_— — — St — — ————————— — — | big dog, urged by a man in the back- Elnora stared into the quaint little | but incredulous faces greeted her. ing,” she sald. “I never saw such; For the brown eyed boy whistled, and ground. Elnora's heart was with the | face and saw that the child was oider| Elnora felt driven. “Aunt Margaret beautiful quilis in all my life. They | there was pantomime of all sorts go- any event what- | than she had thought. He might have | selected them. and she meant to give A match my new broadcloth to perfec-| jpg on behind Einora's back that day. | >. i ef f E | RET: | OVER dropped her load on the | been forty by his hard. unchildish ex | tion. I've got to have that kind of | Happy with her books no one knew Bellefonte, Pa., December 13, 1912. bridge and with practiced hand caught | pression. | quills for my hat. 1 never saw the | how much she saw, and from her ab- mm ss - up a stone and flung it at the dog. | “Do you waut to be like your fa. | like. Whose is it. and where did it | sorption in her studies it was evident . : The beast curled double with a howl. | ther?” | come from?” she cared too little to notice. It soon A Girl of the Limberlost. | The boy reached the fence, and Elnora “No; [ want to be iike you. Couldn't | No one said a word. for Elnora’s geveloped that to be inconspicuous and was there to help him over. As he | a angel be prettier ‘an you! Can 1 | question. the reply and her answer | tg work was all Elnora craved. : [Continued from page 6. Col. 3.) touched the top she swung him to the | have more milk?" , md gone the rounds of the high, Afier school she went again to the Wesley Sinton’s heart gave ON€ opoupg put he clung to her, clasping | Elnora empticd the flask. The boy school. Every one knew; that the Lim- | nome of the Bird Woman, aud togeth- great leap in his breast. His face Was | yop tigntly, sobbing and shivering with | drained the cup. He drew a breath of berlost girl kad come ous aead, and | op they visited the swamp and took whiter than the girl's now. , | fear. Elnora carried him to the bridge | satisfaction ns he zuzed into her face. Sadie Reed had not fo rmiable when | gqway more specimens. This time Ei- “Was you praying out loud. hone¥?" | gpg sat with him in her arms. For a | “You woukin't go off and leave your the little dourish had _.a added to| porg asked the Bird Woman to keep ho-atmost whispered, : time his replies to her questions were | little boy, would you?" he asked. Elnora's name In the algebra class. | tne money until noon of the next day, “I might have said words,” answer ' jpqjgtinct, but at last he became quiet- | “Did some one go away and leave Elnora’s swift glance was pathetic. | when she would call for it and have it ed Elnora. “1 know I do sometimes. | ap yng she could understand. you?" questioned Elnora in return. but no one helped her. Sadie Reed | y44ed to her bank account. She slow- I've never had any one to talk to. and | go ooo ite of a boy, nothing but | “Yes; my nother went off and left glanced from the hat to the faces | ;s walked home, for the visit to the I've played with and talked to mY- | guy, covered bones, his burned, freck- | me and left Jimmy and Belle, too,” around her and wondered. swamp had brought back full force the self all my life. You've caught me at | jo4 fone in a mortar of tears and | said the boy. “You wouldn't leave your “Why, this is the freshman section. | experience of the morning. Again and it often, but it always makes mother | gyg pig clothing unspeakably dirty, | little boy. would you” | Whose hat is it?" she asked again. | ggqin she examined the crude little angry when she does. She says I'S | 550 ont toe in a festering mass from | “No.” this time impatiently. _| note, for she did not kmow what it silly. I forget and do it when I'm | 4 proken nail and sores all over the | The boy looked eagerly at the box. “That's the tassel of the cornstalk,” | meant, yet it bred vague fear. alone But Cusle Ww wsley. # J ul 1 visible portions of the small body. Elnora lifted a sandwich and uncover- smi Yimou, with a Toreud Lun ren ng night you k ! “Youw