Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1922, Page 72

She Didn’t Have Those* Wild Impulses That Other Girls Had, Said Her P HE I clock in the hall be-! zan to strike. Mary Elizabeth put down her book. Promptly on the last stioke she rose and kissed her father good night and sed her mother good mnigat and nt upstairs to her room. It was| Unii she was eighteen abeth had gone to bed at! And then for two <he had gone to bed at half-past 9. It was oniy now that she was twenty vears old that she was permitted to stay up until 190 o'clo The moment he heard the door shut upstairs M Elizabeth's father turned to her mother. It was an old | arents at a point far back of their house, and went up the hill beyond. On top of the ridge Mary Elizabeth ‘knt down under an oak tree. It was | her ravorite place. | was spread out before her in the moonlight; and on the ridge oppo- site, such a little way off, was the country club, with- every window |along the verandas. DON'T The whole valley | J years | JIghted and Chinesse lanterns strung | | For five minutes she sat with her| arins around her knees, feeling the ! moonlight, feeling the little saxophone and then the drum. She heard the violin faintly, and then the saxaphone and then the drum. She could diistinguish the air—they were breeze | habit. Mary Blizabeth was an only | daughter. Ingeed, she was an only | Playing “Mon Homme." Mary Eliza- "hild. He was always discussing her|beth smiled ironically, She knew | how to dance. She had learned to the moment she was out of earshot. 1 must say " he observed. Sirl” school. And Charlotte had taught Mrs, Morley did not reply in words her the fox-trot, which was so sim- to this remark of her husband’s. She 'Ple— serely nodded her assent and went| Mary Elizabeth took two cigarettes right on counting nine stitches and|from her blouse and a small paper of Aropping one. 3 {matches, One cigarette was broken ‘I sometimes wonder if we restrict|and the other was badly crumpled, but her too much” he continued. “And after several tries she succeeded in ihen 1 see how contented she is, and|lighting the crumpled one. She did I realize that she's just not like these | not like tobucco. She thought her —these awlul creatur rarents were probably right about Ry ‘“awful o z cigarettés. It anybody offered her a meant merely the daughters of his|cigavette, as might happen If she contemporaries, the kind of girl you ever did go anywhere among people of her own age, she would refuse. But meet in the older and nicer suburbs of New York. she wus bound she wouldn't refuse “She just doesn't care for jazz—— because she didn’t know how. and all that sort of thing.” Mr. Morley <aid. “She'd rather stay at home and read a good book than run around— places—like these modern girl: The cigarette somehow lightened her sense of being out of everythin, The taste was horrid, but the feeling it gave her was good. he's a waltz, of course, at Miss Harding's | =3 \man , “is Palmer—Philip Palmer. ‘What's yours?” “Mary Morle: “Tell me how It happened,” young man said. Mary Elizabeth told him. “But I don't understand how you happened to be there.”” said Mary Eliazbeth. Mary Elizabeth went. The young man took her hand in his. “Mary,” he sald gravely, “you know the | what's happened to me.” “You've got well,” said Mary Eliza- beth quickly. “That isn't what I mean, and you know it the young man said. “But ? 1 | began to strike. ! mother good night and went upsta AR THE WATER “just this once.” H “I love you,” said Philip Palmer, And then his arms went around her | and her head was on his shoulder. | He held her tightly for a moment. car. She raised her face to hi love you™” he said gently. “And now I must go,, she cried. “But you will marry me, you?" asked Philip Palmer. “Yes,” sald Mary Elizabeth. *“But—" ut what?" “But we can’t be engaged for at | least a month.” “Very well—a month it is." * % ox MONTH later, of an evening in September, the clock in the hall Mary Elizabeth put Promptly on the and kissed her and kissed her down her book. ast stroke she rose father good night rs to her room. It was 10 o'cloc The moment Mary Elizabeth’s father heard the door shut upetairs, he turn- ed to her mother. “What's the matter with Mary Elizabeth could feel his heart | acros beating—beating about three times as fast as it had that night she had | found him lying beside the wrecked | sorry to lose her. He | of course, kissed her. | “I love you,” said Mary Elizabeth. | He kissed her again. i Mary | BY LUCIAN CARY “Yes” Mary Elizabeth whispered. Elizabeth?’ he asked “She's in love,” said Mre. Morley Mr. Morley got up and paced back “I—think—" Mary Elizabeth began. and forth across the room. “With young Palmer?” he asked * said Mrs. Morley. Mr. Morley paced ‘back and fortk the room. 't say I'm glad,” he remarken said Mrs. Morley. *“1 shall by But—" ne right sort of vounz man Mr. Morley admitted. oy “He is He 1 back and forth until t clock hall struck the half-hour. “Well," he said, “I suppose we'll have to stand for it. It isn't as 1 he were one of that wild country ¢ won't | Set, with no character and no moril: and no sense of responsibility abomn anything. “No,” said Mrs Moil “You know," said Mr. Morley, 1 always feel that the beautiful ihing we've accomplished with Mary Flizns beth is to bring her up so that sie doefn’t want to do the things thut other girls do.” “That's just it “She hasn't got those w “And she just marry the Morley & wou ki wrong “Of course not.”’ said Mrs A Whereupon, Mr. and Mre Morles went upstairs to bed They were probably right—at tha (Coprright. All rights n “Did vou know.” Mrs Morley asked | The orchestra finished “Mon “that Mrs. Henderson has allowed | Homme." She did not know the next ~ Lardner Assert Y M t Charlotte to go to the dance at the picce. But the third one was > s ou us country club tonight” waltz—a lovely waltz. Mary Eliza- “What?" sald Mr. Morley. beth threw away her cigarette and ! e Lo L SR L ave Police Dog to Belong Elizabeth's friend and chum—tie oniy by herself—on the grass—in the one she had moonlight. . |‘:. :“::m:l.,.—:. ?;Ir::\ Mr. Morley Whet SHe el “‘zts m.tdr, \,ll:s r O the elitor: By this time it|might print ay icture of same b ot ot AT IO sty herseif o theliaie maden 1) o e pote be at | omly describe them as follows: “Why v Movley said, “Mrs Z::ne‘ulw & slittte ACH! least people Tm lives on n.’:‘;:-,,d(;,’; :., n.;:: u‘:'“l’m\-.- « L 'rh-om “'K-d e u\"“"' ,‘h“fihf,ni She saw the lights of a car flash a y:.lmj:}’:i‘o;.&l:“:\'m:he‘;asa::lj?.\:‘\ink‘fies in lh(-‘\\url;:l‘ _\.n.u;~ o tnl::&’: \x:lga:::l‘vitr:n‘:l artnk e :;“‘c":‘: l""|"::\"“,u:_': T raff. It is known of course to nostrils should ought to be wide ] £ wat e ErUABaLH 6 Enlovrn | €Arly:. She could see the long hesms in the U.S. 5 of which is right here ington and Jefferson foot ball p she said. 3 { of light from the car's lamps as they |in Great Neck, which I laughingly And he should froth at the mouth 1 it tec g0, FRUCH whe girls. FmsWeng down the hill She watehed lcall my home, and then they's I ETIg. Gen. Dawes making a sp: thinking of. Mr. Morley admitted. them idly. The car WOUTGEUEIGILEC more of them at Far Rockaway, a That is the kind of a dog you shouls T's the young men.” the lane that led to the post road even dozen in Roglyn. 16 more at ought to have to claim a police dox #The youms married crowd at the | But the ;“"h‘“" s s iy e Southampton which leaves 13 scat- | and after You have got one they wii country club are a scandal” Mrs. Mor- | It turned the other Wei: o S s TR |tered amongst Brooklyn, Jamaica, | surely give vou good servic le m_«;i;l. e coming very fast downhill. It was SAID THE YOUNG MAN. “WHO AM I AND WHAT'S HAPPENED ‘:)eyslcr BT; :nxl nu’:_\'u.g Dreé n‘na | have 'nzi a l-uuxnh»f\mp.hhar\ that has It ought to be forbidden” Mr. Mor- comlug =0 fast, she wondered if it | "A great many times lately people|had real ones and I can tell you whi! tey said. He did not say