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Penrod, fearing the ordeal a playing
;the part or the Child Sir Lancelot, seek*
tforgetfulness in the composition of a dints
;move].
Pertrod's mother and sister dress him
In his cestume for tho "Children's Pageant
,or the Round 'rabic." Penrod is ashamed
;to wear it.
ereaes-tie (fie" whole ttageant by
Putting on a pair of the Janitor's overalls
ever his costume.
A visit to a moving Pieter° show gives
litrn an idea and he loafs away his time
in school. dreaming dreams.
Emerging. satiated, front the theater,
.a public timepiece before a Jeweler's
shop /confronted him with an tines-
Tected dial and imminent perplexities.
flew was he to explain at home these
'dims of dalliance? There was a
-steadfast ruie tbat he return direct
•from Sunday school, and Sunday rules
'Were important because on that day
'there was his father, always at home
;and at hand, perilously ready for sm-
itten. One of the hardest conditions of
$.1)oy hood is the almost continuous strain
put upon the powers of isvention by
Abe constant and harassing necessity
'for explanations of every natural act.
• Proeeeding homeward through the
.deepening twilight as rapidly as possi-
ble at a gait half skip and half canter,
l'eurod made up his mind in what
manner be would :menet for hiS long
delay and as he drew nearer rehearsed
in words the opening postage of his
.defense.
see here," he determined. to
:begin. "I do not .wish to be blamed
ler things 1 conldn't help nor any oth-
-er, boy. I was going along the street
•by a cottage and a lady put her head
out of the window and 'said her bus -
band was drunk and whipping her
• and her little girl, and she asked me
wouldn't I come in and help hold him.
Ito I went in and tried to get hold of
'this drunken lady's husband where he
*as whipping their baby daughter, but
Ite wouldn't pay any attention, and /
t,told her 1 ought to be getting home,
Abut she kep' on askin' me to stay"-
• At this point he reached tire corner
it his own yard, where a coincidence
not only checked the rehearsal of his
-eloquence but bappily obviated all oc-
-eagion for it. A cab front the station
:drew up in front of the gate, and there
,descended a 'troubled lady in black
•end a fragile' little girl about three.
Mrs: Schofield rushed from the house
:and enfolded both in hospitable arms.
They were Penrod's Aunt Clara and
also Clara, from Dayton, Ill.
and in the flurry of their errival every-
body forgot t� put Penrod to the qnes-
lion. It is doubtful, however, if he felt
•any relief; there may have been even a
slight, unconscious disappointment, not
altogether dissimilar to that of an
,sretor deprived of a good Part '
In the course of stame really netessa-
4ry preparations for 'dinner, he stepped.
from the batbreeitt into the phik and
White bedchamber of his sister and.add
diressed her rather thickly through II
*mei.
"When'd mamma find out Atiat Clara
send Cousin Clara Were coming?"
"Not till she saw them from the win -
Alm. She jest happened to leek ottt
aa they drove up. Aunt (darn tee
-
graphed this morning, but it wasn't
-'41aBeered."
PALPITATION
OF THE
HEART.
Sudden fright or emotion may cause a
inotreettary arrest of the heart's action,
„or Sonic exciternent or apprehension ntay
• - het up a rapid action of the heart thereby
'• causing palpitation. •
Palpitatiott, again, is dike the result
of digestive ditorders arising from the
•stomeein or trial' be the result Of over
•indulgenec of tobacco or alcoholic drinks.
The only way to regulate this serious
heard frOuble is tOttSe lidilbure's Heart
.arid Nerve
Mrs. 3. S. Nicholls, Listowelt, Ont.,
"1 was weak and the doWn, my
heart would palpitete and t Would take
weak turd dizzy teals. A friend ed-
vised me to fry IVIfibura's Heart Mel
:NerVe Pills se; started at twice to use
-ttettn, and i feend that I felt touch
strotiger. itatttlet praise your medielite
tee highly, for it lets done Me a world of
good."
Milburife Heart and Nerve Pills are
.511c per bed, borree for $1.25; at all
deafer's, or Melted direct hy The 1'.
