Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 70

THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY ¢4, 1925— PART 5. T H I ‘ / R A F I By Grace Sartwell Mason Revealing the Limitations That Are Set Upon Vengeance. T struck Do Will afterward as| competent. dictatorial, high and dry | Doctor Will van his hand up through | “This road don't—don’t lead any-|sh I worked my way down to| “What?" ~She did not understund odd that as he drove oul along en her chosen raft | hair with some perplexity, where - | Pittsburgh, and | never saw or heard | him. G It was not the legal side of the situ- “It leads to Toland Hollow. as you | of Ole sgain ‘The way 1 look at it, a person’s | | Spruce Hill road to ease th e war thinking of the day wher 3 L ol ! e g uibiane bt the) (g W “Phe FEIed e, lown s like a raft. We swim out of death t s of an unkn n lun half the town had gathered to see ation that troubled him; she had prob- | ve well know berjac ahould have been | the body of Mortle Greer, the last |4bly been divoroed from old Dabigran| At the top of the ridge he stopied nowhers :and make & pifice for- our. hinking about Rule Greer, the widow | Greer. come home from it erratic | before she married Mortie Greer. There | the car abruptly. The hotlow lay | RUBY wenl on with her atory, an | selves aboard it, but It's crowded Mortie wanderings. He had been klled in | were 10 heirs to the estate, and so far | spread out before them | obscure and checkered Odyssey, but :i;'fln;::f.‘eo:;r‘y: ;’fl"fin St o e another person off it ana | through It: A deathless and magnifi-| “You mean Martpa Jenning i | cent will-to-survive, «| He nodded. She told 1t as {f with relief. Dish- A rueful smile eame to her lips. washer, waitress, hat-girl in a road- | “I was feeling my oats” she ad- | | houke. clerk, manicurist, but always | mitted frankly. “And 1 hated ber |inching up with tooth and nail, a step | mother. I'm sorry I did {t—honest.” I He had caugh ler as he | a motor accident on his honeymoon. [as he could sec, Mort widow was Well, Ruby Toland, I've brought |giways with one thread gleaming rove past th Greer house. She | And also they wutched bis widow in | making better use of the money than | ¥ou home.” was directing old Petey Dolan fn the nourning so modish as to win their | Mortie had ever done. What perplexed | She turned, leaned forward veeding of u somewhat too brilliant | instant disapproval him was Ruby herself. She was on her | Stared ut the valley where she fAower | She wo bright stik Do rou think you womwld like to | good behavior now, she was trying | been born weater 1 wovemen(s w.re make vour home in Marysport? |bard—but no amount of trying could | « * % 3 ompetent « Fie war- | Halex Owen,the Greer's “lawyer, |obliterate those hard lines around lier | PUEN (o his actonishment a shud- a - «led waves of her hair shone metal. | asked ey mouth. that watchful expression of her er went through ber; she put her | pigher, keeping as near as possible to| “But there's no telling when you'll | lically in the sun. Her black eves, | I an to live here,” she said | black eves hands over ler face aind sobbed. The | gyqt would give her beauty—class, she | break another rule.” b juick. ewd and unreadable, glanced | briefly On the other huad. there was the sound went on increas'ng in violence |called ft. In @ h tel beauty parior—jt She sat looking intently down al here and (here Old Dr. Will. thinking of that ve- | curious fact that she was lfkable. | g if the floods of years v loose. "‘u probably in this period that Tully | the town. 3 Extraordinary wom Fiaanting, mark in the light of what he had | There was something pathetic In her | Her hand zroped for the ndle of ) o kl!\«)h—r by w‘!_fl“w 0 o i, Fragind Hed “the. iaiice: the vuigar, and as vital as a strong weed. | Iearned. could not restrain grunt nul lavish giving, her eagerness|the door. e opened it for her. d ber Hane and helhed (o stake | women hud. gut 've aivuve Seen | Dr. Will was thinking of the Greers. | of admiration e aundacity of the fead people, to give them & Boodiviniig that she wanted to got awny|hav to's shop of et dwh. Bhe savedylabie. to ilearn Maalok. 