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DECEMBER 43, I
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KETFlig GILEMORE
McLeod and Allen, Totonto
e Stated. "If I had been injured, I
feel that ireu wpuld remember me -
and continue the acquaintance. As I
'
eB� careful. I can he, dangerous
;
1 't I?"
ci tEilicia about son" Bancd, tie but ani
dz
* flar d as at insult. "That's my car el aside t
I ion'i It? i Andt I _told you to use itp t4unind b; us tnagr ea
was not " he did not bother to d
di
finish. _ .` 1
at this sort of a game xnyself,'she I "Yes,- but " Durant laughed but He spran
"Laugh as =oh as you like, but " p, don'
said vith- a mischevious glance. ' * that bill belongs to me," -- insisted it," she ex
for a moment. She pull -
e curtain at the window
out "Olt!" she cried
ay before a blinding flash.
toward her. "Do let me
her," he begged. ,
mind me. I can't help
]looking toward
"I court danger." , Dance. Isn't that right, Mildred?" hini, her esies still on the -window.,
"Cleveil But remember, Aladdin I Mildred nodded Smilingly. "Be careful! Look out for that
- have warned you.e ' Helpless In Red With etileumatesee.' Durant- looked from one to the oth- rug," he warned , her, but too late.
"Who is this man Aladdin, I have " Until He Took "FRUIT-AsTIVEse er. "Why, that's out of the question," She. stumbled over its turned -up
een hearing se much about?" he protested "Of course, I 'should be corner and 11 into his arms.
regarded him uneasily. - getNyour fa
I glad to have you pay the bill when it "What shallI do? Won't it ever
comes in, but NI Insist upon repaying end?' She aimed • up 1 at him dis-
1
you as soon ai I can," traetedly.
I "Not a word: Not another word "Hadn't we eter join the others?"
E1
out of you about it. That's my car, he ask d, still steadying her.
and I intend to do just as I like about "Oh!' she shivered and shrank- a
it." Bunce turned away arbitrarily little in arer to 'him
refusing to listen to further argument. - "I'm Sorry, I very, very sorry,"
"Now you two go into dinner. I've he kept 'repeattn ly stupidly.
got some.telephoning to do, and I'll be She placed her hand on his arm
there in a moment. . Without turning oward'him, "There!
"There, that's all settled," he de- Oh, I feel m -tic better when there's
dared as he joined them later.- "They , someliodinear. Vs as if—oh, Lord!"
are to put the ear back in conimission . She'juniped at he tremendous burst
just as soon ,as possible, and I'm to of -thunderO wav red a moment, and
fork out the needful. Oh, you can ! then shrank back completely into his
pay me back later if you insist Almon 1 arms., They closed about her 'to keep
being leolish," he announced to quiet her from. falling. -
Durant's look of objection trembling.. "Oh it's
.
`"Did you hire a car for sto-night, feel someone near,"
father?" asked Mildred. ', • go his band.
"Yes it'e to be here about eight. t close over hers.
dly iiii if not know-
- tee teems,' tt set T"'' .m°14ttte`t-st-442' --)dts'"4-423,4"6"allatImn'"I'm $he laughed lurnorle.
e • a 9
(Contintied from our last issue-) Durant stoed admitting it ruefully. "Here's the hollisel The third one
thesablocic. You haven't much. time
- but Hilda Cabot broke into' peala 1.11
It was a heavily laden. express wag- 1.aughter that made the first robins "t° reu mei" he warned.
on, and its driver clung obstinately to envious, She brought the ear to a stop. Then
turned and. looked,him full in the eyes
the middle of the road until Durant I'm. your. disappointed undertaleer,
and litughed again, fearlessly, Chill-
.
csune up. behind, They were going all right, gloomed Leather -face.
tzphill; the car could net pass for the 'Yon both look so grieved that per -
sharp rise in the ground and the fence haps we had better try it all over a, -
on the right nor for the gully border- gain," suggested Hilda.
eft by thin woods on the left. He "You're to ready to risk me, " re-
sounded his horn again and again, un- torted Durant! his eyes wandered to , T take yeti to a hospital; Aladdin re
tii the driver with a guffaw filially his car part , way up one of the.l.' Reluctantly, he descended from the 1
bore away slowly to the right of the trees, "and anyway my car appears ' toe
fear and dame around to stand on the 1
road. *Even before he had given TOOM have mistaken a tree for a garagel" curb beside her. -He enquired no '
Durant throttled hint, gave his wheel All three moved laughingly over to I
, . i more. Ile merely waited, patiently,
the impulse which would enable him it. . silently, his big dark eyes twinlding.
to shoot by on the left. "The more of these - little knick-°1 with assurance., .
