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lin.
In the Passing Shower.
Four years in Alaska was a long
time. And that length of time away
from her and no letters—seemed like
four years of eternity to Buell Searcy.
Now he was sixteen days on the way
home and he groaned with the remem-
brance of it. A woman's love for
money had sent him to the frozen
North. It was not Cella Acton who
cared for money—it was Camilla Ac-
ton, the aunt who commanded a rich |
marriage. |
The girl's mother, widowed and dy- |
ing, had given her, at three days old, |
to John and Camilla Acton; and to
them the girl had given loving obedi-
ence. They were good to her. The
daughters of the house had no more |
advantages. But life in the Acton
circle took money. The three sons
spent much at college and out. The |
household purse was not growing per- |
ceptibly heavier with the years. When
the time would come for the estate fo |
be divided among their own, the Ac-
tons felt that there would be nothing |
to spare for the little niece. Celia
must marry money. )
But, unfortunately, Guy, impulsive
Guy, had in the Christmas of his sen-
for year, brought a classmate home
with him.
“He's the best fellow on earth, Mam-
sie,” Guy had informed his parent,
“but”—this is for Doro’s benefit, that
she might not mistake him for an elig-
ible—" he's poor—my!”
Dorothy evaded Buell Searcy, but
the pretty slight Celia, forgetting mat-
rimonial needs, fell at once under the
charm of his soft brown eyes and gen-
tle manners.
A year after, when some slight de-
gree of professional success was
Searcy’s and he dared to ask the Ac-!
tons’ consent to his marriage to their
niece, he met hasty refusal.
“If 1 give up the law and go away,
to come back rich, will you give her
to me?” Searcy had asked. :
“Yes,” they had answered, to be rid |
of him. But he had believed in their '
promise and gone to the Klondyke,
The aunt had stipujated that he
write only in reply to Celia's letters.
When no answer came to his second
letter after it had been three months
sent, he was hurt and puzzled. At
parting, Celia had slipped a card in
his breast pocket, a card bearing a
little spray of forget-me-nots, and the
words, “Buell, I will wait.” The for-
1
He Was Hurt and Puzzled.
get-me-nots withered and the writing
became dim with the pressure of
Searcy’s lips but Celia’s letter never |
came. Mrs. Acton alone, could have
told him why. :
One day, months later, an appealing
little note reached an Alaska postmas-
ter, but he could reply only that the!
gentleman named Buell Searcy had
gone, nobody knew where. :
Celia despaired. “He is dead in
those awful blizzards,” she mourned.
“He would have written again! Oh, |
Auntie, I know he is dead!”
Near the end of the fourth year,
Payne Lindsay, banker and man of
forty, met Celia and was charmed with |
the wistful blue eyes. The aunt was |
much elated when this “difficult catch” |
made a first call. When Lindsay's at- |
tentions became pronounced, Mrs. Ac- |
ton arranged for Celia to spend a long
requested month with a cousin in his his.
city.
“We are gratified at the honor you
pay Celia in wishing to marry her,”
ran Mrs. Acton’s reply to Payne Lind. !
say's letter, a few days after, “and.
since you are compelled to go abroad |
so soon, you have our consent to an |
immediate marriage, should she favor |
you.”
“You are sure Aunt Camilla and Un-
cle John wish it?”
Lindsay, smiling, unfolded the aunt’s
letter. |
“Give me another day,” Celia plead-
ed with blanched cheeks. “Tomorrow
—tomorrow evening—I will answer
you.”
“A lover's yuarrel, darling?” Mrs.
Irving studied Celia’s pale face next
morning.
i
“No, Cousin Alexandria, Mr. Lind
say is coming tonight.” Celia spoke
dully.
“Then run out for a walk after
lunch,” responded that brisk match-
maker, relieved. “You need color.”
Who would have thought of rain
so brilliant a June afternoon?
stepped hastily in the waiting-room
the big railroad depot which she was
and sat down behind a littie
whiseshaired lady in mourning The |
woman, who possessed a delicate con
4
‘
| said his companion.
. suaded her to marry another. I should
| supplemented.
' lifted the traveler's bag.
| paler.
| again.
dence-inviting face, was talking to a
tired-looking man.
“And this is the first rain you have
sees in four years! My dear sir,
where have you been?”
“I've been where there's no mois
ture but frost,” responded the man. |
“It's a miserable place up there to
live, madam,” he went on. “I would
not send my worst enemy to Alaska.
My friends were sorry to part with |
me, but glad to see me get away—glad |
to see any one leave that awful coun- i
|
try!”
