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“lhe Gates of Silence” I
By Meta Stmmins, Author of “Hushed Vp"
TODAY S INSTALLMENT
Her Story.
' Edith felt a certain sense of relief. Hope
revived in her heart. If the man so read
ily admitted his knowledge of Levasseur it
might be conceivable that he was sincere
in his failure to recognize her. and if once
he could be brought to do so no doubt he
would not refuse to admit the escapade.
She wished for nothing but recognition—■
his word to back up her own.
She leaned forward with a little gesture
of pleading.
*'l >r. Merton. I feel convinced that if you
but -ealized how infinitely important it is
to me that you should remember, you
would not hesitate. Doctor, your profes
sion is a merciful one; you -work to bring
healing. Believe me. here is a ease to
your hand in which you can work a mira
cle of healing by a word.”
The doctor, who had been leaning back
In his chair, sat upright, the tips of his
hands together. His eyes were fixed on
her penetrating look, in which there was
nothing of apprehension, only the steady,
inquiring gaze of the doctor.
”My dear lady. 1 wish 1 could persuade
you to believe me," he said, earnestly. "I
would do anything that I could to help
you—-most willingly. Only what you ask
Is not possible. I can not remember what
has not happened. You are under a mis
apprehension, and take me to be some
other individual. I have no recollection
whatever of meeting you. and it is not
possible that, had I done so. such a fact
would have slipped my memory, which is,
as a rule, excellent. And I emphatically
affirm that never until last May did I set
foot in Runescot. Surely you will believe
me?”
Edith Barington flung back her head
with a quick movement, half irritation,
half despair.
“Dr. Merton, I can't believe you!” she
cried. "Can you pretend to me that you
do not remember that June morning eight
years ago—not so many years out of the
life of a man—when In the sheer gayety
of your animal spirits you assisted your
friend, Edmond Levasseur, to play a
cruel trick on a girl? No; I realize that
to you then it did not seem what it must
appear now. Then, no doubt, it only ap
peared in the light of a huge Joke. Only
it wasn't a joke—not for me. I was that
girl, and the consequences have never
ceased to work; they are working now."
A Flat Denial.
As she looked at him memory worked
in Edith Barrington’s mind, and the
name that had so long escaped tier--the
name she had striven in vain to re
member on the night of Levasseur's
death, when she had made her confes
sion to her husband—came to her.
"Does this help you to remember?” she
asked, in a low, distinct voice. “You
were not Robert Merton then. It was
Robert Seton, clerk in Holy Driers, who
masqueraded at that marriage service.”
ice.”
If she had expected the man looking at
her to appear impressed or startled she
was bitterly disappointed. Not for a mo
ment did the face before her relax its air
of patient attention. Only at her last
words Dr. Merton permitted himself to
laugh.
“Mrs. Barrington—if you persist in this
foolish misapprehension, you will give me
no other alternative but to regard you
are being mentally unhinged. I have no
desire to do that. I do not diagnose vour
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Anty Drudge Tells How to Prevent
Laundry Mistakes.
Zone.*—‘‘Heavens, Jemina! Txtok what came back from
the laundry! Three pairs of women's stockings ami
five petticoats. Why I’ve got some woman's laundry
instead of my own."
Anty Drudge— “l’ll tell yon how to avoid mistakes like
that. Get Fels-Naptha soap and have your things
" ashed the easy way at home. They'll be cleaner
;d fresher and wear twice as long and then you
'. im't get them mixed with other people’s clothes,”
You owe it to yourself and your
folks to use Fels-Naptha.
You owe it to yourself to cut down
the time of washing clothes one-half, to
save yourself its drudgery, to make it
easier and more pleasant all around
You owe it to you r folks to quit
making washday a day of cold meals,
steamy and smelly house and general
‘ ' bad temper.
Fels-Naptha does it, summer or win
ter —washes all the clothes in cool or
lukewarm water, without boiling, in little
time, with no hard rubbing, and makes
them cleaner, whiter and sweeter than
any other way.
Follow directions on the red and
green wrapper.
trouble so arbitrarily. But since you do
not come to me as a physician, I can only
repeat my former assertion I am not!
the person you imagine me to be."
