Sylvia CHAPTER I 17 did not know whether to be more amused or Irritated at her te merity, not to say Impudence, In keep ing him waiting- He glanced at his wrist watch. Ten nilnutea past the time for their rendezvous and he had been here five minutes ahead of tlmo. Waiting fifteen minutes for a com mon Utile Pennsylvania Dutch glrll Really, she must be taught better, lie would have to give her a lesson. Hitherto It had been be who had kept her waiting here at their tryst Ing place. Deliberately. To keep her In her place. Lest she get It Into her head that he wanted to marry her I Any girl might expect anything these days all social barriers falling, no lines drawn She was not, as yet spoiled. She had never presumed to resent his keeping her waiting. Regarded him with awe. Demure little thing she was He considered how he should Im press upon her the seriousness of the fact that she had displeased him. Go home and not be here when she did Anally get here after walking three miles to meet him! No, he couldn't be quite so ruthless as that. Anyway, she would Just think he had failed to keep their rendezvous and would not know he had been here and had gone way again. Leave a note pinned to the tree? Not safe. Even If he did not sign his name. Commit yourself to writing and you're apt to have a lawsuit for damages or "heart balm" on your hands. Above all things he must void scandal Just now especially on the eve of becoming engaged Well, one thing was certain, she must not know he had been to eager as te have gotten here ages ahead of her and so forbearing as to have wait ed all this time. He'd hide and not ppear until after she arrived. Ticking his way to avoid mud. he descended the hill on the slope oppo site the one she would ascend. He found himself surprised that he should be taking all this trouble for a little country girl. Unprecedented In hla experience. Never, even for one of bis own class, had he put himself out and he was nothing If not a stick ler for "class" In these days of fall lng barriers. First time In his life he had ever been so lured by a girl of low breeding. A Pennsylvania Dutch farmer's daughter who talked the lingo heavens! How on earth wss It that he, usually too pernickety Dice, he admitted It. found the vulgar little thing so Irresistible? An, but the fact was she wasnt vul gar, really; only unsophisticated. If he were Inherently vulgar, the gum chewing type, he would not be here. Ko, not for all the seduction of that white throat so tantallzlngly exposed when she bent bark her head and laughed: and that unutterable sweet Bess of her lips; and the dazzling whiteness and evenness of her teeth; and that musical little gurgle when anything amused her. (And such un expected things did amuse her. like hit correcting ber English and ber manners.) She puzzled him a little; had from the first; he did not "get" her exactly; something there was about her It could not be subtlety, she was too simple. Rut he vaguely sensed that he was not quite so simple at she eemed; vaguely distrusted her; she did, sometimes, with an Innocence that wat almost suspiciously stupid, say such pointed things; things that did prick beneath the skin a little. Youthfully priding himself upon his extreme modernism, and upon being t disciple of French decadent critics of art and life, be believed that be. In common with all the new genera tion who did any thinking, had reject ed all religion. But the truth was that In the face of the wreckage of faiths all over the landscape, he did most tenaciously and devoutly cling to the faith of his fathers their deeply re ligious faith In the respectability of the Crelghton family and Itt divine right to special prerogatives the pre rogatives naturally Inherent In own era of anthracite coal mines. St. Croix Crelghton was glad that he looked much more like a man of letters than a man of business. He cultivated that "literary" look be thought he bad; and he did have a food deal to go nn clear-cut features, cold, thoughtful eyes, a rather Ryronlc head. Had he not been so well placed In life as always to command considera tion, he would hardly have "got by" o smoothly as 'he did with his Utile assumptions of superiority and his little affectations. Ilut as no one of Ms world had ever had the temerity to consider him ridiculous, he did not know he was. To he