4
gl
found cake, and perhaps a pitcher of
■>orc about how to run ticwwim;!»,»
clear new elder; apples were always
than anybody alive; but there’s one
a certainty.
thing she's goto' to find out; and that
This evening waa glorious; there
Is, She don’t have anytlilug more to
weru apples and elder and cake and do with my and Henry's newspaper.
walnuts, perfectly cracked, and
Wo wouldn't have another slugle one
large open bi-aricd box of candy.
of her ole |>oetns In It, no matter now
Naturally, these tiring the circum
much she offered to pay uet Uncle
stances, Herbert was among the
Joseph, I think you ought to tell her
guests; and, though rather at a dis site's got no businss» around my and
By
advantage, so far as the conversation
Henry's hewspaper building."
waa concerned, not troubled by the
"But, Herbert," Aunt Fanny sug
handicap. The rousou he was at a
gested. "you might let Florence have
conversational
disadvantage
waa
a little share In It of some sort. Then
closely ccmtiectod with the unusual
everything would be all right.”
"Upply of refreshments; Uncle JosSfih
"It would J” he demanded, bls Moles
and Aunt (kirrle had foreteen the
Illustration« by
coming of several more Atwal>-ra than cracking naturally, at bls age, but also
usual, to talk over the new affairs of under strain of the protest ho wished
their beautiful relative, Julia.
Sel It to express, “it woo-wud? Oh, my
dom have any relative's new afTalra goodness. Aunt Fauny, I guess you’d
been morn thoroughly talked over than Ilka to we our newspaper Just utter-
were Julia's that evening, though all ably ruined t Why, we wouldn’t let
the time by means of various »ymtale, that girt have any more to do with it
since It was thought wiser that Hew titan we would ooms horse!”
"Oh, ohf" both Aunt Fanny and
Iw-rt and Florence should, not yet be
told of Julia's engagement, and Flor Aunt Carrie exclaimed, shocked.
"We wouldn’t," Herbert Instated. “A
ence's 1»rents were not present to
PART ONK.
hors» would know any 'amount more
Frou<1 poaaessoc ot • pril.'lng press, and confess their Indiscretion. Julia was
MUtpmeni. th» gift nf t'nels Juasuh lo refVrrei' to as "the traveler," and other how to run a newspaper *nn »he does;
Bis n»ph»w. Itarbart llllngaworlh Atws-
anyway, a horse wouldn't make so
ler. Jr.. »aml thirtesn, ih» fertunala makeehlfts were employed with the
youth. wtth hl» vhum. Ilanry Hooter,
moot knowing caution; and all the much nolle around there. Soon a»
about tl.a asm» »«». baglna th» puMI-a
we got our printing preea: we said
den et s full fledsed nawspaper. th» North while Florence merely al» Inscrutably.
Bhd ttally Oriol» Herbert'» »mall eoualn. The more sincere Herbert was as right then that we made up our minds
noren.-e Atwalar belng barrsd trom
Florence Atwater wasn't ever gotn’ to
aay sind ot particlpation In the antar- placid; such foods were enough for have a single thing to do with our
pri»». on ».-counl ot har Intens» and nat him.
ur»! tan.inln» draire (<> "bo»a. " I» trunMIy
“Well, all I say la, the traveler bet newspaper. If you let her hnve any
aaaoyed. and not at »II bnckward In »ay-
lag »o However. a poeni ah» ha» writ ter enjoy herself on her travels.” said thing to do with anything »he wants
ten la eacepted für Insertion In th» Oriole.
