j Carolyn
: of the
Corneris
y
RUTH BELMORE
ENDICOTT
(Corvtlf hL 1918. br DodJ. kind 4 Concur, c.)
"Hut Tin hero, Mainly, and I'm nnt
too lute I" he cried; nnd, somehow--neither
of them could, perhaps, hnve
trplHlucd Just how his arms went
arouiHl her and her hnnds rested on
his shoulders, while she looked earn
estly Into his face.
"Oh. Joe! Joe!" It was like a sur
rendering son.
"Its not too late, is It, Mundy? Sny
It Isn't too late!" he pleaded.
"No. It's not too late," she whls
pered. "If If we're npt too old."
"Old !" almost shouted Joseph Stags.
"I don't remember of ever feeling so
younn as I do right now!" and sud
denly he stooped and kissed her.
Bless me! what fools we've been all
this timet?
"Oh. Uncle Joe, j. Oh. Mm Amanda I"
cried Caroyln May, standing before
them, and pointing with a rather grimy
Index flnuer. "You aren't mad at each
other any more, are youT Oh, I am so
rlad! so glad!" and her face showed
her pleasure.
But the situation was too difficult to
allow of much hut practical thoughts.
"Where's the old woman?" asked Jo
eph Stagg quickly.
"Her husband came with a horse
anil buggy late last night and took her
over to the new camp," was the reply.
'The fire was coming Into the camp
when I left. We must get out of hero
In a hurry," declared Mr. Stags;.
"We aren't going to be burned up
now. when Uncle Joe Is here. Miss
Mainly." Carolyn May declared with
oonliilenee. "See how nice h and
Prince found us? Why, they are reg'lar
heroes, aren't they?"
"They are. Indeed, child." irgreed the
vromim. She turned to Joseph Stagg,
happiness shining in her eyea, and
tasking prettier than ever before In
her life, he thought.
TV- hotlott was rapidly becoming
tilled wnh .smoke. The man did not
derstund this, but It foreboded
bsoble. lie turned Cherry and the
tsrkbonrd around, and then tie helped
pered Ainnnnn.
"We've got to I" he returned grimly.
"It's three miles, If It's an inch, but
Cherry has got to make It."
Tlv.y were raltevtd alloc minute or
two In this new road. Tlio smoke had
not so completely BUM it. Hut it was
n rougher way. and the buokbonrd
bounced until Carolyn May cried out
In fear.
They drove over a little hillock that
raised them higher than the tote road
had done. Amanda clutched Mr.
Htagg's arm again and uttered a half
stifled "Oh!"
He shot a glance to the left. A
mass of flame broke out In thn !
Phot far off this trail the top of e
great tree was on fire.
"The wind Is cnrrylnl brands this
way," muttered the num. "A doaen
new flies will he stnrted. Well, util-nn.
Cherry!" and he seized the whip
gain.
The hots was well spent now, hut
he was plucky, lie tried to Increase
his stride. A hot breath of wind camo
rushing through the forest, bending
the branches and shaking the leafy
foliage. The wind seemed fairly to
iforon tne fugitives.
The roaring of the fire Increased.
Through the more open woods which
bordered this path they saw the smoke
advancing In a thicker wall and one
ns high as the tree tops.
"You're got to make It, old boy,"
muttered Joseph Stagg, end he lashed
the horse again.
The spirited Cherry leaped forward,
both the woman and the etlld scream
ing. "Is It far? Is It far?" gasped Aman
da In hla ear. .
"Too far for comfort But keep your
heart up."
As the man spoke, a blactng brand
swung through the air and cume down,
right on Amanda's shoulders. Carolyn
May shrieked. Joseph Stugg brushed
off the burning stick.
Cherry mounted another small ridge
nnd then they clattered down Into a
little hollow where there was a slough
beside the road. The water was green
and stagnant, but It was water.
The man pulled In the hard-pressed
horse and leaped down, passing the
reins to Amanda. He whipped off his
coat and dipped it tn the mudhole. He
drew It out dripping with water and
slime.
