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CHAPTER X Continued
17
tlnuda PhIiIh looked at her, saw
that li Wttf lanvlng It to him, and
though ha had rimmed tlili muettng
a hundred tlmvt, did not know which
bciiluiilng to Dink 11 could think of
nothing but how blind ho had Iwn.
"Good God I Why didn't I It tha
Brmt timer ha thought to hliuaclf.
"bha'g io Ilka my mother." '
II turned to tha girl, and Mid:
"slur, will your mother be lu wbo
w gat to your hot hi?"
"I think ao."
"Then do you thtuk yon could coma
to my hotel, and talk to rut fur a few
mluutaa. I've got a titling room. Wa
could ba quite private."
Now alary knew she wae In tor It,
but (lie loved the nice, ilmple way ha
was taking It Absolutely direct
What was Mother runulng awaj from?
"If 1 don't atay too long," die an
swered. "Mother will be anxious. If
I siu not b k la half an hour."
"Then we'll do It He ipoke to lbs
driver.
They said nothing more, except to
remark on the weather. '
At the dees, when he received hla
key, Mary noticed that as she stood a
little apart lalhs was evidently tell
ing the clerk she was his daughter.
Bhe knew st ones that this whs his
careful thought for her, and did not
mind In the least the maimer of his
doing It Indeed, It was a good
manner. - ,
As they went up In the elevator,
Cauda bed a sudden dread that Ned
might come buck and And them, and
be did not want Hint , I'lenty of time
for Ned. wheu ha, Claude, found out
where they stood. He opaned the door
of the sitting room end uahered Mary
In. Bhe had time to think, swiftly and
confusedly, that this, wm doing It
rsther well for a coumry grocer, lie
seemed nimble to tpeuk. Kl.e felt a
Ilka disability He uhio her own
tongue. 81m out down and nulled.
Claude crowed to the door end
cUwed It Mary Instinctively felt the
struggle and difficulty going on In his
mind. lie did not yet know bow much
she knew or did not know. Kite felt
sorry for him, sud quite Involuntarily
tried to help.
Tat her "
C M. I h lirn ihot out a strong arm.
Mary was lifted out of the rhslr and
bcld firmly. Hli heard a voire above
ber bat. Imploring:
"Pay that eguln, my girl, sud say
It slow."
"Whstr asked the Hurtled Msry,
rsther faintly. There wss not much
spsce to speak In.
"Whst you called me then. Oh, my
God, girl, do you know Hint It's truer
Msry drew back and looked up at
him.
"Heavens I" she gasped. "Did I say
It out loud? I was afraid I would."
"Kay It!" commanded C M, and
Shook her a little. 1
Don't Part, yon frighten me."
Plie wss engulfed in C M.'s embrace.
He held her closely end she found It
not In the lesst shinning or uncoin
fnrlslile. He was murmuring to himself: "My
little girl I My Mary I" Then he held
ber off, as she hud him, and looked nt
ber. Msry looked Into a pslr of blue
eyes marvelously like her own. There
was a softness of teurs behind thorn,
but lions fell.
''Don't ba frightened. Your father
doesn't nienn to be rough. Only
My God I All the yenrs I've wsuted
yon. I'll never forgive Tolly for that"
Mary rsUed her hend wnmlimly.
"Not a word against Mother I"
0, M.'s grasp upon her tightened
again. "Not a word. Only shs should
bave told me, long ago."
"Yes, I think so, too, Dad," Mary
agreed, "but I can't niuke ber see It"
C. M. looked down at ber steruly.
"How long have you known?"
"Since last night I haven't been
able to think about anything else, but
Mother won't talk about it, and she
meant me not to tell. 1 didn't tell,
did ir
"Not strictly spenklng," C. M. as
sured her. "Yon just snld 'Father,"
all to yourself, and I heard you."
"Dear, dear," and Mary tried to
sound distressed and repentant, "what
will become of me when Mother
knowsr
a M.'s arm tightened about her, as
though for protection, Mary leaned
en It
"The thing that's got to ba under
stood between us at once, Is thst my
mother Is tha sweetest, best-looking,
most wonderful mother a girl ever
had. rather, what were you thinking
about to let her get swsy from your'
Clauds frowned. He led Mary back
Tuvnbull.
to her cliulr and tut down beside her.
"Hee here," he said, looking st his
duughter In alurni, "I don't know bow
much I'olly has told you." .
"Everything."
"Everything I" 0. M. started from
his chair, changed his mind snd sot
down heavily. "Then that saves ma
something. We're not going to dis
cuss If '
Mary nodded. "Ifs take every
thing for granted, snd go right on
from now. That will be the best
thing."
"How can we?"
"We must" Miiry announced with
decision. "There's got to be certain
reticences." i
"Ob, Lord!" groaned Claude. "Yon
don't think I want to talk over these
'certain reticences' with you." He
breathed heavily. "No, It's Polly.'
