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or LOVE JWB ADVENTURE' J,!,,.,,,,;;., - r-- li mJT'jIi Jfc rV- if - they clement were in 3 morrow with Mr. Murdock, and outid - THE harmony with the wish ut to get the house- In order.. condition which v prevailed EncGcott? . whlte-cappa- By Elsie "Who In the thunder are you . . within. The wares dashed d Tomorrow The Sun oi you at?" Byron over the a wall In mountains and what are getting ef spray, the wind roared and lashed .reared hit slim form up to Its full six. the heavy rain against the windows, feet. . 'sorry, we wer paid by while leaden-hue- d clouds gave so seen (It to light your lamp at Hymen's to help us out!" The young husband port of an adoring and wealthy fa- cottage cpuld make In every 24 hours. them fpr three' weeks at tbe high rate "We are but hope of stinnhlne for hours to come. altar without consulting your elders wiped away the glistening tears and ther. Both realized , too, 'that evou TJjp creation of the world seemed a of board tbey were paying. Byron said your people to com here as boarder would Mignon Murdock pat at the breaK-fa- st as to ways aid mean of providing the kissed his wife's mouth Into a more though they had ."married In haste," simple feat compared wltU their day it was robbery,' ana once nervously ... . to see bow you make table swabbing her pretty eyes oil so necessary to replenish It, espe- normal curve. their repentance would be hard work labor at DuBols Point. Then there suggested to Mrs. Keel that tbey were out. Will you forgive us? We bav ' 'gamest' with a Terjr moist and futile apology cially In these days of H. C. I. I have "We'll show them we can make a for them. wafthe fear that the boarders mlgbt not receiving their money's worth, but reported that you, wore the vcf we i of a handkerchief, while her husband come to the conclusion, that In tha living!" Mignon's eyes flashed determ- '. . leave, they ttere paying so well, and she gently but with dignity said every- pair we have teen, and art . though proud to for both of you.? ef a week stood with bis hands thrust terms of your modern slang, 'It Is up ination. "We'll go down and open up DuBols Point was 10 miles from no- the honeymoon bills looked as thing wa as they expected. work deeply Into pooket, his good look- to your husband to provide oil.' DuBols and you they might be paid off If all'went well. "And it was Just a bluff, our people, hit that Point take la boarders: where In; particular. An Doing the unusual always comes to ing boyish face as troubled as the sea Byron Murdock must play the man and can help., Byron, a lovely place, It was astonishing that, they did not being mad at us for getting married?" it's Summer cottage on the lake, when one a climax." It was a cool morning, he was giulng at out of the expensive keep the child he has taken from my lonely, perhaps, but then people like it leave; their beds were seldom ever exclaimed Byron, when the locusta sizzled around and apartment window, care and try and compensate her for there, and at least we can make enough bad servants to do the work; a good made until sunset; the meals were "Just a bluff,' to see what you were "What are you going to do, Byron?" all the advantages he has deprived her to pay off our honeymoon eipenses. car to drive a few miles to the near- never on time, and provided out of tin the lake looked like a calm before a really mad of, Ir,"'samwMr. Radford,' came In quavering accents from the of. I am willing re give you DuBoia Of course, we'll have to work, dear, est farm-hous- e for milk and other cans most of the time, and the cottage storm. Mignon, very white and tired, with a slight bow. table. Point as a home this Summer; you peel the potatoes and things. Anyway, necessary things, and another 10 or was In a general state, of chaos. ) was frying steak over the gas stove ) "And they are coining td ace us to- - - "Do? Blest It I know, unless It Is might take two paying guests there and wa can show those two old forgetters more for fresh meat. An ideal place The young husband and wife honest- and- Byron, with hair as long as' his morrow, Mignon, darling. ,1 think thoy someone for few thousands. I aerer so help to pay off some of your honey- of youth and love that we can wriggle to" stay for a week end with a pcVty of ly tried to make the beat of a bad situ- poet namesake, and two days' growth bav'e realised we are not a comle of Oft chin, was