"Look out here I Have to shut your
eyes!" he warned his two companions
on the seat of the huckboard. and
threw the saturated coat over Miss
Amanda's head. The dripping garment
sheltered Carolyn May as well.
"Now, good horse!" he yelled to
Cherry, leaping hntk to the seat. "Old
ap!" The horse started up the slope. An
other swirling brand came down upon
them. Joseph Simkj,' fought it off with
his liure hand. HI shirt sleeve caught
tire and lie was painfully burned on
the forearm before ho could smother
It was a iMtg tramp, and the horse,
the dog. and the man were alike
wearied. Carolyn May went fast asleep
i with her head pillowed In Miss Anniii-
i da's lap.
The latter nnd Joseph Stagg talked
1 much. Indeed, there wns much fer
them to say after all theso years of
, silence.
The woman, worn nnd scorched of
face, looked down on the smutted and
1 sweating man with an expression In
her eyes thut wanned him to the mar
row. She was proud of him. And the
irnr.e of love nnd longing that the hard
vii re merchant turned npon Amanda
Furlnw would have amazed those peo
ple that believed he had consideration
and thought only for business.
In these few hours of alarm and
close Intimacy the man and the woman
had leaped all the harriers time and
pride hud set up. Nothing further ;
: could keep Joseph Stagg and Ainuiidii
I -I'arlow apart. And yet they never for
one Instant discussed the original I
Cum of their estrangement. That wns !
n dead Issue.
The refugees reached The Corners
1 iilinut nine o'clock. Jedldlah I'arlow
j hud hobbled up to the store and was j
I Just then organizing a party of search-
an to go to the rescue of the hard- i
ware dealer and those of whom he hud '
set forth in search.
The village turned out en masse to i
Welcome the trio who had so.mlrac-!
ulnusly escaped the fire. Aunty Hose's
relief knew no bounds. Mr. I'arlow
wns undeniably glad to see his daugh
ter safe; otherwise, he would never
have overlooked the pitiable state bis
horse was In. Poor Cherry would
never be the same unblemished animal
again.
"Well, I vutn !" he said to Joseph
Stagg, "you done It ! Better'n I could,
too, I reckon. I'll take the boss home.
You comln' with me, Mundy?" Then
he saw the burns on the younger, man's
"They are Indeed," agreed Aunty
Rose. I
It wns a fnct that Mr. Stngg wns in
a bad state. Carolyn May hud suggest
ed that Aunty Hose would dress his
burns, but Miss Amanda, would allow
nobody to do that hut herself.
When the curious and sympathetic
neighbors had gone and Miss Amanda
was still busy making Joseph Stagg
comfortable In the sitting room, Aunty
Hose came out Into the kitchen, where
she had already bathed and helped j
Carolyn May to undress, and where '
' the little girl wns now sleepily eating
her supper of bread and milk.
"Woll, wonders don't ever cease, I
guess," she said, more to herself than
I to her little confidant. "Who'd havo
thought it I"
"Who'd have thought what, Aunty
Hose?" Inquired Carolyn May.
"NO CIVILIZATION KVKK KIHKft
other nnd nobody lse.
"Well. Cnrolvn Mav. 1 vihi'vp fin
ished your supper, we'd better go up to AHOVK THK I.KV'KI, OF ITH
bed. It's long past your bedtime." H()MKH"
"Yes, Aunty nose," said the little and no home rises above the level of
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!yn May did not venture to the door of best writers of the day those who
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Joe or Miss Amanda goodnight. The
child followed the woman upstairs with
fullering steps, nnd In the unllghted
bedroom that had been Hannah Stagg's
she knelt at Aunty Hose's knee and
murmured her usual petitions.
"Do bless Uncle Joe and Miss
Amanda, now they're so happy," was
a phrase that might have thrilled
"Your uncle and Mundy I'arlow hnve
made It up. breathed the woman, evi
dently much Impressed by the wonder
of It.
"Yes, Indeed I" cried the child. "Isn't
It nice? They aren't mod at each Other
any more."
"No, I should say they're not," Aunty
Rose observed with grlmness. "For
from It. It's a fact ! I wouldn't have
believed it If I hadn't seen It with my
own eyes. Holding hands In there like
a pnlr of Well, do you know what
It means, Carolyn May?"