The clutch caught. The car turned knacks that get` theirs, the more it ---
"Do you /*anti want to - know?"
sharply. And then as then as the wag- pleases me,' commented Leather -face, 'elle asked after a few momenteo
ed his field of vision, there flew into but he engineered and contributed half- Fide ncevided .
the labor of getting the crippled cat
back to the road. e ,
There, they examined it solemnly.,
The engine declined to work, the front =
. -. .-
lengingly. , •
"Aladdin?" he entreated.
"Aladdin!" she mocked,
"Aladdin?" he insisted.
"Aren't you going to get out? Shall
it another car—not a rod away. It
was a gray car and in its front seat,
driving it madly, sat a young girl.
Only one thing could prevent that
collision. Durant turned his car
sharply to the left There was a crash
as it leaped down into the shallow
gully, a nerve racking str.ain as it
leaped up the further bank. Beyond
was a clump of scattered elm trees
With a quick shift of the wheel he,
managed to steer between the first
two. He shot to_ the left aiid scraped
between the net two. Before him
in every direction, lay trees, trees,
trees:. Betvreen no two, room. His
mind, hands and legs worked together
decided -to call you Aladdin
heels* you have each wonderful
It la hed Th h
:
IC ALEXANDER MUNRO
. A.R. Ng, 11 Lorne, Ont.
"For over three yeers, I wao
confined to bed ielth :kded' maiisda
ug o „ During that times I had treatment
•
her car, and was off- before he from a number of doctors; and tried
axle was bent tmward so that its rea e
wheels appeared slightly to toe -in, but «wit a minute! I Ism. thought of
the tires were undamaged and the :an aninver " he called After her.
brake was still effective.
"All that car needs. is a• But sheo replied only by a careless
Junkman. wave if her liand.
send you one back from the next
town." suggested Leather -face,
e "No. A few hundred dollars will
make it as good as new," reported
Hilda Cabot, replacing the hood over
the engine.
"Yes, it will only cost a few hun-
dred—only a few hundred," Druant
as they *ork in a last minute. He exclaimed lightly.
shut off the power; he jammed on the Hilda. looked at him sharply. "Is
brake; and then, he leaped. it your car?" she inquired.
"No. One can't -expect to have ev-
erything come out just right," Durant
replied with a smile.
Hilda rewarded him with a quick,
friendlyeglanee of approval. "If you
wish, tow you in to Boston,
Aladdin," she announced twinkling.
- "Aladdin?" he looked at her quese
tionly, then busied himself hitching
his car to hers, until the sarcastic but
helpful teamster had driven off.
"I did not want to introduce myself
while our friend, the assassin, was
here. My name is Richard Durant
"Yes. I know. Shall we start now,
Aladdin?"
"Perhaps you'll gratify my natural
curiosity as to why you call me Alad-
din after I have told you my prosaic
name."
, She laughed mischievously and mov-
ed away toward her own machine.
"I feel hurt. This is the second time.
to -day you have wounded my sensitive
feelings—no one half -appreciates how
sensitive they are,"" he flung after
her.
"It's shameful I knew': Rsit it's al-
togther too soon to tell you now," she
called backsbending forward iltiSO
her car,
"Women can't bear to see dumb an-
imals suffer. They step on the aked,,t
to pat staggering horses, • and sift
sniveling, yelping curs, anything: t
Vas' the luck to have four legs. It's
only men that they—".
But the gurgle end the rasp • h
came from the car d
He had just time to leap en is. Ova
car before hers picked up the *lack
and began to dra ,ite wrecked fellow
gal4e` bad' "P4-eaae see it Yell are I away tetsard Bei a. • ' '
" sheereqpnsteto - •
She diteke wonderfullyt tainng. the,
wetild UV& Met
you head on, if !cornets Witt a brOdd 444
anyone could," he urged, (all but managed his gar for irni
as soon as she learned -the best.,
his car' 'could stand, she held to this on
the long straight stretches. She drove -
wonderfully, as -well as any vane but
with a mind to her task that Durant
found little to his liking. Again and
again on the long ride in, he called
out compliments to her loud enough to
be heard above the rattle of the loos-
'Please—see---if you are hurt, she ened mud -guards. -4he first few tithes
commanding eholdngly. she turned quieidy as if feerful that
"P am hurt seriously hurt, but only
All men may be divided into two
classes. There are men whose bodies
wake first, who move restlessly in the
morning before opening their eyes;
and there are men of a different order
who neither move nor stir another
muscle until their eyes have informed
them of their surroundings,.
