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By ANNE AUSTIN.
CHAPTER ONE.
Bonnie Dundee stretched cut a long
and rathei fine pair of legs, regard-
ing the pattern of his dark -Wee socks
With distinct satisfaction; then he
rested his black head with a sigh of
satisfaction against the rich uphol-
stery of an armchair not at all in
tended for his use.
His cheerful blue eyes turned at last
—but not too long a last—to the small,
upright figure seated at a typewriter
desk in the corner of the office.
"Good ntoraing, Penny," he called
out lazily, and waited good-humoredly
for the storm to break.
"Miss Crain—to you'." The flying
fingers did not stop an instant, but
Dundee noticed with glee that the
slim back stiffened even more rigidly
and that there was n. decided toss of
the brown head.
"But Penny is so much more like
you," Dundee protested, unruffled.
"And why should I be forced always
to think of you as a long-legged bird,
When even our mutual boss, District
Attorney William S. Sanderson, has
the privilege of °ailing you what you
are—a bright and shining new
penny."
"I've known Bill Sanderson since I
was born," the unseen lips informed
him truculently, even as the unseen
fingers continued their fiercely stac-
cato typing.
"Ah! That explains a lot!!" Dun-
dee conceded handsomely. "I just won-.
dered, amidst all this bonhomie of
'Bill' and `Penny,' why I—"
"I only call Mr. Sanderson Bill'
when I forget!" the small creature
defended herself sharply. "Goodness
knows I try to be :.n efficient private
secretary! And I could be a lot more
efficient if Iazy strangers didn't
plump themselves down in our best
visitors' chair, and try to flirt with
me. I don't flirt! Dc you hear? -•-I
don't flirt with anybody!"
"Flirt with you, you funny little
Penny?" Dundee's voice was a little
sad, the voice of a mar who finds him-
self grievously misunderstood. ''I
only want you to like me, if you can,
send be a little nice to me, for after
.all I—"
"Oh, I know?" Penny Crane jerked
the finished letter from her type-
writer and spun around in her chair
to face him. "I know you are `Mr.
James F. Dundee, special investigatox;
attached to .the °Mean l,'he clistrict'
.a.right
"Crazy?" Dundee was• genuinely
amazed, contrite. "I beg your pardon
most humbly, Miss Crain. I'll go back
to my cell—"
"Your office is almost as big and
nice as this one," Penny retorted, but
her sharp, bright brown eyes—really
almost the color of a new penny—
softened until they =oak on a velvety
depth.
Dundee did not fail to notice the
softening, nor did the little heart-
zhaped face, with its low widow's -
peak, its straight, short nise, and 'Is
pointed little chin, fail to please him
any more acutely than on the other
clays of the one short week ne bad
been privileged at intervals to gaze
upon it.
"But the files are in this office and
—other things," he told her, his blue
eyes twinkling happily once more.
"Don't you dare touch my files
again!" Penny cried, springing to her
feet and almost running toward the
wall which was completely concealed
by drawers, cabinets and shelves,
filled with the records of which she
was the proud custodian. "That's why
I said just now that you were driving
me crazy. Thursday you took a whole
folder of correspondence out of the
letter files and put it back ... c the
wrong initial. I had to hunt for it f �r
two hours, with Bill—I mean, Mr.
Sanderson—gnawing his nails with
impatience. He thought I had filed it
wrong, and you might have made me
lose i .y job."
Unconsciously her slightly husky
contralto voice had sunk Iower and
trembled audibly.
"I'm awfully sorry. I shan't touch
your files again, Miss Crain."
"Oh—go on and call me Penny,"
she conceded impatiently. "What do
you want now? ... And you can get
anything you nerd out of the files if
you'll just put the folder in the bot-
tom drawer of nay desk, so that I .an
file it myself --correctly!"
"Thank you, Penny," Bonnie Dun-
dee said gravely. "I'd like awfully tea
have the complete transcript of 'The
State versus Maginty.' Mr. -Sander-
son is determined to get a conviction
where our former district attorney
most ingloriously failed. The new
trial comes up in two weeks, and he
wants me to try to uncover a missing
link of evidence."