new pota- dreamed that the people would take moon debts. At the end of the season out of the lap of luxury 'they have friends, and an motor ation, not only for their boarders, but his scraping tame kittens . . . but I'm awfully our marriage like this, I thought they Byron might enter business life." . . nursed ua In." boat to take you to the surrounding In trying to help themselves. The toes, when In walked tbe two boar- sorry that our boarders had to suffer , would be lopping mad for a few days Mignon's voice became hopelessly tan- The girl set her red lips firmly, and beauty spots. Such things Mignon re- boarders certainly must have had the der, looking very cool in white gar- on our account. Will you forgive us and then turn round and say 'Bless gled up In tears as she flung the letter Byron, feeling his backbone stiffen un- membered made DuBols Point livable. patience of Job and" the digestion of ments, and also out of place In the and believe us that we will be the most you, my children.' Biggest surprise In away from her. "I didn't think Uncle der his silk shirt, was resolved to But DuBols Point bad an entirely an ostrich, though they never com- general muddle of unwashed dishes of considerate people you ever have got days w-- my life; seems like a ghastly night- Tom could ever be so cruel," she "peel potatoes and things" until the different aspect when Byron and shp plained and were always delightful the tiny kitchen, which In the old a meal for , . . have learned mare to me. What doea your Uncle wailed. cows came home, or longer It neces-iar- y. opened It with two boarders. After company. Mr. Russell Radford was a Nakito, the little Japanese cook, kept from experience, and your gieut pa- ' tience.1, Tom say? Read It again, sweetheart.-- "And Dad says If am 'His conscience bothered blm as their hotel expenses were paid they vfry quiet, very neatly dressed man in Immaculate. I such an ass ' The boy came apd sat down by hli he looked at dainty wife no money to hire help. Byrou the late 30s, and Mrs. Keel, a widow, Mrs. Keel coughed gently,. "Mr. and Byron Murdock gripped the man- - as to leave college, why I can go hang. his and, had girl wife and gave her a protecting thought of the mansion he had stolen supposed be would be expected lo was about the same age. Neither gave Mrs. Murdock, we wish to Inform you servant's, rfap. white Mignon wounj I cant let you see his letter, darling, caress. from her and the staff of servants that clean shoes, wait on table and help any Information about himself. It was that we are leaving you at boarder her arms around Mrs. Keel's plump Mignon dabbed away a fre? h gush of It Is too profane; but I can make i bad been at her bidding; and Mignon, Mignon around the house. Neither of hard to tell what station of life they today; but your people wish us to stay neck and kissed her. "TLnter they were tears, and spreading out the fatal let- safe bet that your Uncle Tom and he as she looked at her handsome boy them, however, dreamed, In their Im- belonged to. Apparently they were in- on and take care of the cottage, so that turned laughingly out of the disor- ter read between gulping sobs: have both chewed the, matter over and husband, realized that he would miss aginings, the amount of work that two terested In each oJ.her, or the life at you can both have a rest. To explain, dered kitchen to rest up for the great "My Dear Children Since you have neither Is willing to put up the dough his carefree college life and the sup boarders, themselves and one small DuBols Point would not have satisfied Mrs. Murdock't uncle will arrive to-- reunion of the morrow. V you think you're tired of the cactus. "I've dreamed shout all the SO East and ua Qsterners, and things, but they were sort of a night- you're leaving nt tor the fogsy mare, I guess. I'm homesick. I want Pacific?" By Whitney Leonard Ray and the apple trees. Wt Molly flecked her blue-bla-ck carl The East Is East Parke want to come here some time togeth- away from her saucy little fact, patted er, you see. I shouldn't have let you Len't rough gray tleev and smiled op i'iffTBf lake me places, because all, tbe time Into his eyes. ri I've been Imagining you were Len you, " " "Tou think I'm funny, don't sick for tbe apple tree." and the silk stockings maybe." she flat, so different from the bard, scary field and meadows. But Norton Frost, warned ber about; she had all the can- and , Len, to