"That they love each other," the
child said boldly. "And I'm so glad for
them !"
"So am I," declared the woman, still
In a whisper. "Hut It menus changes
here. Things won't he Ihe same for
long. I know Joseph Stngg for what
be Is."
"What Is he, Aunty Hose?" asked
Carolyn May In some trepidation, for
the housekeeper seemed to be much
moved.
Tie's a very determined man. Once
h" gels set In a way. he earrles every-
te&'ysm.
"Yea, lent It Nice They Aren't Mad
at Bach Other."
shoulders and arms. "The good land ' thing before him. Mainly Harlow '.s
of Jehoshaphat ! here's work for you to j going to he made Mrs. Joseph Stagg so
do. Mandy. If you air any sort of a ouiek that it'll astonish her. Now, you
nurse, I reckon you got your hands believe me, Cnrolvn May."
full right here with Joe Slagg," he j "Oh !" was the little girl's comment.
added, with some pride In his daugh- I "There'll be changes hire very mid
ter's ability. "I'hew ! them's bad- I den. 'Two's company, three's a crowd,'
lookln' burns!" Carolyn May. Never was a truer say-
Ug. Those two will want Just each
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lull of Colli; lliul the (.rip.
A 1 1 1 : i r i j : i into the sent.
lP you go, too, Car'lyn May," he j tne Dlaz,
Another flaming brand fell, landing i
on Cherry's back. The horse squealed
and leaped forward at a pace which
Mr. Stngg could not control. Maddened
by the burn. Cherry hud tuken the bit I
In his teeth and was running away.
The man threw down the reins. 1I
BOOld do nothing toward retarding the '
frightened horse's puce. Indeed, he '
Hi! not want to stop him.
His left arm lie it-nig nrouml Miss
Amanda nnd the child, and with hla
rlgnl hai.o clung to the rocking seat of i
he careening huckboard.
The wet steaming cont saved the j
woman und the child from Injury. I
Joseph Stagg had lost all count of I
time. The forest road might still ex- j
tend ahead of them for a mile, fo- ill j
le knew.
But suddenl" they broke cover,
Cherry still galloping wildly, and
ilungeil down an open ravine to the
dge of a lake of sparkling water.
"Bless me! The hike! Ihe lake I" '
joarsely shouted the man.
The walls of the ravine Snellen-.;!
th'eiu from smoke nnd fire tor n mo-
meat, but the brands still fell. berry
hsd ha I till on the edge of the lake, bill i
Joeepb Stagg urged him on Info the j
water, flank deep. The shore was nar
row and afforded little space for I
refuse. He lifted Amanda and the
talil. lifting the little girl Into the rear
of the huckboard.
Joseph Stugg felt very serious as he
tested himself by Amanda's Aide nnd
picked up the reins. The horse quick
ly retraced his steps up the hill to the
tote road. As they came out into this
broader path they saw the smoke pour
ing through It tn a choking cloud.
"Oh, Joe," gnsped Amanda, "it's
coining '"
"It surely Is," agreed the hardware
Merchant. "We're In a hot corner, my
girl. Hut trust to me "
"Oh. 1 do, Joe!" she exclaimed.
squeezing his arm. "I am sure you
know m hat Is best to do."
"I'll iry to prove that so," he said
ulth :i subdued chuckle.
"Oh. Uucle Joe !" cried Carolyn Mny
Hddenly, "enn't we get out of this
awful smoke? It It chokes me!"
"Wait," whispered Aiiiandn to the
la "I'll lift her over the back of
tbe s it. I thibk bhfc hud better be In
my lap."
T'r'nps that's so," he agreed, and
to held in the nervous Cherry for a
ena nt till the change was accom-
llllied.
The roaring of the fire grew louder
nd louder In their ears.
suddenly Joseph Stagg dragged
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erted and hesitated, for the iumM child bodily from the seat and dropped
Minding him.
"1 pretty near missed tbpse forks!"
I'-'iii i, oil tbe hardware merchant.
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ibeiii Into the water.
