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"+" you'll finish to -morrow, easy. If
y'ou'rs done early take a run down to
4 4 7 7 the lake; it'll be good for you an' the
boy, an' you may get some fishin'.
There's a troll an' line somewhere in
the kitchen, The wife'11 get it for
you; she can't go, account o' the cows
�Q+ at night.„
: -. .,.... .._ .......ora .w..l, Cal recalled Minnie's reference to
°"'� cows in her proposed scenario of
(Continued on ;page eight) I "No --my oldest brother. Perhaps "Why Girls Leave the Farm," and
pump macliine, um
to'' water; eventually, you havent heard of him. We don't felt that he wasbeginning to .under-
perhaps to supply electric light, !shout his name . from the housetops, stand, But he was thinking, too, of
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By Robert J.C 'Stead.
"Arid you should seethe yard," he 'for a fact, but as you're sure to hear the farmer's reference to. Reed; the
told her. " 'Peach Boulevard,' Gan -tit sooner or later you might as well boy had in some way got a grip on
der has named it, more, I think; in have it straight, It's a wonder •Annie old Jackson Stake and his vyife that
sorrow than in anger, . because I've' Frolic hasn't found a way to let you was quite unexplainable.
hauled the buildings into line, and know before this. You must have On the Twenty-fourth Gander and.
dragged the pig pen into the fields, ' been sticking close to your job." Grit worked a short forenoon and is so wonderful," she said, bellowsing
and propped up' the water trough ,so Cal was aware of her eyes, half stabled their horses early. Cal came
it doesn't leak over the corner. You frank, half bantering, upon him, but in soon afterward. He was in tine
Kim 't n it."
'not the mein road over which Cal and
Reed had come three weeks before,.
This was an old timber trail, cut by
the early settlers in pursuance of their
business of filching logs and firewood
from the Government lands adjoin-
ing the lake. In recent years ithad.
been used only by an occasional_ pie-
nicking or fishing; party.. Cal guided
the car with subconscious skill among
the overgrown stumps which border-
ed the trail, and presently, from the
brow of a !rill, a vision of the lake bur
st upon them, framed in its broad
valley like' a picture worked in silver
and amethyst.
They stopped for a Moment to feast,
on the scene. "I always think nature
won. know ow {he did not answer. Evidently she to.witness their hasty shaving before
He awaited her enthusiasm,. but for a;was interested in his acquaintance the tin mirror. at the corner of the
minute she did not answer him at all. with Annie Frawdic, and he had no house..
When she did. i objection to that interest.. It was im- I "Suppose Youth and Beauty will be
"You might just as well save your- portant for what it indicated. outin force to -day," he remarked as
her thin , chest like a motion -picture
heroine.
"Yes—and so original," he agreed.
She seemed to susiect a smile be-
hind his words, but his, lips were
straight and sober.
"Will you tell us a story about it ill
self the trouble, she t ito-night, Daddy X?" piped Reed from
no use. I've been through it all, and she repeated. "Partly because we Grit carefully excavating the elliptic the back seat.
I know. Not that I ever moved the don't know. He was quite a bit older wrinkles that . furrowed -. his brown "About something, to be sure.
pig pen, or the granaries; not that. 'than the rest of us; he'll be—let ,me cheeks. - Come, Antelope; slow and steady."
But I've been through the same,fight.1 see -about thirty now, if he's living. "Sure," said Grit. "Sorry you can't There was occasion for both injunc
They I they'll beat you." Andhe was a bit harum-scarum-al- come. Guess Minnie'll have to fall tions, for the trail down the 'hillsides
beat me, and r.
' He's all set up—" ;like for all that. I ,dont know that There was notating malicious to the tain. Wagon wheels of bygone years
"It's a bubble, and one of these min -"that makes much difference, when it,thrust, but it struck home neverthe- had furrowed the virgin turf, and the
utes it's going to. burst. Gander and conies to liking, do you think? ' Well, less. ""Cal pretended to laugh, and rains of succeeding seasons has, sluic-
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Grit laugh, but they're wiser than you. ,he got up and left. That was about went in to dinner with a stone in his ed a once' passable trail into a minia-
Tliey know." 'ten,years ago. Worked in Winnipeg stomach. - turd' gorge of crumbling yellow -clay,
mood of finality nettled him.' for a while; then at Fort .William; In the aftetnoon, tramping up and .dry except in spring or after heavy
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old him. "It's "We don't say much about him," genially as he could, as he observed
day.'.' to the lake was: tortuous and unser-
`But you should see: your father. ways was—but a fellow a girl could back on het bank clerk to-• day"
h know?" he de -then on the lake boats: then on the down behind his four -horse team in rain. Straddling , this narrow canyon
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mane. d d "They haven't a• glimpse of lower lakes. Used to write once in a the black field,. still heavy and dank Antelope wormed her way like a pud-
what it should be -of what it could be while, just a line or two, but you with the rain of two days before, Cal gy caterpillar, slithering from side to
made— !should should have seen Mother when. a let-.argued it out with himself.. "Of side on the - crumbling clay; while
"That's just it" she interrupted. ter would come! She never lost course," he admitted, "it is perfectly Anne Frawdic wrestled with -a femin
"They haven't a glimpse, and so faith. You know, Ham and I are natural that. Minnie shouldint impulse to avert disaster by seiz
the 're content. I had a glimpse, and Stakes,after our father, but Jackson.friend in town—a bank clerk, or who- ing Cal's arni. 'She wrestled success-
ityfully, and at last the sandy beach was
drove me from the farm. You have and Gander took after Mother. - In ever ,he is. A girl.' of Minnie's quali-•
s.e and. it's making you do appearances, I mean. Dark you know ties. You have to expect that. Bee reached in safety.
