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beg AR ‘ « + . a 4 « 4 i The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday: March 20; 1916 Did You Ever Hear of Any One Telegraphing With a Fan? mmm JO OMERODY Yes, SiR, A Woman of ery Causes The Romance of a New York Girl AT INE DOOR. TO gus DAY oF Canaan Myst Na ses Queer iY) — Tha } Who Made a Strange Experiment. eeeese SARANTERS > ‘omplications That Way in ARAN. forianh ) , By Mar 1 Crood d k . By MM. seseee ea an’s “Roc 4 asia Oo.) ‘ By Quiller-Couch. H . , : P } The Scent of Arbutus. Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World i ” 7 . o 4 H DO not know what alls me . . , something, surely, 1 feel eo “DEAD MAN'S ROCK” is as famous in its own way | r restless . . . and I think #0 much, 1, who never knew be- as “Treasure Islard,” and (for the same rea: it h h fore Leven had a mind, It's so odd. 1 was always #o content eal & iain aM shat der eh ison) it has a charm 7 to drift on the surface of things, Now . . . Iam eo dissat- itis nay 8 He as Can iia He. di . fefled . . 4 Thasdly knew myeelh, mighty well wort your reading—or re-reading a ee Yesterday 1 played cards in Amy Marshall's apartment. ‘There were « four of us—all my Kind of women, The air was heavy with violets and ee oe But thin wag ite only architectural Fextnous odor she had never smelled ciguretics. Amy smokes like a fiend, distinetion, Ita stvie was the abom. before, ; bi oy inable so-called “cotontal; col The walls were full of old rubbish L I never minded before, but yesterday I said: “Let's have the window - n vague green, For the fast tt wae Gd Roveshold trast and & door at up, Amy, please. low, single story-and-a-half, and one end gave into the li » . * Sho looked at me surprised. to long weathered and ‘unpainted, Mut this too defied ‘her, “Th “Does It seem close? You look pate, Let me burn thle pastil.” iocdbery It teotel Gane ute caeet ing @oeund Wer ln the ann” ducer It seemed moro hateful even than the tobacco, but Amy dislikes fresh | [HERE ARE THE OHN, SOMEBODY YES. SIR, MENBER ahrul y It to k Mt more Ike ares ing aroun in the dim, dust; air, so I said nothing more. NEw By-LAWS fUST LEFT THESE Mata eal eh oe Vateicoe Wasa eee a ane ed at the straw with her i V walted until the rest hind gone, Faryou To PAPERS DORING ON od | campers nad heen known ta foren ite foot, She was too isnorant to know { A life, I don't know what it's Ike, All| TRANSLATE For ‘Yo 2.5 f for a few days, and the ent J Amy is so much vider and has had Ife. | don’t know what it's Ike. Al iene aren {THEIR Dayon 3 fora fe sand the chile coud sleep in ais hayes #0 much experience, . . . . 1 iy life's bee : a. j he nelenhorhood Mked tO thought: not—I'm dirty enough q foing out to dinner, to plays, to shops, WV » for blossoms there, but it knew thought I'd talk to her a little, to dressmakera—riding up and down | |LANGQUAGES: To Day J 3 [fino ort riife, Tt was a dead house, a 8d ae Ri She looked beautiful. She wore @ jn elevators to somebody's fat—a life| | REFORE on RO, BIRGH OF theorem “Be FAB ha Atl ature uked new house-thing, four shades of pur- of hotels and apartments, Hven my L fecund overgrowth, that annually In Suddenly ross | ple chiffon, that seemed to reveal in- Childhood was lke. this. y) \ frets rentha titted It imteaignet it wet every nerve of: is stead of clothe her lovely figur Strange, isn't {t—the queer restless- pra 4 to leave ft bare and fore and for the fret nane o 8 ee we ness of these last few weeks. I crave re rest of the year on et ie bak wit <b "1 sald-—1 hated somehow to the open country, I'd like to get out For the old Ford 0 kept + ine Gatty GREINER Gnd : , "| begin—“have you ever thought about somewhere and put my face against dg Gotett - kop e early me Bing an 1 | yourself? 