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the door, but I shan't lock you In. I'll
go up, but I promise you she shan't
sign."
"Promise," she said, weakly. I nod-
ded, closed the door, -and returned to
the dining -room;;
II1.
The doctor paused: "Well, good
night, Doctor," said my hest.
"I'm afraid there's no chance."
"Not much," said the doctor, "but
I'll be round at eight o'clock. After
all, nature can do more than medi-
cine." He went out, and the elderly
man turned toward me: "I'm awfully
sorry you had to wait. I hope you
don't mind. Now, since you're so good
as to help us out of this difficulty,
perhaps .you'll come up to her. And
remember to call her. -Auntie."
As I went up the stairs my courage
was oozing away. Automatically, I
followed my guide, but the desire to
run away, to avoid entangling myself
in anything so risky, anything so crim-
inal, was 'strong upon me. But still I
went up: to entangle oneself is:,the
essence of - all adventure. Thus, as
BEGIN HERE TO -DAY.
A novelist seeks nocturnal adventure
and walks up Viking Square where he
sees an elderly English parlormaid
standing on the steps of a house.
When the maid sees him she jumps
down the steps and with piteous ap-
peal in iter, eyes cries: "Oh, Mr. Char-
lie, you've come at lost." The novelist
allows himself to be led .into the house
in which he finds costly furnishings.
An elderly man in evening dress
comes toward him and greets him as
"Charlie." He gets the impression
that both the man and the maid know
he is not their man. The elderly man
informs him that his aunt is very ill
and is waiting for him The novelist
tells the maid and the/man that he is
not the man they think he is but offers
to play his part in whatever drama
they have for him. He is asked to
wait in the dining room. A sound
comes to him from behind a closed
door. He finds the daughter of the
sick -woman docked in a room.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
The woman gave me a dry sob:
"I who've looked after her all my life,
and didn't marry because she wanted
to keep me. Well, that doesn't matter. the door softly closed behind me, I
-Anyhow, she became crazy for Charlie. found myself by the bedside. The
She said I 'shouldn't get anything. lights were low, so faintly illumined
Only she hadn't seen Charlie for a the features of the three people in the
year, nearly. That annoyed her. She,room a hospital 'nurse on the other
was going to make a will in his favor,side of the bed, the servant who -had
only he didn't come" She stopped,'let me in, and another maid. But I
sobbing again. • I registered these only vaguely. My eyes troubling them to come upstairs
"But, look here," I said, '"I don't were fixed upon the figure that lay in I again."
understand, How is it Charlie hasn't the Stuart four-poster, surmounted by; There was a pause Then the old
been to see her for a year if he thinks
that she'll make him her heir?"
"He couldn't. He was in gaol. He
�
was released this afternoon. In Scot-
land. But he hasn't had time to get
here yet, and time presses. Now don't
you understand. They've got a will
written out upstairs. If she thinks
Charlie's come to her, she'll sign. She
knows she may die any moment, only
she's obstinate. She won't sign unless
Charlie comes to her."
"But you've gotto have witnesses."
"Oh, of course," said the woman,
petulantly. "The servants will wit-
ness. Servants will witness anything.
Now, you see, if you go and speak to
her .she'll think it's Charlie
Charlie'll get everything, and I'll be
penniless. Oh, -it's too cruel. I'm too
old to go out and work. Oh, don't go
up, don't. And. I haven't told you
everything. Charlie's so bad ... .
just as if being in gaol before hadn't
done him any good. He's done some-
thing else. I heard this afternoon
after they let him out. Stupid of the
police . . they let hinr- go . . they'll
have to arrest himagain. But never
mind that. It doesn't matter what he's
done: if Mother signs he'll get every-
thing, and Pll be turned into the
street. Oh, d'en't go up, please.. Better
leave the house."
At that moment I heard voices and
footsteps above. People were coming
down. Indeed, the thing to do was to
run. But if Charlie • did arrive? If
the old lady signed the will? This
woman would be destroyed. I must
see it thorough, So, hurriedly, I whis-
pered: "No, leave it to me. I':1 shut
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You didn't think I'd leave you alone
when you were seedy."
"Charlie," she whispered, hurriedly,
"don't say I'm •seedy. Don't be silly."
There was something quite sharp in
the whisper; it revealed the imperious
woman she had been. Indeed, she was
cross: "Why haven't you been to see
me for a year?"