Aunt Fanny anally, as the subject to run tbe whole thing. But aha might
sa a »trl.-tly veanmerctal beste - caah In
Just as well leant to stay away from
advanc» Tn» po»n> auffera •omewhat appeared to be wearing toward ex
our newspaper building, because after
Boni the In» apertenca ot ths youthtul
puhHa' ors in Ihn "art preaar vallve." Har bauatlon. “She certainly is In for it we got her out yesterday we fixed a
not atiogathar unraaaonabl» demand für when the voyaging Is over and she
republlratlon <.f the maalarpto e. wtth Its arrive« In the port she sailed from, way eo's sbe’ll never get In there
■sauty untnarred ar» erarned. end th»
Wr«k b»tw»»n Mlaa A'aa'ar and th» and baa to show her paper» I agree again I"
Florence looked at him demurely.
rvbllaher» uf the Oriol» wldana,
with the rest of you; she'll have a
Th» Sünder followtng th» firat app»ar-
eJ.» ot th» Ortnl», Fiorane»» partik ular great deal to answer for, and most "Ara you sure, Herbert F she In
rhum. Paitr Fhirvhlld. par» her a vielt
of all about the shortest one. My quired.
Th-v ar» Jolnad loapita Mlaa Atwater'» own opinion Is that the shortest one la
“Just you try It I" he advised, with
epanlr eipra»e»d dlaanproval br Ma»t»r
heartiest earvasm; and he laughed
Harbert Atwater and Henry Iteolar Not going to burst like a balloon.”
at alt Stsooneertsg by the ■ oolnes» ot
"Just come around to
“The shortest one." as the demure tauntingly.
Ölair rereptlun, the vlattor» and MIM
Fair, bild indulge In a »»rta» ot Innocml
Florence had understood from the morrow and tr^-1t; that's ail 1 ask!"
Bunday nn>H Amons lh»n» la ona ,-alled first, was her Ideal—none other than
"I eert'aly Intend to." she responded,
"Truth,'r th» featur» ot wlilch In a con
tra-1 to wrlta a quaetto» and anewar. Noble Olli. Now she looked up from wtth dignity. "I may have s slight
boii. to he kant a prafsun-1 aenrat Tbe the stool where aha aat with her back •urprtse for you."
agtaan.eni la duly earried out
laellnlng emphatlcaüy to pertlclpate In against a pilaster of the mantelpiece.
"Oh, Florence, »ay not to! Say not
any »am» w.ih her . oueln and Henry “Uncle Joseph." she said—“1 was Just so. Florence! Say not so!"
Iteotar. Florence le plqued by Mlaa Falr-
rhlld e <>p»n daeartlon to the enemy, her thinking. What la a person's reasonT
At this she looked full upon him,
SMtwhlto boeoni Irland epparentlv »Mor
The fat gentleman, rosy with fire sod already ahe had something In tbe
ins heraalt Inirnenaoly In Ihn rotnpany jf
Ihn vtallora and laavlng wllh them
light and cider, finished his fifth glass nature of a surprise for him; for so
before responding
"Well, there are powerful was tbe sMIl balefulness of
I Contineti from last we»k.)
persons I never could find any reason her glance be was slightly startled.
Almost from bls babyhood be bad
foe 'em at all. 'A person's reasonY
been a child of one purjKMM: to In
What do you mean, 'a person's res-
crease by ghastly burlesque the suf
sou.' Florence Y'
fer I rg. of unfortunate friends. If one
"t mean like when somebody says.
of them wept, Wallis Incessantly pur
•They'll lose their reason.'" she ex
sued him, yelping In horrid-mimicry;
plained. "Has everybody got a rea
if one were chastised, he V.uld not
son. and If they have, wbat Is It. and
appear out-of-doors for days except to
how do they lose It. and what would
encounter Wallis and a complete re
they do tbenY'
hearsal of the recent agony. "Quit,
"Oh. I see!" he Mid. “You needn't
papa ; pah-puh. quse yet I III never
worry. I suppose »Ince you heard It,
do It again, pah-pub!