1 mean—does—is tare the Bare earthy and foot breese— mong auch flowers ax no ached nd seried f zy —with this life, [ clean, cold breeze—stir in my hatr. den kne Shiv slipped. 0 esa Seat eiectly Saver wih tis it! How’ they would laugh--karry and It was here that one might find Wet skirt and, wrapping herwit She looked at mea little amused, the others—if they knew. thowa™auaint, rare, oral” treasures Der coat, burrowed deop in the aura J “What's the matter, dear—you rhaps I wouldn't like it, But I'd that deeorate’ the fided yetiow pages Ht was warm and comfortan f | aren't well to-day, What does this like td try it. f hdmot hers ins and shed door, which tastened " ny —this pensive mood?" 6 4 6 eS sampterse=familiars lor tin OUR hh hd a Ke a ERA 1 “I'm perfectly well,” I gaid, “but 1 white L stood at the window watch- now at forgot iillyflowers, Stuck ne | f , —I've been thinking lately"— ing a workman crossed the street be- fockets, strange bet sb + The keen sweet air of ¢ ove “You mustn't think,” she said, low me, whistling _—_— SC” os larkspur and prinee's-feathor, tritium 4.0) now, brining a thot quickly. “It kills a woman's Woks “yo acemed happy. and honeysuck Matis laden bobniecey ahadaue it and you don't get anywhere"—— A girl was close behind him—prob- | wal Th June, when the r-lenRed coming scents “Perhaps not,” I said, “but It's ® ably going to work somewhere, She | ~'! - appld weer put on pink and White "soning wae in the air, and a ep thing you can't control. Don't you jooked neat and pink and independent, flouncer and the rotting colonial night wky ahoves Nie coulis ever, think about—abont—well, old sometimes I think it would have porn fay shrouded with passion. MEE ky “ahove. she contd awe?” been better if I'd known their kind = < flow nd clove-scented climbing. [20 9 opening a or " " This wasn't at all what meant; in of fifo, ‘The nice get-out-and. huatl AREN'T HOW CAN | 2 WITH AU THESE 1 SHOULD SAY Not! Foaee: when the pleeding-hearte bled OC 1: A Nettle silver i — go hard 3 down at the hand-made) Weve ¢ - oO 4, ane 1a fo « and w toeling—— lace on ty nightgown and thought of | )}COING LETTERS To ANSWER . THESE SECRETARY of THE } and the four ni ‘Amy Inughed shortly. i} Y | OUT WITH BYLAWS To READ ~ THESE Something ok made her fe wtely phlox and pinks ion re bi » my . luxurious bed behind me, DAY oF REST CLUB AND ‘ RAT lavacinicastate neq think of odd t ings that had \} “Are you trying to be insulting? No, there would be tht Vd not | \ LISTS TO CHECK . THE TRE, ‘ ch ott poi played no part er te—varur Amy tent really “young, though ®h@ cantor r been ngs Td no NE ToDAY) REASURER AS To DO ALL THAT long where I ain, I sup- HEH place Was an vd h . od EPORT To MAKE OUT ; pe glia half-heard-of—the Chrintnas Sta N poor te tr you a toll zou pose, | Toun ? ( Seeseenrs Speecn ann MORE OND ear ayont| P Nitde kind, ite country “ng, the Shepherds of Hothiehem my dear, ll have ni with a Iap-dog woman. I've been aj | / eievere. | os holed IT'S A GREAT HONOR | | Mees and hinds and ttle country "She watched them | awed ' old-age." I intend to take care of my An ornament, a dece | { aS i San RAW Ireeaes and fal country Nid: Piguewe we aulaer iitite ¢ looks—iny age stopped long ago.” Gupbet for the set atk yearecceron || » “IC tickets free, hed. across the door a “LT didn’t mean that.” [ sald, slowly, since | married Larry. They had had loving tendance—the the stars, She watched but I've been wonderlug=one cant — Bur Pd been in training for {+ long ars of these blosson Tt waa The sweet air filled h alwaya go on this way before that. [was expected to marry Jperhaps this that had encouraged stung her evelide. ind theatres and clothe luxury. Oh, 1 thought I loved him ; thelr descendanta to go on bravely — Quite suddenjy, Ike the touch of a the tim usually goes into the blooming, Or perhaps in the dusk the gentle hand, al