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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1916)
mil Adventure I In ill ( m , , .,. m imi nil u nrrmrnm MMMuwiiMiwtmwHuitsnntawijiuwJMUUMii TOSlaUtMBMUUWraMWIUMW v 5 Miss Nobody Of Npwhere My Annciic w ,i iittixiuwwijiiwawuMjw)iiiiw.uuJWjm)iku!UHwaHiiuwMtWW lit Tales 1 Love II . 11 M 'i u JI V Ii u T c il It th in ti t li w h l W i':i r.a : ti 00 ih ttfc V us u ft tbi . . nit ph( TH pnj Ita nlcho in tlio hallway tlio tele- liliono bell begun to ring violently. It broko the dark si- lonco of tlto nlaco and brought Mlllor, who was Bmoklng In tlio dusk, out of his rovorv with an angry start, no lose, look down tlio receiver and gazed meditatively at tlio wallpaper. "Hollo," ho Bald. "Is this Madison?" "Yes." "In this Mr. William Llndluy Mll lor?" "It Is," said Mlllor, "and his eyes lost tholr mcdltntlvo otnrc. Tho volco was a woman's, and It was unusunlly Hwcot, with a soft magnotlc quality that provoked an Instant Interest. At lior next words Mlllor stiffened with Burprlso. "it's really Hilly! Hilly Miller! Isn't It funny how easy It Is to get you on tho wlro? Until now you've- nlways Kcomod bo far awny so absolutely unattainable." Miller frowned. Homnndod sharply, Tho volco rlpplod a llttlo. "Of OOTirBO you'd ask Unit, but I can't toll you becauso I'm no ono you over Haw or oven heard of. If wo do uncon- vontlonal things wo must bo careful, Call ntn 'Nobody 'Nobody of No- ;whoro.' " Then "What aro you doing?" mild thn volco guardedly. "Looking tip tho number of tho Woomlngdalo ItiBuno Asylum." "Nonsonso!" Thcro was another rip- TIo of laughter- "Is any ono thoro ;with you?" Only a dog, but Iio'h very IntolII- gent. Would you euro to npeak to him?" "No: I'm coming around. T nlinll bo thoro In a fow momontn. Goodby." Thcro woh a pauso. "I Hiild I was Thoro wan an unmlstakablo click, nobody," reminded tho volco, gently. Miller grosped tho tolophono excitedly. Hilly hung up with a slnm and went "What!" ho shouted. "Horo, Contrnl, buck to bed. Jin tried to sloop, but don't cut mo off. I want that person could not. "I mild 1 was nobody," re- ngaln. Bo quick. You can't? Bliuuo pouted tho voice, Insistently. "Stuff!" Jt,.you 01" growled Hilly, and turned on his oth-v ASSt'jItSBY otten giu rd admiringly at tho llttlo plot of ground, laid out with geometrical precision and cared for en palustuklug ly. Klowors, most ly old-fashioned va rieties, cverywhero b v v I b b o n o d tho walks and formed gny carpets In trl aiiglen und miuarca and stars. Imildo tho whltn paling, und quite overtop ping It, was a hrdgo of rare pluk roses, but tho gnrdcn'B crown of glory wns tho llttlo cottugo In Us center, mistily pretty buck of Ita screen of vines. Tho old lady who lived thoro was ns notlcoablo as her gnrden. Hor blue eyes bold tho look that only a gicut horrow can give Sometlmca she Mowed for hours neatrd upon her small porch. Agalu alio worked among tho flowont, lior snow white hair muklng u ntnuigo contrast to their brilliancy. Then always wns an attltudo of ex pectancy; BomotlmcH her lips moved, iul Uio refrain was Invnrlably the naiwrt "WlIl.Io-ver como?" All Mixed Up HTUN Kleclra Bay un expectedly foil heir to $10,000 through tho will of omu halt-forgotou rela tive, ovorybody In Westiunrn wns In terested, for ovory body knew that $10,000 must pconi a vast roriuno to J'JIeutru, who had porhups never hud ten ccntH which Bho could spend fool ishly all her llfo long. Klcctru wua nearly tlfty. Shu hnd grny hulr and sweet brown eyes und ii faint color In her delicate- cheeks. Sho wore hor clothe tho longest of any woman in Wcstmoro, Bho worked tho hardest and sho got the least pleamiro out of life. .lust two things hud Klectru In abundance, und these two woro good health and puttciicQ. Tho ono her parents had endowed nor with; tho other sho had acquired through the urlud experiences of a illflicult life. Klootra's life hud been vory hard, but hIio had Um It vulliiutly In thu night of all Westnioie, Her father and mother hud been poor, but proud. Tliolr one great deslro had bt-en to llvo In u largo house. They got thu house in time for