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Reeser EA. A FCT aa ae apr E NR HOME PAGE : Tuesday, December 31, 1918 | we eStart . i (The 3 York Brening Workl + ’ Be a “t it I e | CS) | WISH You Conducted by Eleanor Schorer } cumaes, the, on hes panne Png - Le pee ooo |] mAPPY THE Besr Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wgptt The Poetry Business Is Picking Up | asl aa ), saunas nae Doran)” Se ieee ee THE EVENING WORLD KIDDIE ae ; E the noted poetess of Delhi, has Olsen nein atin | hit upon a rhyme-writing plan Like ‘the hoot-owl's 60 PRESENTS ITS HOLIDAY PLAY | It is our very biggest river Of it we are very proud, Ripple, ripple, ripple it goes which she believes will be of im- mense value to the school children “Che Wishing Ring” of the United States. She intends to Fed by water from the clow | write a geographical book of poems) My sister's child, Teeney Ricket in which she will describe, in simple ses 6 touth that bare, Bat why yell so, Teeney? | heh Rosa various soustriea, stat Tie ee yous ee salt | He cities and other points of interes: And now. returning to the river i} much as mountains, rivers and the eb vids usd lie don, MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, NEW YORK, |. dike, Doolittle has be- gf a Peter 1, Doolittle, q@un her work and last week she de-| ‘IM & cow for sala cheap. t At 10.30 A. M. TO-DAY roribed it to the Delhi Board of Hdu- | ‘the members of the Board were . , F cation, visibly affected by the poem. They fence eee Dear Cousins and Fr ‘lends. The Board was in session under] readily saw how a child, by learning a, \\ This is the day of days for uf. To-day at halt-past ten In the mi the chairmanship of Jeremiah| it, Would always know all about the Schultz when Miss Doolittle entered | big stream. Chairman Schults arcs the room. Immediately Chairman} “I think that one very ine,” he Sehultz stopped all proceedings andj} said. “What kind of a cow is it some eighty Klub Cousins will act in, and some five thousand Coygim: friends and relatives will witness our Christmas play. We hope that you, reader, wili be with us and trust that you will enjoy it. The Kiddies are | WISH You | Wise You introduced her. ‘A muley, 1 think,” replied the THE Rest THE Rest simply delightful. | have seen them rehearse and know. ® on *Gentlemen,” he sald, “I am proud| sweet girl, quictly. sal Do not, dear Cousins of mine, miss our Klub play and the oper to present Miss Ellabelle Mae Doo- “Will she give milk?" asked Thomp- EVERYTHING] it gives you of inviting your best beloved grown up friend little, who has done more to bring} son Danks. Jome to our little city than any| “No,” replied Miss Doolittle, with ether one individual. She has some-| just a trace of a smile playing about thing to say to us, Step forward,| her mouth. “You have to take it Ellie? from her, I will now read one en- Miss Doolittle, wearing a brown] titled, ‘Pike's Peak. dopena hat, trimmed with artificial The poem follows Johnny-Jump-Ups, took her stand Vike's Peak is a big mountain on the rostrum and explained in low nee Mollet ‘ei fones her plan to educate the chil- hed the. ae aieionas te dren through the use of rhyme. re i a railroad going up it: What I want is the indorsement © tt is very near Colorado Sprina. this Board for my proposed volum« + majentic: mountain, 4 lot, of otber things, said. "But not want yc e said, “But I do no’ know a lady im thie town 4g worth while performance in one of New York's biggest theatres. | Cousin ae * Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kclamee if |MY DEAR COUSIN ELEANOR: I still cam join the shouting, «2 1am writing te tell you how much| For the leader: good and grand. 