ne to her, the ' hing with that excuse—Dbut {t doesn’t spirits of those early horticultural dreamless, boundless sleep of out-of. xist any longer. | Fords walked in’ thelr old garden doors. shrugged. if one's carcful-—tve | 1 hate.him now. Yet I suppose I'd rain: TC 1OAy.. 86. thay pave [cede nough staked by to Keep me droop if he left me. enance of a finer kind than other ” , | from the DP ‘y Field, It's nota" ‘s what this sort of fe does | Rowen iebeedhat Neaveniy’ dawe CHAPTER Iv. ' bad idea in this spendthritt ase’ poured from thelr ghostly watering The Evolution of a Meal. “Oh--fnances," L shook my head deh eélibk ah cvnelé Hom 4 before, But I'm seeing things BIT sun awakened her. ft z stron ‘or murely no man te wholly damned getting | strong. w lich, Us not moral—the who, hat loved. hig garden and tee ne eae ce sree haptPe i bibibeg nm living—my Kind are living. | l watched bla Lord's revealment in ita e dusty shed and opene ry Up suffrage —or js je never troubled about maras. Tee | \\oaf.and bloom, Whatever the reason, her oven. Teulon i tre. “taken things as the his old greenery woke first to the notid ails ant ap Rog ip always hard On mere all wrong: Wi | Sromies Of spricg and even on. this a ag ‘ ae hear vague cage) Maula RANE Rone. 10 ST havent HMI TIGGEEs Catinter A Hanna the’ RENTa: nomiant watstlng’ al petios ee i bi ba ie epeeiniaie on like a herald of summer, Rr ne dn") ninderstand. Haw contd Ine reals women-—and ee ae poor, {iit aversrocn iia Ht aonkine TQM Guat motes dance in the mun-ray, ber Titi Ga eNO ese Cry wT ina Y Irvelves Cold film of snow, and a cold breeze I'm sometimes tempted to send Cyn~ —her face turned suddonty white, cully handsome and & port to Boot: jay glistening green and bright, pled mien gh was conscious in turn of And she iyaeghe will not think NRA Paar i uloy ogy a irs, Blan? rishi ee ed cup crashed down thority in tatters of all Kind, but yd’ gold which to-morrow would be being watched. She turned her head >, he ta. wis a’ rut i the time, $ 8. Stantord, directing Cy ol on her » r dress,. soclety | a aes, nlvane a t Gre telses (his new ane heated I should choker ra operations from the voranda floor, “Cynthia,” he began lghtly—then “ft must snye- she began, FhinGy Gos Ge atane Bou ely, faa crooul s advance guard of a mighty slowly and over her shoulder met the Eribis 10) ue lease SRG Beck tordiy.. tt was! Sq ulascnai: clon ine NRO OeAtS CK Te een Y comer BRE” rrlendehip eee ee qiny SupDOKEd, & wupposition he whared, {9 soaq tn come, and clone to the worn Dlack eyes very close to her head. to talk to Cora Bartram, und he brought me the Si) Biceow e ainda bp? i mune ¥ (re ta any) Suegestion oy have an intimate acquaintance With 614 porch steps, braving wind and The effect was hypnotic, and the two \ « playing with her little dog pendant en coaxing him for, ¢f @ man's heavy gloves and cloth ul said the girl, but he was anything el Resides T've Kissed i oe ned, uther like a landkerchtof of ace, exchanged @ long, meaaurt d | i zs z cap, Wut the face she turned up to no longer paying attention, Cynt nefore- we've exchanged " is Ke uring glance. when 1 went in Kissing He p > my hand— a sai : face s ’ r nthia He and Mrs, Btanford, an mombera Lotter like & Tanto ted Neto 7 4 \ vnd feeding it chocolates cut emerald ona chain of antique MTS Btantord’s delicate faded one “1 don't write any more because € jinwer, In the games of our Infancy. of ie Snd Mie. Stanford, ae members eh ees There was something defiant, too, im | Somehow it disgusted me, Cora lov! Id a une FOO. are lack ingplration. ‘The fethe Howe uid you RAY ACA Dine dn thelr discussion, The place was full of mystery, aen- the gaze of the beads; then as the Vike a 1 Was silent ao long that he aske announced: “1 saw them this MOPhs thine noe, Chm stale my last venture have | kissed You?” Cynthia was not expected to in- tient” with tiny life-pitises, mystio human intruder made a alight ner- Ms ppon’t sat Tike ee yee Patina) Us avery HepUtabincdatker in) ete : trude, | She did not Lelong to the aris- with ghoots of delleate green, and vous movement there came @ shriek nto get a new looked up at used t nk 8 nile Sot ate at a Cynthia, her startled eyes down- tocracy—her mother having eked out |) nt promise of rich | ; Bilven see beg hate rs MRE Sh SIBEDS sig bagntly, existence=this isn't a Potts BB ast her checks warm, again tried an illcprovided widowhood by baking or rill rich leat and ang @ equawk, and a bundle of agi ; cn ' eileaet a ay he looked Nop" cynthia. (ube TE neve fart one cee as. f (0 make a reply in kind, but her lips ples and bread and the simmortal OW! Ie tated femhere hurled iteelt out of the RSL TITS | MRO TERI Ha donned andinue wicarmcarounal 2 Menor Jown tho got an idea today, © 8 Derapy {wisted slightly “and "her breath girind cake dear to the Yankee New pya"vitaln very Jewel in the arid straw through « hole in the wall or & while renal wate © Stoo! a is arm are ‘ : f t a troubled her, so that she “m- Yorker, vetting of the March-sealed country. Close at her hand lay an \ “Cora, do you ever notice whether me, could see every smatiest pore Valley road you saw her, too. T passed her below [iia ee hitia wore . ‘ me hein, 8 b arcl y ome. « ’ you're really happy?” in his face. Why do pedple have BH (uted Nar Bead. then bent the Alarahasid glace, going dows the Rusrescoly. fem Inaudible work: | BE aha PAene Ueten If she Chaat, aide And while the wun stil lingered warm brown oval that recalled her ee ? Mie ecard) ahitoriagl, pores—or, nt least, have to wear them » her work, the curve Of yond alone.” eit did ny a e see? ourtate on tt, thére caine one wi MNBTY o adent; ry Grracnt thine tte $0 conaplouousiy? her cheek suddenly pinker “Who? A woman? asked Mrs, SW@r: for Richter, with some laugh- [ut in the very middle urten SOF nd an open heatt’ for ite enadealy, . rane t shin , Maye to anniek, Dat “T think it's Paul fi Binnthea "ing remark, was siready smoothing ing period of seater e a ayptle Jareass. She picked it up and rose, dite of si . be ‘ bid) ace ie i bs ets slo rad propriety bange ¢ ve je pone om » a thines aro so exc a! Um'sick—sick 0 answered, He looked away a moment toward fon of outraged propriet Whe hte nat bhe could ane the whole A Tusty fron hoop held the sagging straw clinging to hair and clothing do to keep 1. “Oh, of course: I wish JPOP the blossoming southern hills, lis face Stanford's hrow and was where she sat she could ace the whole pntq 4, psided post, and this the “I'm huner" she said, looking Jigen Ae to hoes orn But 1 1 hissed | toad 18 (hough, He comes so seldom, che plomoming southern Billa, his f Upon some recent village Wot road, through a cleft in the trees, EMO 10 1 hernelf, Straight @gg. “I don't think, though, EE apr wer and fused ait! He never brinus his verses any more, *ftened, mystical, in expression exploit, “Cynthia let them talk. {t It stretched away to the hills, whore \Ptor Mia i) Mn tee ee the eat @ raw ene.” wall Mrs, We nd th 1} to | He nev ings hi 1 “The + if T have up the old path she eam test know hat 1 Buk aot ce ae ut rath Ree Tana a) Wee MK Ge: up, Cynthia-and wave to him j rhe most beautiful Vela Mane Was hot her habit to be garry to the west now @ pale wintry-looking Pn ding, «she sat down, her She went to the door. Np beretioe LORE CANS AO THES ABOU <0 Kika Larry, 7 Cynthia’ rose t atiffiy and Cer seen,” he answered slowly Vo oShe sat now with her face partly sun shone with languid warmth ‘st among the snowdrops and her _ The rustling she had heard wee but 7 like h neome It's b ful," 1 1 i bes feat among th lrop dd him mat li is incom 9 beautiful,” I said waved a thick