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HEN Arthur Hepburn
turucil up at llcu
gticlu after two
years lu the luterlor
his uppeuranco Mas
in most particulars
equivalent to a re
turn from tho acad.
Certain of lilc na
tives had appeared
a year boforc iintl
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narrated with much detail the circum
stances of hie death by fever. Accord
ingly his will had been probated and
his estate nettled, and Eleanor Hop
burn was already laying aside both
tho Insignia and tho attitude of mourn
ing. Everyone expected her to wnlt a
rcasonablo tltno and then marry Jack
Macarthur, and every ono welcomed
tho proapectH as most felicitous. Tbo
marriage had not proved a happy one,
and nobody knew this bettor than Mac
arthur. Thcro bad been friction from tho
first, an unconscious nagging on her
part and un arbitrariness on his, with
a minimum of forbearance on both
aides. It was this lack of domestic
happiness which bad sent Hepburn to
Africa, and doubtless was what bad
kept him tbcro for two years,
In tho meantime Macarthur came in
to Jntim&to relations with Mrs. Hop
burn. As her lawyer ho was called up
on to adriso and to execute for hor; it
was ho who brought tho news of Hep
burn's death; and tho settlement of
tho estate had been in his hands.
Macarthur himself had waited a de
cent six months out of respect to Ills
friend's memory; but whon u year had
patjood bo and Mrs Hepburn wero neon
much together.
This was tho situation when Hep
burn emerged at Eenguela In Portu
guese, WcBt Africa. Ho had gonn In
trim and clean shaven; ho camo forth
bearded to tho eyes and clad in tat
ters. Yet fever and starvation and the all
but fatal struggle against long oaas
had been tho malting of him, and in
place of tho rathor shultow-mlndca,
CO
US. KLIJAU API'LE
TR1313 had a pen
sion. Tbo sum of
money that n i;rato
ful ropubllu paid
Airs. Appletrce in
token of sorvlces
rendored by hor
husband in tbo
preHervutlon of said
republic in tho days
of bis youth wus hiuuII, that Is to say,
it would buvo been considered small
by a Itocknfeller or a Curnoglc.
But sucb things should bo weighed
according to their rolatlvo value, and
la Umeotono county, tbut portion of
tho Ozark mountalu country whoro
Mrs. Applotroo sojourned, tblrty-alx
dollars per quurtor is n tidy sum.
Tho Limestone county soil Ib rough
und thin, aud yields but a meager re
turn to the unremitting efforts of its
population. Tbo opportunities of
achieving competence are raro, and it
Is onlyiby being strangers to luxury,
and by living a life of alnioHt primor
dial simplicity, that your Umestono
countyan is ublo to make cuds meet
at all.
A pension therefore sets a Limestone
countyan apart. If a mun Is its pos
sessor, he is entitled to run for tho
tate legislature in tho fall or for tho
county Judgeship in tho spring. If a
woman, sho is entitled to tuko turn
living with ber childrcu.
Mrs. Appletreo, uftor tho death of
her husband, lived alternately with ber
two children, Hcpnery and Mary Jane.
If thore wus nuother forty-ucro
patch In all Limestone county with
thinner soil and steeper side hills than
tbo forty vhoro Hennery's "hewed
log" house frowned down on Dry
Creek, it must have been tho forty
whoro Mary Jano aud her lord nud
tyyiEiixriiffiri
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VNti! Tho trout fioor
slummed after Her
bert Colo. Ho walk
ed swiftly down tho
htrcct with never u
glance buck at tho
little houso whoro
he had brought IiIh
pretty girl-htldo
four year before A
trolley noisily cumo
to a slop and ho wus gouo from sight,
Duck in tho tiny white house, u III
tlo louesome figure had wutched him
go down the street from behind tug
parlor nurtulua. Molly dried ber eyes
heedlessly ou tho lacy hangings, and
her shoulders drooping pitifully, wcut
Isilf
notoriety hunting youth who had kouc
there camo back one whoso luvcl amy
eyes challenged men's respect.