sure, there was Ms elder brother, Marvin, who some times waxed sarcastic at hla expense but Marvin, In the Judgment of his own class, was not a person to be fciken seriously, for the obvious rea son thnf he did not take himself nor Ms grent position In the world nor yet the Crelghton family Itself seriously. All this Is, however, digressing we have left our young gentleman standing uncomfortably and perilously on the muddy slope of a hill, taking In the view. Ills gaze sought out In the distance the red brick farmhouse set dowi In the midst of Sam Schwonckton't pros porous acres the home of the girl for Whom he waited; Its ugliness softened by distance. Did she, he wondered, feel Its ugliness? lie had tried once to rouse her to some enthusiasm over this wonderful view from the hilltop of the Minute By HELEN R. MARTIN Copyright br DodA. lletd Ca. WNU ferric and all he had been able to elicit from her had been, "The vee-you? Ves, It's nice." A "nice" view I So of course, fur from feeling the ugliness of her father's farmhouse, she was probably proud of Its fresh paint and generally well-to-do aspect.. From where he stood St. Croix could plainly see, Ave miles to the right of the Schwencktons' farm, his own home, rising from a hilltop, overlook ing a wide area; the Imposing estate, "Reechlands," that for two generations had been the home of the powerful Crelghton family, visible from all points of the ronipnss for many miles. And In the valley at the foot of their hill clustered the monotonous rows ot ugly little houses In which the men and children lived who worked In the Crelghton coal mines, creating the wealth which maintained the mansion St Croix CrtlgMon Was Glad That He Look.d Much More a Man of Letters Than a Man of Business. on the hilltop, and at the same time, under a wise and beneficent Providence. earning their own subsistence, how ever bare and Joyless such was Na ture's divinely ordained plan, the Crelghtons had alwaya reverently and devoutly believed, and no religious believers hsd ever lived up to a creed more faithfully and consistently. Our young heir to the great Crelgh ton estate, as he started on his way back to the appointed meeting place. decided that If Steely (that was ber silly name "Meely") were not there this time he would certainly go borne. "And." he told himself as he lit a cigarette and began hla second ascent of the hill, "If I do go home without seeing her, she'll surely pay the piper I If I don't decide to drop ber alto gether !" He had an uneasy suspicion that this latter course would not hurt her nearly so much as It would fret him though It had been she that had made the first advances In their Intimacy; at a barn dance In the neighborhood of his home; outraging the rural con ventions In her determination to at tract his attention by boldly execut ing a dance solo down the length of the barn, stopping before him with a deep curtsey and holding out her lovely arms In Invitation after which he had danced with no one else during the remainder of the evening. She had tried that evening to pin him down to a date for their next meeting, but though he bad fully In tended to meet ber again, he had kept her In suspense ; not only for that eve ning, but for two weeks following. Uncertainty that was the weapon for winning and holding a girl. He bad confidently expected her to try to seek hlu out Ilut when a whole week had passed without a sign from her, he had begun to grow restless. Each succeeding day and night that he waited grew longer, Intolerably longer, and he had finally realized, with an Ironical amusement at his own expense, that all the "uncer tainty" he had meant to Indict upon her, he himself was enduring with a poignancy that astonished and an "Star-Spangled Banner" The last lines ot The Star-Spangled Runner" were written In row bout by Francis Scott Key and were not penned In the bold of a prison ship as the old school books taught Legendary history was that Key was a prisoner of war while watching the Rrltlsh bombardment of Rultlmore and Fort McIIenry during the war of 1812. The correct story has been brought to light by the Woman's Home Companion, which shows thut Key was permitted to go to the Brit ish flugshlp undig a truce signal to obtain the release of friend who had been taken prisoner, and arrived Just at the enemy was ready to oien