want to go? Why, it' the , "I will not!" Molly laughed. "I pondered. Then, "It's Just like a mov- mountain that bad been threatening manager, was nice and jolly and West- dy she could eat; the homey life at "I'm from Boston, anyway. Molly," chance of a life time. I've always read want to find things different." Then ing picture out the window. Only I'm to tumble down on tbe train, and so ern. There waa that to be thankful besides the attention of Norton laughed Norton Frost easily. "You're ' about the palms and mllet of roses she added without the least malice In moving Instead of It Isn't It grand!" horribly different from tbe snugly lit- for. Frost But with aH thl Molly throut not losing much of a Westerner. Might ' and " the world, "I want to find folks differ- By the third d? the grandncsa bad tle hills and apple trees at home. The second week he asked Molly to got lumpier and lumpier, and slie call on you some tlmo when I'm East. "And earthquakes and desert Sum- ent, too." begun to pall. The monotony of the "I wanted It to be different," Molly go to the show with him. 'She went, couldn't tell for the life of her why. Len Ray Is an old friend of mine. He mers," muttered Leonard Ray, uneasl- - "They are I've heard," Len remarked wide prairie country, the hot stuffiness told herself bravely. "But I didn't and cried softly all through the big Then one evening out in City Park, like told me to keep an eye on you tnd iy. briefly. "If you want the fun they'll of the cars, and the loneliness pelted know It was going to be lonely diffe- picture because It had soft pretty hills a story book exactly, the great Norton give you a goot time; hut he's been 7 "Now uncle' got me that candy give you, and that's all, I'm sorry, Moll. at Molly's staunch little heart Mil she rent" and farmer In It that reminded her Frost asked little Molly to marry him, missing you lately pretty hull, so I tor place with the nice manager You needn't think you're going to find almost wished she hadn't come. The Uncle and Aunt met her at the sta- well, hills and all of Innard Ray, and he told her abont the white bungle thought I d bettor make you - see how .there Isn't any reason why I shouldn't a man out there that likes you better folks who spoke to her talked too much tion and hardly gave her a chance to whose letter had Just about broken her low In the suburbs where they would you reall.it felt about thligH." go. And he's even sent my fare both than I do. It can't bo done, girl. Nice about cltres and lobster salads, and the get the awful sticky black washed olf heart that morning. It had been so live, with the oranges and figs and Molly recovered from the amazing ways," Molly went on as if Len hand't manager! Umph!" folks she'd like to talk to looked and a fresh blouse on before they took lonesome sounding. . . tarlhea and tree-blg- h rose bushes la deluxe with remarkable calm, and In thrown the cold water over her dream. "You funny boy!" Molly laughed, The dining car was the Joll-es- t, her to the candy store. "They're hort After that first evening. In spite of their back yard, and no earthquakes a ridiculously short time took the fast- "I'm a reason why," Len protested but she was thinking right hard. reel Ingest place ever, and the lit- of help, and the manager, Norton the tears, Norton took Molly about or thunder fhowert ever, and delicious, est crosf-contine- .train to LeonarJ solemnly. "Nice managers aren't in The next week Molly Sauders start- tle silver plates swallowed so many ot Frost, Is keeping the place open for rather often to quaint restaurants and coot evenings, and Ray and that brown bungalow In the It! The nifty brown bungalow In the ed on the Journey of her life, waving" Molly's shabby bills that she finally you. You've got to pitch right In," theaters and parks, with the palms "It's what I've always dreamed apple orchard and the 1est little' town apple orchard It waiting, Molly. Tour cheery good-by- s to the family, but see- stayed away and munched nuts squir- sbM Uncle. and mile of roses, and to museums about." sighed Molly. All those things in tbo world. ' starting off Is going to mean we can't ing longest under the clndery station rel fashion and sobfully. Tbe nights And Molly pitched In bravely, learn- that had alTthe wondrous things Molly and a real ton of the TJolden. West for" a " ' be married before fall and " roof the sober face of Leonard Ray as were pretty bad, too. A