THURSDAY, JULY 21.
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THE. CHEERFUL CHERVD
S T R A IT GATE
B y R U T H C O M FO R T M IT C H E L L
C O P Y R I G H T D . A P P L E T O N — C E N T U R Y C O ., I N C .
CHAPTER X—Continued
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Sarah Lynn leaned back in a great
deep chair which made her seem
childishly small, and the aviator
stretched himself flat again, his
hands folded behind his yellow head.
"T his was the one 1 liked,” Jor
dan said, his fingers halting.
"B u t I shall go down from this airy
space, this swift white peace,
this stinging exultation;
And time w ill close about me, and
my soul stir to the rhythm of
the daily round.
Yet, having known, life w ill not
press so close.
And always I shall feel time ravel
thin about me.
For once I stood
In the white windy presence of eter
nity.”
Sarah Lynn felt a little shiver of
appreciation. She had known it, the
swift white peace, the stinging exul
tation. Life would never press too
close on her, on Gunnar; they
wouldn't let it! They were not earth
bound; they had dominion.
Jordan played on and on. quietly
now, with a conviction of serenity
and permanence, and the crimson
of the hearth died down to a hot,
gray ash. It seemed to Sarah Lynn
that her heart must literally burst
with its weight of surging happi
ness.
Her great-grandmother’s condi
tion was evident even to Sarah
Lynn's high-keyed preoccupation,
and she ached with pity and pro
test. The old woman sent for her
and went at once to the point.
“ Sairy Lynn, I guess I don’t need
to tell you I ’m getting older every
minute.”
I know. Great-granny.' She took
a small, lean claw in her warm
grasp. “ And I wish I could give you
twenty years.”
“ The last ones? Think now. look
ing so far ahead, that you won't
want 'em? Well, you will, let me
tell you; you’ll want 'em the worst
way. And you'll know you can't
have 'em. Well, I ’m obliged to you
for the wish.”
“ I ’m sorry,” Sarah Lynn said.
“ Oh. Great-granny. 1 wish there
was something 1 could d ol”
“ Well, there is,” the nonagenarian
said briskly. "T h a t’s what I'm geV
ting at. That's why 1 sent for you
1 know you're getting married and
putting out, quick’s ever you can,
out again, passing through the
group of disapproving faces.
The matriarch rapped on the win
dow with her lean knuckles and
waved at her elderly daughters, her
middle-aged granddaughters, and
gave her shrill, cackling laugh.
“ Now, go on home and don’t
fret,” she admonished them, “ you
poor old things!”
Then Sarah Lynn Dana took her
ship away frorrt the pleasant land
scape into the calm skies, carrying
the ninety-seven-year-old pioneer
who had crossed the plains in a
covered wagon to found the dynasty
of Danavale.
Sarah Lynn looked back at her
often and every time she smiled all
over her small parchment face and
waved a claw.
“ I ’m having the best time 1 ever
had in all my born days, Sairy
Lynn," she chirped, unaware that
her wavering treble did not carry
over the sound of the motor. “ Beats
everything. Even the first day in
W N U S E R V IC E
the head did not lift. Then the
pilot headed for the coast, over the
Santa Crux mountains to the Pacific
and flew low along the shore. After
a while she shook the tears out of
her eyes and looked into the sunset;
she thought she had never seen one
so lavish, so jubilant.
She rose and climbed and set out
for home and when she circled the
field at San Jose she could see the
diminished descendants of Sarah
Ann Kittredge Dana, pioneer, in an
anxious huddle, gazing up. When
she set her ship down gently her
head was high.
Gunnar opened the door, looking
closely at her, and the rest came
hurrying up. She got out slowly,
without speaking, and they stared
at her. She wasn’t crying, but they
could see traces of tears on her
face.
.> ,
“ Mother!” some of the elderly
daughters called, and “ Oh, Grand
m a!” a middle-aged granddaughter
cried out shrilly.
Then there was a wild clamor of
talking and weeping, of questions
and reproaches. Sarah Lynn stood
quietly in the midst of them, trying
to keep remembering how the sun
set had looked. "Great granny,” she
steadied her voice, "Great-granny—
didn’t—come down.”