1€ thers was red, kept her eyes open. And after | anybody to tell me— pioneers in this valley, piling up & woman! And the cleverness, the | from him, «nd she stumbled sut. 11 ortune to be wasted by Morile, last | Sheer (vughness of fiber and tenacity | Doctor Wil glanced back 41008 | watched her go biindly toward the N h ; - ate et go 3 i 1# |4 while £ha had four assistants and was | He started the car with & jerk. He f the family: by him fo be handed | of purpose with which she had over- |the lonely woods road towrd Huckle- | woods at the slupe of the ridge above :'-:t;:vnv bl tollonsgeegindig s ok (e Do e A st b ek A in the shop. When she met Mortie | tired for any more responsibllities. what there was left of Ii, to a | come her handicap. perry Ridge. In that desolate vulley |the ho'low. When she thought her- Woman from nowhere. For she had come among them she had been born, of a clan paverty- sy hidden from b He made’ & e 3 y dd from she made u | (Gree e ca elf the widow ‘of| But on the river bridge he heard him- Dr. Will glanced down at Mary. | handicapped indeed; firet, "by Mortie |stricken, shiftiess, half degenerate | movement that was af onee o curse |© m:,‘,,'m’:'l: oo Shapiscstbres i S oS waking.: e Bepestaib. | sport The whimsical thought oc (! ,"ol\\ ne-er-do-well reputation; sec- | And ‘Allo ‘lldd fought ||»1-l \\;;\ A)Lll( ‘ E ssture of despair hen, os if | Sarn ber own HYiNy “Who gave your folks that new | ok ; ) rysport was a |ond, by that formless rumor tha metiow, by tooth and uail, throu aturé o A 8 . her own living. ! ave folks irred to him that Marvsport wa that formless rumor that had 1. th and 1 through | ik g3 o O e e arodts ae o o o R s o s i G i b B e O nded the ground | gr Mortie if he had lived. At first 1| I did.” replied Ruby listiessly . a cle ~d fiet, and he could | [yt meant to have a gocd time on|send things over from Hammonds. In what hunpryocean had she been | FOSter wak 4 travellng man. He| Ax e massed the Greer plece Relyoss (ne wound.iof her obs, GIMcUIt Luis wonsy. LIt mads me Iaush evArY|vott \Thay'rs s sBittiaes: no ace ol swimming? How had Mortie Greer|was in he habit of playing poker el Thac.atonparty wan il |and hoarse like a mun's | thme I thought of u Toland spending | lot. They never did anyt for me | ome to marry her What was her|in the back room of arley Hayes' | SWi BE 0N the verands A thongh After what seemed a painful age|s Greer's money But Mortie Was | but get me into the world, rast? For it was there in her face— | 4rug store. Tt was on one of those Be funny if I'd step up and sav:| 4 dowly back ¢, He satd ; ¢ v Ratpat P o : atong that had hourd of Mor Excuse me. an But thars's'a dean | ™ ame slow i o decent than yYou know. a “Then why do vou help them g & no bt in the | ¢ fots that ne had heard Mor- { 'Exc e putsia, are's a1 eatight as have out here. 1|y b ove: in. S old| e y doctor's mind that Ruby Greer hud a | tie Greer's marriage Lari-peeler up in Laurel Mountain light as well Nave it out her 1 begin all over again. So [ teld| “I dou't know,” said Rub) = X . 1 | 5 4 | guess vou hoid all the tricks. 1 suppose | him about Ole and how | was gure he| TN front of the. Greer house tatory. e would have thought so ou don a "o imed. | cn belongs to you. What do you A e | s h;','"mh,dlf.;,fl“:f:l‘h'p“w ,,‘,‘,T':, Sl e 0 ol e T e S TEn i s e this will be all over town tomorTow ™" | way dead. But he said | must get a | doctor. alighted and with some 'er new home by a rumor that was harley Hayes told him \hat all Then he saw again the poverty- “_’l“;'l "”*“;""m";k"mfl n .],"]" :n:. I"“v; <:h u-‘:‘, “.:;\1 'du:‘ .\xlg-‘ln\‘w‘n‘n': ‘Vh':;:‘-‘ I;v‘w‘ sfh\.— -Tl‘mnu n.”"mv\ Rubd\'gwn k ¢ -powe 8 rey o o iage was a | Stricken room in Toland Hallow with [ ¥edding certificate by ors | e ATy Eny it iide | Q5 U OAT. Place was digni- 5 . oisonous. y i b b paper to | the y 4 dend ™" women sitting on the verandas se “T've got so 1 like it. I like to e rounde . hat tasn Mard effec hat Mortisier Greer had | corner and ce softened | i e to : e ¢ - the CamD e m Hhe T e0re | en’ marriod 1o a sen R D N, hor best wait o while and see |, 71 burted him.” she said indifferently. |ing I thought Mortie would like it It | take care of It A RUGGED, DEFIANT. BAREFOOT GIRL TRAMPING ALONG IN he ¢ ie saw the