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rbeek Tie rvuld c-I LT Tear, (wt artua about aim, as ah clung" lo ttiu h.-l.f.ijr. anMttnf and qulverlnc In lb abellvr ut hi airxng ytiihrac. "Vu r urr 1'ilDf In ! u ne irr nrw urNMMi had eotue Inin hi llf.'. Ibe fmitMllon of 4 tivw twTlty, h r' V thin u pA3 HV. It.' "ll't lb Milt fir we Ul you -uoUiIy . u even limr " 'Hiv you l Ul got lllligur She Ik d, through her trara. "Yep, rl bliu," drawled Jim. "Nit he otn'i niuib iih) lj ua-iy. .Vm of th other rider can gt u-ed DY MARGARET MAYO crrktor. tjj, r tobo. nia anb conr an (Continued, frcm hut k) vn!hlrr id he knr (hut to KkM which beltu lili (alt Jli you was. 1 lit rr "III uiul henceforth timk for lUU rblM j ttobodjr with Ihf byw what ru touch you rid In i therw ur will t. Kay, niebba you iht' k lrkpr won't M vui t yell Um b row comlu' back." Jl'1 waa JulHni now. in J he lei tu waa tint mu that ha iuul uiai for blltlM-lf. iim In II wal!y. "Well, what are you golu' to do IhhiI It)" akcd Strong tv bf n be could trust hliiic;f t.i apeaa again. "I rhall do what l let Tor Mi lol It," ha Id the pnator quietly, but r.ruil.v. He turned sway t kIiow Unit the Interview waa at an end. Wrong fol lowed him. IhiuhIhh poiuted lo the Kate wltb a meaning not to I ml takeu. .t5'l afternoon, dr.n'on." Strong hesitated, lie looked a' thV :itir. then at the Baio, then at (ti wmr asnln. "I'll o," ho ahuutixt. ! "I'Hl It ain't the tuti?' He alnniiniil tbf iratf behind hi in. guile ao, quite no." rIilrHsl Klver font not bavinit tlie ;ij.lii.'t Idi-.i r J'i" for gulled Elvenmn pK.a,i,.j. How waa lit t ! ahIL-." ahe txvr tu fTn-S t"ln' lulo d Humlay arho.lil t" '' "il III h.m MtaUi.ffd.ii re w id 1 11" fT' 'J it fV:ru. He a lo.. Ill oWa Bulkbln' lou hea." aakl ' Dlli- lb look oil Ti'lly1 LrLJ Mitndy aa abo rame down 1 f,,'' T'f notion lfor lie h. the ateui Idled thai you waa uoer aco-ulir "All rlubtr railed Ik.iiUi -T .k h'ac. " I ! lm l chaune all , .1 r.ti.nnl ' How rotiM be takrt fr iin ' ( lier the aeiiae of aerurlty thai he' bad purnoaely tauuht h.T to feel In bla houte "Not even for a moment," Polly an aw.red. lth a dft'ldi-il ahake of her head. railed. Iiouirlia. "Tnk th.e with you. l erliai . they may bcln." II iratberad up the itttrlnuda which Iolly bad feft on lb nmuud. Ilia ) were alilulng no looked younger than Man.lv bud ever aeen him. Tolly bad turned her back at the aound of Maml.r'a vol. e and -rHl to th elm trH. drytnp her tein of h.ip- I hi what he waylni:. lie n ih. frigid expn-i!lon on the pimior'a f.ite he coudied In-hlnd bla bat ami fol lowed Strong. "Hut yu muni Bet ahead In ludl.-a" he nrsrued She linked at him anxlounly. ' bet'lnnlnr to he alarmed at , pcrlsleln-e. I "Mnyhe I've btfn plarlng too many I iHTlm ilolK psuiea " ! "Not tMTK'uotia. I'rtlly promUi-uoua " "rro-ni!-mou. aha repeated bait died thai you waa urver aco-uln that tHK-o I aeen you, an' nliru liar ker aeut uio over hero linlay lo look artor tbo adrUln' ba aaht be rueaa a1 you'd had all you wanted o' rburcb folka. Jc' you brine lnr nloiitf tu nLf tU'UI." be aaid, 'an' toll U.r thai iivr plaa la waliln' for her,' an' I will too." lie turned upon Polly with ud don tleiUlon. "Why. I f lea" like pU-klii' you up In my anna an' carrytu "Wiilt, Jtiu!" 8 lie put una tiny band lne ami trvlim to roiilrol her tien lv . awakened omotloua. H..iiirli felt hi. : 'oU rljJlU off ' o.. i luilivrlV that ahe lieeile.1 thin t . . .aii liid airiti In rul a lit hint ror tTery, bo tie plied the lesvea . and narlnmla hlch In Mimdy'a artna ; "' do" 1 '""-'"' -lo-lay-mebln..' then ran Into the houae wltb the light I6 lulu'r uii.erialnly. "but wo'll atep of a boy. i b bore a abowiu' uoit month " I u.i .....i... ii wmi ou ai uiv now, i oiijr au D ' 111 . . ' hti'k. . .... V. - ... ) "IndHvrlmlnate." He rubbed hl forehead a be aaw the piuzlod liHk on her fa.