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The torf at her feet was tussocky to ragged ness. but she loved It better for that— the tussocks gave »belter to so many vagrant wild flowers, and garden atrays—harebells, scentless violets, white, blue, and yellow; larkspur. Sweet williams, even starveling mignonette and candytuft. There were runaway June roses, too. In a thick clump on beyond, with a backlog of stout blackberry briers. Gold-thread, whose countryside name Is love vine, laced the thorny tangle richly. Vere bad pulled a handful of the tine yellow filaments, and stood snipping them tn pieces, saying under her breath: "Love live I Love die!" Black mammy had taught her the charm when she was fifteen. She had practiced It, aa she thought, in the strictest privacy, only to be dis covered by Royal Dent, the object of her Incantations. Ills shouted laugh bad been cruel enough, but less so than the shame«! sulleuness of his eyes when her flaming confusion enlight ened him. He was two years older. They had been comrades half a year—pals. Evi dently by his thought she had never sensed articulately what he had meant to her. Sudden knowledge bad been scath ing as n lightning stroke. He had turned from her awkwardly, saying, duily: "Ob. I better be going. Aunt Margaret sent me to—to ask If she can get you people to help out with the party—cups and spoons and plates and things, you know. I'll tell her yes. and that you'll come help with the flowers." She had slept III that night, think ing of what she must endure facing him again. But Fate kindly spared her that—Aunt Margaret made her gay good-bys from Royal—be had been suddenly called home—but was coming back at Christmas—she was not to forget him, and be sure to save him dances. And she bad smiled beautifully. In the night she had suddenly grown op. This mature self knew Royal would not come back—at least not for years. In truth he did not come—his father's slight Illness had turned sud denly so serious that be had had to go far away, taking Royal with him. Then nebulously she heard of him. prop and stay of a falling fortune- later of the father's death, the son's engagement to an heiress of the golden coast—after that alienee—five full years of It They had been eventful years for Vere. She had found her voice, a magnificent one. Then. Just as It was coming to full strength and charm, tricksy Fate had flung Into her lap a tidy fortune. It had ended her po tential career—she had never craved distinction, but sang as birds sing, be cause Inner music must come out. Now, standing In the old spot. Idly repeating the old charm, she wondered whether she had been wise to choose the high distinction of private station rather than the world acclaim. She had bad lovers—shoals of them—one or two so fine she had considered them for perhaps a fortnight and ended by giving them the kindest of nays. Not that she was romantically faith ful to that girlish fancy, but that the S' ir of It seemed to bar her heart fr< tn again swelling at another voice, another touch. If Royal had ever kissed her It would not have been ao strange. She had nothing to remember but the shouted laugh, the sullen, shamed eyes —meager food. Indeed, for a heart throughout a stretch of years. He was coming in a very little while —hence her present employment. Fancifully she had told herself she could better show him thus her com plete indifference to anything In the past. As a married man, he might be ever ao much more susceptible than the lad she remembered. If he came, bent on making amends for that old cruelty, there might arise a situation— unless she took great pains to avoid It. Had the ten years changed him greatly? To her they had been wholly kind, robbing her of nothing, only changing her lithe, angularity Into a singular grace of pose and motion. Yet —would they know each other if they met elsewhere? A faint amused smile hovered about her lips at the thought —It froze ax a voice behind her said: "Am I speaking to Miss Hawthorn— or Vers?" •That depends 1" “Upon whom? Or what?" "Upon whom you seek I" airily, not lifting eyes front the gold-thread now almost exhausted. "As to that—honestly, I can’t say. came to see Vere—but her supplsntsr will not let H.e And her." "Not yet," ratlier thickly—thru, ss she flung away ths last yellow shred: T want that, please. Don’t believe I should have known you if you hadn’t been playing tbs earns gams as when I saw you last." "Whst a memory I" Vere apostrophized space, then, quickly: "Come to ths house. I want your Judgment of several and sundry things there. I have such a passion for changing, and then so little con fidence in the resulte—" "Of course you have daffodils all along your drive, and etarbeds and geraniums," Royal Interrupted. Those were your two pet ambitions In the old time. Now that you're not only a rich lady but a person of distinc tion, I am certain you have achieved them." "I have not," pretending to pout. "My lawn la as unflawed aa ever my conscience. Out back there’s a real riot of blooms. I ravage to my heart's content there." "I see! Your predatory Impulses have come to the surface." Royal laughed. "I felt them without know ing they were there. That was whst made me always deadly afraid n* yon." "Politeness Is a fearful msia," Vere said reflectively. Royal laughed, saying softly, "Say d—n—call me a liar right out—If you're thinking such things." "Whst a mind reader you are I" Vere Interrupted him. “You know—well— what awe of your lordly self I Mood In—after the day you pulled me out of your saddle.” “You had no business tn It—foot of a side." Royal countered, bis chin going up. “But I wanted to try IL" Vere per sisted. “And have