Klectru to bo born In It, and when thoy died they left It tu her, provldontlully unmortgaged. But thay loft nothing else. Klectru had grown up with great respect for the Iioiibc. When It ciuuo to her sho rosoived whutover cumo to keep It. Sho llxod It up In tho best way sho could and begun to keep bourdons. Sometimes no moro than one, Sho managed to live, to pay her tuxes mid hills, but thut wus ull. And hhe worked llko a bIuvp. At 6 o'clock each morning she wus in her kitchen, nnd often It wiw 10 nt night before sho crept, aching In every bono, to her bed In n llttlo bare room Tho best m Miller .sliiiniiicil tlio receiver Into tlio rack. Ilo nut down on u clmlr, nnil a brindled terrier eamo and ant In front of him and thumped u stubby tall on tlio rug. "Hero's u mess," mild Miller with a wry smll6. "Fritz, n lady Is coming to bco ub an anonymous and unln- vltcd Indy. Hut alio had a pretty voice.'' At 11 o clock ho throw all tlio cubii Ioiih at Fritz and cast lilniHclf upon tlio couch In disgust. The evening had brcii uneventful, and ho could only conclude that boiiio onn had been trying to play n stupid and pointless Joke. On the third day after, which wua a Sunday, Lnkarl, MIIIo-'h Japanese, woke him from his morning doze with a summons to tho telephone. Mlllor wont In his bathrobe yawning. "Hollo," ho said crossly. "Good morning, Billy." Hilly Jumped. "Of course yon won't recognlzo mo." "1 bollovo 1'vo heard your volco onco before." "0, that Is nlco of you to remember. "Who Is this?" ho Olio's mind Is often cloudy on Sun day morning, too. What do you think?' "I bollovo you'ro n woman, so I'd best not toll you what I think," said Hilly. "I suppose all this Ib hoiiio kind of n Joke on ino." "0, plcaso don't think that," It pleaded. "If thoro Is any Joko about this, It Is nil on mo. and It's a very mlBorablo Joko at beat. I can't toll you what It Is, and plcnBo don't try to guoBS. Old you wait Tor mo tho oth- or night? "I was homo all tho evening," snld Billy, cautiously. "Anil who ennuu" "Nobody." "Nobody?" "Nobody at all." The Fruit . .MMIMiaMV MMMNPOWi Often, too, her thoughts wrro of tho time when sho und Hubert, her hus band, hud been a part In tho great scheme of things. I.lfo then hnd not resolved Isclf Into "Just waiting." All day Ilobcrt hud worked In his office, und sho kept tho cottugo and cared for Bob, their only child, so happy nnd so grateful for hor blessing thnt no day over seemed long. Then n chungo cume. Slight tit first, a moro hint-thut confinement wuh In juring her health; that she was giving too much tlmo to tho child. lntcr the ro wns open criticism nnd recrim ination. Little Bob wus seltlsh, dlsu bcdlent, ntid wilful, and uhc, his moth er, could bco no fuult. His father pres ently, In her mind, came to be unnat ural und strangely shortsighted. It was not till Bob was stxtcon thut alio begun to rcully worry. Kven then sho stood betwoon him nnd his father, concealing nil sho could, feebly pro testing against his Idleness, his dis solute companions und his frequent absences from homo und school. Sho stinted herself that sho might give to him, and not till his debts were be yond her ability to pay did she permit uhnmbcrH wore sacred to the board ers. "Klectru," Miss .lewett said. "I wouldn't work the way you do for anything. Why don't you sell, rent or glvo nwny thnt house? I could get you a Hplendld Job us housekeeper, whero you'd huvo decent hours und t'ompnnlonshlp. Ah It is now. you'ro scarcely stopping long enough tu sleep." "I suppose I urn foolish," Klectru re plied, gently. "I've often thought of It. Surah, I could soil thu house. I'or hnps, oven, I could rent It though It's pretty big for one family. But, do you Know, I lovo thut houso? I'd bate to sou strangers In It. "Oh, 1 know ull about thut," Miss Jowutt suid, impatiently. "You ought to have married Miles Reed. He'd never have gone i minting oft to Oro gon then. I've always held that up against you. Klectru, uud you know It. Miles was my cousin, nnd 1 thought u lot or him. And he thought his eyed of you. Now bo's 'way out there, uud I expect any day to hear ho's dead." "Well," sighed Klectru. "I couldn't help it. Mother was sick unit 1 had to stay with hor. I did want to go West with .''lies, but may bo It's ns well us It Is." "No such thing," cried Miss Jew ett. "Llfo would huvo been ultogethor different for you If you'd married Miles. Now, you're working yourself tu duuth for u house thnt you haven't ii soul to leave It to." Nevertheless, Klectru kept tho house. ud one duy whllo sho was shaking a rug out of an upstairs window with her head done up In a towel tho post man cumo down tho street with thu letter thut told her of hor logacy. 