./iiiihtnsi Co., Idatiteflt Terelltat 014'
"Sow long they gtAn' to "stay?
"I don't know."
Penrod ceased to nth his shining
face and thoughtfully tossed the towel
through the bathroom door. "IIncle
John won't try to make 'em come back
home, I guess, will he?" (Uncle John
was Aunt Clara's husband, a success-
ful manufacturer Or LitOveS, and ide
lifelong regret Was that be had not en-
tered the Baptist ministry.) "Bell let
'em stay here quietly, won't her
"What are you talking about?" de.
mended Margaret, turning from her
mirror. "'Uncle John sent them here.
Why shouldn't he let them stay?" '
Penrod looked crestfallen. "Then be
hasn't taken to drink?"
"Certainly not!" She emphasized the
denial with a pretty peal of soprano
laughter.
"Then why," asked her brother
gloomily, "why 41d Aunt Clara look so
worried when sire got here?"
"Good gracious! Don't people worry
about anything except somebody's
drinldng? Where did you get such an
idea?"
"Well," he persisted. "you don't
know it ain't that."
She laughed again, whole heartedly.
"Poor "Uncle John! He won't even at
low grape juice or giuger ale in his
house. They came because they were
afraid litpe Clara •might catch the
measles. She's very* delicate, molt
there's such an epidemic of rneasics
among the children Over in Dayton lee
schoors had to be Closed. 'Uncle .loun
got SO., Worried that last Mein he
dreamed about It and this moreing be
couldn't stand it any tenger and pack-
ed them off over here, though he
thinks it's wicked to travel on Sunday.
And Aunt Clara *as worriedwhen
she got here .because they'd forgotten
to check her trunk, and it will have
to be sent by express. Now, What in
the natie of common sense •„put it
into Your bead that 'Uncle John bad
taken to" -
"Oh, nothing!" He turned lifelessly
away and went downstairs, a newborn
hope dying in his bosom. Life seems
so needlessly dull sometimes.
CHAPTER If.
SchOol.
DXT morning, when he bad
once more resumed the dread-
ful burden of education, it
seemed infinitely duller. And
yet what pleasanter sigbt is theta than
a schoolroom well filled with children
of these sprouting years just before
the teens? The casual visitor, gazing
from the teacher's platform upon:
these busy little heads, needs only It
blunted memory to experieneri the ,
most agreeable and exhilarating sen-
sations. Still, for the greater part the
children are Uncenselous of the ham*
neas of „their cendilion, for nothing ii
mere pathetlealiyyttlie than that we
"ila4:er' line* "07.1aellf,i,We Ate well off."
The boys., in a public school are leSS
Weal* Of their happy slate the* tire
the girls. and of' all the boys tat lilt
room probably Peneod,hirnselt bed the
least appreciation of bus felleity;
He sat staring at an open page of a
textbook, but not studying„,not even
reading, not even thinking. '!or was
he leat'iti a reverie. His reind'e tlYe
was shut, as his physical eye might
web Wive been. for the Optic, nerre.
flaccid with ennui, eonveyed nothing
Whatever of the printed page Orton
Whieli tire orb Of vielon was partially
focused, Penrod was doing soutethillg.
very unustial and rare, something a1.
most beret nceomplished egeopt bY
colored people or by a boy in settee,
en ti sprieg day -he Was doing really
nothing at fill. Ite wits merely a slate
Of being,
Flettri the street A Soitrid stole in
through the open window, and ahleit
ting eater° began le tilrthe vaeinim
called 'Penrod fic.lioneht, for the eetitel
was the speltiA sang uf n Month otatin
editing deWtt.,t110 sidernlik. The witt
&MS Were iritentlettelly ithove the let. -
el Of the eyes of the seated pttplls, bet
the picture' of the turbid:in Was phlitt
te Peered, tarleted for hint by si Minn,
ty itt the rune and trlIln partaking of
the oboe of the celllope and of vete la
eetrirchitleg atteetneett
'Elliott only by tila wallowing. walloif•
lag yellow -pink peter of A band Whose
, ha& was Mute biaoh mid eldny. the
inusie ealte down the street Mid pass.,
ed beneath the Window, aceompatied
by the care free shuttling of pale 01
old Sheba Wading sylicepatimis On the
COMMA tritleterilk. It passed tete the
tidier -de; bee.anie faitit tind blurred:
WAS gone. tintition stirred in Penrod
ggLnell,41* antleire. _hut vor.