Durant opened his eyes wide. Slow-
ly there came into them an expression
of understanding. The girl bending
over him clew away. Instantly he
- dosed them and kept them closed un-
til she bent back. Then, paying, no
- heed to her questions, he half raised
his lids and covertly gazed up into
eyes soft, tender, and extraordinarily
blue with the strange, inert, intent-
ness of one reluctant to give over
a pleasant dream. For a long time,
he continued to igpore her queg-
tions, gazed on iota on at her as if pur-
° luxbeiatingin what he saw, as if pur-
posely putting lisr the ending of the
spell. Not --until she felt theoadmira-
tion in his look and started to rise
did he speak. And he spoke in that•
spirit of banter which sometimes men
affect with most. at stake.
"It was the only way I could manage
to meet you, I hope it will do," he
murmured.
She retie at . once. The look of
anxious sgftrat)y left her eyes. They
danced With his: "You forget. You
didn't stay to meet me," she return-
ed. The look of anxious sympathy
,
nearly everything I savcettertined to
cure Rheumatism, without receiving
' r -
any benefit. • -
Finally, I decided to try Truita-
Nevertheless, a half hour' la* in fives". Before I had used,half a box,
the intiniacY of her toiletefor diener, I noticed an iinprottsment; the pain
Hilda Cabot tried her maid's patience was not so severe, and the swelling
started to go down.
1: continued taking Mistrial me-
.
dicine, improving all the thne, and
now I can walk about two miles and
do light chores about the place".
.ALEXANDFsIt MUNRO.
ran to the telephone. Her unbound
sorely. Her mind kept wandering to
events of that afternoon. Once she
threw up her head and laughed. The
comb caught and snarled in a twist of
gold. And it was barely extricated
before she arose, pulling the comb
from the surprised maid's fingers, and
hair fell at random over her neck and
shoulders, the comb still hanging to a
strand.
"No matter, Annette." She waved
the maid away(. "Is that you Corn-
wallis?" she called into the telephone.
"Yes."
"I'm keeping my promise. I met
him to -day."
"You—what?"
"I met that MT. Durant and in the
,most dramatic way."'
"Really? Tell me about it."
"No. I want to hear first what
you were going to tell me."
"I didn't say I had anythingtotell
you about him."
. "No, but you made me promise to
let you know if met him and espec-
ially . • •
Jelly if I liked him"
"Dee you?"
"Well, hes very handsome."
"On my word, I can't see that!"
"Ne Man ever thinks another is
leandeOte. He probably woUldn't ad-
mit stli: it you are." Hilda 'laughed.
"Iltit4hat have you to tell about
•Adostugly height and enter-,
et as quick witted as he ie
g. I was quite taken with
QU ought to, tell me."
erltaPeo''
"Oast you tell me, now, Over the.
e ell- .0". ' •
"Well, I have no engagement after
;Otter
'
"You *yell% ?
"You seem curiously reluctant to
R16.".
ehil(L• On my word, I hoped 'I
glieUl,dliesverbave to." '
Why sounds ominous." A
pp'z1ed frown appeared on Hilda'a
moat unpleasant—that
Is, for 'Melo
"The really getting quite infatuated
wit 'him. Oughtn't you to tell me?"
At ought to, I suppose."
She laughed. "Please' see if you
AM Mist."
"No." He smiled without _ moving.
"1 -must know, first, while I ' still, have
year syrneatthtr; before admitting whe-
ther,1 am alive or dead, whether this
conetitutek an introduction."
Her eyes escaped his to nejoy by
themselves a fund of merriment.
because you refuse to answer my
question." Durant raised himself, be-
gan to feel of his elbows.
"Gripes, this seems to be no place
for father," suddenly broke in a third
voice.
Durant sat bolt upright and looked
behind.
A heavy -jowled, leather -faced team-
ster, one of those with sermons on
their sodden faces stood eyeing them.
And Leather -face was cracked by a
You might at least remain until
you have learned the worst," exclaim-
ed Durant good naturedly.
"Wa-al, bein' as I ain't neither a
minister or a justice of the peace,
can't see what you want of mule" ans-
wered Leather -face, shuffling, but hav-
ing no intention of leaving them at
just that interesting stage.
"Wait a minute, please." The girl
took command, only the little caught
laugh in her throat betrayed how
greatly she enjoyed the situation.
-Hadn't you better see if you are hurt
in any other way?" she asked with a
stifled laugh. I
Durant rose to his feet and began
to try his arms and legs while the
others watched.
"Well, be dodgasted, nary a
ecratch, and I expected to have to
sweep you up in a basket," exclaimed
Leather -face with disappointment.
