The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1914, Page 15

MISS A Story of Love, Law -By EL Maragersoareena tt ment of the her father, at ie town, devription of searely t ait he ober, and er arity pigiok at arrests him, te SSimpetiots aient, eliering them eccuan: 9 ie places them also under arrest, Thea Takes them get dinser under her directions, d Ww pistol waving, Afterwanl she shute fs bedroom and fails asleep, in her chair ing, then, Whee avakes in the morn. finda them oo the front poreh waiting for During breaxfast a cla in het ¢ art, canses her tn rash out and ele re tatas to find her prisoners gone. CHAPTER VII. The Vigilantes Return. (Continued,) HE went about in a lone- ~~ gome way, putting fresh Minen on the beds, making . ready for the detentionof the real culprit when he should arrive, and replenishing her pantry with © good baking. The sun. was low in the west when he heard weary, shuffling footsteps om the walk and the voices of the re- tutming posse. Her shears clinked loudly as she sprang to her feet dnd luiiged out to the gate?in a jolting, sideWwise trot. Wealthy was running. ‘They wero all there, the old com- fades of the ‘73d, dusty and bending under the heavy burden of their accoutrements, Her father was leading, his brave, white head erect, blue eyes dancing with joy in his homecomin; “Well, we @ad a fine trip, daugh- ter! It was like old times. We set § round the camp-fire Jast night and A told-stories of '62, and it was a real pleasure. Tho woods is jest full of Niguirrels and chipmunks—they sassed everything—and rabbits and I haven't saw the like of birds in years. I'm glad 1 never let tem be disturbed.” Bur you didn’t find no robt cpminented Wealthy, in a tone of di sbpointment. “Never a one. It come to me after- ward that, ridin’ on one of them bicy- cl, he would naturally go down ound by Foketown through the cove ruther than try to come over the His, We marched as far as Turn- bull's Crossroads—that’s over five miles--but if he come that way he didn’t come ‘long the roa : aaa had too much plunder to weave round Seca the brush. No, we didn’t get him," ‘The Sheriff was so tired and foot- sore that he went to bed at sunset. Moses had strolled down to see the evening bout come in before he Rave himself up to judgment. Wealthy washed her supper dishes and laid Moses's food on the table for his re- turn and betook herself to her solitary porch. She had even tied t at in the front yard for company Moses decided that it was time to-come home ‘and rambled slowly up from the land: ing in the dusk. Hoe had just reached the gate and prostrated himself across the walk to enter with his customary precaution, when the swift batting of & motorcycle smote the silent air and the machine spua round the curve and up the walk. It struck Moses, lying prone, there was « sudden con- cussion, @ shrill, piercing scream; the machine and its rider flew up in the air and came down on the hard pike with a ringing crash. Wealthy wait- td a moment to hear some sound, but there was only tragic silence; Bo sho ponderously out, stumbling joses in the gateway. oNRow. what new devilment you-all tga. up to this time, Moses she her balance. orn, renmesne nothin’. I dea 1 in’ fiat so 1 kin ome kind o' steam nd runned over \d, Miss Welty, peck, but Ise is. You git up now ne 1 me seo what's happened she he her way out through the PL. Tage in dim outline the fis- t, lying as though dead, She pealade yp ras and took the hea int ered er arms, @ young head cov r ice soft light hair, He was not even breathing at first, but eo lay deep breast a gasp against ee warm Gon? en fanothe did not awene to foe She held him close palettes, all the stifled mother- or sure PUT! grom’ the temple, the peculiar warmth of blood spread over er hand. ii "dhe called sharply, dg up Monem” You ain't hurt one bi ‘Come ‘and help me carry this wxn Into the house, You've nigh Mout Killed him, crawlin’ in when you hadn't no business to be out And the goat tied, anyway: ae Moses came and between them thes carried the limp body into the small Gownetairs bedroom and Iaid it on the bed, where Wealthy rendered firs id in primitive but effective fashion ‘Afterward she helped Moses carey the wreck of the machine to a i oodshed, ‘The