just what could possibly make the turn at (1% 4 hundred yards. Then Jumped suid Mars Blizabeth. Mary Ellzabeth explained that. I don't want to tell you until I can|has come up to me and said they | they are like as far as action is cor ought io be forbidden foot of the Ll into the Mill road. It ng stepped the starter “Well?" suid the man $0." he said—and a ghost of a smile ' stand up ! would like me to meet so and £0 and | serned. “It certainly ought.” said Mrs. Mor- was coming faster and faster. x P “Mary Morley—Sparborough.” she crossed his bandaged and beplastered | “You must never tell me” Mary in the old d it use to be tough to | ¥ % ley. would never make the turn. It answered gravely. tace—"so you didn't have any busi- Elizabeth ingisted. “You see | pick and choose but now days I just [ \R7ELL. the ! that lived on out The hall clock struck the half hour. didn't D-m',\' in the Mill road she ran the On the way back Mary Elizabeth | ness to be there.” “I don't see at all.” say has he got a police dog and if | el sl dani Mr. Morley rose promptly. AMr: * * % through the hole the lried to figure some way to get the = “No.” said Mary Elizabeth. “My father and mother would they say no why I merely plead an- | ine, as his mother was a W Morley put dow:: her crocheting. Mr. BigC nashed in the fence, ran GAr back into the garage without| “I didn't have any business to be never. never let me know you. xald other engagement. If a man or his|lachian count and his old m Merlex shogle Tis head gravely: \I-":" BELIZABETH could not €€ 5 0000 qlongside the man. She tried King any noise. 1t was now 2:30. where I was.” the young man admit- Mary Elizabeth. wife Las not got a police dog they | Hollweg-Vochten from Ge The Gemutital (tHige we ve Sesom VI sus, what Bappeiel. BuS e [t ahe couldnt. aAmd She couldn’t be caught—now. She ted. "I was with—well, perhaps I'd “What would I have to do for your| certainly are mot worth the wile a-bearing provines of shei with Mary EUsabech b sall | qrg (he smash when (N 607 (en e thoushi of her runsine deciled et s came In the other | betier not say who she was; she is | father and mother to approve of me?" | might spend on them. | Holstein. T viia from dotu the!weut turuugk the fence Almost ¢ Wel|bgard, ishe lified N hesd audwav. dowanlli, souishutor iy mo sometody else’s wie.” “Oh, yowd have to be introduced— That fs the situation Which per-| This dog never barmed things that other girls do—she doesn’t feet. down the hill; an BeD ¢ Shoulders to the running | rd. then 07 car would run into the drive “You drove very recklessly,” Mary by just the right people—and every- | tuins on Long Isiand and I suppose the | he seen you. He had beer bt R lights went out: and the MOLOT MUSt, pig et She took the towrope she ©On its momentum. She could leave it'Elizabeth said.quickly. thing. same criterion exists all over the U, srotect the Mrs. b That's just it,” Mrs. Morley agreed. have stopped. too. because she eard i (0 vivd fnd tied him on, run- i e drive and then get up early "l wasn't driving. Whom ought 1 to be introduced he hasn't got these wid im- no esund. . ning the rope around him and through next morning before anybody mean she was?™" Ly?" ulses 5 Mary Elizabeth ran toward the ¢aly ype rrame of the windshield. said the young man. Mary Elizabeth smiled. ¢ And she hasn't any chance to meet | She ran so fast that she was out of " Mary Elizabeth backed cautiously n she was safely in And then when she wrecked the. “The very best person in the worid e o ind of man" said Mr. breath when she was halfway thete.| ;"o the field into the Mill road. remierbecea tHat cir and. ainiost Killed you: #he Fan | would beale sectors Morles | She had to slow down a bit. And then | .ny yp the hill in second and turned | bourd was all bloody. [off and left you?" | “What church?" oTleY. upom Mr. and Mrs. Morley she realized that she couldnt be i ol 0P pIL B s only five |She went out to the garage and got| “Well” said the young mad. “You| -St. Botolph's’ went upstairs to bed. caught out this time of night and| . 