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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.
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