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SY NOP SIS
RUTH WOODSON, pretty,
.igh-spirited girl of 19, in search
'of work, seeks refuge from a
storm in. an old stone house with
a blue door in the little town' of
Worthville. The queer old care-
taker, BERTHA GIBBS, also
known as PENNY, thinks Ruth is
ELAINE CHALMERS, whose fath-
er built the house. Elaine, mnean-
•while, at Graycastle College, vows
In a sorority meeting to win the
love of her childhood hero, JOHN
McNE1LL. She plans to go to
.Worthville.
A man known as JOHN SMITH
escapes from an asylum, buys a
used -car and starts for Worth-
ville.
Ruth decides to stay on at the
old house, pretending to be
Elaine, for two reasons; she needs
a shelter and she has fallen in
love with John McNeill. She is
not disconcerted by old Bertha
Gibbs' queer actions or by t1,e
strange noises she hears in the
old house at night.
John McNeill has fallen in love
with "Elaine" and finds her con-
genial company. One night, en
route to a mountain lodge for
dancing, they are arrested for
speeding and Ruth, not wishing to
put the name of Elaine Chalmers
on police records, tells the officer
:her name is "Ruth Wooclsou" She
later tells John this is her "fav-
orite alias." She is happy in Joint's
company, but is secretly planning
to slip away and end the adven-
ture.
CHAPTER XIX
It was Friday and Elaine Chal-
mers was leaving college for a
week -end in New York. Her moth-
er and stepfather were now in
their Fifth avenue house, and El-
aine was about to combine a duti-
ful visit home with a week -end of
•gaiety.
As a porter carried hos bags
away she paused in the doorway
of her room to. bid goodby to her
friend, Hortense Stokesbury, who
was applying herself to Renais-
sance art on the chaise lounge.
"Stay as long as you like, Hor-
tense," Elaine said. "These rooms
are more comfortable than yours."
"Thanks," replied Hortense,
though not graciously. It was net
pleasant to be reminded that El-
aine's was the choice suite of
Graycastle. "I'll stat* till time to
dress for dinner. Thea, I'll lock rip
after me. Well, goodhy. Don't
wreck Carby's ' rhythm at the
Windmill Club tonight. 1-ie's still
playing there, isn't he?"
"Yes," answered Elaine. ".Bat
don't worry about his rhythm. Ho
taught it to Duchin and Vallee.
By the way, darling, do you mind
if I tell any parents I'n' spending
fall vacation with you in Boston""
"Of course not," Hortense as-
sured her. "Are yon actually going
through with that Ohio trap?"
"Yes," Elaine replied, snapping;
shut her handbag. "Have a smooth
time at West Point toinorrow--•-
which reminds me, if i get any
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Mali Order and Remittance )o:—
OVEMSEAS DEPAPTMI fl
• W. C, MACDONALD INC.,
t►cix 1929, plass d'Arnles,
Montreal, Canada
this olio object to any Chante In Geyernment Retentions.
snail from Annapolis today or to-
morrow, put it in a plain envelope
and forward it special delivery,
will. you? You'll findenvelopes
and stamps in -the desk."
Two Letters Mailed
That evening Hortense found
the expected Annapolis letter in
the school mail office and, being
genuinely conscientious ab o u t
promises, took it to Elaine's room
to readdress it, She knew that
Mrs. Deal was alarmed at the mere
thought of having a poor young
naval. officer for a son-in-law. It
amused Hortense to send this let-
ter to Elaine under the officious
• Mrs. Deal's very nose. She hoped,
too, that Elaine would end by
making some such ordinary mar-
riage as this one—it would be
quite a joke after the wide swathe
she's cut as a debutante.
While rummaging for a large
plain envelope to enclose the An-
napolis missive, Hortense chanc-
ed on a sealed letter directed to
John 1VIcNeill, 1810 Garfield Av-
enue, Worthville, Ohio.... So El-
aine had written to that Ohio chap
and forgotten to stamp and mail
it! Well, she'd attend to that ono,
too. She did. Presently the two
letters were mailed.
