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SYNOPSIS
RUTH WOODSON, pretty, 19 -
year -old girl in search of work,
weeks refuge from a storm in an
old stone lionise with a blue door
in the little town of Worthville.
The queer old housekeeper, BER-
THA GIBBS, ,also known as
(PENNY, mistakes Ruth for EL-
AINE CHALMERS, whose grand-
father built the house. Ruth falls
in love with JOHN McNEILL, the
young man next door, and stays
on, posing as Elaine.
Elaine Chalmers, at Graycastle
College, vows in a sorority meet-
ing to win the love of her child-
hood hero, John McNeill. John re•
ceives a letter from Elaine and
realizes that the girl next door
is an impostor, He loves her, re-
gardless.. He is called out of town
suddenly and leaves a note of ex•
Planation for Ruth, but old Ber-
tha far : to deliver it.
Ruthj/ .'thmks John has gone
away to disgust. That night she
saves Eton suicide a man who has
been hioling .in the house. He is
DUNCAN HUNTER, Elaine's
uncle, who has been unjustly held
in an insane asylum and has es-
caped. Ruth persuades 'him to
prove his sanity legally.
As Ruth is leaving the house
for good next day, Elaine Chal-
mers arrives. She humiliates Ruth
and •drives her away. Ruth -hitch-
hikes, toward Cleveland and is
picked up by a couple who get
her a job as nnaid with MRS.
ELLA JONES.
CHAPTER XXVIII
Florence McNeill Burr's husband
and twin daughters were going
to live. The miraculous was to
happen, after all. Broken bones
had been set and wounds sewed.
X-ray machines showed no intern-
al injuries. The little girls regain-
ed consciousness before their
grandmother and Uncle John ar-
rived and Elwell Burr was now.
emerging from the slight concus-
sion which had caused the doc-
tors worry.
All were in the hospital. Mrs.
McNeill and her daughter re-
mained there through the' uncer-
tain hours of Tuesday, while John
stayed at the Burr home to attend
to the (telephone calls that poured
in. The brilliant young .-.Elwell
Burr stood high in the councils
of the capitol. Both government
heads and newspapers .were con -
corned over the accident. .
By Tuesday evening the real
strain was over. With patience
and careful nursing, the doctors
agreed, all three would pull
through nicely. It was then that
John felt free to go home to
-Worthville.
He said, "Florence doesn't need
,,,,,me any longer, Mother. You'll
stay, of course. 1 thin I'll catch a
. might 'aizl..but."
He, as needed at the factory,
but t vas not his first concern.
He wataa"F desperately to see
'Ruth.::Some foreboding, some in-
ner uneasiness was clutching at
him now that he had time to stop
'and think. His note to explain
his departure had been so -short.
'too trail a cord to hold her, in
case she should d'ec'ide ato.4eve.
He could not remember' 116: ire
had written to Ruth that concern-
ed just himself and her except,
."Wait for me!" He remembered
writing that command—or was it
a plea?—with a boyishly desper-
ate intensity. . . . Suppose old
Bertha Gibbs had forgotten to
give her the note?
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That thought drove him -to send,
a telegram immediately:
"FAMILY BETTER LEAVING
HERE TONIGHT MUST SEE
YOU WEDNESDAY MORNING
DEVOTEDLY JOHN"
It was then that he realized he
did not know. her name. , . There
was ,only one thing to do about
that, and he did it, He sent the
message to Miss Elaine Chalmers
- at the Silas Hunter address' on
Garfield avenue.
A Smitten Heart
After the tight-lipped gril''';in
the wrinkled blue suit had gone
through the door Elaine Chalm-
ers stooped and picked up the
$20 bill which lay rejected on the
floor. She put it back into her
purse mechanically. Then she
went upstairs to the room which
had been hers as a child.
while she tried to map out her
course of action. The noise of her
own dish -clattering lead cut off
the sound of the girls' quietly
tense voices. Bertha was bode aux-
azed and relieved now to find the
crisis over.
I`I"in glad she's gone fer.:sure,"
she told Elaine, "Good riddance
def bad rubbish! When I. think of
her foolin' me like she did for
days and days and maybe laughin'
up her sleeve at me--" She paus-
ed and corrected herself thought-
fully. "No, she wouldn't laugh up
her sleeve at nobody. She had a
kind heart, that girl. Always
wantin' to help`'—"
Elaine shrugged. "Let's get • nly'
bags upstairs, Penny, Then see
about getting another' servant,
. You won't find me helpful at
all."