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"I say, Hilda, would you mind if I
put the lselly thing off for a while,
until—e---"
, "Ne, I can't Wait. I'm too curious. of the accident eii. your father."
something -.had hapened to the car be- I'm -coming round for hi my car after "You shan't. I'm going to do that
hind. Once or twice she answered his dinner. I'll take you for a short drive for you. NO, no, I.knoW 'Just how You
remarks with a smile. Thereafter, she and you " must dread it. I'll be seriously offend -
indulged Min no more, merely shook . "It makes me feel so much like a ed with you ,if You dont let ine2' De -
her head slowly and tolerantly eatesee 1 A
without loking back. "Then why' do you tell me anything upstairs, and herself laid- in wait for
. "That's- right, don't ititilOY. me to , and excite mY curiosity?" . the coming of the head of the house.
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stairs. "I missed ygu this afternoon,"
she announced, coquettishly dropping
her head to one side. '
"You weren't heres so I went out
in the car and—," he hesitated—"by
the way, I had the rare good fortune
to meet Miss Cabot. She brought me
home," he stated, watching her keen -
1Y•
, "Miss Cabot! 'Oh, I'm so sorry!
I wanted to introduce you myself.
Isn't she a pippin."
"Yes," he admitted discreetly.
"Such wonderful coldring! Did you
ever see such golden hair and such blue
eyes? And her teeth and copi.plex-
ion—" Mildred made an enthusiastic
gesture—"I don't see how aa3r. man
can resist her!"
"Nor. 11" The detibt left Darant's
eyes; they &Sneed.
Mildred smliketeeolately: "If- only
she weren't quite go •Wile Don't you
think she's se tall., that she's just a
4ittle scrawny?" she ski&
• "I hadn't thought of it." Durant
'stirred uneasilts
• • "Rd-r-"...1411dititli-Ottelted
:fiat yen -hasten% Ott how you'inet
her."
"I—I all but ran inte her with' -your
,encounter and the niUhap that lea&
encounted and the , iriishap that had
tome of it to the Buricestar. .
. Mildred's hand litrtiPPed fetiettethe
rail. -"Y9u se0A: 00:11' 13,4s' ,#10cri-
ed about` ineetinis her than abeut
putting our car out of coramission,
f
she e, emmented.
"I'm sorry. I don't think it is seri-
ously damaged. Did you want to use
it this evening?"
Yes, we were ping out .for a 'drive
to -night, but that dosen't -matter; no,
not $9 long as you- are sorry." , Mild-
red regained her smile "Hadn't .you
better hurry and dress for dinner?"
"I was Waiting to break the news
She , lay there '
so good, so good t
she murmured, ta
His hand 'n
Comte on, we'll. have to dig, ite and He h d aw•kwa
• stow away this food if we Want to be ing what eine lea
ready in time." '
eofile
• -Ittwee one'of those soft warm April She spreag awa
eVeifinge.shot With the eleettAe sparkle nestled 'beak Close
of. a New England spring. Durant ter 'a indolent. she e
drove. "Just to prove that we don't all :heels over one
.holdS up anything against yob," je-
,siiited,Bunce. And Mildred, beside
him,. chose the roads, leaned toseard
him and chatted even more compan-
ionably than had.been her wont.
"This car doesn't run as smoothly
as ours, doe's it, 'Richard?" she said
sOmi after reniarldng that he seemed
more abstracted than usual. "I'm go-
ing to; call you Richard from now on.
Why shouldn't I, if you don'tmind ?"
Durant nodded.
"Y'es, why shouldn't 1? - you're
more like one of our family than I
believe any man could be."
"Thank you."
"Mother declares ygu are the Salt
of the earth; father wonders how we
ever got .along without you. It's real-
ly quite wonderful bow you have step-
ped in and won un all in so short a
time. And me—no, I don't think it
*meld be maidenly to tell you what I
think of you." Mildred bent. zpver
toward him untir her arm touched
his. "You don't seem a bit interested,"
she complained after a moment. .
"Interested?" Durant looked at
Chfldren Cry
FLETCNEWS
S
just to make a hit with Hilda Cabot?
