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Newspaper Page TextItttWiriKIIMnMMIIUHMI A Knight Who Fought For Lady's Smile F-v ELIZABETH M'CRACKEN OopyrLjrM, l'-v'!. br r.l;z:ibcth McCracken IIE knight r-at on .1 small folding m uiau' 01 me kiiki usim iu some kiudorsurtt'hs. The lady had, iu fact, had the chair brought up tj her room from the settlement kin dergarten room far this very purpose. The lady sat opposite in a low reeking thair, bolder n lank yellow kitten In her lap. The knight was young in years, but patriarchal in experience and pjint of view, as his mother said, with ti pride, but feebly echoed by the long suffer ing college settlement family. lie be only twilve, sure; but, faith, who'd be kuowin' it? lie be thot for ward!" He was forward prominently forward, disiinclly forward, constantly forward. The name of the knight was Warren 1'ianagan, but he was commonly known as Vv'ary, and one of the younger resi dents of the settlement once almost shattered he dignity of the institution by declaring that It was an excellent vrtme for him because one bad contin ually to be wary in dealing with him. "lie is the black sheep of the settle ment," the bead resident explained to the lady the daj of her arrival, when she had asked, iu that ignorance which is bliss, -Who Is that interesting look ing bo wi'b recced clothes and search ing blue e.v.sV ' Thcbea-i resident con tinued: "He tea.- .'s the kindergarten .hi! Ir'n, vl'h the :l;or boys, is , ;-.:(! h ;:.V'::K torments the girls a:id wears v.s to .:'.;.ulows. He is in two clubs, and .h..i they m: e. 1!, lifo become: A 1..5. W' c-.u; i l.t.e to expe! Wary. !io sett I'1 nt is fc tlK beiioilt oi j-st such W. We try to h i,) l.im, to t -.'::i.' hi" ', to make him diiu-rciit, bra L-j is the black shoei of the settlement." "The black c.. e would be more apt n nrunc," one of X'..:- res! b-a murmured. -Witry ahva. s has one." Tlieh. ad r. in ! the other mem bers of the fa.nlly smilr ! pityingly end indulgently when the newest, the youn-g-st, resibia the lady said, "Have you told him how imehhalrous all thl3 is?" The lady had pale brown hair and dreamy blue gray eyes, and her name was Ellen i:;ieu Douglas but her own family, and within a week the settle ment family also, called her Elaine. ':;y dear," said the kindcrgartner, "we have told him how uneverything elre it all is, but we never happened to remember chivalry when remembering Wary. The two don't combine. They would rrcplo-lc with surprise If they w;re brought within speaking distance of each other," she explained, with a fine disregard for mixed metaphors. The lady was the newest and the your.grrt, but hor blue gray eyes were u it altogether dreamy, and she was of the clan of Douglas.' "Then, If you've tried everything else, I r-ta'l try chivalry," she said. " 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try rigain,' " Ir.tigLi.d the family. "Try any thin? yo! V.Y-y." they paH. "You won't touch 'Vary. I i j is Invulnerable, like Achiiii'S." "Achilles hai one vulnerable spot," t.i ww r' : UtA. "I shall first g-ot acrn-.a'.ute-l with V.'ary an J then try chiv alry." She aaiiouiK'uJ this double Inten tion to the f.iml'y. They asaln smiled l-ityinfiy. "Oh. you'll P'.t pcqualrted with Wary --rori t-noc-'ti." V-sy sal.l darkly. The new ...! : fi 1. T- '':v uC.t-r her arrival, its one emtrged from the house with a list of names, the owm-ra of which he was commla-ini'K! to l.vlte to the next moth ers' meetinK, he met Wary, In the act ot rlnslnj the docrbell. His cotton shirt ELLEN LOOKED INTO THE BHBEWD, 3JI3 CULHVOUH FACB. vaa torn and dusty, his brown feet were tanned and dusty, and hU black eye was b.acker than usual He had. In fact. Just completed a rlctory, and while waiting tor other worlds to conquer he V Ira proving the moment by rinsing the settle ment belL The sudden appearance of El len. In her exquisitely dainty rale brown linen and floating blue scarf, did r.ot over power Mm. Wary was rcutom4 to i.:rh visions of i-.irfht krvw .lll'llt lCl..TC. I "Hello," he observed. "I ain't r.cvn you , nfore." ' I "I camo yesterday," fa;l I'llon. O.o you do?" She held out lit r hand, it j was pale brown, too, ana strong, and on ; one tlatrer of it was a ring set wit'n a te.r- ! quo'.se. Wory grasped at the naml. J'e took the measure of the lady with Ins ; bright eyes. "You seem to bo all brown ok' blue," he observed. 