little satchel whic Tung from the saddie she threw upon the shelf and hurried back to her fe a Ne wan breathing now, regularly put laboricusly, still uncons Wealthy looked at him in Jealone alarm. In her inmost heart she did not believe that the new doctor cout 4o anything for the youth that she could not do herself, and having lost her prisoners, sho ¢ the in- jured man for her ve With a sigh of pure the white face aguin with cold water, the bandages of camphor and pounded mullein upon the swol- Jen bruises and stretched him out comfortably. Wealthy was consid- ered equal to the doctor by most even superior to the who had come to take 8D had xperience, She stood ready a \, pt of the day or nifht to g whero she wasn J, ind went with ya chedrfulness that but faintly Indi- cated her enjoyment of the distine- ton. She took charge of the house- hold as well as the patient, and, if he iy ‘3 in ber full glory, If the Pate “ah i needless one, if the Iliness t and the sufferer recovered YA full beng#t of her WEALTHY | —DEPUTY SHERIFF— SWEALTAY i j care, in her own house, a stranger, haa Indeed recompense for yeara of wait- for the boy might have combustion te brain, like the painter that fell oft I roe and a Kitchen Stove NEFF gratuitous care and advice, ahe went home with an injured alr and never quite forgave the offender, But to have a charge thus thrown under h unconscious—this was fortul levable. To put him into sh unbe- or own take out her long unused lotions, herbs, and apply them at her own discretion, this was ing. She wondered, shading the Itght from his face, if his mother would not be about her own age. Sho thought of her jealously, with envy. Poor Wealthy had never even bad the luxury of sorrow. She tended him in a passion of devotion, keeping the blinds down that no curious neighbor might be tempted in to as- sist. She heard her father comiug downstairs and went out to meet him and head him off. But he came through and saw the light in tho bedroom, “Why, honey, who you got there?” he asked, peering tn. “A pore feller that got throwed out in front of the house. He don’t know nothing yet, but bis skull ain't cracked. I made sure of that.” “What beca: of the ho “It wasn't a horse. tated but went on casually—"it was Jest one of them big bicycles that makes such a noise.” “It was! Why, Wealthy, what sort of clothes did he have on?” She pushed him back as he crowded the door, “Now pa, that pore boy is p'int of death, and I won't e talkin’ round here. I throwed hia clothes in a heap—they was covered with dust—and it looked t6 me like they was biack or bro: What did you come down for, pa “IL wanted to git some liniment for my feet. They're so sore I can't sleep. Don't you want me to go.for the dogtor?" “No, ‘pa, I don't ‘low T need that young doctor, He's #o fuli of non- sense that he'd not git down to real doctorin’ fore the feller got well any~ wa You-all go on to bed, pa, and r you. There'll be things to do in the mornin’. I've had a wonderful lively times since you-all went away, anyhow. There was three fellers here, two of ‘em in blue sults, and they up and owned to it that they robbed the bank. And they left ten dollars go's L wouldn't tell on ‘em, ¥ reckon, L don't know what else it was for.” “And,you never said a word. Well, ea i ote as On ag md eR pet eas ore The Evening World Daily Mag¥sine: Wednesday. September 23. 1914 EIN, ZWEI, DREI! oP TROOORO REDD) op tata eating, & By Robert Minor) Senco his Book on the Stands Will Cost » wWoodshed and climbed on a chair to inspect the shelf for the twenties time. ‘The disappearance of the litte satchel was something she could not account for, No thief had ever yet disturbed her premises, What magic had spirited away that Important ai - ticle? When tho invaild recovered con- Jousness there Was a fresh strugs won't hurt him none, Weaith: Jest to take Keer of lim once in a while to rest you. You'll get wore out i then what will he do?” ‘Time enough when | do,” she sald grimly, “And you keep out ull Tf leave you go in.” Tue patient was recovering fast. His apnetite was a delight to his nurse, and her exquisite cookery did him no harm. Within a week he had per- suaded the doctor to say that he might wit up on the following morning, Wealthy