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0. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 192T. mistake is to remedy it. Tomorrow you will take Mr. Halstead's place as overseer of your department, and I want you to engage and dismiss help yourself, in accordance with their ability and interest in the work. Your lary will be what Mr. Halstead re- bout three If Rosa is compe 4 ck. Tom will be sent an order for hack pay through his ill- | when able to work shall | ge of the orchard gang. He | apable, I believe. . | v, do not feel under any ‘The thousands of would make that H. BARKES.” ND. 20000 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. sons who are heavier built. Now I'll anyway, sleep did not matter, for she e that none of the fires burn was not to work on the morrow. In the morning expenses would com- mence eating into the furniture and | dishes hoard. Toward midnight she opened tha | ldoor and went out. She loved the | sent to inquire after him once, and he | zrent orchard, and just now it w stopped Tom's pay the very day he very heautiful, with blossoms sending was hurt.” th rich f ance into the breeze. | never nge my mind in such mat- It's been a pretty heavy expense to | Joss night. She had not gone far when | ters, but you sh: the pay of " sympathized the foreman. the insidious stillness of the cold be- | the 12 men who shirked. | nes d shut eves and m: “He'd saved nearly enough to build! v.p to chill her and she lo wout,| He was reaching into his pocket most imperceptible motion to- |4 Jittlo house on the lot he bought,| cxpecting to see the sudden flaring up [ When she whirled on him, drawn to ward one here and one there and an-|and that’s gone, and he still owes the | ¢ the stoves, Then she remembered. | her full height and her eyes ng other yonder. He was w out | doctor some. I've been saving up to 5 his help and doing it impartially and | buy furniture and dishes, and this is dmperiously, as was his wont. The | my last d ¥ guess we're all in foreman walked by his side, noting. | the u've got six to look After the owner jumped into his au-| out for, sold the cow and| tomobile and shot away, the foreman ‘ calf she's earned. Oh-ho! went among the hands delivering the | there's any danger of a frost tonight?” | THE EVENING STORY Desertion of the Guard. HE owner walked swiftly among them, studying the and figures through s - 'ait a minute. Wherever the men are, none of them can come back to work. And you—oh, you are the girl issed ¥esterday. 1 suppose you this to get your job back and ‘be in hope of a reward. Well, 1 U. S. Government Releases WORLD WAR MOVIES Famous Battle Pictures made by U. S. Army Sigual Cogps now available for Home Movie Projection. Complate Five-Reel Picture and Five Kodak Cinegraphs oxs Todwy The guard had deserted. And it was | She had been rded as a quiet girl, growing colder. |of few words, but now the hing | dollars _you sn Clara had no thought for the owner, | denunciation poured from her lips in a | seem wholly triv bitiehe loven the Gechard. scornful, contemptuous stream. She fowatd ‘the Sahouss told him about Rosa, about Tom, about torches were | the arbit and foolish things he had (Coj pt | ) - (Copyright, 19 | f The owner had been out that cve. |done: that all his help detested him, sentences. Presently he approached | st the least. The thermometer light girl wh pasting label Tor the st rnometer | ning and he returned an hour after though most of them loved the or- w BO RD a slight girl who was pasting labels or the last two hours, ql I Q chard and their work. And he listened -| midnight complacent with a good din- . i - : on cans. She had been watching e fer and with much flattery for his | At fiTst, trving to speak, then silently . through the corners her eyes and 2 1 Also Fireproof Plasterboard wough the co . F eresiend R nd at last’with a curious ex wvihitened a little as he stopped by he She sped where the & right 95 Dbeen, risi In fact, I believe the orchard h General Pershing sys: “The War Picture, ‘America Goes Over,’ compiled by the Bastman Kodak Co. for ex-soldiers and veteran associations from official War De- partment film, is the best pictorial record of the war I have seen.” alley nto his fac | med to v = et ale | S now, vou poor, silly Taif | o the girl finally flashed <le mood, h o 2 Nodbi n't do this with a thought of | RS D T 10 WU yeward or of going back to work, but | out. and now it rapidly. Our low prices are for cash delivery only. He glanced toward the orchard. There | Locause 1 love the orchard and :»lgc(< were long lines of lights and others | 5 Sl 3 =il W. A, Egg..