Bellefonte, Pa., December 6, 1912. Copyright, 1909, by Doubleday. Page & On SYNOPSIS Althougn a good scholar, Elnora Com- “stock, entering high school, is abashed by her country dress She needs $2 for books and tuition fees. Her mother is unsympathetic, and Elnora tells her trou- bles to Wesley Sinton, an old neighbor. When Elnora was born her father was drowned in a swamp, embittering her mother’s life. Elnora determines to raise money by gathering forest specimens. The Sintons buy clothes for her. Elnora, getting her books cheaply, finds @ market with the Bird Woman for but- terfiles, Indian relics, ete. . [Continued from last week.] With the first streak of red above the Limberlost Margaret Sinton was busy with the gingham and the intricate pa- per pattern she bad purchased. Wesley cooked the breakfast and worked until he thought Elnora would be gone, then he started to bring her mother. | “Now you be mighty careful” cau- tioned Margaret. “1 don't know how she will take it.” “1 don't either.” said Wesiey phiioso- phically, “but she’s got to take it some way. That dress bas to be finished by school time in the morning.” Wesley had not slept well that night. By the time he reacbed the front gate and started down the walk between the rows of asters and indy slippers he was perspiring. and every plausible and convincing speech had fled his brain. Mrs. Comstock helped him. She met him at the door. “Good morning.” she said. “Did Mar- garet send you for something?" “Yes,” suid Wesley. “She sent me for you. She's got a job that's too big for her, and she wants you to help.” “Of course | will,” said Mrs. Com- stock. It was no one's affair how lone- ly the previous day bad been, or how the endless hours of the present would drag. “What is she doing in such a rush?" Now was his chance. “She's making a dress for Elnora,” answered Wesley. He saw Mrs. Com- stock's form straighten, and ber face harden, so he continued hastily. *You see Elnora has been helping us at harvest time, butchering, and with un- expected visitors for years. We've made out that she's saved us a con- siderable sum, and as she wouldn't ever touch any pay for anything we just went to town and got a few clothes we thought would fix her up a little for the high school. We want to get a dress done today mighty bad. but Margaret is slow about sewing, and she never can finish alone, so | came for you." “And it's such a simple little matter, so dead easy; and all so between old friends like, that you can't look above your boots while you explain it." sneer- ed Mrs. Comstock. “Wesley Sinton, what put the idea into your head that . Elnora would take things bought with money when she wouldn't take the money 7" hii Sinton's eyes came up straight. “Finding her on the trail last night sobbing as hard as | ever saw any one at a funeral. She wasn't complaining at all, hut rhe's come to me all her life with her little hurts, and sbe couldn't hide how she'd been laughed at, twit- ted and run face to face against the fact that there was books and tuition unexpected, and nothing will ever make me believe you didn't know that, Kate Comstock.” “If any doubts are troubling you on that subject, sure | knew it! She was so anxious to try the world I thought I'd just let her take a few knocks and see how she liked it.” “As If she'd ever taken anything but knocks all her life!” cried Wesley Sin- ton. “Kate Comstock, you are a heart- less, selfish woman. You've never al- lowed Elnora any real love in her life. If ever she finds out that thing you'll lose her, and it will serve you right.” “She knows it now,” said Mrs. Com- stock icily, “and she'll be home tonight Just as usual.” ; “Well, you are a brave woman if you dared put a girl of Elnora’s make through what she suffered yesterday and will suffer again today and let her know you did it on purpose. 1 admire your nerve. But I've watched this since Elnora was born, and I got “As if you'd ever done anything but interfere all her life! Think 1 haven't | Mrs. Comstock. ' decent clothes, and when she Is of age Margaret loms the last stitch she cowid. ! . | sionally she and Wesley exchanged a 80 you can!" said Wesley few words. Mrs. Comstock regularly “Any day you say the word | turned n leaf and once arese and mov timber off this place easy. [I'll see to guret and Wesley were discussing clearing and working the fields cheap whether be had not best go to town | more cattle to fatten. All you've got | to do Is sign a lease to pull thousands | ed chair and squared himself. Marga-, | from the ground in oll. as the rest of | ret gripped her sewing and turned | ! us are doing a'l around you.” : i eyes to the