1 enjoy the letters which I recelve] gut no more will my short versmn |from my English Cousin, They 4F€| Come out on the Kiddie page; lvery interesting. She, like I. h8® &) None will ever more be printed +> brother fighting in France. He was) When J pass the given age. “a 1 hear from her home not long a t ke a leap in the da ‘0 a yhymes, and, it you wish, will rea to eee traveling men come ia, wards, She tives in Mold, FUintehire,| With the other Kiddle-kin 9.2 Hoping luck will ald my fortune land, ‘This morning [ received Hut speaking: again of Pike's Conk, . them” \ It la one of nature's bia isms, stter fram her with scenes of Mold,| And that Ia prise will win. ON ve us more pleas- “chan to hear your rhymes, Will you] with the reading of the final lino a iT Race Medd z Pai io Tatack eae a6 Fert eit ites ee ¢ shoot” ‘ the willowy girl stepped from the ros- IT able to write you. I also hear from|- Ceases in the wah hg Miss Doolittle said she'd be de-) trum and bowed with admirable grace. | AFTER ALC Hee ee hate War kuvemeved: 4eeh & year, lighted. Producing a roll of manu-| phe members of the board applauded HIS Good ph nd now live in Hollis. By THOMAS H. DAVISON+aed script, she read first a rhyme called! with great gusto. WISHES ! sc biasy Ts fifteen years, New. York City.: Sincerely, your Cousin, Lé “The Mississippi River.” It follows: All were pleased, New Year's Day Not Always January | NAINA A. FLINT, Jamaica, —eeenneeeeeee | WILL BE SIXTEEN ON MARCH | (US TO"OIN THE KLUB ANI. | 22, ie a osraIn Ye PIN. prevent further trouble he ordained Tt ta now the chill December, 3 rs By Andre Dupont. that at the beginning of every new | And in only four months more pat ins nie tes) EW YEAR'S DAY seems now to coy wae tis years divisible by I shall be a sentor member rhea Fenn, St and Hop a . | 400 should be leap years, fore. hus ne. , be permanently fixed on our cal Russia and Gresee have sever adopt> Of the Kiddies as before es se ben endars as January first, but It/eq the Gregorian calendar, and conse- When the spring again commences, in dunot oslebrated on (hat date alli gheatly fade Maw years Day Bas Fon When the winter turns and goes, “Klub Pin” Tn imei ie ° f ances-| “head of time a little over two weeks ; eo se ALL childrem ap to.) tie: , lover ve ene nce willie a let thats seleried un Ane: | Bringing Joy to all the sensed, dren ap “pi goa rau gram ot % ore wish ea! er ppy > The New Year is really old before | { My career ig at a ele wath alter era Fianna oa Year" on what is now the first day it reaches the New World, as the of the first month of the year, chan, When again with firm assurance the buds that April sends, of date begins in the remote | coupon no, 410 Com ase vay: The oldest | Semi-tropl C Ae tng be ned in a RY ES oigert ctieadaae Vente oe 8 es Pa-| My career of three years’ advance ® det cf all calenc..3 is the Chinese. THiS Sint of the year aren reet | a . e the few mission- Finally and sadly ends, Ww 1 was arranged so far back in @N-) arics and Christian converts a these oman on t Stage. But 1 still can join each outing Of that Joyous little band: E of the moat important thang Bari the history of the Dngfish drama is Jan. 3, for it wag ow that date in 1661 that the gosMiping diariat Pepys recorded that he vialted the Clare Market Theatre, witnessed siquity that nobody knows who did it, | far-away Islands. Dut whoever it was began the year | several weeks later than it starts tor ‘ The Chinese Now Yeur depends en the changes of the morn, svine times it comes as early as Jan, 3) and in ag late as Feb. 4, but the es- verformance of “Beggar's Bush,” ant pecial “Kung Hi," oy New Year's adds that this was "the firsaotme Day, is Feb. 2. This is a time of S that TE ever saw women come upon. the . ly 4 it up with Dickie, but I'm too old to Neptunic and a year before that on dark and lonely sometimes?” the sudden creak of the banniater a sit po feasting ory anda aay non OUNSEL Island pul sls House Where ive'ixuna oe IUCptue AEs YeRrS Bator eae on Gn and SHAY Remar aT ac. MOMENT AAT AOED oa eluvanagi en oxta TRCARS LAR) McRae avhich all self respecting Chinamen n yy t MY ia! Swenty ste ties TAB bas think I should go mad if { couldn't lapsed against it and then through about town, and not likely to. melee settle thelr bills, as it is considered A Underl, ing Thread of Mi ster terrupted. I understood at once, in is tone was low and significant, get away off by myself sometime the the .