Oh. lemma
you've te-en hunting «11 over yourself
alone, pah puh I"
for your reason end look’ng to s-e If
As he grew older, hie Insatiate cu
there «as one hanging out of anybody
riosity enabled him to expose unnum
else, somewhere. No; It's something
bered weaknesses. Indiscretions and
you can’t see ordinarily, Flgencc
social misfortunes on the part of ac
IxMlna your reason la just another
quaintances and schoolmates; and to
way of saying ‘going craxy!'"
every exposure hla nolae and energy
“Oh." «tw murmnrgd. and aiu'eared
gave a hideous publicity; the more
to be somewhat disturbed
his victim sought privacy the more
At thia, Herbert thought proper
persistently he waa sought out by
offer a witticism for the pleasure of
Wellie, vociferous and attended by
the company.
hilarious spectator». But strove all
“You know, Florence," be said, -it
other things? whnt most stimulated
only means acting like you most ■i-
the demoniac boy tn prodlgtes of sst-
«nys do." He applauded himself with
lre was any tender episode or aymp
» burst of changing laughter which
tom connected with the dawti of love.
ynnced from a bullfrog croak to a
Florence herself had sujered excru
collapsing soprano; then he added:
ciatingly at Intervals throughout her
"K»l>eclally when you come around
eleventh spring, because Wallte dis
my end Henry's newspaper building!
covered that Georgia Heck sent her n
You certainly 'loac your reason’ every I
valentine; and the humorlat'a many,
time you come around that j»le place!"
many squealings of thnt valentine's
"Well, course 1 haf to act like the
affectionate quatrain Anally left her
people (lint's already there." Florence
unable to decide which she hated the
It Stagqered Him. “What—What—
retorted, not sharply, but In a musing
more, Wallte or Gcorgle. That was
You Meanf"
tone that should have warned him.
the worst of Wallle: he never "let
It wue not her wont to use a quiet “I might say not so," she said—"If 1
up"; and In Florence's circle there
voice for rcjiartee. Thmklng her hum
was speaking of what pretty eyes you
waa no more sobering threat than,
hie. h< laughed the more raucously.
know you have. Herbert."
"TH tell Wallle Torbln!"
As for
"Oh. Florence!" he bcsoiifht her
Henry Rooter and Herbert Tilings-
It staggered him. “What—what—
Say not so! Say not so!”
worth Atwater, Jr., they would ns soon
yon meant'
have bad a head-hunter on their trail
"Children. children I" Uncle Joseph
“Oh, nothin'," ahe replied, airily.
as Wallle Torbln wltb anything In Ms I remonstrated.
Herbert began to be mistrustful of
hands that could Incrlmlnnte them
He-bert changed hla tone ; he be- the solid earth Somewhere there was
In an Implication of love—or an ac
seriously plaintive
“Weìl. ahp a fearful threat to hla _equlpolaa.
knowledgement of their own beauty
does act that way. Uncle Joseph I "What you talkin’ aboutY' he said,
The fabric of civilised life Is Inter
When she comes around there you'd wtth an effort to atu'ak scornfully;
think we were runnlit’ u lunatic but his sensitive voice almost failed
woven with blackmail; even some of
the noblest people do favors for other asylum the wsy she taken on. She hint.
people who arc depended ujion not to hollers nml hellers anti squid Is nntP’ “Oh, nothin'," said Florence. “Just
tell somebody something thnt the no nquuwkn. The least little teeny thing about what pretty eyes you know you
blest people have done. Blackmail Is »he don't like nbout the way we run have, and Patty's being anyway aa
born Into us all. and our nurses teach i our pspc(, she comes tlnppln' over pretty as youra—and so you're glad
us more blackmail by threatening to there nml goes to screechin' around, maybe she thinks youra are pretty,
tell cur parents. If we won't do thia you could lienr her out at poorhouse the way yon do—and everything!“
and that—and our parents threaten fsrm 1"
Herbert visibly gulped. So Patty
to tell t|p* doctor—and so we learn!