boss waiting for n married Mrs. Ruby = N0, N0y _ s “Or 1 sent money to my folks to do it. | { cleaned up the old place. And 1 re- Buby's voice was low. She looker THE DUST. 1 en, widow of a prominent lumber- | BOW she behaves,” he decided ‘Or 1 She looked 3 TR yo% ot ek, B 1:;-’;" 1doyaf & Drotiinant Iumber- | RO &he bolaves ! lie dediang “jugt | That's more than the dirts hound would | membered how I'd suld berrics to some (at him, trying to read his face, with | —— A IR o el S Bannon. Wil But for Tully Foster (his appearsd | When and how the Toland inher Nave done for me. They gave him & |of those women when | was a kid,|an anxiety that made her haggard. I was going to do that, auyway,”! “This is toe much for me—I'm not Dt Wil tan | the. ok Bekide: Alie] to) be mots (han enolkh and what she has been—will Lregk |800d funeral, too ; | 4nd I thiought how funny it would be 1 suppose I ean move on,” she sald gpe breathed eagerly God bunkhouse. He stepped quickly down “What name did you say” he | Out “When you murried Mortie, did vou | to come back and make ‘era all come | at last. her shoulders drooping |® “aAnd then you— Then he acrer [omenped quiekiyidonn IS ’ . 4l know that Olc was alive™ running. Most of the time, though,| “Look here" he blurted Aneily and| void pien you SR ARG DI e, el bunls [[BEIEC “No: 1 thought was dead,” she | [ meant well. 1 like to fesd people | rather desperate you go ov nd | e e : v & man with bloc e Mre. Ruby Dahlgren, widow of s thoughit 3 3 0 over and his old sge? He ought to sas Plant those on south side .‘-,[\.,”;,.' s 1; blood-stain band .,.‘,n" r‘“} ‘1.(.Fx-l-;:fi : Lot £ia H thought he was prepared for|gaig, and there was a simplicity in her | und give 'em a good time apologize to Martha Jennings—make | “And then you get out of town vour heuse. and Yool hive the hes A e e IIEREY, el g z BRow iher anything, but he was as aston-(tone that made him believe her “But vou pushed another woman off | her come buck into the club. Youwll| But instead he muttered in his|tulips you ever saw next Spring e s T Benog oty Toater Deaneatve ished a« every one clse when Ruby |saw him drown—or I thought I did. do that?" Viearar il Seu M‘:vlv‘-:.m‘ i e e ry Sl n hi% | fnally made her unbelievable break.|and another Swede got into an awful ankets. The doctor, reaching for . | hair, while his jovial stomach $hook. | fatisg Hern | i o a5 E sy e the man‘s name flis laughtar rose, ribald, mysterions, | 1L 12d been out with a gun and his|Aght. 1 was 16 vears old and called him Ol." H full of a rich wonder at the capacity setter dog all one golden Autumn |r'd been married three months. | was | replied. “Came into camp of human beings to fool one another. |y, stor | - 5 D | » cam W . % ound a note from young Docter |me up. Two of my fingers was tied up | No good—a lazy blow-hard AMrs. Ruby Dahlgren. widow of a | willie, asking him to follow him to|in a rag where he'd bit me.” » "“\”\ a scrap. Wait a minute—he's | Prominent—pr, |‘f“" the Jennnigses. The old docotr was “Do you know why | had it In for %ot & bag under the bu wi ome across, Tully." they be-|jugt hastening out when Doctor | those Jenningses® she demanded un- 1is Bannon was fe he | scnght him. ‘What do you know?’ | \villie came in AWell, 1) tell 3 When afternon. When he reached home he |black and blue all over where he'd beat bag. “A weddin' certificate: Tully Foster sobered. Perhaps a exXpestadly late, dad, but iUs all right.|T wasa kid 1 used to walk to Marysport They smoothed it out—, notice to | Delated sense of fair play stirred in | { py I was & kid 1 used o 1 iped her out At terricnet os—baretoot. 