-ho of ®& any such epochal innovation, we may ae : Fiancee Aue a flash, all that she had implied, aid but not so low that the words did nut We made our way in_ silence long, ; : seers oy eo have Hg debts out We v A y A y knew ‘whom she meant by “other come to me distinctly. He looked up through the leafy gloom of the wor conclude var Jan. 3 is the 268thraain|+ sanding for the coming year. Th h th Q t L fe ‘ people” It explained her reassur- and saw me, and leaning nearer to land trail to the house, Once L heard, RY. versary of that revolutionary chang) in ancient Egypt Sept. 22 was the eaves roug e Quite we ance to Monsieur Pelissier when sho Alaric said something quickly which faint and far away, the — silvery, CHAPTER V. lin the drama. A play without af SMRORInE Shahn Geae aunt Olecretia came on board the previous cay: “I Wags inaudible to my ears. measured tolling of a chureh bell, HE sun was not an hour bis! actrews in now almost. unthinkgbi s 6 Shee ; have not seen him.” Evidently the I hurried away to the port rail, “That's funny, isn't it?” 1 re- when I awoke, and slipping! unthinkses yecelved New Year's calls she did |i (Copyright by John Lane & Co,) Frenchman knew of her former en- Where the rest were gathered, and marked. but prior to 1961 London theatre pas my bed, I fan to the it window before which ¢ t, and was aware that she instantly the little scene which [had — “What is?" Lorna looked back that day, And travellers who know SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ® rtill liked this Dickie Kanger, in a inadvertently come upon passed from trons bad to be content with seein © rel 7 y di: ots well teil M the hte 3 Invited to’ apes a os feminine parts taken b: r é remote country: dlstricte woll wily te iauahter of am oll King, (9 invited. to apend the sun Iriendly way, If no me iy mind ‘There, don't you hear it? Chureh had knelt not so very many hours /°" Me n by young hes us that even at this late date the rems to ‘be fn atinonpters cf underlying” my tery “L can understand why Aunt Jt We left the Tortoise 1 were Ison’ the malniand somewhere. ierore, in tho broad, sereno light of |" boys In those days it was that claheen vor lowest class of bd was worried.” I laughed, “And you're rowed ashore in’ the ingoy, Aunt Juat vexper time too, Isn't it y eee ot the that female roles were of no partion. myself going queer Saturday! It must be a day, my nervous r lar importance, and about the on § | Jou following with finer stormy hours of darkness seemed the second trip. 1 Or day, Adventists!” Gniigish, and I began to believe, after; (Usllacation demanded for suai CHAPTER HI, With the bold eyes, whom Th d the day before, He st: ly care tust Julie, Alaric and and Lorna and 1 M. Pelisnte quite sure you don't red a litle for this Mr. Ran; “Indeed, no! If you'd ev cvs, often leave their rice flelds or looms and putting on their best | vent clothes take a holiday to worship at NEN T awoke the sun Was jng at me again in that r love you Wouldn't ask me that could scare that wo had /aughed Lorna, "Come along or ‘part waa @ smooth-shaven fact *an ( iin Cemplan ih some Darla at shining so brightly in my Way, and to my annoyanee, Jclt my laughed, then. added, swiftly, left New York only the day before; mother wilt think we are lost’ Sil Shas Weenies _ wey ee ales delicacy of physique and features | ee a et eo | face that it made