can't wait any longer. I'm not worth your little finger and I know it. . . . but I want a chance . . Just n fight ing chance .... you've got to an swer me, Carol . . ." She wns trembling within reach ol him, but It never occurred to him to touch her, nnd If it hnd, ho would have refrained, out of sheer conscious ness of his lack of right. His face, working tragically, awed her. "Yes," she said, hardly above a whisper. "There's . . . ono chnnco In a thousand. There's . . . that much, anyway." Ills arms went out to her stayed dropped. He stepped backward, out of the dnngcr zone. "Then I'll tnke It," he said. She had given him a chance, on an implied condition which ho could never meet She had given him a chnnce and whnt in thenamo of heaven could he do with It? CHAPTER IX. From the marbled dignity of the Trust and Deposit company, whero he had bought a New York draft for fif teen thousand dollars, and smaller ones for ten and seven, Hilllard emerged presently to South Warren street, and stood there on tho sidewalk for a moment, numbed by tho first galvanizing consciousness of success. He had come back resolved to win, In his second trial, the position he had failed to approximate In his first; he had set himself a commercial stand ard, and, gauged by itN ho was advanc ing rapidly, for today's trio of sub scriptions, added to Mr. Cullen's check of yesterday (and Mr. Cullen "had acted as though ho had gained a per sonal victory In persuading Hilllard to accept It), made up a glittering total, a stupendous total; and already Hit Hard's eamed commissions formed a sum to gloat about Despised as a salesman, he had sold to four impar tial bustness men the commodity hard est In all the world to BelJ, Scorned for his behavior, ho had made his sales on tho bnsls of n character which hadn't been questioned slnco the day of his arrival. His mind and his muscles demanded action; to relieve the pressure of his spirits, ho set off vigorously, swinging exultant On impulse, he crossed tho street for tho purpose of patronizing a flor ist's, where, ignoring tho conventional measuro of the even dozen, ho ordered n prodlgnl armful of American Beau ties for Carol Durant. This done, nnd feeling very rich nnd Independent, ho rounded the rlghthnnd corner;-and got himself greeted by two citizens of standing nnd Importance who, In hail ing him, displayed a deference not ordinarily granted to the average resi dent of nilllard's nge Would Hilllard condescend to speak at the next meet ing nnd dinner of tho Chamber of Commerce on Franco In wartime? Hil llard would. And this indication of his now-won status fired him afresh. Logically enough, his swirling thoughts followed n well-worn trail which led him straight to Carol; and for the thousandth time ho tried to set a future dateT depending on tho outcome of his mission hero, at which he could confess, and ask forgiveness for his mummery, nnd simultaneously ask credit for his regeneration. At this Juncture, he wns nwaro that some one had arrested him. It was Angela's youthful suitor. "Oh hello, Waring I" said Hilllard cheerfully. "How'b crime?" The student of law flushed at tho lively salutation, which appealed to him ns a reflection upon tho majesty of the bar. Also, his sense of humor wns temporarily atrophied. "We don't handle criminal caseH," ho responded shortly. "Say, when can you nnd I have a conference together, Mr. Hilllard?" "Why, the sooner tho quicker," laughed nilllnrd. "What's It about?" Waring coughed. "Business." The time to talk about business Is all tho time-Isn't it?" Waring hesitated and finally stepped into the shelter of a doorway, drawing Hilllard with him. - "I don't suppose it'll seem 'Ike a very important thing to you," he said, I rather awkwardly, "but It's Important enough to mo, Mr. Hilllard, to bo worth taking time over to be perfect ly frank with you, I've got live hun dred dollars I want to put in some high-class, gilt-edged speculation. Mr. Cullen gave ne some pointers, und now I'm Interested In your copper mine. Only and tills Is whero the hitch comes In I've sort of got Into the swing of tho law, you know, and that makes mon well, whnt you might call judgmatical. You get so you want to look nt everything from nit four sides. And I thought mnybo because of the tho attending circumstances you'd be kind enough to explain tho whole thing to me. Would you?" Ullllnrd. who didn't know whether to he touched or amused, compromised by nodding gravely. "There's ono thing I'll havo to tell you. though," he said; "I don't advise nny one to gamble In copper mines, or anything else, Waring, unless that person could actually afford to lose his whole Investment, and not be hurt "You Don't Mean to Say It Isn't a Sure Thlngl" And In this particular case, since I happen to control the situation, I won't permit It Docs that hit you, or doesn't It?" The young man's mouth opened In amazement Ho had been priming himself to bo a clever Investlgntor, and to pick yawning flaws In nilllard's un derwriting, nnd here