carry the house find t-ven made one at woman t satisry me unless well scat­ | Finally, with the tears tangling Icily a public meeting when we Invited the tered In ages, Jane. On some ques­ in iny lashes. 1 gut up and went Into men to hand over our $.">0 for the mon­ tions I am not modern. (Continued trorn first page) the house aud lighted the fat pine un­ "Still I do feel so miserable leaving ument Ned’s face was a picture as der the logs In the hall. They had now and then, for It will nave time. he held a ruble o f her muslin gown be­ Cousin James so alone all winter," Sal­ : lain all ready for the torch for a whole tween his fingers while she stood up lle continued, with the most beautiful Horrors! 1 year. Just as I had lain for a lifetime sympathy In her voice as she looked "W e have fully decided on our course to do It. j until a few weeks ago. Then suddenly But the picture that flnshed through out o f the window toward Wldegables. | they blazed—as X hml done. of action. Jane, and Evelina, dears,” said Cousin Jasmine In a i>oBltlve little my mind was dearer than that, and I ” 1 wonder If I ought to make up my My condition was pttlabla. 1 felt that manner that she would huve been as put It away In that Jewel box that I mind to stay with him? He loves the i all nature had deserted me, the dl- am going to open some day for my children so, and you know the plana ! mate, ludlan summer, the harvest Incapable o f a month ago as Is a pet own man. of Cousin Jasmine and the others to moon and my own charm, but my head kitten o f burking at the family dog, Both Mamie’s nurse and cook had go back to their farm.” was up and I was going to crackle "but we do so dread to break It to gone to the third funeral o f the sea­ "But he’ll have his mother left," 1 plueklly along to my blase so I turned dear James, because we feel that he son. and Mamie was feeding the entire said quietly, but very encouragingly. toward the door to go across the road may thluk we ure not happy under his family in the back yard. The kiddles 1 seemed to see the little green tendril and put my fate to the test even If 1 roof und be distressed. Ix> you believe were sitting in a row along the top that had unclasped from the oak turn­ took pneumonia standing begging at we »hull be able to make him see that o f the back steps, eating cookies and ing on Its stem and winding tight his front door. I hoped I would find we must pursue our ludeiwudent life, milk, with bibs around tbelr necks, again. him In the lodge and— though always needing the support o f from the twelve-year-old Jennie, who "Miss Mathers was encouraging "Evelina,” he exclaimed as be burst his affection and Interest?" had tied on hers for fun, down to the Cousin Martha to go to Colorado to see "1 believe you will. Cousin Jasmine," chubby-klus next to the buby—and Ma­ Elizabeth and her family for a long opes my door, flung himself Into the 1 said, wanting to both laugh and cry mie was sitting fiat on the grass In visit tills whiter. She hasn’t seen Eliz­ firelight and seized my arm like a rob­ to see the Crag’s burdens begin to roll front of them nursing little Ned, with abeth since her mother died, and she ber baron o f the tw elfth century mak­ off bis shoulders like this. And the big Ned sitting beside her with his was so much lnterestixl In the easy ing a grab for his ladylove In the tears that didn’t rise would have Iieen arm around both her and the baby. He way of traveling these days, as Miss midst of her hostile kindred, " I thought real oikd , too, for I found that down was looking first dowu Into her face, Mathers described It, that she asked I would never get here! I ran all the in the coiner o f my heart 1 had adored and then at the Industrious kiddle get­ her to write for a time table and what way up from the office. Here’s a tele­ the picture o f my oak with the tender ting his supper from the maternal a ticket costs. Just this morning. 1 gram from Mr. Hall that says that the little old vines clinging around him. fount, and then ut the handsome bunch really ought not to desert Cousin #wo roads have merged and w ill take It was the producing gourd 1 had most on the steps, as he alternately munch­ Jurnes.” the bluff route past Glendale and give ’’But think how lonely Mr. Haley Is us the shops and wants to appoint me objected to, and I couldn’t see but she ed u bite o f his cooky and fed Mamie would be there until I unclasped her one. to the delight o f the children. The dowu lu the inirsonago and o f his In the general attorney for the southern expression on bis face as he looked at flueiice on Henrietta," I urged. tendrils. section. They wunt me to come on to “ Yes, 1 do feel drawn In both ways,” New York by the first train. Can you Hut I was forgetting that In the them and her and ate and laughed is modern theory o f thought waves It Is what Is back o f all that goes to make sighed the poor tender gourd. "And marry me In the morning, so we can the American nation the greatest on then you will be here by yourself, so take the noon express from Bolivar? the simplest minds that get the rip­ earth. Amen! you can watch over Cousiu James as I won’t go without you. Please, dear, ples first und hardest. Snllio came over "Sallle.” I said as I reached out and much as your work will allow you. Just as soon ns the other delegation please!” And ns he stood and looked took her plump white baud hi mine, cau’t you, Evelina?” had got home to take the twins off her "our men aro the most wonderful in at me In the firelight all the relief ‘‘Yes, I ’ll try to keep him from being hands. Jane hml gone upstairs to the world, and they are ours any way too much aloue," I answered with the and excitement over his news died out make more calculatlous on our recon­ we get them. They don’t care bow It most deceitful unconcern. struction, and 1 was trying to get a Is done, and neither do we. Just so we "I see him coming to supi>er and 1 large, deep breath. belong In the right way." must go, for I want to be with him all ’’ Evelina,” she said as she snnk In a "Then you don’t think It would be 1 can. If I am to leave him so soou. chair near mo and fastened her large, ! any harm for me to tell Mr. Haley 1 I may not make up my mind to it." very young-ln-soul eyes on