"I know," she nodded, and stretched
her short, slender body to pull down
the two heavy volumes he required.
Without a by-your-leave, Special
Investigator Dundee resumed his com-
fortable seat, and laid the first of the
volumes open upon his knees. But
he did not seem to take a great deal
of interest in the impaneling of jurors
in the case of one Rufus Maginty, who
had won the temporary triumph of a
"hung jury" under the handling of
the state's case by the deposed district
attorney, Sherwood.
Rather, his eyes followed the small,
brisk figure of Miss Penelope Crani
as it moved about the room, and his
ears listened to the tapping of her
French heels, . French heels! Hadn't
she been wearing ser „ible, Cuban -
heeled oxfords all other clays of this
:first week of his "attachment" to the
district attorney's office? . . Cunning
tle thing, for all her thorniness and
her sharpness with .iiia, which he
now saw that he had deserved. , . .
Prety, too. , . Darned pretty! . .
What color was that dress of hers?
Chartreuse, didn't they call it?
Chartreuse with big brown dots in it.
Bet it was sleeveless under that short
little jacket of golden -brown chiffon
velvet.... By Jove—and Dundee
lapsed into one of the English -isms he
had picked up during his six months'
work in England as a tyro in the
records departmeiet of Scotland Yard,
before he had come to Hamilton to
make a humble beginning as a cub
detective on the homicide squad—yes,
by Jove, she was all dressed up, for
some reason or other,
"Of course: Because it's Saturday
and you have the afternoon off!"
Dundee finished his reverie aloud, to
the astonishment of the small person
trying to reach a file drawer just a
little too high for her. "I mean,"
he hastened to explain, "that I've just
noticed how beautiful your costumc
is, and found a reason for it."
There was sudden color in the
creamy face, made the more interest-
ing—to Dundee, at least—by a sprink-
ling of golden -brown freckles across
her nose. The French heels tapped
an angry progress across the big
office, and Penny sat down abruptly
in her swivel chair, reached across 'dumps in all parts of the district and
the immaculate desk, snatched up a four carloads brought in from Seattle.
morning paper and tossed it, without The old tires are placed two or four
a. glance, in her tormentor's general deep under each tree to be lighted for.
direction, smudges in case of frost.
"Page three, column two, firet
item," she informed him ungracious-
ly, and then began to search with a'
funny sort of desperation for more
work to occupy her insatiable fingers
and her extraordinary energy.
Bonnie Dundie grinned indulgently
as he opened The Hamilton Morni n g
News and turned to the specified page
and column.
"Ah, my old frio:ad, the "society
editrese,'in her very best style," he
commented, ass he began to read
aloud:
"'Mrs. Juanita Selina, new and
charming member, is entertaining the
Forsyte Alumni Bridge Club this
afternoon, luncheon to be served at
the exeiusive new Breakaway Inn an
Sheridan .;Load-•-'
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Billie looked in at a crack of the
'earn door and whispered, "Old furni-
ture—lots of it;" I peeped behind
the bare. Not far away, almost hid-
den by the trees, a house was being
built, and coming toward us was a
tall, thin man, past middle life, with
the gentlest face I have ever seen.
"We're interested in old houses,
and they tell us you are an author-
ity," I began, walking toward hint.
His face flushed. Anything that
interested him flushed his face—it
was a thermometer, tabulating emo-
tions.
"I'xn too interested, I'm afraid," he
responded apologetically. "My busi-
ness and my hobby is the same—old
furniture and old houses. I love
'em both. I live not so long ago in
an old house back over in the coun-
try. It had a beautiful old doorway
and a long sloping roof and fine pro -
buy
ao long, long timeI had , buted te they it
me twice what it was worth. , . So
now, you see, as I couldn't get what
I wanted, I'm building a new house
for my old furniture. Every space
in it has been planned to fit each
piece. Come over and I'll show it
to you—My wife, ladies."