'Now, Klectru,' suld Miss Jowctt when sho hcurd, "I'm so glnd for you 1 can't express It. But 1 waut you cr side. This was the beginning of Hilly Mil ler's courtship, It rang up every two of three days, sometimes In the morning nnd some times in tho ovcnlng. At first Hilly was annoyed; later ho became resigned, and then Interested, so that at last ho found himself lis tening eagerly for tho tolophone bell. He hnd relinquished the Joko theory. It did nut seem probable tlint any one would pcrslBt In n Joke for six weeks when thcro was no satisfaction to bo gained. Tho owner of the volco told him thnt alio had wanted to know him and could find no other wiiy. Hilly began to bollovo her, but ho was not a vain mun, nnd he wondered. At tho end of thrco months Hilly was In love. Somotlmcs ho wrestled wordily with "Central" nnd found that her calls had como from ono of tho hotels on tho nvenuc, or a pay sta tion on tho uppor West Side, but his knowledgo did not help him nt nil. Ho folt that his position wns ludi crous. Slio know how he looked, know whoro ho lived, know everything nbout him. Ho grow norroua and restless. . "I saw you today," sho told him once as ho stood glaring helplessly Into the transmitter. "You enmo out of your club and drove south in n cab. It was nbout 4 o'clock." "Just about thut," said Ullly. with a miserable lnugh. "Whcrn wore you?" "Crossing tho nvcnuo half a block above." : "Will you bu there tomorrow at the same hour?" Sho gave tho negative ho oxpcclcd. "You know I can't." "I know you won't," ho said, bit terly. Sho had laughingly reproached him for not recognizing her in passing. "It was on Broadwny," sho said. "Tho girl wan vory pretty." "My cousin," said Billy, bluntly. "Sho was too protty for a cousin. I hated lior." "I hate her, too- at times. I hate ovorybody these days, becauso thoy'ro nvcrywhero and you'ro nowhoro." 01 Years it knowledge of them to reach her hus band. Robort hud been furious. "Tho fuult Is your own," lib told her. "You bnvc spoiled the boy. Against my Judg ment nnd wishes you have persevered In n course thut may ruin him for life." "No, Hobert," she hnd protested, "mother lovo never yet ruined a child. It never will. Lcavo my son to me." But that evening thoro hud been a scene. Itobort h'nd laid baro his sou's every fault, every weakness, ending with a scathing rebuke and a demand thut henceforth, ho live In accordance with u now order of things. And Bob, with thinned lips und gleaming eyes, hud left the house without a word, while she. with aching heart, shud dered at tho look on the faces of fa ther und son und remained silent. Thut wns the end. Sho never saw him ngulu. After n sleepless night she learned thnt he hnd been seen lion ril ing u westbound train, Ho wns with out money, sho knew mid no reasoning could comfort her. Vainly she told herself thnt after u while he would come home. Her husband's assurance that uhul- Mimwwimi HMinrmMBirnMMiwBa should bo senslblo and got all tho comfort out of this monoy you can." "I m going to," Klectru replied. Shu wus it llttlo ditzed from thu sudden ness of such tremondoiiB good fortune, but her quiet fuce hud a look llko thnt of a prisoner who lins walked out of a dungeon Into tho light uud air for tho drat tlmo lu years. "I'm Just going to, Snruli. I'vo thought It all out. Why, last night I scarcely Blcpt a mite. I wus too happy to sloop; I wanted to think. And I don't mind telling you my plnns. They're not now plana. I began to niuko them years ago when I used to dream of having a lot of money- just girl non sense, you know, but still " Sho paused with u long breath and a smile. "Well, Surah, It does seem us If that dream was coming truo part of It, anyhow. You see. I'vo ulwuys lived lu this house und been poor vln It. Why, sometimes when father wus liv ing wo Bcareoly had enough to out. Since ho nnd mother went I'vo kopt boarders. I've been u sluvo to othor people; they've hud my host rooms and I vo slept In tho attic or In that back room over tho kitchen. All tho money 1 got had to go Into food and fuel for other's accommodation. 