"Itkainet--well now, if the man is. Now, can yon beat thatre
a fmal shot.
her questioningly. "I couldn't hear
all you said on account of the noise
that car made passing us. I don't like
to take anyone's dust, but it alarms
your mother, doesn't it, if we run
fast?" -
"Yes, mother doesn't like to go very
fast," Mildred returned, looking at
These. stood loOkIng., at •.eacIr others -
him. She waited a moment, and then -
wrtieitteheeereesthieseeactaie:en iteeoreeeuercoialubsetactqwluentht ; shBeunc..01:egshotohiteirn brthae tdhao.*aliaIrd stated
hi But Diwal0 apparently noticed i away trent him. He turned. *
silence, and as he did not look at bet,
he could not have seen. hew. hard her
expression became. • '
TheY traveled slowly, comfortably
along a wiadingeendless road, slipping
from areas of hoteimmid, rather en-
ervating air to stretches, cold and
'dank with the ,.stored breath of wine
:tete* -*ring had not yet routed her
adversary from.his last trendies, could
eiotie uatil reinforced by Summer.
fsrickets chirped, fro -gee tried their
• She stifled her laughter, permitting , an iniposter, I ought to tell you, hadn't * "Father!" ' Mildred •caiitioned him
neither sign nor sound of it to reach li 1?" , . to lower his voice
him, nor makingessiny response. And 1 "It's you duty, your unquestionable - "Let me hear. He might as well
thereafter, he, toOsbe came silent as. duty." Hilda's tone was severe. get it this way as straight from me
if fearful of carrying the thiog too : "Yes, and on my word, as unpleass when. I meet him. And didn't we
far and incurring her displeasure. He I ant as .most forced dutiee." ' ". agree this morning that he'd been
sat with one foot .on the brake and 1 "I'M net forcing you, Cornwalhs, looking her way. too much and we d
a frown on hiS face for the rest of i and I understand your reluctance. But ,been too easy with him."
the drive. i I shall .be round for you. in my car i'l'ather, you're going to tell him
At the garage he waited barely long 1 after half -past eight That's the en.' that it's nothing at alt. and that he
enough to explain, what had happened. i man a Ma And you'd better tell me is not to worry .over the 'damage to
"I'm exceedingly sorry to have kept f all about it—no I shan't tell you -why the car, no not for an instant!" . .
you so long. I wouldn't have blamed : YOU'd hitter." With a laugh Hilda "I am, am I?. Well, I haven't
you for making off," he -declared as bang up the receiver. But her mild broken the glad news to myself yet.
he came out beside her. - ' - . found . her unusually silent and pre- If I don't hand. that fresh young
"No. I am waiting to take you i occupied the while she completed the galoot what's coming to him, it'll be
home," she tsaid , quietly. "What did ' rest of her coiffure. ) , because ,I have a stroke thinging up
he say? Was your car seriously dein- ' neigh enough stuff."
aged?" , ,• "Father, don't forget that he's more
"I didn't wait to learn." IX
- useful to us than ever, now that he's
She smiled at the compliment, but got in with the Cabots."
brushed it aside. "Ah you, must haVe As the grey car with Hilda Cabot at "Hey?" (.
lakes of money to be so heedless?" 1 the wheel shot away down the avenue, "I merely want you to realize that
she twitted him. 1 Mildred withdrew from the open win- this is the worst moment in the world
He liughed ironically. 1 dow other room. Her mirror showed to lose your head, now that he can be
"And the soul of a saint to belittle her a face white with anger. Hastily of some real use to us."
calamityll Her blue eyes sparkled i repairing this with a little rouge she . "Fine! A line Inc of talk to a man
"Your hair is like sprayed Sunshine" f hurried downstairs, the anger in her who would like to feed him to a
he retorted: • 1 look,changing to determination, mangling machine, and then sell tick-
- 1. ndin she ets to the execution."
eoeteent:iiiii7.77..,Hhecnr
herhead to
thin befork- Af-
.
head tilted up.' • r lips pursed. He
gray eyes caught his for the Infinis
tesienal part Of a second and then
closed, asined:
He hesitated,. t toward her . a
There iwas a. cra h as if the. whole
There was a era h• af is the whole
city bad been lift d in the air and
smashed to the ound just outside
-the window. She Whited, and then
relaxed utterly into his arms, her face
white, hex lips agai tiltectpleadingly
towaid his:
"Please," she mu ured.
"Please what?" e asked,. looking
away.
"Please, she- ple ded, ?lasing her
eyes. .
He bent down and
ssed her hghtty.
One of her arms uncoiled and went
around his . neek. "Kiss me. Make
it go away," she begged.- -
He kissed her again: ,
"Kiss me, kiss me! It makes me
forget all about the awful old _lighte.
ning."
He bent down and. Missed her Again.
She.poUtede • "You don't km-lue: how
to kiss. You ought to take lessons,"
she excisiMisis goquettishly turning
her head away from his,
He laughed uneasily.
"You don't want kiss me," she
complained,.
instead, be bent down anet
kissed her again. '
11311.gs.
-on% it getting
Tharant started
trees almopt toucIi
very black?"
wily. "It's the
Over the, top of
the toad . isn't it?" e urged.
