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OLOUD. NEBRASKA, CHIEF ' 1! vv,j.jj.ae.ftlj,rraT-aT,ar.r-rrLaasrr i InrSfil TSV I7 .. J I 1 he Mystery or .a ' i 'ri ? Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS ' fA CHAPTER XVII Continued. 17 "There wis it lot of malevolence In Mr. Sidney's tone, u tremendous amount of hate. Hlclinnl Dohson ut tered the quivering, quavering little try ngnln nut started to run. As In: got under way, lie shrieked. It sound til like an old woman's shriek. "Mr. Sidney .started after film. He had that cane you saw him take out of tills room. That was the one he was lienteii down with. "I think for a moment he wanted to kill Itlchard. He nourished the stick ami yelled. Itlchard, being lu a fren fcy of fright, was stronger on his lens tliiin his brother. He was oft Into the bush. Mr. Kidney stumbled and fell, lie not up rather slowly, as If ho were rltlicr hurt or as If his strength were leaving him. I could hear Klchard Mirlcklng farther off In the bush. "When Mr. Sidney got up, he turned toward the house, and I ran to beat Mm here and found you." Jed rocked n while, and I did not lay anything. I "I am decidedly shaken," he said pfter u while. "I was very fond of him, and I am a useless old man, an flcohollc of no account except to him, nd he Is dead." , "There Is only one thing to do," I Enid. "Itlchard Dobson must he on Is way to freedom tomorrow. We shall have to see to that." Jed aroused himself for an Instant. ! "You copy-book moralist I" ho said. rYou would Interfere with a genial, ovublo man's magnificent hate Just JeoiuiRo ho Is dead and your scruples lave become Important. You ought to choke. Let tho bruto Dick Dobson ot In prison. It's his desert." "It enn't be done, Jed," I said. "To morrow we'll go to Alwlck prison and Vxplnln." For me to net without telling Mrs. Kidney was Impossible, and It was al ' lioflt 'impossible for mo to take tho mbject up with her. I saw her only J 'or a moment, told her that, being ac .'lualntcd with the facts, I thought I mow whnt the conscience of tho house would require. Her world had been destroyed; her Ight had gone out. She hnd no pride pr herself; she shrank from the pos Iblllty of a hurt to Isobel, but I hnd Judged the conscience of the house rorrectly. Sho would have protected Mr. bidney ngulnst nil the equities and lustlce In tho world thnt was her iln In her own esteem. But now ho rvas dend : Justice could be done. I did not wnnt to net without Iso ld's knowing whnt I wns doing. I loped sho would npprovo of whnt I ntended to do, though I Intended to lo It whether she did or not. I hnd to tell tho story. "You nre right, John," she snld. PBut how mngnlflcent father wns I lie wns stark Nemesis, the cleanest, purest Justice there lsl" She was u bit ecstntlc. They teach oung Indies too many generalizations, thought. There was no rhapsody In this; It was ugly. Jed hnd one more f.nsh of spirit ns we started for the penitentiary. "You poor old copy-book fool of a moralist!" ho said. "Why enn't your Insignificant conscience be satisfied without doing n lot of damage tc no food end? Hang you moralists I You wreck life. Richard Dobson can't "vo lWo Mr. 8ldney Started After Him. hutslde tho penitentiary. He has no Imonoy, no wny of making any, in Ince to go, no friends. You . re go ing to throw him nut of his home. (You aro going to torture him with tho knowledge thnt his life was wasted In prison when ho was a freo mnn In low. You ure going to destroy t'10 Sid ney fumlly." "Richard Dobson saw his brother," I said, "thnt night at (no pool." "Ho saw n ghost," asserted Jed. "Or If he -.un't see n ghost, hi must wnnt to stay In tho ponltentlnry, If ho knew It was his brother, why didn't ho demand nn Inquiry nnd his fro dom? Hither because he saw n ghost w be does not want his freedom. You 1 rtsr By CLIFFORD ran have It either way you want. You are going to force him out of the only place he has to live, and ytu are go ing to give him the tragedy of know ing that his life was w coked." "He Is a rich man," I said. "Half I he old Dobson estate is his. All of It N his. Ills brother was legally and is now aetunlly dead," 'You are a worse man thnn I was," mid Jed. "I never Interfered with Mr. S dney's scheme of