1 Ellen smiled, but sho said, "Why were you ringing; the bell?" i "Jos' for fun," Wary said and smiled m : rvtum. I i "Tt Isn't nice of you. It pivxs tenia or.a the trouble of corning to the door all foi ! nolliing." "Wa.-n't you already at the door?" Wary queried. ' I "Vi-t.s, but If I hadn't boon" 15ut you was, you see. An' fac's is j fac's. Women never thinks o' that," said! Wary. v. ho was forward. Ellen looked into the shrewd, miseldo- j vacs face, with its imfaltsrinK eyes. "You j tiadosTiand what 1 mean," she said grave-1 ly. "And" V.'ary had this etiVct upn j ;i ! - "women think of more thar. you ini- RL,iiH'! " . Jtn this reinai-K cms - m j.v young settlement woriter swept !ownthe steps and went to make her caiU. Vary stared after her. "Well, I'll be Ji-gered!" he ejaculated. "She ain't jes' lik ? the rest. She talked like-i was a maa." As rh" tnrtu .1 i'.to the pfre -t on which the setlicraetii v.i situated, after 1 1: ? last call, lie was fon. :'.)! brought a,jain to hi r mind and before her hoiri.'ied eyed. The por'ion of the stvet in the vicinity of the settlement was in a state of wild excite-n-.ert. Tho Sfttb-nu-nt stepo were crow.l ed wiili little children, chieily slrls, and the curbstor.es were lined with older chil dren, chiefly boys. In the middle of the ..sired stood, or, more accurately, danced and cavorte:!, Wary before two bodra;.; :d cats, whc.se tails were tied toother v. Itli an old red necktie. Ellen, for an o:tracd moment, stood rooted to the . pot. ' Then, with her lips in a lino that would have dor.e credit to the Douglas to whoso race and chin she loved to think she, Ellen Pouglas. belonged, she ap proached Wary. With one hand she seiz ed him. "Untie that string:" she said. " 'Tain't no string." "Untie that string!" raid E'.V-n Poii? Ins. M Wnry i:atii tic rd noclvti". vi'Mca techc.icaily -as a str'r.jr. C-H3 of the cats rushed furiously away, hut the ether, a yellow kitten with ;?rei-n e-os, cowered up 'to E"en. She look it in one arm. With the other hand f '.o he'd Wary. "Come with me," she said. She ?.rpected Wary to resist, but he did not. II even opened a cheerfid coitversatioa. "Vou'l! Kit or.rself ail smuiclu d up with that cat." he said sweetly, as they entered the hall of the settlement. Elien delpned no reply. She led the way up to her room. I'J.'.en had but one chair. She did not offer her couch. She. snt Wary down to the kinderffartca room for a kindergarten chair. Wary seated himself In tho kindergarten chair, and Ulln sat opposite with the kitten. "Wary," Ellen bewail, ' it surely cannot bo necessary to tell you that it is posi tively wicked to be cruel to animals." She stroked the yellow kitten, and she met Wary'B oyes squarely. "How could you do it, Wary?" "It was fun," Wary said. "My, how they yowled!" "Thit, Wary, it was cruel. It couldn't bo fun." "You ever tied two cats' talis toother?" Wary inquired. Ellen's voice was Inflexibly stern. "No, X never did," she said. "Then how do you know It ain't fun?" At a similar point tho family usually dismissed Wary, but t Ellen did not. "Wary!" she said reproachfully. Wary was unprepared by experience for this. lie wriargled. but ho replied, "Wo men's got such upside down ways o' ar guin'." "I am not Intending to argue with you, Wary." Ellen said. "I only ask how you could bo so cruel to thoso cats, ar.d so thoughtless to people too? I hear that yon are. Why are you, Wary?" She lift ed her eyes and looked gently and stead ily at the boy. "Why are you?" Wary was but twelve, in spite of the fact that he was forward. He was having a new experience, and he found himself unprepared for its handler Tin had fre quently been rebuked : ho hn1 fri!!ntv ben asked, "Wary, how coui i you?" but this question r was the i'.rst to n!c and then to expact ar.d to desire a rp!y. The vulnerable spot r.f the child of the struts U acutely responsive If one ran but touch It. This girl was unconsciously trying to understand Wary, and Wary happened to ned to be cnl'-rstood nor? than lis need ed to be made different. Ho had had so manv monitors and so few friends. "Why do you. Wary?" Ellen persisted. Wary regarded her frankly. "Well, no body cares wot I do 'less It bothers 'em, so 1 Jes' do wot I thinks on an' have fun." "Sut, Wary, that doesn't excuse you. You ought to do right because It Is rtffht," said Ellen, a trifle uncertainly. "Don't people care wot you dot" "Yes." said Ellen. "Oh, yes. There are people who do eo much people who are fond of me." "Don't you care whether they cares7 How d you feel If nobody -cared. lew It bothered em?" "I care. Wary." Ellen said earnestly. "I haven't known you long, but I do care. Do you think knowirg It will make any difference to you?" "I dunno," Wary said, staring at her. 