1 the world that 15 years before—Ole | him I don't know a thing. he | Lwhos | to sell berries—5 miles—baref Dahigren had bee e 5 Shid Ak it : » was the only one in the hollow that had - 7e B s 7. Danigren had beon marcied o’ Ruby | swid. “A man makes u Mot lot of mis-| “Martha Jennings. She tried to| han e ohy,ons It the Betlow that b Nina Wilcox Putnam Describes Some Neighborhood Calls. Toland of Toland Hotlow. - % | cdge, Charteyr - Cf (°4TS: YOUT [kill Rerself this afternoon T went &round to the Jenningses’ house of Toland Hollow edge, Charle ) “Why 7 with a pall of berries. Their hired girl Dr. Will took the pape But his laughter had been sufficient Because Mrs. Ruby Greer said she | o iin Dol Of b err e heres one S LUTHER BURBANK. tha fel- Bl picture sharpened to tickle the suspicions of every man | isn't respectable.” St it fro Isian® TS S ler which 1 understand has berri And T heard Mrs. Jennings the finest graft in the world, came out of the foz of half u the room. Vague rumors aboui | “Sajd Martha isn't respectable? gotlen things: & vagged, barefooted | the new and unseen Mr: ireer be- | But a girl doesn't t to kill herself uid . h anvthing so truly says, You ecan't Birl with noticeably sharp black |Zan to float about. They were at |because some one sars aheo - ay e b e GEORE A sturdy joak wiih = eves. a deflant and sullen girl, tramp- | first formless and without detail. But [ “An, but vou see. dad, there was | hose dirty (‘““".'.[',” aver known 1| clinging vine and not expect to raise ing along in the dust toward Marys- wasn't long before they had erys- fmore o it than that. It seems | RUbY paused Cf had uever kaown o g o8 cison ivy port with two pails of wild strawe *d into a general conviction that | Martha was dropped fromn the bridge | W48 dirty unth then. 1 e & S0 #\;. come into my mind the otl erries for sale. Ruby Toland- wild Mortle Greer had mar- |club when Mrs. Greer became presi- | SnouSh after that ' she aidec GEWHS. |, Chen George, that's my husband Ruby Dahlgre a “fast” woman. |dent and began to run things—at fo-shan O he hol. | stayed home from business with a Something e In - least, #o 1 gathered from Martha's |10 M¥self that I'd get out of the hol- | SENFCC, J ind. “Ruby Dahlgre mother—so Martha said that if her|low—1l'd show the people ' FaFSE | 6 o e 1 had seen it coming on prominent. Tumberman ¥ came to Marysport, some six | friends deserted her she wanted to|POrt some time what a dirty TOlnd| T U TS0y [ Wantad he should put was the name and the phras months or so after her appear- (die. There happened to be a lttle| ¢ £ Ola—to get | 0lf sock around his neck. But he ad mad lly Foster laug ance at Mortie's funeral. ~If she was | laudanum in the house, so she drank | “THAUS why ou married Ole—to et | E0lf sock around his neck. But he irodigiously when he heard Moriie |puzzled or hurt by the standoftish at- | it out of the hollow 3 tireer's bride described titude of her new neighbors, she did hot | The old doctor looked wild with be- WAR the Guly way . how it. She began making over the ent. “But how could any-|In Marysport thev wouldn't even have ld Greer place. Tt was rumored that|body ssy that Martha Jennings isn't | @ hired girl that was a Toland. It was | ‘00 Shpt w80 R o o e THE road to Toland Hollow clinibed Greer's colored cook was & regu- | respectable? Why, if anything, she's|® bad way out. though Ol was FafUn | oy iy friendly advice, and any wife over the backbone of a hill. Then chief: that there were a hundred |too 2 logs down the river aid @ hed for the | Will at once recognize what I mean naw p d then a coupla days later he and sentimental in|bulbs from hi “I was about I could get out. | When T so much as dared to mentior {1t and says aw leave me alone, can'tcha, I'm all right, in that typi- fell downward toward a long. deso- |dollars’ worth of the newest phono-| “Oh., some one’s dug up that time|All day 1 cooked A late valley, Toland Hollow. A ¢luster |Eraph records in the cabinet: that the |she fell in love. with the sewing. |men on the rafts, and at night Ols heat well T don’t feel so g0od, I be- of deserted frame houses near what |New veranda had a fine floor for danc- | machine man who turned out to have |me for amusement. That's “-;“('{"’flr lev wan't, o' to the Ufios todey had once been a smal sawmill added |ing 2 wife jn an asylum. Anyhow, the | got to fighting about—him and the 2 "'l I'll call them up and tell 'em 1 ajn't o the melancholy of the sceme, but| Mrs. Greer did not seem to mind that [ Greer woman seems to have it in for |Swede. They was both half soused. 1| .