His wife had been sitting on an
empty barrel watching him plaster,
and his gentleness was matched by
her sprightliness. With the uncon-
scious gaiety of a child she escorted
us down to the cellar where a colo-
nial kitchen had been built and fur-
nished, almost before any of the rest
had been planned.
"I wanted to be near him when he
worked so I had him finish. this part
first" she explained. "We have lunch
he was sure could have no possible
interest for himself, in either a per-
sonal or professional capacity, unieas
Penny's name was in it somewhere:
"—after which the jolly party of
young matrons and maids will ad-
journ to Mrs. Selim's delightful home
in the Primrose Meadows Addition."
He chuckled and dared to interrupt
the high importance of pointing -up
pencils. "I say, that's funny, isn't
it'' 'Primrose Meadows Addi-
tion'!"
"I don't think it's funny," Penny re-
torted coldly. "It so happens that my
mother named it, that my father went
into bankruptcy trying to make a go
of it, and that 'Mrs. Selim's delight-
ful haute' was built to be our home, •.,
and in which we were fortunate— , Headaches Totalling 65
enough to live only two months be- Found by Specialists
fore the crash came."
"Oh'!" Dundee groaned. "Penny, New Orleans. -65 headaches caused
Penny! I'm dreadfully sorry." by food were described to the Ameri-
"Shut up!" she ordered, but ixtr can Medical Association at its annual
voice was huskic • than ever
with
Dundee's now thoroughly . inter
s
eyes raced down the:absura)711W"r'
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More than that of any other
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Soap make it specially suitable
for babies, and its clinging fra-
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spire it.
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Only one ell cs good
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R`y� yp PEKOE BLE 1
"Fresh from the Gardens"
The Plowing Match
It was not warm. April is fiddle, audof the rainy storms that followed
after all, and she can scold handily ne it; "a breeze that'd perish the Danes,"
well as weep and smile. Icy ehowers they rolled it. The women talked of
of hail and rain came slanting across the difficulty of persuading a hen to
"Hit." "Another year," they said.'
"they'd be clockin' a caution, but none
of them are such samples this year
that you'd trust a clutch of eggs under'
them, whatever skittishness is in
them.' An elderly man nodded toward
a plowman whose furrows were mar-
vels of exactness. "That lad from
Ballykill was a great dancer in his
day," he said, "but he's gone very lazy
lookin'; sure th' only dance he could!
do now would be the jig wid one foot,
always on the ground an' lb' other
never off of it."
The gorse on Cloney hill was as yel-
low as gold, and a thrush sang, flute-;
like, from an ash tree in the hedge. In.
the "fifteen acres" the lambs were
continually losing their mothers In the
excitement of their own games—the
races and the King of the Castle.
High above the field, where the dark
furrows were being drawn out from
hedge to hedge, the larks were sing-
ing. There was warmth in the run
shine, however cold the wind might,
be. Slowly the big horses paced up
and down, and hoarse voices called:
"Up, Charlie," and; "Up, Kit"; and
the judges stood on the headland and
watched the best plowman in the coun-
ty at work. The sound of laughter and
of voices floated down across the
fields to the road where a donkey cart'
creaked by; and a big collie balked as
the two horses he loved came back'
along the furrow to the place wheie he'
sat and watched anxiously.
In the outside world, there was noise
and speed and struggle. in Dolan's;
field there was the slow, sure working
of men and of horses who love their..
job and do it well. In Dolan's. iieldi
there was peace; for the lovely quiet,
things of the countryside were all
about the people who gathered there
to watch the process without which no
harvest may be reaped.
here. . . . And don't you like it?
the face of Cloney hill, to whiten for
a few moments the straight brown fur-
rows; then the sun shone again and
made lovely jewels of the big drops on
the twigs, where the young green was
showing.