my eyes face flush beneath his scrutiny ~ haven't, have you, Maida?” it seemed as if we had b sea When I descended at dinner time steps outside my was Charles Il, who Was reshalll crala the same day is cclebrated, | : re taut though his bearing was not disre- — “Been in love? Goodness gracious, much longer than a mere twenty-four gnly Hijou and Monsieur Pellasier nothing but figments of my over.) 7, 7 while in parts of Thibet the year is ache, I lay gazing sbout soecttul, Ihave never thought of marry, hours, 80 many impressions had were in the drawing room, where & Jou ene imagination. I made up my| £0" the Introduction of women om #Be reckoned from what we would ¢all| me, wondering, in the first bewil- “Thank you," I said quietly. taking 1 could feel my cheeks flush Crowded in upon me. wood fire had been lighted on the 1 pe bout it to the PAsiisb stage, He had spent many 7 the first of August. For more than | dered moment of eonscious shought, the handkerchief from his hand, and at the very idew ‘Then T remeinbered ‘The housekeeper. Mt Macpherson, RreAt fir’ ada ta echiet tn years of bis life on the Contines, | one thousand years the Jews have + 1 vig led on impulse: “But Tam XN something, and giggled, “Oh, here # bleasant-faced, middle d Scotch one Obnerm agittie celebrated “Rosh Hashana” or New | Where | was, and how I got there, Waring, not Mise Smith. ead rye eae might’call a vague pos. Woman, met ua in the entrance hall, dstralt and dispirited exec pt the in. f turned from the window, aad Where there wore no nieiitice aaa seep iG Sentember This doca not | 8 1 sat up my locket slipped to “Reg” pardon, Mine. I'm a new sibility, but theeman hasn't the fouxt but Aunt Julle herself showed mo to defatigable Vrenchman. and he kept bathed and dresed quickly. None of | Toi soo mnen ts ne round Sie ‘lways fall on the same date, but ike | the floor and I saw that the chain hand, and I didn't know. Hoe idea of it himself, and I've never even 'y room, which was perfectly enor- Uf it steed Hoe Ot tamed at his (ie, fest would be Up for hours yet, ot eee ca sat ar et oe tie, it Jewish holidays is deterinined by | was broken. 1 couldn't understand touched his forehead with hiv finger seen him!" hit dae teas tis lik dace we _ oe Uae vitoare tT crept trom ink. Ono day a theatrical peederm: tie fi 1 and moved off quietly, and raed f he has not the chtent ide uld you like to lie down for ‘ pe : htetbdligeped ib , Sn ee ¥ ringge td af Ee Oop: Indians had! ‘i for Thad worn that locket and 608 eevee ae y aed a maine pine alle nia i ate awhile?” wogyested Aunt Julie, “Worl Sunset Inland was lovely, but T celt iny room, and went softly around the » was delayed because the, rps * ly uncomfortable and nervous 4 r the wide #halluw WhO played the Queen had neglect! was very wind that daddy would Kullery, and down the wide shallow "shave, and the merry mona Kipie’ Haw Venee CRbaatone a chain ever since I was eight years “He had stared at me so curious'y, very. vaguest possibility under the have tea on the veranda, but yours 7 : mm come, ‘Once @ trailing spray of sweetbriar dered that henceforth women welens 97 did not come on the same date eavh | old, when I tried to follow Daddy and haa seemed to be on the point sun!” Lorna laughed, Vho is he will be pens te you, Au you like season, but depended entircly on, from the hotel and might have baen °f saying more, but had check »d him ‘His name {s Gilbert Spear, and hope you will be comfortable,” fow long T slapt I don't know, but oyutehes fant i ) gaged for feminine parts, N 1 Gaggos weather conditions, When the Inst! togt if the house detective had aot Sif 1 Wondered what he would have he is the Albert Spear, Oh, I'm sure I shail!” I hastened 1 awakened suddenly, to (laa myacte cutched my skirt. and ae I valved mY no atterward becat uf snows had departed and