-1)1104fertunatelyt ho tarry pimento;
mado her appearance. OtiletWitte Pete
red would bete gone iloWn the street
in a black ehla, Pleythe the Meeth ur
San, end an unprepared colored Yellth
would hnve Nand hioaSeit' enleting
editeatienel edvantagea for whieh he
And no nEnAltIon whatever. „
Roused froth perfeet apathy, the lied
caSt abeet the set0o!rooi an kle
w,earied to reinsert •by the PerPettlol
Visiell et the neat teacher ufloll the
platforM, the beeke of the 'lends Of lho
pupils la front of he. 11111 the me•
riotormile stretrbes of blaelthoerd
threatoningly detaced by arithmetical
formula and other insignia ot torture.
Abet° the braekboard the wade Of the
high renal were of •;white plaster. -
white with the qualified Whiteness ot
Old Snow fn a soft coal town. This.
disMal expanse Was broken by four
litirographie portraits, itetire offerinert
of a thoughtful pritilisher, • The pod
traits were of gOod !Ind great men,
kind men. Men whe loved children,
Their faces were noble and beneye,
lent. But the lithographs offere4 the
only rest for the eyes of children frd
tigued by the OVerlasting" sameness ot
the sehoolrootn. Long 4ay after long
day, interminable week in and inter-
minable week. out, vast month on vast
month, the pupils sat with those four
'Portraits beaming kindneea down Won
MOM. The feces Itecame Ornraneut
IR the consciousness of the children;
they, became an obsession. Iir and out
of school the children were never free
of them. The four faces baunted the
minds of children falling asleep, They
hung upon the minds of children wak.
Ing at night; they rose forebodingly in
the minds of children waking in the
morning; they became monstrously
alive in the minds of children lying
•siek of fever. Never while the .chil-
droll of that selmolroem lived would
they be able to forget one detail of the
four lithographs. The hand of Long-
fellow was fixed for them forever ln'
his beard. And by a simple and un- ,
conscious association of ideas Penrod
Schofield was accumulating an antipa-
thy for the gentle Longfellow, and for
Nimes Russell Lowell, and for Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and for John Green-
leaf Whittier which would never per-
mit hina to peruse a work of one .of
those great New Englanders without a
feeling of personal resentment.'
His eyes fell slowiy and inimically
from the brow of Whittier to the braid
of reddish hair belonging to Victoria°
Riordan, the little octoroon girl who
sat directly in front of him. Victo-
rine'S back was as familiar to Penrod
as the necktie of Oliver Wendell
Holmes. So was her gayly colored
plaid waist; He hated the waist as
he hated Victorine herself without
knowing why. Enforced companion-
, ship in large quantities and on an equal
• basis between the sexes appears to
sterilize the affeetions, and schoolroom
roniaticeg are few.
Vittorine's hair was thick and the
brickish glints in it were beautiful, but
Penrod was very tired of it A tiny
knot ot green ribbon finished off the
braid and kept it from unraveling, and
beneath the ribbon there was a final
wisp of hair which was just lohg
enough to repose upon Penrod's desk
when Victoria° leaned back in her
seat It was there now. Thoughtful-
ly he took tbe braid between thumb
and forefinger and, Without dbturbing
Victorine dipped the end of it and the
green ribbon into the inkwell of his
desk. He brought hair and 'ribbou.
forth dripping purple ink and partially
dried them on a blotter, though, a mo-
ment later, when Victorine leaned for-
ward, they were still able to add a
few picturesque touches to the plaid
Waist
Rudolph Krause, across the aisle
from Penrod, watched the operation
With Protuberant eyes, fascinated. In-
spired to imitation, he took a piece of
chalk from his pocket and wrote
"Rats" across the shotilder blades of
file boy ,in front of him, then looked
across appealingly to Penrod for to-
kens et' eongratulation. Penrod yawned.