-o. "Mixed up," he et plained, more aluiply. "Our game waxn't uilxtd up." Phr WrGLAS dropped wearily on to waa thlnklntt of the oue to wlili h tlie the nistlr bencb. He ant with Mow bud obje-tfd. "la It promlKou- drM.piHl head and uuseehiK ' ouh to c-iiich aometxMly?" eyea. lie did not hear Polly na! "It depends upon whom you nitt-h." tldlel up." aald Mainly aa ahe ahot aly glam-e at Polly, I iwered aa tu dollke rye neatvh.-d her faie, "becauae 1 liave to aay aouio "Thnfa rHl." Polly anawered, fac , lu'"K ,u" " T w. .l... I n'l ... , ............ .... CHAPTER X. Inn Mnn.lv at IhmI and dlmpltnit MiHlnnc milttlly "Moa" do aialablo folka will moa' ahe onrrle! dow n the pnib, her arma HII.hI with nuttimn leavea. She glan.' etl at him. tlropiHMl the hrlchl.color.Hl follinr and allped quickly to the nearest tree "One. two. three for Mr. JobnT ahe cried as ahe patted tbe fcuse brown trunk "Is that you. Pollyr be asked ab sently. "Sow It's your turn to catch me." the aald. lingering near the tree. The pHHlor waa again loaf In thought. 'Aren't you golnir to piny any more?" There was a shade of disappointment In her voice. She came slowly to bla side. "Sit here. Polly." he answered grave ly. pointing to a place ou the bench. "I want to talk to you." "Now Pre done something wrong." ahe pouted. She fathered up her gar lands and brought them to a Dlace Hoar bis feet. Ignoring the seat ut his heP more " .vou n"'y lpt me. likely be.banglu' rotin' de paraonago to nUht, 'atend ob atayiu' In de Sunday a. hool room, w liar dey belongs. jia' time dat "ere Widow Wlllougbby done aet roun' all eheniu' a-telllu' da pur- aou a how fnlka could Jea' eat ofTn he niiKwertl. with a dry. wblinsl-nl : 111 lie. "Well. dcn't catch nnylxHlv but t'ie ( chll.'ii n." S'le looked up at him wl;b aerlou i. iiKpilrlng eyes "Never mind. Poll v. Vonr mi now aren't promiscuous." She did not hear he aton' Ma'' tonight. him She waa searching fcr her bi-Tt. "la this what you are looking for?" he naked, drawing the missing article from his pocket. "Ob!" cried Polly, with n flush of em- carrassment. "Sinndv told you Tlia big face waa wrinkled and car- worn wltb trouble. "No, Jim." ahe replied In a tone ao low tbnt be could scarcely bear her "You mean that you a In l never coiiiln' backT" He tried lo reullae what aucb a declaloii might mean to Urn. "No. Jim." ahe aunwered teuderly. her kitchen floor, an' I upa an' tella her ror "ne lr'u" lne luln aa bow folks coulJ pick up a good I t'u" IUB tfn",t' ooU aW w aquar' meal o(Tn Mandv'a fl.wr too. "VoU n,u",u, 0"re "U th1" ,htf Gueaa ahe ll 1 mli-htr e.r.f.,1 -h.r i pU-adeU. seeing the blank desolation ' She T'"T fm T 1 "liUUUM that bad come Into bla face. "It lau't chuckh-d as ahe dlaapiieared down tbe I 1 " V 7, T walk tn the SiiiiiIhv -h,wil nu.m I " " "V ,Wo hereby ofTcr $1000 to anyone proving by chemU ';nuly!sor oihcmi .c that CVUUS ISDHLli'con .11 aryi'iinf excepting pure strj:jht acJ whiikica. ,;i it JkiilicJ in an u!J-fjsh!:-.r J 'till nnj contains '1 the; 'cccu'cry product . .. dir. lation which the U. S. Agricultural Dcpartmeni md ii.e U. S. Interna! Revenue Department rule must be present to entitle the distillation to be called v. hUkey, Alcohol docs not contain these constituents. Neither docs cheap so called straiIit v.!;LI.cy made in a continuou. cr many chanbi'rrd still. Money talks. GYRUS NOBLE-a purc-IJ-honcst-whiskey acd in wood. A tart fl NODL to the bottles of CENUINE CYRUS NOCLE direct to you, all charge paid naarett railroad expreaa office. $4.22 W. J. VAN SCHUYVER & CO. EtubliJwd. 