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Fairy had tried to win her conB
moving In her room upstairs. Then she
went Into the kitchen and built the tire deuce, und had failed.
“You are a ailing. Fairy, but I real
for breakfast.
ly do uot want to talk about 1L Oik
no, Indeed, It Is all my own fault. I
C H A P T E R XII.
told I i I iii i > go, and not come again.
No. you are wrung, Fairy, 1 do not re
She C ork i to Grief.
Fairy was one of those buoyant, gret It. l do not want him to come uuy
warm-blooded girls to whom sleep Is more."
Mr. Starr, ton, had tried. “Prudence.”
Indeed me ¿rent restorer.
Now she
stood lu the kttchcu door, tall, cheeks be said gently, “you know very often
glowing, eyes sparkling, and smiled at men do things that to women seem
wrong und wicked. And maybe they
her sister's solemn back.
“You are the little mousey, I'rue.” lire! Hut men and women are differ
she said. In her full rich voice. “I ent by nature, my dear, and we must
didn't hear you come to bed last night, remember that. 1 have satlstliHl myself
and 1 didn't hear you getting out this that Jerry Is good, and clean, and man
morning. Why, what Is the matter?" ly. I ih* not think you should let any
For Prudence hud turned her face to- foolishness of Ills lu the past come be-
wurd her sister, and It was so white j tween you now."
und so unnatural that Fairy was ;
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T n c C o i/A T c ^ C o,
For li. «l Mutlral InatnimsntS In tniaal harmony
Main to mtm how « uh | th*»v ran la*, not how murh
I hay will hnn« Violin. Mandolin, liultar. Ilaos*.
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XI— Continued.
I this morning before breakfast anil
— 14—
I — never come again.1
t I T I I H I I I I I M I I I H M l IICUIlCISC.
It diil look horrible, from above as
she clung to hhu us she said this, shocked.
■. I. Coa fa ts MO « h i m I t l
M tT U S S , M IM S '
“Prudenee I You are sick r Go to M O R E T H A N N O N S E N S E M A K E R
well ns below. Hut Jerry, when he felt but her voice did not inlter. “And you
the first light twinge ns Connie lifted must not write to me uny more. For. bed and let me get breakfast. Here,
the rope, foresaw what was coming oh, Jerry, If 1 see you again 1 can get out of this, and l will—"
Edward Lear, Known to Moat as Gen
“There's nothing the matter with me.
and was ready for It. As he went down, never let you go. 1 know It. W ill you
tle Humorist, W as Also Famed
H t n ig k l. S o ld . M mm I sm I a n il
I had a headache, and did uot sleep,
he grabbed a firm hold on the branch i do this fi • me?"
WA L K hit hUCCTHtC WORKS
aa a Painter.
KurnniiU. CM« lüth.
l ’or t lami. Oro.
on which he had stood, then he drop-
“You are nervous and excited.” he but 1 am all right now. Are I he girls
ped to the next, and held again. On said tenderly. “Let's wait until after up yet?”
Most of u* when we think of Edward L X A K N A T R A D E . O m T r « r lw and Aut«.
Fairy eyed her suspiciously. “Jerry Lear think vaguely of someone who i i m » M U m « ? i
In t S r m n m l
W * aro giving • com
tlie lowest limb he really clung for breakfast. Then we'll talk It all over
>Iris’ rourw In bulh fur ths* prieo of un® tuition.
tifteen secouds, and took lu his bear with your father, and It shall he as he Is out unusually early, too. Isn't he? wrote dclectuble rhyme*. of nonsense *»r • «hurt tlm® only Lnr*® rloM now tfrmdunt
ami hiV « rt«u» for few ntorw nirn t «L«k<«f
Ills door is open."
ings. Connie had dropped the rope says. Won't that lie better?”
mid fun, a mun who made queer pic !u«f
ami de tail, fir r f c o * l . Trait WWs. .1» I
“Oil. no. For father will say what
"Jerry has gone. Fairy.” Prudence’s tures of ImposslI*lo creatures to go
when the twins screamed, so he had
P o ri Und. O r o fo a .
nothing more to fear from her. lie saw ever he thinks will make me happy, lie back was presented to view once more, with his rhymes, who comput'd a weird
Prudence, white, with wild eyes, both must not know a thing about It. l ’roiu- and l ’rudc ice wus stirring the oatmeal natural history and botany all his
W K W R E C K A U IO M O H II 1 S
ist>. Jerry, that you will never tell biui with vicious energy, "lie left «airly own, anil spent his life making odd
For Ihrir nn*«l part«. l*arU at half prltw W«
arms stretched out toward him.
can «lupliratr moat any part. W® h«v® wrrrkcvt
j this morning— 1 .->uppo.-.«> he Is hatf-wuy Joki's.