Half the members of the ease pass-
ed Out to a recitation ••:rooni, the em -
purpled , Victorine among there and
Albs Spence started the remaining half
through the ordeal of trial by mathe-
matics. Severai boys and girls were
Sent tb the blackboard, and Penrod,
spared 'for the moment; follotved their'
operations a little whlip with his eyes,
but not with hie mind; then, stoking
deeper in hie Seat limply o.brurdOned
'the effort. His eyes remained open,
but saw nothing. The rentiae of the
arithmetic lesson reached kb ears in
familiar, 'meaningless sounds, but he
beard nothing, and yet; this tittle, he
f*as profoundly oecupied. Ho had
drifted atvey freln the painful land of
tuts, end floated neve in a new sea
of fancy which he had jurit discovered.
Maturity forgets the :MarvelOns real-
ness of a boy's day dreams, how color-
ful they glow, rosy and living, and
tow dilating the curtain closing &mu
'between the dreamer dead the actual
Woad. That curtain it 'almost sound
greet, tee and catees more threat
ttouble among patents than is sus-
peeted.
The Hennes monotony Of the school -
real inspires 5 sometimes Unbearable
lenging for tionlething tretobishing to
hapPen, and as every boy's fundanien-
tat dealt.° IS te do something astonish-
ing himself, se its to be the ceriter of
all benign intereet and awe, it Was net
-
Ural that Penrod should disdeVer in
"faney the delightftli tetra of Self levt,
teflon. Ile foetid, iti this M11.10e4 ae-
ries of iniaginings, tiering the lesson
tri arithinetie, tha.t the atinosphete may
be nitVigated tis hit a stViiiinier under
Water, but with indnitely greater eat°
Wad With perfect Comfort in breathing,
In his Mind he 'extended lite arras
griteefully, iit level With Its Shotil-
dera, and delieiitely paddled the ale
With his hands, Which at °nee Crafted
bigittelia.illettUti p okt of hie Beet 10#
When the jack Becomes Lams
IT IS A MON. Of KIDNEY TOIOSOLE
Doan a Kidney rills cure the aching
hack by curing the aching kidneys be,
neath—for it is Melia' the kidneys aching
and not the hack,
DOmei • KiclueY Ras are a §-Neje*
kidney and bladder Medicine for the
cure of alt kidney troubles.
MM. 14041$4 CrenthaW. $83 Manning
Ave„ TOMO, Ont. writes: °I ,.take
great Pleasure in writing Y04, Stating rhe
•benefit 1 have Teemed by using Poen'S
Kidney Pills, About three years a0) I
• was terribly afflicted with lame back, ane
Was $9 tia4 I could net even sweep tbe
floor. I was advised to try your pills,
and before I had used one bee there was
a great improvement, and my back was
much better. however, I kept on taking
tient until my back was completely
cured. I highly recommend 'Dealt's'
for lame back,"
Doa.n's Kidney Pilis are the original
pill for the kidneys. See that our trade
mark the "Melee Leaf" appears on the
idraPPet.
Doen's Ididncy Pills are 50c per box,
3 boxes for $1,25; at all dealers or ;mailed
direct on receipt or price by The T.
Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont,
When ordering direct specify "Tiean's."
eleitifetrgeWto 13; position about nzau-
way betweee the floor and the ceiling,
where he came to an equilibrium and
floated; a sensation not the lesa ex^
quisite beeause of the .screams of kis
fellow yupits, appellee by the miracle.
Miss Spence lieraelf was amazed and
frightened, but he ouly smiled down
°tirelessly upon her wen she conp •
Mantled him to retura to earth, and
thee, 'when She climbed upon a desk
to pull him down, Ise quietly patting('
himself a little higher, leaving his toes
jest out of her reach. Next he swam
through a 'few slow somersaults to
. show his mastery of the new att, and,
with the shouting of the dumfounded
scholars ringing in his ears. turned on
his side and floated swiftly out of the
window, immedirttely rising above the
housetops. while people in the street
below him shrieked. and a trolley ear
stopped dead in wonder.