He looked at Mary as though they
had been In league for years. "How
csn wa get round her?"
Mary shook her head.
Claude looked st ber moodily. "I
know I'olly." He looked jdowo at tha
carpet busy with bis problem.
Mary csme to him quietly, perched
herself on his knee, snd put her arm
about his neck. He did went petting
so badly. "Mother will simply bave
to take notice of my father."
C M. promptly kissed her. It wss a
nice kiss, on tha cheek, and C M.
waaa't clumsy about It either. Mary'a
"Say Thst Agsln, My Girl, snd Ssy
It Slow
appreciation of turn rose. He had a
certain deftness, this big man. He
wasn't clumsy nor was be vulgur.
Mother might have but Claude inter
rupted her train of thought
"One thing I can't forgive Is keep
ing you from me. I can hardly keep
from squeezing the life out of you.
Mary. I'm so glad to have you within
reach, snd know you're my girl. Hut
the little Mary I lly Jliulnyl How
sweet yon must have been with your
hair down your buck, or maybe tied
with a big bow of ribbon, and little
strapped slippers on your cuts little
feet I'olly cheated me out of that.
Why, look, you're a great big girl, snd
I'm a strange man to you, and you
may be engnged to some hulking fel
low, tor all i know, and no room In
your life for a futher."
Despite the fact that he tried to
treat It lightly, Mnry felt the poignant
regret In his tone, sud her heart
sched -for her father. What could
she do to make him know that he bad
Z4X4X'Z4 - ZZ4'ZZZ4'Z4'X - Z4 -
Highest Quality in
Humility Is not always a grace, and
sometimes is a closs approach to
hypocrisy. Lord Rncon was rlitht
when he warned public speakers to
avoid excuses nnd professions of hu
mility. Though they seem to pro
ceed of modesty, yet are they but brav
ery," he said,,
There are people who seek to lash
themselves Into virtuous living by re
minding themselves Hint they are poor
worms of the dust It Is not always
ths best way. It wss not ths way
Nehemlah held himself true to his
principles
Titers was a time of danger, and the
leading men of Jerusalem were hold
ing terrified counsel behind closed
doors. "Let us meet together In the
bouse of God, and let us shut ths doors
of the temple," they counseled. But
Nehemlah would not heed their warn
ing, though ba waa tha man whom
dauger threatened moat "Should such
not only a place la ber life but hat
heart " '
"I'm not engnged," she assured him,
as she put up her hands to her smart
little hat and jerked It off, snd slipped
from his knee, "Muybe no one will
ever ask nie." (luuile made a little
noise of scornful unbelief, but Mary
stopped him. "Hture hard, at that
picture and don't look around until 1
tell yon."
Diibbs obeyed her, wondering a
little, and llnrj slipped the hulrplns
from her head.
"Now I"
C. M. felt something soft and silky
touching his bund. lis looked st
Miiry, Her halv down ber bock ss a
child would wear It, she was standing
beside him, smiling fearlessly. Tha
years teemed to huvs slipped away
from her.
"There, poor old Dud. Pretend Tm
little Mary."
Dabbs laid his big hand caressingly
on the silky hend, but shook his own.
"You're a dear, Mury, but put It op.
my girl. It Isn't the same thing. Not
but what I'd be content enough If I
could have you running In snd out of
my house now, but there's Polly. I'll
have to take you buck to ber, snd then
shatr
Mary could not answer htm. She
went to the mirror over the little writ
ing desk and begun piling up ber
hair. "Khali I tell her I've seen your
the ssked.
Dabbs watched her, fascinated. It
was wonderful to think thst slender
lovely thing wss bis duagbter. "Would
tha, be a good thing; do yon think?"
Miiry thougtit tor. a moment, then
shook ber head. Aa shs slowly put
a shell pin In, she hsd mads up ber
mind to tell him about Mother. . It
was the best thing, to be sbsolutely
frank. She couldn't Juggle things the
way Mother did: "You'd better know
about Mother," she announced. "We're
sailing for Venice tomorrow."
"Tomorrow ! Venice 1"
Msry nodded ss she drove home the
last two pins and reached for ber hat
"Mother's running sway. We're run
ning sway from you, snd my Instinct
tells me Mother will run far."
Dabbs sst down on tbs arm of the
clmlr, thinking.
"And If I tell ber I've seen you
why, she'll move sgaln, and It won't
be Venice, snd I won't be sble to tell
you where we sre going."
"You're not to tell ber," Dabbs said,
decidedly, "snd It will be Veulce. Do
yon know your boteir
"The Royal DanlellL"
"Well, say nothing. Ill meet you
there."
"YouH meet us! Oh, Father I Can
yon leave the grocery storer
Diibbs nodded, smiling. "Easy I
ran, when it's you."
