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s where it had been dropped by one of the men. He reached it, glanced over it. He comprehended that the doc uments it held related to a serious error in the life of a close relative of Airs. Royce. These men were black mailers. ' "You scoundrels!" roared the stal wart woodsman, shaking his brawny fist at the two men. "Get out of town by nightfall or I'll have you taken out across a rail." Then Hickory went to the home where Mrs. Royve was a boarder. He insisted on seeing her. He told her his story, simply, clearly. "You shall read the documents," she said. "I have tried to shield a culprit. It is a family secret, and oh ! the relief to have it beyond the power of those cruel men who threatened to disgrace us." "I do not wish to know your family secrets," replied Hickory. "I am in terested only in you." He flung the package into the blaz ing grate. She came toward him, tears in her eyes, her hands extend ed supplicatingly. "Once you asked me to marry you," she faltered. "Yes!" he vowed breathlessly. She leaned her head against his strong, protecting arm. "Ask me again," she whispered softly. o o WIVES Solomon was right A man ought to have a flock of wives or none. Get a bunch and they'll fight among themselves and let you alone. With only one you never know what's go ing to happen. Solomon went the limit. He got a thousand. And it makes Nat Good win sore every time he thinks of it He selected them by the dozen and married them en masse. Whenever the license clerk went home with writer's cramp his wife knew what to blame. It got so bad that when he saw Solomon coming he hung out a gign: "How many?" But Solomon was right Even if he did wear a beard and a bathrobe to the office he was right WINTER TIP ON BEACH STYLE ISOEALTZ, A JOHNSON This is the style of bathjng suit that will be worn this summer on the northern beaches. Miss Natalie A. Johnson, social belle of Milwaukee and New York, is here shown wear ing the new frilled suit with short skirt and many ruffles, on the surf at Palm Beach.