“O. K„ Prue,” he culled, and then he one word."
uvrr liw tilfT«rrtil make« uf cars of mr®nt data. If
of arty writs* Ui Auto W r« king Co.. IV
“I promise, of course. Prudence. 1 to l»«*s Moines by now.”
dropped. He landed on his feet, a lit
\Ve have sung, or hi*nrd soiu«'one in i i p m I Bfotdvti
i * LOm
| “O h !"
Fulry's voice was noncom els«* slug, his “Owl uud the Pussy
tle jolted, but none the worse for his will let you tell him."
Hut she shook her head. “Ho will mittal. “ When Is he coming buck?”
fall.
Cut"— and and— well,
that's ubout
FRED P. GORIN, Pilrat Attorney
He ran at once to Prudence. “I’m never know. Oh, Jerry I I cau't b«'ar
Please all.
“H a Isn't coming hack.
Orttnlirr am! |Mv«ltjp«r I'a tm ta « w u r a l or F * »
all right.” he cried, really alarmed by to think of never seeing you uguln, hurry. Fairy, and call the others. Tin*
Hut Edward Lear's nonsense hooks KafumU«! KUKK. Toy X Kay I’ U tr »how s t*v*ry
Unis in your body righ t ihmurrh your clothing.
the white horror in her face. “Pru and never getting letters from you, and oatmeal Is ready."
were the very smallest part of the Huitra TUI. TU1A. TUlll. 70IC- Cwntral bid*.. 8 »a tlW
dence ! Prudence!”
Then her arms it seems to kill uie luslde. Just the
work of u long and busy life, and his
dropped, and with a brave but feeble thought of It.”
STUDY buukkrwping. abort hand. ts»U*grai»hy.
reul labor was thut of a painter ruther
»*]<*• man »hip. hngliah branch®«, at an arrrmiiLad
smile, she swayed a little. Jerry took
"Sit here in my lap. Put your head
than
n
writer.
arhuol. writ«’ t*r phono Main
f.ir raultqri»*,
her In his arms.
“Sweetheurt!” he on my shoulder, like that. Let me rub
More than what ho did. ev«*n. was ■ raduat*»« guarani®««! poaitkm«. lUhnkr Walkrr
llm llia a s ( ’«illn gr, 167 4th H t iw t ,
Morrtaon.
whispered. “Little sweet hen r f ! Do— your face a little. Yourw feverish. You
what lie wus— u lovable and ehurmlug P o rt U n d. O reg o n .
are sick. Go to bed, won't you, sweet
do you love me so much, dearest?"
mun, adored by children, with the gen
Prudence raised her hands to his heart? We can settle this later on."
tlcst heart lu the world, n great lover
A Natural Question.
"You
must
go
right
away,
or
1
can
face, and looked Intensely Into his
of l*«‘iiuty and «levoted to his frl<*nds.
An
Irlshmau
went Into a jeweler's
not
let
you
go
at
a
ll!”
eyes, all the sweet loving soul of her
Lear's real character amt work have shop to buy a clock. Th<* shopman
“Do you mean you want me to get
shining in her own. And Jerry kiss«?d
been described In St. Nicholas, hy 1111- showed him on« for tlO.
my things and go right now?"
her.
"M urdher! Ten dollars for that bit
degarde Hawthorne.
Though L«*ar’s
“Yes."
She
hurled
her
face
In
his
The twins scrambled down from the
of a clock? Is there anything wonder
work
was
in
general
so
serious,
to
“If— If you stay in your
maple, speechless and cold with terror, shoulder.
the end o f his life In 1S.S8, Miss ilavv- ful about it?