twisted about uncomfortably at this announcement, and when they were alone ahe remarked “I don't know what, you're gotn’ to do ‘bout clothes. Yours was tore up something terrible. “They must h been, but they could be sent away”—he lifted himaecit on his elbow—"away to a tailor and fixed up jough to Wear until I get to nk.’ they couldn't; oh, my, no! You never saw the lk They wont hardly make carpet rags, I don't know Y I've got some of ‘em cut protested Wealthy meo- ac! “Did anybody pick up my sgtehel? T had some things in that. Do you know what became of it?" don't kon do," cont Wealthy truthfully. and you was #0 t oa now ponitive that 1 laid Mt ot. the . : shelf in the shed—and it jest ain eNO: 560 - - —— there.” 2 . meetin E , “Not stolen!" ct jit don't know what el The boy threw his hands over bis head on the pillow. By jimminy, 1 am in hard luck! 1 care more for that than L do for the machine. You say that it is a wreck? Wasn't there anything left of it? “There's lota of it left--all of it, 1 reckon, Me and Moses gathered up ell we could see that night, and next mornin’ I went out and found the little pleces,” “Oh-h, Lord! So bad an that?" He turned his face to the wall, and she made a pretense of smoothing out [ declare! But you'll have to send gcolded Wealthy in jealous happiness. for the doctor, good or no good, honey, der’s roof. Send Moses, any- Adam ell, mebbe Ad better, deputy -heriff! she con- “But he may die, You dare not and the goat, 's jest my luck to have a akc man I don't know from loose on me—and me ceded unwillingly. Moses was asleep take the risk. He would surely have on the porch, fearing the sick man letters or cards about him that would as much as the “ghostesses” he often identify him," persisted the doctor. saw. He agreed to go to the fourth “Nobody's goin’ to read his letters house down after the doctor, and then until he gi' blended with the night. As soon as in my house.’ |, consent—not wh he's her father was disposed of Wealthy “But you could find hia name on gathered up the clothing she had the back.’ thrown down, not expecting interrup- — Wealthy equared herself defensive- H tion, and examined {t carefully. ly, a han “Mo, There was a blue & gray-and-white necktie; even the yuit, fine and soft, iped shirt, a blue my car ds on her h ; he's in my house and in » and all you've got to do is traw hat could be to cure him, nd I reckon that'll be identified in its ruin, She glanced all you know how to do. I'll "tent stealthily at the windows, then folded to-everything else. And, mind, you the articles Into a tight bundle, (don't get no talk out of him before wrapped them in stiff paper, and cast 1 slo. The doctor smiled, going on with iding-place for them. moing on ow: about for ‘a hiding Place fae house the examination, Meanwhile Wealthy which was not open to her father's went do into the cellar. The potato barrel empty, and a basket of po- tatoes brought from the “cave” was ready to put into it, She throw her bundle into the bottom id dumped the contents of the basket upon it, ‘Thus safe, she wept back and awaited neither did Moses, Sherredoubled her ministrationa, resolved that no harm slipped out t to the woodshed and . Inspection. She took a candle and frAched for the shelf, It was empty. night before wi CHAPTER VIII. Dispensation and Doctor. had put there tho 60 Wealthy by reputation than by experience. He had beard LE new doctor knew more of the doctay, But he did not come; t ‘ should befall through her neglect. Toward midnight the youth stirred and groaned, She bent over him eag- erly. his uncle recount some of his adventures with her and knew that she was not only the terror “Want a drink, sonny? Pore child, of the practitioner buf his strongest he don’t know nothin’ yet. And his ally. Her methods were murderous, head is just about bustin’: Well, vat people improved when she came. don't you worry, pore child, Aunt Wealthy Is goin’ to take keer of you The old doctor said that Wealthy tell you git onto your own legs and must have scared his patients back to kin run your own tongue.” health. She patted up the pillow gently “They sha'n't pester you, either, ‘bout why you done it. I reckon white house. ‘Therefore it was something of a challenge to be called to