fire. The young poet developed his verses during the anxiety of the night, but It was while returulng to shore la a mm gered Mia. A little hussy like that, peasant girl, play fust and loos with hi in, causing him sleepless nights, hungry yearnings to see her again and hold her, fresh and fragrant young beauty that she was, In hla arms again, as he had ecstatically done at the barn dunce I - nut the trouble had been that ha did not know where she lived nor even her name. So sure had he been that he would hear from her In a day or two that he had not taken the trouble to ascertain tV.se unimportant facts about her. It hud been only when, quite benten he had been about to give In and trj to discover her that he had receive from her a funny, crude little note. What sport he had at his club show ing It around for the enjoyment of hie fellow cluh members! "Since you are the only (lentleman Frend 1 got that'a a purfect (lentle man In whom I feel 1 know well enought to ask for such a fuvur, dear, I am asking you, now, to keep com pany with me and be my Steady Date." That was a month ago and he had been seeing her several times a week, furtively, ever since; his "ridiculous Infntuntlon." as he scornfully called It to himself, growing more Irresist ible with each meeting. As he reached the top of the hill he was greatly relieved (and thrilled) to see ber sitting there under the tree which wat their appointed meeting place. At sight of him she threw away the apple she had been eating with greedy abandon, drew the back of her hand across her mouth and hastily rose. Ills peculiar sort of egotism derived an almost sensual pleasure from this girl's worshipful bearing toward him, from her timid admiration of every thing about hlra, which she SO help lessly betrayed of his modish clothes, his finely shaped white hands, his cul tivated speech, even his faintly super cilious and autocratic attitude toward herself. She came toward him. Just now, shyly, rubbing her soiled right band on ber blp before offering It to him. Rut he waved It off, and resisting, with a strong self restraint the ten derness it well as the desire to whlrb she powerfully moved him, be looked down upon her severely is she stood before him. "Go and sit down again." She obeyed him like a child, her soft brown eyes fixed upon his face with a doglike anxious uncertainty that acted on his passion for domi nance like a titillating stimulant She wore a cheap, dressy frock of blue voile trimmed with tawdry white lace, a bunch of artificial flower on one shoulder, streamers of flimsy blue ribbon at the waist He frowned at the slovenly way she sat and ahe quickly straightened up, pulled her skirt over her kneea and tried to look prim. Spreading his handkerchief on a flat rock a few feet In front of her. he sat down, clasped his shapely hands about bis knees and silently, dlsnpprovlngly. Inspected her. She became uneasy, making a timid, tenta tive movement to come closer to him, evidently as eager as he was (though lest controlled) to begin their "pet ting party," at she most vulgarly raited It Rut again he waved ber on "Not yet" he said curtly. He al waya held her off In suspense like this for a little while, partly to tin press her with a proper sense of hei Inferiority, partly to prolong the stim ulating contemplation of her cdanns snd of her subservience, so that when he did presently permit her to come to him, the nearness of ber beauty would be all the more thrilling. She relaxed against the tree, her pretty head drooping, an adorably childish pout on her red lips. "I'm ture I don't know what I done I" the suld In in Injured tone, on the verge of tears. "Lid. Say did." "What I've did," the meekly re peated. "Oh!" he sighed, "you hopeless child I Didn't they teach you any Eng lish grammar at the district school down there?" with an Inclination of his head toward the valley. "Well, yon see, till I was twelf years old a'ready, Top he wouldn't do It to leave me go to school no more. So I nln't Just to good educated that way, like you, Mr. Crelghton. You're got an awful nice education ain't yon have? And," she added, drawing deep breath, "yon become your clo'e sol Achl" 8he was given to lumping unrelated facts In this way, (TO 01 CONTINUtD.) Finished in Rowboat small boat the following morning that he wrote exultantly "TIs the Star