"Certainly," said the shopman, "that
and saw Prudence and Jerry! Then room until breakfast time I will lock
(home says, lie continued to write his
Is an eight day clock.”
they saw Connie, staring at them with you in. so you cannot leave me uguiu.
ridiculous
verses
nnd
make
his
fuuny
I know It. I am crazy today."
"A n d what's that? ask«xl the pros
Interest and amusement.
sketches lu letters to his frli'iids.
pective purchaser.
“Don't you think you owe me some
“I think we'd better go to bed, all
"W h y It goes eight days without
thing, as well us your father and sis
three of us,” declared Lark sturdily.
Great English Monarch.
winding.”
ters? Didn't God bring us together,
And they set off heroically around the
"S o much us that?" said the Irish
For years
King
Alfred
warred
and make us love each other? Don't
man. scratching his baud. "Hegorrs.
house.
But nt the corner Carol
against
the
Dunes,
often
defeat««!,
hut
you think he Intended us for each oth
turned.
never fulling In courage, not even there's wan thing I’d like to be after
er? Do you wish you had never wet
askin’ you. if It goes eight «lays with
“Take my advice and go Into the me?”
win'll driven luto the imirshes or
out winding, how long, for the sake
woodshed." she called, “for all the Av-
when he was forced to pay hlnekmiill of St. Patrick, wilt It go If ye wind
“J erry!"
erys are looking out of their windows.”
to buy peace.
From Ids first years It?"— Pittsburg Chronicle.
“Then, sweetheart, be reasonable.
Prudence did not hear, but he drew Your fnther loved your mother, and
upon tlie throne be worked to build n
her swiftly to the darkest corner of the married her. That Is God's plan for all
navy that should wrest from the Dunes T A K E « O FF D A N D R U F F ,
HAIR 8TO P8 F A L L IN G
side porch— and history repeated It of us. You have been a wonderfully
the mastvry of the seas.
At lust he
self once more!
suou«*ede«!. and the heritage thut he
, brave and sweet daughter and sister.
left to his countrymen has time und 8sva your Halrt Get a 25-cent bottls
At twelve, Jerry went upstairs to i know. Hut surely Fairy is old enough
of Danderlna right now— Also
bed. his lifs tingling with the fervent to take your place now.'
again preserved the British Isles from
stops Itching scalp.
tenderness of her parting kiss.
He
Invaders.
Fairy's going to be n professor, and
The Dun«'* were able to hold pos-
stood at his window, looking soberly —
girls do not mind her very well,
Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
session lu the middle of England, hut hair Is mute evidence c a neglected
out Into the moonlit parsonage yard. An*! she Isn’t as much comfort to fa-
Alfred's victories tunde tlit* English of scalp; o f dandruff that awful scurf.
“She Is an angel, a pure, sweet, unself- ther a . 2 nin. It's Just becuuse I am
There Is nothing so dt'Structlvo to
other hostile kingdoms hull him us
lsh little angel,” he whispered, and his most like mother, you see. But ntiy-
Will Come.” their leader.
When he <li«*d England the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair
voice was broken, and his eyes were how. I promised. I can't leave them." ■Whenever You Send,
of Its lustre. Its strength and ita very
wet, “and she Is going to be my w ife ! ■ “Your father expects you to marry.
Fairy wen» soberly up the stairs,. hiul for the first time grown luto a life; eventually producing a feverish
united land, dcsjAte the conquests of
Oh, God, teach me how to be good to and to tna*ry me. I told him about It ostensibly to call her sisters.
ness and i lng of the scalp, which
her, and help me make her as happy as myself, long ago. And he was perfect-
“Girls," she began, carefully closing - the Vikings.
If not remedied causes the hair roots
she deserves.
|y willing.
He didn't say a word the door of th«‘lr room behind her.
to shrink, loosen and die— then the
At two o'clock, thinking again the against it.”
Chews.
hair falls out fast. A little D u d W l M
“J«-rry tins gone, and isn't coining hack i
soft shy words she had whispered to
During the rush hour, n middle- tonight— now— any time— will surely
“O f course he wouldn't. That’s Just any more.