1 (he hospital. and the rc 4 pail of water and a sponge and can hardly blame her; it wouldn't| -aAnd who is the rector of st | O X almost stopped. Her father and o smooth 4 boulevard. went back no «sly and washed have looked nice in the newspapers Botolph's?” ARY ELIZABETH sat at her win- | mother would hear of it. And thell |y ouig meet other cars, but they would | the runting-board and the wheel. that this morning.” |- “Dr. Horace Manning,” said Mary A\I dow in Her nightgown looking | Mary Elizabeth zfu ofl toward the ooy fgn her lefi—they wouldn't see | Was sticky from the blood on her | Mary Elizabeth said nothing. She| giizabeth. | out on a lawn bathed in moonlight. | car. because if anybody wus BUrt She | 1he man on her right-hund runnin \ds. and put the straps back. It | just felt there were some things You, The young man thought for a mo- The moonlight gave Mary Elizabeth a | must help. even if her father andinoarg. Mary Elizabeth came down | wis o half hour's job. and the moon couldn’t do—even to escape a scandal. | ment. queer breathless feeling. It seemed | mother did find out. ; hard on the aceelerntor. The little had gone dewn. so it was quite dark, | “P'erhaps she went to get help. We | .wno else do your people approve | e hat she had mever in her life| She could see the car—a big bIAcK |1, qqter shot ahead. It took only ten Put she did it don’t know o in e bomiien sren anything so polgnantly beautiful | shape in the ‘moonlight—when She pinytes to reach the hospital. When s<he climbed up the veranda| “She went the wrong way." Mary = won. the Wilsons and the Ferrises O A s the row of poplar| stopped again. & woman in & white| " guo"LoniCa her horn. But thgre pillar. stood on the railing. grasped [Elizabeth said L e aRd he Wi B e e, aiohr. It was & |dress was.standing bealds the Cati|iau'no anuwer. She wot outand dn|the ralnpipe. went hand over hand| - ~\What I fantitc kuow iis. are ¥ou | jums and beautiful it hurt. Tt was like—like Mary Elizabeth saw the woman bend |y; ¢5 the door ind pounded on it. for a yard and slipped into her win- | likely to be found out?” “What Parmenters?” the young man heing terribly homesick. over, as if to pick up something. and | "4 qeepy man in a white uniform |dow |= “No” mald Mary Elizabeth. “Buticcrripted » Mary Eiizabeth heard her DArents|ynen the woman ran—ran up the Mill | ghened the door Her white skirt was sireaked with | You are. People will be looking for| s = ming up the stairs. For & MOMENt |y and disuppeared. e o i iera roiliots lbaen| BGGAZbVoR: SUFeRIE, Sne TS AL up| > 00:T Mrs. Emmeline Parmenter.” | heneenes o e l;n:ls“‘v::mh::! Mary Elizabeth watked :lovl:l:' e burt” Mary Elizabeth eried et and thrust it in the back of a bureau | I "“"""I ‘l"“ll;' so.” said the N""“-gr':::ri::::g muan: amiledSa mmielal i Rea e i | ward the car. Nobody used the Ml |somebody quick. drawer. She washed her hands care- | ™an sravely. “I'm on a vacatlon, so| 25, o 5 = o 0o e said ! s z - ‘i road much after midnight, and be Hurt how the man asked sleep- | fully. She lay down to sleep. my office won't be expecting me. And! e's my aunt.” he sai fi e Pn‘l-'“bplhn ot h;x:era:‘,m?;'smes. the car had run so far inside | She could see the hands and figures il can send word to the hotel—I was ~ “Oh!" eaid Mary Elizabeth. .