He spoke with an air of finality and
arose, with an appearance of desiring to
bring ihe conversation to a conclusion.
His air was that of a busy man dis
pleased by waste of valuable time.
Edith felt i': ( , ground give beneath her
feet. She knew absolutely and certainly,
with a woman’s conviction by intuition,
which is a hundred times more strong
and deep than a man’s conviqtion by logic,
that this doctor who stood before her,
looking at her suavely, if a little pity- '
ingly. and the young, smooth-faced cleric
who had united her in that blasphemous
mock marriage to the dead Levasseur,
were one and the same. She cast dis
cretion to the wind, and in manner and
look now there was that which would
have given credence to the supposition
that her mind was unhinged.
Putting Her Off.
"Can you swear by everything sacred."
she cried, "that you are not the man who
morning of June 18, eight years ago? Oh,
morning of June 18. eight years ago* Oh.
it was a cruel and despicable thing for
a man to concoct,, but it is over and
done and can not be helped. Only to
me the consequences remain, terrible, un
foreseen—"
rupted her with a deprecating gesture—
"l can not hear that you should lay open
to me any secret of your life. Os course,
a doctor, like a priest, by virtue of his
profession, is made acquainted with many
strange secrets; but since you do not
come to me professionally I do not feel
justified in listening to what is obvious
ly intended for other ears.”
Edith rose to her feet.
"Mrs. Barrington" -Dr. Merton inter-
"When a woman has gone through what
I have gone through.” she cried, "it is
useless to try to play the game of bluff
with her. You can not swear. Dr. Merton,
that you were not the man.”
“Madam. 1t would be ridiculous for me
to bring the name of sacred things into
the matter. 1 have already denied all ;
knowledge of the circumstances at which '
you hint.”
But desperate now, Edith refused to
be misled. From pleading she passed to
threats.
“What you did was a punishable thing,"
she cried, "but 1 have no desire to insist
upon that aspect of it. All 1 want from
you is a private admission to my husband
that you did this thing."
“A most modest request," said Merton,
ironically.
All at once, as she looked at him, Edith
realized that she might with as much
hope have expected to touch a chord of
sympathy in the stone statue of the man
in the central gardens of t’>e square out
side. Yet she persisted. „
"If you can not deny it, t must be
true. Besides, 1 know it is true.”
"I have denied it, not once, but many
times, Mrs. Barrington," he said, sharp
ly. "And now —1 must really ask you
to have the kindness to bring this inter
view to a close.”
He moved toward the bell, and Edith
followed him swiftly.
"Doctor, no one need ever know," she
said, desperately. “It would be a matter
between my husband and yourself All
I want, is your word that what 1 believed
to be a marriage did take place. All 1
want you to do is io prove to my husband
that I atn not the wanton he thinks me.”
Her voice rose a little in the scale of
pain. "Don't you realize what hap
pened"—
To 3e Continued in Next issue.
If You Want To Be a Pretty Giri--
Pay Strict Attention to the Care of Your Peet, Says Elise Hamilton
By ELISE HAMILTON.
t* <■ OST women who start out to ( P-vrr
|y/| beautify themselves begin with
their complexion 1 r
Then they get busy with their hair. 1
and aft that tin r are ready f..r lie ‘ ~ A. XX
dressmaker and the milliner. I think .A Yvi
one ought to begin with one's feet. / A;,
N" girl e'. •! fi. Is tli.it she is veil / y\
dressed untii slu is well sh d.
•f '"U hat i- loft <>v ■ from last // .
II igy
cun male up fm th< se shortcomings by L M
your miniated face and smile, but it I £'
takes an absolute genius to disiraet l| '
people's attention fr 1 low n-; redden l\ ■
shot s or badly blacked pump.', and a ’ JMUr 'sA I I-
ho|e in one’s Stocking would upset even Jgfr.Sr^gA.J. •
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MISS ELISE HAMILTON.
(Os Ziegfeld's "Winsome Widow" Co.)
the president of the United Women’s
Clubs of the world.