'Til kinder have to git used to thinkin' It." Ellen looked at hi:n In silence. Then she smiled. She suddenly recollected her announced resolution to to chivalry with Wary. Hlie Impulsively unfastened the blue scarf that she wore and held it out to the boy. "In oH. old days." she said, "when mn fought they were called knights, and they didn't tease animals and little girls, and they didn't f.ght for fun." "Wot did they fight for?" Ellen smiled dreamily. "They 'fought for lady's smiles." " "Kinder silly of 'era," said Wary scorn fully. "Oh." Ellen hastened to explain. "They didn't fight Just for that. They fought for good causes to protect weak people and save poor people, and It pleased the gentle ladies, and they smiled." "Did the knights git In much flchtin'?" Ellen was moved to a faint smile by the knighfs question. "Not or.y more than was needed." she said. "And each knight wore something belonging to the lady who was his his best friend, to remind him to do things that would bo pood and kind. Now, Wary, 1 11 be your best friend, and you be my knight, and hero's my scarf. You can wear It for a necktie, and It will remind you. Now, won't you? I'll lend you some stories about tho other knights, so you can see how thry did. Won't you? Just think how I shall enjoy having a kr.lght!" Wary stared nt her with wide eyes. She was at least different from the other peo ple of his experience. He took tho pretty Vl'if f'ITc sc.-rf It Ms dir'v firr". Tl " smiled. Willi, tfce misjr:hLei'Oi"iXJ: .5UU in his rves. -ni tnrnit -bout it," no said gu'irdodly. but he allowed Ellen to tie tho scarf around under his torn 'collar. "Women Is queer." he meditated as ho hoended .'.own tho stairs, "but I wish I'd been nlor? (' - thorn l;:il:;hts with plumes an' svoids an' nghtia' slch as people 1 an' I'idn't git scandalized over." Durl;-i: the fortnight that immediately follow 1 '.Vary reflected upon more than he imit:.ted those knights, lie woro El len's blue scarf; he read Ellen's book of knlgntly talcs, and. both scarf and book became rumpled and soiled, find still did peoplo r.vt scandalized over Wary. They h id almost, tho usual provocations. Wary continued to f.;rht for other cause than lady's smile, and tho lady was in despair, and the family, it must be confessed, hu manly triumphant. "You know how much good the other Elaine's token did Lancelot." they said, but the spirit of the twentieth century was in this lily maid, and sho said, "You told me yourselves, 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.' I'll give him on6 more day, then I'll take back my token." "Elaine, fair Elaine, fly to your case ment window!" called the kindergartner excitedly early naxt morning before breakfast as Ellen stood brushing her palo brown hair, Ellen dropped her brush and ' tQ the window. In the street stood iviir;., a ui. can under one arm ana a cog under the other. "You hold the dog," Ellen heard him say to another boy, "an' I'll tie on the can." The boy held the dog, and Wary seized the dojj's tail; then he fumbled in his pocket. "Ain't got no string," ho said ruefully. "Take y?r tie," said the other boy. Wary quickly untied the blue token of Elaine, while Elaine groaned and tho family were mercifully silent. Wary grasped t lie can; he grasped the dog's tail, and then he stopped. He let tho can fail. "You kin let the dog go t'is time," he siiid. "Tho tie 'tain't strong enough." He stuffed It Into his pocket and turned nway. Elien threw up her window. "Wary! Wary!" she called Joyfully. She smiled and waved her hand. Wary glanced at tho window, turned fiery red and ran around the corner. The lady, whose remote ancestor was tho Douglas sung In Scottish lay, had high hind ilings In her usually undancing gray eves when, some moments later, her hair no longer flying, she met the family a( breakfast. Unhappily knights are not made in one lay or even in two weeks. Wary had, figuratively speaking, fought once for la dy's smile. He had even enjoyed the smile of the lady, but nature and habit wore strong, and the next day he tied tho can to the dog's tail with a piece of twine. Elien saw tho deed; tho family saw tho deed. Ellen said not a word; she ran downstairs, out the door and down the settlement steps. "Wary!" she called. "Untie that string!'' Wary dropped the can, and "now courd) you? " situ saiv. away tike poor tormented dog sped, fol lowed by Wary's companions. "How kin I?" the knh:'nt said to his lady. She did not reply. "Como here," she said, and Wary wnt. He w;ia unembar russ.l and not very defensive. The lady was different, but he had known her not more than two weeks, and two weeks is so short a time In which to hope to change very materially a boy of the streets. Tho bluo scarf wad w ound round Wary's neck. Ellen untied it with firm hands and re moved it. "A knight who Is cruel Isn't a knight at s'l and can't wear my token." she said xravely. Shi turned without another word n;! went into t'. house, bearing her ma'.