Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — Page 3

PETE INTERFERED.

He Was Not Returned and Healed the Breach.

By CLARISSA MACKIE.

[Copyright, IMO, by American Press Association.] ' > Evelyn, having returned her engagement ring to Richard Hallam, was collecting her other gifts for the same purpose when it occurred to her that she would like to keep one of them. What should she retain? Why. Pete. She caressed bis brindled coat, and a strange lump came into her throat as his pink tongue licked her little, ringless band. Then she sat up and blinked back the brightness to her eyee and completed her task. She wondered if Richard would come tonight. No; be would sulk one day, and then tomorrow evening he would come. The next day Evelyn shopped and lunched and called with exceeding dil. Igence. Late in the afternoon she slipped home to a quiet cup of tea in her •wn sitting room. There were no letters, no messages—nothing for her. In the evening Mr. Hallam was announced. Evelyn tried to subdue the wild beating of her heart and dallied over the adjustment of a rose in her hair. It would be all right after all. Her soul sang with joy; but. coquette that she was. Evelyn schooled her face to proper severity as she entered the drawing room. “Good evening. Miss Lovell,” said Hallam, with grave politeness, taking her hand for an instant and dropping it hastily. ”1 received your note last evening. I have brought Jones around with me to help carry the stuff away.” “The—the stuff?’ she stammered, nonplused at his manner and the strangeness of the situation. “Why. yes.” he replied cheerfully; “you wrote that you had some trifles you wanted me to remove from the premises, and here I am.” Evelyn lifted her head haughtily. “Certainly,” she said with assumed

“LOOKS LIKE A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL,”

carelessness; “I had forgotten for the moment. I will ring for Martin to bring them.” They silence until Martin’s fat white calves staggered into the room under the weight of an assortment of neatly tied packages. Evelyn stared miserably at the sight Hallam grinned broadly. “Looks like a Christmas festival,’’ he said, with ill timed levity. Martin deposited the pacltages on the floor and departed. Dick Hallam drew a slip of paper from his pocket. 'T have an Inventory here.” he remarked. with a businesslike air that was disconcerting. Evelyn felt that she was the victim of some horrible nightmare. It could not be possible that Dick Hallam had been so mean as to keep an account of the gifts be had given on birthdays and at Christmastide! Where was the generosity and love that had always characterized loyal Dick? “Let me see.” he continued thoughtfully, scanning the paper in his hand. “I will call off the items, and you may ten me if they are all here. lam sorry to be obliged to trouble you in the matter,” he added politely. “It is no trouble,” she Said faintly. “All the things are there.” “A jeweled bangle, pearl hatpins, lace fan. clock, books, gold purse—er —er—a picture?” he interrogated her doubtfully. ’ “Yes,” she murmured in a low, distressed tone, “a picture.” - “And one dog,” he ended sharply, replacing the paper in his letter case. “Oh. no—not Pete!” she cried, with an Involuntary gesture of alarm. “Oh. yes. Pete, of course,” he said io a matter of fact tone. ,e I cannot let him go,” she said defiantly. “I insist that the dog shall be included among the articles.” “I beg you will leave Pete with me. We understand ekcb other. I love him so,” she said, with a lump in her throat “I regret the necessity, but I cannot leave him." he replied relentlessly. ‘*l will bring him myself.” she said Twenty minutes passed, and Evelyn did not return. He rang the bell. “Please remind Miss Lovell that I am waiting.” he said to Martin. »