“Now. nosv, Herbert," his Aunt Fan had betrayed him; had betrayed the
Blackmail Is part of the dally life of ny Interposed. "Poor little Florence sworn confidence of "Truth I"
a child; displeased, hla first resort to Isn't saying anything Impolite to you—
"That's all I was talkin' about,"
get his way with other children Is a not right now, at auy rate. Why don't Florence added. “Just about how you
threat to "tell"; hut by-and-by hla you In ii little sweet to her Just for knew you had such pretty eyes. Say
experience discovers the mutual bene onct-Y'
not so. Herbert! Say not so!”
fit of honor among blackmailers. ■
Her unfortunnte expression revolted
"Look here!” he said. "When'd you
Therefore, at eight It la no longer the all the cousinly manliness In Herbert's see Patty again between this after
ticket to threaten to tell the teacher; bossom. " 'Be >i little sweet to her Y ” noon and when you came over hereY'
and, r little later, threatening to tell he echoed, with poignant Incredulity,
“What makes you think I saw her?"
any r It at all la considered some and then In candor made plain how
"Hid you telephone her?”
thing of a breakdown In morals. No poorly Aunt Fanny Inspired him. “I ,
“What makes you think so?"
toriously, the code Is more liable to Just exnckly ns soon be n little sweet 1
Once more Herbert gulped. “Well,
Infraction by people of the physically to an alligator,’’ he asserted; such I guess you're ready to believe any
weaker fex. for the verjt reason,
was his bitterness on this subject.
thing anybody tells you," he said, with
JwLaV ,«iJ'XiSF7n*rrIe.
"course, that their Inferiority of mtil-
a palsied bravado. "You don’t believe
cle so frequently compels such a sin.
•T would I" Herbert Insisted. "Or j everything Patty Fairchild says, do
If they are to have their way. But a mosquito. I’d rather, to either of - youT
for Florence there was now no such 'em, because, anyway, they don't make
"Why, Herbert I Doesn't ahe always
temptation. Looking toward the de so much noise. Why, you Just odght tell the Truth?"
molition of Atwater A Rooter, an ex- to hear her," he went on, growing
"tier? Why, half ths time," poor
posuro before adults of the results more and more severe. “You ought Herbert babbled, "you can’t tell
of "Truth" would have been an effect to Just conio around our newspaper whether she Just makln' up what she
of the sickliest pallor compared to building any afternoon you please, af says or not. If you've gone and be
what might be accomplished by n
ter school, when Henry and I are lieved everything that ole girl told
careful use of the catastrophic Wallle tryln’ to do our work In, anyway, some you, you haven't got even what little
Torbln.
peace. Why, she Just squawks and sense I used to think you had!" So
All In all, It was a great Bunday squalls and sqn—"
base we are under strain, sometimes—
for Florence. On Sunday evening It
“It’must be terrible," Uncle Joseph so base when our good name is threat
was her privileged custom to go to Interrupted. “What do yon <1o all that ened with the truth of us I "I wouldn't
the bonse of her fat, old great uncle, far, Florence, every afternoon Y*
believe anything she said,” he finished,
Joseph Atwater, and remain until nine
“Just for exercise," she answered In a alcklah voice, “If she told me fifty
o'clock, In chatty compatHonartlp with dreamily; and her placidity tbe more times and crossed her heart I"
Uncle Joseph and Aunt Carrie, hla exasperated her Journalist cousin.
“Wouldn't you if she said you wrote
wife, and a few other relative who
"She does It because she thinks she down how pretty yon knew your eyes
wore la the habit of dropping Tn there ought to be runnln’ our o^n _n«y*- were, Herbert?"
on Sunday evenings.
In summer, paper, my and Henry’s; that's why
“What's this about Herbert having
lemonade and cake were frequently she AoeA It I She thinks she knows •pretty eyes' F Mr. Joseph Atwater In-
provident Jn the autumn, j»ne still
U. S. GEOGRAPHICALLY
qulred; and Herbert shuddered. Un
cle Joseph had an unpleasant reputa
‘ penny
tion as a Joker.