doer. Mrs. Com- | stock closed her book and grimly smil- “Tear up his land! ed. Cover everything with horrid, greasy “Mother, please open the door™ | “Cut down Robert's trees!” shrieked oil! I'll dle first!” ed Elnora. “You mean you'll let Elnora go like | Mrs, Comstock arose and swung open | a beggar and hurt and mortify ber past screen. Elnora stepped in beside | bearing. I've got to the place where I | her. bent half doubie, the whole front | tell you plain what | am going *o do. | ‘of her dress gathered into a sort of bag | Maggie and | went to town last night, | filled with a heavy load and one arm and we got what things Elnora uends | stacked high with books. In the dim most urgent to make her look » little jight she did not see the Rintons. like the rest of the high school girls, | Now here it is in plain English. You' can help get these things ready and let us give them to her as we want”— “She won't touch them!” cried Mrs, Comstock. “Then you can pay us, and she can take them as her right” — “1 won't!” “Phen I will tell Elnora just what | you are worth, what you can afford aud how much of this she owns. I'll jloun her the money to buy books and “Please hand me the empty bucket in the kitchen, mother,” she said. “I just | i had to bring these arrow points home, but I'm scared for fear I've soiled my | | dress and will have to wash it. I'm to ! clean them and take them to the bank- | er in the morning, and oh, mother, I've | | sold enough stuff to pay for my books, | my tuition and maybe a dress and some lighter shoes besides. Oh, moth- er. I'm so happy! Take the books and bring the bucket!” Then she saw Margaret aud Wesley. | | “Oh, glory!" she exulted. “1 was just wondering how I'd ever wait to tell you, and here yeu are! It's too per- fectly splendid to be true!” “Tell us, Einora,” said Sinton. she can sell her share and pay me.” Mrs. Comstock gripped a chair back and opened her lips, but no words i came. | “And,” Sinton continued. “if she is so much like you that she won't do that “Well, sir.” said Elnora, doubling Ml Eo to the county seat and lay com: | down on the floor and spreading out 3 30 the you y her a be- | her skirt, “set the bucket here, mother. Fore the judge. I'll swear to what you | These points are brittle and have to are worth and how you are raising her | be put in one at a time. Jt they are and have you discharged or have the | chipped 1 can't sell them.” And she judge appoint some man who will see | told all that had happened. thas «he is comfortable, educated and | Finora laid the last arrow point in decent looking!" | the pail and arose, shaking leaves and “You—you wouldn't!" gasped Mrs. | Comstock. i “1 won't need to. Kate!” said Sinton, | his heart softening the instant the hard | words were said. “You won't show it, | put you do love Elnora! You can't help it! You must see how she needs i things. Come, help us fix them and | pe friends. Maggie and I couldn't live | without her, and you couldn't either. | You've got to love such a fine girl as she is. Let it show a little!” ! “You can hardly expect me to love | her.” said Mrs. Comstock coldly. “But | for her a man would stand back of me | now who would beat the breath out of | your sneaking body for the cowardly | thing with which you threaten me. After all I've suffered you'd drag me | to court and compel me to tear up Robert's property. If I ever go they carry me. If they touch one tree or put down one greasy old oll well it will be over all I can shoot before | they begin. Now, see how quick you | can clear out of here!” | “You won't come and help Maggie | with the dress?’ For answer Mrs. Comstock looked about swiftly for some object on which to lay her hands. Knowing ber tem- | per, Wesley Sinton left with all the | haste consistent with dignity. But | he did not go home. He crossed a field i and in an hour brought another neigh bor who was skillful with her needle. | With sinking heart Margaret saw them | coming. | “Kate is too busy to help today. She *Please hand me the empty bucket in can't sew before tomorrow,” said Wes- | the kitchen, she said. ley cheerfully as they entered. bits of baked earth from her dress. That quietea Margaret's apprehen- ' gro reached into her pocket and pro- sion a little. though she had some gu..q her money and waved it before doubts. Wesley prepared the lunch, | their wondering eyes. and by 4 o'clock the pretty dress was | «And that's the joy part!” she exult- finished as far as it possibly could be | ed. “Put it up In the clock till morn- until it was fitted on Elnora. | ing. mother. That pays for the books i CHAPTER V. | Wherein Mrs. Comstock Laughs the First Time In Sixteen Years, HE neighbor left. and Margaret packed their purchases into the big market basket. Wesley took the hat, umbrella and raincoat, ' and they went down to Mrs. Com- | stock's. As they reached the step Mar. | garet spoke pleasantly to Mrs. Com- stock, who sat reading just inside the door, but she did not answer. Wesley Sinton opened the door and went in, followed by Margaret. | lap? i “Kate,” he said, “you needn't take out your mad over our little racket on | Maggie. 