the fat He wondered if it were there's. more'’n one blue sult in the worth while to do anything when he world.” . arr! ‘An hour wore away, Wealthy grew nervous and went carefully over the young man’s’ frame “T ‘Now I could doctor him pretty and bandaging were ii: glanded about critically ‘once. The window, he saw, had never well for thumps, but If it's bon T'm ‘no. good—less it's a chicking, she ruminated, matter. She called Mose: been opened. His whole body was Imp and re- Ho tilted his chair and nodded w: laxed, but one leg hung loose when ‘“‘I'm glad to see that you're afri she lifted it. This was a serious of fresh air. but he did ful, you know. He might catch oold , but go he must, He found Wealthy meeknegs itself In the matter of broken bones, but when tho setting shed and he ne bristled at It was painted in peace: You can't be too care- not answer, He did not even waken, in tho slightest draught.” though he was lying just under the “Humph!" scorned the nurae, “You- glant-of-battles rosebush. much tod’ fearful of ghosts to ven- The rea He was all talk like it was the dead o' winter. that winder is shet is be- ture forth in the darkness evqn as cause nobody has slep’ in here in far’ as the fourth house, so he had thirty year. I'm goin’ to take the hull simply crawled under the bushes and thing slept on the soft warm earth. Wealthy do. Fi would not waken her fat went herself, roused the do ut, that's what I'm goin’ to sh air ain't pizen. I've took 80 she out many a windef from a sick room or and and nobody ever yet died from it. told her errand. He came just as the Why, pa jest loves to sleep outdoors first level shafts of sunileht were those summer nights.” plereing the gray-a youngish man ~ There was no trace of a smile on with giasses, a cl Ho came in valiantly as though he gaig. a expected to be met with bayonets, . ‘Wealthy jealously followed the doc- It did tor into the sick room. self-satisfied the doctor's face. mouth and an air of great dignity. ~ “Ag you please, Miss Pergellis,” he little too obviously. M orders don't seem to count.” y take Wealthy long to indow out and put a screen "Fel get over it ail right,” she Ket the Mintow eu One) But nares After breakfast she announced. “He's breathin’ good now gent her father down to the landing and he's got no fever." for te admonishing him not to say The doctor smiled provokingly, anything about the injured man. cleansing his thermometer. “We'll see," he said. "Pretty se- pike in Her father came springing up the less than an hour—a very rious contusion, this on the temple quick trip for him. pretty serious, What have you got on here?" “L told ‘em all | was fetchin’ tce in this basket and ef [ stopped to tell “Jest now I've got tansy and vine- ‘em all bout my chase it would melt, gar. I've had other things.” “The swelling isn't as bad as might be expected,” admitted the left but, best 1 could do, I couldn't git away no sooner. I guess there's some doctor, “But you have a nice task “Yes, there's some left. I'll put it here—compotnd fracture of the leg, on his head quick as the hatchet cools and sprained ankle. Pretty well used up. Who is he?" “He ain't ben able to tell." off—l'll never let the doctor know how big a fool I was," she added, "bul {do want to have tho ice on “Of course not, But didn't he have when he comes. I larned a hea anything about him to indicate his from the olf doctor, all unbeknownst identity? Where are his clothes? ‘Now, what you want me to do b You'll have to send word to his peo- fore I start the dinner fire, Wealthy? ple, you. know.” “He'll be able to tell who they are just have to go back and tell 6 campin’ and all, or the hull before he's fit to go to 'em, And it'll town, will be up here after me. And be Job enough to have to take keer thi of him without havin’ any of his folke on my ds. botherin’ round,” y've heard about the doctor bein’ body ‘llowed it must ‘em you'd Now, Pa, mind you don't tell @ night?" she warned. I won't tell a soul. I'll the dining-room door. y Jost tell ‘er. he's a gtranger ridin’ by “No, {t ain't pa, We had a bad single golden shaft that touched pil- siderate of Wealthy, never complain. land fell otf his wheel and smashed accident here last night. A man low and curtain in its