for a nuiment and resumed:
"Eve’s u good swimmer, hut it
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wus u hurd pull, for the boat hud
upset almost a q u arter of u mile
from shore und her skirt was heavy
and the lake was rough. All four
youngsters were clinging lo the
bout when she got out to them,
and when they saw tier, the twin
hoys—ten, they w ere—begun to
laugh. They thought il wus all over
now hul the fun of the rescue.
Thy told her to lake the girls first,
which of course she'd have done
more years. You don’t need to anyw ay, so she look tin- youngest,
know anything about music, to rea little Nancy lleckner, who is only
Lind
lize d ia l she’s a genius," H ender seven, und brought her in all right,
their a rriv a , in Maine in
son was saying. "You have only She flung Nancy to the woman on
I., >h' c .
<n .1 v in t to her
pai nts i !.v> le d '.. !'•• ó at ta me
shore, to he lookeil after and went
to hear her play."
rigid out aguiu for tlie next girl.
" I’ve never heard her play.”
Hamilton spoke absently, irrita t Mary, who isn't quite nine. Mary
ed by the departure from the main was about ready to go under by
“Of course it was stunning,” Hen
llieuie. lie inuiiediately regretted this lime, and Hie tw ins were try derson agreed.
his words, for Henderson was plain ing their best to help her.
(C O ST,N t ED NEXT WEEK)
ly amazed by them.
“There wasn't any smiling now,
“W hat!”
he gasped. “You've hut the hoys bucked up when their
THE GOLDEN WEDDING
known Eve C arrington more than sister wus taken off their hands,
two weeks and haven't heard her ajld promised Eve that they’d hold
By David Gray
play! Still,’’ he now remembered, on till she got ba<4. But Herman O Love, wlioe patient pilgrim feel
she had turned from her music said goodhy us she started off, and I Life's longest path have trod;
completely during that last week I she didn't like that indication of Whose m inistry hath symbolled
in Chicago—”
Hie way he had looked. It rattled
sweet
"You were talking about the her, and she had an awful lime
Th edearer love of God;
lleckner drowning»," Eric rem in getting Mary to shore, for the kid The sacred m yrtle wreathes again
ded him.
was in » panic. The new spaper
Thine altar, as of old;
Henderson shook his gray head. men did a lot of fancy w riting on And what was green with summer
”11 doesn’t seem possible,” he that second rescue. She got Mary
brought out. “I can't imagine Eve to shore, though, and started hack
away from a piano that long, even a third time. The women tried to
in the nervous state she was in. hold her then, for they saw she
But I suppose it’s no more impos was about all in, hul she went. She
The
sible than the rest of this business." w ent,” he repeated softly.
reached
"Eve went to Makinac early in tw ins sank before she
”
August for a fortnight’s rest. She them, so she started diving
was the guest of the lleckners, in
“Go on!" Hamilton begged again,
their summer home there. She’s and the big man obeyed after a
an intim ate friend of Mrs. lleck glance at him. It was clear to each !
ner, who is devoted to her and of them now that Hie oilier loved
Hie girl they were discussing.
/m-nov/itere
WIIAT HAS GONE BEFORE
Nliimllinf oil ii New York street
corner, u young woman suddenly
discovers Unit stic dues not know
tier own mime nor how she got
there. Everything in her punt is
ii blank. She known only Hull tier
liuiiie in "Eve”. She meet* u young
iiiiiii who lives at Hie hotel wltere
she in registered un Eve Nobody
of Nowhere, which she hail w rit
ten hi French. Eric Humilton culls
Io u nerve speciulint, hut Eve slips
out of the hotel, goes Io u little
upurtiiieiit house, where she meets
h er u job in u cuhuret.
As a cuhuret hostess she meets
iminy curious people. The none
night, u iiiiiii who cluiui* to recog
nise her comes in. She is afraid
of him mid runs away, buck Io
the hotel Io Eric Hamilton. She
1ms her h air dyed mid changes her
m anner of dress, so tliut the slrun-
ger out of her idd life will not
recoguide her. Then Humilton per
suades her Io go through u m ar
riage ceremony with him. As they
retu rn to the hotel the iiiun she
fear* is waiting. Humilton sends
her up stairs mid turns to the other
iiiiiii , who suys his mime is Sam
uel Hen lerson, of Chicago.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STOItY
Chicago O rchestra and unother
with the Philadelphiu Orchestra.
And she has knocked on the head
the prettiest autumn recital ever
come off early next inoiitli. That
what she’s done," he bitterly un
planned for mi artiste.