"No, I thought heard the rumble
:that?" she exclaimed triumphantly. '
of. thunder. The,' did you heat
Ile• nodded, and Slowed down the
machine. "It seemed very far off.
What shall we do? Turn back?" he
asked.
• "I think we'd better. I'm dread-
' full afraid of the
she said loOking
"Yes, I guess
swift for home,"
"these April showers are pretty lively
little disturbances after they get' go-
ing.
Dutant turned
widening of the
back home. A
blanket of still's
the woods which
-came out into the
find the whole s
cast with a huge
clottd.
"We're going right into the teeth
of it. We shall have to speed," he
cried, advancing the throttle. ,
He forced theear to: its utmost
speed, and drew up before the Bunce
house just as the first few spatter-
ed drops began to patter down upon
them. . tt.
"I'll take the tar back to the gar -
der and lightning,"
toward her father.
e'd better make a
unce added hastily,
the car at the first
road and pointed it
great and sudden
ess, had come over
lately chirped. They
reader boulevard to
to the north over-
anil menacing black
watehing them. After s'a t he
turned am his teal and;' Wit
worttesetalked' away.
• stood 1' at each .0
"Father! 'Ile ditiV Whayldtall
I tell him ?" shedenianded.it• *
He recoiled. at the sharpness of her
stone. "Tell him that I- tried to kiss
you and that you Were any." he
adviged.
"et—but I wasit't angry." Her
tole -satened quickly; she loo nit
•at hietsentreatiligly. -
He macteSta ihrtietuoes gesture and
eOnagcl- about to -speal, but -recq
,sidered 'intLitiaved -away towardt e
window ;without .a word. , There came
last.41ap-orthtmder. He tinned -and
.
looked at her. 'She did not .etini as
before. A blindiiiit flanh• of lightning
followed. She 'did not cry outr she
merely stood there looking at -
waiting for his reply. He drew field
the curtain and gazed at the rain
spattering on the granite sidewalk,
pooling on the cold,- herd surfaces of
the street.
"1 can't—I won't tell him that I'm
angry," she declared at last. "Why
should I? You aren't a child. s You
must have known what you were do -
away down the hill. Jut beyond
Charles Street that same gray automo-
bile flashed up .to the sidewalk beside
• a hand waved, a voice, softened*
eaIlLd out:
sorry I was so rude to you.]
Forgive mer
Durant stamined, stuttered, gasped.
'Won't You get in and let rre take
you for a spin?
Durant =mewed confused thanks,
ran arBund the car and leaped into
the seat be`side her.
(Contineed Next Week.)
WHAT BRITISH SUBMARINES
t I
•
HAVE- DONE
Details van now be given to thepart
which British submarmee played dur-
ing the War. This service destroyed
the following. enemy ships:
Tvid battleships,.
Two armed cruisers,
Two light cruisers,
• Seven destroyer
Five gunboats,
Twenty submarines,
and five armed auxiliary vessels.
One Zeppelin, three battleships and •
cne light cruiser were torpedoed, but
reached port badly daniaged.
- Other enemy craft destroyed ..werei,
Fourteen transports,
Sia ammunition and supply ships,
Two stoee ships,
Fifty-threessteamshipe,
and 1.9ir Sailing ships.
In no case was a merchant ship
sunk at sight Care was taken, te
e that the crews of all vessels got
-Safely away• ,
In addition to carrying out their
attacksonenemy war craft the sub-
marines played an important part
in convoy work. •
In the third year of the war one
of the British subarrhine command-
ers candecl out twenty-four cruises, •
totalling 22,000. miles, -which prob-
ably constitutes a record for any
§ubmarine.
In the first and zecond years •of
the war seven British sul3marine
commanders carried out a total of
126 cruises, extending- for 350 days,
all of which were actually spent in
the enemy theatre.
•,1
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Expenses of the woman suffragists
$
in7,6thne.recent election amounted , to
Women since the war begun have
taken much' care of the rice crops In ,
Lombardy, -where they work in the
fields uprooting the grass and weeds,.
Mies L; A. O'Neil, forefeerly pri-
vate secretary to Maj. Chita Hige
ins,. a construction esigineer in New
rk, is now secretary to Joseph P.
Tuirtulty, secretary to President Wil -
sore she is the first woman to hold a
p itten in the executive offices �f the
fo ran Sh
intiost, woman .haa been
gtan une. rasual•cliet_Fletesibu. reaue
• twice
Philanidelp94a, iiiPgto` aenwd-
stliet. 4Iif. ill Sit of New York
eitr and Mrs. Ida B. Saturnia of Hun-
tiribelkis l'Neeiwert-t.gitrAaek %Wetted .leags-
islature, are the first,. *omen to sit
e gtimaced. Fr the lowermost a g
ing...
