very tired. The window corner tempt­
ed her.
" I'll lie down. If yon don’t mind,"
she said. “ It w ill keep me cut of your
way. I may go to sleep."
She stretched herself out on the
couch, luxuriously, and closed her
eyes
The lids were dark, darkly
veined.
The lips. In relaxation,
drooped with weariness.
For two hours Auntalmlry slipped
softly about the house, gathering to­
gether her modest belongings, pack
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Ing baskets, bags and bundles. And
for two hours Gay slept without s tir­
ring, moaning faintly now and then.
to the transaction. You go and get It cottage, well bullL charmingly locat­ At one o’clock, Auntalmlry prepared
for me."
ed. Mrs. Andover said,* rather petu­ dinner for two, with a great pot of
STORY FROM THE 8TART
He was deeply troubled. “ I—I can't lantly, that It was the nicer of the strong het tea. and set the little gate-
On ‘ he v e rs e o f n t r v o u i c o l­
do th a t Not p day I can't. Maybe to­ two cottages, and the only reason leg table. Then, with a light touch,
lapse, due to o v e rw o r k , G a y D a-
morrow. But I got to go right up now Auntalmlry preferred the Lone Pine she wakened Gay.
lane. successful N e w Y o rk a rtis t,
“ Come and eaL dearie,” she said
and
flx Mrs. Willoughby’s roof—leaky was simple and pure perversity. The
seeks rest a t Id le Is la n d
She
roof—'frald of rain. Looks like rain, Lone Pine was too big for her. It was gently. “ Yon can rest better on a
re n ts a c o tta g e , th e ’’Lone P in e,"
fro m an Is la n d c h a ra c te r, the
think?"
more Inaccessible away up on the full stomach.”
“C a p ta in ," and his s is te r, A lice
Gay smiled at her, yawning, stretch­
“ You fixed that roof yesterday," bluffs. It was farther from the shops
A n d o ve r. " A d m in is tr a to r ."
Gay said furiously.
and from her friends, but she pre­ ing luxuriously. “ You are a darling,”
"No, miss, 1 didn’t get around to IL"
she said. “ I wasn’t a bit hungry, and
ferred It “ for her Christmas party.
He sighed sadly. "Seems like I Just
And then Alice Andover's voice now I am." She stood up shaking
CHAPTER II
herself.
can't get around to the things I got sank to a whisper. “ I f she says any
—2—
to do. There’s Mrs. Willoughby’s roof, thing about a Christmas party, you
Auntalmlry watched her shrewdly.
Returning to the Island on the early and Mias Nixon's porch. Seems like I tell her John and I say she can’t
“ You didn't begin to rest any too
morning steamer, Cay was the only can’t begin to get around to things have a Christmas party this year. goon,” she said slgnlHcantly.
passenger to leave the boat at Ever­ any more. And I'd like to get a little
“ No. Almost too late, In facL So
Tell her It Is too expensive In the Arst
green filer, where she found no line work done on my boat If 1 could And
place, and It wears her all out In the far, I am too tired to enjoy resting,
of cars, no group of unhurried drivers, time," he finished pathetically,
second place, and It’s Just nonsense but after a while, a week, or a month,
"Well then," she said kindly, unable
to receive her. While with her two
anyhow. Tell her John and I say so." herw I shall revel In It.”
hands she carried her heavy bags to be very severe with one so lamb
She curled the tips of her shoes,
But when Cay suggested that of
through the orchard and up the long like, “ Just come along with me to get
boyishly, about the legs of th, chair
course,
she.
herself,
Sirs.
Andover,
grass-green slope to the tone Pine, my mouey back from Mrs. Andover,
at the table, and although she was
Cay’s heart sang a soft little song of and then you can hurry right along was going 'own with her to give these not hungry, the tea she sipped with
explanations
to
Auntalmlry,
the
ad
and gel ever so many things done. It’s
Contentment.
relish. And as they ate, Auntalmlry
mlnlstrator was regretful, hut tlrm.