~i beg your pardon, sir, but Mias Evelyn went out,” explained the man. “Where did she go?” •‘She didn’t say, sir. She bad the dog. and she said she might not return tonight.” Hallam smiled enigmatically. “Just tell my man to call a cab and take these packages around to my rooms," he said to Martin. Then be left the house. It so happened that Richard Hallam was her vis-a-vis at the Lumley dinner the following night. They greeted one another with frigid politeness, and then Evelyn turned her attention to Percie Goodall, who took her in. while Richard devoted himself to Mary Cameron. Percie was a dog fancier. He loved dogs, bought dogs, thought dogs, wrote dogs and showed dogs; but. above all. he talked dogs. He was talking dogs now. . “For a good, all around, companionable dog. one that is affectionate, intelligent and a genuine sport commend me to a Boston terrier,” be said enthusiastically. Evelyn shot an apprehensive glance across the table. Hallam was discussing an entree with careful attention, but she knew be had beard Goodall’s loud, crisp tones. “Oh, yes." she said carelessly, “dogs ire interesting, but I want to hear ibout that skating rink you are building at Vinecliff. Mr. Goodall.” “But.” expostulated Goodall. “I thought you were a dog lover. Miss Lovell. Surely your Pete won a blue ribbon!" “Yes. yes.” she interrupted in agonized haste. Why should be persist in talking about horrible dogs? “I adore them, you know, only I want to hear about the rink now.” she added J n a low tone. . “Very well.” be laughed good naiuredly. "exit the dog and enter the rink! It’s a tank 100 feet square: glass, roof, with an ice plant concealed in the cellar. When it is completed I shall have a carnival, and I know you will be queen of the festivities! How’s that?’ “That will be delightful,” she said, with a relieved laugh. Dick was frowning into his plate now, and she felt a little better. It was apparent that Mr. Hallam was experiencing the pangs of jealousy. After that they went to the play, and Dick Hallam still danced attendance upon Mary Cameron. “Nice girl. Miss Cameron," ventured Goodall as he helped Evelyn into her cloak after the curtain had rung down for the last time. “Lovely!” exclaimed Evelyn enthusiastically. “Engaged to Hallam’s cousin, isn’t she?” asked Goodall. “I didn’t know," faltered Evelyn. “So they say. Bob Hallam is in the Philippines, you know. The engagement hasn’t been announced, although it leaked out at the club.” “Oh!” said Evelyn, and it is not on record what Evelyn thought Three miserable weeks dragged by, miserable for Evelyn Lovell. Dick she saw occasionally, always the same cool, courteous, distant Dick. Nothing more had been said about Pete, and he remained in Evelyn's possession, the hostage of her love. Once in the solitude of her room she had attacked the astonished Pete and shaken him forcibly. “You hateful, horrible dog! If it hadn't been for you "1 do 'believe”— What she believed Evelyn did not utter, so the aggrieved Pete never knew. One crisp morning she sallied forth with Pete at her heels. She shopped without enthusiasm, and then, overcome by a weariness that was unnatural to her buoyant temperament, she went into a certain smart little tea room and ordered luncheon. Pete sat on a chair beside her loftily indifferent to the tempting sights and smells that surrounded him. The room was deserted save for herself and a group at another table in a far corner screened with palms. She discussed her salad languidly. Suddenly she raised her eyes and saw that it was Richard Hallam who was seated at the opposite table —and of course the Cameron girl. She lifted her chin with hauteur and bowed coldly. He returned it stiffly. She thought he was looking pale and tired and somewhat bored. It was strange that such a busy lawyer as Hallam could spend time dangling after a creature like the Cameron girl. Oh, everything was strange and so horrid anyway! Pete sat beside her. his black nostrils twitching and bulging, expectant eyes ; fastened on Dick Hallam’s face. His whole body quivered as if controlled by a multitude of tiny muscles of steel. Suddenly, as if in response to some anticipated signal, he uttered a loud yelp of joy and bounded across the table, leaving disaster in his wake. Straight as a die he shot toward Hallam, who rose hastily and endeavored to quiet the excited animal.’ Evelyn had arisen from her seat. [ Her face was quite white, and it was I evident that he was agitated over the contretemps. Hallam advanced toward I her, determination in his manner. ' “Come and join us. Evelyn.” he said i authoritatively. “I cannot.” she whispered brokenly. “Nonsense!” he laughed. “Come; my : cousin from the Philippines is concealed behind the palms. You must meet him.”