"What a driver you are!" she bell-
owsed again. "I felt so :safe-" •
"Oh,' it's easy enough corning
unwillingbut complete self he went to the war, burl dunno. tal, so he, substituted scientific, but down,"' he assured her. "The' trick
signation, of
acceptance of the'inevitable. 1She had fallen in.the vernacular. "It with no better results. "After all, it will` be to go up. - Antelope has an
was subdued. "Why will they wouldn't be so bad if one could be -is experimental, and we'll let it go at annoying• habit of balking if you hold
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"I don't know. I think it is• be- had .counted for something, anyway, warning shout to Big Jim, who had a sliding back to the bottom.
everyone . on the farm has too don't you think?" 1 asters h h 1 n#
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genius for scenting ` its m Reed supplied the technical i or-
o. Always tired, or lust She had a friendly way of appealing moods and imposing on them.
much to d y I
matron. "That's' because the gasoline
getting over being tired or just go -Ito him with that intimate little "Don't . The trouble was it wouldn't "go at won't. run from the tank to the car-
ge ing ov ,
in to do something that'll make 'ern think?" that pleased . him very that." .A dozen times between one buretor," he explained.
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tired. It becomes chronic. When much. end of the field and the other his "Oh, I'm so relieved," • said Annie.
you're like thatyou let everyteverything' 'Yes, T ` think so," he said, simply. mind would flit to Plainville. He -
slide that will slide. You fall into the "Ifit hadn't been for Reed I'd have saw Minnie and her bank clerk—a
way
of it. You leave the granary been there, too." tall, thin fellow, - as he pictured him;
where it is; you leave the pig pen' "Blessthe boy! He's a wonder, whom he could have knocked sprawl-.
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where •it is, you let the water trough don't you think? But, of course, Mo- with one punch—he saw them go -
spill over if it
likes. You don't care. ther has never given up. She insists ing. into rhe ball grounds, finding their the car to one side. Reed was out
You get that way, because you're al- that Jackie—that was his pet name— seats in the grandstand, eating pea -'with a whoop and the next minute,
shred or have just been tired,. or will come home some day, but I dun- nuts out of the same bag, applauding bare -legged, was. wading in the shal-
"I was 'afraid the engine might stop,
or something."
The •trail continued along the bea-
ch, but they -°found a pleasant. sandy
spot with tall trees nearby and drew
way
are lust going to be tired. You do no—Why, here we are! It isn't far, the Plainville team in. its successes,
what must be done; you let every- is it?" commiserating together,over its - re -
thin else slide." 1 "Not half far enough," he said, as verses, concurring with the grand -
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"But I don't find that to be so" he he gave her some unnecessary assist- stand crowd concerning the utter de-
protested.
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protested. "T'm not always tired: -Of ance out of the car, which she accept- y , e visiting.
p pravit of .the umpire. and t
course, I had some stiff muscles at ed with unnecessary dependence. players. Then these would be supper,
first, but the work is really rather' It was still the twilight of- a prairie somewhere—he had a vision of Wun
easy; much easier than plugging foreevening, but the farmyard was asleep; Lung's—and after that, perhaps, the
a university 'exam,' for example." 'with no sound save the contented Electric Theatre, where hands may be
She was thoughful over his argil- blowing of cows drowsing in a heaven'held under a friendly hat. He.would
ment. "Maybe," she commented, at of smoke from: the mosquito smudge., have liked to think of Minnie as un -
length. "I've been through some- He helped her carry the parcels to •he sophisticated, but he . suspected the
thing like that. It's not really the house, and after they had'set them on facts were against him.