The lack of any word when became
In touch with tho world of Btcnmcrs
and a more or less regular post watt a
shock, and all tho more disturbing
since his attitude toward her had un
dergone a change.
In tho fcver-brlghtcncd watches of
the African night he had come to sco
himself with a clearer vision, and to
despise the sclflshnesH, the want of
consideration, the bullying, overbear
ing attitude, which had characterized
bis relations with his wife.
Nothing had happened to hor. Of
that ho felt assured. Jack would havo
let him know. Ono letter might have
been lost, but not tho dozen ho had
hoped to find, and felt he bad a right
to expect.
Tho voyage set him up bo far as bis
body was concerned, and he reached
England still thin and yellow, but
with legs onco more beneath him. With
bis spirits It was a different mattor.
These refused to respond to clean air
and good food and grateful rest. Tho
blow they received could bo counter
acted by no sophistical Imaginings.
The first inkling of tho truth camo
when he found bis Loudon letter of
credit had been canceled. Thcro wan,
of course, but ono explanation of that.
Sho must think htm dead.
Delaying only to mako himself pre
sentablo in tho matter of clothes, he
Balled Immediately for New York. Ho
had to borrow money for his passage,
and ho swore tho friend who lent It to
utter secrecy. On the boat he pnhsed
as H. 13. P. Burn, and tho passongor list
Included none whom ho know.
The second day out, howovor, a gen
tleman scraped acquaintance with him
In tho smoking room, Introducing Him
self as a Mr. Sayre. They wero sitting
on tho deck one mornlug, smoking and
talking, when Sayro made somo casual
mention of his country place.
"You say you Imvo a placo at Chat
bam Farms?" Hepburn took him up
without interest.
"Yes," roturncd Sayre. "Know tho
All On
master Jonathan Carney, hud reared
their modest rooftreo besldo tho clear
waters of Spider river.
Mrs. Appletreo "helped" tho family
sho lived with. Thirty-Mix dollurs per
quarter means pretty nlco "holptugs"
uudcr sumo clrcumbtanccs. Iu thiH
caso It meant thut tho particular fam
ily with whom she sojourned had blH
cutt onco n day instead of nu undevlnt
ing faro of cornbrcud. It meant tho
temporary banishment of wild onions
from tho bill of faro, It meant moro
fat in tho gravy nnd moro gravy on they
potatoes.
While the widow tried to dlvldo her
stays evenly Into tliree-inonth pcrlodn,
she was bound by no ironclad rules.
Sho wusn't proof against any sptclal
reason which might develop for pro
longing a sojourn. Sho might have her
oilcloth-covered box in tho buggy
ready to drlvo away from Hruury's
when tho opportune discovery of a
"bee-tree" would causo her to chungo
her mind. Tho killing of a deer by
Jonathan Carney the day bofore sho
was duo to make a hoglra Houutuy
wards worked a like result,
Such little ruses woro common
enough, but when Mury Juno contrived
to brcuk a "limb" ono summer under
suspicious circumstances, when tho
"limbs" put in thrco full uioutbs "knit
ting," throo months during which Hen
nery's home know not his mother, he
felt that he hud been unjustly dealt
with.
"She done it a-purpoBc, I kuow bIio
busted it a-purpose," he told his w Ifc.
After such chlcaucry ho felt that uuy
meuus, however questionable, that ho
might use in turn, would bo permis
sible. Even to tho playlng-up of re
ligion, as it developed. .
Hennery was on his way homo from
Harrlsvllle, where he had been mar
ivm'yyxxi.umijqAAm
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Sho could see her huabaud bad pre
pared his breakfast, a loaf of bread ou
tho tublo with a butcher kuifo laid
ucrosa It, aud tho coffee pot resting on
one of her best china plates. D I fie rent
boxes wero btrewn around giving uu
air of untidiness aud wild hurry to the
room. With a sigh Molly swallowed a
cup of tho tasteless luke-wurm coffee,
aud tears dropping as hho worked,
cleared away tho last ovldcuco of the
disgraceful meal,
To thluk that her husband ever had
to get his own breukfust!