1 haven't really had a homo for myself Well, that Is all past now, Sarah, I'm going to have this houso fixed up and pulnted Insldo and out. I'm going to have ull tho rooms pupored and a big window cut In tho purlor. I'm going to huvo u furnace and books and I'm going to llvo hero alone. My lund, I've been so crowded lately that It seems to mo I can't got spuco enough. I'm going to sleep In tho best bedroom and bit In the purlor. and I'm going to read und grow posies und go to church ovory tlmo tho boll rings and glvo tea parties to ull my friends ' sho puused for breath. MIsb Jowctt wlpod un eye- "I guess you're gcng t0 tako comfort." she "Of course; becuudo I'm nobody Nobody of Nowhorc." "Will you ever bo Somebody of Somewhere?" "No, never." "Do you mean thnt?" he nsked ear nestly. "Kvcry letter of It, bo plcaso don t argue." "I can t," he said hopelessly. ''You ro too unrcoBonablo nnd Illogical." "I'm not trying to bo logical. 1 m following my own Instincts. I'll try to explain those, but you won't under stand because you'ro a man. "Klvo years ago when you wore In college 1 saw you for tho first time. Somo one told mo your name nnd and things about you. After that I saw you a number of times In different places. I wanted to know you, but I couldn't think of any way until one night this wicked old tolophono tempt ed me. "I was afraid at first and I thought and thought nnd considered Just what chance thcro was of my ovor meeting you In the natural course of ovents. I decided that thoro was nbout ono chance In a hundred, so 1 rung up your 'phone number nnd forfcltod that chance. "Hut ringing you up wns an admis sion nnd I can t deny whnt It implied. Ah, Billy, can't you understand? I'vo mndo advances which only a man can moko with any docenoy, and consider ing everything I shall novor, never meet you faco to faco and Bay 'This Is !."' "You will," Bald Billy suddenly. "You'll moot mo tomorrow at Daw son's Art Galleries." "Not tomorrow, or ever. ' "I have something to tell you." "You must tell everything over tho wire. 1 can't meet you." "Vory well. Aro you listening?" "Yes." "Then It's Just this: You'll have to consider mo some In this affair. Per haps you never anticipated the present situation. You snw ma and you cared enough for whnt you saw to niako ad vances, which, an you nay, no girl should mnke. Well. I'vo only heard you; but I care enough now to be over ability bo possessed would de velop moro quickly und surely among strangers did not appeal to her. Hers must be tho guiding hand. "Ho went as a tramp." was her con stant moan, nnd soon sho became ob sessed with tho Idea. Sho thought of him an a tramp, sho dreamed of him uh u trump, she scrutinized tho faces of all tho tramps who cume to her door and sent them nwny comforted for his sake. When the years had piled up eight, ten. twelve und alio hnd not hcurd from him sho gave up hoping. Then Robert filed, und she wns, indeed ulrne. Unable to endure the loneliness while surrounded by familiar scenes and faces, she drifted to a distant city, und after a whllo, with tho longing for tho old homo strongly upon her. bought tho cottugo with Its plot of ground. Gradually the old life asserted Itself, nnd presently cozy nooks spoko to her of Robert nnd Bob, Then, by n sudden resolution, tho gardon became a re plica of that other, whero memory still lived. One morning she sat on her porch with n magazine in her hand. It was said. And she leaned oier and patted Klectru's hand. lu courso of tlmo tho old bourn; shone with fresh pulnt, tho front yard wns crowded with flowors, now cur tains foil ut nil the windows, und Klectru wont In uud out In now dresses