punishment. You are trying to. Ills scheme was Just." "What's the use of this debute?" I exclaimed. "Ynu aro morally Incapa ble of right doing." "And you nre a foolish collection of pious axioms" said Jed. When we came to the penitentiary entrance, we encountered Morgan of the Metropolitan agency. He stopped me. "You hod me fooled." he wild. "I really thought you didn't know." "I did not know," I snld. "Didn't you I" he exclaimed. "You are here to see Richard Dohson. I fol lowed my hunch. I have the answer to the thing. I know why this man Sidney never was younger than twenty years. You aro here to see Richard Dohson becnuse you ure representing Arthur Dobson." "Arthur Dohson Is dead." "I know he Is ns a iinme; but he Is nllve as Sidney." "Mr. Sidney Is dead." I said. "We have come here to tell Richard Dob son that he can go free. I did not know who Arthur Dohson was until Inst night." As Morgan stood before us on the penitentiary steps. I thought how true Iiad been my conception of him as (he Inevitable. Mr. Sidney had out played fate, but It was by using the trump card death. Morgan's face showed some unpleas ant lines. "Whnt do you menn, that Sidney Is dend?" he asked. "He died Christmas night. I rend his dlnry Inst night. Jed gave It to me. It Is the one Drnvadn tried to steal. We came here at once to tell Richard Dobson." "Let his brother Arthur tell him. Richard Is dead," said Morgan, going on down the steps. "But I urn not through with you people. Publicity is Just ns good now as It was before." He got into an automobile, and was driven away. "Something always happens to these moral consciences," said Jed savage ly. "You'll learn life some day, young fellow. Now keep your mouth shut Inside here." " The warden told us that Richard Dobson had died the night before. He had sustained a great shock the night he walked out of the penitentiary and was found on Mr. Sidney's grounds. The adventure not only overtaxed him physically, but It had nftected his lm agination. When the guards found him, after the message from nartley house, he was Incoherent and In u fe ver. He never regained strength or rn tlonallty. He had been quiet nt times, but nt other times wns in delirium. When delirious, he suffered chiefly from the delusion that he hnd seen his brother's ghost. He died slowly nnd In grent misery, the wnrden said. "Now keep your mouth shut, you fool," Jed ordered by merely prod ding me In the ribs. The wnrden wns affected by the news of Mr. SIdney'B death. He re membered him ns the pleasnnt man who hnd called one duy. It seemed to mo thnt our visit, so shortly after Mr. Sidney's death, must appear ns n thing strnugely without purpose to the wnr den, but Jed wns so appnrently right In nsklng for silence nt this time that I ylplded to his prudential course. The right nnd wrong of the Dobson nffalr was In tho grnve. Our depar ture from the penltentlnry was nwk ward, I thought. The warden did not seem to find It so. On tho way back Jed presented, vi ciously, the sharp edges of our trouble. "You have that fellow Morgan to deal with," he said. "If you nre going to be moralistic, you will ruin the lives of two ladles who have trusted you. Morgnn has to be bought. You are not doing anyone any hurt now. You nre not keeping nn innocent man in the penltentlnry. You are not disturbing justice or defeating punishment. You arc taking the surest means to the protection of the Innocent by bribing this man to silence." Of nil the obvious things I might have snld to this man who for n long time hnd terrorized the Sidney house hold, none seemed pertinent. They would have been Imprecations nnd re pronches. They would have denlt with the pnst. no, ns If ho hnd a clean slute, wns denting with the fu ture. It did Mrs. Sidney nnd Isobel no good to tell Jed thnt he had been n rascal nnd was unfit to ndvlse. "If you go to Mrs. Sidney," said Jed, "she will sncrlflco herself nnd everybody else, flo to Miss Sidney and tell her that the family must pay Mr. Morgan $20,000. He'll want $.r0. 