Penny protested: "Another
servant? Mercy, no, Miss Elaine.
I'm strong as an ox. It would
rattle me to have another -ser-
vent under foot."
A Restless Girl
"Oh, well," said Elaine crossly,
"if you won't—" They got the
bags upstairs and then hung up
the dresses and put the lingerie
and shoes and hats and innumer-
able toilet articles into suitable
drawers.
While Penny went about her
business in the house (some of it
more secret than Elaine dream-
ed), the girl busied herself in
a characteristic way. She made
herself comfortable in negligee
and mules, smoked innumerable
cigarets and read the new mag-
azines she had brought with her.
Eventually this palled. She had
rejected luncheon for the good
EPILOGUE
(Written by the noted English poet, William Ernest Henley, in
1901, these lines have peculiar application to the situation
•x,, as it exists in the world this week.)
Into a land
Storm -wrought, a place of quakes, all thunder -scarred,
Helpless, degraded, desolate, _.
Peace, the White Angel, comes.
Her eyes are as a mother's. Her good hands
Are comforting, and helping; and her voice
Falls on the heart, as, after winter, spring
Falls on the world, and there is no more . pain.
And, in her influence, hope returns, and life,
And the passion of endeavour; so that, soon,
The idle ports are insolent with keels;,
The stithies roar, and the mills thrum
With energy and achievement; weald and wold
Exult; the cottage -garden ,teems
With .innocent hues and odours; 'boy and girl
Mate prosp'rously; there are sweet women to kiss;
There, are good women to breed. In a golden fog,
A large, full -stomached faith in kindliness
All over the world, the nation, in a dream
Of money and love and sport, hangs at the paps
Of well-being, and so
Goes fattening, mellowing., dozing, rotting down
Into a rich deliquium of decay.
Then, if the Gods ` be other than mischievous,
Down from their footstools, down
With a million -throated shouting, swoops and stories
War, the Red Angel, the Awakener,
The Shaker of Souls and Thrones; and at her heel
Trail grief, and ruin, and shame!
The woman weeps her man, the mother her son,
The tenderling its father. In wild hours,,
A people, haggard with defeat,
Asks if there be a God; yet sets its teeth,
Faces calamity, and goes into the fire
Another than it was. And in wild hours
A people, roaring ripe
With victory, rises, menaces, stands renewed,
Sheds its old peddling aims,
Approves its virtue, puts behind itself
The comfortable dream, and goes,
Armoured and militant,
New-pithed, new-souled, new -visioned, up the steeps
To those great altitudes, whereat the weak
Live not. But only the strong
Have leave 'to strive, and suffer, and achieve.
The room itself did not inter-
est her except as it concerned the
girl who had been in it. Elaine
saw that the bed was freshly
made with clean linen, that the
rumpled bedding was lying in a
neat little stack in the hall. Ev-
erything in the room was immac-
ulate; its window was partly op-
ened, the empty waste' basket
stood squarely and neatly under
the desk, dresser drawers were
lined with cleanly folded paper.
Elaine Chalmers thought, "She
must have gotten up early to do
all this." Her heart smote• her;
sire did Oct know why.
In all that orderly loon). -there
was but one discordant note. A
heap -Of clothes lay in wild disor-
der on a chair where they'•liad
been hastily thrown in the last
10 minutes of the • room's occu-
pancy.
Elaine was thinking, "I guess I
had no right to • label her a bad
egg. It made her wild. .. . And
that remark about her father hav-
ing been killed in the Argonne!
I thought slie was stealing some
more of my stuff. If it's true, it's
emcee. loth our fathers killed
there—"
*
Site's Gone.
Bertha Gibbs was hurrying; up
ilhe stairs pantingIy. She .came
into the room and looked around.
"Where is she?" she asked in a•
whisper.
"Cone," Elaine told her. "Ten
minutes ago,"
Bertha, repealed, "Gone! Dili
you see hes"?"
"Oh, yes," answered Plaine, re-
covered froth her moment of so.f;:--
1teas. "Didn't you hear us ex-
changing farewells in the hall?"
":\o'nl," said lier•il7a, "I didn't."
As a matter sof fact she had been •
occupying herself in the kitchen
of her figure. Her hungry` state
made her nervous and restless
and she began to realize that
sitting around waiting for John
McNeill to conte home from Wash-
ington was something she could
not long endure.
She dressed and went down-
stairs to infrom Bertha that she
was going "to run over to. the
McNeill place just for something
to do."