of gray and white und black that wero vastly becoming. Ono day as sho stepped out of her door Bho eamo fuce to face with a man who wna Just nbout to ring tho boll. For an InBtHnt they stood gaz ing ut each other In bewilderment, then ho said, quietly, holding out his hand: "How do you do, Klectra?" I thought l'n call on you, but never mind, It you are going out. 1 can come some other time. I'm here to stay," "I urn glad to see you, Miles, ' Klec tru stammered. "Come l" Sho led him Into tho bright parlor und thoy sat down. They hud much to tulk about. He hud made his "pllo," as ho expressed It. and hnd come home to spoud It und his old ago among tho friends of his young years. When ho went away Klectra watched him from tho big window. Ho had grown almost fino looking a big, clcun, pleasant faced man. Sho smiled to herself. "I guess tho rest of my dreams is coming true," she thought. She looked about her hap pily. I'm so glad that I got things fixed up for Miles." Destined. "I bclave," declared the Irishman, "thut me youugeat son's born t' be a surgeou." "l'hawt leads ye t' say thot?" asked his friend. "01 caught htm usin' th' scissors on a book O'ld lately bought, an' before 01 c'd stop him he cut out th' appm-dlx," By WH Crrfc i rcndy.as soon ub you will let me, to mnke tlio most serious advances a man can make. Bo you understand 7 "I I don't know." "Then I'll put It plainer. I'vo Been hundreds of glrlB, but I never wished to marry them. It's only slnco 1 vo talked to you that I've cared to think what marrlago might mean. I don't know who you nre, whero you nro or what you are, but I in staking every thing on what I bollovo you to be. Now will you meet mo tomorrow?" "I can't." said tho volco faintly. "Tomorrow," ropented Billy. "I enn't I r-nn't." "You mti3t,' ho cried. "Bear Billy, no, no, no." Thoro was something thnt Bounded llko u Bob, nnd then Bllenco. Billy dashed tho ro colvcr at tho Instrument In helpless rage. Tho following nflornoon ho went to Dawson's Gallorlcs. Why ho wont, ho could not have told, except ho was moved as tho drowning man Is moved to grasp a straw. There ho saw a girl In a big black hat, whoso glnnco wns softly Imper sonal. Billy looked at her and won dered. Thcro wns another womnn who returned boldly Ills bright ques tioning gaze, and Billy shuddered as he turned away. "Sho can't bo llko that," ho protest ed Inwardly. "It Isn't possible," und ho thrilled suddenly at tho memory of tho volco with a sob In It." "I d stake my life on that voice," hn thought, and looked again at tho girl In tho black hut. Suddenly ho walked across to whero bIio stood boforo a largo painting. He leaned forward and, looked keenly Into her face. "So 6u cumo after ull," ho said. Tho girl retreated In genuine- sur prise. "You'ro mistaken, 1 think," sho snld, and turned her shouldor upon htm. Billy apologized and left the gallery with hot checks. "It wasn't her voice," ho told lilm Bclf, "and I'll novor try that again." I.uto that night ho loft his club. Tho clock In his hull struck 12 us ho cloned his own door. Ills oyo fell upon the telophoue book lying on n tabic under mmmmmrmmmmmm this day twenty years ngo thut had brought such grief Into her life,, and her wounded heart bled afresh. In vuln sho tried to rcud. Article after artlclo proved meaningless; but tho portraits appealed to her. "Leaders of tho Now Congress" closely held her at tention. "None of them Is handsome, us I though my son would be when a man," sho mused, turning tho leaves. But tho position they occupied brought the thought of the study and energy re quired to reuch a pneo llko theirs, und she foil to dreaming how her uon, now ii man, would look. Would his faco have tho low, Ignorant, vicious expres sion of many of tho tramps sho bud seen? "I seo whero I failed," bIic moaned aloud. "Somehow I could not under stand that work und study were noccs sury. In my Ignorance I ruined my boy." A fuchsia, heavy with its purple bloom, slipper from Its prop nnd fell. Sho got up to raise It. Suddenly her gnto latch clicked, nnd, gjuuclng up, sho saw u doctor coming In. She hud seen him pass several times lately, go. ( 