She went. There was gladness in her heart, in her eyes and in the caress she vouchsafed the faithless Pete. “Dick,” she said later when they were making all things right between them, “did you call Pete to come to you?” ,i , Hallam laughed happily. “I did.” be admitted, “and”— “And I told him to go,” she murmured to the lapel of his coat ,

FARM LABOR SAVERS

Thirty ftcras of Maclilnery Wil. Be At State Fair. Hundreds of Indiana farms owe their labor-saving methods and home comforts to ideas obtained at the State Fair, and the coming exposition is going to show the newest offerings of machinery for farm use. This exhibit will cover thirty acres of ground and will include scores of contrivances for reducing the work and increasing the output of the farm, and there will be hundreds of machines for making lighter the work of farm women and which will give them household conveniences which make the country home rank in appointments with the city mansiori. Methods of providing heat,, light, water and sanitation will be shown. Rapid and profitable ways of doing dairy work will be exploited In exhibits. Concrete, now an important material on every modern farm, will have its many uses shown in exhibits. One exhibitor will show a complete model farm ■with the model buildings made of this material. In heavy machinery the fair will have many acres of exhibits. Last year the makers of threshers by agreement did not show their machines at the fair, but they are coming to the next fair in greater force than ever. E. S. Tuell of Corydon has charge of the mechanical department. That the mechanical display is going to be on an enormous scale was made evident early in July, when all of the regular space was assigned to exhibittors, and since then there Jiasdbeeiu, clamor on the part of exhibitors for ground room. Harvesting machinery, power outfits, vehicles of all kinds, everything of use to the farmer, will have prominence in the acres of machinery that will be seen.

FLOWERS AND FRUITS

Elaborate Shows of Both at Indiana State Fair. The Indiana- State Florists’ association .is taking an active interest in making the flower show at the State Fair a glowing success this year. The association arranged the premium list so that it would be attractive to professional growers, and the amateur flower growers' are also well provided for. Women from both town and farm who cultivate flowers about their homes will find open to them many classes in the fair’s show. Special features in flowers have been provided for each day of the fair. David Wallace of Indianapolis, who for years has been active in the management of the fair, will have charge of the flower show as well as the table luxury department, another division of the fair that is very popular. The choicest products of Indiana home kitchens will be displayed, including breadstuffs, pastries and preserved fruits, and the prizes offered the amateur exhibitors are very inviting. Fruit from Indiana soil by Indiana growers makes up another division of Mr. Wallace’s department, and it is always in keeping with the quality and quantity of the iioosier crop. Some of the best orchards and some of the more active horticultural societies are always represented in the fruit show by large exhibits.

Upbuilders of Indiana State Fair.

Four men who are widely known over Indiana and who have long been actively Identified with the upbuilding of the State Fair will at the coming fair again be in charge of departments in which they have for many years been interested. Each of them has served as president of the State Board of Agriculture. John L. Thompson, one of the pioneer sheep men of Indiana, and who is known over the world as an expert on Shropshires, will have charge of the sheep uepartmen . Mason J. Niblack has expanded the swine department to a point where it Is one of the largest livestock divisions of the fair. Sid Conger has made the poultry show of the fair one of the largest of its kind in me country. James E. McDonald has for a decade had charge of the art department of the fair, and year after year through his efforts one of the largest buildings on the grounds is filled to overflowing with displays of especial interest to women. The outlook for this division is especially good for the coming fair and it will abound in displays of knitted and crochet work, hand-made laces and embroideries, hand sewing, fancy work, photography, arts and crafts, paintings in oils and water colors by professional and amateur artists, china painting and photography, with many other features popular with women. The other divisions of the fair and the experienced members of the board in charge are: Agricultural products, C. B. Betijamin. Crown Point; horticulture, David Wallace, Indianapolis; mechanical. E. S. Tuell, Corydon; speed, C. H. Anthony, Muncie; horses, J. Lynn VanNatta, Lafayette; cattle, Clem graves, Bunker Hill; admissions, John C. Haines. Rockport; grandstand Dan C. Reed. Attica;. concessions, H. L. Moores Hill; coliseum Knode Porter, Hagerstown; amuse*, ments, L Newt. Brown. Franklin. Os car Hadley, known over Indiana as a cattleman, is president of th* l board; J. W. LaGrange of Franklin is treasurer.

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