"Yes, do, Miss Elaine," Bertha
encouraged. "You'll find the same
servants over there, Susie and
Ebe."
fi P W
As Elaine left the house she
looked back at the great front
door and was amused again by
its incongruous appearance, She
recalled now that it had been
• blue even when she was a sn•1a11
child, though not so bright a blue
as this. A sky blue, rather. Rain -
washed and sun -faded. Her grand-
father had chosen that color be-
cause of a villa with a blue door
in Italy, high on a mountain side,
where he and his wife had spent
their honeymoon..
Bertha's Secret
"But why does Peniiy keep it
so vivid now?" fllaine asked her-
self, amused. "(leaven knows the
rest of the house doesn't get any
attention. The glass is broken in
the conservatory. The porch is
sagging, The yard . looks like a
jungle. Why does she colleen-,
trate on the front doer?"
She was nes'cr to know the rea-
son. That reeved was Berllr:t's
own. Once she hacl Mone to see
"her boy" in the asylum. It was
only a week or two after his con.
:finerl)ent there she fount] hire sl
despairing and rebellious and cu;•
len that no sensible word - cnl,n.
from his twieted
Ile had said, "I'm going to ran
away from this place, old girl,
See if I don't, . , - Keep the front
door painted blue, will you, so
I'll know the old Hunter place
when I see it!"
Bertha had whispered "fear-
fully, "When will you come, W.
Duncan?"
"Oh, some quarter moon," be
N". • 0gwered carelessly, "That's
een my lucky sign,"
never let her see him
n she tried, they told
my that Mr. Deal
„best for Mr. Hunt-
er -tot 'to isturbed. So Bertha .
Gibbs wept ,cit to W orthvllle, to
the empty old house there, and
set herself the task of keeping,it
intact against his coining. IXer
childish mind seized on thbse two
remarks concerning the blue door
and the quarter moon, and out.
of theme she evolver] her ritual
of painting the 1 5' a brilliant
blue every four .=weeks. It was
her own strange secret.
4 a rM
What Is This House?
As soon as Elaine was out of
the House ,Riittlia went up to the
third floor again. It was her
fourth trip. Each. time she had
found Durfean 1 Hunter sleeping.
Now he was. coming awake, open-
ing his eyds and looking at her.
"How about some food?" he
asked, smiling,
t`Itls; almost supper time," Ber-
;Elira nodded. "You've slept all
ayer,,
die laughed and she bent and
t;ouehed his shoulder warningly.
° "'Remember, there's a girl in the
house, Mr. Duncan!"
"1 know," he• -nodded. "A fine
girl. We hair a talk last night;"
Bertha stared. This was news.,
Then she .remembered something.
"But not that one, Mr. Duncan.
She went away."
"Went away?" exclaimed Dun-
can
uncan' Hunter. "But of course. I re-
member now. She told me she
was leaving today. Well, I'm
sorry.. A fine girl. I'll tell you
after dinner what she's persuad-
ed me to do:' Quite a girl. Lots
of pluck—"
"But another' one's here," old
Bertha said, prodding him out of
Iris reverie. "Your niece. Elaine
Chaliner a:"
Afraid of Nobody
"Ah!" he said. "Another one!"
am he laughed loudly and; nor-
lly. "What is this house, Ber-
? A. young ladies' seminary?"
eitha was upset at his levity.
She was even more upset when
he announced, "I'm through hid-
ing; Bertha. Tonight I'll sit at my
.own table. Let my niece like it
or not."
"But the Deals are your en-
emies, Mr. Duncan!" she remind-
ed him. "Don't do it! Don't do
het salid,"I'm notafraidof the
Deals, nor of anybody. Tomorrow
I'm going back to the place where
I came from, and. soon Pm going
'to walk out the front door of
that place with my freedom. Now
go down and set the table for
two, Bertha Gibbs! Tonight I'll
show my niece what an enter-
taining old uncle she has."
(To Be Continued)
Love Locked Out
600 American women have vot-
ed unanimously to urge broad -
tasters to include fewer love
dramas, described as an "insult
to intelligent women," and pro-
vide more programmes dealing
with home -making and child
training.
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By SADIE B. CHAMBER
ANOTHER SIMPLE SUNDAY
DINNER
The Ideal simple Sunday dinner
should be one on which most of the.
preparation can be done before-
hand; and one which presents
something just a little different
from the ordinary week -day meal.