This .embarrassed me, so I was
vague: "Oh, well, you know I had to
be away."
"Yes, I know, but I should have
thought you needn't have spent a year
in America. Still, dear, it's your busi-
ness." She pressed my hand, and I
hated myself. Then she added:
"You've changed. Even your voice is
different."
"Poor boy," said the elderly man,
"he's got an awful cold. But, look
here, Christine, you mustn't talk any
more; it's not gognd for you."
But the old lady clung to my hand
with sudden strength, as if she feared
that with it life would escape her:
"Oh, no," she said; feebly. "Don't . .
I haven't seen you for so long."
"All right," said her cousin. "He
shan't leave you. • But Christine, dear,
didn't you tell me you wanted to sign'
a paper."
"Yes, when Charlie carne."
"Well, it's ready, it's written out,
Suppose you do it now? we've got the
witnesses here. Since they're here,
Christine, why not sign it now to save
It makes
them smile-
it's sure
worth while.
,After
every meal
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Before'he could drag his weapon
the policemen were on him.
a canopy of crimson brocade flowered
with gold. She was such a little thing,
the old lady in her vast bed. Her atti-
tude was one of ,infinite weariness;
she lay cheek upon the pillow, ono
thin hand faintly moving upon the Charlie. Don't you hear?" He jump -
coverlet, a large bandage covering the ed up, staring down at the figure, and
whole of her forehead and her eyes.) stepped back: "Too late!" he said, in
She was pitiful, so small and weak, a low voice.
and the effect of the sick roem had For a moment we all stood, fixed
already been created, for bottles and where we were about the bed of the
glasses stood upon a small table; there woman round whom had centred so
was a cylinder of oxygen, and the 1 much strife. So smitten were these
faint smell of sickness, the close, halt plotters ..by their defeat, that only I
scented 11 already filled the place heard yet more foot tep pon the
Iady turned her face towardene, as if -
trying to see me through the band-
ages, and said: "Charlie, you've been
a dear to me all your life. I'm`going
to leave you everything. And when
I'm gone ... Doris isn't to have any-
thing. Net a penny. I hate her."
"Here's the paper," said niy guide.
This was too much. I made a grab at
the will, but the old man was too quick
for
"What the devil . ?" he began.
"Stand back!" I shouted. "She's
not going to sign. I won't have it."
There was a moment of confusion; for
the servants jumped up, and I wag
confronting the three. We were all
speechless and Lather pale. A. fury
came over me as I turned upon the old
man: "She shan't sign. Do you hear?
Give me that paper, or I'll take it from.
you." As I stepped toward hire a -
feeble cry came from the bed:
"Oh, what is it? What is it?"
I turned to the old lady, but at that
moment. I heard rapid steps on the
stairs, swift progress. The door was
flung open, and a rather handsome,
middle-aged man rushed to the bed
and flung himself down on his knees
by its side: "Auntie, Auntie!" he
cried, "I've come in time?" His tone
changed: "What's the matter? It's
sme'y i s s u
Then the elderly man touched my el- stairs. It was only at the last mo -
bow, and I went to the bedside. merit as the door fell open, and be -
".Christine," he murmured, "here's '
Charlie." The old lady did not reply;
for a moment I thrilled -with the. hope
that she might be dead, and that this
tragedy would thus be ended. But the.
thin hand persistently moved, and I
found myself redognizing a resembl-
ance with her daughter, the same
Straight nose, the beautiful old faded
lips.
"Christine.," he repeated, his tone
shade anxious with the, thought that
had occurred to me. • He touched her
hand. "Christine, it's Charlie."
I saw that 1 must play my part, so
bent down quite close and murmured:
"Auntie! Auntie Christine!" -
At the sound of this new voice, she
Suddenly seented to revive. A tremor
ran over her features, • and she made
an effort to sit up, which, with the
swiftswiftness of a cant, the hospital nurse
ness
7k'1'4xr
repressed .<,:, gym: " 'xu •. .
"Oh, what is it?" said the _old lady,
vaguely, as if aroused ;Froin a drem
a.
"It's Charlie," I said.
It was horrible and charming: she
Smiled, and the thin hand'nioved about
vaguely, until I slid mine into it: "Oh,
Charlie," she said, " 'm so glad you've
etrnie. I didn't thank you'd come."
1` "Why, :Course, I came, Auntie,
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WHY GIRLS WON'T MARRY
By "A Woman With a Duster.'