The (curtain slipped from his fm-
gersLhe turned soberly toward 'her.
Pm sorry you're so weeught UP. SUP -
pose we don't Say anything more about
it," he said in, a -tone that was cold
and formal.
She stared at him in open-mouthed
astonishment.
Durant turned and walked =slowly
froin the room. .
-age," he announced as the others dea-
icended and scampered for the door.
• "No, no, no, you won't do anything
of the sort," cried Mildred, leaving
her parents to run back across the
sidewalk toward him. You - will get
soaked to the skin. Father can call
up the garage, and ask them to send a
man for it. Conte, come, I say!"
The great, hetivy drops were falling
thicker, faster, land she stood there
beside the car insistent, waiting.. He
sprang out and followed her across
the sidewalk
"Oh!" she pat her hands to her
ears as the door closed between them
and the first heavy thunderclap.
"Why, Milly, dear, I didn't know
you was so afraid, of lightning," her
mother exclaimed, stopping, on. her
way upstairs.
"And more than that, I can't Pring , observed Diera.nt in the front hall. He "Father, if you don't stop ma,king
myself to look on this als a calamity . wast_regarding something that Simms an exhibition of yourself—" Mildred
Now , ply scared to death of it," she cried his face lightened as the gray car with
"Afraid? I'm not afraid, I'M sine. enter the loomieg apartment house;
i at all. Of course, after you are , had just handed to hint. Staring at sat upon the arm of his chair. NImpatiently, "but you two go along up- its single occupent coasted down the
1
she advised, "and leave me hill toward him.1 But Miss Cabot ae-
gone---" ' lit with the fixed look of a man whose listen! She began to smooth down i
with Richard. I won't be half corded him only a nod so curt and
She xeleased the exhaust. There was t mind, seeming there, is really else- the Wisps of grey-brOwn hair that stairs'''.
bridged the clearing on the top. of his alone
a loud, nerve-racking report. The ex- • where;. so silly and focdish about it before cold that he stopped, turned, and look.:
plosion started everyone in the viein- . Ah' gifts left at your door by fair I head. For a time he managed to him." She hurried into the parlor. -
ed after her. -
ity except the one man elle intended to ; ladies r she exclaimed, leaning co- 1 keep up a pretense of defiance; short -
startle.
state.: legitgeturei east. of the
"
Mlle. Jane Guillemin, who is con-
nected with the ministry of war in
France, has charge of the welfare of
16,000 women and girls employed ia
the office of this department in Paris.,
• It has been proven, that in many
places where women *large numbers
'work at night the wages they receive
are less than men could command.
SAILOR'S SUPERSTITIONS
All seafaring men are superstitious,
but none is so completely ander this
_influence as the old deep-seatisherman
Ile 'belies:tee sosigne, of
The door of Afildred's 'room across
the hall closed with a slam. Durant
rose, listened for a moment, and then
slipped quietly Out of the houSe. On
the sidewalk he shrugged his shoul-
dersfi and .toOk a long breath as one
grateful for his freedom Then a,
deep frown on his face, his attention
given over to the problem he faced,
he evideetly allowed his feet to carry
him where they willed.
Several ininutes later he raised his
eyes from the ground for the first
time. That big, square, unpretentious
house on the slope of Beacon Hill be-
long to the Cabots. If he hoped to see
Hilda, he was disatmointel Through
the front windows showed only the
dim lights left for the absent.
His eyes returned to the ground. He
moved on. Shortly, he stopped and
looked up again. A few rods further
up the hill, near its brow, Corn -warns
Brooke was taking leave of someone
in a gray motor. He watched Brooke
all kinds.. Nothing would induce a .
skipper 'of. the old school to sill ctn a
Friday. One intrepid unbeliever who
dared to leave the docks- at Orinusby
on a Good Friday was .hooted through
.the lockgates by the scandalized popu-
lace.
If a nam's hat blew overboard while
leaving port, many skippers would,
turn hack and delay sailing until the
next day t It was andornen that one
of the crew would be :lost during the
trip. This sign, howeiver, became dirk,
credited, as wily deekbands, desirious
of meth day ashore With their wives
I
and fa ies contracted the habit of
*going_ a ft and assisting the wind to
foretell disaster.
To speak Of pigs aboard a fishing
trawler is fatal. Porr catches and split
and torn trawls will be the inevitable
result from taking off. a hatch Over.
and laying it on the desk upside downs
To kill a 'kitty," as the -fishermen
call. the smaller kind lof seagulls that .
follow in the wake of the trawlers, is
a most dangerbus act, liable to inie
peril the safety of the ship itself.
