Belletonte, Pa., December 6, 1912.
A Girl of the Limberlost.
[Continued from page 6, Col. 4.]
bright blue gray eyes and its frame
of curling reddish brown hair was the
sweetest sight on earth, and at that
instant Elnora was radiant.
She set the hat on her head. It was
just a wide tan straw with three ex-
quisite peacock quills at one side. Mar- |
garet Sinton cried out. Wesley slapped
his knee and sighed like a blast and |
Mrs. Comstock stood speechless for a
second.
“I wish you had asked the price be-
fore you put that on,” she said impa- |
tiently. “We never can afford it.”
“It's not so much as you think,” said |
Margaret. “Don’t you see what I did? |
I had them take off the quills and I put
on some of those Phoebe Simms gave |
me from her peacocks. The hat will
only cost you & dollar and a half.”
She avoided Wesley's eyes and look- |
ed straight at Mrs. Comstock. Elnora
removed the hat to examine it.
“Why, they are those reddish tan |
quills of yours!” she cried. ‘Mother, |
look hew beautifully they are set on! |
1 think they are fine. I'd much rather |
have them than those from the store.” |
“So would I,” said Mrs. Comstock. |
“If Margaret wants to spare them, that |
will make you a beautiful hat, dirt
cheap, too! You must go past Mrs.
Simms and show her. She would be
pleased to see them.”
Elnora sank into a chair because she
couldn't stand any longer and contem- |
plated her toe. “Landy, ain't I a
queen?” she murmured. “What else
have I got?”
“Just a belt, some handkerchiefs and |
a pair of top shoes for rainy days and
colder weather,” said Margaret, hand-
ing over parcels.
“About those high shoes, that was
my idea,” said Wesley. “Soon as it|
rains low shoes won't do, and by tak- |
ing two pairs at once I could get them |
some cheaper. The low ones are two |
and the high ones two-fifty. together |
three seventy-five. Ain't that cheap?” |
“That's a real bargain,” said Mrs.
Comstock, “if they are good shoes, |
and they look it.” |
“This,” said Wesley, producing the
last package, “is your Christmas pres-
ent from your Aunt Maggle. I got
mine, too, but it's at the house. I'll
bring it up in the morning.”
He handed Margaret the umbrella,
and she passed it over to Elnora, who
opened it and sat laughing under its |
shelter. Then she kissed both of them. |
She got a pencil and a slip of paper
and set down the prices they gave her |
of everything they had brought except |
the umbrella, added the sum and said |
laughingly: “Will you please wait till |
tomorrow for the money? I will bave|
it then, sure.”
“Elnora,” said Wesley Sinton. |
“wouldn't you" — :
“Elnora, hustle here a minute!” call |
ed Mrs. Comstock from the kitchen.
“I need you!"
“One second, mother,” answered EI |
nora, throwing off the coat and hat
and closing the umbrella as she ran.
There were several errands to do in a |
hurry, and then supper. Elnora chat- |
tered incessantly, Wesley and Mar-|
garet talked all they could, while Mrs.
Comstock said a word now and then. |
which was all she ever did. But Wes- |
ley Sinton was watching her, and time
and again he saw a peculiar little
twist around her mouth. He knew
that for the first time in sixteen years
she really was laughing over some-
thing. She had all she could do to
preserve her usually sober face. Wes-
ley knew what she was thinking.
After supper the dress was finished,
the plans for the next one discussed,
and then the Sintons went home. EI-
nora gathered her treasures.
As she started for the stairs she stop:
ped. “May 1 kiss you good night.
mother?” she asked lightly.
“Never mind any slobbering” said
Mrs. Comstock. *I should think you'd
lived with me long enough to know
that 1 don’t care for it.”
“Well, I'd love to show you in some
way how happy I am and how I thank
you.”
“l wonder what for?’ said Mrs
Qomstock. “Mag Sinton picked tha!
stuff and brought it here, and you pay
for it.”
| said Margaret.
! least money, but she won't know it un-
| shed that belongs to Elnora. At least
| did it!
“Yes, but you seemed willing for me
to have it, and you said you would help |
me if TI couldn't pay all,” insisted Ei- |
CHAPTER VL
Wherein the Heart of Pete Corson Is
Touched by a Girl,
COMSTOCK picked up sev-
eral papers and blew out
kitchen light. stood in
FE
gijiE
combing the Limberlost for bugs and
arrow points to help pay the tax. I
know her.”
“Well. 1 don’t!” exclaimed Sinton.
“She's too many for me. But there is |
a laugh left in her yet. I didn’t s’pose :
! there was. Bet you a dollar if we
| could see her this minute she'd be
chuckling over the way we got left.” |
Both of them stopped in the road and
looked back.
“There's Elnora’s light in her room,”
“The poor child will i
sit
screech owl waveringly prolonged fell
on his ears, and he stopped. An in-
stant later a second figure approached
feel those clothes and pore over her | hi
books till morning, but she’il look de- |
cent to go to school, anyway. Nothing |
| 18 too big a price to pay for that.” i
“Yes, if Kate lets her wear them.
on.
“Yes,” said the first man.
