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BEGIN HERE TODAY SaiUe Peck, employe of the Fair Deal Five 4 Ten. uuarrels with her policeman sweetheart. Michael Curtis. That • uisrht Sallie goes into the yard to take down a washing fo.' M i Brennan, with whom she lives. A crash shakes the earth and something strikes Sallie a llow on the head. When she regains consciousness, the rl finds hersell in strange surroundings. A French maid calls her Alva Copeland and Madame Copeland, a tall, ticnly gowned woman, claims her as her step-daughter. Sallie meets Cousin Wheeler, who makes loves to her. She resolves to solve the mystery of why she is being substituted for the real Alva Copeland. Michael Curtis and his friend. Caplain Trevor, follow the trail of the missng Sallie. Trevor tells Michael of his ■ ovc for the real Alva Copeland ami how he longs to see her NOW GO OX WITH THK STORY * jAXTED me to know that slje „ cared for me, too. bless her!” —-Z-J His voice broke slightly but fter a pause he went on: "She was I raveling with a hard-faced stepmother and a shrew of a maid who were bringing her back to force her into marriage With a cousin—a matter of millions involved, I understand—and she hated his very photograph, although she hadn’t seen the fellow since she was a very little girl. On the last day out that stepmother of hers cornered me and told me that my attentions to her daughter were most unwelcome and she must ask me not to attempt any further communication with her, intimating that she'd take pretty harsh measures if I did. Alva and I stole a few minutes oh deck that night, however, and planned to elope as soon as I had made certain arrangements. Sounds romantic, eh?” “Trevor, you should have grabbed the girl at quarantine the next day"! But you say you saw her this morning?’ Something very like a groan forced fts way from Trevor's lips and he tlung the car recklessly around a turn in the darkness. “I'm coming to that. We knew our letters would be Intercepted but it was agreed that I was to ride past her home every morning at a certain hour when she would contrive to be at her window and we fixed up a code of signals. For the first two mornings there was no sign of her. but the third morning and for nearly a week after, she appeared and our signals worked ike a breeze. Then suddenly the 1 ouse was closed and I found out her HER BOY HAD ALWAYS BEEN WEAK AND PUNY Now He Eats Everything in Sight and Romps With Playmates. "My 4-year-old boy had been weak and puny since birth, and had consti pation and indigestion. Nothing did him any good until we tried Milks Emulsion. Since using ii, he can't get enough to eat and has outgrown his i hildhood trouble. He plays out with the children now, and he was never able to do that pjore."—William Heart, 424 Bundy Ave., Newcastle, Ind. Weak, ailing children usually start eating and getting stronger from the very' first bottle of Milks Emulsion. Most children like to take it, because it really tastes good. A trial costs nothing. Milks Emulsion restores healthy, natural bowel action; it Is a truly corrective medicine, doing away with ail need of pills anti physics. It promotes appetite and quickly puts the digestive organs in shape to assimilate fdod and thus build flesh and strength. Milks Emulsion is strongly recommended to those whom sickness has weakened: it is a powerful aid in resisting and repairing the effects of wasting diseases. Chronic stomach nouble and constipation are promptly relieved. This is the only solid emulsion made, and so palatable that it is eaten with a spoon like ice cream. No matter how severe your case, you are urged to try Milks Emulsion under this guarantee—Take six bottles home with you, use it according to directions and if not satisfied with the results, your money will be promptly refunded. Price 60c and $1.20 per bottle. The Milks Emulsion Cos., Terre Haute. Ind. Sold by druggi-sts everywhere j —Advertisement. Cold in the Head? Apply liberally in nottrila. Head clears instantly; inflammation Quickly disappears. Cools, soothes, heals. All dr assists. Send this ady. to Bear Ilfs- Cos.. Terre Haute, Ind., for sample.

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stepmother had carted her off to French Lick Springs. l " "Tough luck!" Mike murmured sympathetically. “You didn’t even know she was in the wreck, then? When was the first you had news of it?” “From the papers on Wednesday morning. She'd been rescued but had suffered a slight injury to the head. Mike. I galloped past that house like a crazy man all that morning! J.t was open and I caught glimpses of one or two servants about, but they were new ones I'd never seen there before. I don't know how I lived till the next day—yesterday'—but when I rode by there was a doctor's sedanette at the dopr. I raced to the nearest park exit, got a kid to hold my horse and fairly ran back to her house but the car was gone.” "What had you meant to do?" asked Mike. “Find out from the chauffeur the name of the doctor or trace him by