$14.40 W. A. Stove, $15.25 flaring up every fow i AT aR | e oG NEE aring up every few seconds, 4 N hirling the torch abor a fltoE I e L e Whirlinz_the torch about her head W. A, Nut...$14.65 W. A, Pea...$11.75 w ) ! vive the dying flame, she darted | There was much at stake and helphack among the trees, nof ready even | would walk through the orchard him- | yot Coke Fairmont Egg... $8.75 3 to desert her friends, ho\\n\'m" New River Egg..$10.90 much she despised their owner. The next day the foreman sought Also Buckwheat, soft coals, briquettes and he appeared in | Clara at her home. front of her, his face hard and stern. “Here's a letter Mr. Barkes told| kindling wood. All our coals are screened and “Where are the men?”" he demanded. [ me to bring you,” he said. “He's been | {ull weight guaranteed. “It does not matter,” she answered | making some changes. I'm to be the | shortly. “No harm’s been done. T've | hookkeeper now and shall like that job | B. J. | Main 8944 lighted all the stoves, and the frost|better. Tt will he quieter.” isn’t severe enough vet to do any real| Clara opened her letter. Tt read: | 923 New York Ave. NW. 1937 5th St. N.E. “And “ent, | | s not let the owner hear of | she said, anticipating hakinzz her head. Tt | Sy X i W old Hi 'ry last one of them his nt squinted his eyes at me. Wher s foolish to leave the orchard I 207" the period of frost danger t ot iny work out the day.” the blossoms.” “And mot come back? All right.| “No danger tonig Tt you know, lalstead, that foreman; “not in the 1 And so thought Cl to her home through the immen and knots | blossom-Taden apple orchard after her | heen sic v in my life and never | work was done. Ti - was almost | aet tired, and never shirk when vour | mild and the n clear and back is turned, like some do. And—calm. with myri n the sky, nnd T like the work I do. Tt ain't|which showed as ed beneath | Just the number of cents it brings in." | the trees Down each alternate row | - b ks ity | und, black objects that looked L O e oo io. T teiod |like beasts of prey in the semi-dark- e emmed ness of the underfolinge. But they were not. They were guards, more than a fhousand stoves, filled with ie petroleum covering 200 . promised fruit cide of the orchard and Is from the little house with her father was Here 12 men slept, | fully dressed, in bunks, during the 10| days or so of danger to the hlossoming | When the nights were cloud: | Ipss, still the cold sometimes dropped. dropped, -until it neared the danger point, Then it rang a bell in the wrdhouse, awakening the men, The rushed forth with lighted torches aced along the open stoves, touching each, until the great orchard ike a mighty army bivouacking 1 thousand camp fires. And just »n_as the petroleum flared up it | the temperature 5 or 6 degrees | half hour and_enveloped the d in a dense, black smoke like I go, too.” SR it in the w declared the A 4 when she we! DIDPINNECSCES to I'm small, ra was just riding from the last et lighted stove when Projection on the fa- mous Eastman 16m/m amateur film. What They Cost The entire picture (2000 feet of Eastman 16 m/m film, the equivalent in picture length of 5000 feet of standard film), taking 1 hour and 15 minutes to show, is now avail- able in a special de luxe edition for the low price of $150. For those who want only special sections of the picture, 5 Kodak Cinegraphs, costing $15 each (two hundred feet, which may be purchased separately) are available on the following subjects: “Chiteau-Thierry HE World War Movies are re- leased at last. Today from the confidential archives of the War Department come the pictures you have waited 10 years to see. 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