Mary settled her hst with s slightly
saucy tilt "Then you'll tell Mother
there. My I It's romantic P Dearly
would she love to see the meeting.
C M. crossed the room, took her
by the dimpled chin snd tilted hei
face so that he could look Into the
eyes that she tried to bide with her
long lashes.
"It Isn't romantic." he said. "And
much ss It would please you to man
see the affair, young lady, you can't
I'olly Johnston and I will manage that
part of It by onrselvea."
"Oh Father, bow could your
"I'm not so slow ss I look, daugh
ter, and I know Polly. She was never
to be driven, or coaxed either. Polly
will have to settle It herself, aod
that's the only safe wsy."
Mnry rave his si-ra a squeeze. "Oh,
C M. Dabbs, you're a wonder. If the
angels had asked roe, I eouldnt have
picked any futher rd like better."
Claude looked at ber gravely. Tni
rough. In some ways, girl, bot If yoq
like me I haven't wssted my life."
"I only wish I was a boy. Father,
now we would develop your grocery
business together, and make money
so that Mother would admire ust"
Dabbs frowned. "I don't want yon
a boy. The ' angels suited me, too.
when they picked yon." He held
Mary's hand tightly In hla "Mary,
Is Polly like that still? Does she
care as much shout money, I nieanT'
Mary studied her father ss she an
swered: "She does snd shs doesn't
Mother Isn't easy to explain. She
likes the things money brings wu It
and she hasn't much left"
Dabbs started. "How's thatr
Mary explained as much ss shs
knew, and Dubbs frowned ss she men
tioned the borrowing from Lortn
Itongeley.
"Mury, shall we give her money r
Mary shook her head. "Not now.
It wouldn't ba quite safe. Mother
would use It to run further swsy
from us.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
XXMZZ4 - Z4 - ZZ'MZXZ'M'Z.ai
Proper Self-Esteem
a man ss I fleer he demanded. "And
who Is there that, being ss I sm, would
go Into the temple to savs his life?
will not go In."
He was ashamed to disgrace ss good
a man as he knew himself to be
Youth's Companion.
Cobbler a Philanthropist
John Pounds Is a name familiar to
most Englishmen, but meaning little
If anything to the average American.
He won fame as a philanthropist by
his self-denying acts In rescuing and
training ths pom youths snd waifs of
Portsmouth, though hs depended oa
his occupation aa cobbler for hla owe
support '-
Poronnial
There Is an off season for nearly aP
flowers .except the blooming Idiot
Ban Uernardmo Bun,
Find Throws Light on
Old Timet and Cuttomt
Kitchen utensils of the Greeks and
Romans of the Fouith century U. C
have Just come to light at Canopns.
near one of the moutlit of the Nile,
according to Prof. Italph Van Deinan
Mugofiln, president of the Archeolog
Iral Institute of America. Excavation
at a temple near this site has yielded
op mementos or offerings left by thou
sands of pilgrims H.nl make clear
many phasei of life In antiquity. The
collections Include many kitchen uten
sils snd a nearly complete set of
Oreek and Roman weights. Many of
them are tokens vowed by soldiers
who hoped for success In war. "Some
are sling shots," sxplolned Doctor
Magoffin, "while many sre tiny re
plicas of the soldier themselves on
elephant or horseback. Grain baskets
and camels seem to have been the
favorite gifts from merchants;
weights from looms re found in con
siderable numbers. Many of the
pieces are unique, and their publica
tion and exhibition will add much
more to our growing knowledge of
ancient times."
Tht Rarer Sort
Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the
air service, suld st the Army and
Navy club In Washington the other
day:
'Young Colonel Lindbergh Is re
markable for the nenmercenary char
acter of his ambition. He's ambitions
to do better and better work, but he
cares nothing shout money.
'Now most of os are like Jones A
man suld to Jones one day:
"Jones, what would you do if yon
had J.O(lO.JOr
" 'Dor sald Jones. 'Why. Td do the
same as anybody else would do, of
course. Id overwork myself Into
dyspeptic neursithenlt trying to make
It $2,000,000."
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Early Caterpillar Train
A Uampstead correspondent recalls
that nearly TO years sgo he suw In
Hyde park a trial of a military train
of wagons loaded with sold ers dressed
in fatigue Jackets and drawn by a
steam engine bearing the mime India.
This engine, be says, laid and nilt-ed
its own track, each "sllpier" being
apparently sImiuI 4 feet long. mounieiL
snd revolving on rollers much like the
modern caterpillar movement The
experiment scrordiug to the London
Post, apieured to aim at Improved
military transport, sad the men hauled
would probably number sbout 200 In
eight wagons.
Among the Mining
Sergeant Well, madam, we'll do
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Wife Oh, It's not hlin I'm worryln
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