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don’t you?
D u ff-Y e s. very well.
Guppy—They tell me he s living
like a king.
Duff—Poor guy I
Gunnar comforted Sarah Lynn in
the difficult days which followed.
’Do not listen to the wailing,” he
admonished her.
“ But they say I killed her. Gun
Gunnar let Sarah Lynn take the
nar.”
Hermod up alone one day and stood
"And 1 say you gave to her life
waiting proudly while she brought
again. Not choking in blankets but
it smoothly and beautifully to earth.
boldly in the sky. as she would wish,
It was her acollade: sign and sym
that small grande jther. Age closed
1 Fo r »11 plates I new. old.
_____ _ | ¡a rt 11,1 o r tcm|»ir»r> ! The
bol of his utter trust.
her in like a trap, you opened the
anly
cushlon-lfke
material of Ita k in d ! Allow«
They walked on the shore beside
door.”
to «at aleak a, applaa. corn on lha cob. ale.
{ on
the blue, bright water and he took
"Oh, 1 know! But, I keep dream
diminatee rocking. droppteg. chafing Fat,
talk, laugh, atng arithout euharrauunant. Ona
her in his arms. “ So,” he said,
ing of her, huddled down in her
simple appllratioa laata ZO times longer than
lifting his head after a long kiss,
seat, swinging over the belt—”
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“ you are fearless, also wise. You
“ That is folly Think of her look
fly safely and skillfully my Hermod
iM fs o o u c r o s v o»»»»
ing down with pleasure.”
\V r 11 r « Ufie » HU , » «s I »mt f
1 love you.”
“ Yes. Only I did so want her at
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Sarah Lynn pulled herself out of
my wedding It—it isn’t going to be
^ r a f D C X r V R K Z E f a r » ! du. . a d — d »uh wdar
his embrace to look up at him.
a very nice wedding. Gunnar.”
“ Gunnar, do you love me? Me?”
He shrugged "What matter? It
Addmm
"Have I not said—”
is a wedding. That is enough. Then
Stale
¿2,
“ I know. But I mean—is it only
we go!”
because I ’ve learned to fly proper
They were walking back to her
ly? Because I'm not afraid? Be
house from an evening with Lynn
cause 1 do the kind ot things you
Dana.
like? Or is it—myself?”
"Gunnar, 1 promise. I ’ll stop
He laughed aloud. “ This is a
“ Enough ot folly. We finish!
grieving about Great-granny."
folly. I love you because you are
“ That is well. Death in age, in
you—without fear, and wise, a good Sairy Lynn, and that’s right. I the wagon-train, and the day we sickness, in helplessness is good. All
knew
we
was
in
Californy.
My
land,
want you should. But there’s a
flier. It is answered."
BOYS! GIRLS I i ASK YOUR
what would your Gre’gramper think such should be put away."
“ No, but” —there was a shadow in favor you could do me first.”
; AVIATION I
She came out of her mood of exal
of
this?”
She
gave
a
little
crow
of
GROCER
“ Anything!” she said gladly
the eyes of the queer, dark Dana
CAPS
tation with a cry of protest. “ Oh,
triumph.
“
Well,
poor
Hank!
When
“
Anything
I
can—”
g irl. “ Don’t you think we ought to
Gunnar—no! That’s h orrible!"
“ I should admire to have a ride In I think how he come acrost the
care for people themselves, not for
“ Man," he persisted, “ must learn
continent,
most
of
the
way
a-foot,
Joy in Seriousness
what they do? Not even for what your flying-machine, Sairy Lynn."
’cause we lost so many critters and from Nature. To let survive—how
A thing seriously pursued af
“
Of
course.
Great-granny!
I
’d
they are? I think—”
| we had to make the loads light, do you say it? ”
fords true enjoyment.—Seneca.
adore it.”