Well, sho wouldn't get It at all when
he treated her as ho did. Ho never
lllascd hor any more, nor Joked with
hr aa he used to. Why, it wag a ion;
place? I bought the Judsou truct
and built thorc last spring."
"Perhaps, then," said Hepburn, "you
know my you may know Mrs. Hep
burn." "Indeed, yea." returned Sayre. "De
lightful woman. You know her, do
you? Sad about her husband, wasn't
it?"
"Very," said Hopbum. "Do you hap
pen to know any of the particulars?"
"0, he went exploring ncrosB Central
Africa and died of fever. That's all
any ono knows, I believe. GueaB bo
didn't amount to much at best. Her
friends seem to think sho Is woll rid
of him."
"I haven't seen hor since thcu," said
Hepburn, after a pause.
"They say she Is beginning to take
notice again," said Bayrc, in a rathor
cynical tone. "Sho had somo fellow In
tow last summer. I've forgotten hla
name. Can't blame her, though."
The more ho considered tho circum
stances, howover. the ruoro clear it
been mo that this thing was not mcrc:y
poHBlblo but altogether natural. Sho
was still young and he had gono com
pletely out of her life. Ho had treat
ed her badly while he wns with hor.
and now was it to bo expected that
she could rest content to go throu&M
life with his memory?
Should ho prcHcnt himself nud tr
to win back tho love ho had lost? Ho
recognized that It would bo an unfair
proceeding. Sho could not rofusu him
If be roturncd to her, howover sho
might feel toward him. Ho Haw that
tho decision must bo IiIh; that her
part In tho outcome was foreordained,
and with u sensitiveness which sprang
from his deepened consideration for
hor ho shrank from forcing himself
upon her.
On tho other hand, bo understood
her well enough to know that she
would not marry again If sho
thought him allvo, nor would she tako
it as a kindness if ho deceived hor iu
the mattor. Ho could not. therefore,
return upon his track und lose him
self. That would be dolug her n mor
tal hurt, at least from, hor point of
view.
Purpose
keting some croBBtius. Ills mother
wns to leavo for Mury Jane's on tho
morrow. How should ho contrive to
kcop her?
Ho revolved the theory over aud
over in bis mind. How should ho cun
trlvo to kcop her?
Ho cumo in sight of the clapboard
covered slmnty whoro tho Reverend
Jeremluh Sluttery, Itinerant evangelist,
rested when he was not "laboring In
tho vineyard."
A thin column of smoko straggled
from tho stick chimney, proclaiming
that tho "Hcvorend" was at home, pos
sibly open for engagement.
Hennery was a Methodist, a Meth
odist "stewurd." He took but little
stock Iu the particular dogmas of Slat
tcry's band. Indeed, there are but Ave
thousand peoplo In tho whole United
States who do take stock Iu them.
Hero was tho rub! Hennery's mother
was ono of tho Ave thousand.
In u moment of ecstasy she had suc
cumbed to tho urguments of a brother
older of Slattory's years previous. She
hud been udumuntlno against tho argu
ments of Hcnuory, und hud cIuuk to
her pocullar Kalth. Why not proft by
her obstinacy?
He stopped quickly from his wagon
at Jeremiah's gato and Invited tho
evangelist to "hold a meetln'" at the
l.ouo Elm BChoolhousc, of which uchool
district Hennery wub a director. Ko
went further. He Invited tho evan
gelist to muko Hennery's homo his
headquarters during tho nicotine.
"I'm a Mcthodlbt," said Menuery,
"but I'm glad to sco the grata gar
nered In auy neld."
The "Reverend" thanked his visitor.
