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CHAPTER Vl—Continued “Well,” she said with a long, deep sigh, “me I ain’t got nothin’ to be proud of—but my kar’kter!” “Your—what?” “My maur’l kar’kter.” “You mean your character?” "Uh- hull. It’s all I got.” “You’ve got something else —* Tie reache i for her hand, drew oil her cotton glove and clasped her lingers. “You’ve got—” But she worked her hand free of his and drew on her glove again. “My fingers is cold.” He frowned. She might be glad he wanted to hold her hand! “You not only have my mother, but your father, on the scent!” he reproached her. “What did you do to make him suspicious?” “It was that there futch—Aunt Rasy tol’ him about it. Did he —was he to see you?” faltered the girl—and the suspense in her voice was not assumed. “No, but I had this letter from him.” He drew an envelope from his pocket and handed it to her. “Read it —and see what mischief your fudge has made all ’round, my dear!” It was a pathetic little note, Meely felt—poor Mr. Schwenckton anxiously • endeavoring to protect his wayward child, yet equally anxious to avert dissension with his powerful neighbor by casting on him any base, unfounded suspicion; pointing out to St. Croix the Impossibility of any safe or honorable relation between him and h^ daughter, due to their unsurmountable differences in station, wealth and education. Somehow, the most pathetic part of it to Meely was the podr man’s struggles to write intelligent English. “Whiles we have always been in comfortable circumstances, yet limited, but honest and honorable." — “Our females in our family being ever Virtuous and very Chaste and never disgraced us. though many temptations.” Meely remembered, as she found the words all spelled correctly, how assiduously the farmer had, one evening, to her mystification, been consulting the dictionary and how he had asked her to spell for him several long words. She was relieved to find that Nettie was referred to only as “My daughter.” and not by name. “Poor Pop!” she sighed as she returned the letter to its envelope and passed it back to St. Croix, “he means so well by us children!” “So you see, Meely, you’ve got to b« careful. No more fudge!” “I never conceited it would give all this here trouble!” she lamented, on the verge of tears. St. Croix looked a shade less austere. “Where’d you get the spiffy coat?” he asked. “Looks for the world like English tweed.” “It’s the teacher’s. She left me borrow the loan of It off of her.” “Now, look here! Why can’t you aay simply that she lent it to you?— Instead of all those superfluous words —she let you borrow the loan of it off of her! Ye gods! ‘She lent it to tne.' That says what you mean, doesn’t it? Five words instead of a dozen!” “Acn, well!” pouted Meely, looking again as though she w’ere on the verge of tears —and then suddenly, to her consternation, she quite uncontrollably snickered —crushing her hand against her mouth to keep from laughing hysterically. Fortunately for her, he took it for a suppressed sob. “There, there, my dear!” he said half impatiently, half remorsefully. “Never mind! You’re past teaching anyhow! Look here, Meely, why haven’t you ever mentioned that the teacher boards with you? You've talked of everyone else in the household.” “Well, you see, I had afraid you might want to be gave an interductlon to her and she’s so pretty, I had Jealous.” “She is a pretty little thing. But I wonder,” he grinned, “what my brother, Marvin, thinks of such a little Ignoramus teaching a district school! I didn’t know they had such crude teachers as that in the schools!” “But she’s awful good in geography ! She can bind every state on the patch-work quilt!” “ ‘Quilt’!” “You know —the map. And sums ! You had ought to see her do sums oncet! My—goodness! To he sure, she can’t talk wery correct. She gets her w’s and we’s mixed terrible! But United States history! Why, she knows even the footnotes, now mind I’m tell in’ you!” While she talked, he watched her with shining eyes, but it was her ravishing self, not Nettie’s proficiency in sums and footnotes, that caused the shining. “I declare, Meely, in that coat you could pass for anything at all! You look positively like a swell! Patrician, actually!” He laughed, little dreaming, of course, that the girl understood why he laughed; why he thought it funny that Meely Schwenckton should look’“patrician, actually!” “And if I really was so pa—hightoned like I look in this here coat,” she responded wistfully, “you could marry me then! Ain’t, Mr. Creighton ?” “Marriage isn't the happiest relation between a man and woman, Meely—there is a freer, happier relation,” he ■aid insinuatingly—ingratiatingly. “But since I ain’t high-toned.” she broke in, “why do you take all this here worry an# trouble tv me«f wltl