A young woman said to me the other
day, 'I am in Jove with a man who
wa,ntd• me to marry hint, but I have re-
fused him. 1 shall never. marry be-
oause my own home life has given me
a horror .Qf marriage.
"Ever stance I can remember life has
been one 'quarrel: after another be-
tween my father and mother They
never agree..about anything, and they
seem to delight in hurting ene an-
other's feelings.
"I couldn't bear that. I can't endure
the thought of spending my life in a
house of strife, so I have resolved
never to marry. I am never going to
put myself in any man's power, where
he can vent his brutality on me if he
chooses, and I am not going to inflict
my moods and nerves and tempera on
any man. For it seems to me that
there are no happy marriageis, and that
somehow matrimony brings out all the
worst there :is in human nature."
I told this disillusioned young wo-
man that she,had got morbid! that she
was looking It matrimony through
dark -blue spectacles', and that there
were many happy husbands and
wives.
Also I told her that -each marriage
was what the induvidual husband and
wife made it. Every man and woman
can make their marriage a heaven on
earth or an understudy of purgatory,
as they will, and what other people
have done has nothing to do with their
fate.
But when one considers the awful
warnings against matrimony that
many marriages present to•the young,
one does not wonder that thoughtful
Europe's (Quaintest Republic.
Europe's least -known republic, An-
dorra, has received a surprise. Recent-
ly it notified the League of Nations
bind the two policeman I could see - ke direct of it adherence to the Opium
figure •of Doris, that Charlie, with an Convention, but was 'reminded that it
oath, thrust at his hip pocket. But was not a savereign State, and that it
must act through France.
Andorra, buried in its lonely valley
in the heart of the Pyrenees, is left so
severely alone that this small over-
sight niay he pardoned,
before Tie could dirties his weapon the
policemen were on him.-
As if conscious that some peril
might threaten hie, Doris had run to
nay side Ina hurried whisper she
said: "I got out. I didn't think of
telling you I got the policemen.
Ohyou're safe, you're safe!"
Another story of midnight adven-
ture by W. L. George, "The Stolen
Baby," will -fellow.
Hatching of Toads.
Some toads are hatched directly
from the egg, without passing through
a swimming tadpole stage; nevertfip-
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young people are scared. Indeed, the
amazing - thing as that anyone hoe
enough foolhardy courage to take a
risk whloh - ends ddsestrously for so `
many.
The dream of every girl Is to love
and be loved, to marry and' have hue -
band and honr'e and children. But
when she rouses herself front her ro-
mantle dream and takes a •cl'ear-eyed
glance at her married sisters, what
does she see in not a few cases?
She sees hom,ea in which there Is
perpetual bickering over trifles; homes
in which the daily _quarrel is as much'
a part of breakfast as the coffee;
homes in which all that the woman:
gets out of matrimony is the privileg,eds7
of being an unpaid domestic slave an`
being abused and spoken to as a man;
would speak to no other human being,
on earth. So it is no wonder that the
girl with a good job is not willing vat
exchange tt for the menial position ot.
a wife that she setas• so many sinter,
women occupying, or that she asks'
herself why her marriage should be a`
success when many others fait.
7,t is the same with men. It is tete
awful warning that men see posted up
in some houses they visit that maks
many of then shy at the altar. A man
looks over his friends- who have mar-
ried and often sees nothing to lure
him into following them,
On the other hand, so alluring are
the examples of successful marriages
we have among us that every really
happy home becomes a matrimonial
agency, and inspires every man and
woman who beholds it with a desire to
take at last one shot at the greatest
sporting proposition on earth.
Jungle Talk.
let Monk --"My brother is going to
open a store"
2nd Monk—"More monkey business,
eh?"
Thirteen O'clock.
At least one clock has been so made
that it would strike thirteen at one
o'clock. This Woes a clock made to the
order of the Duke of Bridgewater, who
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Tanning from Worsley to Manchester,
England. The Duke was tremendously
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chimes was to prevent danger of the
dinner hour being extended by any-
one missing—or pleading to have miss-
ed --the single stroke which was the
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It does, as a matter of fact, claim(
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and the Bishop of 'Urge] to Spain, a •
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960 francs a year to France and 460
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Ails joint rulership dates from the
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i of Urge1'tlle only cleric i x Eur-
314 ill having temporal power.
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