-’l‘|rrc ";:’;-\ mflx';er o::ulumolher were | the fence that no one driving up lh}; et a doctor” Mary Elizabeth of her watch glowing dimly in the |Sa¥ing over at lh(: Briarcliff Arms. ‘ “}‘heh ‘}:’ml:lg“;mn squeezed Mary i alie Toved her father ana|Mill road was likely'ito see it.untllcried. dark. 1t was 3:30. She must wake up | And 50, if the lady can manage to| Flizabeth'a hand. ol s mother. That was why she found it|daylight came. . | “Doctors are all gone home. the|at 6:30. She must. For’a moment |conceal the fact that her ecar is So. you ‘see* he sald, “it's ‘yery <o impossible to tell them what she; The car was turned over on its side. | man said. she bent her whole will on the idea | SMashed. or explain it—why, nobody simple - . or even to give them the One front wheel was torn off. The | Mary Elizabeth glared at him. of waking up at 6:30. And then she [Ueed ever know. | “Dr. Manning has everybody in to smallest glimpse of what she was like |top was smashed. It was pmu"i “Then u get a stretche nd alwent to sleep, 1 nghtn t I»lo g:'l word to her that | tea every second Tuesday,” Mary } N inside. They would be so hurt. And|thoroughly wrecked. | doctor just as fast as you can. P [goure all’ right?" ‘Mary. .Elisabeth|(Elistbeth sald. skl she could not bear to hurt them. Mary Elizabeth turned to go—there | The man turned and went to a desk | . |asked. Tl have my aunt take me.” said | Thex had been so very good to her., was nothing for her to do, and then |in the lobby and pressed a button.| QHE awoke at 6:20 and jumped out ! o said the young man. “I|the young man. Will you be glad | a0 generous. They weren't rich. And |ghe saw the man. He was Iying full | Mary Klizabeth walked up and down. S 9F ned: | She-upent, [ve provion] Sinty ol NletUineciworrst sabout] toimest ce S | vet they had managed to do thelicngth on his face, with one arm|An orderly came. L mtiutes dausing Hen ifide with. Sold| s =y G . Mary Elizabeth rosc. 1 ihings for her that only rich people | ywisted under him. et s isiretonen” Bary Eiizabetil|waters she mustw't 160k auiitshehaa s 2oy (Elisiieth: dooked st him| “yen" she said. "And mow I must ' did for their daughters. An €Xpen- yury Elizabeth's small nostrils | said. | been out all night. jExavely A . say goodby. or I'll be late for lunch’ sive xchool. and musie, and that trip Saty Bitsbelli turned tolihe mah | And by e el the Thmiiy’ came = Soosht S EAC (YO BEelit MEEY)) EGoodhy,iieald thoouns mat, SHh- quivered with the age-old animal fear | abroad. And now that she was at| g3t Vg outan't go over there ome again, her “’“‘h""'" had “f',"l'“ and find out if his heart was still her a roadster—all her own. Only |, 000 But she must. She couldn’t vwhere in it—any-| where in {t—an¥- | just leave him there. ! And then this danee. Charlotte had| Mary Blizabeth walked over and hullied her mother into letting her go. | knelt down. She picked up his wrist She. @ary Eilzaleth, was the only and felt for his pulse. And then she =irl in Sparborough who couldn't go,|saw that the blood was running down the only one left out. his sleeve. She pulled his coat off. She didn’t know a single solitary|The blood spouted. He had a big man of her own age—only the men gash in his arm. He would bleed who came to tea al the rectory every | i, death in a few minutes. second Tuteiles., ! For a moment Mary Elizabeth And theinhngses oLy | thought hard. Then she tore a great S T INOEINeats it strip off her petticoat and twisted e e o hiekiry limb | it into u rope and tled it around his EoHeAr the ratee: arm, just below the shoulder, knot- Her father and mother were ilke| g j¢ fast, and looked round for something—a stick, anything—she she couldn’t go an where she wanted to go. ¥ rhyme that; they said, yes, yves, you may go out o swim, but dom't go mear the{ ,,1q use to finish the tourniquet. e HUsabeth: ot up. and. gently|ShE found a jpiece’of ithe steering { wheel, a curved plece of the rim. She put the plecg under the armlet she had made and twisted it, twisted it hard, until the blood stopped spout- ing and only welled a little from the wound. She stood up, the next thing was turned on her light and rummaged in the closet. She brought out a white skirt and a blouse and stockings and a sweater. She was dressed in five minutes. She put her wrist watch in- side her blouse. Then she switched off the light and turned to her win-| dow. !help. Where should she go? She Mary Elizabeth lifted the screen out | would have to run clear home to get gently and set it down beside the |y telephone. window. She climbed into the