Spangled Banner. Oh I long may It wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." Cot Through, All Right Recently there visited In this clti a genlune old Georgia "cracker" from the outlying plney woods lection of thut Hate. While here he attondud for the first time In his life an Kphv copnl church service. Later he re marked to a friend: "It was all as Interest In' at "pos aum hunt I never did know much o' what all the folks about me witt ado- In', but I Jest kept my wits altout me en' full an rlz wltb ein every ttuie," Roston Uloba, Ike KITCHEN CABINET & lull, Wasisra Nwti.Dr Union. Thar rt so many things, best thinns, lint can only comt whan youth la past, that It may wall hap pen lo many of ua to nnd our aalvaa hannlar snd happier to the last Elliot HERI ARE SOME COOKIES We all like to (III the cooky Jur Ilere are a few to try : Sand Cookies. Ileal two eggs until light without separating; adc cupful of .augur inn continue bent lug. Aihi four tablespoon fills ot softened butter, one ano three-fourths cupfuli ol (lour sirted with twi tenspooufuls of hakln powder. 1 1 n nil le an( roll with at little floui Iloll very thin and cut aa possible. with a doughnut cutter. Roll In a little sugar and sprinkle each cook) with a bit of cinnamon and decorate with halves of blanched nlmoniU using three on each cooky points all to the center, l'.nke In a quick oven Molasses Cookies. Put two qunru of flour Into a bowl, rub Into It one half cupful of butter. Dissolve om tcaspoonful of soda In two tablespoon nils of warm water; add this to a plot of molasses and then add the mixture gradually to the flour. When the flour Is moist roll out quickly cut Into round cakes and bake In s moderate oven until golden brown. Coffse Cookies. Rest two eggs with one cupful of sugar until light. Adil four tahlespoonfuls of soft butter ano beut again. Add on cupful of stroni warm coffee and ttlr In quickly three cupfuls pf flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, adding more flour as needed to roll. Roll quickly, ru' with a large round cutter and bake In a quick oven until a golden brown Roll them not too thin. They thouic be soft when well made. Oomlnoss. Heat the yolks of two eggs, a cupful and a half of tugar one-fourth pound of soft butter to gether, until very light Add one cup ful of tepid water. Sift three cupful of flour wltb four level teaapoonfuls of baking powder, add this to the first mixture, beat thoroughly and bake In a shallow, greased pan. Thr batter must not be over a quarter ol an Inch thick. When done cool. Ice and dot with melted chocolate, using a skewer or toothpick. Loaf and Layer Cakta. This It the season of the yeur when dainty cakes aud cookies appeul li the appetite. It la also time to make the frul' cakes and those which will keep for months growing better. Here are some that coim highly recommended f Six -Months Cake. Cream one-half cupful of butter and lard, ado one cupful of sugar two well beaten egg and one-half cupful of molasses. Ml and lift two and one-half cupfuli ol flour, one teaspoonful of c renin ol tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda one teasiioonful of cinnamon, one fourth teaspoonful of cloves snd one fourth tensHsmful of mace. Add at temately wltb one-half cupful of milk to the first mixture and beat well ; then add one cupful of ratslna cut Inti small pieces and dredge wltb flour using two tutilespoonfuls. Turn lulu bread psns snd bake minutes. Fruit Sponao Drops. Rest Hire eggs and one cupful of sugar thorough ly, add one-third of cupful of water one cupful of flour, two (enspoonfuU of baking powder, one teaspoonful ol vanilla and nine- of aalt Rake In patty tins. Scoop out the centers nd Oil with iweetened whipped cream, or pearhet or peurt cut fine and rover with whipped cream when serving. If one I Ikes, Instead of the cream, roll the cuket In frosting and then In coconut Ginger Snaps. Itub half a cupful oi butter Into two quarts of flour. Adc two teaspoonful! of ground ginger, s dash of red pepper snd sufficient New Orleani molnsset to make hard dough. Knead the dough, roll at thin aa a wafer, cut Into smull cakei and hake until crisp. These cookies will keep for several months If kept In tin, tightly covered. Chocolate Lsyer Cake. Take on cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth cup ful of