000. He'll take twenty. Give It to htm In five annual Installments. At the end of five years he'll he harm less. You and Miss Sidney will have W W - Tl .HaitlCTHou S. RAYMOND established yourselves, and Morgan' story will he a dried -up walnut." The proposal was so repulsive that I did not answer Jed. He said a great deal more In a great dea'l of bitter, ness, chiefly against me and what he conceived to be my moralistic Ideas. When we had returned to Hartley house. Jed said: "Do at least one thing, ask Mis Sidney what she prefers." I had no right mid no Inclination to make a decision which concerned the family and not me. I did not want to speak to Mrs. Sidney Jed wns right, her conscience might permit only the answer which would expose the family to consequences. I spoke to Isobel. We compromised with Morgan. Jed again was right. Morgan wanted $50, 000. He took $120,000. Isobel had been Insistent. She had been Impatient of any suggestion that there could he anything Immoral or dungerous in such compromising. Fem inine morals are selfishly protective of things near and dear. A general ized Immorality, nn unembodied Im morality, Is to women unimportant. It Is less thnn unimportant; It Is Impos sible; It does not exist. This Is a part of the Instinct which nourishes and protects the Infant, "I don't understand you nt all. John," she said. "Is there any ques tion in your mind thut we ought to protect my father's memory and my mother's pence of mind? You ndmlt that even now this man Morgan can wreck the things we hold dearest. You admit thnt a small payment can protect these things. You know that the one thing of which we have more thnn we need is money, nnd you nd mlt thut we nre not doing any person any harm by using It to bribe this man Morgnn." Of course, I had to give In. I- CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. Sidney wns burled by the pool on a bitter afternoon when the snow creaked underfoot, and Uie sun, In a cold blue sky to the southwest above the hills across tho river, could hard ly be regarded as a warm and sustain ing star. The servants were pall bearers sad ones; nnd we had the chaplain from the penitentiary to read the service In the room Mr. Sidney had used. The sun came In the southwestern win dows, nnd the canaries sang. Algol wns afraid of strangers nnd hid him self. Otherwise It was Mr. Sidney's room. We carried tho coffln the half-mile In the bitter cold to the grave which had been dug by the pool with mat tocks through the frozen earth. Mrs. Sidney took my arm, but walked the distance bravely. Isobel went ns If she were a clear-eyed Spartan girl ac cepting life without a quaver or whim per, upon the terms offered. We left Uie remnlns of our gracious gentleman there. , So genial a man could not die. ne still pervaded the house. He hnd Im pregnated It. His death could not de stroy his Influence. Even his room, his death chamber, remained Jovial; but Algol attached himself to Isobel nnd could not be parted from her. He went to her room that night. Necessity and delicacy both sug gested that I go away for a while the following morning, t was necessary for me to establish myself In the city, In material and physical facts of lodg ing, and so forth, and delicacy Intimat ed that I was an alien In the house hold upon a strangely fictitious stand ing. I went away In the early morning, leaving word thnt I would return In n day or two to sny good-bye. I enme back the evening of the second day, by automobile from the city. I had been Impelled to go bnck nnd hnd so far resisted the compulsion thnt I hnd missed trnln time. Then the Impulse reasserted Itself so Irresistibly that I took an automobile for the 40-mlle ride. Jed met me at the door. Ills cor diality was unforced. It wns tho din ner hour. Jed suggested either some biscuits and sherry In my room or an omelet with mushrooms. Mrs. Sidney, he said, had been Spartan, but was In collapse. Miss Sidney was somewhere about he did not know where. I did not wnnt anything to eat nnd went toward the library. Isobel was sitting there by the fire. I hnd often seen her thus before. It was one of tho fnmlllnr pictures I should remember. There were probn bly a half dozen others none better than this. She looked up as I entered. "I am glad you aro back, John," she snld. I could think only of a common- plnce. "I did not Intend to disturb you," I said. "How Is your mother?" "Utterly and happily stupefied," sutd Isobel. "Her pain wults for