p » fried chicken The bo, s response was genuine. very i the merest whisper, because I'd have Just ee Jie set y Jog on a boy 14 oe Ee y Susped one shouted. Sadie Reed blushed, but [Continued next week. ] been so afraid of waking mother. Dop't | fed ‘em to pigs with a shovel every | “Say, | could eat the stuff in the you see? I sat up late and did two | gov would vou?" he said. glass and the other box and carry the lessons.” | "No, I would not.” said Elnora hotly. | bread and the chicken to Jimmy and Sinton was steadying himself. “I'll “You'd give a boy all the apples he | Belle.” he offered. stop and examine the case as 1 come | wqpieg if he hadn't any breakfast ard | Elnora silently uncovered the cus- back,” he said. “Maybe I can find | wag of pungry he was all twisty inside, | tard with preserved cherries on top | some clew. That other—that was JUSt | wouign'e you and handed it and the spoon to the accidental. It's a common expression. | “Yes, | would.” said Elnora. | child. Never did food disappear faster. All the preachers use it. If 1 Was 80- | wie voy aq anything to eat you | The salad went next. and a sandwich ing to pray that would be the very would give me something right now, | and half a chicken breast followed. - she laughed also. The Motive. “Well, it's beautiful,” she said, “‘es- It was an evening party. A young pecially the quills. They are exactly | pan with a tall collar and pale hair what I want. I know I don't deserve | yw. reciting a poem. He had ground any kindness from you, but I do wish ' 5, forty-seven stanzas—and the end you would tell me at whose store you wage not yet. got those quills.” : “What's going on?” whispered the “Gladly,” anid Elnora.’ “You can't guest who had just come in. get quills like those at a store. They “Rhymer is letting out his latest | are from a living bird. Phoebe Simms poem,” answered the pessimistic per- first thing I'd say.” wouldn't you?" “1 better leave the rest for Jimmy | gathers them in her orchard as her gop The color came back to Elnora’s | “,o .. E “There" and Belle,” he said. “They're "ist fight- | peacocks sbed them. They are wing «what's the subject—the motive?” og i Elnora Fh Bokl- In* hungry.” : | #Drink this,” she said, holding it to him. | TUIlIs from the males.” | queried the latecomer. “Did you tell your mother about this | ri m he No he Bel Elnora "gave him the remainder of | > | Then there was a perfect silence. ~~ «| nave forgotten the subject,” re- money, Elnora?’ he asked. | glad Yi: de i the carefully prepared lanch. The boy | them to me.” she explained, “but 1 | How was Elnora to know that not a | plied the P. P., “but I suspect the mo- “No, I didn't,” said Elnora. “It's | Sh Jy al the box. The famished | clutched it and ran with a sidewise | wouldn't take them. I paid for them girl there would have told that? | tive must be revenge.”—Tit-Bits. dreadful not to, but I was afraid. You | HE opese We x. e a Be | Ron Vice un wid thins | myself.” There was a dead silence. “1 haven't a doubt but I can get you | see, they are clearing the swamp so | | a hy 4 . Tu an or |" Bmorn covered toe dishes bil cup. | “Don’t you believe me?’ panted El- | some,” she offered. “She gave Aunt! She Was Frigid fast. Every year It grows harder to | back. SH 3 She . polished the spoon, repinced it and nem, Margaret a creat bunch, and those are “It must be a rather unpleasant ex- find things, and Indian stuff gets | “Did . dosed: the beautiful case. She caught | “Really, it is none of our affair,” said | part of them. I nm quite sure she has perience to bump into an iceberg,” scarcer. 