“] was coming down to take a peep
Ten to one she makes her finish the | when | saw your flash” he said. “I
week with that old stuff.”
heard the Bird Woman had been at the
“No, she won't,” said Margaret. “She | case today. Anything doing?”
don’t dare. Kate made some conces- |
did get her way in the main.
some, and if Elnora proves that she |
| can walk out barehanded in the morn-
ing and come back with that much
money in her pocket. an armful of |
books and buy a turnout like that she |
proves that she is of some considera- |
tion, and Kate's smart enough. She'll
think twice before she'll do that. EI-
nora won't wear a calico dress to high
school again. You watch and see if
she does. She may have got the best
clothes she'll get for a time for the
til she tries to buy goods herself at
the same rates. Wesley, what about
those prices? Didn't they shrink con- |
siderable?”
“You began it,” said Wesley. “Those
prices were all right. We didn’t say
what the goods cost us; we said what
they would cost her. Surely she's mis-
taken about being able to pay all that.
Can she pick up stuff of that value
around the Limberlost? Didn't the
Bird Woman see her trouble and just
give her the money?”
“I don't think so,” said Margaret.
“Seems to me I've heard of her pay-
ing or offering to pay them that would
take the money for bugs and butter-
flies. and I've known people who sold
that banker Indian stuff. Once 1!
heard that his pipe collection beat that
of the government at the Philadelphia
centennial. Those things have come
to have a value.”
“Well, there's about a bushel of that
kind of valuables piled up in the wood-
I picked them up because she said she
wanted them. Maggie, how the nation
did Kate Comstock do that?”
“You will keep on harping. Wesley.
I told you she didn't do it. Elnora
She walked in and took things
right out of our hands. S'pose we'd
got Elnora when she was a baby, and
we'd heaped on her all the love we
can’t on our own, and we'd coddled,
petted and shielded her, would she
have made the woman that living
alone, learning to think for herself
and taking all the knocks Kate Com-
stock could give have made of her?”
“You bet your life!” cried Wesley
warmly. “Loving anybody don’t hurt
them. We wouldn't have done any-
thing but love her. You can't hurt a
child loving it. She'd have learned to
work, be seusible, study, and grown
into a woman with us, without suffer-
ing like a poor homeless dog.”
“But you don't get the point, Wes-
ley. She would have grown into a fine
woman with us; just seems as if El-
nora was born to be fihe, but as we
would have raised her, would her
heart ever have known the world as it
does now? Where's the anguish, Wes-
ley, that child can’t comprehend? See-
ing what she’s seen of her mother
hasn't hardened her. I guess we'd
better keep out. Maybe Kate Com-
stock knows what she's doing. Sure
as you live, Elnora has grown bigger
on knocks than she would on love.”
“I don’t s’pose there ever was a very
fine point to anything but I missed it,”
said Wesley, “because I am blunt,
rough and have no book learning to
speak of. Since you put it into words
1 see what you mean, but it's dinged
bard on Elnora, just the same. And |
don't keep out. I keep watching closer
than ever. I got my slap in the face.
but if I don’t miss my guess, Kate
Comstock learned her lesson, same as
I did. She learned that I was in ear-
nest, that I would haul her to court if
she didn't loosen up a bit, and she'll
loosen. You see if she don’t.”
Up in the attic Elnora lighted twe
candles, set them on her little table,
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| sions all right, big ones for Beraip abe took away about a fourth of the moths.
She bent | py ably had the Comstock girl get-
ting them for her. Heard they were
together. Likely she'll get the rest
tomorrow. Ain't picking getting bare
these days?”
“Well, I should say so,” said the sec-
ond man, turning back in disgust.
“Coming hoine now ?*
“No; I am going down this way,” an-
swered Pete. for his eyes caught the
gleam from the window of the Com-
stock cabin, and he had a desire to
learn why Elnora’s attic was lighted at
that hour.
[Continued next week. ]
First Vaudeville War.
Phoenician Drummer—What's going
on tonight?
Ancient Hebrew—You can have your
pick. The Nineveh Family theater has
got “Jonah and His Whale.” and the
Babylon Musical gaslens are playing
“Balaam and His Trained Ass.”—Puck.
Would Be Pleased.
Loquacious Visitor (who has been
describing in great detail her bridal
trousseau)—And you ought to see me
in my going away frock!
Hostess (wearily)—I—er—wish 1
could.—London Tatler,
Not Much,
Patience—You say she was blind
to all his entreaties?
Patrice—Yes; until he gave her a
solitaire.
“Oh, then, she wasn’t stone blind.”
Advice.
First Deal Muto--~What would you
do in a case like that?
Second Deaf Mute—I'd treat her
with silent contempt; I wouldn't move
a finger when I met her.
Before and After.
“Before I was married life was one
continual round of pleasure.”
“And isn't it now?"
“No; it's one continual round of
economy now.”
A Man's Opinion,
“Pa, what's a superman?”
“One whose wife thinks he is bet:
ter than his neighbors give him credit
for being.”
lamp on his vest. He took a duplicate
key from his pocket, felt for the pad-
lock and opened it.
“Is it you, Pete?” came the whispered |
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