He accepted with alacrity. Tho Inac
tion of his bachelor quarters had al
ready begun to pall on him. He long
ed for the excitement of tho coutest
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than a few common words to cuclroth
crl "Yes," tuld Molly to herself, rogurd
Ing her tearful Imago In the mirror of
the sideboard "I really am getting
homely. No more pluk in my checks,
and my eyes look funny. I guess Kert
doesn't like me any more because I'm
not pret-t-y an-y" and hero Molly's
volco broke, while great tears of self
pity and louelluess welled uu to her
eyes. "Haby loves me, anyway,"' she
whispered, und a3 if lu uuswer to her
thoughts, a baby voice piped from
above, "Muver! Muvcrl"
"I'm coming, pet. "sho called, and
ran up the stairs with somo of her old
buoyanc
At the end of all his arguments he
found himself clinging to the hope that
Sayre might be mistaken. Ho eonBOloa
himself with thinking that gobslp
rarely spcaka the truth nud resolved
at least to have a friend's advlco bo
foro ho went further. It was with this
resolve that he entered Macarthur'H
offlco within nu hour of his arrival nt
Now York.
Ho had no card and he did not give
the boy his name, but was immediately
ushered Into the private office. Mac
arthur sat at his desk using tho tele
phone. He glanced at his visitor, mo
tioned him to a chair and continued
his conversation.
"AH right thon. I'll be out to
night. You'll meet the train, I sup
pose? very well. Uoodby."
He hung up tho recolver, pushed the
Instrument from him and turned to
Hepburn.
"What can 1 do for you?" ho said
briskly.
"Hello, Jack," said Hepburn with a
smile.
"My Oodt Arthur," he said. "Where
wo thought you were acaa :ao na
tives" "It's too good to be true, old man. I
can't b?Hovo It yet. Olvs mo time
It is you?"
"Yob, I've como back. Jack."
It might havo been his fancy, but
ho thought a cloud sottled on Mncar
thur's faco as tho cortalnty camo
homo to him.
"How Is Klcunor?" ho asked.
Macarthur dropped his hand, and
they Hat down again.
"Well," ho answered. "Havo you
written her?"
"No," said Hepburn. "I didn't know
tho circumstances. I haven't heard
for two years, you know. I thought it
better not."
"Tell me about It, Arthur. Your na
tives Bworo they saw you die."
Drlotly Hepburn nnrrated IiIb ex
periences, und ut times his friend
seemed to listen, whllo at times his
thoughts seemed otherwhere. Once
hlu baud went out to a loiter on tliu
desk. He picked It up, toro It luto bits
and dropped it luto tho wasto baskd.
with tl'.a '.ovil. Alrcudy he sullTed
tho amoko of battlo from ufur.
He gathered his "things" hurriedly
luto a pasteboard suitcase and crawled
luto tho scat with Hennery. Next
morning Mother Appletreo announced
that Bho would stay auother month, or
"as long ua tho mcctlu' lasts."
The regularity of the widow's at
tendance at tho meetings put to shame
her fellow-sccturlans.
Sometimes there was u more hand
ful of attendants to the exliortntloua of
the revivalist, and that handful thoso
faithful ones who needed tho exbortn
tlous to tlec from tho wrath to como
the least. Sometimes tnc room was
packed lo suffucatlon with sain and
worldling alike, and the enthuu'.uihv.
Blxzlcd round tho bolllngpolut, but al
ways the little pensioner with her
coarse wIsph of gray hair atruylng
from under her black poke-bonnet wus
in tho frout pew.
Sho led the elnglug, und no matter
how loud the boys lu the buck tow
might bellow forth tho versus of
"Thero'll Do No Dark Vulloy," or
"Some Have Neighbors Over Yonder,"
you could distinguish her tlilu but not
unplrusunt volco in the strain.
The BChoolhousc wub u hulf-mllu
from Hennery's if you went by "Ihe
path." If you went by "the road" 11
waa farthor. When the attendance
from tho Appletreo fHinlly was confin
ed to the minister aud tho widow, the
path wus used. They wero near the
samo age. They walked together.
"I don't know how we could get
along without your mother," tho "Rov
erend" would say uuctuously at the
bieakfust-tuble.