With almOst.no exertion lie paddled
himself, many yards at a stroke, to
the girls' private- school where limp.
i'le Jones was a pupil -Marjorie Jones
of the amber curls and the golden
voice! Long before the "Pagenut of
the 'fable Round" she had offered Pen-
rod a hundred proofs that she consid-
ered him wholly undesirable and in-
eligible. At the Priday afternoon
dancing class she consistently Incited
and led 'he hmghter at him whenever
Professor l3artet singled him out for
admonition lry matters' of feet and de-
corum. And but yesterday she had
ebitled . him for his slavish lack of
memory in daring to offer her greeting
on the way to Sunday, school. "Well,
I expect you niust forgot I told you
never to speak tome again! If I was
A boy I'd be toe proud to come hang-
ing around people that don't speak to
me, even if I was the worst boy iu
town!" So she flouted him. But now
as he floated in through the window of
her classroom and swam gently along
the ceiling like an escaped toy balloon
she fell upon her knees beside her lit-
tle desk and, lifting up her arms to-
ward him, pried with love and admira-
tion:
"Oh, Penrod!"
He negligently kicked a globe from
the high chandelier and, smiling cold-
ly, floated out through the hall to the
front steps of the school, while Marjo-
rie followed, imploring him to grant
her one kind look.
tu the street an enormous crowd had
gathered, headed by Miss Spence and
a brass band, and a cheer from a hun-
dred thousand throats shook the very
ground as Penrod swam overhead.
Marjorie knelt upon the steps and
watched adoringly utile Penrod toolc
the drum major's baton and, perform-
ing sinuous evolutions' above the
erowd, led the band. Then he threw
the baton so high that it disappeared
;front sight But be went swiftly after
it, a double delight, for he had not
only the delicious sensation of rocket-
ing safely up and up inte the blue sky,
but aLso that of standing in the crowd
below, watching and admiring himself
as he dwindled to a speck, disappear-
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la * hand, to the level ef the tree,
tePet Where be beat *Pe tor the band
alICI tile Vath thread and Afaflorio
Jones, who all united hi the 414nr
Spattgled Banner la Aolg/r of tin
aerial •fiehlevemeuta- It Watt sk great
moment,
It was a greet Moment, Out nom -
thing seemed to threaten if. The foree
of Dfise Spence lotting up from the
crowd groW too Vivid-uPPleasantly
$lio was beckoning 1.11.M ttIal
a/tinting! "Cenie down, r elar04 Soho,
Penred Schodeld, come down
here!" . o cauld hear bOr abeve the
band and tile singing or the Multitade.
She seemed intent on spelling WM9"
thing. Marlotie jones was weeping te
show bow sorry she Was that 411)0 had
formerly slighted hina and throwing
kisses to prove that she laved him, but
Miss Spence kept jumping, between
him and Marjorie, incessantly galling,
his name.
He grew more and more irritated
with her. He was the moat luaportant
person in. the world and was engaged
hi proving it to l‘larjoric Jones and the
whole city; end yet Miss Spence seeIn.
ed to feel the still hafl,the right to or-
der blin about as she Old in the old
days when he was an ordinary school-
boy. He was furious. He was sure
'Penrod Schofield! Penrod Schofield,
. come down here!".
she wanted him to do something„, dis-
agreeable. It seemed to him that she
had Screamed "Penrod Schofield:"
thousands.of times.
From the beginning of his aerial ex-
periments in his own schoolroom he
Ltd not opened his lips, knowing some -
bow that one of the requireMents for
air floating is perfect silence On the
part of the floater; but, finally, irritat-
ed beyond measure by Miss Spence's
clamorous insistence, he was unable to.
restrain an indignant rebul5e and im-
mediately came to earth with a fright-
ful bump.
Miss Spence-ln the Ilesh-had direct.
ed toward the physical body of the ab-
sent Pernod an inquiry as to the frac-
tional consequeneeS of dividing seven.
teen apples fairly among three boys,
and site was surprised and displeased
to receive no answer, although to the
best of her knowledge and belief he
was looking fixedly nt her. She repeat-
ed her question crisply without visible
effect; then summoned him by name
with inereasiug asperity. Twice she
called him, while all his fellow pupils
turned to stare at the gazing boy. She
advanced a step from the platfortn.