Besides the looks of one’s feet, there
is the one more important question of
the feeling of them.
People who can be amiable when
their feet are tired and uncomfortable
deserve halos. Probably, if we knew it.
most of the bad temper that shows it
self, especially in crowds at the ferries
and stations and at theaters, is due to
people having to hurry along on aching
feet.
if you want to preserve your beauty,
your looks and your disposition, keep i
your feet comfortable.
White Stockings.
The white stocking craze has done a
lot to ease aching feet, and there’s
nothing so comfortable as a nice, clean
pair of whit- stockings and a fresh pair
of shoes and slippers. Stockings ought
rrally to be changed twice a day. and
the girl who hates to darn will find that
this saves her a great deal of work.
• hanging stockings, like changing your
shoes, brings the wear and the rub on
another part of the foot, and conse
.acntly saves the stockings.
My hobby is shoes and stockings, and
as long as my feet look all right 1 feel
th it I can face the world with calm
ness.
If you want to know bow sensitive
people arc about the' way they are -hod.
sit in a street car and gaze fixedly at
the feet of the woman opposite you.
She will get so uncomfortable that ten
to one you can make her get up and
leave the car. because she is quite sure
she has a b. de in her stocking or some
thing is the matter with her shoes. The
same applies to men, though, on the
whop., men arc more particular about
their shoes than women are, and you
seldom see a man in very moderate cir
cumstances whose shoes aren’t nicely
polished, while lots of women overlook
this part of their toilette.
If you are a dancer or have to stand
on your feet for a long time every day,
you must realize how important it is to
keep them in good condition. They
ought to be bathed every day, and if
you come home tired and want to fresh
en up quickly a foot bath in warm
water with a handful of salt in it will
do you more good than a nap. Many
people’s feet hurt tin in because they
are never properly dri- .i. If the stock
ing is put on while the foot is still
damp, it is likely to make the feet very
tender, and unless one takes the trouble
to dry the toes separately, the best
thing to do is to dust the foot with
foot powder or talcum powder.
A Popular Complaint.
Many of the girls in companies in I
which I have played have complained i
so of fatigue from standing and walk- I
ing, especially during rehearsals, and I
very often this was entirely due to flat
tening of the arch of the foot. If you
have pains in the calf of the leg or get
very tired from standing and feel as if
your feet were made of lead, you are
probably flattening the arch, and if you
can not get shoes made so that they
will, hold the areli up, wear the soles
which come on the inside of the shoes
and which are made to correct this
trouble
When your feet arc very fired an!
the skin aches, as it often ecetns to. rub
the soles of your feet with vinegar or
with lemon juice after bathing. 1 know
of one beauty shop where the eus-
Up-to-Date Jokes
'Array (on his holiday i l-'aney livin
’ere all yer life! Ain’l yer ever been to
London and see th< sights?
Gid Salt (eyeing him narrowly)
No. sir! But some of the sights comes
hup and sees us.
Wife —ln a battle of tongues a wom
an ran bold her own.
Husband—-M —yes, pimps site can;
but she never does.
tomers' feet are massaged before face
massage is given, and it’s an awfully
good idea, not only because it promotes
circulation and all that, but because it
is so restful. This beauty doctor said
that more wrinkles come from foot
troubles than from financial worries,
and I guess she must be right, for if
you ever had seen the pained looking
faces of the girls with the aching feet
you could be sure they are making
real wrinkles in their faces, lines that
won't come out on salary day.
Lots of girls get stockings that a>re
too short or too narrow, on the pleas
ing theory that they make their feet
smaller, but they only curl the toes
over, cramp the joints and push the
toes together. If you get. a foot in
cased in a small stocking and then put
ft in a shoe one size too narrow or too
short, you have a fine idea of what
slow torture is. My shoemaker tells me
that women's ankles are growing big
ger because they are wearing pumps.
Pumps throw the foot out of gear
somehow and the weight is badly bal
anced and the ankle bone enlarges. If
you like a high heel (I'm one of the
people who do), bo sure and get your
shoes wide enough at the toes. Os
com st. no shoe should be more than
an inch and a half in the heel, hut a
great many people don't find sensible
flat shots at all comfortable.