work, perhaps; perhaps it is the mon-,the table they stood for a moment in Cal was on his last `round .when.
otony, the changelessness of the en- the door. Reed, brown and busy from a day's
vironment. Always the same people,' "Well—good. night," she said sud- gopher snaring • on the prairie, came
the same fields, the same horses, the deny, and went in, up with -him. At the end of the field
same cows. Particularly the cows. I With a strange confusion of emo- they unhitched, and Cal flung the boy
....At any rate I was tired, and I let tions' he turned to the granary, 'and to on to the broad back of Big Jim, who
'er slide." the boy Reed• had become accustomed to this famil-
"But you didn't,".he corrected. "You CHAPTER TEN iarity, and who bore him homeward
couldn't. You couldn't 'let everything The twenty-fourth of May was fain- with mingled pride and condescension.
slide'—" oils for being a national. holiday, ob- In the house 'they found Annie
_ "That's °right. There was some- served in memory of the birthday.of Frawdic. "Pleased -to see you again,
thing in me that wouldn't stand it, and Queen Victoria; and for being, by es- Mr. Beach," she said, extending her
I left. They don't understand me, tablished practice, the date of the first hand. "I thought you would have
either, any more than they do you. ball game of the season at Plainville. been in Plainville."
I'm afraid we're regarded as a couple As the birthday of the Queen receded "Why -I thought the same' of you,"
of freaks." further and further into the past, and said Cal. • Y
Cal warmed to the idea of being as the Plainville baseball team devel- "No; at the last moment I decided
considered a freak if it classified him oped h- prowess, the holiday became not to 'go," she explained. "Thought
with Minnie Stake. They were:silent less and `less a commemorative event I would rather slip over"and:have a
again as the car rumbled on into the and more and.more a demonstrative quiet afternoon with Mrs. Stake. We
gathering darkness. one. old ladies don't often have a chance
"Well, it's an experiment, anyway,"1 Cal had gleaned something - ,of its; to visit, do we, Mrs. Stake."
he' said, at length, "and I'm going irnpo.rtance from the columns of the "Old ladies! Tosh! Don' be sayin'
through with it. We'll see, Plainville Progress and from desul- that before Cal. You're a young girl,
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She laughed gently, induciugly. "I tory remarks of Gander and Grit. It Annie."
think we're all experiments," she said. :seemed to be an established thing Annie Frawdic shook a lean- finger
�, p every one went to Plainville on in the face of the farmer's wife. "May
I guess life is pretty much an ex tri- that
ment, don't you think? An experi-"The Twenty-fourth," and it was Cal's the Lord forgive you for trifling with.
inent, and an adventure.. At any rate purpose not to disregard so proper a the truth," she. threatened. But
that's what it is for me, and I ramble custom. It was tirne Reed had a visit what Annie did not say was that her
in joyously where angels fear to tread to the town; the boy was too isolated decision . to visit Mrs. Stake was
or something to that effect. I got on. the farm.. Besides, a holiday, and made after she had:seen Cal's team
fed tip on the farm, so I quit it. 11 a ball game, and Minnie Stake— return to the field for the afternoon.
I get fed' up on the office, I'll quit i' But fate ruled otherwise. The bar -A tliought came to Cal and he act
that, too." ley field in which Cal was seeding ed tiparn it.
"And go back oil the farm?" would easily have beet finished onthe' "We're going down to the lake,
"No. Anything but that." 'twenty-third had it not rained• on the Reed and I, for a little picnic and a
After a while she took in the twenty-second., But it diel, and this word or two with Nature. Will you
thread again at that point. "1 know threw Cal just one day behind his join us? You, too, Mrs. Stake? You
it's rather rough on Mother and Dad schedule: can come, can't you?"
--1 know it is," she admitted. "We've "I reckon you won't partic'lar mind, Bttt Mrs, Stake protested. She"sim-
. quarrel or anything thin of workin' on the Twei}ty-fourth," jack- ply couldn't. There were the cows,
never.had any qua y g
Haat kind, you know, but just—our son Stake observed. "'Tain't like as you know. "But yoti go, Annie; go
paths seemed to'separate, I guess if yott had friends in Plainville, or along, that's the girl. Ill make up a
deal of that ,in life, and. hereabout, that you could visit with, bite o' lunch."
there's a good t• , "that the had
it's. hard on the old .folks. But one an it's time that field was finished. I Annie Frawdic argued
life,doesn't he? I ` Cal swallowed his annoyance, re- come to visit Mrs. Stake, not to go
supe osto live .hisw tS o Stake was in picnicking but she •was careful not to
suppose Mother.wouldn't have taken inembering that jackson n , picnicking, ,
fetich to heart if I'd been the most respects an ideal employer.' strain her invitation to the breaking
it so
first, but,. you see, Jackson did' the
same thing, and it makes it hard on
her."