5 . 5
Uncle Duncan- Oowns Part
Elaine, her mother and step-
father had dinner en famille that
night. Elaine thought, looking
from one to the other, "They're
just the same, only more so." She
did not see them often, since the
very rich must work hard going
from place to place, changing
houses and clothes with the sea-
sons and suppressing their enthus-
iasms. Elaine found her mother
a bit more glittery and thin and
acid, her beauty not so much fad-
ed as sharpened. Elaine called her
"Gwen" and did not greatly love
face. She asked, "Would you mind:,
Gwen, if I'd spend the fall vireo
ation with Hortense Stokesbuxy.
in Boston? It starts Wednesday.,"
Mrs, Deal said, "Why, no. That
would leave me free to rust clown.
to Ashville. I sees,, to need the
mountains in the fall. Yes; go
dear."
Later, as Elaine was putting
on make-up and wrap for the .the
ater, Gwen :Deal came to her. She
said, first closing the door care-;
!ally,
"I'm terribly worried, El-
aine, It's something I can't talk
to your stepfather about; Yetis'
questions about, Worthville stir-.
red me up again.".
"Whatever's the matter, Gesett'?.
Do hurry. Teddy's waiting fci
ane."
He's Escaped.
Gwendolyn Deal said, "I won't
keep you long. It's about your
Uncle Duncan. He's escaped from
that place. They wrote me a con;
fidential letter several days age..
It's their policy •'to keep thing$
like that quiet. .Theyexpect te:
catch him."
Elaine stared ather, 'afire with
interest. "Where do they expect`
to catch him?"
"Trying to get to South Amer,
ice. He was a botanist, you know.
He collected tropical plants from
As for her stepfather, Maim?
actively disliked hint; a heavily
handsome, morose man like the
villian its a fashionable play.
Elaine diverted conversatio.i
:from Deauville to Worthville by
asking, "Do you ever think of
going back to Ohio to visit, Gwen"
'17o your old home, I mean?"
"God forbid," said Gwen Dead.
"Nothing's left but that Mause-
leum and old Bertha Gibbs. 1 do
my duty by both. I keep them."
>;ligate Deal looked up from his
plate with heavy -lidded eyes. "And
pou're a fool, Gwen, to do it.
What does rank sentiment prole
you?"
"'The house is not entirely mine
to Tell," said the woman. sharpy..
"Vou know that, Higate."
"Who else sloes the place be-
lorii' to?" asked !':lain,'.
Hee mother answered shortly,
"To goat Uncle Duncan Hunter.
11e's inea)ie. tocktd in an insti-
tution."
lie Hates Old Penny
"Oh," said Elaine. She saw her
mother's :face grow more sharp,
her stepfather's more expression- 1
less. There was something menac-
ign and uncomfortable in the air.
Elaine made haste to talk. "I us-
ed to like to visit there whe':
Graudmother was alive. There
were some attractive kids in town,
I rentenlber, What's become ai
the McNeills, next door?"
"What would become of them?"
said Gwen Deal, with a shrug.
."I'IIte v're vegetables, and vege-
tables- stay where they're plant -re'.
Ellen 11c'eill tvds Men (iced.
600d Zanily, plenty et' brains.
Her younger sinter who died we, 1
Ins' childhood friend, mien mar
iied into the 141t'Nei'it Pump Co
She':; a widow now Has a daugl'.
tet importantly 'ntairied in Waal:.
ing'ton. and tt' ;younger son. Be
ought to be in his early 10's, Ohl
'Bertha used to mention the. IVIS-
t eills nosh and then in her letters.
but she doesn't • mention anybody
lately. Her eye:; are bad
"Yon ought to get rid of her.'
saki }ligate Dee! clearly with a
,quick slats at his'fis'h. "She'll be
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rixtgton in the drawing room they
kissed perfunctorily, exchanged
gossip and went • out to his wait-
ing car. They attended the the-
ater and then were driven to the
currently fashionable night club
known as "The Windmill," where
Paul Canby's orchestra was play-
ing.
An Old Story
Fl ere, quite as she expected, El-
aine had trouble with Teddy. He
suddenly remembered that she
was his fiancee ---or at least on
the verge of being --and sullen,y
resented the orchestra leader's at-
tentions to the golden Miss Chal-
mers, Several times Canby turned
over his baton to his assistant
while 'he danced with. Elaine.