"I'm a gettln' u great blessin', Ri oth
er Slattery," she would reply, and
Henucry, "wlso as Berpeuts," forboro
to contradict her. although ho was
ove
white nightie, was trying her best to
climb over tho side of tho crib, when
Molly cuugbt hor in her arms and
smothered her faco with UIsbos.
"Muver's little darling pet," sho
cooed, uud golden aud unburn ringlets
were mingled together us tho mother
pressed her child to her achlug breast.
"Raby hear aunty!" gurgled the
youngster a little later, aud ran to tho
top of the stairs to where Molly's
younger sister was standing. "Come
up, Maude, I'm jUBt dying to see you,"
cried Molly, and soon they wero talk
ing together us only sisters cau after
a long absence.
"Molly, dear, what's tho trouble?"
Maude waa holding her hlater at arm's
"Jeck, there's no use dissembling.
You know bow things woro with us.
Had I bettor go to her?"'
Macarthur searched hln face with
burning eyes. He found his task hard.
"Of course, you will go to her," ho
wild presently.
Hepburn rose, nnd walking to tho
window stood looking out with hla
back to bis friend.
"I understand tbcro's someone cIhc,
Jack," he said.
Macarthur's lips opened twice be
fore ho spoke.
"Who told you that?" ho asked.
"I heard It accidentally coming ov
er." "And you believed It?"
Hepburn wheeled suddenly and came
back to tho desk.
"I couldn't blame her. Jack," he said.
"I treated her like a brute. If she's
forgotten mo It's my fault. But. my
God, man I want nuother chance.'
"Sho won't refuse you, Arthur," tald
Macarthur quietly.
"It's not that." cried Hcpburu.
"Don't you see? If this other man
can make hor happy, aud I can't, per
haps I'd bettor not sco hor. Perhaps
I'd better go away nt once."
Macarthur turned to the window, Bo
foro his mind tny a dreaminess of un
told years from which bo could sec no
escape.
Ho might dccclvo tho husband and
'send him away, but ho could not de
ceive tho wife. Tho very trust aim had
In him made that Impossible. All IiIh
towers of hopo woro crumb'lug into
ruins as ho turned aud faced IiIh
friend.
"There Is no other, Arthur," he said.
"Sho hasn't forgotten you. I havo rea
son to know that."
There was that In his tone and the
look of his cyo that buddonly opened
out tho truth to Hepburn's .comprehen
sion. There was silence for a mo
ment; then Hepburn spoke.
"I might have known," he said.
Thcro was no rcscutmelnl In his voice.
Itnther un unlmpassloued statement of
(nets. "Of courao, It would be you,
Jack, t don't blamo you or her, but
I must think what 1 shall do."
burstiug to call to mind some superi
ority of Methodism to tho Sluttery doc
trines. Hennery, himself, sat through two
or thrco meetings a week nt the school
house, to the no small scauaal or n:s
moro consistent brethren.
"I'm glud to see the grain garnered
lu any Hold," ho told his traducors.
When his conscience tried falnly lo
be hcurd, he quieted It by mentally
"passing the buck" to IiIh sister. "Sho
didn't need to havo busted hor leg
a-purpose."
lu tho meuutimo Mrs. Honuory and
the little Hcnnerys, as well as himself,
were huvlng biscuit for breakfast nnd
un abundauco of rich gray at all
meals.
Tho weeks woro on. Mary Jaue
grew impatient for her turn at tho
penelon. She came over one Sunday,
"to fieo how tho meetln' was gettln'
nu," she said, although she, too, was a
Methodist.
She brought n mess of trout vith
her, and puluted lu glowing terms
their ubuudauce in Spider river, and
the ease with which they respouded to
the gig In Jonathan's hands.
Hennery read tho eagerness which
she attempted to hide when sho asked:
"When bo you comln over, Ma?" and
his heart leaped Joyfully within him at
hla mother's answer:
"Not till the meetln' closes."
The meeting wns successful eno'igli.
There Is always a certulu proportrou
of Limestone countyuns ready to re
apoud to the excitement of rovlvulistlc
etforts. Last year they unswered tho
Methodist call. Next year they will bo
ready for Raptlst exhortations. In the
meantime they fell like rlpo grain ut
tho stroke of tho Slattery sickle.