"Jackson? Your father?"
low water. His two elders looked on
with diminishing reserve.
,"Who --wouldn't be a child?" she
said.
"All right. Suppose we do?'r.,..
She colored a: little, but her eyes
met his. Then she seated herself o
a stone at a modest distance, and .pre-
sently' she was tripping along ginger -
ly in six inches of water. Cal brought
out the troll and line, and, with toru-
!sers rolled to his knees, waded as far
'into the water as he could. Then he
swung the hook about`his head and
(threw it still farther in. It needed no-
• small faith to suppose that any fish
'would respond to such obvious - ad
'vances, but Cal's faith was function
Zing almost one 'hundred per cent. It
occurred to him that some fish were
only waiting fee_advances... .
IAnd his faith was rewarded. Not
immediately, but soon. Caine a splash
and a widening circle where a fish
jumped :for a fly, and a moment -later
Cal dexterously landed his hook at the
same spot. He had only a second to
-wait; first: a slight tug; then 'a jerk;
then the line ran off in a huge elliptic.
"Cal's shout brought Annie and Reed
as far into the water as prudence
would permit, -but when suddenly the
fish changed his tactics and steamed
full speed for shore, Annie made a
n wild dash for safety. A pike of three
(pounds.
"Just the measurements for su'p-
"All right, .Y'il finish it," he said. point. Half an 'hour later Cal, Annie,
"New you're shoutire," said the for -i1 I and Reed were bumping in the old
mer, approvingly, "She played tis a Ford along the little used road which
dirty trick, raisin' yesterday, but led to a secluded beach on the lake•-
d:JvJsuu.
per," Cal said, when he had blustered
Annie into hefting the lithe, cold, slip-
pery body in her two hands. Now
for a fire."
They . gathered some bits of .wood
and -built a little fire on the sand, and
no one seemed to rernember that:
they were still in their bare feet. The
sand was warm and caressing; and
who cared?
(Continued in our next issue)
THE INTERRUPTED LOVER
'Twas late one night he spoke to her
He voiced his love with. eloquence,
He hoped her tenderness to stir
When`date that -night he spoke to her, '
Nor reckoned not what did occur—
Her folks o'erheard and drove him.
hence
'Twas late one night he spoke to her
That tomcat on the backyard fence
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"What would a nation be without -
women?" •
"A stagnation, I guess."
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he .Mediterranenti was once the
whole world from a marine
standpoint; to -day it is but a small
Bart of the marine world, but when
the traveller of this century passes
through the strait of G•ibraltat' and
makes a tour of the gateway ports
covering Algeria, Greece, Turkey,
Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Italy and
Monaco he has visited the :very
birthplace of the world and seen
fest of the things he. has longed
to see from earl youth. Wander-
eb-east un. and
Wander-
lust in every hx
Fled y4s o the
old, and �p-day the world i on
March, seeing strange peoples and
taiiting places looming large op
History's pages. "Have you looped
the loop around the Mediterrane-
an?" is 'a phrase much in vogue,
and each year thousands of
wanderlust folk are able to say
"Yes!" and wish that they were
going to loop the same old loop
again.
The "Empress of Scotland," if a
big steamship of 25,000 tons gross
register and 87,600 tons displace-
ment could be interviewed, would
say that she was departing on her.
fourth annual cruise of the Medi-
terranean from New York on Feb.
9; 1925, and that although she
could' find her way around m the,
Wk. . she would much prefer day-
light so that she would not miss
any of the wonderful scenery o
the Mediterranean. Passengers on
the "Eitxpress" will see Madeira,
then drop in to pay a call upon Lis..
bon, Portugalt as well at another
call upon Cadiz,, Spain, with Seville
as a side trip. Gibraltar, the fameus
"Rack" next gets the once over,
and .then Algiers,' capital. of the
French colon of Algeria is visit-
ed, Athens, Greece, Constanti-
nople' and the Bosphorms are next,
and agile
the ainone p
aifa allhwhen the. shipvisite Be�irout
and.laces of
the holy Lad are: within a short
distance of the vetsel�, "The storied
Nile"awaits the Em rens' and 12
days are *ea h seeing the cities
of Alexandria and Cairo, the Pyre -
adds, the Sphinx, etc.; then Naples,
Pompeii, Remold', Monaco Cher-
bourg, LSouthampten and other
places, One can bee .6i lot in 02
days in and about, this cradle of
civilisation, and that's the job of
the big oil-briningaltroptese of
Scotland? the targest''*easel iri the
Whole Canadian laacrtld feet.