the firet| '°! f ee ane Arnold Spear, the Consolidated Oil to assure her, adding laughingly, "if siting bolt upright in ied In tho Siw just beture me the talk siender Charles IL, was the ace green buds began to appear 2n the me, Daddy had the chain may ‘It's very pretty, the come hero, magnate?” Lorna asked, with wide I don’t get lost! 1 never saw such 4 darkness, with ry nerve in my fnlmacy of a house rising above the {ress to Rain widespread poputiflty trees and green shoots were every-|; and fastened on my neck without isn’t it? Lorna had come up, and ©¥e% is quite a eateh, is! ™ huge ‘bedroom jt would provide jjogy tingling. I didn't kuow wut Trae a woranaea toe t had not | Frail as she was to virtue, an oh where poking above the brown ear‘! | clasps, and too small to slip over my Was leaning on the rail beside me, ‘It T suppose #0," I said, rather short. alee pips quarter s for a family had aroused me, for the house Was a8 thought Ins sel! veevicar Hardeaciee, t tendency to hard swearing, then the Indians hailed with joy the! noag, In the locket, which had a ulte rugged and picturesque when ly. “Daddy and his father are great Aunt Julie laughed, too, still as a tomb, The wind had risen and 1 was sure Aunt Julie or one of {lovely Nell was in many wiih # beginning of a new year, for thoy . i , We approach Sunset Island, not un. chums, and from some olundering T made up my mind I'd have one and the branches of the trew ¢ the ie had told me that no one} credit to the profession in whieh she huew the time of plenty had arrived, | secret spring known only to Dad’y [ike some parts of the coast uf Brit. hints Which Daddy has thrown cut, I house with rooms large enough to yide my window were threshing ‘and {Me girly had told me that Bo one WIS one of the feminine pioneer®. A 1 vy {and me, was a pieture of himself tany.' think they've fixed it up hetween suit me!" she remarked, feel *, ; clive lived on the island | ae ae The rivers and lakes would no longer n rai t soughing about with “a walstling “Curiowity hastened my steps, and L Ie ice hounds there Wound fe nad |and, engraved on the inside of ihe “"l know very little of France,” { them; 'in a nice, old-fashioned, hich cramped and stuffy in @ little bed~ Sound which was Inexpressibly cai uand maitaned spaces clone to & fe) i Pinting and fAaiing ones more Sand case Was an inscription, giving Dad- yeturned. “I only saw the points of handed way, T wouldn't marcy him, room, and the town house tn Chicagy dreary, and there wan the faint mut- itr shelving beach, wad 1 t People ou Ought to a do pert . dress. inte - > is of course e s the Ju an Ol oms und confine . ittle, shelving beach, and fo m4 inany succulent. roots and. herhs|4¥'# name and permanent address, interest in and about Paris that the Of course, if he was the last man on man w and Hed, even if ter and rumble of distant thunder, lt fa Ig along, low, A TS Bee coul the: ey | Although fine, the chain was remark- average tourist goes in for, when arth, just because of that, He's a it ts almost the biggest on the Lake which heralded a coming storm. b " is an could be sathored fo that all danger) ayiy strong ‘and T couldn't under went over with Miss minzdals dueer sort of chap, I believe, alwave Drive Pare That ie da he encrpe, bungalow. It was much smaller than now: : Our present calendar was ar stand its breakin I hoped Aunt and the girls, You like Fr dons foing off on long trips to the vut-of- Lorna was alone on the veranda wound which had aroused mem Hurd-a-lee, but modern and very THE YAPS. 2 Berd Julie knew some place where [ could you? the-way corners of the earth by him en 1 descen but 1 ARGt & caitiv: aud anf Hataned it came Peete: mun aclous Verandas ani ‘ 5 5 ' fave Pine Giese? eit jiave it repaired at once. Just as L did mother seem vory self. He is in India, or South Af. glimpse of Bij white sown bes again.’ borne pe Ricccs re wleeping porches above, and a dainty, gN the Caroline Islands, the, Yams Ore ihetetera tattea ine n Was preparing to go up on deck, Bi- anxious yesterday, when you 1eached rica, or somewhere, so he wan't twecn the trees, and M. Peliasier's Wind--a horrible, choking ery, | ‘ellived pergola at the side. & little Split the year into twanty-filit) Calendar, though Caesar, jou tapped at the door ‘ the yacht, and found I had 4 trouble me very so ne A ea fisure beside he Lorna } d sud orang from the hed, and rushing ta 49¢k juried 0 it from the BhOrs, and laps, H : e's /""Good morning, Maida,” she sald, turned?" he afternoon slipped by without denly tired. Bhe was paler than ever : The 4 trim white launch was tied to it, 2, ‘ « Rrel oldies d pol id the © window, flung it wide. ‘The wind a a thet ec! Brent soldier Aad polltician, dig the! unig you sleep well Yes, she did,” I returned, candid- My knowing, and I started in sure and t were dark, shadowy circles whipped the hale about my fae | but the terraced lawn was neglected | Wor they say In their speech sic anoat of the work, Tale w mel] ame | “Rather too well,” I replied, “I'm ty, when Aunt Julie called to me ab er ve le {up wi in the irling darkness [ could and overgrown, and ¢ with They can curl up ia each, wr iat Cieentte Eaopeeeh, act out te ciate | afraid tive oversient myseit, 3. foci “How silly!” she exclaimed. "Yon | “Look, Maldal’ sho anid, “There, to a amile as J approsche 1 closed nothing. I erouehed th Shivering its shuttered windows Which {# so much more comgy, foam ere per cat cree hee net, | little dull and headachy, and it can never convince mother of a thine! Your leftthat long island betw book she had been reading. ond straining my eyes to into heys, wore the detached, somnolent | paps, tol In; EMIEIUE, tha Breatane mnie cel TUUAE Re. Nory late I suppose it must have seemed very the two smaller ones, We're her: She slipped her arm through mine jight, but no further sound save wir of having been jong vacant atmenay, aa. wall Hg Rs All the rest had preceded us, and queer to you, her anxiety and fu lust! Here's Hard-a-lee in @ girl-like, tinpulsive way, rising atorm broke upon my I turned away at last, and had eae THE PSHAWS. of places, and did better than thie, for | {ey sathered about at once, asked ing r drew me down the winding path A spatter of wind-driven y but a short distance wlong © new path 1 the Caucasus flourish the Paliw Julic about having my chain “Oh, no!" J parried. “She wanted CHAPTER IV. tween the trees, [it was quite dark drove t from the window, and [ Wich led back toward the centre of d and she was quite confident to OOn as ble, » yw. nthe depths of the woods, where the wen: sail ag soon as PoNsi ukn Baur ns Indlbation. of A> hols b went 1 k to bed, wonder the island when | heard a merry . te Bernard no kin). By thelr jaliew kept them, and so did his ‘sur-|/ ors, for a long, long time. In the Mg What i satan it could be done at once-~Monsievr That was why she called for me at beams of the westering sun could that strange cry could have meant, f o!ling whist I stopped and peered Their priest in the creek 5, toman calendar the year was divided pejigsier could Join the brokon ends the school earlier than had ween a through the heavily massed not penetrate, and spicy, herby odora wan juat drifting off inte w dreamiesa out between (he trees in the direction] — ytust bathe once a week, wa into twelve months and began on) fio gecured a tool from the engine ranged. trees, we glided with dimin- assailed us, but the alr was chilly unconsciousness when a new sound from which it had come, and there | ; trecked ‘Sani Jan, 1 just as it di but tt} poom and I was forced to tolerate hi TRGha noAAans Z Meare mins Orde little damp: It was lovely, ale cone nee Wbcn tha: hekak Reed a oiail vanes nften unfrocked from’ he compen sae 206 Senile | clon presence while he deftly s¢- “[ know, But that wasn't rete , os tN the Is eee though it made me mehow, ftw ft but heavy thud, man, a perfeetly strange young man,| 7 cach fo! e a is ar-| cured the chain about my neck. rather what.made her worry," ength, but when we rounde 4 Rraveyard, and I 1 inewhere Win the house, tbe Natlesy and bronzed, with the oan yangement worked beautifully fur| “Atter lunch 1 wandered on deck to haused, und then added, Impetnousiv: the shelving beach at the forthera forna paused now and again and the ntealthy lowing of a door. 1 slowing on his warm brown hair, fl THE GEBARS OF NEW aU awhile, but as the centuries rolled by the stern, and stood at the rail The “I'm going to tell you somethin, ond, a little ery of delight escaped me ked whout her as if she had tixed inyself on one elbow, Was was throwing sticks Into the water] A cannibal tribé called Gebars twas found that the Jullan year, or shore linc was perceptibly nesrer Maida, Did—did your father ever e ee i iw forgotten the way, but at we home one coming softly up for a ridiculous squatty, bow-legged | Have a psychic dyspepsia tha ear from the calendar of Julius now, and we passed t gaunt Know, and tell you my cheai I went has yelow, tan a lnat look ASteOMAI tO aleniy ta wheres Lr Spa Pee ee a doe ay Their joy wastronomlc, Caesar, was cleven minutes longer rock with a lighthouse on it, and ment, two yeu ubéut my cabin to see that r apring bubbled up out of the The footsteps grew unmistakably tle didn't know £ was there, of| For ghosts unharmome than the astronomical year or the then several little wooded iglandy, — “No,” I said, surprised. ‘I seusd had been forgotten, and when I ea and a rude seat had Leen rade of distinet, mounted to the landing, and course, but all at once he turned with | Rise out of thelr dish Jongth of time it took the earth to upon which I could faintly discern nothing of it. Was it announced? on deck again | saw Alaric standing flat stones, cay nearer and nearer iny © dog at his heets and strode into revolve around the sun, and in about white blotches of houses. “No, That was why I thought p « J ain * vere el . . : e 5 y nt pp apart at the starboard rail, deep in Here!" she exclaimed. This is There were two different steps, one the woods directly toward me, I felt 1,700 years the™ealendar had jumped! Some one came up behind me, hes- haps you had not heard, It was conversation with one of the sailors, my summer den, Herel sit and write very soft but firm and light, like 4 @ silly, perfectly unaccountable panic | Bashilange of the Congo are ohead of the real time about ten itated, then advanced to my side. Dickie. Ranger, Senator Ranger's It was the sailor who had watched my letters, and read and dream by cat's tread, and the other }sivier lest he discover me peeping at him,| Who Ambassadors’ days, so in ye Pope Gregory re-| “Beg pardon, Miss Smith, You mn, He was attached to the em- 0 oddly, the hour ‘together, without fear of and dragging. They reached my ang I re on quickly up ¢ th, formed it ft yf roping these extra dropped your handkerchief.” fe were living in Paris then, bas paured involuntarily in surprise, bi ng disturbed, You like it, Maida?’ door, and I could have screamed in hed stop) until T came ‘in in \? fi tig be that Oct. 6, 168%, I turned quickly, It was has other plans for me, and and at that moment (he sailor said: “10s lovely,” I said @ little doubt- sheer nervous terror, but fey, Passed of kite! a Ord eeR of Hard-a. \ considered Oct, 15, aad to bronzed, fair-haired young ~ailofishe's desperately afraid I will meke “You, sir, Two years ago of the fully, “But don't you Gnd it rather on without @ pause, Only, t sowd (To Continnet) _ sf ’ ne merce: eerenrennnn car anne ae oenece Lee eae ST