moving pic- ing candy, candy prices, candy smiles bad ever dreamed about. So Molly a husband." TedHe a queer chap. He say he "1 never promised, Len. I always It still pleaded for her not to go. ture for a bed was not so thrilling, and sweltering In the new kind of heat Saunders ought to have been happy, Norton laughed. "Then lt' settled, likes to write verse. wanted to see something of the world "He's a selfish old thing ' Molly told after all. that seemed to be wlltlnber to a fraz- especially sjnee the handsome Norton little Molly, and w can be married in Ned There's no accounting for first, anyway. Ton said tbe bungalow herself, as she watched thl dingy city As she seared her Journey's end zle. What a stuffy place the city was! told her occasionally that he liked her the fall?" tastes. I know fellows who claim they waa a good Investment" roofs and then the soft green fields and Molly began to grow actually fright- And foggy; and then it never talnsd. more and more; and It had always Thfn suddenly Molly dashed twav like to read It. " ; "Tou know what kind of an invest- white birches and apple trees sMp by. ened, but she didn't know why. She Umbrellas- - were only needed for Mo- been the secret wish of Molly' roman- so fast that she stepped on the prtc-Re- st ment I meant, Moll,' Leonard told her. A tear stole down her pink cheeks and could see to far and It seemed as If the lly's tears nights after she went to bed tic little heart to marry a real live cactus in the park. Bobbles What does Wills author "Wait and maybe we can go West to- landed on her white cotton gloves. "I'd good old Atlantic must be over yonder, funny tears; almost as If their own- Westerner. But, with all this, Molly "You mustn't kiss me, ever, Mr. mean by saying that the hero had well-carv- gether some time. You'll find things like to know what I'm crying for. Be- and it never was only more wide er were homesick. And wasn't the city missed something . Frost," she stammered. "You see--- , feature? home- - Dobblea-il'erha- pa different out there. Youll get cause be gave me the preserved ginger sweeps of land sun parched, brown, packed! No extra room, like Len'l Sbe had the desert heat Len had I" Molly got on the other id of the he shaved himself. ,

Harrison- - Van D Veer, now It had been a hard fight for both, but Hal Jonet, Texas rancher then tbey were wonderfully rontcnt In AS and good fellow all around, their accomplishment, and it was only lift- i By Joella Johnson tat la the dim light of hit den, he Where Roads End now tbey realized It in Its full value. ed the heavy embossed stationery on As Harrison Van De Veer, Jr.. picked which was scrawled a few lines and up tbe note once main and held it read the letter over apt over. Clara, 23 closer to tbe shaded lamp on his rough bis wife, cam In. wiping her hands In stolid money magnet father, the illus- So it was Harrison Van De Veer, Jr., go to town and hire out as child's grocery itor he too ran out and fol- ported to her hut, and there she estab- twig-mad- e table, h? looked down at her gingham apron, and with one arm trious Harrison Van de Veer, Sr., wiz-ar- d stepped from the train at a little nurse. They bad both made a solemn lowed the crowd. lished a permanent little shelter for Clara with a twinkle in his eye and around bit neck, she, too, (canned the of finance, be was expected 'a down In Texas and took tbe promise to each other that they would It was the outbreak. The famous the sick. She had investigated and said: "Shall we go'back, little girl, as sheet with a whimsical little smile marry a girl from the moneyed set. So name of Hal Jonee, Clara was with never jgo back to Harrison Van De Mexican outbreak as the paper said, it found that the nearest hospital was father asks?" and Clnra answcrwl In a playing around the corner of her accordingly, when he brought back his him hand In hand. Within a week sbe Veer, Sr., seeking help until they knew pne outbreak Is any more famous than miles away and many folks had died proud hut gentle little voice, "Yes, mouth. little bride whom ' he had married bad made little draw curtains for tbe they were welcome, and It waa months another. But here It was in full swing while waiting to be taken there. There dear, If you will promise it will be Fate play funny tricks, eh, Clara?" abroad and introduced her to the Hon- - windows of their little hut and Hal now since they had left, and not even and help was