" I shall sleep," she thought, "Oh, early.”
descanted at great length on the ont-
“
1
can’L
”
she
said
"
I
wish
I
The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for
He sighed but put on his cup with
Idle, Idle little Island, how I shall
rageousness of Afty dollars u month
•leep I"
disarming meekness, and they set out could, hut I can L I—I am expecting for Hint rock-pile, told her to look out
pain. B ut t f s ju st as important to know that there is only one
guests
to
dinner."
She
looked
at
her
genuine Bayer Aspirin. The name Bayer is on every tablet, and
As she stood at last beneath the together. •
for the draughty window on the ocean
"That's her cottage down there," he watch. “ Good heavens, It Is after side, nnd enlarged on the condition of
craggly pine, fumbling In her hag for
on the box. If it says Bayer, it's genuine; and if it doesn’t, it is
said, pointing off to the le ft “ It a’n’t eleven, and the potatoes not so much the kitchen woodwork.
the keys, It was the pride of posses
not! Headaches are dispelled by Bayer Aspirin. So are colds,
ns
peeled.
You
see
how
It
Is.
I
wish
far. You go right down through that
slon which throbbed In her pulses
She recommended I.umly Lane for
and the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and
little gate, and see Mis Andover. Be I could, but I can’L You tell her. lobsters, and promised to send him up
5 his was her summer heritage, the re
She'll understand. Just tell her you
rheumatism promptly relieved. Get Bayer—at any drugstore—
ward of ten years of constunt labor; firm with her, miss, you be real Ann. have rented the cottage, and paid the for orders. And at Anntalnilry’s sug­
with proven directions.
You bold out for your rights.”
Il was hers.
gestion Cay made out a grocery list
And with Incredible celerity, before re n t and tell her we Insist—John and to Initiate her own light housekeep­
Even with her hand on the knob.
I both Insist—that she give up tup
Gay
could
catch
and
hold
him,
he
had
Gay reudlzed thal It was not she who
Lone Pine Immediately. Tell her If ing. and gave It to that same small
oper.td the door of the cottage; that shambled away out of sight around she doesn’t —we’ll—we’ll burn the Ap­ obliging person to leave at the Pier
the cottage, and there was nothing for
It opened to her, Instead, from within.
ple Tree to the ground, nnd sell the grocery store.
And as she stepped buck, startled, she her to do but go on alone Her In Ag­ Lone Pine over her hend.”
While they were still at the table,
Aspirin Is the trad . mark of Barer Manufacture o f Monoacetlcacldester o f SallcrllcacU
nation
rose
again
us
she
cut
down
the
was confronted suddenly hy a woman,
So Cay Delnne. alone, unaided hy Gus. the tnxl boy, came up for Annt-
pretty,
green
bordered
cinder
path
to
not Mrs Andover, not one of the three
In D a z e on W e d d in g D a y
Mrs. Ando' er s door, but she was met the lamblike Captain, unsupported by almlry’s things, and trudged off down
quiet figures from the Captain's kltch
the efficient administrator, broke the the h"l, heavily laden nnd Auntal­
Three days after his wedding day,
.with
great
friendliness
by
that
affable
en. hut one she had never seen before.
news to the Indomitable little old mlry, hastily catching up an armful David J. James, who disappeared on
"Oh. I beg your pardon," she cried, and efficient woman, who took both woman on the hill. As she repeated, of coats and dresses, tripped after the eve of the event, arrived at the
her hands In ’ ordlal greting.
" I didn't know there was anybody
him
home of his parents in Bridgen, Ire
“ My dear, how sweet or you to be very modestly, almost diffidently, the
here."
Gay waved them away and turned land. His clothes were weL and he
•o neighborly. How charming! You dire threats of Alice Andover, Auntal­
Keep your vital organs active and you
The woman did not speak for a tno
can forget about your health. Aid nature
it real acquisition to our summer mlry broke Into laughter so hearty It back, yawning, into the pretty cot­ appeared dazed and was unable to
ment, but stood peering up, near­ are
seemed Impossible It could have ema­ tage, turned again, gratefully, to the give an account of himself. He could
and she will repay you with renewed life.
colony."