swift passage. !ng of pain. himself to pleces and he ain't come fell off hia whee: fee front to enough yet to tell his name. That's of our houso and we fetched him In.” "i tell anybody, I don't care who "Oh, then you uin't got boarders? second and then closed quiveringly. oven laughed heartily at his own awk- ee puntered Wealthy. Awful prett: Wouldn't you home for your’ “But T couldn’ ike to take him be s0 ch'ico—and you allus free to tI) you're §eoe and sound again. You he thought Kin [ sartingly kin, ! waitin’ for a good little boy to give ‘em every one Koodby, Yes. Elder Thia is the house—where—I've been she had not recovered speech. You're a good little boy, Watkins said {t was the beautifulest asleep, It was last night that I fell, ‘nough have him persisted the boy, still doubting “Kin IT sure You sure kin, right now. I'll help Was so low he might not git back if sence you-all wae hurt. 1 was seared Yoni oo you pack him out to the wagon.” Wealthy's Keneroulty, overflowed. for supper the night gran'pa died Pretty still if L was you. Bt Sho led the goat out, the lad trot. and slep' fourteen. The rast set up Nem ting after her with the timidity of with the corpse. Yes.” She nodded r 1 child, each foaring that wome, Stoutly. thing might bar the transaction eve! Bhe greeted the father with unusual cordiality, ae brs mney here, my ‘em. There ain't @ thing cow I can't presently and examined the Hittle room y that'll take keer of a pretty critter Hke this is. things to good little boy: the hosses while you h'let him up— body's helpin’.”* and ['ll help you-all.” ‘The man jumped to the ground in ov: pleased surpri I like to give over it, but when you've been through like a moment! An nobody knows «win you gi right, My! Now, smallpox sho's hidin’ in there,” she ig me why I'm @ secret?” Danny, what you ever goin’ to say to confided to Delifah, “You go over ,,Sh@ bustled out without replying: Aunt Wealthy for sech a beautiful and see if she'll lot you in. She allus He lay perfectly still tn What a good boy you're was Jealous of my sickness and fu- thought the rest of the evening, ant goin’ to be for that!" goes with the possession of a coat. the doctor's aunt, We'll {i h shadowy hlue eyéa; moreover, he was ‘Won't ma and the boys be tickled more that way.” ne a to death!" added his father, “Pity And so it tra: leprecated Wealt an officer a ite ny tae it her father out of the room, for he don't leave meno time for pets, like Jest dump that carpet out and pa'll 7 take care of it," she directed hastily. ITTING at the bedside tate The man climbed into his wagon and drove off with egual haste, fear- ing that she might reconalder, She watched his team till it disappeared , Chem she saw the lim of Granny Keller, with its face of her boy had changed and that that he's a nice boy, It's plain to sue after his face was (nvisible familiarly Into her pis drooping lida covered # conscious that he nevere-done nothin’ agin the — She found her boy propped up chal dispensatio: the walk at her this moment almost as much own gate and gave her a double had hoped for it, Not a muscle of her patient? She Granny pretended that 4\¢ she wanted the potato-ball that weok for her sponge; she knew perfectly bits of calico that she had cut apart feat goin’ down river to see some of looking suit? 7 McGurk, und not for that 4 claim to title in wells that Delilah Wealthy, baa it. “What In the world haw been ail ‘8 on at your house here late- I beerd strangers talkin’ and, caller might stay. A sudden exqui- to be laughin’ when your pa was the bedding and patting down the pil, way of comforting him. L low, just by ‘fore you'd giv» up to too, and seen the doctor go in. Did the house, cool and mossy from the She had adored him every day that he the cap'n ketch cold layin’ out at woods, laden with sweet acents from h: twilight blossoms, A gentle gray light was oi been\there. He had such quiet, pleas@mt ways, such an illuminatin, smile that oft owed @ wonde Wealthy interposed her form in a ling in, pierced by ® pet of white teeth. He was no con t her amazement weemed to soe a funny le to mis- The weary lds opened full foF ® fortune, incomprehensible to her, Hi Was be bad hurt?" Again they lifted, and Wealthy felt wardness or at little