The best of an April shower, how-
ever cold, is that one sees It coming
from afar and has time to shelter from
it. In Dolan's field that day, when the
gray curtain blotted out the hill, the
people who watched the plowing step-
ped into the dry ditch below the thick
hedge that stood between them and
the west,
As always, there was a big crowd in
Dolan's field. to see the plowing match;
for it does not seem to matter much
how showery the day may be. No in-
ternational motor race, with its fear-
some noises and smells from the super-
charged engines, could hold the same
attraction for a Cloney crowd. The rac-
And see, there is a bedroom down
here, too—and—don't you like it? All big cars would be driven by strangers,
this was my idea -don't you like it?" even by foreigners; but the plowmen
breathlessly she talked. in the sloping field were known to
Yes, we liked it all, and loved
them both. No house that I had
ever known had been built solely
everyone in the district.
In the big field on that uucertain
April day , the four "novices" went
for the furniture. Every piece, first. At eleven o'clock sharp, they
from the old clock to the Hepple. planted their guiding sticks, and .made
white sideboard, from the four- their "middles," in the part of the field
poster bed to the Chippendale tables that was reserved for their uuimport-
and chairs, had been carefully meas- ant class. The big browns and the
ured, and they both were living for big grays started on. their slow jour -
the day when each treasured piece neys up and down, wondering, perhaps,
could be moved into its last new why they were not working in the fa-
home.—From "Touring New Eng- miller field at home. It was a serious
land," by Clara Walker Whiteside. business for the novices; and their
voices were husky or sharp, according
to temperament, as they spoke to the
horses. To the onlookers this compe-
tition was rather a tame affair, and
they talked busily while they waited
for the real thrill of the display—the
event in which every first-class plow-
man.for miles round was to take part.
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ISSUE No. 22
2
meeting here
tears. These queer P diet
m
ranks of were The men talked of the recent drought,
reported by Ray M. Balyeat, M.D., and
Herbert J. Hinkel, M.D., of Oklahoma
paragraphs: City.
"Although not an alumna of that The dinner -time headache routes
famous and select 'school for. s 'were so devious that two-thirds of the
Forsyte-on=the-Hudson; gfadla' sufferers never knew the cause until
from which place's any Hamilton girl recently developed methods of testing
in the very inner circles of Hamilton uncovered the sources.
society, Mrs, Selim has been closely Two men had headaches from food
identified with the school, having for eaten on Saturdays and Sundays only,
the past two years directed and staged but at no other time. They had them
Forsyte's annual play which ushers in
the Baster vacation.
"Indeed it was Mrs. Selim's remark-
able
emark
able :iuccess with this year's play
which caused Mrs. Peter Dunlap, long
interested in a Little Theatre for
Hamilton, to induce the beautiful and
charming young directress to return
to Hamilton with her. Plans for the
Little Theatre are growing apace, and
it is safe to conjecture that not all the
conversation flying thick and fast
about 'Nita's' bridge tables this after-
noon will be concerned with zentraet
`cone ..tions,' finesses which failed,
and scores.
"Lovely `Nita' was elected to mem-
bership a fortnight ago, when a va-
cancy occurred, due to the resignation
of Miss Alice Humphrey, who has
gone abroad for a year's study in Sor-
bonne. The two -table club now in-
cludes: Mesdames Hugo Marshall,
Tracey A. Miles, Peter Dunlap, John
C. Drake, Juanita Selim and Misses
Polly Beale, Janet Raymond and Pen-
elope Crain."
(To be continued.)
Old Tires Protect Apple Trees
Wentachee, Wash. — North Central
Washington apple growers have found
that old automobile tires are useful in
keeping frost away from trees. Thous-
ands of tires were salvaged from
Rabbits, Hares Differ,
Belief They Are One
The rabbit arid . the•hare .aid; often
considered to be the 'sarue animal, yet
this is erroneous, for they are finite
different in appearance and decidedly
in habits, says "The Washington Star."
The hare, for instance, has long ears
and legs, while the rabbit has short
weekly for years.
ears and legs. The bare is born with
Sometimes bad heads came from a
single eating. Other persons had to fur and is able to sea at once, while
build up to the pain stage by several the rabbit is born without fur and is
days diet on the unsuspected cause.
blind for a time.