.
sightedly, Into Ouy’s fuce—a small
nated from so small a source.
wide conch In the shadowy corner, recall nothing ubout the arrangements
Since 1696, the sturdy Hollanders have
“
Mrs.
Andover,
excuse
me,
but
that
woman, short nnd slight, ami a soft
warded off kidney, liver, bladder, bowel
“ My dear,” she gasped, wiping her stretched herself out upon IL and for the wedding, but reiuemliered be­
cottage you rented me is not for rent.
flush gave her face a pleasant girlish
troubles with their National Household
eyes, “ 1 wish they would. I’d like to closed her ey6s
ing hit on the head while at work the
Remedy—the original and genuine
look, although as Cay (earned later,
see IL Why, I’d have the law on
Th" afternoon waned. A boy from day previous to his disappearance.
■he was very old, older even than
them." She fell Into helpless laughter the Pier grocery store brought her The bride-to-be, Miss Ste. Hicks, had
Alice Andover. But for all her small­
again. “ I’m a sort of a common-law basket of groceries, and left It on the returned to her duties as nurse In the
ness and her pinkness, there was some­
wife, my dear. If you keep me long kitchen table without disturbing her. south of England, and the wedding
thing Impressively determined, some­
enough, you can’t get shut of me.
Dusk crept out of the forest and guests, who were from out of towu
thing Indomitable about her that was
Such talk. Alice Andover Indeed! darkened the windows.
Once Cay had gone back to their homes.
striking.
Why didn't they come and tell me all stirred, restfully, sensed presence In
"Are you the Captuln's wife?" Cay
these high doings?"
her sleep, seemed to feel the gaze of
W / ic n a M a n M a rrie s
asked, us the woman stared at her,
"The Captain had to Ax Miss N ix­ human eyes upon her In the silence.
Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh
amillng faintly, puzzled.
"So you want to marry ’my daugh­
on s porch, and Mrs. Andover Is peel­ Resentfully she forced the heavy lids
Money back for first bottlo If not suited. All dealen .
" No. I m not,” she disclaimed quick­
ing potatoes for a company dinner
to raise. In the shadowy, dying light ter? Are you able to support a fam
and—"
ly, half laughing. "I'm Just Auntal-
she seemed to see a small Hgure lly?”
“ I think so.”
miry. Come In." she still stnred.
R a d iu s D e fin e d
"The Captain's been Axing that crouching near her, and a small face,
“ Now think again, young man.
clostly. " I - This light Is bud.” she
porch for four years, and never set yellow nnd wrinkled like parchment^
B ill—"(in what grounds does you
added apologetically., "And my best
foot on It yeL And as for Alice An
with pinched features and slanting There are seven of us."—Pittsburgh
father object to me?" Jenny—“ Oi
glasses are broken, I can't seem to
dover, my dear, she never peeled a almond-shaped eyes fastened hypnot­ Bunday Telegraph.
the grounds about the house."
place you— 'Tuln't Mary Grover,
potato In her life. She’s aristocratic. ically upon her eyes. Beneath one
Is It?"
Peeling potatoes. My dear, Alice An
eye a small crescent-bowed scar
dover wouldn't know a potato with shone In the yellow pnrehmenL It
'I am Cay Delane—the new tenant,"
the
skin
on
If
she
saw
It."
The soft little Hgure became rigid
was the scarred and wrinkled face of
"But Mrs.—Miss—"
•‘The uew tenant." she repeated.
a little old Chinaman. Even In her
"Auntalm lry, dearie, Just call me sleep, Ca.v knew It could not he. and
“ (»Il, they didn't tell you I"
Auntalmlry. I ’m not proud."
smiled faintly at her foolish fancy.
" 'll II me I Of course they didn't tell
Auntalmlry," Gay said appealing
“ It Is a dream,” she thought mist­
me. They were ufrald to tell me. The
ly. “ see how I am Axed. I have paid ily. “ Prenm on.”
cowards!” But she said this In the
Afty dollara rent—”
She closed her eyes again.