"Penrod Schofield!"
"Oh, my goodness!" he sheuted std.
denly. "Can't you keep still a' min-
ute?" _ ..
- - CHAPTER VL ' . --
Uncle John.
Mdwith a ewelling, con-
IfilSS SPI/NCB gasped. So did
le
the pupils. The whole room
glomerate "0 -o -o -o -h!"
As for Penrod hiraself, the vvalls
reeled with the shock. He sat with
his Mouth open, a mere lump of stupe-
faction. For the appallieg Words that
he had Milled at the teacher were as
inexplitable to hilt es to ally other
who heard them.
Nothing is More treacherous than the
human mind; nothing else So loves to
play the Iscariot. Been when patient -
by bellied into a semblaace of ordel:
and training it niay prove but a base
end shifty servant. And Penrod's
Mind was not his server% It was a
master; with the April wind's whims,
and it had just playee hint a diabolical
trick. The very jolt with 'which he
tante baek to the schoolroorn la the
retest of hie fancied flight jetted his
cley dream utterly out Of hint arid he
set open mouthed in horror at what
Pc laid said.
The untlnitnotis gasp ot Ore was pro-
tracted. MiSs SPenee, hOlterer, fina1.
ly recovered her breath, and, t.ettiriting
delibetately to the platform, faeed the
wheel. "And theti, for a little while,''
as pathetic stories. sonietheca reeoullt,.
"ovetything was very WV It WeS Se
atilt, le fact, that Pearod's newborn
notoriety tould Merest be heard grow-
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with the -side of fils-shoe, 'swafed,
swallowed. looked suddenly at his I
hands with the air of never having
seen them before, then clasped them
behind him. The school shivered in
ecstatic horror, every fascinated eye !
11Pon hien yet there was not a soul in
the yoom but was profoundly grateful
to hint for the sensation -including the
offended teacher herself. Unhappily,
all this gratitude was unconscious and
• altogether different from the kind
which results in testimonials and lov-
ing cups. On the contrary!
-Penrod Schofield!"
He gulped.
"Answer me at once! Why did you
speak to inc like that?"
,"I was"- Ile choked, nimble to
continue.
"Speak out!"
"I was just-therking," be managed
to stammer.
"That will not do," she returned
sharply. "I wish to know immediate-
ly Ntrhy you spoke as you did."
The stricken Penrod answered help-
lessly:
"Because I was just thinking."
'Upon the very rack be could have
offered no ampler truthful explanation.
It was all he knew about it
"Thinking what?"
"Just thinking."
Miss Spence's expression gave evi-
dence that her power of self restraint
was undergoing a remarkable test
Hotvever, after taking counsel with
herself, she commanded:
"Come here!"
He shuffled forward, and she placed
a cbair upon the platform near her
own.
"Sit there!"
Then (but not a all as if nothing
Ltd happened) she continued the les-
son in arithmetic. Spiritually the
zbildren may have learned a lesson in
very small fractions, indeed, as they
gazed at the fragment of sin before
them on the stool of penitence. They
tli stared at him attentively, with
hard and passionately interested eyes
in which there was never one trace of
pity. It cannot be said with precision
that he writhed. His movement was
more a slow, continuous squirm, effect-
ed with a ghastly assumption of lan-
guid indifference, white his gaze, in
the effort te escape the marble hearted
glare of his schoolmate.s, affixed itself
with apparent permanence to tho
wabteoat button of James Russell
Lowell just above the "u" in "Rus-
sell."