-'-vited bb" .v 'rf. Wary was amazed. "Well, 111 bo j'giered." he exclaimed, with a long whistle, "if she don't care! Who'd er thought it? If I'd knowed she "ared! Ituf. land, who kin live up to wo men?" Purine; the rrf week he was seen less han usual. He was less forward than usual. Ellen's conscience smote her. Sho wished that she had not taken away the ''ken. She watched for him anxiously. She was perversely glad to see him one day. his old time gayety recovered, aa momen tarily sho came to her window to lower tho shade. About half an hour later as -bo came downstairs the bdl rang furl ovslv. "Thpt's a Wary ring." said ono of the family boldly from the library door. 'Don't nnswr It. sweet lily maid." "I'm golns out anyway." said the lily maid. And she bravely turned the door knob. The door burst open, and Wary, more torn, more dusty, than usual, with one eye swelling to an alarming nnd pur ple size, scrambled In. dragging a howl ing. terrlfWl small girl by tho hand. Tho small girl was aa dishevcb-d and as dusty os Wary, and Ellen was attirod for call not to be made In tho neighborhood. But. regardless of her crisp and spotless white pique nnd white gloves, she gather-erc-d the small girl In her arms and indig nantly turned upon Wary. "Wary, how could you?" she said In a tone that would have melted a heart of granite. Wary stared at her with his uninjured eye. He sighed. "Women ain't got no Idea o' things," he said. "I ain't hurtln' her. She had a cent, an a feller grabbed It an' hit her, an' I Jes' grabbed her an' pounded tho feller-beat him, too an got her cent She's seert to go homo, an I ain't got no time for girls, so I brung hei here. You talked a lot 'bout goln' 'bou. redressin' human wrongs, an then w'er I docs It you gits mad an' says. 'Wary, how could vou?' There ain't no oountin r.n women:"" The knight regarded tho ladv plaintively. "Wary," the lady pleaded, "please for give mo. You s-e, I didn't know. It "Women orter trnra noT to go by rooks, said tho knight sternly. "Of cour.10 they oti'iht," agreed tho lady. "I won't nsain, Wary. Now. picasj for give mo or I can't sralle, when you've fought for lady's smile too." She smiled now and held "out her baud ia its white glove. Wary relented and took it. "Well-all right," he said nobly. "Kin I hav back the bluo tokln now?" he said ea;; :rly. "She'd 'ave been pound ed av, ful if I hadn't rescooed her." Tho tears car.vs into Elaine's eyes, and she was obiigod to dry them before she replied. "This very moment!" slio said. She took the two children to her room. She bathed the small girl's face, and she put witch hazel on Wary's eye. Then she found tho bluo scarf. "It is so old, Wary," she 6aid. "Wouldn't you like mo to got you a new one just like It?" Wary shook his head. "I sorter want that one, 'cause it was tho ono I had first." ha said. Some, fresh tears camo into the lady's eyes. "Y'ou'll keep it this time, won't you, Wary?" "You bet!" said the knight. "It won't be eo easy, though, 'cause w'en I sees a dog I jes' aches ter tio a can tor its tail but I'd Jes' as soon git along 'thout doin' it. if you find it. so awful." This shows Wary's forwardness, but as he went home with tho small girl he iivc voice to a sentiment which shows it most and best. "Women is queer," he said. "They's got no eye for fac's, an' they cry when you'd expect 'em ter smile. They's that unsartin ' there's no oountin' on wot they'll do! Hut they's sorter nice, an' tiiav'1 that tender they taka all the fun outer tyln" cans ter a dog's tall an' sich like. They sorter makes a feller want, tor do wot they expects, so's not tor disap p'int 'em. Wot they expects cuts more ice than wot they thinks, if they only know ed it!" Bar 'Em Out. Sinj? a song of Maytima, Pretty flowers and queens; Gnats now have a gay time Hoist your window screens. Cleveland Plain DeaWf. 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