butter, one-fourth cupful ot sour milk, one half teaspoonful ol odd, one (easpoonful of vanilla, one egg, one and one-fourth cupfuli ol flour, two, square of chocolate dls solved In one-half cupful of hot witei added at the Inst, Mix at usual anil bake In twn layers. Do not serve heavy hearty des sert nfter a hearty dinner; follow such meal with a light dessert of fruit or some such dish as tapioca pudding The water In which most vegetables are cooked should be laved nnd used In gravies or tome tort of sauce to aerve with the dinner. Valuable nil n erul salts and vltamlnes. which should be used to build tip and fortify the body are dully poured down the kitchen sink. Shredded cablings dressed with Iff sweet cream, suit nnd sugar to taste then add a little cider vlncgiir, Is an other well-liked salad. 1ujjU TvWvvticl i AV; vl- :" I A Patriarch of l'i.lr..l h, Ida National Uaoirauhls SiH-lely. Waahlnaloa. U t'.l FIIANCK and Great Rrltnln have a strange partnership In the admin 1st rat Ion of the New Hebrides Islands, which He In the Paclilc wen II about a thoiisaud miles rust of Australia. For a long time the Islands were not formally under the control of any European country. Rut both Rrltlsh and French commercial activi ties wore growing, especially the lat ter, owing to the proximity of France's territory, New Caledonia. Neither power could ohtnln the agreement of Ilia other to the annex ation of the New Hebrides, so the problem was solved st least tempo rarily In 1H78 by the Joint declaration of France and Great Rrltaln that the territory should be neutral, This agreement did nut work very well, and In ItNiO a protocol was entered Into stating that the Islands should be come "a region of Joint Influence" by Great Rrltaln and France, with sepa rate administrations for the nationals of each, and Joint administration toward the native, people of all oth er nationalities must choose or "opt" whether they are to be under Rrltlsh or French Jurisdiction. So today the Islands have a queer "scrambled" government not very sat isfactory to either the French or Rrlt Ish trading companies, the plantation owners, the missionaries, or the na lives. There Is a Rrltlsh high com missioner and a French high commis sioner In the Islands; separate Rrltlsh and French police forces; nnd a Joint court presided over by Rrlton, a Frenchman, and I third Judge select ed by the king of Spain. Roth languages are oRlclul, but neither Is very useful In dealing with the natives. For Hie New Hebrides natives are still savages. They believe In witchcraft and all sorts of signs and omens, particularly In the spirits of their departed ancestors snd In gods which are thought to lie Incorpo rated In certain stones or animals. Every village has Its dancing ground Ilere the natives meet on moonlight nights and perforrq wild and fantastic antlci to the booming of their deep drums, some of which, six feet or more In height and carved from the trunks of trees, are capable of making ter rible noises. What the Nstlss Are Like. For yetrt the nntlves of the Islands were the prey of the "Rlscktilrders," or labor pirates, because they are gen eratly considered more Industrious snd sturdier of build than the average Kanaka. They ara reputed to have cannibalistic tendencies, to be tresrh erous and of uncertain temper, facta probably due In some measure to the treatment to which they were sub jected by these traders. They are ateluneslun stock, below the medium In stature, and accentuate the ugli ness In their broad, black faces snd receding foreheads by sticking coco nut fiber In their hair ard adorning their ears and flat noses with rings. They pride themselves upon their weapons siiears, clubs, hows, snd poisoned arrows some of which are beautiful In design and elaborate pat tern. The women In general hold a de graded position. The wives of the more Import snt men Increase the number of (he skirts which they wear at one time ai an Indication of their rank. The "poohbah's" wife wears at many as 40. The "better hair of a man la sometimes hurled stive wltb her husband upon his daath. Qulros, the Portuguese navigator In 100(1, was the first while man to see the rugged outline of the coast of the Islands, which rise abruptly out of the deep set In the hurricane tone of the tropica. Relieving he had dis covered the great southern continent