needed on the American was plenty of Illness down-i- this hot only for a visit." ' up a most H. V. gone to town 'regularly day from him. border, " country, especially when ' . Hal smiled at her with orable Sr., the elder shook his had each a note ... the element , to wa a skirmish, a and foreign. When they received glance. white head In disapproval and early fetch back some varnish for the Now. Clara had been a nurse and There battle .was their There Is a fresbtfess about the Ori- taught u how to live, dear," she evening asked young Hal bow floor or some tacks to. hang the pic- then Clara used ber skill. Sbe had 'first check for services rendered the "It that that profession she knew well. In fact ental viewpoint ot "English as she is answered, and then, drawing a little much the divorce would cost. tures on or some oilcloth for the lit- always been an adept at making the government, Hal et about fixing up that was how she met Harrison Van spoke" thajt positively refreshing. red cushion from a nearby chair, sbe "Why, father, I don't mean to di- tle table which served as kitchen, din best of thing and sbe prbved her skill the little shelter house and It really j De Veer, hail threw It on the floor and took her seat vorce Clara, she Is my wife, and I love ing and library table all In one. ( Jr., or she touu nursing here. A hospital was erected In no looked like an city sanitari- Here Is a little sample from an Orl- - . right at the feet of her adorable Hal. ber," Hal said, startled at the sugges- Hal had gone repeatedly to look for In a French relief hospital to which time on the screened porch of the gro- um when he was through touching It ental paper with an English section: It had been three yeart since tbe tion. a Job, for the one hundred dollars cap- Harrison Van De Veer was brought in cery store and sheets and' bandages up. Clara did tbe nursing. Hal did the "The news of English we tell Uie Honorable Harrison Van De Veer came But the domestic storm grew a little ital which he had taken along with an emergency while on a business trip made and rolled from old muslin bor- washing, baking and cooking, while latest. Writ In perfectly style and to live way down In Texas on tbe openworse each day until one day it him was slowly but surely dwindling abroad. rowed from tbe community. Clara bad Dr. Morrison from town attended. most earliest. .Do a murder commit, ranch he now makes bis home. He bad swelled Into such fury It suddenly doWn into cents. As Clara dismounted When they won her battle, the battle for a living. With the money they took in as their we hear of and tefl of. Do mighty , been exiled from hit home, family, burst, and Hal left the enormous In- Whan tbey had got down to their last reached tbe town sbe was startled Tbe little skirmish had qpened the share Hal Invested In a little piece of chief die, we publish If and "in borders friends and fortune all because he had dustry his father was engaged In, giv- twenty-doll- ar note Clara concocted a from her reverie by the sound of wild way for a real future Mr both Hal and land. Then he doubled It and tripled somber. Stall has each one been col- married the girl of his choice. ing up his position as general manager scheme In ber mind while she was ly- tries and everyone In the towa teemed Clara or better Known In the Northern It, and with the proceeds derived from lege and write liko the Kipling and According to the rules of the ex- to take refuge with hi little bride, "on, ing awake one night late staring Into to have gone mad. Hal jumped from gossip centers as Mr and Mri. Harri- that they invested In machinery to the Dickens. We circle .every town clusive society set In which be had anywhere away from here," a he put tbe dark but seeing only poverty clos- the horse and having installed Clara son Van De Veer, Jr. draw oil from the ground where Hal and extortionate not for advertise- ' ' spent bis day since babyhood with his It ing upon them by degrees. Sbe would safely behind tbe sugar barrels In the-- . Clara had all thetlttle things trans bad discovered It one day. ments."