1664 105-107 Second Street. PortUad. Oregoa W. J. Vaa Schuyvar A Co tmnUU. Or. EikIomJ pWu find $4.90 k hk flnM wad SM it aac by ftm. fnvti, torn Ojuartt Canuine Crru Nebla. r o. I'olly stood motlonleas where Mandy bad left her. She hardly knew which way to turn. She waa bappy, yet afraid She felt like Kinking upon her "You've been working a long time on ktieea and begging Uod to be good to that." "I tboucht I mlcht help you If I learned everything you told me." sh? answered tlmliHy "But I don't aun lK.se I sou Id." her. to belp ber. She who bad once been so Independent, so self reliant, now felt the ueed of direction from above She waa uo longer master of ber own soul. Something had gone "I can never tell you bow mub yon from her. something that would never. help me. Polly" never come again. While ahe heal- place for me. but 1 can't go back. lie turned away.' She clung to tbe rough brown aleeve. "Why. Jim, when I lie In my little room up there at night" ahe glanced toward tbe win dow above them "and everything la peaceful and still I think bow It unci to be In tbe old days, tbe awful iiols. and the rush of it all. the cheeriest' wagoiia, tbe mob in the tent, the ring , with Its blazing lights, the whl.-lln; . round and round ou Bingo and the hoops, always tbe bxpa, till my beat' 1 Summer Rates East During the Season 1909 via thm I)o ir she cried eagerly. "Venn tated Hasty camo through the gate. Kol A'lzxy aml mj eye'an dm aide. "Von might just as well tell nie and KPt It over." "Vou couldn't do auytMng wrong." bo aimwered. looking down at her "Oh. yes. I could, njid I've done It. I can see It In your face. What la It?" "What have you there?" he asked, trying to gain time and not knowing .4 mm j'...f.; ' r'f . K Vr It iV K v'.J i T -Tl t can. teach a bigger clnaa In Sundnv school now. got to the hook of Tint i i today " I "Vou dld?"v.' He pretended to he in ! tonished. He was anxious to enenur ! nge her enthusiasm. ," i "L'm hum!" she answered solemnly ; A dreamy look came Into her eyen "Io you rejuumber the purl that you rend to me the first day I came?" He nodded . He was thinking how care free they were that day. How linpon plhle such problems ns the present one would have seemed then! "I know, every bit of what you read by heart I It's our next Sunday school lesson." "So it Is." "Do you think now that it would be best for me to go away?" She looked up Into his troubled face. "We'll see, we'll see," he murmured, then tried to turn her mind toward other things. "Come, now; let's find out whether you do know your Sunday looking anxiously over his shoulder. "Well. Hristy?" she aald, for It was apparent that Hasty had something Import.'.ut o': his mind. "It's de bp; one from de circus." he wi;:.-ipe:-..d excitedly. ' M'he big one?" Yc ;i know de one whnt bmnsyou." "You don't mean" Polly's question was answerod by Jim himself, who h:i followed nasty quickly through the gate. Their nrma were Instantly about each oiher. Jim forgot Hasty and every one In the world except Polly, and neither of them noticed the then the hurry after the show, and the heat and the dust or the mini and the ruin, and tbe nimble of tha wheel: lu tbe plains nt night, and the shriek -of tbe untmals, and then the parade, the awful, awful parade, and 1 riding through the streets In tights. Jim tights!" She covered her face to abut out the memory. "I couldn't go back to It. Jim! I Just couldn't!" She turned iwav. her face still hidden In her hnnds. He looked at her a long wnlle In silence. "I didn't know how you'd come to fed about it," he said doggedly. "You aren't angry. Jim?" horrified Miss Perkiiis and the Widow Wllloushby. who had been crossing tbe turned to him anxiously, her yard on their way from tbe Sunday j Pending for his forgiveness. school room with Julia. She eyes "You're Jnsr as bljj as ever," said (To be continued) "Now I've done gomethtng wrong," the pouted. how to broach the subject that In Jus tice to her must be discussed. "Some leaves to make garlands for the social." Polly answered more cheer fully. "Would you mind holding this?" She gave him one end of a string of leaves. "Where are the children?" ''Gone honiB." "You like the children very much. do::'t you, Tolly?" Douglas was strlv ins for a path thnt might lead them to the subject that was troubling him. "Oh, no, I don't like them: I love them." She looked at him with fpiider eyes. "You're the greatest baby of all." A puzzled line came between his eyes as be studied her more closely. "Ai:d yet you're not such a child, are you. Polly? You're quite grown up-almost a young