“You’re always asking me that, Meely! I’ve told you—you know—” “No, I don't. If you think I’m common—too common to marry—then what is it about me you like so good?’’ “Well, if you've got to have an answer, 1 suppose, Meely,” he said, regarding her appraisingly, “it’s that you’re so absolutely feminine!" “‘Feminine’? Well, but my goodness I —what would you expect?" “It makes you. to most men, my dear, so irresistible! I can’t understand how you've gone this long without being married. Why haven’t you married, Meely?” “Ach, I ain't got no curiosity!" He winced. How blatantly vulgar she could be! • However, she had given him his cue—a wedge to break down barriers. He found himself surprised at his own sense of reluctance to come to the point with her, to put his quest to the test; an undefined apprehension of disappointment—though of course that was ridiculous — surely she “loved” and desired him, or why had she been risking so much to meet him here? Surely she was flattered at his desiring her! He suddenly snatched her to him witli passionate kisses —so fiercely that this time she was too helpless In his hard grip to avert his lips—and into V ■ a a nk tv VJr 5% IB iw * r “Well,” She Said with a Long, Deep Sigh, “Me, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ to Be Proud of—tut My Kar’kter!” her ears he poured out words not In her vocabulary—she could only guess their meaning; could only surmise that now at last lie was telling her what all along she had known—that he took her for a “hussy!”—and although through all these weeks she had been expecting this climax, yet it came to her now with a shuddering shock. In vain she struggled to free herself from his arms and his appalling words. “Let me go—or I’ll scream!” she managed to gasp at last. He was not too far gone to know the danger of her threat —their hilltop, though isolated, being not too distant for a scream to be heard from the valley below. Panting, baffled, he dropped his

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There seeins to be no reason why a woman or girl should not get as much enjoyment out of life as any man or boy. Too many of cur sex consider themselves hothouse Howers. If the weather Is cold or stormy they will not venture outdoors. The sun must be shining and the weather warm before they will spend any time outside. Whether it is cold or warm, calm or stormy, every woman and girl should spend at least three hours daily in the open air. Not merely resting, but walking, washing or playing some game. Being in the fresh air is all right in away, but to get 100 per cent value out of the good air, one should exercise in it. Even if the exercise consists only of deep breathing, this, at least, exercises the lungs. I find that too many women neglect their breathing. They very seldom take a deep breath. It is easy to get Into the habit of taking the deep Sincerity in Reading “Read to see, as far as you can,” says Sir Henry Hadow, “the difference between good work and bad, and you will come to like things which you first of all thought dull, austere and inaccessible.” That is the secret. Whatever one reads should be read with a critical eye, not merely raced through for the sake of its passing interest, but more or less studied for the qualities it possesses. Every book, however poor, contains something new and instructive. I's one reads for improvement as well as interest, an appreciation of the best will come as a matter of course." Gain Living From Sea The Japanese are the only people who nave ever understood the systematic planting and harvesting of seaweed aud other merino vegetation.