- n front of one of these houses chick- |10 one called on her except Mrs. Haley | Martha. She had laid down the man. |saw ‘em roll off the raft. The river was | %00 0 jear vou stay right ns and dogs were in the dooryard. |Owen and the minister and Allie [date that no one ought to Le in the [ high. I watched "em go down un.mvga",wh'". o ere TiT call the ‘omée An ungainly man, barefooted and (Potter, who was so good-naturedly un-|bridge club who has been talked|the loose logs and trash, and after a | (M0 Llr (050 W e 1am par- ilthy, came to the door. This was |Seiective that she didn't® count. She about, Can vou beat it? long time, when only one of 'em ‘olm'e"""”" ety e samuel Toland. Behind him a gaunt |learned to drive Mortie's large touring| “I can not.” admitted his father | up—and that wasn't Ole—I took Ole's | SO0 Bl (0, (090 B GO0, Jot voman peered |car. She began to take out for airings | weakly money and 1 lit_across the boom to ({ WOI'e be walied on. So 1 called up Dr. Will looked from one suspicious | Allie Potter and one or two old ladies Dr. Will drove across the street - o 32 | George had a slight cold and would ! face to the other. who were Allie’s protegees. It was the | to the Greer place, walked up to the . o PP PTIC) | be in tomorrow. You had a daught L |old ladier who first spoke of her as|porch and spoke, somewhat cere- Animal Curiosities. At CHER 1) SASA oW SISt e NEs 3 he plunged in “xwho | “real goodhearted.” moniously ANGULFED in the mud and slime|have you any temperature dear, and m ed a man na d ( gren?" | Then one day, when ¢ had ved Mrs. eer. | should be pieased h'“” the flats southwest of Phila- | he M‘_"‘. aw leave me alone, can‘tcha They looked at each other out of |in Marysport a few months, the town | ma'am, if you will ta a short drive delphia. .\\Hh the tide coming in, a|all [T want is to be let alone, I'm & © corners of their eyes was startied to observe Mrs. Charley | with me. “There's something I'd like [§5R" % Tt LA o S0in g rad a | sick man. So I took his temperature iy Why do you want to know de- |Hayes advancing to Ruby Greer's front |to discuss with you.” thrilling race with death until it was|and he had 1s of a degree with 3315 i Wi oia dogr [, ;The doctor:did not spesl: until'they | it v ulled m its perilous pos| off for temper. “Because Ole Dahlgren died today| Mrs. Ha reminded her friends|had reached the river bridge and "“’"’,“‘w"l’;“mt e | P s Tiar ot Huni seared woihe it I['L in Laurel Mountain camp. afterward that her husband and Mortie | climbing up toward the Laurel (08 ¥ SOUGE TR R B0 ino T pre- | on his old bathrobe. in which he al- | i Samuel spat at a hen er had been school fricnds. There | Mountuin road. Then he sald. “This | (ERCE TOF CA0 SR & | wava rowmindsine of's shelk he tosks | = b e should Judge yon right. Urat would have ssriousls o | Ruby. Grcer's eyes distended. Not |{Sligent understanding of wnat we|lemme ase your theoat dear, and he |~ ~———— L : I8 TEMPER T thought I'd let you know so |barrassed Charley had Le been pressed | she exclaimed. hoarseness in Jrorg tIyIng 0 3 elieve i could notify your daughter. Is|just then to meet it suave voice. she with you?” Lucy Hayes had no: asked Ruby to Yes: she said that if her friends sy 2 you me, if 1 got to have a [fair, only for my back, and 1 got|and the doctor thinks she would lance man. “When we began toldon't need anvbody annoying my |sick husband around the house I will | kinda & poor digestion jatels better off at home. Well, T says « work it stopped struggling and kept | thioal. = And so 1 got a spoon and|say. with due respect, it's a ot easier | And she says you ought to be fare- |course if she Is going to be off Sony it to h it { looked at it and it was a e red, re in e of com o d a aunt out West all, there is no sense in having her o, iahe. ain'te Ak oid" woman e se. but before the end of her | deserted her, she had nothing to live | Perfectly still as it to help us all 1t 1 i00ker B o A e ame. 1o hia| 'f thmy are in a state of coma e B i e R G b e q e oried with sudden vehemence. “We |call she had found herself involved in|for. | understand that you had her | S04 L | folks about, yet s i bbbl Ll ","‘i RO St S SIS ORI SR ain‘t seen her since she got mar s promise fo let Ruby drive her to!put out of the bridge ciub. Two big bull moose held up & rall- | So I fixed up some extra pillows | PZELL answays. around 5 o'clock | how you feel T cani eat ansthion < and went away. Have we, Sam? Hammondsport