open | Mary Elizabeth ran almost all the window backwards, and standing on the sill, reached far to the right to catch the rain pipe that ran horizon- tally above the window casing. She clung to the rain pipe, getting a good grip, and (hen she went hand over hand ~acil Lar feet found the railing | nolse— 5 4 that ran around the deck of the din-| .She climbed the Parmenters’ wall ing room porch. She stood poised a|and ran across the lawn to the garage moment on the railing and dropped:and opened the door. Her father's lightly to the deck. And now ahejgnd mother's room was on the other climbed over the railing and around!gide of the house. But the engine tne cornice, get}ing & new rip be-|you1d wake them. For a moment she fore she let go the old, and slid down | y o8 FMEC L HE Tl ed the drive. the pillar. Mary Elizabeth had had|; ~ o,y gownhili—just a little, but e e e ra. | enoush. She took hold of the steer- e i ard-| ;& wheel and the side of the car and 1y explained the speed and sureness P B . with which she reached the ground|bushed. For a moment she thought from her second-story window. The|8he couldn’t move it. But she could. fact was, she had done it before—And once started, it was easy. She many times. pushed the little roadster all the way Olm;:a on ot'hoh:mund. medlook her |down the drive and into the road. watch out biouse and fastened | Once in the road, it ran so fast she it on her wrist, and walked Quickly|,,q to grab the handbrake to stop across the lawn. 3 She climbed the Parmenters’ wall'it. She let the car go down the hill | way home before she thought. She could tale him to a hospital! That would be quicker. She could take him in her roadster. If she could get away without making any at the des! “And you." she said hotly, “you| telephone for @ doctor—quick With incredible slowness things | happened. The orderly came bac with a stretcher. “Where is he?" he asked stupidly. *“Out there on my running board.,” Mary Elizabeth snapped. “What?" said the orderly. “You heard me the first time,” said | Mary Elizabeth, and led the way out- side. The orderly and the desk man clumsily untied the vietim him on the stretcher. Mary Eliza- | beth stood by to see that they didn'li drop him. They carried him inside and to the elevator. 2 “Where are you going?” she asked. “To the operating room. Mary Elizabeth went up with them. | She made the orderly help her take | i | and got | the man's clothes off, cutting away his shirt. He was terribly bruised. His face was covered with blood. But his heart still faintly pumped. A nurse and an interne came in. The interne began to make an ex-| amination. Mary Elizabeth watched breathlessly. “Will he live?" she asked. “Why not?” the interne asked. “I didn"t know,” Mary Elizabeth said. Somehow she got downstairs. The man at the desk stopped her. He had | a large blank in front of him, and a fountain pen. Mary Elizabeth's heart sank. He was going to ask ques- tions. “What's his name?” the desk asked. “Adams,” , said Mary Elisabeth promptly. It was the first name that came into her head. ‘Initials?” “George—George W.” “Where does he live?” “In New York.” “She thought wildly for an address in New York. She couldn’t admit she had never seen thei man before. “Street and number?’ ,“Why, she hesitated, “I believe— it's—oh, yes, it's 18 Gramercy Park.” . “And whom do we notify?” the man at {1t might mean anything. | Surely they permitted visitors down to breakfast she didn’t. She had taken a five-mile spin in the car with the windshield open and her cheeks cere flushed Wwith the morning. How fresh you look!" her father said, admiringly. “It's such a lovely day,” Mary Eliza- beth said. “I've been out in the car alread “I do hope you'll be'careful and never drive more than twenty miles an hour—fifteen is better.” Mr. Mor- ley said. Mary Elizabeth K. At 10 o'clock she couldn’t stand it any longer. She took the car and ran down to Ossining and found a telephone in a drug store and called up the