A Great Trouble.
Girls have had so much trouble keep
ing their pumps on for the last couple
of years since pumps have been so
fashionable that the whole way they
walk is changed. Girls l ave to waddle
a little to keep the .pumps from falling
TWO WOMEN
TESTIFY
What Lydia E. Pinkham’s V eg
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Their Health—Their own
Statements Follow.
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had bearing down
p ms, was dizzy and
w.ak, had pains in
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would feel better,
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off —that is the trouble with their walk.
You can’t walk well or look well if your
shoes hurt you or if you have to make
an effort to keep them on.
Cramping the toes to keep one's
pumps on also makes the feet ache;
that causes wrinkles and ugly looks.
So if you want to be pretty, get good
understandings.
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§ The Manicure Lady s e
By William F. Kirk
TA HERE yvas a young man in
I here this morning to have his
nails did.” -aid the Manicure
Lady, "and it is the first time since I
have been in this busin'r- that I have
ever saw a elevator, or (aviator, or
whatever it is they call them bright
young souls that goes smiling up into
the azure sIL.-s like them meadow
larks that Percy Kelley used to write
about. He was a grand looking fellow.
George, the kind of a looking fellow
that you used to lie. I gue-s. before
you got fat."
"I don't want any of that kind of a
game." said the Head Barber. "1 got
troubles enough on earth without
going up into the sky to look for
troubles. It's hard enough to live on
tile earth and keep from going in the
air."
"I guess you are right about that
part of It," t i 1
"I would lik, to watch a hands, me
young gent like him sailing up tov.m I
the fleet y clouds in a nice big biplane;
but as for mo, 1 want to keep my little
feet on terra gotta."
"On terra WHAT?" asked the Head
Do You K now—
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Malwatehin. on the borders of Rus
sia in Asia, is the only < ity in the world
peopled by men only. I'l inese women
are not only forbidden to live in this
territory, but oven to pass the great
waff of Kalkan and enter into Mon
golia. All th< Chinese of this order are
exclusively' traders.
In smtlpßussia there is a coin In use
worth one four-thousandth part of a
penny, and the Malays circulate a
wafer worth one ten-thousandth part
of a penny.
Although first imported only ten
y ears ago. ostriches in Madagascar now
compete successfully with those in
('ape Colony in the feather industry.
Mahogany trees do not attain their
full growth till they have reached the
age of 20<l years. ,
Scafell Pike, in Cumberland. 3.210
feet high, is the loftiest point in Eng
land.
"Terra cotta.” answered the Mani
cure Lady. "That's Latin for solid
ground, or at least it is as near as I
i remember. How would you pronounce
it?”
"When I wont to school we used to
see a word in the geography that was
six-lied something like Terra del
i’uego,” said the Head Barber. "That
might be what you mean."
"Now 1 know what I mean!" ex
claimed the Manicure Lady. "I mean
terra lirma. Ain't it funny, George,
that a well-educated girl can make
such a mistake in the renunciation of
a word? if you had come to me yes
t> rday and told me that I could have
ditl such a. thing as to renounce a word
wrong, I would have gave you the
scornful sneer."
"1 don’t know what you mean when
you say 'renounc d* instead of 'pro
nounce.'" corrected the Head Barber.
"What are you tryilig to do—kid me?”
“Never, never!” exclaimed the Mani
cure Lady. “I may have a lot of faults,
George, the same as a lot of people
have, but I think I rm too good a lover
of fair play to kid a poor dunce. I'd
rather try my fine work on some men
that come in here to have their nails
did—men that know more in a minute
than you w ill ever know. George.
But as I was saying about this
yuan air man that was in here this
morning. I always feel sorry when I
think of one. Wilfred has wrote a
really good poem, which lie calls ‘The
Broken \\ Ing's,’ and in it tells about
a biplane or a monoplane or whatever
they call them airships, all about how
it fell to the earth with fluttering
wijigs and never rose no more forever.
I cried when I read it.”
"I don I blame you," said the Head
B über. "If I had a brother like yours
I would cry, too.”
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