mine, "w ere think I could live on $1,800 n year un­ with which threat Sallle departed and you JuHt Joking, Nell, or did you mean til he gets sent to a larger church?” left me alone hi the gloaming, a sit It when you said the other day that was the bomb that, thus encouraged. uatlon which seems to be becoming you thought It would be cowardly of Snllio exploded In my face. chronic with me now. a woman not to show a man that she I’m awfully glnd that I didn’t get a I f 1 bad It I’d give another $100,000 loved him If ho for any reason was not chance to answer, for I don’t want to to the cause to hear that interview w illing to mnko the first advances to he responsible for the future failure or between Sallle and the dominie. I her?” Snllio Is perfectly lovely In the success o f Mr. H aley’s ministry. Just wager he’ll never know what happened faint lavender and pink things that then Henrietta hurst Into the room and would swear It didn’t. If confront­ June made her decldo to get In one with the kitten In her arras. ed with a witness. conversation, whereas while Nell and "K eep her for me. Evelina, please, And also I felt so nervous with all Caroline and 1 had been looking up ma’am.” she said, with the dearest lit­ this asking in marriage surging In the and bringing her surreptitious sam­ tle chuckle, but not forgetting the po­ atmosphere that It was with difficulty ples o f nil colors from the store all lite “ please." which June had hail to that I sat through supper and listened suggest to her Just once. What you’ve to Jane and Polk, who had come In summer. ’’Well, I don't know that I exactly done for that wayward, unmanageable with her, plan town sewerage. To­ meant Nell to take It nil to heart,” I genius o f n child Jane. dear, makes you morrow night I knew the moon answered without the slightest suspi­ deserve ten o f your own. That 1s- wouldn't rise until 11 o’clock, and how did I know anyway that Sadie's cion o f what was coming. "B ut 1 do help! emancipation might not get started on think, Snllio. It would be no more than ‘ ‘Cousin Augusta and Nell and Dickie the wrong track and run Into my Crag? honest, fearless and within a woman's and uio is a-going out to watch the His chivalry would never let him re­ own greater rights." "Mr. Haley was saying the other man put the dyu’mlte lu the hole to fuse a woman who proposed to him. evening that a woman's sweet de- blow the creek right up. and Glendale and he'll be In danger until I can do ¡»endeuoe was a man's most precious too, so they can see if they Is enough It and tell the town about It. Jane and Polk had promised Dickie heritage," Snllio gently mused out on clean water to put in the waterworks," "N ell Is and Nell to motor down Providence the atmosphere that was lieginning to she continued to explain. u-golng to take Dickie lu her car. and road as fa r as Cloverbend In the moon­ lie pretty highly charged. “ Doesn’t a woman have to depend on Cousin Augusta is a-go.ng to take me light, and I think Curollne and Lee her husband's tenderness and care all and Uncle Peter In her buggy. DUsle were going too. Polk looked positively o f the time—time she Is bearing a child. have got the kit. and Cousin Marfy Is agonized with embarrassed sorrow at Snllio, even up to the nsafettdn spoon a-watchlng to see she don’ t do nothing leaving me all alone, and it was with crisis?” 1 asked, with my cheeks lu a wrong with her. Oh. may I go. Sallle? difficulty that I got them off. 1 plead­ ed the greatest fatigue, and my impa­ “AdamI" I let mysalf go, and at last flame, but determined to stand my Jane said I must always ask you.” pressed my answer against hia lipa. ground, " it does seem to me that ua- ! "Yes, dearest." unswered Sallle, lm tience amounted to crossness. mensely flattered by the deference thus ture puts tier lu a position to demand of bis lovely eyes, and Just the want of me filled them from their very so much supisirt from him In th ose! paid her. CHAPTER XVIII. times that she ought to rely on herself j "H o w wonderful an Influence the lit­ depths. " E v C and "Adam." when she can. especially ns she Is like ■ tle talks Mr. Haley has had with Hen­ For several Interminable centuries o f F T E R Jane and Polk bad gone ly to bring an indefinite nniulier of rietta have had on her!” she said, with time 1 stood perfectly still and looked I dismissal Jasper and Petunia such crises Into their Joint existence." such a happy glow on her face ns the j into them daringly, drinking my fill and locked the back doors, put Sallle laughed, for she remembered reformed one departed that I succeed out all tin* lights la the house for the first time and offering him a the high horse I had mounted on the] ed In suppressing the laugh that rose and refired to the side steps, deter like cup In my own. subject of Mamie and Neil Iln ll the lu me at the memory o f Henrietta’s no "E ve," he said so softly that I doubt mined to bo Invisible no matter who count o f the first one o f the series. day after the assembly dance. If ho really spoke the word. called—ami w a it And as 1 laughed suddenly a picture | Men need not fear that the time will “ Adam !" 1 let myself go, and at last And for one mortal hour there I sat 1 had s « s m i down at the H all’ s flashed ever come when they will cease to get pressed my answer against his lips as alone In that waning old moonlight across my mind. 1 had gone down to the credit for making earth’s wheel* he folded mo tight nTid safe. that grew colder nuj paler by the min­ tell Mamie something Aunt Augusta go around from the female Inhabitant« ute. while the stiff breeze that poured w anted her to pro|>ose next day at a thereof. So I smiled to myself and (To be continued) down from Old H a rje h began to be meeting of the Equality league about burled my fnce In the fragrance under j vicious and Icy ns It nipped my ears drinking water In the public school , the bubbly puppy girl’s chin and coax and bands and nose and sent a chi'i Great are those 25c dinners at the building. Matnle lias learned to make, od her am i« to clasp around my neck 1 down to uiy very tics. They are the holy throb o f a worn- with pink cheeks and shining eyes, the Ramsey Hotel dining room, Tillamook, Nobody came, and there 1 sat I.ess than ten