I arms from about her, his face distorted with a mingled resentment and an anguish of hungry yearning. But ha clutched her skirt lest she get up and run away. She only moved, however, a few inches from him on the ) log, her whole body trembling, her face deathly white. “If you touch me. I’ll scream!” she gasped. He could not find breath to answer her. “Can we, ’ she asked scarcely above a whisper, “talk this here thing out, Mr. Creighton?” “What’s there to say? I want you! You surely want me! —I’ll amply reward you— ’’ “You mean—buy me?” “Os course not —any more than you’ll buy me. We want each other, I Meely! I’ll reward you for the risk you take—reward yon well—” “Do you mean you’ll give me—money?” “A pile of it—that you can put away for your marriage—” Meely started —this was nn amazing world that was being revealed to her! She had not dreamed how far some men would go, how ruthless they could be, in degrading a girl. “For my marriage!” she breathed. “Ach, Mr. Creighton, I didn’t know you thought that low-down of me!” Before the look of utter dismay that had come into her face, he actually । felt, to his own bewilderment, a mo. mentary embarrassment. Was she going to be sentimental and scrupulous? That would make things much too difficult —he had certainly not anticipated having to wrestle with scruples! “I don’t think ‘low-down’ of you, Meely, We love each other—” “Love? But I’d think, Mr. Creighton, that if a man loved a girl he'd purtect her, not hurt her!” *Vnt love never hurt anyone. Meely! It enriches and blesses—because ft gives ecstasy! E»st??y, Meely!” "Supposin' you had a slstAr—would you go ahead and tell her to .tike such blessing and riches and ec<xsy as you’re offerin' me? Would you 1 ” He Ignored this ridiculous qm*e*»on. “Meely, love should be ns free And natural fa us ba breathing this autumn air! It's a glorious Hdv«.vturo —” “But If It’s that—glorious advern ture’ —why make It * sneak In', ugly bargain that you gotta hide and be ashamed of all your life?" “Ashamed? Look nt those birds—and all the other wild, free things! Are they ashamed? Then why should we be ashamed when we’re only yielding to our natures that God gave us—” He found himself reasoning with her Just as though he believed she were seriously putting up all these objections! “Yes, well, but the birds mate,” she answered, “and live in a nest and hatch young ones. That's what love Is—a home and children, living and working together and bringing up children. Nothing else is good enough for me, Mr. Creighton, thank you!” “Oh. Meely, you don’t realize!—a free, spontaneous love like ours can be so much more beautiful than the deadly dull, stale marriage relation!” •“Beautiful'! Sneakin’ and hidin' for fear well be found out! —and goln' against the Nature you talk about! — for It’s goin’ against Nature when you darsen't have a child. And you call that love! That ain’t love. Mr. Creighton. It's—well. ”hat would you > ca.ll It? I don't know what you’d call It!” •’lf all you see In love (a lovely young creature like you!) Is childbearing !" “But that'*’ what love's f. r, ain't It?—if it's future you're pl.i .n' me to follow. And you offerin’ me money yet for my marriage! As if even a ' common man would marry me if»he knowed I was a loose woman! Even : a workin' man. Mr Creighton, wants his kids’ mother to be a good woman!” “But there's no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ In love, Meely—love is so divinely above those superstitions! Love Is—” “I ain’t thinkin’.” she broke in. “so much about whether it's right or wrong. It's whether it's good sense for a girl to give herself to a man ' that thinks she ain’t good enough to 1 marry him! What's it worth to a girl?” ’ (TO BE CONTINUED.)

breathing; expanding the lungs to the limit if only’ two or three time a day. Doing this indoors is of little value. The fresh air should be taken advantage of. By this means, alone, one can obtain assurance against lung troubles. And there is no cost whatever for this treatment. —Psychology Magazine. Optimism vs. Pessimism The talk was of the pessimism of the young. “I do not understand why,” said one. “You would think that young people would be all optimism with the future before them. You would think they’d see life as a rosy path. It seems to me the mid-dle-aged and the old have more reason to be pessimistic. They have seen their illusions and their enthusiasms go one by one.” “Because they are middle-aged and old is the very reason for their optimism,” said another. “They have learned by the time they reach mature years that nothing is so bad as it seems and that this is a pretty good old world after all." —Springfield Union. Conscientious Borrower One morning Mrs. R answered a knock at her kitchen door. There Stood Helen, three years old, who lived in the other half of the duplex. “I want to borrow a match for mother; she said that she would bring it back when the grocer boy comes,” announced the child. In a few minutes Mrs. R was summoned to the door again. There stood Helen, holding a burned match between her thumb and finger. “Here is your match. Many thanks Mother did not use it all. • She was [busy, so I thought I might as 'well bring it back to you.”—-Indlanapoli* News.