mishaps. Wealthy Is. “Sure, 1 reckon that’s all you “Right bad; yes ho was hurt right the glance of wondering gray-blue had never heard an Invalid laugh be- snapped his daughtér. amart.” CHAPTER IX. A Cup That Ran Over. What room you got him in, ousy cut her heart, Unconactous, he she asked. fore. All the people In Whippleton had @ pecullar note of deep melancholy which they reserved for sick-roome. ‘Ain't there nothin’ you want now?" eyes aweep her gnarly features. She mugranny was fairly galvanized WIth gig felt the gnartiness hurt for the “My gracious, ain't that awful! ®rst time, while a swift pang of jeal- Wealthy?” was all hers; but now, would he long supper and I’ EALTHY was in the wood- — “side bedroom,” grunted Woalthy . D Aefeet veo. Lasse Mosse town elias shed instructing Mosga in briefly, still barricading. the door. fF ® mother, who wae clear featuem the useful art of splitting kindling; she was happily no tellin’ how it might rile him." surprised to find him not “Dear sakes, T ain't sech a fright only acquainted with it but incred- as all that comes to!” Granny gath- ihly willing to practise It, She stood waiting to see that {t was real and ind to see me comin’ “fore now. his nurscein @ now, soft toné, not a trick of imaginatioi "It ne here that @ small boy wandered to “No, I'm goin’ to take care of him grew impatlent. He came to tell her that his father had brought her new fag jon now to invite in much comp'ny carpet, but he saw the goat gaging to neo sick folks, T don't think I'll the barnyard let him have none.” paling# and was transfixed With won- “My sakes, if you ain't puttin’ on der and admiration, “What sort of a calf is that?” he long brown neck. “Not let him have Waiting for, throe days waa at hi crete TAvttin’ feline ine toneo him, and handsome Ike himself? She [°F Poti He might come to any minute, and stirred a little to make him speak, but ~The waning sun slamted into the it was some minutes before he did #0. spnce outside the window in brilliant ‘t it morning now? he asked in illumination. ‘The invalid lifted bi a thin votee. head curiously, ‘Who is out there?” ; ne he asked. Yea, gonny, it’s mornin,” agreed “W citny looked, then gave a long, leaping step which carried her out of He pussied a little longer. Wealthy the room, The young man, lett alone, i i A ratved himself up enough to see a Eo ae Roane Catt veleauy “Don't you want to eat?’ she ven- sii negro boy arrayed in a loose 'y a log. It aln't the fash- tured. bt ito hanging blue abrge sult, a gray-and- The invalid thought er white shirt, blue tle and tan shoes. tell. I feel awfully Gone 46 had balanced a bit of broken mir- hungry, hicken Tor in the low limb of tree and was hs viewing bis splendor with much sat- isfaction. While the watcher wai ry still observing the tad, tho heaved a 1 to be caught by a cyclone aah ; xide and Wealthy was bending over “ecm bod you wouldn't let ai) right, and no matter how you | “If she could find mo a suit lke nobody come to that, either, you'd Come, you're goin’ to stay right here that T gould get away in‘it all right, ered up the open neck of her calico dress, “Sick folks have been mighty o It wi You'll need help if he's so bad." airs, Wealthy Pergellis!” Granny broth was then simmering. In a tossed her head Indignantly on its minutes tho little tray that had be he's come and help as much as you Ike had a bad fail; do you mind anything = M i puttering from doubted when Thad sick trouble! Why, when about that?” i the bench upon which he had been Gran'pa Keller was dyin’ there waa — "Oh-h, yes, What's the matter with (humped. Hin mistress was red in I was jest thirty-nine folks called, and he bid my leg? I'm sore from head to foot. the face and blazing In the eyas, but "Misa Welty, I shore found dem, death he ever see. Yes. He sald And this Is morning, neat to God, I done found dis yer that at the funeral, and he was there rising?” B through the bull of tt. We kep’ him “It's night, honey, and the sun ta over from Sunday ‘cause the river #ettin’. And it’s the fourth night the aun just), ‘Mo Weajthy's tone was the gentlest he had ever heard, “wouldn't he went home. We victualled eighteen to death ‘fear you'd starve. Noe Patan aa an JouE MET ane d on my arm, thata-wer, ‘Yea, time-—-you've