next day. So she asked| Ruby lifted her chin with an ef- | road train near Unionville, Me. The |around him on the sofa and says how Vhat ‘sifferncon when T was sure||mveeit for Siiner. aly & Hitle tote| ASD b5 this Gme I sten wiie uby's father shook his hea | Ada Biggers to go with them {fort. “Well. what if I did? That gnimals refused to be moved off the | ubout a hot water bottle dear? And |there wasn't gonner be ansthing |med Ach and cotoce min e soup | Al o NAlE I had t both faces thers was a flxed look of | Ada Biggera found Ruby smusing. She |has happened to other people before, | irack hy ihe persistent blowing of |ne savs I don't want the dam thing. |about George to encourage the uns | nagion and entree with maybe fried | £L was pretty late, and I had bet secrecy. The doctor looked about |brought the two Connant girls, dying |and they didn't commit sulcide. the whistie ;and the thunder of the |so Bgot him cne. and he says I guess [dertaker. 1 got on my new hat. | ihing | eat thkes awas e sppetiie, | oeaSoing back and see after Go the room. He saw with surprise that|of ennul, to call. Ruby, discover “But Martha Jennings is a pecul approaching” train. facing the loco- | {am dying. [ feel pretty had Jennie | which none of the girls hadn't seen | ghe savs . And that aint the worst, | ey "hat he was up to. So T savs the place showed signs of recent pros- | that the oldest Connant girl expected Iy sensitive. rather morbld old maid. | motive unfiinchingly. As it became! So I ssya well. T know perfectly | vet, and my coat. and T give George a | sne cave: 1 ent LTatqiint, the worst.|well, fo long dear. T motta fly, 1o perity: there was a brass bed in one (e young man from the city for Satur. | She has very little to live for: they | upparent that the moose would nat|well you abyt got a thing in the|piece of what was left of my mind. | the natorey troooiac,of falling |hope vour clothes will be better soon orner. its twinkling newness an |day and Sunday and was at her wits' |are poor: her only love affair was|pudge, the train was stopped. After|world but a grippy cold, the gutters| Now George Jules, I savs, T am | « & SUSISL {iake cars of onishing contrast to the dirt andfend to know what to do with him, | unfortunate. and to her the bridge |gn interval the train again started [ix full of them now-a-days, and if|going out and make a few calls account of it dedy, s B NGE 1 fisorder of the room. to the dis- |offered © veranda. her phonograph, | club meant that her friends stood by |gnd the animals grudgingly gave|it was junior | wouldn't even worry (around the neighborhood just like 1| i : = ” et and thin & N;k’ 2 bon ATOLEAt Boirds [of e Meatie: ia. iew i ter i £o And the Connant girl, in | her.” way to the extent of moving off the lover if, but I wiil send for the doc-|had planned to, and you will be all | APd I says well my dear. if you | chat and then 1 walked be aroot terned in huze roses. was|her gratitude, accepted the little dance The doctor turned off the main r0ad | {rack. but they eonsiderad the hotors | tor if § A eorge at once | right until 1 come back: So vou | UKe ether, when vou do it ‘be very Ingto n‘[‘i SO ree the : furthermore, there was on Saturday and furnished the gue into the narrower one that led past |of the encounter theirs, for they|ravs do dare to do no such |stop that dying swan stuft and rgad | C8reful @ lot of people get so with|what womn i AN phonograph After that Ruby Greer was high and | Hucklcherry Ridge to the lumber | hased the train for some distance. |thing. 1 won't have any doctor around |a book or something St yihe aaiat Stk & it 1eavelic) H N SHAUIE AN 2 Sulfer Just throngl Some one was supplying the old|dry on the raft. Her house was always|camp. Almost the moment he turned me. he savs, I can die just as good | My Heavenly auni® 1 says, the | 210 She SEye iy O e s T arameny And folks with a few of the modern com- |open, her laugh always ready. Wom- | Ruby started. She looked abotut h It is & long trek from Reading. Vt.