ready for the Blelgh rtde. her gently beside blm ln the n ALL and girls," piped Jones, sJclgh. - as be entered the school The cold sharp wind of the Winter' room "All here and ready, but Sally night brought Sajly to consciousness By Abhcr Anthony; ' Hicks and sbe 1 always late," spoke a 'aaflsssSst Hero of Dreams and as sbo lookcd,.Hfl'intoi Horace's cborus of voices, that surrounded the honest blue eyes she placed her tiny little country schoolroom ttove. white arms around bis neck and ex- Bally was a bright-eye- d little girl of claimed. "You are the true hero of If. with cheeks like roses and hair my dreams." that fell on ber shoulders in golden tered Sally, "but then I suppose I from the sleigh, forgot to even thank parison with Paul, the highly polished pered In ber ear In a gentle voice, "we for me to follow th4broken road to T curls. Her drive to school each morn- will have to go, as be has been so good Horace, but he wa soon tucked in and gentleman, who stood by the stove. will go bark In Mr. Blake's new red Nancy Blake's," Horace said in a deep The Exaet Terminology. . ing was far from short, but Sally felt to father since bl Illness." on bit way home. "We must get started now, boys and tlelgb It will be much safer and be- voice. The proprietor of a grocery stqre Sally, It a lo't Hor- she wanted to go and must go home Two o'clock came and Horace drew "Where have you, been the last hour, girls." sides.' look nicer." In a short time Mrs. Hicks had chanced to glance but the plate-Ala- s of Sally's door, well pro- Paul helped Sally on with her coat They bad only gone a short distanre ace well supplied with coats and window and put on ber new brown coat and up in front Sally Hisks?" shouted a voice from'tlie and saw a mall boy Ilngoying cold by hi and assisted to tbe sleigh and tbey and they came to the turn ,ln the road shawlk, and started over the 'road to knitted red cap that her aunt Johanna tected from the Winter' corner, "we want to get started.". her around a barrel ot apple exhibited on bad tent her for ber birthday the day red scarf securely w rapped around his were soon cuddled together in the cor- when the horse jumped, and Paul Nancy Blake's. the sidewalk. ' Sally was cold after ber long drive before. Taul Rice, tbe youngest trus- head, and his fine looking sleigh, as he ner of tbe hay bottom sleigh' talking and lashed the horse; the "Oil up Dobbin, we must meet Sal- "Hey; there, boy!" exclaimed xhe and syod by tbe stove warming her tee of the tcbonl was goiDg cod sne supposed. and chatting. blinding drift of tbe new fallen snow ly," "Horace exclaimed to his faithful grocerymah, going to the door, "What little wbite hands, first looking at Paul, tuust look ber very best. "Ready, Sally," shouted Horace In a After the toasts at Nancy' class and the angry lashe of Paul fright- old white Horse. The sleigh glided are you doing?" who stood nearby polishing his finger "What I the matter and the hurry. hoarse voire, from the sleigh. supper the boys one by one told of ened tbe horse, the sleigh overturned, over the fleece-lfk- e enow and had only "Nothing." laconically answered the nails, and thinking of the boy who had tpy dear?" spoke Sally's mother, look- Tbe drive to the little red school some great adventure in tbeir lives and poor Sally lay helpless by tbe aldo gone six miles when My, what a ter- boy, with hi, eyes still fixed on the brought ber safely there and gone. ing over her spectacles, as flly rucb-e- d seemed long to Sally, as her thoughts and Paul's tales of hit life of adven- of the road. rible sight confronted Horace as he barrel. ' . Ex- Into (he kitchen. "Ob, nothing were all on seeing ran I Rice, the sleigh "Well, I don't care anyway." she tures held little Sally awestrucK, "Hasn't Sally come yet," Horace came to the turn In the road, there lay "Nothing, eh?" doubtfully returned to berself, sit- much, mother. onl)j Horace has Invit-r- d ride, the lovely supper at Nancy thought "I never did like while the others were amused. claimed as he walked into tbe cozy tbe girl ot lilt dreams unconscious In the ma,n. "Aren't you trying to steal me to rid In that horrid looking Blake's and not on the question that old fashion people or never will." "The storm Is growing worse, we ting room of Mrs. Hicks' home, "Jack tbo snow. some ot those apples?" alelgb. I just bate ol4-iahl- sleighs Horace bad asked. Safe to say Horace was tbe object must get started." ' and all the rest hare arrived." "Sally, Sally, can'tyou speak?" And "No, sir," responded the younpteft. n It picking up placed ad people any ay," splut- - Well and just then Sally, jumping of ber thoughts, and offender In com .Paul calling Sally to one side whis "It Is a bad night and I think right her in his arms, he "I'm trying not to." .