been gone nigh two lay otill and I'd keep atill If I was weeks I wouldn't tell my name to the ‘Yas'm," replied Moses without I was you, It ain't emotion business. Nor our'n, "Wouldn't sho be tickled to see you counseled, in such fine clothes ax them?” He closed his eyes but opened them = “Yoeu'm," Iterated Moses. aysel iy pedi) iy %0u Hip go down on the night boat 4 n Ge ‘I put you up a per to ci mph! You're mighty eet up “Four nights ago! And It seems with your ee Phe 10 OMrEY But Wealthy stood her ground “I reckon I allus done my own either,” 8) way and I'll invite folks when I need ood little do eo a cigar, Mise He'll hold what I have you won't be; a who Tam?" , 0 | eee ENG, honey, and they don't need Wives 6 Die clear, You set still un- oh ee een Talk ft to Pees See der the apple tree und don’t let pa see s h . On te ou in th plothes mistrust {t's yaller fever or weakness. “Dut wou vert done found ‘ern, fi yh Ppa mightn’t believe that, And ea the man that hangs people if they troubled steal anything. You keep out of his sight and I'll take you down and put ssive from 1 mind tell- y nerals." Woalthy let him, although It took all #laht 1 tak down "Yep." ald Danny with vague dis- "I've boon," contoased Delilah; “but er atolclam to’ do it. There were Yaad me Welt Aad fas vie Ten tress at the amount of goodness that let's take our knittin’ and set with Volumes of Interesting story in Bie a ie dia ppeared in ine shrubbery Wealthy found pan of potatoes floor beside the e the bundle had od #0 patient in pain, tr 4, : fairly flung her heart to saga aight she would have loat It now bean, | Bhe hurrieg through he ‘aim CHAPTER X. Tt required all her vigilance to keep Der and sent her farher to the oppo. ‘ nd to enter, haunting the: sunbonnet pattern, Though the er eT eee ty momentary. rand Was un ObViouK one he obeyed, Driunity to stand ab @ he @# usnal, Without demurring, As soon ob an she was Wealthy led Moxes ‘This was an occasion when sho had down to the landing, escorte one longer than usual and found the Kangplank and had the shair by the bed- of seeing him blend with the dusk aa i The Awakening. that afternoon, her eyes upon her work in worrled heen alertness, Wealthy knew him ensconced in a : side, Luckily, the lad was a without seeing that the Mou" kin tell by the loo the boat paddled away, the light of his 3 3 ‘of him long black making a tiny po) See ureen waiting her. He ha Not course he didn't, You said his Supper time, so she arrangs clothes was brown, didn't you? and carried (in That's what they looked Itke fn the me, M r called her faco movrd, not even am oyethd dark.” evaded Weallly uneuslly, 'E her “Mothor’ almost, fr¢ Bist. e n ain't had time to study ‘bout ‘em in to in DI did Bhe tranquilly sewed together fist nt: put whatiathe use? He wan that little darky xe asleep at though giddy gaze. She had dreaded his tray she rpose. The organ notes jis Kinfolks. most likely.” ~ to him could help me out, The collar «if her father's volce were rolling on D0 you Kon that's wito he lez 5 exactly like 5 and th a “L sure do," announce: y,. is remarkable for thie peck o1 the veranda, She hoped that hit wish an emphasis thut closed the woods, aa I have reason to knot Yhere must be somebody round base ay, wile breath of evening swept through Nevertheless, she went out to tke who how to get a covering Goeth abla lichens ET OOOO OU OOOO, Next Week's Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD LAHOMA By John Breckenridge Ellis ent with | You $1.25. You Get li for 6 Cents pheee COOOHHHHHYLOHOOOOVOOW himself—and that's all | ask in the present strait.” “Him? (Phat's our ae gone down-river to-night to see Ma, so | reckon you'll bave to wait til be gite buck to ask who give ‘om to him.” ‘Isn't that too bad! By George, & fay that is lov bad! Because I'm ge- ing to be around on crutches in ® day or two-and I've simply got have something to wear. lan't U any place here where ready-made clothing of any sort la kept Portland is quite a ways of and ij the nearest place tradia” She placed his tray beside him and gave him a knife and fork, He was through, she said, with “spoon meat.” He glanced, as he reached for them, at his sleeves, full bishop sleeves with winged cuffs’ embroidered in