hospital to ask how he was. “Mr. Adams is doing as well as can be expected,” a woman's voice an- bent to open her el swered. “But,” Mary Elizabeth cried, “how is he?” “Mr. Adams is doing as well as can be expected.” the voice answered. Mary Elizabeth hung up the receiver with a bang. So that was the way & hospital treated you! “As well as can be expected!” What did that mean? She got into the roadster. She could drive down there and ask to see him. in hospitals. At any rate, she could try. Mary Elizabeth dutifully held the lit- tle roadster down to twenty. miles an hour all the way. It took twenty minutes. But she had all the time in, the world now. They very obligingly ushered her up to Mr. Adams’ room. He was bandaged so you could only see his eyes and his mouth and part of one ear. And now she was face to face with him she didn’t know what to say. She just looked at him and he looked at her. And they both looked | at the nurse. The nures smiled and left the room. “Look here,” said the young man. “Who am I and what happened?” You're Mr. Adams—Mr. George W. Adams of 18 Gramercy bark,” said Mary Elisabeth. ~ “My real name” :said she young much in love with her, are you?" “No," said the voung man, “I'm not —any more." The nurse came back into the room and there was nothing more to say, and Mary Elizabeth rose to go. | “I do hope you'll come again,” the | young man said. “I think I shall,” said Mary Eliz- abeth. “I shall be very Young man suggested. Mary Elizabeth smiled. “It may be good for you—to be lonesome,” she suggested. Mary Elizabeth did come back the next day, and the next. She slipped away every day for ten days, except Sunday. She just couldn’t manage Sunday. She got to know the young man very well and to like him very much. He hadn't led quite the kind of life her father and mother ap- proved of. He had been a member of the Country Club crowd—or one Just like it over in Briarcliff. But she felt he was really an extraordi- narily nice young man—at heart. Just knowing him had made her somehow happier than she had ever been. Or was it having this tre- mendous secret from all the world? She came in to dinner every night as coolly as if she hadn't been visit- ing him. She read every night after dinner until 10 o'clock, and then she put her book down and kissed her mother good-night and kissed her father good-night exactly as she al- ways had. And all the time, in the back of her mind, was the secret— they didn’t suspect and couldn’t sus- pect and mustn't suspect. And she wasn't ashamed of it—not really. She was proud of it. * xox % HERE came a day when the young man. announced that he was well enough to leave the hos- pital. “I'm_ almost sorry,” sald Mary Elizabeth. “I shan't see you again. “That's, where you're mistaken, the young man said. ) “But, you see—" Mary Elizabeth began. ¢ “Come here and sit on the edge of my bed,” the young man ordered. lonesome,” the { til next Tuesday.” Mary Elizabeth wondered all the way home if he meant that he in- tended to propose to her and what she would say if he did and what would her parents say. But then. what could they say if she met him at the rector’s. | She did meet him at the rector's on Tuesday next, and shyly intro- duced him to her mother, and they chatted together for quite ten min- utes and he seemed to know all the people her mother mentioned, and it all went off so beautifully that on the way home Mary Elizabeth made {bold to eay that the young man had ked if he might call. ‘What young man?” her mother Palmer,” said Mary Elisabeth. _ “Oh,” said Mrs. Morley. “I thought he was & very nice young man, in- deed, 5o different from the kind of young man you meet nowadays.” “I never meet any young men,” Mary Elizabeth said. “I mean—well, I mean that country club crowd,” Mrs. Morley said. “But, mother,” Mary Elizabeth in- misted, “was it all right for me to tell him he could call?” “Why, yes” said Mrs. Morley. “I don’t see any reason why he shouldn’t.” Mary Elizabeth smiled