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DfIETTY and practical thing® to ■ make will be a feature of “(ling ham Week." set for the near future, when exhibitions and fashion shows will be held In the principal cities throughout the United State®. A very original and useful accessory for the cldldren s room which will be exhibited Is the toy hag sketched above. I bis Is meant to hang on h door within reach of the child. It Is i twenty two Inches wide and forty Inches long. The foundation is doubled to nmke it strong. As tiie gingham Is thirty two Inches wide, the eighty Inches cut from the lengths make ten inch pockets for the toys. The pockets are box plaited to give tlwm sufficient : fullness. Elastic Is run through the top hem of the jH>ckets. an<! big snappers are used to hold them in place. The bug Is hung on tt curtain stick passed through a casing at the t<>f< The animal applique? are cut after patterns that can be secured at any pattern department. The gingham dog. Inspired by Etpeue Field > famous poem. “The tling

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ham Dog and the Calico Cat,” has already proved the delight of many a child. It is cut from a yard of gingham, body, legs, head, ears and stub tail being made separately and then put together. An article for the nursery that would delight any child is the fish pillow. The design for this particular fish was taken from a picture book and one could vary the type according to fancy. This one is twenty inches long exclusive of the tail, which is seven inches. The eye and marking on the side are appliques of one-tone gingham on a fine checked body. The mouth is worked in outline stitch. Cotton is used for stuffing the pillow. At the top of the sketch is a child’s play apron made from two squares of novelty check gingham, cut to fit the child for whom it is intended, and rounded at the lower edges. Two tucks are placed at the top to make Smart Touch 7’hc smart woman can have a feather in her hat any time she wants it, according to the latest style. One cardinal red mushroom felt has a tiny feather stuck right through the top of its crown. Pointed Back Drecotl uses white satin and black chiffon for the famous pointed-back model. The girdle is also white satin and the deep decolette is outlined With strass embroidery.

the apron fit across the chest. The straps ami appliques are of n onetone gingham to match the predom- । inating color In the design of the i check. The apron is cut the same back and front. Comes word, from the Junior section of fashion's domain of a revived enthusiasm for tine colorful flannel. So It is that the spring ami summer landscape will he enlivened ! by the presence of young moderns clad I I In gay flannels, some striped, some plnided. some in lovely pastels. Blazer flannel, a fabric which has I been slighted for many season* past, i has returned. Its stripes and colorings more pronounced than over. These vivacious wool. us are being made up most ingeniously. for stripes always have a beguiling way of coaxing the I stylist to play them up in artful design <»f special nf>i>eal to rhe grow- , Ing girl and tl e tmdding sub deb are ; two piece fro<ks. made of blazer flan nel or candy striped, the difference i being flat tiie former employs the • most "blazing" colors In definite con-

trasting stripes while the latter more aptly introduces all sorts of bonbon tints, in assorted stripes which vary from these lines to quaint candy-cane effects. Usually these stripes are manipulated in reverse, that is, horizontally for the blouse and vertically for the skirt. Not all of the fashionable flannels are striped, however. Many are plaided, as is the pretty flannel which serves as a medium for the smart dress in the picture. The coat is flan pel, too, a creamy white flannel with an all-over patterning suggested with artful delicacy in its weave. The selffabric bands Stitched diagonally across the blouse top. the box-plaited skirt, and the twin belt are three outstand ing styling details. Note the fabricstrap and buckle which fastens across the V-neckline. Isn’t it a tricky idea? JULIA BOTTOMLEY. u (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Even ng Slippers Slippers for evening wear are nearly always of the sandal type, with delicate straps. Gold and silver brocade, of very line pattern, satin dyed in delicate tints to match the frock and sometimes embroidered in touches of brilliant color, are the important materials. Spring Coats in Vivid Style Coats of bine for spring wear are in a new shade that is very deep yet vivid.

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