which wal at thai time the dream of navigators, Qulroa mny ha compared to Columbus, who thonght he had found route to India when he sight ed the palm-fringed shores of the West Indies. lie called his discovery Australia del fOsplrltn Santo, which has been shortened by traders to Santo and Is applied to the largest Island of the group. Some of the nther large mountains and partly volcanic Islands are Ambrym, Annatnm, Aurora, A pi, New Habrldaa. Pentecost, Erotnatign, Malllcollo nn( Taniia, the borne of the "greet light bouse of the southern llos," Tuniia volcano, which bursts forth brilliantly every three or four minutes. Santo a Fertile Itlsnd. Countless streams cut Simlu. which Is 0-1 inllca long and 8'.' miles wide. Into broad, fertile valleys. from Its shores and thi.se of the neighboring Islands tons of copra are sent In Syd ney, Australia, and to New Caledonia and shipped from there to soap makers the world over. Coffee, cocoi and vanilla, is well as tropical fruits, grow In abundance. Omngcs are said lo grow so large that both a man's hands ran scarcely span one of Ibrin, and the pineapples of the Islands sometimes weigh SO pounds. Ho rich Is the soil and luxuriant the vegeta tion that In many places f.lS sheep can be kept ou I.orn) acres of land. Vila harbor or Vila, which Is art between mountain peaks and gemmed wltb Islands. Is the most Important commercially among the many com modious and strategic harbor which the lalnnds afford. The scattered lit tle village which dose under the shelter of Its palm tree has hulll no pier to encourage Its shipping. The cargoes must be loaded by' the na thes In small boats. Though the prog ress of conquering nations has left Its mark In the Catholic and Presbyterian churches, (he large wireless stalloa and certain administrative buildings, the town Is essentially native In char acter with Its thatch-roofed house set amid th colorful hibiscus blos soms, and sometimes fortified with stone wall. One of the oddest custom among the New llebrldenns Is the molding of their heads Into a pointed, sugsr loaf. Ilk sbii. The process must begin In Infancy, and not all heads are so treated. Rut the possession of pointed head I looked upon as a great asset among the native. A woman with such a nilsshnied bead ran marry a chief, where her rm r oat orally shaped alster must be content with commoner for husband. The pointed shape Is brought about by winding strong fiber cord about the bends of bable. From time to time these cords sre drawn lighter. The bahle so I omul seem continually restless and In pain. What the future of the Islands Is t be Is a problem. Rrltlsh residents In the South seas. Including the Australi ans and New Zcalandcra, sre anxious Lto have France's governmental Inter est taken over by Great Rrltaln or by one of (he southern dominions acting for her, Ml of the Rrltlsh nstlon. als In the Islands are Australians or New 7.ealnndera, The Rrltlsh plant er are not permitted to bring In coolie labor from India or elsewhere; hut there It no such restriction on the French, who have Introduced lev ernl thousand Tonklnes coolies. Jspsnsse Crowding In, Then there ll the problem ot Japa nese Immigration, They have come In large numbers, snd the Rrltlsh are growing up a parallel situation lo dial In New Caledonia where (here ar more (ban fl.ono Japanese, and where (hey have a strong hold on the busi ness activities of the Islands, Includ ing Die famous nickel mines there. The Australians fear that If (he New Hebrides should pas entirely uudef French control, they might Inter full Into Japanese hand. The French themselves greatly out number the Rrltlsh, snd there are pen hnps ten French trading shl busy In the Islands to one Rrlllsh. In Vila, the capital, the French population outnumbers the Rrltlsh eight to one. There have been a number of con ference between France and Great Rrltaln at which an effort hat been made to place the New Hebrides un der a single Jurisdiction. Represents, tlvet of Australia and New Zealand proposed either that flreat Rrltaln take a mandate over the Islands, thnt the French debt lo Rrltnln he can celled In exchange for France's Inter, esti, or that Rrltlsh African territory be traded to France for the New Heb rides. Rul France nol unnaturally proposed Hint the Rrltlsh lower their flag and leave the French In posse sloo.