" I t needs no thinking,” he said.
and he was young and stout. I d
“ The survival of the fittest, but
“
Well,
there's
plenty
that
won’t,”
“ But—Gunnar, suppose—suppose
; admire to have him here, today,
she said grim ly. “ When the folks ! looking down like I am. Well, for who can say, who can judge and
1 stopped flying?”
decide who is the fittest? Don’t you
hear of it there'll be the devil to
“ Suppose you stopped living? pay and no pitch hot, but I don’t evermore! If that’ s all Mt. Hamil- see what a frightful danger it would
Enough of folly! We finish!” He care. I ’ ve got a hankering to see I ton amounts to, and the way I ve be? How wicked people could bribe
been looking up at it for eighty-odd
kissed her again.
what it ’s like. I want to ride up in years! My, but the a ir’s nice up and corrupt—And some of the fin
est minds and spirits are in frail
the sky and look down at birds
Lynn Dana wrote to his traveling flapping their wings that 1 always here, Sairy Lynn! Awful light and bodies. Do you want a world full
thin . . . Makes a body drowsy . . ." of prize-fighters? Think” —she said
H are ’s good advice for a woman during ha»
cousin:
envied, and I want to look down
change (usually from 3» to 6 2 ). w h o fears
The flier looked back and saw her hotly—“ think of my Uncle L ynn !"
“ I wish you were here to see them at Danavale and all the foolish
«he’ll loaa her appeal ta men. who worries
now, Sally Ann. By and by, I sup houses the folks built and the road nodding. It was too bad to let her
ab o u t hot flashes, loa« of pep, dlsxy «pells,
He shrugged. “ You speak now of
upset nerve« and m<«r!y spells.
pose, an inexorable calendar will your Gre-gramper and I come over lose an instant of this thrill. She the exception. That would be bad.
G e t more freah a ir, « hrs. •‘«»p and If you
catch them and clip their wings, in the covered wagons, d irty and executed a mild side slip and the But in the end, after five hundred
need a good general ayatam tonic take L y d ia
E
.
Plnfeharn’a Vegatabla Compound, made
old
woman
sat
up
with
a
jerk
and
but now they are soaring!
years, would not the race be greatly
dog-tired and snailing along with the
«•parioUa for women. I t helpa N atu re build
“ Their visit at Jordan’s Tahoe half-dead critters hauling us. I want grinned at her.
up physical reaiatance. thus help« give more
improved?”
v iv a city to enjoy life and assist relm lng
“ Hey, Sairy Lynn! What you up
lodge seemed to set them free. They to do that once before 1 die.”
Sarah Lynn wasn’t interested in
Jittery nerve« and disturbing aym ptoma th a t
to? Trying to spill me out?” She
are armored against everything
often *
" “ L***
“ And you shall. Great-granny, looked down with renewed anima the state of the race five hundred
WORTH
now, even poor Cousin Adelaide. dear.” she told her. “ I pro m ise -
years ahead. She was disturbed.
They say little of plans but 1 gather cross my heart!” Gunnar would tion but very soon she was sleepy Gunnar had aired those ideas be
they are to marry in a fortnight and loan her the Hermod for this ritual. again.
fore, but never so vehemently.
| Sarah Lynn waited until she had
ROMAN EYE BALSAM used
go at once to Norway where he has
She had to put herself to sleep
her full attention and then she in that night resolutely, remembering
when retiring w ill relieve sore,
excellent prospects.
CHAPTER XI
quired, both by words which she the thrilling beauty of the plane
Inflamed and sticky eyes by
“ I think—at least, 1 suspect—that
knew could not be heard and by against the moon.
morning. 50c a ja r at drug
they w ill fly the Atlantic in the
I t was a pretty day. Gunnar ap
Hermod, in complete secrecy. I proved the weather, and he warmly unmistakable gestures whether she
gists or W right’s P ill Co., 100
But she kept her promise to stop
ready to descend.
doubt if they w ill even tell me.
Gold St., N. Y. City.
mourning over the death of the an
approved the project. It was ex was
She shook her head violently cestress.
“ Of course I shall miss them actly what he wished he might have
All her loyal cohorts
“ No! No! 1 don’t want to go down! helped, and a long, understanding
blankly, bleakly; it doesn’t need done for Grandmother Gudrun.