been glad always of the trial. It has made and kept me a side-saddle fan—helped, of course, by your going away—It wouldn't have done at all to let you know you bad any hand In It." “Come along! I want to see how you have desecrated The hmbes," Royal said masterfully, clutching her arm. She drew it away and half ran along the tussocks to the smooth grass, paus ing there to say: “Shut your eyes— tight—till I give you leave to open them." Silently he obeyed—walking beside Ler, guided by her light footfalls. Presently he was aware of . darken ing overhead—at the same Instant Vere cried: “Look 1" pausing back of him so his vision might range unim peded up, down, athwart, the green temple of ancient trees. Royal bared his head to them. Bay ing reverently: "You have kept the faith. All is better than even hope could paint It Talk of changes—I see none. The place has alwsys haunted me—now it will haunt me more than ever." “I wonder—will your wife like It as well!" Vere said, half-wistfully Royal caught her hand and raised It to his lipa, saying: "I am sure she will—for unless she Is yourself, she will never be anybody at alL" Mrs. E. L. Henson wore SCOUTS iCMSastsS by Nsllensl Cesseti e< the Bor Soo sla of Amoríos.) SCOUTS AND “BUDDY” SYSTEM In Its nanks of nearly a half a mil lion boys, scouting alms to axstst In carefully planned and appropriate ways the various types in their prog The Appealing Charm of Health! ress towards tha ultimate goal: "Men of character trained in citizenship.” The "Buddy System” is but one of Portland, Oreg.—“I can speak in terms oi highest praise of all of these elds, and that it produces results Dr. Pierce’s remedies, especially the in helping untrained or unstable boys ‘Favorite Prescription’ for woman’s to uphold the scout Ideal of conduct is ailments and as a tonic and nervine, cited In the following Instance by Ray and the Pleasant Pellets lor stomach O. Wyland, assistant director, national and liver ills. While bringing up department of education. Boy Scouts my family, whenever I have been of America: in a run-down weakened or nervous condition, I have always been “Scoutmaster Fred Gassert of Troop strengthened and helped by the use No. 1, East Newark, N. J, who has of the ‘Favorite Prescription'. And conducted a very successful troop dur in later years when my stomach ing the pest six years,“ says Mr. Wy has become disordered, and my food land. "has evolved a *buddy’ system seems to disagree with me. then Dr. Which 1» a ell avrili renof-nlffon Pierce's Pellets give me immediate relief.”—Mrs. E. L. Henson, 768 E. “Each new tenderfoot »oieii ...o He 6th St., North. troop or patrol is assigned to two ad Start at once with the "Prescrip vanced scouts, whose responsibility is tion” and see how quickly you pick to *pal* with the new scout and help up—feel stronger and better. Write him In every way to live up to the Dr. Pierce, President Invalids' Hotel scout oath and law. The tenderfoot in Buffalo. N. Y.. for free advice, or knows nothing of this arrangement; send 10c for trial pkg. tablets. ail he knows is that a couple of older scouts have become Interested In him Stevenson's View of Life. and have made themselves unusually Any one can carry his burden, how companionable. ever heavy, till nightfall. Any one can “These scouts, by close association, learn all about the tenderfoot and his do his work, however hard, for one personal habits They mildly suggest day. Any one can live sweetly, pa modifications In conduct when the ten tiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun derfoot shows evidence of failure to goes down. And that is all that lite maintain the Ideal/ of the scout law. ever really means. — Robert Louis Weekly verbal reports are rendered Stevenson. the scoutmaster and conferences held on methods of treatment. If the new Duty to Read Newspaper. scout falls to react favorably to the In The newspaper is one of the fore fluence of his scout huddles' after a month or two, the scoutmaster decides most wonders of the modern world. to attach himself to this particular The family that does not take, and tenderfoot for the express purpose of carefully read, at least one newspaper, helping him to see the light and to is not living in the Nineteenth cen adopt the accepted standard of worthy tury.—J. A. Broadus. conduct which marks the scout throughout the world. Such Is Man. "Scoutmaster Gassert states that in When he is born, his mother gets six years he has yet to find the impos sible boy who has been given up as the attention; at his marriage, the hopeless. bride gets it; at his funeral the widow “On one occasion be visited a family gets it.—From the Associated Editors. to obtain permission for their boy to join his troop, and was told that this The Pie-Eating City. boy could never be a scont because of The greatest pie-eating city of this dishonesty. He would even Meal money from his father's pockets when , country has been claimed by Los An his father was asleep I The scoutmas geles, Cal., with a consumption of 40,- ter was not daunted by this report. . 000 pies per day. Tha boy did join the troop and today Is a bonded messenger for a large in When Brains Are Really Necessary. surance company with headquarters at It is true. Chlofinda, that no brains Newark, N. J. “On another occasion the scoutmaster are required to inherit money, but a was led by the tenderfoot to a gam good supply is necessary to keep it.