ALVA AND I STOLE A FEW MIN : UTES ON DECK. the license number and force him to j tell me the truth about Alva’s condi j tion if I had to take him by the j throat! I was desperate!” Trevor ex claimed. "This morning at the ap j pointed hour she was there, peering out between the curtains! 11l never forget that moment. Mike, when I j saw her face and the sunlight on her hair! But when she saw me. she drew back almost out ol sight anil | —and wouldn't reply' to any of my j signals! I was stunned —I couldn’t ; believe the evidence of my own eyes: : I cantered up and down half a dozen times but I didn't see her again and then a hideous idea came too me. 1 ; got my car, tore down to Shaftstown and dug up the ambulance doctors who had worked over her at the scene of the wreck. That injury to her head affected the brain, and her mind j must be that of a little child again!" Mike uttered an ejaculation of shocked pity and Trevor went on in ! shaking tones: “The doctors said they had told j her stepmother this might happen when she regained consciousness; that j she might not recognize those about j her nor even recall her own identity'. Her memor might return after a little or—never! But I tell you. Mike, there must be a dim glimmering in her poor clouded brain that drove her to the window this morning even though she mightn’t have known why and didn’t know me when she saw me! 1 haeven’t given up hope; I never shall, but can you guess why I am in such a rush to get back*to town now?” Mike nodded and replied grimly: “For fear they’ll try to maryy her out of hand to that rascal of a cousin of hers! But what can you do, Tre vor? I’m with you for anything short of murder and I don’t know that I’d stop at that, shield or no shield, but it the poor girl’s mind is gone entirely—?” "I want her!” The cry of agony rang out upon the night air. “I’m going to get her out of that house and take her where she'll be safe and cared for, and where I can see her and try to make her remember me—make her care for me all over again! If that’s impossible, if she never knows me and I mean no more to her than any' other stranger I mean to protect her all the rest of her life! Thanks, old man, for your offer to help me but —there’s your own girl, you know!” “I’ve not forgot,” Mike said simply. "We’ll hunt in couples, Trevor!” For a moment his companion took his right hand from the wheel and shook that of his pal and the compact was made.

CHAPTER VII An Unforeseen Dilemma While Trevor and Detective Sergeant Curtis were tearing cityward through the night. Sallle, after listening with distended eyes and last-beat-ing heart to that midnight coinference —between Mrs. Copeland, her nephew Sloat, Bellows the attorney and Doctor Qualters —turned and, groping her way to the hall, fled noiselessly up the stairs to her own room. She closed the door behind her and in the glow from the soft night light located the heavy, bent hairpin and probing through the keyhole locked the door with the key on the farther side, then dropped the pin out of the bathroom window before she flung herseif on her bed, her eyes filled with indignant tears. “Sallie Peck is dead and buried!" The brutal, unfeeling tones of Wheeler Sloat rang in her ears. Poor Ma Brennan! Sajlie’s own team overflowed at the thought of the good Etonian’s grief, and then her heart Beemed to stop beating as the face of Mike rose before her. Maybe he cared for her after all, and now he must think her dead! Oh, but she’d pay this crowd out before she was through with them! Then another remark of Sloat's returned to her mind: “Are you sure you’ve got the right dope about her? Are you sure you know who upstairs really is?” Sallie sat up suddenly as an inspiration came to her and her eyes traveled swiftly to that spot on th 6 carpet where she had palmed that fragment from a newspaper; the paragraph which mentioned the possibility that “Diamond Bess" Hilker, the mfcsing maid in the Dclapierre mhhrrv mi<-h* have hoarded the

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With Miss Tldmarsh and the doctor, however, Sallie was careful to resume her manner of th previous day, although she evinced a growing restlessness at being treated as a semi-invalid and insisted upon being permitted to rise. After a brief delay Theresa re-en-tered the room somewhat sullenly with both arms piled with dainty, girlish garments and at sight of them a sudden, hideous thought came to Sallie. Whose body was that which

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had been burled in her place? Could it be that she was wearing a dead gitl's clothes, sleeping in a dead girl’s bed, using her personal belongings as though they were her own? If not, where was the real Alva Copeiand? A shudder shook Sallie from Wfead to foot but she forced herself to face the maid calmly, still keeping her impudently assured air of the early morning. . “Look here, haven’t I got any new clothes?” she demanded as Therese spread across the chaise lounge a

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smart silk morning dress which seemed somehow to have lost Its first freshness. “Ain’t there anything I haven’t worn before?” The eyes of the maid met hers for a fleeting moment and then Therese drew aside the silk dress and replaced it with a straight little frock of soft, gray cloth, “You have forgotten this, perhaps, Mees Alva? It was among the last of the robe* purchased In Paris six weeks ago and never have you worn it.” f

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“It’ll do, I guess,” Sallie assented carelessly. “Can that Paris stuff, though, Therese; we understand each other.” She almost held her breath at her cwn daring as she Waited for the ether’s reply hut none came. A mask seemed to have fallen over Therese’s face and she proceeded In silt rice to complete Sallie’s toilette. Just as she fastened the last snapper a knock came upon the door and as she opened it to receive a huge purple box from the hands of Fitch,

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the tall young footman of the previous day, the girl standing behind her caught a glimpse of his face. He was gazing straight Into Sallie’s eyes, not in bold disrespect, but >ather as though he were attempting to convey a message. She recalled his insistent staling at her when he served tea in Mrs. Copeland’s sitting room the afternoon before and 1m pulslvely she nodded just as Therese ehut th 4 door In his face. (CoWinued to Our -Next lsiue)