II was
was bad enough; but of course we
all made allowance^ tor her lie-
had—”
"She hasn't said much about
that shock." Eric confessed. "I
wish you would tell me the whole
story.”
Henderson leaned nearer and
licered into his face again, this
time more closely.
“See here,” lie suddenly dem an
ded. "W hy should I talk over
Miss C arrington's affairs with you?
I don’t know anything about you."
“We're fifty-fifty on that.” Hamil
ton reminded him. "But I'm her
husband'*.
"I've only your word for it.”
“I cun give you proof any time
it's necessary. But first I want
to know a whole lot more about
you. W here do you come in on
Eve's uffairs?"
Henderson turned squarely and
stared at him. He seemed unable
to speak.
"Do you mean Io »ay," lie in
“The woman that ran hack lo
town had found some men in a field
Henderson continued, “and they fin
ally got a bout and reached Eve
just in time to save her. It took
almost un hour to bring her to eon- :
seiousness after they got her to !
shore. They brought hack one of
the twins, Herman, w ith her, hut
tie was dead when they got him to
the surface. Henry's body w asn’t
recovered until that afternoon. Il
was a ghastly business
but Eve
saved the two little girls.”
Open Air Circus Acts
then.
Is mellowed now io gold.
Is flushed with fancy's light;
But memory with a m ilder grace,
Shall rule the feast tonight.
Blest was the sun of joy that
shone,
Nor less the blinding show er;
The hud of fifty years agone
Is love's perfected flower.
"Than't you, Mr. Henderson. My
Daily Horse Show
r.ame I* Eric Hamilton, and I'm
from Chicago too. That ought to
Races - - Auto Show
be a bo id.”
Livestock E x h ib its
"Than'.s. And now," Henderson
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added in a level lone. "I’d like to
have yo i tell me what you meant
S im p ly T o o N o ity
by spea ing of Miss Carrington us
Betty
Marte has a new baby brother.
your w fe.”
Saturday night Baby Dick was rather
Eric perm itted himself a glance
fretful, having cried for some time.
of surprise, while m entally he re
Finally Betty turned to her grand
gistered the name.
“By God! that was stunning!”
mother and said: “Grandma, I simply
“ I me nt that the lady ami I are
Hamilton said on a choked breath.
cannot stand that noise.”
m arried,” he suavely informed the 1
culler.
f'Since when ”
"Oh, for some little time.”
“ Do you mean to say that Ev e Carrington m arried you w ith°ut
“The hotel people didn't seem telling you about m e?" tic inquire d at last.
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called h'-r Miss Parsons.”
"One doesirM confide all one's af- I quired at last, “that my name was doing everything she could to
fairs to the hotel people, you 1 doesn't mean anything more (ban a .ile E v e \ first American season
out. “And I admit we're Newly- | a inline Io you, and that Eve C ar a big success.
"Eve is strong for boating and
Weds. Still,” he added, "we meant rington m arried you without telling
you about m e?”
to tell them tonight.”
swimming and every sort of out
"Not a thing. Not a word."
"They call Miss C arrington, 'Miss
door sport." Henderson went, hav
:
Henderson bunched forw ard, eyes ing replaced the spectacles. “L earn
Berson’ uptown and Miss Parsons
at tills hotel. I can't understand," on the rug at his fed.
D epLSU r,.
,
ed 'em when she was a kid, and
"Well.” be m uttered, "thut cer keeps herself fit Unit way. The
Henderson went on ns Hamilton
took this in silence, "why she came tainly tics up the package..... with Heekner children, (there w ere four
here and changed her name the a string! I thought no musician of them ) were crazy about her,
way she did. But why the devil could surprise me, for the 1-ord and spent most of their time at
,N THE W E S T
knows, they're u crazy lot. But this” her heels. They w ere just turning
should she have tw o nam es?"
;
“ Four,” Hamilton corrected: “Car- lie straightened unit met Hamilton's to row and swim, but of course
rington, Parsons, Berson and Ham-, sym pathetic eyes.
they were never allowed to go off
"You sec." lie added.deliberately, by themselves.
ilton. But Hamilton is the real
However, they
one. Berson is the result of a emphasizing every word, "I happen knw there was an old bout a mile
:
blunder. Some one uptown tw ist lo be Eve's dead father's lifelong or so up the beach, and they sneak
ed Parsons into Berson mid the friend, and her guardian, ami her ed off alone one m orning and got
manager, and the man she was go that boat into the w ater and pushed
habit spread.”