Jnost amiable and cheerful tone Imag­
“ F ifty dollars For tills shack? My
The little yellow face receded Into
inable. “ I wish Alice Andoverd tell
dear, they robbed you. They never the dusk, the small figure failed
me. I’d like to hear Iter. I told her,
got more than forty for It In the nolsely Into the shadows, and there
with my own lips, that I wanted to
world. Last year, they only got thlr
was not the slightest sound from the
Stay here myself this summer."
ty-flve. Poor child, poor dear, they small, swift moving feet as he stepped
"Oh, I beg your pardon. She must
robbed you."
over the sill of the window on the for­
have forgotten IL I’ll run right up “ I Don’t Think You Can Do That,"
"And see They have my flfty dol­ est side, and padded away among the
He Said Cautiously.
and tell theta—"
trees.
lars, you have my house. I have noth
When Cay stooped to lift her bags, Auntalmlry Is keeping It herself this Ing.”
Hours after, when Cay wakened
Atintulnilry Insisted that she leave summer. So If you w ill kindly re­
My dear, I’ll go. r i l go right fro® Her sleep. the house was stm
them “ You’ll be right back," she said fund—”
away. We'll show them they cant and dark. The greatness of her re­
confidently "They’ll send me word.
Mrs. Andover’s affability froze upon get away with this sort of thing with laxation pleased her.
Alice Andover never misses a chance her face. “ My dear, do you mean to us. It won’t take me long to pack up.
“ 1 shall go on like tills for weeks"
to send somebody word. Just leave tell me that that creature had the I haven’t got much."
she thought blissfully, "smelling sweet
the begs; you'll be right back."
brazen effrontery, the unmitigated
While Auntalmlry bustled about seems of sea and woods, hearing
City trudged rather crossly up the audacity, the—the—to stay there putting her things together. Cay. hav arrange mdses of ghostly breaths and
pleasant lane to the Cuptnln’s door, after John told her I had rented that Ing removed her cap and gloves, set o f 7 « l » ' a
e,,S- fc p lln g ,h e , 0 “ <®
The disarray of her plans annoyed her, cottage?"
her tings In a corner out of the w-r. of fairy Angers- Oh. good heavens,
and tier tired nerves resettled the post­
"John didn't tell her. She didn't and went to the wide couch. She was I wonder where the matches a re l"
ponement of rest. She found the Cap­ know IL The cottage was not ready
IT O US C O N T lN U ip .,
tain In the kitchen In his favorite for me ns you promised—"
♦
s
e
i
«
»
«
»
, ,5
chair by the window, fondling the
-
- • - •
a -.’A ».»*•;• j
"John didn't — John — John Wal-
largest cat, while the dog sulked Jeal­ I are— Didn't you hear me tell
hlm
ously beneath the table.
to tell her to—"
"Captain." Cay began curtly, "where
“Oh, yes, you told him. And that
Is M s. Atnlover? The Lone I ’lue Is was the end of It. And as she Is the
I find that most people think of "ad-
noi for rent
That woman—Auntal- original tenant, I hnve had all my
n any ether serious work In life The
r
venture" when the word “ exploration’
mlry Is going to stay there herself." trouble and worry for nothing "
first quallHcatlun of an explorer Is
la used. To the explorer, however. nJ
a
"You don t say so," he ejaculated
sound ind trained body.
Exploring
And then, with reluctance, with In­ venture Is merely an unwelcome Inter
kin'> ° f Physical
"Well, think of that now. What are nate delicacy, spnrlng Auntalmlry In ruptton of hts serious labors, lie Is SerUon ' he
you going to do shout It?”
' " " '1 t ,e cap,cltJ t0 endure
every way possible. Mrs. Andover ex­ looking, not for thrills, but for facts su<h
"What am I going to do about It?"
plained the situation. The little old about the unknown. Often his search lo n vn
,‘" n Under stress b<’ ' h fr r
she repeated, Indignantly “ Nothing. woman Io the cottage was not a ten- Is a race with time against starva­
« ng p,.r|,.ds ()f sustained endeavor and
What tune I got to do about It? I will nnL She Just lived there. She paid tion. To him, an adventure is merely
>e tr i ng moments of emergency.
Just take ha.k uty money—”
no rent, she had no money, and the a lilt of had planning, brought to light How prejmsteroos, then. It Is for men
“ I don't think you cau do that,” tie cottage stood Idle all winter without by the test of trial.