his thunder was stolen beforo he had had a chance to stake the aegis of his clovernoss. "Why It Isn't a gamble, Is it? I understood Mr. Cullen said " "It's safer to figure It ns a gamble, Waring. It's safe to figure all these tilings that way. Of course, wo think It's a wonderful prospect, nnd a prac tically positive success, but I don't mind telling you that so far I haven't allowed a man who wouldn't afford to lose his whole subscription and didn't undorstanu very clearly that ho might to come In for so much as a plugged nickel. And that would apply to you, too." Tho law studont gasped, incredu lous. "You don't mean to say it Isn't n sure thing?" "Is nny speculation? You see I'm not working very hnrd to tnke your five hundred awny from you, Wnrlug." Tho boy scowled. "I suppose It's really too smnll for you to bother with. Is that what you'ro driving at?" Hilllard smiled cordially. "It Is, and It Isn't. From nny ono I didn't know, I'd rather not touch It It Isn't a good plan, ordinarily, to havo a lot of small stockholders. But from you and If It Isn't more than you ought to risk" , Waring snatched nt tho straw. "Well, seeing you're who you are, nnd I'm who I am, would you be will ing to glvo me Just as much informa tion as you would if I had twenty times ns much to put In?" "Come up to tho room," said Hil llard impulsively; and ho was actuat ed solely by the obligation ho felt to ward jill of Mr. Cullen's friends. "You come along up to the room, and I'll show you everything I've got Will that do?" At tho last words tho amateur do tectlve had brightened. "I can't come now very well. But maybe I could run up this evening, If that's all right for you." "That'll be Just us good. Bight o'clock? Fine." Ho held out his hand. Waring took It limply. ."I'm afraid I'm causing you a lot of bother," ho said, "but it's a pretty big thing for me. ... I hope you don't think It's anything personal ... I mean my not Just taking It for grant ed" "Not at all. Business Is business. I'll expect you at eight, then." Hil llard nodded good-hurnoredly nnd wont on north. A quaint Intuition overcame aim, nnd ha, glanced back over his shoulder. Fifty yards away tho law student was also glancing over his shoulder, and Waring, having lesa of self-possession than the adventurer, blushed nnd Jerked his head to tho front; Hilllard chuckled and contin ued his stroll. Ho entered the Hotel Onondaga from the east nnd bonded across to wartl the news-stand. Out of n red nnd gold chair in the spacious lobby a gentleman rose to meet hlin n gen tleman who In nppenrnnco wns a very fair repUcK of the well-known Get-Itlch-Qulck Wnlllngford, except that ho was somewhat more refined and less obese. Ills animation was ob vious, but lie delayed to remove both his gray suede gloves beforo ho offered to shako hands with Hilllard. "Weill" said Martin Hnrmon. ef fusively, "you'ro looking grentl Must ugreo with you up here, what? Didn't expect me, did you?" "No!" nilllard's expression wns n study; ho had dealt so long with Hnr mon nt n distance that he had almost forgotten whnt tho broker looked like. "Why didn't you wire mo you were coming?" "Didn't know It myself until pretty near train-time spur of tho moment. Well, got any business yet?" Involuntarily, Hllllnrd smiled, nnd tho smile spread wonderfully, until Harmon caught tho contnglon of It nnd benrned more royally than ever. "The man you called tho 'decoy duck' re member when you wroto that to me? well, ho quacked yesterday." Harmon put his hand on Hllllard's shoulder; It was an accolade. "Really? How much?" "Thirty." For tho lifo of him Hil llard couldn't resist a slight forward thrust of his chest Mr. Harmon's eyes glazed for an in stant "Good good I That's clover work, son! Cloyer nnd quick. But I know you'd do It. Thirty! That's fine I Anybody else?" Hilllard laughed exultantly. "Yes, three more a to,tal of sixty- two. I mnllcd you n draft yesterday morning; the others nro In my pocket now. I've Just como from tho bank." "Great work, sonl" Mr. Harmon breathed rnpturously. "That puts us pretty nearly where wo belong. Sixty two thousand 1 It's a running start for the big race I You certainly didn't get left at tho post, Hilllard I Deducted your commissions yet?" "No; I thought you'd rather do the bookkeeping In your own office and send me a check." Harmon's approval was manifest "You bIiow mo tho drafts and I'll wrlto you a check tills minute. Lot' go sit down In tho grill, nnd hnve something. This is fine work, now I wnnt to tell youl" "I rather thought so myself." Hil llard had led the way to the grill nnd commandeered a side-table. "In fact" ne lowered his vplce. "In fact, ,as things hnvo worked out, Mr. Harmon, I almost wish I hadn't tried to play It Just this way. I mean" But Harmon had already grasped the point. "Oho I Is that so? You must have made a hit. And all your old friends you were so het up ubout weren't they as peevish at you as you thought?" "No." Hilllard grow warm. "I'd glvo a good deal," ho snld soberly, "if I