“ Damned queer, I call it,” Hen ing lo m arry I”
out in it. Their governess thought
Ham ilton’s breath eaught under they hud merely run away from her
derson muttered “And cutting me
dead when I finally found her," the blow, hut he took it with out to play on the sand, hut just the
he ended. “T hat’s beyond belief!’ ward calmness.
same, she chased them along the
"Now, that we understand each beach looking for them, and on the
As Hamilton made no eomment
on this outburst, Henderson ad other, suppose you tell me about way another child met her and told
ded with an evident effort at self- the shock my wife had before she her what the youngsters had done.
leg! Chicago,” lie suggested, "she They were pretty far out by that
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control:
"W asn't this m arriage of yours doesnt’ even mention it.”
time.”
"That's easy, though I guess
rath er sudden?”
"Yes, Go on.”
“ I suppose you might call it so," you've read most of the details.
"It
was early and the shore was
Eric conceded. “But we’ve known You know about the drow nings, of
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almost
deserted; bqt Eve had hap
«‘itch other more than a fortnight, course.”
pened
along
with two women she
"1 don't even know w hat you
and lots of couples don't wait that
j walked with every morning. She
long. Strangers In the same town mean.”
Henderson took out his pocket and her friends had been standing
•weeks of vacatioiq you know, than
they ordinarily would in a year," ham lcrchief and wiped his moist w atching the rowboat and w onder
ing why the devil it was acting so
face.
lie bromidieally pointed out.
queer.
Suddenly they saw it cap
"It's very odd you don’t know,"
“Vacation!"
Henderson broke
size
...
and at the same time the
out, so loudly that his companion he m uttered. Hasn't Eve told you
lleckner governess came running
had to rem ind him of the lime and anything nt all?"
"Eve admitted that she hasn't tow ard them, off her head with
place by an apprehensive look
terro r and shrieking that all the
around the room. It worked. Hen discussed the shock.”
“ 1 suppose that isn’t strange, real children had been in that boat.”
derson lowered his vonce.
Henderson stopped again.
"Do you realize, young man, that ly. She was shot lo pieces by it,
"Eve Took just time enough to
this bride of yours skipped out, poor girl.”
kick off her shoes before she raced
Erie caught his arm.
witjitmt warning, a week before
“ Mr. H enderson,” he cried, ", into the w ater and started for the
she was hilled to make her first
wish
you'd stop healing about the kids. She realized that it was all
American apearance at the most im
portan t musical event of the year hush and tell me Unit whole story up lo her, for most of the men were
away that day, and the governess
—the big Chicago benefit for the i from start lo finish.”
and
the other two women couldn't
“All
right,”
Henderson
agreed,
flood sufferers?..
And that isn’t
:
nil she's done,” he ended w ith a lie went on with increasing serious swim a stroke. One of them had
sem e enough to rush back tow ard
ness:
groan.
"I’ll start al the beginning. Eve town for help, and the other arced
“No,” Hamilton slowly admitted,
I didn't realize that. What else was pretty tired when she got back around oil the sand, yelling.”
j to America the first of July, after
He slopped again, look the big
bad she done?”
cigar
from his lips and looked at
her
European
tour
and
the
year
Henderson sent him a sudden
Not all sizes in the lot, but if your size is.here----- What a Bargain you will
peering look from his near-sigted abend of her here was going to tie it as if wondering how It got there.
get!
Just Jots of bargains not advertised.
Remember just two days of this
“I knew those kids, myself,” he
eyes, hut he was too full of his just as strenuous as the past year.
Picnic Sale, FNIDAY' and SATURDAY, August 29 and 30.
She's a genius, you know ....... a explained. I'd been at Mackinac
own troubles to he analytical.
“She's wrecked half a dozen Oc wonder. Even now' there isn’t a over the previous week-end nnd I
C. J. BREIER’S
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MEDFORD
tober concert« engagements, that's American pianistc who can touch had taken the tw ins out rowing.
w hat she's w recked" Henderson an her. She’ll head all the women Oh, wll .... ” He restored the cigar
nounced, “including one with the players of Ihc w orld In a few to his mouth puffed at it fiercely
natolo attentif
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Friday and Saturday this Week Only
I 1 Infants Dresses
89c each
2 Boys Sweaters
$3.98
3 Children's Dresses
89c
4 Boys Fleece Lined Union
Suits
98c
o 5 Serpentine Crepe
35c yd.
D 6 Boy's Black Stockings 35c
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$1.49
7 Men's Tennis Shoes
8 Children's Tennis Shoes 69c
9 Remnants all Kinds 3 to
10 yards. Values to $3.00
10 House Dress Values to $1.95
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