"We're safe now," he said hoarsely,
jumping In himself, and holding Caro
lyn May and Amanda. "We've got wa
ter enough here, thanks be! Hang on
to iih. Mandy. I'm not going to let
you get nwaj no more, never!"
And by the way .n which the woman
clung to his arm It was evident that
she did not propose to lose hllil.
My. Uncle Joe! you nie Just the
bravest mini!" declined Carolyn May,
flnrllnir her voice. "Isn't lie, Mist
Mliraly? Ami, see, Ills arm Is all
i.ilined. Dear me. we mil-l get I IS
' to Aunty Bono and lei her do H op for
him."
CHAPTER XVII.
"Two's Company."
Toward the seat the torm lrl"'t wns
completely burned to the banks of Qod-
.-r's creek. As the wind which hud
sprung up had driven the lire west
ward, tb waa ttW danger of the
Jinnies pressing nearer than the creek
to Sunrise Cove nnd The Colliers.
Joseph Slagg led the horse out of
tbe wilier and advised Miss Amanda
din! Cnrolvn May to gel Into the seal
,,l ihe buekboard again. Then he set
forth, leading the horse along the nar
row beach, while Prince followed
wearily In Hie rear.
It was a rough roule tln'.v followed,
but the blackened foreot-wai si in too
hot for them to puss through, bad they
been abb In nnU a pain. ' -- ,
. - .....i .l,.., uuur no
. I lonely si rip or mioin n.... ..
Ob, Joe, can we reach It?" whls- Uvlu wtti bet themselves.
Some things are so simple
that they have to be explained
again and again. "When things
are obvious, people keep looking
for mysteries behind them.
So it is with the packing bus
iness. The mere size of Swift
& Company confuses many.
Because their imaginations are
not geared up to scale, they be
lieve there must be magic in it
somewhere some weird power.
Swift & Company is just like any
other manufacturing business run by
human beings like yourself; it takes in
raw material on the one hand and turns
out a finished product on the other.
Swift & Company keeps down the
"spread," or the expense absorbed be
tween raw and finished material, to as
low a figure as possible. ( If it didn't
it would be put out of business by
others who do.)
How much Swift & Company pays
for the raw material, and how much
it gets for the finished product, depends
upon conditions which Swift &
Company does not control.
It depends entirely upon how much
people want the finished product, and
how much raw material there is avail
able to make it from.
The profits of Swift & Company
amount to less than one cent per pound
on all meats and by -products less than
one-fourth of a cent on beef.
Aunty Itose at another time. But she
wns so deep In her own thoughts that
she heard whut Carolyn May said per
functorily. With her customary kiss, she left
the little girl and went downstairs.
Carolyn May had seen so much excite-'
incut during the day that she might
hnve been exnecteil to sleen lit once.
and that soundly. Hut it wus not so.
The little girl lay with wldiMtpcn MiU,y wl" be p,eft8ed to rettd how
eyes, her imagination at work. Lewl Newman, G06 Northrand St..
"Two's company, three's a crowd." Charleston, W. Va., was restored to
She look that trite saying, In which health. He writes: "I was down sick
Amitv Rose bud exnressed her own ,.,wi nnihln. u...,ni ,1,, ,,.. unv mnil
j feelings, to herself. If Uncle Joe and . wft. full of rol(1 Had ,he Krfn untl
Miss Amanda were going to be mar- , (wo COc Dotteg of roey.B oll.
lied, they would not want uuybody , .. . .. . .
else around I Of course not I a",, Tar " ,'" lh b8' f.em!diy, T
"And what will become of mef H1-1" a"1 6oW" 1 ever used' 8old by
thought Curolyn Muy chokingly. , R 'others.
All the "emptiness" of the last few ,
months swept over the soul of the lit
IIOI.V
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tie child In u wave that her mil urn I
cheertulneas could not withstand, lier
anchorage In the love of Uucle Joe
nnd Mis Ainniiila was swept away.
The heart of Hie little child swelled.
Her e.M's overflowed. She sobbed her
st. If to sleep,1 the pillow uiullliug
tbe sounds, more forlorn than aver be
fore since she had come to The Cor-lie-s.
(To be continued)
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