There Ib always n supply of hard
ened ones reudy to bo snatched as
chauged couutcnancc. "You dou't look
like tho samo girl. Why, your roses
have all Jaded, and" hIio stopped
short, for the note of tenderness and
love was too much for poor Molly's
burdened heart, and she rested hor
head on her fresh young sIstor'B .shoul
der, and sobbed as It her heart would
break.
After a fow moments, Maudo fcald
softly.
"Is It Bert, dear? Tell me all about
it."
Slowly aud between many tears,
Maude heard the little story. How
Molly had busied herself with the baby,
and how she didn't have tlmo to go out
iiiino rvonmes with Uprf nnv mnr nt
Ho rose as If to go without further
words, but Macnrthur stopped him.
"Sit down, Arthur," ho Bald In a
quiet voice. "There's moro to bo Mild."
Hepburn looked at him inquiringly
and resumed his Bent.
"You'ro going .too fast," went on
Mucarthur. "Now, listen. We've al
wuyn been friends nnd this muan't
como botween ub. I might Ho to you
aud Bend you away again, but It
wouldn't help tnc. I'd have to tell her
tho truth nnd you know that would end
it. bo fur as I'm coucorncd "
"Hut you niias tny viowpolut," suld
Hepburn wearily. "She's forgotten me,
and If"
l'8ho hasn't forgotten you," Inter
rupted Macarthur. "If she hud I
might I don't know but uuyway, sho
hasn't."
Their oyes met steadily. Then Hcp
buru reached out nud took Macar
thur's hund.
"I must go to hor, Juck. Good-by,"
ho said, aud hurriedly left the office.
Mucarthur waited n moment, then
pulled the desk tnlnphonc toward him
und culled for n uumbcr.
"That you. Eleanor?" his volco was
Blcady aud cheerful. "I find I can't
como out tonight after all. And listen.
Something tremendous lias huppcued.
I can't tell you Just what Llut I want
you to prepare yoursolt for auythlng
thut may come. No, I can't explain,
llut try nnd thluk of tho vory best
thing that could possibly happen, tho
thing you want moot, aud ho ready for
It. I can't tell you any moro no, I
can't. Oood-by."
Ho hung up the receiver und his faco
watt drawn as ho settled back In his
chulr. For half an hour ho scarcely
moved, but sat Blaring at a point on
the opposite wall. Then ho sblveted
as though cold, Bhook himself, und IiIh
Jaw set Bquaroly. Ho pUBhed a call
button nnd IiIh stenographer cutond,
"Bring your hook, Miss Hunt," ho
suld briskly. "I'll glvo you somo dic
tation." It wns evening whou Hepburn alight
ed from tho train at Chatham Farms.
The house ou (he hill blB houso was
lv Annette Angen
brands from tho burning. There Is al
ways u supply of backsliders ready to
be won anew to tho path. Tho Rev
erend Slattery won u goodly Bhure o
till three.
All things must end, however. Even
successful meetings.
"Thrco moro daya," tho revivalist an
nounced ono Krldny at the hrcakt'ast
table, "und we'll wind things up.
Urotlier Slusnbaugb will preach tins
Hnnl Bormon and admit tho converts to
tho church on Sunday mornln'."
When that day arrived It found the
whole Hennery family ready to attend
the meeting en muBHO.
"Your mother und I will walk by tho
path," the pnrnon said.
The old cotiplo had not yet put In
their uppenrauce when tho wugou ar
rived ut tho schoolhotisc. Nor yet
when the meeting was half over.
"l-innlcBt thing I ever heard of,"
Hennery paid to his wife.
Tho sormonlzlng or tho Itevoreud
Slnsubaugh wns wonderfully dull. The
ceremonies of ndmlBslou wero likewise
dull. Henucry found liimeoir looking
up at tho clock many times, ulso look
ing at the door for the mUolug pair.