|without him w8y you wen Metforer a mere-ngen. | €8 WA Hors lafl; and ishe claling alis | ) RESIIGH 10 that T Dadas o iibac forts. But how did she—if it was|en calling on her out of curiosity came ckly. “Wait! You can't go this |to the Chicopee lockup. but one lone| Well. I Jeft Geo. have his own way|ing makes me tired. I says. Just|fetls a good deal younger now, al-|and wait on a sick husband: = Ruby W did she keep them in|again because they had found there v ehe exclaimed “The road is|hound mede the distance of more|anout that on account | knew per-|look at we ladles, shat e endure | (HOUED of course ac her age she suf- [ Well @ sick man is a terrible thing and. keep them from descending |was langhter there—life seemed jollier, | terriblr—you can'te—— than 130 miles. With his ribs stand- | fectly well thers was no veed wy|uncomplaining I says. Why if we |fered- horeibly at the time. There o have around the house, and ju pon her in Marysport—to give away more expansive, more lavish “I know this road as weil as you |ing out In strong reiief and mud-be- | rending for any M. D. not over | had the worst disease in the world, [ Va8 & while the barber thought she |10 prove how troublesome and co er secret? He made a shrewd guess| Was there sickness in the neighbor- o 5 d. spattered, he whined at the entrance [simple little cold lile that we wouldn't mention it. 1 says, we | ¥a8 never gonmer live through it.|Hary o o asome hat she had been able to Impress|hood, Ruby appeared with delicacies . well—" she laughed uneasily, | to the office of Capt. Connor. On his| But Hot Bozo! While he wouldn't |suffer in silence and drag ourselfs|And I says how terrible i S ipon them the necessity of silence if |she sheltered and fed the entire Dolan s is your party.” collar was the address of A. Allen of [have no doctors, he certainly took it {around without a complaint! You | Well. Miss Demeanor give a sigh |41 SWoking & Big cigar. = = they dld mot want to kill the goose |family when thelr house bured down:| When he turned into the rutted |Reading, Vt. and the captain notified lout on me. 1le had a pain hwre, and [ouzht to be wshamed, carry’ug on (and 1 give one Lo, there Is nothing |, Te¥ Jennie lets get a bite and go jest 1nid {hose gol@en caye [she gave her lawn to the Red Cross |road that led over the ridge to Toland | by telephone the police of that place |a ache thers, and nothing was com- |Iike you have all day. over nothing. | Stingy about me. and then she says 10 the Blctures he saye 1 feel a iv Suddenly he seemed to see against |festival; her energy went far to make a | Hollow, she half started up from her | that they had a visitor who would be | foriable. If 1 was waiting on him. [A woman wouldn't dream, even of |in’t it awful what we women I Bad. oAl iy Readoohe ot ”".T,.,. 4 this background Mrs. Mortie Greer in |lively success out of the firemen’s an- | seat and grasped the wheel. “Where | very glad to get home if some one |l was bothering him, and if 1 left [ doing so. hat is our natures—uwe | o go through, and I says ves indeed. | i SET S EQ0ACHE mm" lonin Ber silk sweater and diamond rings— |nual carnival {are vou going?" she cried sharply me after him him alone, 1 was neglectng him.|got endurance. Now you shut up |but nature made us that way. to| (G ¥OR 1 3ou would only leare ine complaining over imaginary pains. |stand a lot. And she says yes, think ($107€ 1 would be all right Lu while 1 go out and get a little change |of how we do so. fu department | SUI% Was Sl i for a_ hour. ores, for example! IR0 SEam Lo xaps. L ) . 1 never heard anything like the was And George didn't say othing ex- | Well, I thought now is the time|men complain when the least thine cept leave me alone, ean'teha” for mq to go while I am still thor-|ails them: You never Hemrd o Wel he first place 1 stopped was | gughly enjoving nryself. So I says|wome taking illness like you me over to the Joe Bushes. and Mrs. | gy dear I have had a perfectly fove- | dot | Bush was in, and she saye well dear. | B’ (ime, but T must run along now, | el ‘no, T never &id. savs G how are you, and 1 says oh pr ty¥ fand T do hope vou will be feeling |women talk about it, whet they Eood, only for my back, that ain't|petter soon, it has been just delight- |are sick or not. And all of o sudder '"\;drle',::P vet, lw“”u-; ]\w\g 2 | Jul 10 get this chance to know You{[ got what hé meant. T begun fo ‘l‘\ oo Says, we' o ""”‘ I‘””“ | better and talk about such Joter- |realize what I had been chatting ““ 8 Jbeen aillng me iately. 