woollen paw in the di- ‘oung woman, too, a me {rl turned away, her bands quiet In her Directly in the middie of tt, in the turned to the western hills where the awaying of the trees under the A ie tue Sou wane naa tr augh tho ligh t reetion of the Toul which Iny be- ie Joti as iy aeyaa Ht The “north hight, glowing path of these tepid sun rays, @ figure the aun-colora alll glowed faintly, wind, But it was a west wind, warm 4.4 the stage, ye ow, t caught tho light as {t lay in my f a her clothes exe hat she was |? are AUER, pes TR woman the aun-colors still od fs A we ; Tee ey heats ee aun. Bome Palms And L forgot (t was an emer fr chiheiien ne et Te mplaahed with mud literally trom fMOUgh tie bavwindow, threw the eae etareae OAs @ | waniaa That sho dil not belong to the eotn. and summery, and the gun waa high oe Oh te heey te oe a. ee” He won't. see that.’ said Mra, bead to foot"— ee room and the little group of three and carried hor head weil up aa it tvslde wax, oly a ‘Through’ the clear air she could iment ings ate multe Brearniees” it lacked like a tender new stanford pettishly ve again, And you call that pretty?” asked ints definite Nght and shade like a eho gloried in the wind touch on her F She waa different—aome strange in. #¢¢.the hill outlines clearly, fold efter Ue abe asily 7 af—to me. It mado mo think Here, take my apron the other subtly arranged set of © Vghts. face. Beata td 2 fold receding in the distance, + ratty silk-clag foot lazily brook " ' tore, my ay , ; tangible quality marked her as met he 5 “What muked you ask s torrtble nH wvater, with wot stone But this signal of proved Oh, 6 Wait--her face, Such a | ane pleasantly on the sombre old As ahe came into the auniight she TANR ee Will © in the hill coun. Rearest touched with a pale, awak uestions, infant? You needn't worry, 2TOWIns things dipping ¢ Nttle unnecessar ray man turned face! T's the Kind to haunt a man furnishings, the white Hnen and siiver seamed touched with « faint gilding eeean th tplte of the border of ched bud vardure, the furthest melt quer ola Larry ia crnay about you. ands iy ik Tanieet suddenly in under her trees and came foreve the expreshicn, It took my of the tea table, I k ut Mrs limned her figure like TSAGINE aa sinttdy aiolative of her alirte K into blue haze. “uc wasn't Larry, [told her, T found Usk bs insane, fonly Top tie crooked garden path wreath away, I've never seen suich— Stanford's shawl, the. gray-white n & glass window. When it touched Peep pera ys Mus verything | looked bright and SSA cine Cee Ree Site 6 Ww Wind-burned young )appiness in a fi 1 wonder! jer f © thin nervous hands with her head jt stopped and kindled in [t Was not her clothes nor K scrubbed. And suddenly she realized J gouldn't tell her, any more than Ae Ho was a big, win young ot I Hoven’ thaue akin Amy, What tt was. T con not bear it any |c The fellow in brown corduroys, with an Passed her squarely face to face and the heavy black-and-gold ring tho a sudden blaze of pale gold o wis : deft fingers that ow dirty she was—and how thirsty When I got up to go she patted my Testlessness—the choking ‘Y8 Irish setter lopping behlad him, At Sie never saw me, Her eyes seemed warm tints of Richter’s face and hair Walking bareheaded. She was too far far afield trom thia spot Then she saw that right at her hand lovingly. with me T want air—and the open 4 distance he jooked big, vital, dom look beyond me—through m and Cynthia distant. for Cynthia to distinguish “nenenth the heavy, masa IY the cure for both: an tron pipe “Do you know,” she said. "T don't SOUETY. - inant, with an effect of virtle strength ‘She must have had good vision She sat in its fullest revealme! anything but that. hair was pale and lovely, &t, in stones from which a@ rill of think Tam happy at all—when I think 9 aaa 8 ime nf had courage~ due toa fine, strong physique, superb this happy creature with the mu quiet country-bred cir! ino a badly Butshe knew. This was the girl of ML whitened har cheeks pat Water dripped. : of my sables. They don't compare could take s Ittle sleepy train gnoulders and carelessly masculine petticoat,” sald Mrs. Stanford with ark blue frock and no o: whom Hiehter had ken-—whom bh iene GARR Ved. Gt hen aves For just a minute, half closing her with these, No, I shan't be happy ed A f, ane + off at clothing was only at close range « wry smile, “We didn't seo her, the two chatting so buaily, cynthia hac called the moat, "be uttful woman diadow.set joneslaahed, prea. she hea a vision of a hot bath until I get Harry to buy me new ones, fl place heled~—~ Hiow ab- that the finer touches were visible did we, Cynthia? You'd better com of all—realiged that « was ‘® ever seen” Even at this dis- se aK PAEE Y Ages Hh rewh lingerie, a blue negiigee and o My muff's all out this season, any, rd) ANd afterward? What should the soft, feminine-looking curly hair 1 now." MAMAPDIORE ee Got ane EP tance @ cbrtain distinction clad. the Saumhit she muaet aya until they shone brenktast tray-allver, with coffee bs 1 do? ORE ° \ 4 ran't 2 RG SLUALOme ST ng and rolls—and yes, an egg, but pipin y. A , vg it his temples, the small, feminine “Ah” he smiled, ‘you wouldn't creature fashioned of soft grace and 8 PN ae Nias atkew Ona Bani ag, but piping And to think I was Just like that a | But I don't think of afterward. It's nose and mouth, the expressive, long- have known {f you had seen. her tant Oat ened To Mrs, Stanford Sh@ was no ordinary tramp or sane RUE wae bee, ee oan hot, reponing {na fragile china cup. Hitle while ago. Why, when Isabel tho keting there, One thing I'm sure fused, blue eyes lonauit-haired, and eyes Uke moon. ge waa Just a pleasant, well-be- Walker of the roads. Cynthia's eyes ** et actonet now ite ANd a faint doubt touched her face Patton got her ermine coat I couldn't I could sleep + after He took off his cap and smiled at light," he hummed in na mellow yay nice-looking girl whose ser- Widened as she watched yh ane A opped down to make a perhaps Tye lost my mind.” she rest until [ told Larry about tt— even death wouldn't Mrs slance tenor as he followed her in. vice was always gracious and willit Something—some vague portant “Off mass fie the uweet thinness Whispered: "I must be quite insane.” ‘ nd he bought me mine. for ¢ Cynthia had already slipped tn by pay) ty o i pretty girl touched her breast. What part waa tender frame for -" These reflections, however, were of a 7, Paul R ter saw her ap ty 1 Now it seems go atrange-—that you | To-duy 1 decided this is the fier In the cold frame again, a side door and in a few minutes whom he hud teased und played with ti! figure to play in her life? ! thin as well na tired-looit- Deok vaguely, oe thee wecetantened should eat your heart out for a mere fast time 1 shall write in this journal 1 just ving to you d me back to busy nerself wit) moat of hie eariv and hose natinetively, she felt it was to me ie won Be : Mire Ehek Vaguely into the woodshe: thing to, wear-—a thing here. Povhaps never again Mrs. “Why don't you ever sinoking teapot and cups of Can rttintes Brest touee ie tere something to her. Deep in her hea 5 vicate fratity of feure “Cogs to that cobwebby Inner door I didn't fall ec Cag en han ne matter L hate inyself—1 hate the come in you knew an old °, eustomednes ’ ssed by any oth 1 timid te lal , , hung a key king of keve, I walked tn the park a le afters life rien 1 am going, 1 woman gets lonely away up the road The gingerbread in thick excitement 4 hope had bloomed. f ud Dresden ching Fi tt Mack and clumsy, tled up for heaver ward, J seldom walk, and it seemed shall leave Larry a letter, “He will} you come. in” now? cubes tempted the poeta sensitive CXeOMED i otonous days je as sha ant in thie oll xnown what reason with Mt oe hin nige—difteront, ut you can not find me. ; ithia’ make hot, tea and there's trom a convenient platter. 