"FunnlcHt thing I over heard of." ho
said aguln, to Reverend Slnsubaugh,
the meeting having closed, "what be
come of tho parson and my mother.'
Slnsubaugh wagged his head sagely
hut noncommittal!',
"Strange It Is, but doubtless thero
are reasons."
Perhaps Mary Jano had driven up
nud abducted tho mother. A sense of
foreboding seltled dowu on Hennery s
spirit, lie whipped tho team Into a
trot, although tho roughness of the
road all but threw tho family nodlly
from the wagon. s
"Somethln' must havo happened to
Ma," ho said to his wife repeateuly.
By Joe Busche
gry because of the lonely evenings
spent alono bororo the library flro. anu
hud nnully spent bis time at restau
rants uud tho club, seldom hud any
thing to tell her, und now that baby
was old enough to leave, he never once
thought of asking her to go auywhere,
but he just oat reading tho old news
paper when he did stay at home.
"I know, dear. I know," spoke Mauuo
soothingly. "Uut were you over reai
sweet, and asked him to go anywhere.
And did you ask him to have some or
hla friends In to dluner? Thought he
would say "no." anyway? Ob, no. nc
wouldn't Molly. You usk him tonlgoi
to go somewhere to tho theater, or- n
oh. anywhere, and I'll stavMllLl2aiM
already lit UD .... u
eager haste. Hk
w Gales he mulUM
snoum lave f nu
?,10 lI have J
cruci to eotno thus L?1
riici suddenly he www
opened nud she ' j.J?y
tU . erilPl.f.,1 I...?"" til S.
o no of too wlndoMW
looking out. "''teiili
i.ffi."ff..'K.
c"ofh?Kffi5a
were swept 8Bid7'(,Wl1
Ollli'kh- lm . .
UUVU 1 UHI1 III TTIAftiAkJ.. ... ' I
back a Utile (ninth efo,"1,
without thought. btfortS
(ncwwhathedld.hebiHrfBi
tied tbclr tnrstlnccalL Kw
ho bad used la UiconnhtaL
lrle her of hi, PRMM $
,i' ,.:' .'","" .tt u
nui w utTorrastuiitti
Inrr mil Hi irlj..
Hn I'AliAnt.! 4k ... .. .
i .; ;vi"""vu v now. ii dj
hesitated then he would tnd
AU'IIV till nt Ik . I ..1
her turn and run ton irtUt hi
with a'eboklng KnutloihihJ
in niv(D iu unci OCT U lit l
..... uvuii
fl.xmn.lM k. ..it ... ..
fi.uvit ui un, m it
she answered him. TbaHl
..in. iuiiuu uvr ua tU
lit in close.
"ArcyouilidrbtiiWi
not because he did tot kcr,fa
causo no wanted to nttruts
Sho drew hack till ibt o
him la the ryei. lltroui
with leara and htnolcttn
she i poke.
"0. boy," ibo uld, Tims
to. I never knew until I kRii
(J
"Sho wouldn't bau Blurt U
... i.i i
up lur uuiuiu,
"Must hac'admluedtht
threw the lines to one iww
througu laouwr. "vr
berteu. iuo lu ,UViMr
minn nut.
it.. i1.a,1 ttr lh lllllt
cred box In which IU b
her things. It " l
for the parson'a Pw
f?rtnl
UVUVl
. . . ..ii- ...tiAtkijn
Turn uia wii---- j
ttlpS'
was, ne sv on.
For tno now "
jeienila on i ""' ""ijy
iiue ta .--- u,
rev nnaier '"".": .M,iti
side was InslnMtojKS
will spend a niou'u..y
tcrluspringeeWi J
up for oucr sehs ' "
quarters. rf. uil
shun but then aij"
,vlll provide. .j!
"you may ,D,B .Yutfll
j-OU-all BO luuu.-. " d M
,,laue,cuniupM ,
wo clt settled. ali
"Gosh!" nemoi V)
wouldn't bang -an g!
man-llke..beP'f,dt1i
a woman. " " 7idii 1
leg u-iuii'w""
peued!"
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