• 1 ly he was discussing details of .her • • •
anything I can do?' he asked Sym- r The car drew up at her door. She
Durant followed ,her. "Is there
equettis‘ hly over the rail. raised the hoodrom the enigne, buet
. "Just stay laer—please. I oilier want linawate
over it, and seemed either heedless or
nf his presence. For a
"---gone I shall realiie my mist 1 , He started, and looked at . plan;soon he was reduced to a state
pathetically. 1
fortune," he went on imperturbably. the object. in his hand as if to reas- 1 of utter stibjection.
I to be sure I am net alone." she moment he steed irresolute, obviusly
She looked at him nonplussed. 1 surd himself as to what it was. It s The extent of her power over her
pointed to a divan at the right of the . wavering betwden an impulse to keep
• at simess • father became obvious in the complete •
THE CASH REGISTER IDEA
A man named Jacob Ritty, a mer-
chant of Dayton, Ohio, took a Ara -
'cation trip to Europe. While cross-
ing on the steamer he sauntered
one day into the engine room and
noticed a device that mechanically
recorded the number of -revolutions
of the propeller shaft. Immediately,
came the idea to Abe mind of Mr.
Ritty: "Why not -invent a machine
that would record each coin put into
the cash drawer?" When he returned
home, -be invented the first cash regise
• ter. Mr. John H.. Patterson was
keeping a store- in a small town
80 miles from Dayton. He heard of
the Ritty contrivance, sent an order
for one, and that order was the inven-
tor's first order. 1 The inchine was
crude, but it interested Mr. Patterson
and he saw how it could be perfected.
"If it's good for my store," he argued,
"why not for all stores?" Forthwith
he went to Dayton bought the Ritty
ittterest out, and .started the National
prepared for it" he explained. . I Plated up in the hall. I ust have change in his attitude when Durant
He sat down on it. .• had just parted from Cornwallis Ci atesh Register Company, which has
orabl throttling up the .engibici noen." ° Vim:Lout more then 60,000 "cash reg -
now 1,800,000 machines and every year
"I saw you do it. My ears were my, blue opal scarf pin t
room. on up an away from e giri
"Are you coming?" she demanded; &imbed it as I went out this after- finally can* downstaira. Bunce came
toward hire, t...-..;I.s,,4.out and' vsith his
•
- • Brooke, and t 6 temptation to retrace
ercordial manner. There was a loud crash of tnunder. te t h At I th d
and thrusting one small, eyescomeiell- Slie waited until he brought t -fn former large ov
nex y
. her. "What a terrible leering face— "Well, well, well, we managed to
ing foot upon the clutch.
"Oh, isn't •it terribel, terrible terr-
.
' - - •cled
Cl .
ible! I don't see what God does I Can I help you with that engine?"
,
"One minute, please." 1.mA:it's an opal too!" She shivered save that young lady's life, didn't we
, . e
"Oh, how o you de, Mr. Richard
ders, the nran back, leaping into the hand.
He ran to the garage, .left his • or= and -droppetlet back instantly into his even if it was at the ebst of my ma: for!" She Panted before 'him for a
. chine?" he exclaimed, sheking Dur -
fluttering hysterically; then walked . - i - ' I a
moment, her veice exited, her hands
e front Durant! NO Ithank veut" * Wth
1 awa toward eth ont of _Mlle as eoldi as her nod of greeting,
seat beside her, breathless. His hand closed over it, hid it ant's hand vigorously. "
Hilda Cabot dropped the hood back
generously, but I don't thing your car ntheer vr°OuosreY.
"If I had not met' st, many Italians quickly from, her sight. , "I'll put it "It's splendid of you to take it so
He ease and took a step tower into place, and without another word
and French, I should have lost my away," he said proraptly. ,tipped acro s the sidevsalk and n
ther?"
"Don't -ou want me tb ea I your
herln.. I ..... , u,
head 'before all your crude flattery," She laughed, came down a step or is badly damaged," ;pleaded Durant. 1
sho commented as soon as the machilie tvie, stood there, one hand resting "I ordered it repaired at once, and 3' 1 y o
tue Swim.
the expense charged to me."
"I am forced to take this course," little taller than he iv the remaining , xpense g ,
was underway. lightly on the rail, still rendereda
char ed to you! What
She shook her head and giuieted a lit -
Durant rased his hat, and moved
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NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
Amsterdam has been given the ftreti
crematory in the Netherlands.
Florida has been added to the list
of pottery making states, which now,
number 38.
By an electrical proeess a Nor-
wegian plant ik 1.e -fining 6,000 tons off
zine annually.
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