turl red. A large red “P" adorned front of the yokesg There had been succession of these garments, some done in bive and some in yellow, He rather preferred thé red. They were « quite modest to sit up in but whelly Inadequate for walleiny “Quetr what went with my ” he mused, thinking of the aight anes, heard of,” 8 levwily when she went out. reckon that Moses has run of again,” he complained, “I've been lookin’ everywhere for him to D'lat p to bed. be he's run off for good this lime—good riddance, too,” but her father still won- queer where he could ‘a’ went. ‘There's something awful funny ‘bout the goin’s on here, 1 ‘low somebody's xtole our John Hrown--t can’t find him nowheres—and—it ‘pears kind of lonesome like “Humph! I reckon you'll have tof, one of the Rows boys for eomp'ny. askin’ for you to-day, Billy's got the team, No, 1 rest either of them boys 0 lon an I'm Sheriff, and disgrace ‘em for nothin’, Bad idee for relations to go partners in anything.’ Wealthy’s heart smote her as abe saw him take bis candie and for- obe had lornly ups B ms enough on her own hands. It would be impossible to keep her boy In bed for*inany days longer, and how to obtain clothes him with- eae fs ual suspic er usually ready wit coutd com; She had heroically refrained asking him one question, or im to tell anything abo di He had told io magical world beyond the hills, abeet he the to whom he was devoted: meanwhile he tried to help bia nurse by sorting patchwork, winding yarn or doing any “nice settin’ work” that she could devise for him, But e eri-- als that pussied ber had been reached and she could not ask her father's counne! jainst the =| Her boy was sitting up pillows when she went to him the next morning. “Hello, Mother Wealthy,” he called cheerily. “If you can only find some sort of covering I can get out prison this fine morning. I know how to pity @ convict nu e wouldn't send the man to jail that stole my clothes, I'd have a lead pencil handkerchief left if some tram| hadn't cleaned me out.” “The only thing round here of your’n is your pocketbook. Wealthy was opening the shades and brushing round the room, prepar- atory to bringing in his breakfast. She kept her pack to him. “You don't mean to say that it was loft when everything else was stolen! Then why can't 1 buy @ suit just to go home in; anything at all The pained question in his eyes melted he “I don't know how to buy anything without gettin’ folks to talkin,” sh conf "TL baw told a soul about you and—I couldn't buy any- thing without their @ndin’ out. It you only had some clothes I could row you down to Hardscrabble or up to Poketown without anybody ie trustin’ and you could take the boat down river.” He pushed’ away his tray and threw himself back on his pillow, having hardly tasted his breakfast. Wealthy was heartsore. ‘ “What would they do—mob met” he whispered, as she bent to take the tray, vy 4 hadn't better run no risk. You tell folks your name {s—somebody cise, You might say tt was—it was—+ 3 th the old man's name Toby—blind of End eye he was and a soldier in the ox t “It T only had clothes—I'd just face but my trunk was expressed yh ago-—it seems to me that I explode if I have to stay in bed vther day, I'm not aiek, you kno Wealthy had hit upon an expedient. ‘Lreckon I might take and lend you wetdig’ suit, You's same sige round, You could send buck some time and he'd never Inow it, Come, now, eat your break. fast and you'll find some way ouk” She bent over him coaxingly, ‘t bring it back. I think ra pur--what would he be?— man, constable—who le ft sxuardian of the peace here? ou mind sending for him? da, if won't,” wl decided It's the sheriff and he' ell, he's «a man I wouldn't trust my own father with if was r There! You take and do ell you and I'll git you out ef Whippleton as slick as an whistle He suddenly reached for Weall freckled hand and lifted it to hig with & reverent gallantry, “You Diessed, kind — friend! breathed, You have been delicat itself, [ couldn't have stood told--not while T lay here hell You have been so dear and ki untiring all these di te and an utter stranger—under @ cloud, T couldn't have believed LS ie ne ele had told me of Sughd oe lunged heavily out of i fet! person. waa cut exactly like mine, and that fy