— bling den filled with slot machines and New Orleans States. other devices for filching the money out of the pockets of luckless boys. He Unsinkable Craft. took steps with the police authorities Three logs lashed together flush Timing of ths Nerves, and had the proprietor arrested and with the surface form the famous cat A curious Instance of the care and put out of business." minuteness with which the human amaran used off the coast of India. body Is now studied, in an effort better : The craft is unsinkable, and its navi 8COUTS—CONSERVATION IST8 to understand its powers and func gators brave surf and storm on iL tions, Is furnished by a paper read at a meeting of the Royal Society in Lon Intention Must Be There. don on The Rapidity of the Nervous No one can ask honestly or hopeful Impulse in Tall and Short Individu ly to be delivered from temptation un al a." less he has himself honestly and firm Even the difference in time required ly determined to do the best he can to for a “nerve telegram" to traverse the keep out of it.—Ruskin. bodies of different persons is regarded as a matter of scientific importance. A series of observations has shown that No Fun Then. the length of the nerves does affect the What, after all. would be more dis velocity with which an Impulse passes agreeable than living in a world where between the brain and the extremities, everyone told the absolute truth all and consequently that more time is the time, not only about themselves, needed if ths path Is long than if it is short. It follows that a .short man . but about you? — should feel a step on his corns quicker than a tall one, but the difference is All Married in One Day. so alight that the offender has no bet At Plougnastel, a small town in Brit- ter chance of escape In one case than , tany. all the weddings of the year are in the other. Boy scouts of Evslsth, Minn., doing a celebrated on one day. Sometimes as community good turn—stocking a many as 40 bridal couples go to the Invalids of ths Forest. lake with fish. altar simultaneously. In the matter of longevity human be ings cannot compete with trees, but GOVERNOR COX SAYS— Stray Bit of Wisdom. according to mortality tables, human A lie can be turned inside out and beings are more fortunate up to cer In a proclamation of welcome to so decked in new plumage that none tain ages. scouts In the recent big scout rally of A forest at maturity contains about the New England states, held at Cam will recognize its loan old carcass.— 5 per cent of the trees that started bridge, Gov. Channing H. Cox of Ma» I Ibsen. life there. The percentage of human sachusetts said, in part: beings living from ten to fifty is much “Without drawing distinctions of greater than in the case of trees. About creed, race or position, the boy scout 95 per cent of trees die before they are movement is giving to the boys of our eighty years old, while only 87 per commonwealth invaluable training in cent of persons die before reaching all that makes manhood and power. It that age. develops mind, body and morals. It is Take it home to helping to make future citizens of the the kids. same character aa those of the past Way It Goss, “Hear you had in an efficiency ex who have given greatness to Massa Have a packet in chusetts.” pert." WRKLEYS your pocket for an ever-.eady treat. “Yep." THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT "What does an efficiency expert do?" “Well, be comes In and looks your “Few modern movements. If any. establishment over. Then, for in stance, if yon have a lot of marbles hold as great possibilities for good to that won’t move he tells you to bore tha nation and the race as the Boy 'em. string ’em and sell ’em for Scouts of America."—Arthur AL Hyde, Governor of Missouri. .beads."—Louisville Courler-JournaL IT WAS ONCE “MOTHERS’ NIGHT” Complaint About Heavy Trucks Injuring Roads Lang Ago, ths Closing Hours of tha country. Ita place has been taken Twsnty-FIfth of December Be to some extent by Mothering Sun longed tn Her. day In the north of England. On that day everyone who can do ao The oldest English nnme for Christ atm makes a pilgrimage homeward inas is Moddra Nlht. or Mothers’ and the mother receives the homage Night In ths early daya, when Saxon of her family. • forefathers had Just settled down In the country that was to be England, Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet" tt.e day of December 25, waa given “Kitchen cabinet" waa a name spor up to games and feasting, but tha night tively given to Francis P. Blair, Amoa was dedicated to the apeclal honor of Kendall and others, by the opponents mothers of President Jackson's administration. They occupied the seats of honor, Blair was the editor of the Globe, the and everyone brought them gift a organ of the president and Kendall Bona and daughters who hsd gone was one of the principal contrlbutore out Into the world Mrove to be at to the peper. Aa It waa necessary for home on that one night In the year. Jackson to consult frequently with the A little later the name Yule waa two, In order to avoid observation they given to Christman, and the rejoic were accustomed, when they called ings of the day were prolonged Into upon him, to go In by a back door. the night, when men sang and told The Whig party styled them In deri stories sitting around the cheerful sion the "kitchen cabinet" alleging blase of the Tule log. It was upon their recommendations The old customs of Mothers* Night that tha Preeldent removed ao many gradually died out, though they still Whigs from office aud put Democrats survive In a few remote parts of the In their places. Speaking about maintaining good roads, there is much complaint about big trucks that make trips over the roads immediately after every rain, ctfttlng them up. making travel diffi cult. and causing a lot of extra work to keep the ruts fittest and tha roadway in traveling condition. 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