“I hope you brought a fortune back.” |
“Not I—" The man smiled grimly.
there as we foolishly believe before |
we go to see. [| am a small man, yet
my hands,” he held up a pair of brown |
hands with enlarged joints and palms
—“my hands are large. Work hard |
and grinding, made them so. And it
was worse than useless. Besides—
she” He caught himself up.
“You left some one behind?” His
listener hazarded.
“My sweetheart,” he answered, but '
she never wrote to me after her peo- |
ple sent me away. I suppose they per |
not have come back, but I was home-
sick for better things.”
“And you are going—where?” she |
“I'm going back where I threw up
my work for a will o' the wisp, to!
begin all over again.”
“Your train, madam!” The maid
“Good-bye and God bless you. my |
son,” she said. “You will write to
me? I, 1, too, am alone in the world.” |
She passed on. He turned for a last |
look. Celia who had listened, clinch- |
ing her hands until the nails cut inte |
her delicate palms, looked straight in- |
to the mellow brown exes of Buell
Searcy. The room whirled before her.
Searcy reached her in one stride.
“Celia—is it you? Why did you not |
write to me?" quivered on his aston-
ished lips.
“I did,” she faltered, “three times.
Buell, and when you did not answer, I
thought, O Buell, I thought you were
dead!”
“And 1—I thought some rich man |
had claimed you. Has he, Celia?" !
The girl flushed. A rich man asked |
me to marry him last night: am to |
answer him this evening.” i
The man's worn face grew a shade |
“I never expected to see you |
1 haven't any right to say a
word, for I've come back as poor as I
went away, but now that I find you!
free, Celia, don't tell me—"
, Her soft hands hurt under the grip
of his strong ones. People were star |
ing at them.
“I must go home,” she said, drawing
her hands away gently; “the rain is
over and the zun is out.”
He slipped her arm in his and look-
ed into her eyes.
“l want to know,” he persisted, as
she drew him hastily toward the.
street, “if the sun is out for me or
has set forever. Celia, you were will
ing once to take me penniless—would |
you be willing now?" :
Celia smiled through the tears that |
sprang to her eyes. :
“I would,” she said simply, “without '
any one’s permission this time.” i
And Searcy wished that the travel
ing public could be blotted from the !
face of the earth that he and she might |
be for one instant alone together. i
| we sat all that glorious afternoon in- |
BEWARE MENTAL VAMPIRE
He Likes Best to Get His Prey into
a Corner and Drain Him Dry of
Suggestions.
If you value your own ideas, if you |
have use, or even respect, for the!
casual products of your own brain,
‘ware the vampire! He is, perchance, |
at your elbow as you sit in friendly
and bibulous intercourse. He lurks,
mayhap, in ‘the adjoining barber
chair, or lies in wait next to you in
the street car. No poet hn: sung
him. But he is close at hand, and
ready, with fiendish smile and suave
speech, to lure you into an expansive |
or an eloquent moment. !
Frequently he is the paragrapher
on some daily or weekly publication. | and teas, and people got thin and hag-
Beneath his deceptive exterior of re-
spectability may even lie the hard.
ened heart of a jokester for & comic.
Often he is a writer of Mngitive—
which means seldoin seen—versc, sto.
ries, sketches, plays, even novels. Al
ways he has his note books handy —
if not in actual evidence, at least Loe
hind those eager, listening ent: of
All is sustenance to the mental]
vampire. The eulogy of the conduc
tor on a bad nickel, the compliments
of the chauffeur who carelessly miss.
es his pedestrian, the chaffericg of
the housewife, the small talk of the
bars, the repartee of the newsboye,
the latest exploit of the drapée:'s
clerk. But best he likes to draw lis
prey into some corner and drain Lim
dry of anecdote and suggestions If
he is clever at his trade you will pot
even know your loss until you see
some distorted image of a pet slery,
expression, opinion or fantasy ia
print. By that time the vampire bas
taken his ghoulish appetite to otfier
quarters beyond reach of your right
eous wrath. "Ware him!
Little Girl—Oh, mamma, why does
she kiss him? Why does she? Does
she like him better'n the chopper?
| fer in town?
| answer:
| “Gold is not piled up in the streets |
i
| tuce and parsley and chickens and
knew if the lettuce farmer took fit
| walked the porch the morning of the
| party.
| cheated.
| place caught the entertaining fever.
SUMMER PARTIES.