lady." He looked at her from a strange, unwelcome pnint of view. She was all of that as she sat at his feet, yenrnlng and slender and fair, at the turning of her seventeenth year. "I wonder how you would like to go fl -way" her eyes met his in rerror "away to a great school," he added quickly, flinching from the very first hurt Unit he had Infiieted. "where there are a lot of other young ladies." "Is it a place where you would be?" She looked up nt him anxiously. Sbe wondered if bis "show" was about to "move on." "I'm afraid not." Douglas answered, smiling in spite- of bis heavy heart. "I wouldn't like any place without you." she said decidedly and seemed to consider the subject dismissed. "But if It was for your good." Doug las persisted. "It could never be for my good to leave you." school lesson. How does It begin?" There was no answer. She bad turned away with trembling lips. "And Kutb said" He took her two small hand and drew her face toward him. mean ing to prompt her. " 'Entreat me not to leave thee.' " she plttaded. Her eyes met hla. His face was close to hers. The small features before him were quivering with emo tion. She was so l'rall. bo helpless, so easily within bis grasp. His muscles grew tense, and his lips closed firmly. He was battling with an impulse to draw her toward him and comfort her In the shelter of his strong, brave arms. "They shan't!" he cried, start ing toward her. Polly drew back, overawnd. Her soul had beard and seen the things re vealed to each of us only once. She would never again be a child. Douglas .braced himself against thi back of the bench. "What was tbe rest of the lesson?" be asked in n tirm. hard voice. "I can't say It now," I'olly mur mured. H " face was averted; her white lids flattered and closed. "Nonsense! Of course you can. Come, come; I'll help yon." Douglas spoke sharp'y. He was nlmost vesed with her and with himself for the weakness that was so near overcom ing them. 'And Roth said, 'Eatreat me not to Ir 've thee" Or to return from following after thee'" she was struggling to keep hack the fears "for whither thou uoer;t I will o. and where thou iodgest 1 will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy , God my'" She stooped. . 'That's right; go on," said Douglas, striving to ontrol the unsteadiness hi his own voice. " 'Where thou' diest will I die.' " Her arms went out blindly. "Oh, you won't read me nwny. will you? she sofcbec' "1 don't want to Tolly when she could let go of Jim ! i'ltig enough to look at bim. "You haven't changed a bit." : There is more catarrh In this sec tion of the- country than all other dis- "Vpu've changed enouirh for, both of eases put together, and until the last us." He looked at tbe unfamiliar long f w years was supposed to be Incur skirts and ew way of doing her , ,ble. For R hair. "YoQ re bigger. Poll, more grown- I . , ... up Jtke .. j pronounced It a local disease and pre- "Oh. Jim!" 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Bend had about. 5300 trout served to those in attendance ai the celebration certainly a splendid ad vertisement of Oregon's attractions as a fisherman's paradise. She Court Resort ai?d German Liupch Place KHANK II COLLINS, Proprietor 35? State St. Salem, Oregon Phone 117 In an Instant the pastor's strong arms were aliouther: bis stalwart Ixxly was supporting her. "Y'ou shan't go away. 1 won't let you I wou't! Do you hear me, Polly? I won't!" Ber breath was warm against bis ' stepped with a cafeb lu ber throat and added more slowly. "I suppose every thing's dliferent now that' Toby is gone." "He'd 'a' liked to seen. you afore be cashed In," Jim Answered, "but maybe It was. Just as well be didn't. You'd hardly a fctwa'fd film towardthe last. Sees Mother Grow Young "It would be hard to overstate the change in my mother since she began to use Electric Bitters," writes Ms. W. L. Gilpatrlck of Danforth, Me. Al though past 70 she seems really to be growing young again. 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