6 A Little 'VB two tickets for Hie game tomor ow, Betty," Billy M o r e I u n d wus spcuklng over tho telephone. "Yes?" Betty's tone wus non-committal, "I'll tin mur about 2:30 " Hero he wus interrupted. "You really needn't bother, Billy, for m going with Tom," and a sharp III- tie click told him that sho had, hung up tho received. Billy gasped. Kver since he first met hor in their freshman year he had taken her around and now' ly ; "because Tom Lylc Is captain of the football Uam and gets his picture ! ,h,e,J,aPcr very so often. Oh, hang It! I'll Just show her a thing or two"" She needn't think sho was the only pebblo on the beach (though In truth sho was tho only pebble o lis beach). He'd ask some other girl to go. T here was Marjorle- she didn't go with anybody since Hurry went to college and Marjorlo wus ono nice girl Accordingly bo called her up, ami although she seemed a bit surprised she consented. ,"'!s. ,ni.c. of 'ou t0 ask e. Billy." "U,?J.0,d h ni' "' u,du,t "licet to go!" The nlccness Is on your side. Mary, ho assured her gallantly though In his heart he had tho grace to feel cheap-lt(waa sort of mean to ask one girl Just to spite another. Tbo game was a fine one. Their side scored a goal und a touchdown and the school cheered long and loud. At his side Marjorlo babbled ulonc cheerily, but somehow he couldn't nut Betty out of his mind, What had lie done to offend her? it wasn't llko her to flare up this way He must have thu Instrument, and tho Bight of It brought buck all his trouble with u rush. Ho took it up, ruffling thin, cloncly lettered pagos with an tin hnppy frown. "I d call up ovory number in tho book If It would do any good," ho snld, thoughtfully, nnd wuh about to put it down ugnln when tho boll began to vlbruto closo to his car. Ho renched quickly for tho receiver. "Billy!" "Hollo! I didn't suppose It could bo you so late." "I know. It must bo midnight, but 1 -I wanted to Bpcak to you." "1 wish you'd want to do something tnoro than speak. 1 went to Dawson u this afternoon. Wero you thoro?" "No." "I'vo been thinking things over over slnco our talk last evening." "Aro you going to meet mo?" "No; I rang up to say 'Goodby."" "What!" "Goodby. with a capital I, Billy for always." "Without ray ovor knowing anything more about you?" "I enn't help It, I'm sorry, sorry, that 1 ovor callod you up. I never thought that you'd tako mo seriously llko this. But after what you Bald last night, wo can t go on." "Hut you can't end It now after a wholo year of of ." "Of what? Of nothing at all. You can't euro for a moro volco. You'll soon forget all of It." "I won't! "ho cried savagely, "It Isn't tho volco I love. I know your wholo personality. I can tell when you'ro sud or happy or sick or well. You enre, too. You said so. If you ring off for nlwuya now, I'll bollovo forever that you did this for a vllo Joko on a vulgar hot." "You can't think that." sho snld, gently, "when you remember somo of tho things I have said." "Then I'll forget them." "Very wall; I huppobo thut Is best. Say 'Goodby' Billy." "No." "Goodby." "I tell you I won't Hay 'Goodby.' " Thoro waB no answer. Ho leaned ing to a nearby house, where there wus u sick child. "I noticed your gulden and cunio In for a better vlow. I hopu you will pardon the Intrusion." "You are very wolcomc." sho told him. "Many of the blossoms nre at their best. Tho hot sun brings out their beauty. If you llko I will pick some for yevt." "Thunk you. You are vory kind. It reminds me of my mother's garden. Tho roso hedgo, the shapo and ar rangement of tho beds and the flowers themselves. You liavo n beautiful nnd un artistic home." "Not a home. Homo is whoro Micro Is love and companionship. I have neither." "You live alone?" "Except for my flowers. My hus band Is dead nnd my son, whom I, In my Ignorance ruined, left home, a tramp. I think of him ulwnys. Some times ho Is In city slums, again In rail road camps, or in prison. My son, whom I would have died to suvo! If I could only know! But ho'a never written nor sent mo a word." Sho turned, her hands full of flow Goose" done something but what? So wrapped In thought was he that ho didn't