hadn't tangled ruyBelf up in all that Imitation history. Well, I'm In for It now. I've published so much that I didn't need to I'm wondering how 'In thunder I can over get out of it when tho tlmo comes. That was tho Idoa, you remember coalB of fire. What's bothering mo Is thnt there's nobody to tend tho furnace." "But I thought you were so anxious to keep in tho Bhndo?" "Yes, but I didn't need to crawl in a hole, and pull It In nfter mo! Well, wo'll wait and sec. After I've gono a llttio further nnd of course, you know I've hardly scratched tho surfaco yot " . "I know you haven't." Tho big man tucked his gloves Into his breast pock et nnd brought out a sliver cigarette case. "Havo ono?" "A piece of d d worth less property." " (TO HE CONTINUKD.) Pott Office Nerves. According to the testimony of Boms, hospital authorities, "post office nerves" nro duo partly to tho frequent changes from day to night duty, vith conse quent irregularities of meals and sleep, partly to tho changes of work whereby tho some clerk may bo utandlng all duy for another, with diverse occupations, each needing special knowledge. Hence, In tho opinion of some medicut men, mechanical routlno Is less wear ing than frequent change. Is It soj Educate Hotel Employees. Arithmetic, bookkeeping, geography, hotel legislation, commercial corre spondence, stenography, typewriting, Ironing, cooking, linen mending, sew ing nnd wushlng aro somo of the sub jects taken at the school for womea hotel employees in Besancon, Franc, which Is releasing each Week 10 wont en ready to fill positions In betels ranging from cashier t chatalwJTal. "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" is genu ine Aspirin proved snfo by millions mul prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Acc6pt only an unbroken "Bayer pnekago" which contnlns proper directions to rollovo Headache, Tooth ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Ilhcumatlsm, Colds nnd rain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Druggists nlso sell lnrgor "Bayer packages." Aspirin Is trade murk Bnyer Manufacture Mon oncotlencidester of Sallcyllcacld. Adv. Norve Wasn't What Ho Lost As Benson walked nlong tho busy street he wns stopped by a shnbby In dividual. "Excuso mei sir," said he, "hut I wonder If you could lend mo n quarter?" Benson was Btnrtlod and demanded to know why tho qunrter wns needed. "Haven't you a Job?" ho demanded. "No, sir," whined tho shnbby Indi vidual. "You see, I'm n slato roofer hy trade. But I can't work nt It, be causo I fell off n roof nnd lost my nerve." "Oh, no, you didn't?" snld Benson, nfi ho walked on quickly. "Your nerve's nil right" Houston Post Lift off Corns! Doesn'vt hurt a bit and Freatont costs only a few cents. With your fingers 1 You can lift off any hard corn, soft corn, or corn be tween tho toes, and tho hnrd Bkln cal luses from bottom of feet A tiny bottlo of "Freczono" costs llttio nt nny drug store; apply a few drops upon tho corn or callous. In stantly It Btops hurting, then shortly you lift that bothersome corn or cal lous right off, root and all, without ono bit of pnln or sorcncsa Truly I No humbug! Adv. Bird Neglect Is Short-8lghted. Tho destruction of tho quail is cost ing tho wheat growers of the cntlro United States $100,000,000 a year chinch bugs. Potato growers of the United Stntes nro pnylng out $15,000, 000 a year for Paris green to protect their potatoes from tho potnto bug. Tho quail, natural enemy of tho bug, has been nlmost exterminated. FRECKLES Now b U Tim to Gat Rid of These Ugly Span, There's no longer tho slightest need of feeling ashamed ot your freckles, as Othloe double strength Is guaranteed to removo theie homely spots. Blmply et an ounce of Othlne double strensth from your druggist, and apply s little ot It night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, whllo the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It Is seldom that moro than one ounce la needed to com pletely clear the skin and sain a beautiful rlear complexion. Be sure to ask for the doable strength Othlne, as this Is sold under guarantee ( money back If It falls to remove freckles. Embarrassing Moment. Tho ncv minister wua calling. Among other things ho was lament ing the prevalent use of profanity, tho hnblt growing even among chil dren. Tho small daughter of the house, standing by, said timidly, "Mlstor, I t don't swear, but I know ull tho words." Indlnnnpolts News. Cutlcura Soap for the Complexion. Nothing better than Cutlcura Soap dally and Ointment now and then as needed to mnko the complexion clear, scalp clean mid hands soft nnd white. Add to this tho fascinating, fragrant Cutlcura Talcum and you have tho Cutlcura Toilet Trio. Adv. Can't Be Solved. "They can't llo together and they can't live npnrt," "Uinphl What's the solution ot u problem like thnt?" "Chloroform, but, confound tho luck". it's against tho law." Birmingham Age-Herald. Sure Relief 6 Bell-ans Hot wafer Sure Relief RE LL-ANS lsFOI indigestion $ h- r 'I a t V,-4 V , . .-