29—38
1 don’t want to have it over. 1
WNU—13
your nimble and trained imagina
Lynn Dana was deeply pleased. want to keep on going up and up cable from Sally Ann, and most of
tion to understand how much of fla
all,
the
man
in
the
wheeled-chair.
vor and fragrance w ill go out of “ She gave you your wings; right to and up!”
“ Let's put a period to it, Sarah
things, but I shall manage to re share them with her,” he nodded.
“ All right,”
her great-grand Lynn,” he said. “ You were p rivi
The
colony
came,
the
protestants,
joice for our dark duckling hatched
daughter said, and set the Hermod
T o G e t R id o f Acid
at least, anxious, indignant, an to climbing After a while they en leged to pay back in an hour what
an d Poisonous W aste
into an eagle’s mate.
you
had
owed
her
all
your
life.
She
Y o u r kidney» help to keep you wcD
“ There’s something lyric, some noyed, and the harried Emma Wa countered a soft sea of pink clouds gave you your freedom; you gave
by constantly filtering waste m atter
thing mythical and symbolic about ters kept saving, "Now. Mis’ Dana, and rose over it. It was an exquis- her hers.”
from tha blood. I f your kidneys gat
where’s
your
handkerchief?
Mis’
functionally disordered and fail to
their romance; partly, I suppose,
iteley lovely thing to see, but the pas
remove excess Im purities, there m ay ba
because of its evanescent quality, Dana, you went and took your knit senger’s sharp chin was resting on
So peace came back to Sarah
iaonlng of tha whole syetem and
dy-wlde distress.
because they are looking constant ted jacket o ff!”
her breast and she appeared to be Lynn for her last days in Dana
K
Burning,
scanty or too frequent uri
Wrapped like a little old royal sleeping soundly. Sarah L y n n vale. She said to her father, “ Dad,
ly into the bright face of danger.
nation m ay be a warning of soma kidney
mummy,
she
was
finally
lifted
into
or bladder disturbance.
thought it a pity; there would be I ’ m to be married in Great-granny’s
I t ’s hard to imagine them middle
You m ay suffer nagging backache,
aged and portly; I can’t see beyond the cabin of the Hermod in Gun time enough and to spare for nap parlor Monday morning at nine, and
persistent headache, attacks of dlsslneas,
nar’s
long
arms.
getting
up nights, swelling, pufllneas
then
we’re
flying
east.
1
wanted
you
ping
down
in
the
little
old
Dana
youth for them.
under the eyes— feel weak, nervous,' all
“ I ’m obliged to you, young fel house when she and Gunnar were to know. I ’m telling Bill, too.”
“ Doubtless this is all because I ’m
played out.
In such cases I t Is better to rely on s
(TO BE CONTINUED)
a little low in my mind on another ler,” she thanked him. “ And I'm far across the sea, so she did an
medicine th a t has won eountry-sdda
count. Granny is going down hill real pleased about you and my other sharp slip to rouse her, but the
acclaim than on something leas favor
ably knosm. Use Doan's F ills . A m ulti
Awaited Perry’s Ships
very perceptibly, and it gets me child. I ’ve set store by Sairy Lynn small figure in the thick wrappings
tude of grateful people recommend
While the ships were being built
Everything dim m ing—eyes, ears; a from the first minute I laid eyes on did not stir.
Doon’r. Ass »our n tig k b o rt______________
her
in
the
cradle.
I
believe
you’re
at
Erie
for
Oliver
H.
Perry
to
use
slowing down all around She senses
Sarah Lynn looked at her for a
going
to
make
her
a
good
husband
in the Battle of Lake Erie, the B rit
it of course, and she loathes it.
“ I will make her a good hus long time. Then she pulled off a ish fleet was waiting outside the
“ So then! Sorry you’re missing
glove
and
tossed
it
back
It
struck
the skylarks but glad you are being band,” he ‘ old her gravely, fasten the shawled shoulder smartly, but bar to smash them to smithereens.
ing the seat belt about her, getting
spared the m atriarch’s defeat.
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