And for goodness' sane,
him, he dropped lightly asleep nnd like father. But still, I promised. And don’t keep asking questions about It. nged woman «'Utered u subway enr save your hair.
Get a 26 cent bottle of Knowlton'a
dreamed of her. With the first pale what would the girls say If I should Just eat your breakfast us usual, and accompanied by her «dghteen-yeur-old
streaks of daylight stealing into his go back on them? They have trusted have a little tact.”
daughter. Both mother and daughter Danderlne from any drug store. You
surely can have beautiful hair and
room he awoke.
It was after four me, always. If I fnil them will they
"A lovers' quarrel," suggested Lnrk, were forced to stand for awhile op|*o- lots of It If you will just try a little
o'clock. A little later— just a few min ever trust at-ybody else? If you love her ey«*s glittered greedily,
slte a row of men busily Intent on
danderlne. Have your hair!
Try It!
utes later— he heard a light tap on his me, Jerry, please go, and stay away.” i “Nothing of the sort. And don't keep chewing gum.
door. It catne again, and he bounded But her arm tightened about his neck, staring at Prue, either. And do not
“ Virginia," said the matron with
Sober.
out of bed.
“I'll wait here until you get your keep talking about Jerry till the time, cutting emphasis and loud enough for
The Hhaw family had recently tak
ilo- meli t<* lo-ar.’’ju'lging from Hp|*enr en a house in tho fashionable residen
“Prudence! Is anything wrong?”
things, and we cun— say goodby. And You mind me, or I will tell pupa.
“Hush, Jerry, not so lo u d!” And don’t forget your promise
"Thut’s funny,” said Carol thought nnecs wc bave laude a mtstake. Tliis tial s«*ctIou of the city. Some weeks
is prcsuinuhly thè diulng eur of a later an acquaintance of former years
what a strange and weary voice. “Cotne
"Oh. very well. Prudence," he an fully. “ We saw them kissing each other
railed on Mrs. Hhaw and was viewing
downstairs, will you? I want to tell swered, half Irritably, “If you Insist like mad in the back yard last night— ehow-ohew traili.”
No wonder tlin t n flu*t«'r«'d C itizen tho treason's In tho library.
you something. I'll wait at the foot on ordering me away from the house and this morning la- lias gone to return
‘i s your husband a bibliomaniac?"
bt'gan reudlng bis evciilng pii per up-
of the stairs. Be quiet— do not wake like this, I can only go. But— ”
no more. They are crazy."
queried the visitor.
slde
down.—
New
York
Times.
father and the girls. Will you be down
"K issing! In the back yard I What
“Goodness me, n o!” ejaculated Mrs.
“Let’s not talk any more abput It,
soon ?”
Shaw. “He never nibbles a bit. Oh.
Jerry. Please. I’ll wait until you come are you talking about?’
Greek Names.
“In two minutes!”
of course, I don’t say that he wouldn't
Carol explained, and Fairy looked
down.”
The Greek termination In the six take a little at his meals if the rest
And In two minutes he was down,
still
more
thoughtful
and
perturbed.
When he came down n little later,
agonizingly anxious, knowing that with his suitcase, his face was white
She op«'iied the door, and called out nnd sevcn-syllnblc patronymics with were doin’ It; but that'H as far as ho
ever goes In them kind of things.”—
something was wrong. Prudence was and strained.
to them in a loud and breezy voice: which wo have been made familiar by
Harper's Magazine.
the
frequent
changes
in
the
cabinet.
waiting for him, and as he reached
She put her arms around his neck. “Hurry, girls, for breakfast is ready,
the bottom step she clutched his hands “Jerry,” she whispered. “I want to tell and there’s no time to waste In a par Is snld to indicate descent. Thus. M.
Quite So.
CuloyiTopoulus uAiy count among his
desperately.
“The bride's mother haB the advant
you that I love you so much that— I sonage on Sunday morning.” Then she
“Jerry,” she whispered. " I — forgive could go away with you, and never sec added In a whisper, "And don’t you ancestors a “enloyor." or at least In a age of the bridegroom’s mother at the
me— I honestly— Oh, I didn’t think any of them any more, or papa, or the mention Jerry, and don’t ask Prudence collateral line. A “cnloyer” Is snld to ceremony."