Classes came Mad classes 'went, grill-
ing him with eyes. Newcomers re-
ceived the story of the erlme in dark.
ling whispers, and the outcast sat
arid squirmed and squirmed and
squirmed. (He did one or two things
with his spine which a professional
contortieniet would hare observed
With real hiterest.) And ell this while
of freezing suspense was but the
criminal's detention awaiting trial. A.
kttown penishinent may he antieipated
with seine measure of egoanimIty-at
least, the prisoner may prelim.° him-
self to Mulergo it -bet the triknown
looms more monstrous for °veil, at-
toinnt te gness it. Penrod's crime was
tinittne. There were to rtiles to aid
hlin In estitnatitig the veegeance to farl
upon itint for it What seemed most
embattle Wes tiutt be would be end -
led from the sehool in the preseece
et his tomilY. the mayor and Medi
and Whipped afterward by his father
upon the state Immo .itep9, WWI tfie
entire Pity US atallerice by ineitatien
of the Authorities:.
Noe tertre, The VOWS °I, Children
Med °Of, eVery head turning for lust
unpleasingly apeenhitive look at the
entlaw. 111tMi Thee Snebee doted the
dear fete the tie:Ike:1W Mid that into
tto 121.: hall end eery and set at ,her
Pairing In usgtszazurea.
The custom of pairing in the house
of couustons originated in (Tomwell's
time. "Pair off" is the phrase usol to
signify that two members of a legis-
lative body of opposite political opin-
ious agree to absent themselves from
voting for n certain period, By "pair-
ing" in this way they neutralize eaeli
other's absence. The whips . of the
house generally manage to find "p Ors"
when, for any tease», 'tomboys d ssire
to be absent teinporarily.
deist:7-110er Politod. Tlfe ti•ampl of
feet outside, the shrill ealls and • mut-
ing and the changing voiyes t. the
older boys ceased to be henyil and
there was silence. 1"envollA111
lug to be occupied with l;;e;trell wan
conscious that Miss Sp..;nee'lote• 1 at
him intently.
" Pet ; rod." sh e sa Id ; vely, hot
excuse Imre you to Ori.t,!' ilefOrP ,
port your case LO ;be prIticipar?"
The word "principal" fatten I
the vitals. Grand inquisitor, grand
khan, sultan, emporor, ezar, Caesar
Augustus -these are comparable. He
stopped squirming instantly and sat
rigid.
"I want an answer. Why did yea
shout those words at noc?"
"Well," he murmured, "I was just-
th uk lug."
"Thinking what?" she asked sharply.
"I don't know."
"That won't do!"
He took his left ankle in hls right
hand and regarded it helplessly.
"That Won't do, Penrod Schofield,"
she repeated severely. "If that is all
the excuse you have to offer I shall re-
port your case this instant!"
And she rose with fatal intent.
But Penrod was one of those whom
the precipice inspires. "Well, I have
got an excuse."
"Well" -she paused impatiently -
"what is it?"
He had not an idea, but he felt one
corning and replied automatically in a
plaintive tone:
"I guess anybody that tad been
through what had to go through last
night would think they ba4 an ex-
cuse."
Miss Spence resumed her seat,
though with the air of being ready to
leap from it instantly. •
"What has last night to do with your
insolence to in this morning?"
"Well, I geese you'd see," he re-
turned, emphasizing the plaintive note.
"if you knew What / kttotv."
"Now, Penrod," she said, iti a kinder
voiee, "I ha•ve a high regard for yout•
mother and father, and it would hurt
ine to distress them, but you meet el-
ther inc What Was the matter With
you or I'll have to take you to Mrs.
IloustoM"
"Well, ain't I going te?" he cried,
spurted by the rimed name. "Ids be.
cause I didn't sleep last night."
"Were you ill?" The questien Wad
put with some dryness.
He felt the dtyness. "Nem; 1
Wastet,"
"Thea if some one in your faintly
Was so ill that Oen yeuii were kept
up all night, how does it happen they
Id t yott COMO to seltOcil this Morning?"
"It wasn't illnest," he retutned,
Shaking his head Mournfully. "It waS
lots wOrsen anybody's being Sick. It'
Was -it Was -Well, It Wria jest a*fitl."
"Whet Vas?" ad marked with antis
oty thci incredulity in her toms,
"It was abeat Anne Clara," he mid.
"Vat, dient Chiral" she repeated.
"Do you Mean Veit Mother'r Sister -
%the Worried Mt. Parry et Dayton,
at*
returned Nora
berthWftille. °The trouble was about
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