We are choosing Liam for the
meat course, which may be broil-
ed or .baked. If batting, and in fact
. broiling too, personally 1 like to
steam, it beforehand, the time at -
cording to the amount. Tlien the
broiling or baking takes only a few
moments. The steaming may be
done the day previous. Before plat•
ing in the broiler or in oven for
baking, spread. the surface lightly
with butter and if you wish, add a
little broWit%. sugar and mustard
(whie, have`been mixed together),
and a few' cloves. All this can be
done just before placing in the oven
for the browning,
Now, that pineapples, (the large,
luscious kind) 'are at their best,.
they make an ideal •appetizer. Mint
always bears a toueli,,•gf favor and
flayor served at 'the- beginning of
the meal in • env typ.e of fruit cup.
Crush: the leavesDf a spray or two
of mint; and bur ythein (leaving 00
the ste in the shredded, chop.
ped pineapple I. prefer •to run it
through the food -:chopper, being
surto retain, all the juice .mixed
weds. Trait sugar, which does' dis-
solve so mach better. This fruit can
be prepared on -Saturday and plac-
ed in the refrigerator or a very eool
place. Leave the mint in according
to the type of flavor you desire.
Some prefer just at suggestion of
the flavor; then it can 'be removed
after a few hours. Others who like
a deeper flavor may leave it in till
ready to serve.
MENU
Pineapple and Mint Cup
Broiled (or baked) hams
Fresh asparagus
• Rice and cheese sauce
Watercress and Radish Salad
Whipped Cream Cake
Hot Beverage Milk
It you have had freshly picked
asparagus in the refrigerator, where
it is crisp, it will only take a few
moments to boil it. Serve with the
melted butter atnd seasoning to
. taste. One of the recommendations
for this vegetable is that it can be
prepared well within the half hour.
T like the plan to cook the rice
beforehand. takin 1lains., to keep
the S� anis vviioble and separated.
The cream sauce can also be made
before hand, a plan which saves
much time when dinner is being
aseembled. Heat the sauce in the
double boiler, adding 24, cup grated
cheese for each cup of sauce, this
being added as sauce is reheated.
Add the rice to the sauce in the
double boiler and do not attempt
to break up the rice leaving just as
it is (it is not so attractive, if it
is mashed). If one wished, the rice
could be steamed (this also can be
done before); then place in casser-
ole just before serving and pour
over it the cheese sauce sprinkling
the top with grated cheese; time in
oven about 20 minutes in moderate
oven,
For your simple salad a valuable
addition is salted wafers (be sure
they are crisp).
For your dessert make your fav
There's DOUBLE
ENJOYMENT
in delicious . ; 66ivi
,DQUBLEMINT
• Every day na llions find real
pleasure in the genuine, long
lasting flavor of Doublemliht
Gum. Cooling, refreshing,
satisfying! Enjoy it after every
xneal. Millions. do!
orite iighf cake; recipe on Saturday,
preferably: die long pan type, Ali
you have to do is to add the whir
per cream,' which also may be pre-
pared before and kept chilled. A
few strawberries added gives yqu
a strawberry shortcake of the
sweet -cake type. For those , whdi
feel with the pineapple it is Oda.
many acids mixed, the cake and
cream alone makes a very 1us ztlia
dessert.
BAKING POWDER "BISCUIT'
It is true I have not said any-
thing about biscuits for a long trine
and to answer the rAquest for my
favorite baking powder biscuits
here you are:
2 cups flour (bread)
4 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons shortening (level)
3'.r cup milk
Mix and sift dry ingredient&
',,fork in shortening and add liquid,
gradually making the soft type —
soft as possible to /ladle. Turn oft
a floured board, pat and roll to
about inch in ' thickness, • cut
place in pan and bake in hot overt.
Time 15 minutes. Oven 450 de-
grees,
SODA BISCUIT,
Hoping this will answer the re-
quest for a "plain soda biscuit":.
2 carps flour
Xl • t0tts'pools.- SO4i
3s teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
13a tablespoons butter.
1 cup butermilk or sour cream:
(if using crew- the butter),
Sift dry ingredients, mix in but,-
ter,
ut;ter, add buttermilk gradually and
mix as biscuits above. Oven 400 de-
grees. Time 15 minutes.
READERS, WRITE IN!
Miss Chambers welcomes
personal setters from interest-
ed readers. She is pleased to
receive suggestions on topics
for her column, and is even
ready to listen to your "pet
peeves." Requests for recipes
. or special menus are in order.
Address your letters to "Miss
Sadie 8. Chambers, 73 West
Adelaide Street, Toronto."
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