“How so?”
what I was saying last night. You were parsonage, nnd still feel rich, If I Just what makes her so pule, or you’ll catch be n monk of tin- order of St. Basil, an
"Everybody assumes that tho bride
I ord«-r that exacts four periods of fast
so dear, nnd I was so happy, nnd for had yo u ! You— everything In me seems It!”
ing «*iich y«’iir, the longest «»f which Is Is getting a little tho worst of it."—
a while I really believed we could to be nil yours. I— love you.”
Then she went to her father’s door.
seven
week*. The caloyers have lu Louisville Courier-Journal.
belong to each other. Hut I can’t, you
Her tremulous lips were pressed “Bri'ukfust Is ready, p pa,” she called j
the
Orient
the same reputation for
know.
I’ve promised papa nnd the against hi“.
clearly. She turned the knob softly,
asceticism
as
the Benedictines In the
girls a dozen times that I would never
“Oh, sweetheart, this Is folly, all and peeped In. “May 1 come In a min
marry. Don’t you see how it is? I folly. But I can’t make you see IL It ute?” Standing close beside him, she Occident.
o r
must take It back.”
Is wrong, It Is wickedly wrong, but— ” told him all she knew of what had hap- \
Arc Lamps Disappearing.
Jerry smiled a little, It must be ad
"But I am ill they have, Jerry, and— pened.
With tli«' advent of the gas-tilled In-
mitted. This was so like his consci 1 promised.”
“ Prudence Is ghastly, father. Just candescent «'l«'i-ti-ir- lamp tlit* future
entious little Prudence!
“Whenever you want me. Prudence, ghastly. And she can’t talk about It 1 of the ordinary inclosed arc lamp as
“Dearest,” he said gently. “You love just send. I ll never change. I’ll al yet, so be careful what you say, will
a corninerclal product dwindled away.
me. Your fnther would never allow ways be Just the same. God Intended you ?”
Ordinary tungsten lumps of the vac
etc.
you to sacrifice yourself like that The you for me, I know, and— I’ll be wait
And It was due to Fairy’s kindly ad uum
type
hud
been
competing
girls would not hear of It. They want ing.”
monitions that the parsonage family with the Inclosed arc lamp, but not
you to be happy. And you cun’t be
“Jerry ! J erry! J e rry !” she whispered took the departure of Jerry so calmly. with the degree of success that had
happy without me, can you?”
That was the beginning of Prudence's attended the gas-filled unit Till* new
passionately, sobbing, quivering In his
Suddenly she crushed close to him. arms. It was he who drew away,
bitter winter, when the brightest sun type of lamp has superseded the or
“Oh, Jerry,” she sobbed, “I will never
"Good-by, sweetheart,” he snld quiet shine was cheerless und dreary, and dinary lnelos«'d arc lamp f«»r both
be linppy again, I know. But— It is ly, great pity In his heart for the girl when even the laughter of her sisters
street anil fuctory lighting.— Electrical
m * m v m
right for me to stay here nnd be the who In her desire to do right was doing smote harshly upon her ears. She tried
World.
mother In the parsonage. It Is wicked such horrible wrong. "Good-by, sweet to be as always, but In her eyes the
of me to want you more than all of heart. Iteinember, I will be waiting. wounded look lingered, and her face
Edith’s Portion.
them.
Don’t you see It Is? They Whenever you send, I will come.”
grew so pale and thin that her fnther
“So the Inwyers got about all of
haven’t any mother.
They haven’t
He stepped outside, nnd closed the nnd Fairy, anxiously watching, were the estate. Did Edith get anything?”
IT’S C A U S E A N D C U R E ”
anyone but me. O f course, they would door. Prudence stood motionless, her filled with grave concern.
She re “Oh, yes; she got one of the law
not allow It, but they will not know hands clenched, until she could no mained almost constantly In the par
is the title o f m booklet. W e will mail you on «
yers.”— Boston Transcript.
from. AddroM Dapt. C,
anything about 1L I must do It my longer hear his footsteps. Then she sonage, reading v>ry little, sitting moat
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