“No,” said the girl who had been
two months at a summer resort. “I
can't say that I feel rested. You see, '
I had to work so hard dodging par-
ties! i
“When [I first settled down at
Cumagen Woods I thought I had a
breathing space ahead of me. Every
| woman and girl there said things lke
this: ‘Isn't it perfectly heavenly to
get out of doors and be close to na-
ture and drop all the rush and worry
and social doings that one has to suf- |
Then some one would
‘Perfectly grand! I am
80-0-0 tired of it all!’ |
“‘Aha!’ I said to myself. ‘I have |
found the place I have long been seek-
ing.’
“Then in about a week I observed
that Mrs. Fink next door was moody
and restless. Finally she burst out |
with her troubles. She said she had
decided that she ought to give a
| party because she hadn't done so for
! two seasons, and was indebted to all
the old residents. She said it was
such hot weather that she just dread-
| ed it, but it had to be done and she
might as well get it over.
“So she walked two miles up and |
down the lake front inviting people,
| and it was so hot that when she got |
i
home the family had to put her to
bed and keep ice on her head all |
| might and the doctor's bill veas about !
ten dollars. Mrs. Fink then used up |
two days in driving about cajoling |
farmers into promising to deliver let- |
things for her salad and another !
whole day in making the salad. i
“She nearly had nervous prostration |
over the lettuce because, as she said, |
the farmers didn't care whether they
did as they said they would.
regarded the desire for lettuce
merely as one of the silly vagaries
of the summer residents and she
into his head to go on a picnic or
drive to town that day he'd do it,
and then what should she do with
forty women coming?
“We were all so worried over Mrs.
Fink's lettuce that we distractedly
party, and when we saw the lettuce
farmer really drive up we just cheered
out loud in our relief! He didn't
bring the nice, erimpy, curly kind
that she had ordered.
“It was about 110 degrees in the
shade that afternoon, and if you
walked by any house in the place you
could hear mutterings and grumblings
from the unhappy women within who
were trying to curl their hair and get
into their party clothes. All of them
were wondering what Mrs, Fink want-
ed to give a party for, anyway, and
wasn't it horrid having to go? The
perspiration rolled off Mrs. Fink's
face as she told her guests how glad
she was to see them and then every:
body sat and crocheted and mopped
her face and ate three times more
than was digestible and said what a
beautiful time she had had and then
rushed home to get into a kimono and
to feel thankful that it was over.
“Then Sally Casey arrived one day
and asked me to an afternoon bridge
The weather was perfectly
ideal, the kind that makes you want
to run bareheaded through the woods
and shout because you're alive. But
doors quarreling over cards and 1
was sick two days from the stuff I
ate, and a woman who didn't get the
prize said that the woman who did
“By that time every woman in the
There were invitations out for nearly
every afternoon and evening, because
every one was afraid that if she didn’t
give a party she wouldn't be asked
to the others, and, of course, no mat-
ter how much ycu hate to go you
nearly die if you don’t get the chance
to go. Nobody had any time to do
anything but whitewash her shoes
and press out her dress-up dresses
and shampoo her bair.
“There were sewing parties and
card parties and luncheon parties and
corn roasts and watermelon parties
gard and dyspeptic and cross and
quarrelsome, and above it all rose the
wail at each party: ‘Why did she
take it into her head to give a party |
and make me ¢limb out of the ham-
mock and get into tight clothes and
sacrifice myself!” Yet we were all
scared to death for fear there would
be a party that we would not be
asked to.
“But a great and bitter rebellion
was seething within me and one day
I found a soul who could understand.
Catherine Smith and I fairly wept
as we both talked at once and con-
fessed how we hated summer parfies
when we wanted to rest from the ef-
fects of the winter parties,
“As we were discussing possible
methods of escape Catherine grabbed
me with a shriek. ‘IT have it!’ she
cried. ‘I know how we can escape all
the rest of the parties! Just say:
“No, thank you,” instead of “Yes, |
thank you,” when we are asked!’ f
“It really was simple, wasn't it?
So that was what we did and we be-
came known as the social outcasts of |
Cumagen Woods, because if you don’t |
gn to their parties the women all get |
mad at you. After they were all mad |
jit us Catherine and I had a delightful
e. -
Oh. does she? “A pretty girl can wear almost any-
—It's her brother, ch thing.”
by sa It's r, child ross” or quite tlie Pie
Littie Girl—Oh, that's ail Oh,
what became of it?
Gir! at the Back—Oh, shucks! What
ever did they shut it off so fast for?
wanted to see the brother and sis
er ‘ad to see each other. | wonder
married the other man.
Judge.
A Suitable Name.
“Why do you call your country
place ‘The Balkans?”
“Oh, it gives me nothing but trou.
ble.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
And I was innocent enough to |
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