Atlantic coast Hue la 5.500 miles
a penny
Tbe nsvhew desperati'lv fell hack
long.
upon the hopeless device of attempt
ing to drown out bls opponent's voles
The Pacific const line 1» 2,730 miles
as she begun to reply, lie becuiue
long.
vociferous with scornful laughter ba il
ly cracked In the »corn. “Florvnce
The Mexican boundary Is 1,744 mile»
got mad!" he shouted, mingling the
long.
The
purported Information with loud cack
you
ling». ‘‘«tie got mud becauoe I «nd
The land area Is 2JG3.774 »quare
Henry played games with Patty! She’s
miles.
your
tryln' to make up somep'in to get even,
«be made It up! It's all made up I
in
that
Tlte westernmost point Is Cape Alva,
Rhe—"
Wash.
its
“No, no." Mr. Atwater Interrupted.
“Ix»t Florence tell us. Florence, whst
by
of
The Canadian boundary is 3,8t>8
wan It about Herbert knowing he had
miles long.
prettv eyeeY’
Herbert attempted to continue ihe
Tl<e Gulf of Mexico coast line Is 3,-
the
drowning out. lie bawled, “«he made 040 miles long.
It up! It's somep'm ahe made up
Make your
herself! Him—"
Tbe groan area of the United States
"Herbert.” said U^cle Joseph—"If Is 3,026,780 Aquure mile».
earn
here
you don't keep quiet? I'll take back
the printing press.”
The easternmost point Is West
Herbert substituted another gulp Quincy head, near Eastport, Me.
for a continuation of his noise.
Tbe southernmost point Is Cape Sa
"Now, Florence,” SBld Uncle Joseph,
“tell ns what you were saying about ble, Wash., while the Florida Keys
how Herbert knows be had such pret- extend farther South.
ty eyes.”
From tbe easternmost point. West
Then It »«•etned a miracle befell,
Florence looked up, smiling modestly. Quoddy head, due west to the Pacific
“Oh, It wasn't anything. Uncle J< f ocean, the distance la 2,807 miles.
seph.” »he »aid. "I waa Ju»t trying
The shortest distance from Atlantic
to teaae Herbert any way I could
think up." '
' to PacMc. between [minta near Charles
"Oh, waa that allF A hopeful light ton, 8. C„ and San Diego, CaL, is 2,-
faded out of Uncle Joseph's large 152 mile«.
and Inexpressive face. "I thought
perhaps you'd detected him In tto-ne
Indiscretion."
“I was Just
Florence laughed.
teasin' him. It wasn't anything. Unde
Joseph."
Hereupon. Herbert resumed a con-
fusetl breathing. Dosed, be remained
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uneasy, profoundly so; and gratitude
was no pert of his emotion. He well
understood that Florence was never
susceptible to Impulses of com;>aaelon
for all occasions
,
tn conflicts such aa these; lo fact. If
there was warfare between them, ex
perience had taught him to be wariest
when «he seemed kindest. He moved
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awny from her. and went into another
room where his condition was one of
Increasing mental discomfort, though
he looked for a while at tbe plcturee aeseessoesssososaoe
In hla great-uncle's copy of “Paradise
D.J.O'CONNOR
Lost.” These Illustrations, by M. Gus
tave Dore, failed to aid In reassuring
hls*trotibled mind.
for
When Florence left, he impulsively s Cor. 92nd and Woodstock Avi
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I pledge at least 10 per cent Reduc
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tion in taxes.
e%Vr. lie spoke.
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“No," said Florence heartily. “I
fourth Wednesday of each month at
don't haf to."
“Well, look here." he urged, help- Woodmere Hall, 7630 60th Ave. S. E.
F. B. VOLTS, Clerk.
leas but to repeat. “You don't haf to
believe whatever It was* she went and
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“What was It you think she told
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“All that guff—you know.
Well,
Repairs to any machinerv.
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