1° Was @ somewhne important net Lent gw r simp) Wateh nee ind Onge Po AtOY ram. At first she half-doubted tt was Spring is late ven T don't know where I'l! gc xinge ‘© cold." ed. to temptation with fearful * J himself and w she felt an odd coldness at he ped Ipp. An kev—tt resembled a hammer as & feel it in the It soothes me. 11 just go... vou TS uae amiet in the hills Hreast aw though thie hope had wud. ail. “f don't care-T wanted it #0.” much ag It aid anvthing Thee whe per're selling Arby Ean oe ihe DOnAtrE: faa mee Kerbread, ay, Tl Just got "Our Cynthia can bake," he amiled, — His family together wit Bialis deny been sete snd her face grow wistful, Then she took tt down and ined {t In the lack pyc tive never geen it grow. 7” CHAPTER I. vour recipe white Tm about itm sinking very white teeth tnto his forda and the Franklins conseved CHARTER a THe I've ‘newer known I wut aneereonne reece crates T hate my life. A Yo not quite satistled with min Ru ¢ " a pear es 4 bi +s f, 4 i. rte wave, and Ghe bale ont ge Helps nia mor couldn't sleep é ung Lady Is Kissed. i'm wot cold. I've been cone at ton “Oh, she'd make a good wife.” con. ri ve place ad ever kn ‘ : t aie Li Bio What Ap Te TREMOR. UOMO S MOD cot oO ns Whe hamlets thet emert a ta tow tokens ceded the older woman syd if there tga more austen Concerning an Old House Preset m the ain hearéd to ho a Kitchen waa cov i ’, P micts the key y Michter eried out iristocracy than the "first niles rea Rr ered with a thick carpet of dust an. " up and ste the window, lie chaliced by the Catskill Pp spring, for the [ira 4 ; - unt awe sf 2 1O many years had 1 Mand Lup at tha inewitahia name dene a Ysually > until te roi'm " he Catakl ruse He held up a great bunch of Now, don't spoil tt. De U DUNTFY village | sine dF ? { he think I sleep amat . : th enw t ee ha Inte hut " just woke up and foothills the upproach of catkins and tasseled maple-twigs, matchmaking. T won't have her known ihe fact that 3 ey the “old 1 ; Ne eer ul ale P ama ' rusty Hove with wag pine + feol sleepy, "spa > ¢ > falters “Bee mane Miike Sela wouldn't do at all for me—and setting of petty autoeracy ey i had heen tena that no jn 1 ne sald, a mnatded tahtn and a t gant A We pert as only OHRS le Heald felter hausnad? Tee hae Ft ae nate Cynthia, merey!—she wouldn't have would rank, in w large ly Obl ant acee cencniad) (a, 1. friend pi een ne fe CK furnished it 4 ’ = don't believe T ever saw the sun Ing and tentative are ae EK Ho” tarned mudienty ad the likes of euch @ sloven arouse? with the prosperous gends Sean satin jclle Rat up and wont to. the front some inst. veare onmning foyania come Up before. If T did five for. overtures that If tt were not for the Fiticy w velvety cluster amuinat the Were only platonic frionds, arene Ar. baker or gandiestick Mee igen ale on Racit Cone tee, Sete ent rner and on the table. if gotten It, I saw it come up now despatring challenge of tho inhabit- Kirl'y face na she wtooned, wer” Weighs not at all witm them Tt in true that « ale 8 ‘ saad rp ralked eof rusty tin nalts, { across the park, First the sky grew ants, backed by a progressive calene Sho looked up at him, her cheeks C¥Tthia laughed and nodded firstiin, an rian vy sian peeped out fr pd ite rusty, fy ¥ ona ' 4 4 a box half filled 9 pa y faint lavender: then it dar, ‘who disregard robin-wnows, nip- the loveliest color in the world ‘Only that,” she said; : eaua) fo irreguinr cedar hedge-or what hal cai ''t tramp, but Tdon't know matohan Oe MS lhe warmed up slowly—oh, just a touch ping frosts and swift cold rains, and Please said in a soft low hatural for a girl