Even in the same person the food It is in the habits, however, that
varied its method of attack from time they differ most. The hare is a speedy
to time.
runner and practically tireless. His
The physicians did not name any long legs send him over the ground in
of the guilty foods, stating that in tremendous leaps which usually foil
every case rule of thumb trials were
all pursuers. He lives in hutches en
necessary fag identification. But fee- the surface or under some form of
quently the discovery and change of protective covering supplied by nature.
diet alone were sufficient for relief.
The rabbit, on the other handl, is a
Anger, emotional stress, physical burrowing animal and because of its
and mental fatigue, and disturbance of short legs it is unable to run far nor
special senses, particularly the eyes, exceptionally fast. It will circle
often conspired to set off the gastron- around and hole in whenever it is
omic fireworks.
chased by a persistent pursuer.
Profound sleep was one of the fore- Australia, on which the rabbits are
runners of a few of these headaches. not native, imported them around
Other precursors were "lumps in the
throat," depression, abnormal hunger,
cankers, and breath.
Along with the headaches went other
sensations, including dizziness, blind
spots before the eyes, blindness in
half the field of vision, seeing "zig-zag
lights," blurred sight, squinting eyes,
seeing double, drooping eyelids, noises
in ears, and disturbed powers of smell.
rrl,ve res x- an x sn ttsy, so 8
up!" Denny commanded, as she gath.•
ered up pencils to sharpen.
Quite meekly, Bonnie Dundee tub -
sided into a silent perusal of an item
"I can't afford to marry for live
years. Will you wait for me?" '
"Certainly. If no ono else mar•
ries me before then."
1890 with the hope that tbey would
become sufficiently established to over-
come the wild cactus and other plant
pests. The cure was worse than the
illness, however, for the rabbits are
prolific breeders and after a time it
became necessary to offer a bounty for
rabbit skins to stimulate the bunters
to kill them off. Twenty-five 'million
skins were turned in one year alone in
New South Wales,
When Violets Wake
I think al. -a violets wake in early
Spring,
That they must shiver as they glance
around
Upon the snowdrifts melting .on
ground,
Or fee; upon their tender blooms the
sting
Of April winds,—that they must closer
cling
To leafy shelter where it may be
found,
While overhead they listen to the
sound
I (If wakening life, and birds upon the
wing.
--Laura A. Ridley, in the Crucible.
A Limited Circle
li.iwever vast may appear the world
;u which we move, we all of us live in
• limited circle.--Endymion.
E
The brevity of a recent dispatch
from South America, telling of ftri air-
) ship's arrival from Germany, indicates
-the length of aviation's progress since
columns 'were use die desrrihe the
first flight of that kind. ---The Christian
Science Monitor,
Attadale, in the West
Highlands
oat, opaque and
"fu ut3 supine in
A black,
•sleep,
Reversing, mirrored
deep
The calm grey skies the solemn
spurs of hill;.
Heather, and corn, the
loitering haze;
The wee white cots, black -hatted,
plumed with smoke;
The braes beyond—and when the
ripple awoke,
They wavered with the jarred and
wavering glaze.
The air was hushed and dreamy
Ev erntore
A noise of running water hispexed
near.
A straggling crow called hisb and
thin. A bird
Trilled from the birch-Ieaves. Round
the shingled shore,
Yellow with weed, there wandered,
vague and clear,
Strange vowels, .mysterious gutturals,
idly Beard..
.\S'flliam. Ernest Henley. Poems,
in its
lamieous.
wisps
CLIMBERS '
At last I heard a voice upon the slope
Cry to the summit., "Is there any
hope?"
To which an answer pealed to that'
high land,
But in a tongue no roan could under-
stand,
And on the glimmering summit, far
withdrawn,
God made Himself fen awful rose of
dawn Tennyson.
\,Vifcy --"You ne er dill any hilar
'lever in y�onr life."
Hubby --'Yon seem to fterget, my
dear, that e married you."
"You're not ill," said the doctor.
"You're just suffering from a lack of
exorcise. Do you think you could Man-
age to take a two -anile walk every,
day?" "Easy!" replied the patient.
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