! 'e
at desks to maturity
Or It Is un­
said cautiously. " I don’t think so."
her. Much better for the house to fortunate exemplification of the fact suddenly t0 attempt these arduous en-
“Well, l think so. Renting a cot
be o'copied, much better for Auntal­ that no man can grasp all the possibil­
’ 1
Roald
Amundsen
to
tuge thal Isn't for rent I Whoever
w orlds Work.
mlry who needed homing—
ities of the future.
heard of such a thing? Of course I
“ Oh. please," Interrupted Cay. “ let
Serious work In exploration calls
can lake It hack."
her stay then. IXm't turn the poor for ns definite and as rigorous pro­
B agp ip es in S pain
lie shook his silvered head doubt
thing out on my account—”
fessional preparation as does success
Specimens of bagpipes are found on
fu lly "You have rented the cottage,"
And then Mrs. Andover grew really
oh! Spanish manuscripts.
In the
he said “ Il Is youra. If an outsider withering In her retaliation.
“In m y concert work, I must, of
.
beautiful volume of the "Cantlgas dl
comes In on you—why, you'll have to
Turn her out I W hat kind of peo-
Satisfied
Santa Marla," which was made In the
take measure* to get her out."
pie do you think we are? Do we
first consideration to my • nirv
A short sighted man who was also Thirteenth century of King Alphonso
Guy stured at him "Rut she was look like the aort to turn anybody
ver> Inquisitive was walking In th> the Wise, there are SI separate fig­
c u re /,,,
X fc e ù “ '“ ' “ ''’ ’ '
there first I I sin the Interloper."
out? W’e Just want her to move down country one day when he saw a notice ures of musicians. These form an
“ Then I don’t think Alice w ill re
Into her own house, the Apple Tree." board nailed on a tree that stood tn Introduction to the canticles. There
„A i.!, / s r *
fund the rent. I don’t think no."
"Oh, then she Isn’t to poor, If she a field. As he could not read the no­ are three pipers among them with
«"V
A
roat.
I
Luck
" “
to
"Oh, If she Is like that I" Cay satd has a house of her own."
tice at that distance, curiosity prompt
bagrtpes.
Another Spanish mann-
scornfully. “ She loesn't look so dis­
But Auntalmlry did not o w n the
__ ed him to climb over the fence and scrlpt of the end of the Fifteenth cen­
that they meet my
honest "
Apple Tree Auntalmtry did not own
critical requirements.”
“ Dishonest I My sister. Mis Alice anything. Mrs Andover aald It was walk acrosa the field toward the tree. tury. Illustrated by a Flemish artist
A few moments later he managed to for Queen Hu, hell a. shows many mu-
Andover? Dear, dear, what gme you the Estate, the Estate which owned
scramble back over the fence Just in slcal Instruments, among which are
aucli a notion ss that? She's honest
the land, the Estate which had built time to escape the horns of a ragtn • bagpipe«.
as the day —hut she’s s very good ad­ the little Apple Tree exclusively for
hull.
ministrator, very good Indeed "
Auntalmlry, for her very own. fu r­
"W ell." he gasped breathlessly -,
W a y o f th e W o r ld
" I f she Is like that.” Cay said, “ you nished It for her, maintained It for ,
had the aatlsfacttou of finding ont
w ill get the money hack for me You her.
Laugh and the world laughs ” ’tk
what the notice w a r’
you. cry and the world laughs at >o«
are tier brother. You were a witness
The Apple Tree was a dear little |
It Mitt, “ Beware of the Bull.*
—Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Æ ISLAND
By E T H E L H U E5T O N
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it does NOT affect the heart
HEALTH
HINTS
For Pipe Sores, Fistula, Poll Ev
The Cream
of the
Tobacco
Crop
“Adventure” Only for Man Physically Fit
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F in * Lucky Strikes Kindly’
To His Precious Voice
™ "r,
“ '
h°"‘
V
’
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most o
finding
“ I t ’s toasted"
Ù 2 Throat Irritât’
ISü-N o Cough.