notice thut Marjorlc'a chat ter had ceased till ho felt her hand on his arm. "I know you are thinking about Bet ty," she suld In her earnest' little way, "and I think I know what tho trouble l.s." Billy wob tall and fair and most girls thought him "awfully good look ing." but Mnrjorle's heart was ut Har vard with one Harry. "Haven't you sort of fallen into tbo habit of taking Betty as a matter of course " she began. "Don't you al ways ask her to let you walk home with her or do you just accopt that privilege as your right? Oh, don't think me 'butting hi.'" Marjorle'a sen sitive face flushed. "But often and oft en that Is juat tho trouble and no girl likes to be taken for granted, Billy." Billy drove his hands into his coat pockets und looked at her. light be ginning to dawn on his face. "By JovcMarJorlc, I'll bet you'ro right! It's mighty good of you to put me wise. Girls are all Chinese puz zles to me," and Billy wrung her liana in his Joy. Marjorle smiled a pleased little smile. "I'll be watching for results now." she told him. But ull wus not yet ended. It seem ed when he sought un Interview that milady's time was all taken up for ut least a century. But Billy's nlco boy voice pleaded so hard and so earnestly that she relented and told him lie might como home with bcr from mcct lug the Jlglit after next. Impatient Billy would liavo awonv that there were at least 8 hours In each of those days. Ho caught brief glimpses of her sun-gold hair flaoh Jng through the corridors at school, but had opportunity for never a -word with my Lady Disdain until the ap f ftnunltf - i fir" s""" in nucci in his car. u l ming tin tu . ",,l! whlto face. P h0 rclr - chill fr lh.ttSft J Three weeks tm,j . was latn , , i..o was thromed :;. Ircsscd men and 0"M ? passing. "' ft HuiJ!!" !". t.;;,M ...c. ?m i -"" "V "". fKd tttv uumiw icrheiiutettf, b ho crossed tho lobby, nut gers closed over sometMtt Ho opened them and L snuuro wlilln t.a.i.i,..i . lottora that flashed a toS niin inn contciouincu iti namo that ho had eter iUT, Biugiu worn ruwn acrout 110 llWllo tt rulh fnrlk. , doors tlirntieh mMa .i.i., A hansom stood mlotttl! girl who had Juat tntertli iurwnra. ue fcicpped In V ma uoors cioiea and tie oi lorwaru into thocruthoti hlclcs. For u moment milr i.i . Ills heart beat fait and bell gin Dcaiuo mm catch her Ik il nnrvnm xnli Ho twlHted abrunllr. r- hor hands In one o( hli uj forward, railed her retL ft; light fell full on her ldt eyes and trembling lips. U satisfied latich ha ltinM t "Thank God, you tint r!i snld. s By Will Seaton ttHHfmmitf 'I.1111 "''' ers, but they fell to the (rout The doctor, with btrti I folded urma, was lotentl; b: her. "Mother!" he Wiprtt Lnlcr. when the y couil un. her that Tor a long iim m n anllnn n ml nncrV! th(B. 1.1 ashamed. That ben h toil mi ii riMinliio reformat 00 M C faco his imrenti without tt I it "Oh, It was hard, little nrj imif lunched, "to fowt win who nnt nmiln for or eiPKli ure, and lung yean of tort wont before I couia nou u II... urimf flint I Aas detin inWo in vim. Then ltnM flier was gone, and no cm q me of your wliereawuii. i for you, und nnaiiy () .i...t n,i atllAit hre td tnfl lelne. and If It had not M ..l,ltul rail t ihOUld nwaynnd womlfbtnererto'i Maalllnf In tht arffll 01 I hundsomo son. the munwj was uotau accident, ow, culled you; It ipoki lo I nnd mother." ' By Elsie Endicoll pointee nigui .,. nanu iu w)1"- . hand nevcrthele.8 -Why. you didn't ej she walled after b so ! about the niieenm said-" urn 0(.;v'",,:rt Billy punctured the "'" ... -...!. un yj sun b""""--..., im "Do you like Tom Wrl he demanded. "Do you iwe " ,ell gin, oui uui - question." . , Ilf(i I Bettys neau u'rtit(!ti raised It proudly. J "J very sweei - - 0,ii , "i just llko my on, there!" .. ...imkU: He covered uer ij-- dr,l n m. 18 '""'",: hovwi hers and his nice bo) with emotion .,, ,8itJJ -Oh. little. lB'tr,.l pio tree i I" - . .. ..... Hi'infl"11, lipt"" l Ono day Me school were 61 ft. c$ cow. i". ; -theu. o, -c t.-niiaht fU for ,D ,' Roll1 t"eb,EnutPsaro"ii Bomctnins .-- . 4J;e .nuhnt'ii that! UI 'That's milk" r,! Rosle took auoiu and ashcu. . y j,y "Did the cow iar