to--to t and there is 9 y pn't, ohem NRE of warmth, Ike warm flesh. Tt grew rosolutely begin to spade and plant, vo . aaa (.t tain thrfl of fellow sympathy een sich a sign in earlier days. i‘ 1 folontous entry Tt was the matohes that dactite rand deeper until it was nll it is probable that the shy creature - “Dicase—-what,” smiled; “with Richter frowned solemnly Jones, wife of Sw Hut it had become a more She w ' rear. ‘There were | She lonkad at them a lone mor ands of soft pink and tender violet. Would never materialize, you have some?” When you blush like “I'm pot sure that T fancy that re. } Fee ene ren de ote 'ie itaelf long ago~a —raln-blurred, {Wo ide doors, both we secure aa that at the old ganine stove: then down After a while the pinks alone wero “Or ich s reluctant day of apring thats Cynthia? Geek ita aah Ke mark. Yes, thanks—f will have more, wocial doings of. Mrs, Vanderbilt or : : in front, but ow, green, wooden nt the are ahe was carrvine, Tho left, and presently they turned a soft id-April, with wind-blow: kt t ool playing fort * My excellent Cynthir you are at Mrs. Astor, as of one who holds tha weather-worn legend that might have 4, © end of the place was chain of ransaning was comnlete, ‘ MN —miss ABT © bb ine ata ha al BE BODOG! DIB On Fer felts awein - - y Ro key igh on a ller acale-to » i anything that ureened ¢, ned ly by a wooden staple Thean ohbtects represented the loetes clear yellow. roadside pools, ice-edged, and the lease.” said Cynthi ain #t my ideal—in housewifery, 80 keys gn on @ ema spelled Th was heautiful. And all the trees Proee ce, poo ena rotting deaves ati, ‘Don't tai ails” teat said the Much so—this gingerbread moves mo the inner circles, tipmily on the stake and served thrust into a rusted bar. The staple atone townrd tha men! she craved n e pe BED SA . arp ° " - vy te he yUt tered . > ttle, yielded ¢ ' sharn. need ie with thelr delicate arms like lace moist with thaw, Cynthia Field knelt older woman, ““What'e the mewn ig fo such emotion—that T salute you The Stanforda an@ the Frankiing merely to mock th tered \ for 4 little, but yielded A with 9 sharn-ta longing gainst it. They're coming Into bud 1 ” ' ~ na iY very , " Ap } y homes dwelling | 1 presently nd she went in. she had never known before. agains on an old rug beside Mrs, Alexander the village? he presence a witness, a ver retained thetr old family nes « | \ now, It gives them a soft, cloudy 9” an old ru $ ie 4 i ‘ queen of cooks 1 deep in the traairt f 1850, t ind hay i Lor ened to a osm hevond the fact that ees were \ few Stanford's cold-frame planting early is he held up his hands: in } , 1, Tonted deep in Altionn of 1880, ihe uae And arity TN RET ANT An Sone nS: SERS veces an ! yonder why T notice them lettuces. horror And sud te careless ‘ ut Richter, last representative is, munted by Surge, bl ut odaliod, & cuBGy Allied Witt Be salen Soaked Ang! Reaied Wale Iw 7 “ i nb you t moeking h ed forward 1 1 out a ved by himself in wa t ~ try. sun's Warmth, d-allured ono , ‘ou used to © such tipping Cynthia's chin upward with « modern bungalow at the foot o : ; bar gs, thick woolly: ato a : if a ease en tive, Hache’ in a mo- oF two shads trees on the southern lovely verses--and your housekeep- ona forefinger, he brushed her lips the. valley Had ‘ho been @ woman, much a8 one does not marist. and a pile of old straw in a comer she had never faced in her ehieldad jw" 2, plo orth: ing? Merey! W Kk of yo the bri 7 teat kis traditio! ould have been outraged, crate of timbers cut fi ne ve ‘et its odor was ne li Meteeees beast tok ceuntvg in ine) stip. GIFUAtRlBa Hil) ware’a lawl TSiBl idaes ORT DAL CATER GRIGE SO ITGAE ToT eT SUMLGIRIah alse httaaried LET SIGAN To deetinat ratte TARREIY Cong hctiiauegianeal sarbat” aigcle, aseeiied GunesUtir' at weed en ade (To %e Continued?