happily. “Of course,” her mother added, "I'll have to speak to your father about it “Of course,” said Mary Elisabeth. “But mother—" “Yes,” said Mrs. Morley. “Couldn’t you explain to father that we met Mr. Palmer at the rectors and all?” “I certain}y shall,” said Mrs. Morley. +1 think it's about time you met some young men—the right sort of young men, of course.” That night Mary Elizabeth slipped out of her bedroom window and down the veranda pillar and out across the Parmenters’ yard. At the cormer she met Phillp Palmer. “So 'you came” he'sald, TILL YOU C { HOSTES! e 1 would like to amd for that m say a few dogs in order that not try and flim flam with the ideur that the police dogs when they w vou claim to have wds, in regards to police my readers may their friends ot have ¥ not h same. because once a police doz and they find out \iffer- ent, you Yook worse than as though vyou had of audmitted yourself sine police dog in the 1st. place. about same or else confess the and take the consequences W the outside. On the other hand, claim you have got a police dog and folks finds out i is just a mongerel and you might as well move right off of Long Island or whatever Island you been liveing on same. * % k% OW the way we judge people and { their dogs around here Is when they claim to have a police dog. why we ask them about pedigree of game and if they are a real police dog. why they can answer this way. ing the pedigree of Jerry as he is sired by Herr Hassenpfeffer of Ba- varia and his mother was a traffic po- lice dog in Leipsig. His great grand- father walked a beat in Munich and his uncle by marriage was a plain ‘Clothes’dog in Bingen on the Rhine.” Or else maybe they got a Belglum police dog: which is probably the next most doggie. Well, they can states, “Oh, this little fellow is the son of the Austrian ambassador’'s dog, and his mother had the bone eating privi- lege on the Nevski prospect in Buda Pest. He has certainly got red bo-iin the logna in his vain And you must also remember that you can’t show them no common pug dog or water spaniel but must come across with a dog which looks like a real police dog which I wished I Either have a police dog and brag | can't be no worse than ostracism at| “Well I am sure you ain't question- | “HE WOULD LAY IDLE AND LET YOU GO YOUR OWN WAlM: ME IN THE HOUSE AND SHOOK HANDS WITH MINE THEN HE WOULD BEGIN TO GNAW AT THE NEAREST LIMB. would lay idie and let you o vout own ways till you come in the house nd shok hands with mine hostess the Then he would begin to znaw nearest limb. 1t cert this little a person in sighhorly spirit anc when the family moved away. why we certainly hated to loose the dox fulls much as the proprictors. Another neighbor was not conten! with 1 genuine police dog but musi have 2. One was soon taken to the dog insane asylum for no reasor whatever only that he would not bite children. His brother, who was a scion of the royal shin-scratching house of Bay- ern-Belgravia and a full-bloodec brother of Pr Rupprecht, would not nip at nobody but children ang took ride Lad only killed three when the him out and give him a childl to the Canine Home for Whippoor. wills. Arrived there they boiled him ir Dboiling oil. Hot dog. That is what makes society gents i1 to have thuse kind of canines and | only wished 1 had one of my own tc brag about but they's a limit tc | everything even dogs and what 1 suy ix that if you can’t have a pedigrec police dog to brag about why snut up entirely and pretend like you are In- terested in your mice and roaches. RING W. LARDNE! Great Neck, Long Island, Nov. 24 e Probably the only woman who as a ship's captain is Mrs. T. Aitker Dick. She iz the owner of the Flam a vessel of ninety-two tons, engaget English lmmllln'z trade, anc ided that xhe will command i herseif. She started off on her firs voyage not long ago, leaving Londot for the Isle of Wight. She has a crew has deci of three, who answer her orders witl - a brisk “Aye, aye; m'm.” |