1 ain't told her a word I! said to you or you said to me. She's not so very strong, and she’s sewed since 4 o'clock this morning to get this dress ready for tomorrow. It's done and we came down to try it on Elnora.” | “Is that the truth, Mag Sinton?” demanded Mrs. Comstock. “You heard Wesley say so.” proudly affirmed Mrs. Sinton. “1 want to make you a proposition,” said Wesley. “Wait till Elnora comes. Then we'll show her the things and see what she says.” “How would it do to see what she | says without bribing her?” sneered i ‘most away the clothes if you want to till we tell her.” “Well, you don't take this waist I'm working on.” said Margaret, “for I' have to baste in the sleeves and set | the bills. Then she went on, but more | out, and her face was beaming. “Have |. you taken to waists all fancy and but- and tuition and”— Binora hesitated, for she saw the nervous grasp with which her mother's fingers closed on slowly and thinking before she spoke. “What 1 get tomorrow pays for more books and tuition, and maybe a few, just a few, things to wear. These shoes are so dreadfully heavy and hot, and they make such a noise on the floor. There isn't another calico dress in the whole building, not among hun- dreds of us. Why, what is that? Aunt Margaret. what are you hiding in your She snatched the waist and shook it toned in the back? I bet you this is mine!” “I bet you so, too,” said Margaret Sinton. “You undress right away and try it on, and if it fits it will be done for morning. There are some low shoes too!” . Elnora began to dance. “Oh, you dear people!” she cried. “I can pay for them tomorrow night! Isn't it too splendid! I was just thinking on the way home that 1 certainly would be compelled to have cooler shoes until later, and 1 was wondering what I'd do when the fail rains get i 2 & i mora stoutly. than from them, to whom I owe so can sell $6000 worth of rare | ed nearer » window. Just when Mar-, much more than I ever can pay mow.” “Well. you don't have te.” said Mrs. Comstock. “Maggie just selected these things because she is more im teuch with the weeld and has got such good taste. Yow can pay as long as your money holds out, and if there's more necessary maybe I can sell the buteher a calf, or #f there's things toe ecestly for us, of course, they ean take them back. Anything that ain’t used cam be returned. They were caly brought here on trial” The giri began opening the packages. ‘The hat came first. “Mother!” cried Elnera. “Mother, of course. you have seen this, but you haven't seen it on we [I must try it mn" “Don’t you dare put that om vour head until your hair is washed and properly combed,” sald Margaret. “While it dries you ean eat your sup- per. and this dress will be finished. Then you can put on your new ribbon and your hat. That little round bundle on the top of the basket is your stock- ings.” Margaret sat down and began sewing swiftiy and a little later opened the machine nud ran several long seams. Elnora was back in a few minutes, holding up her skirts and stepping daintily in the beautiful new shoes. Wesley and Margaret scarcely breathed for a long time. Then Wes- ley went to do the feeding. Elnora set the table. When the water was hot Margaret pinned a big towel around Elnora’s shoulders and washed and dried the lovely hair according to the instructions ste had been given the previous night. As the hair began to dry it billowed out in a sparkling sheen that caught the light and gleamed and flashed. “Now, the idea is to let it stand nat- urally, just as the curl will make it. Don't you do any of that nasty, untidy snarling, Elnora.” cautioned Margaret. “Wash it this way every two weeks while you are in school, shake it out and dry it. Then part it in the middle and turn a front quarter on each side from your face. You tie the back at your neck with a string—so, and the ribbon goes in a big, loose bow. I'll show you.” One after another Mar- garet Sinton tied the ribbons. creasing each of them so they could not be re- turned, as she explained that she was trying to sec which was most becom- ing. Then she produced the raincoat, which carried Elnora into transports. 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