People noticed, shrugged, whis-
pered. Teddy sulked.
'It was an old story to Elaine.
It bad all happened a dozen times
-before.Even popularity and note•
riety pale in time. Her head acli-
�' ed. Her feet ached. Her heart was
heavy. She thought of quiet
walks at Annapolis along the deep
Severn, with a young than beside
her as deep and quiet as the river
itself. She told herself, while she
smiled in a, conciliatory way at
Teddy, "I believe I'll find myself
a half-hearted chaperon and run
down• to Annapolis next week-
.,
And then she remembered that
she would be out in Ohio. Taking
.on that McNeill man whom she'd
sworn to annex. "John McNeill!"
she said the name to herself as
she danced in Teddy's arms to
Canby's music. She remembered
how she had adored him when she
was 12 and he was 16. The mem-
ory was sharply vivid and nostal-
gic. She thought, "It's not going
to be hard medicine to take, after
all!"
the Brazilian ,jungles. Tl was
known he wanted to go back
there."
"Then why not let him?" Elaine
asked shrewdly.
"That's what I say" exclaimed
her mother. "Only your step-
father wouldn't feel that way
about it. They were bitter ene-
mies before Duncan had to be:
locked up."
"Why was he lucked up. ex-
actly?" asked Elaine.
,.;wen Deal began to weep nc•rs-
ously into a fragile chiffon hand- •
kerchief. "It's all a horvibie. scan-
dal, Elaine! Sometimes 1 can't •
sleep at night far thinking of it.
Your Uncle Duncan came back
from one of his South American
trips, just in time to attend an
important directors' meeting of,
the railroad. I think be must have
been halt out of his bead with fetsS.
es or something. He disagreed`,
with your stepfather's policies and
they came to blows. i[igate bars
him put in a sanital itnn. :[Ie al
most .killed a doctor there- -tate
doctor 1{igate had engaged ,to
creat him. After that we had hits
adjudged insane and locked up.
it's hoxriblc f'nt his own slster
• anal I haven't: sten him for years.
And now he's escape d--s-wander Trig;'
around, Clod knows where. Ile
may conte here and kill flights',
out of revenge."
,' B i,
Doesn't Sound So Crazy
Elaine said. "Nonsense, ti wen,
I remember Uncle l)ani'iii tet•ti',
well. He was agootl Bort. Not thfm.'
revengeful typeat all:"
People be.onto different when'
they lose their minds," Mrs. Ileal
;mini int out, . . "They said they'd
traced hiro to Ont stir the high-
ways leading* to New York. It
secn'ti he escaped u'drh a rrotYd.
Of stn dents who'd been going
Ihrongh the piace. After he left
thorn he ttea1, 10 a u;ad-, t. .:ul•e
:and bought a small car - its must.,
have had looney on foto . and got
exact dil•eet1005 for driving t0
New !Fork. They tees mire he's
trying to get 51 Imes ,tot. '
"Anti I heats ht' gOt.$ 11:" l'ilainc
exel<'xianed. "Ile doesn't sound so
:et
z tit me 1)ii worrying, Gwen.
burning the pine, down if you 1'4'e'11 talk ii over in the ntorit 1g."
lteeti•he'r on."'When she snot Teddy Vali liar -
Elaine lhnurnhi, 'So he hates --------------------1"—'-'
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old Pettey, 1 wonder why'," Long
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(To Be Continued)
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each piece in succession toward
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Farm Kitchen
When I was young my mother
said,
As she and Pa went up to bed,
"Now, daughter, when he comet
tonight
Don't let this kitchen be a sight(
Spread down the rug, make uo
the fire,
And turn the wick a little higher,
Put on a checkered tablecloth
And beat an eggnog to a froth
With nutmeg and vanilla taste—.
These cookies must not go te
. waste—
And when the fire has even coals„
As when we bake the supper rolls„
It might be nice to pop the corn
We stored in Grandpa's powder
horn—
And daughter, just before rte
comes,
Pin on two red geraniums."
These home -sweet things of
simple ways
have mellowed all my after days;
The fire, the lamplight, soft and
gold,
And love from that shy heart 11
hold.
Hazel Har
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slippers to match each dress, and
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The upraised hand as used in
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