1 get | catink things! And she saye, it “Cer- |about all afternoon them same old dizzy spells like T|iainly has been a pleasure to me, too. = used to with my cld trouble. and | pen 1 marry the doctor. T hope| BUYt T e e ¥ Lute. 2l . never are for that kinda enlighten- t do you think. Joe's mother b we are going to see g great deal of g Dl Tieuns it Sern hes e ment. The tool box was handy, and migerable i it Weil. 1-had only one place left to|fOF A& minute T felt like giving hi And T says. we'l I had a frien: by ‘then which was over to Ars.|JomeihinE to send for the doctor e L i 5 3 about ."{ .|v the rheumatism with hard ofnah’s, F:Fhl down the street. But T didn't boiled. eggs. she used to put the | \nqd 1 knew¥she must be home on 3 | szg on tu boil and then get righl | gccount T seen the doctor’s car drive i ethem. And Mrs Buah says away from there just as [ come up. e g 1 that would help my| But it wasn't Mrs. Goefnah which 1 pells any, and 1 save T be-|aq sick. it was her maiden aunt | y 192 lieve if you staved under the water i {Copsright, 1924.) 'ong enough it would. And she say 'y Mrs. Goofnah come to ‘the doot well Tbelieve I will try it, sometimes | 1eTSelf. and she savs well my dear. T get mo Girey T have e mometm e | how ate you? And I says, oh, my % bopalin it United States. set mygelf onto the other side of the [back s pretty bads amd. gy keee! @ .o L0 . “oom in order to be thers when 1| @' All weil’ yei, and I certainly | ("OUNT ZEPPELLY, German inventor A | have been having awful indigestion and builder of dirigibles such as And 1 says, well that's really noth. | 1atoly, Now are you dear? | the ZR-3, made his firat ascension In ng to the way my back feels. And| Andeshs saya oh I am perfectly|this'country, during the Civil War. she =ays you oughter try bird seed | wretched, Iam all wore out. I haven't | He was an officer in the Union Army for (hat, T had a cousin with a weak |« thing left fit to wear. But Aunt|at the time, but never became a citi- head, and after she used bird seed | Annle is in terrible shape, the doc- | #en. He returned to Germany in 1886 their canary used to sing twict as|{or has just been here. And I says| g strong. And I says why maybe 1|why s that so, what scems to be the | will. but T got to run along now, matter with her? : Gas Tank as Garage. s00d-bye, such a pleasant little visit| And Mrs. Goofnah says In a low, | e : car, ii's cheered me up 2 1ot to have | confidential tone, well you know wmy | QURROUNDED by an old brick wall is bright little chat with vou. {dear, she is a pretty old lady, and | an old gas holder in Berlin, Ger- it She dom't. hear very well, and ajl she | many, has been converted into & ten- does is talk to the servants when | story garage, all the floors being WWELL. (he next place T hadda zo|I'm out, and read our letters—you reached by a spiral roadway encir- was up to that boitle blonde's, | know how some old folks are’ But | cling it. Miss Demeanor, the one that's en- |l invited her to stay {wo weeks and | gaged to Dr. Salary. | qidn't know [she's been here two months, and I her 8o very well, @ had only met her |don't want to be over alarmed about Lits ot Hkser: 4 few times, but 1 had becn meaning |her condition. but the truth is, I'm 1o call with the accent on the mean |afraid she's worn her welcome en- Alf-l\' cavalry horses have for quite some time. tirely out. average age of 151z vears, ac- Well, when T got there, she sure| No! 1 says. how awful! Do you ! cording to Maj. Gen. W. A. Holbrook was glad to see me, and she says at |think it can be revived in any ways? | Chief of Cavalry, and many of the once, why Mrs. Jules, come right in [And Mrs. Goofnah shook her head | horses in service with erack contin- by the. fire, you look kinda tired,|real sgorrowful and she says no, I'm |gents are now old.enough to vote, ow are 7eu? And I says oh I am ldiful afraid nothing can revive it,land older. yourself, now! haf tg have my hair ampuiated on 1 she savs do run in again wasn't grateful. Ladies There was a shell over the kitchen table needed fixing [so I merely done like the blind car |penter—F picked up a hammer and | s . =