her." "And yo'urself?" "I can't find a tragedy In It," she snld. "I feel a sense of terrible but Inevitable loss. I hnd reconciled my self to It. I enn't be a sentlmentnl reb el ngalnst life. Ills life was happy tu the end. Ho would ' hato us If we , , 4 WW &: , i V'i V!' Copyright by George H. Doran Co. were morose, rleiisv sit down, .loan. I did, hi a comfortable chair. We looked nt the fire. "I'll be saying good-bye tomorrow," I said. "What are you going to do?" "I have made some arrangements. I'll build up a small practice. I may go to a small town. I think that would suit me. I haven't the tempera ment for a city. It Is chill." "You have really set yourself back by coming here," she suggested. "Possibly," I admitted. "In purely material ways; hut I have lived the wonder time of my life here. The sac rifice was cheap." "But It was a sacrifice?" "In a strictly pragmatic fashion, yes." "You think of It as a sacrifice?" "I do not. I think of It as my rent "You Presume That I Am Not in Love With You." life. The rest of my existence will be the sacrifice." "You are a simple sort of a person, John." "I presume so. I have no reason to think otherwise." "Where Jdld you get your Ideas of women, John?" "I have no Ideas of women. I am not presumptuous or, in that fashion, egotistic." "Yes, you are," she snld. "I don't think you are right In say ing that" "You are presumptuous about me." "I am not I" I exclaimed In hurt pride. "You nre," she said. "You presume that I am not In love with you." (TUB END). WANTED TO "GO IT ALONE" Many Years Ago Missouri Declared Her Ambition to Become an In dependent Republic Missouri once had Intention of set ting up as an Independent republic all by herself. The Session nets, state of Missouri, 18,'58.18,'W), contain n me morlnl to the congress of the United States relative to the Santa Fe trade. It tolls of an expedition of traders to Santa Fe in 1812 from St. Louis, though It Is not specifically stated that they went over the Snnta Fe trail. The early Session acts of tho Mis sourl legislature, starting In 1824, con tnln mnny Interesting resolutions nnd memorials to congress on nil mnnner of pollticnl and historical subjects. Incidentally the Missouri constitution of 1820 starts with the preamble thnt the citizens of the state agree to form and establish a free and Independent republic by the name of the state of Missouri. Missouri was one of the pivotal states In the history of this country. It wns made such In the nnclent fight In congress over rhe slnvery question, which took up the admission of free nnd slave states and considered the balance thereof In congress. Missou ri was also a pivotal stnte In yet nn other nnd lnrger sense sho was the Jumplng-off plnce for thnt wild nnd unknown country cnlled the Wild West the Innd west of the Missouri river. She mndc the midway point between the frontiersmen of Kentucky and those Of tho great plains, occupying n generation of history herself ns a frontier commonwealth. Value of Snakes. Most people have n decided shrink ing from snakes, which Is not to bo wondered nt In tropjenl countries, where their bite Is venomous and often futnl. But the grnss snnke ought not to bo confounded with tho rattlers, cobras or pythons. Jt Is as harmless to humlmlty ns n frog nnd a good deal more tibeful. N'o grenter enemy fo bugs Is In existence. And slugs nre among tho most hurtful of garden nnd riold pests. They keep down tho num bers nlso of such other pests ns mice, screws nnd other smnll rodents, nut ns slug destroyers they deervo to be cherished rnther than massacred at sight, which Is their umial fnto. . IMPIOVED UNirOHM INTERNATIONAL StlMMrSuM Lesson ny nUV. I, if flTBWATHR. D. D., Tcnclier of KngllMi Male In the Moody Wolo InMltuto of Chicago.) (c!. 1920. Weilrin NrwuimpiT Union I i LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 28 HOW JESUS THE KING WAS RE CEIVED. UCPFO.V n:XT-Miitt. ll nnd 12 OOI.UKN TKXT-Coine unto rm ull thut labor ami aro heavy laden, utid t will fclvo you rout. Mutt. 11 :M. ADDITIONAL MATKUIAIr-Lufce 7:18--! lOllS'lo. 21. 2!, lliU.i'fi, si, 3:. l'KIMARY TOl'IC-Thu Kind Deeds of JentiH. JUNIOR TOIMC-IVIoiuN and Knemlen of Jesus INTKRMHDIATK AND SK.VtOU TOPIC l IioodIiik Jt'MUH ns Our Toaeln-r. YOUNO I'KOPLI: AND ADULT TOPIC -lliu UoenuitHo of Men to thu Ministry of Jomis. ' The teacher should keep In mind the progress of thought in Matthew and present these lessons accordingly. In chapters 0 to 7 we have the laws of the kingdom; chapters S and I), the mighty works to demonstrate the ' King' ability to administer the alTalrs . or the kingdom; ehaprer 10. the prop agatl.m of the kingdom through the sending forth of the twelve; chapters ii anu rj, now the kingdom wns re ccJved. 1. Four Classes of Hearers (ch. 11). 1. Perplexed hearers like John the P.aptlst (11:2-11). John believed that Jesus was the Christ (v. 2), but was .somewhat perplexed as to the manner of the establishment ()f tbo kingdom. In tho Old Testament predictions there woro two lines in tho Messianic prophecies; the one set forth Christ as the suffering one, as In Isaiah nil. nnd the other, as the Invincible Con (lueror, as In Isaiah Oil. Indeed, In Isaiah (50:1, 2 we have Mie two ad vents In one view (see Matt. ,'!:l:i2). He said that the nx la laid unto the root of the trees and that there was to be a separation of tho chaff from the wheat and a burning of the chaff, but now the King was occupied mere ly with the opening of tho eyes of thu blind, etc. John saw Christ as the one who would remove the sins of tho people by the shedding of his blood (John 1:20), but ho failed to see the Interval between the time of his suffer ings and the time of hi triumph. Slnco this Interval between the first and second comings the nature of tho nge lu which we live was not known until Christ revealed It in the parables ' of the thirteenth chnpter, we do not wonder nt John's perplexity. John's faith was not falling him, neither did ho send tills deputation to Jesus for the snko of his disciples. He'wnn a true prophot und a faithful man. but ho wu3 perplexed. ! 2. Violent hearers (11:12-10). These were willing to receive the kingdom according to their own wny, but were unwilling to conform to Its luws. Their ears wero closed to everything but their own carnality. They would not repent when called upon to repent by John, nor rejoice when called upon by Christ to rejoice (vv. 17-10). 3. The stout-hearted unbelievers (11:20-24). In Cbornzln, IJethsalda, and Capernaum, Christ hnd done most of his mighty works, but the people deliberately set their hearts ngalnst him and bis message. It was not for Inck of knowledge nnd opportunity thnt they were unsaved, but for their purposeful rejection of Christ. Tyro and Sidon, Sodom and Gomorrah wero filled with Immoral prolllgates and Idolaters, but they will be more tol erably dealt with in the day of Judg ment than those who wilfully reject Christ. 4. Hcnrers who nre'bnbes In spirit (11:25-30). There were some among those who heard Jesus with childlike faith, who believed thnt Christ wns tho Messiah, and they opened their hearts to receive him. Christ Invites those who have the babe-like spirit to come to him, nnd to all who come to him aud receive him he gives rest. II. The Antagonism of the Kingdom, (ch. 12). In chapter 11 we saw the shameful indifference of the Jews to their King. In this chapter wc see positive nnd bitter antagonism manifesting Itself against him, They are not only with out u heart for him, but do their best to destroy him. The Immediate oc casion of their wicked determination was Christ's relation to the Sabbath. Decaus'e the hungry disciples plucked corn and Jesus healed the withered hand nn the Sabbath day, they sought to destroy him. They accused him of being In league with the Devil. Jesus with unanswerable logic showed them that they had blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, and were therefore guilty of an unpardonable sin. They did not deuy the miracle but sought to account for It without owning htm as the Mes sluh. What Tenderness Is. 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"Shucks; all husbands nre Ideal for the first three weeks." Life. Just the Place. "Many romances occur in business life." "I suppose so. Especially In a match factory." AFTER Thanksgiving Dinner 6 Bell-ans Hot water dm Sure Relief BI LL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION Br ' '"iE! Si 0 nv z!L' m 1 a W i II i I A i i A I mmtf9WWMmiiimnttwtt