1 want to graduate, und that's | 0, YOU hive any supper) her breath in a tremulous laugh | another girl. “Come on; let's go.” { more and would spare some.” observed the man from Milwaukee, No, : | Elnora stepped before the girl who | Badie Reed laughed shortly. “You _, = 1 In the smoking four years unless I can double on the = “Any dinner yesterday?” “If Aunt Margaret knew that she'd had spoken. “You have made this peedn’t trouble,” she said, “I was fool- w Was pion > We 8 course. That means $20 tuition each = “An apple and some grapes I stole.” | never forgive me,” she said. “It seems your affair.” she sald. “because you ed. I thought they were expensive | Too - a ro oy il Den- year and new books and clothes. | “Whose boy are you?" as If secrecy is literally forced upon told a thing which was not true. No quills. I wanted them for a twenty _.. » ‘Fete wou't ever be 30 much i one 0 id Tow pilings: me. and I hate it. What will do for one gave me what 1 am wearing. {dollar velvet toque to match my new “You have had that experience, time again—that I know. I just got to Why don’t your father get you some- | junch? [I'll have to go sell my arrows paid for my clothes myself with money | suit. If they ure picked off the ground, then?” hang to my money. I was afraid to thing to eat? : and keep enough money for a restau- [ earned selling moths to the Bird really, I couldn't use them.” “Yes " teil her for fear she would want it for He does most days, but he's drunk | rant sandwich.” Woman. | just eame from the bank | “QOuly in spots,” said Elnora. “They “Crossing the pond?” taxes, and she really must sell a tree DOW. : So she walked hurriegly into town, where I deposited what I did not use. | don’t just cover the earth. Phoebe | «yn, Crossing Boston: Common” or some cattle for that, mustn't she, “Hush! You must not!” said Elnora. | sold her points at a good price, deposit- Here is my credit.” Elnora drew out | Simms’ peacocks are the only ones : 4 Uncle Wesley?” “He's your father!” ed her funds and went away with a and offered the little red book. “Sure- | within miles of Onabasha, and they “On your life, she must!” said Wes- “He's spent all the money to get! peat littic bunk book and the note |y you will believe that,” she said. moult but once a year. If your hat Strange Taste. ley. “You put your little wad in the drunk, too.” said the boy, “and Jimmy | from the Limberlost carefully folded “Why, of course.” said the girl who | only cost $20 it's hardly good enough Miss Eleanor Sears of Boston star- bank all safe and never mention it to 8nd Relle are both crying for break- | inside. Hinora passed down the great first had spoken. “We met such a | for those quills. You see, the Al- ‘tled staid San Mateo by going on a a living soul. It don't seem right, bur fast. I'd "n* got out all right with an | hall that morning, and no one paid the lovely woman in Brownlee's stere, and | mighty made and colored those him- shopping tour on a bicycle clad in your case is peculiar. Every word you apple for myself. but 1 tried to get | slightest attention to her. The truth she said she wanted our help to buy | self, and be puts the same kind on checkered trouserets, — Washington say Is a true word. Bach year you will some for thew. and the dog got too | was she looked so like every one else some things for a girl, and that’s how | Phoebe Simms’ peacocks that he put Post. get less from the swamp, and things close. Say, yon can just throw, can’t | that she was perfectly inconspicuous. we came to kuow.” on the head of the family in the for- But why should a San Mateo bicycle everywhere will be scarcer. If you your But in the coat room there were mem- “Dear Aunt Margaret,” sald Elnora. | ests of Ceylon away back in the begin- wear checkered trouserets?—Cleve- land Plain Dealer, ever get a few dollars ahead, that can = “Yes,” admitted Einora. She poured | bers of her class. Surely no one in- “it was like her to ask you. Isn't she ge d po y 5 use her lo ¥ awe Why should Miss Eleanor Sears | ning. Any old manufactured quill from start your coliege fund. You know you half the milk into the cup. “Drink | tended it, but the whisper was too splendid?” New York or Chicago will do for your are going to college, Elnora!” this,” she said, holding it to him. loud. “She is indeed,” chorused the girls. | jittle twenty dollar hat. You ought to wear checkered frouserets? “Of course I am,” said Elnora. . The boy ulped the milk and swore | “Look at the girl from the Limber- | Elnora set down her lunch box and | have something infinitely better than Artist Regains Drawings She jumped from the carriage and joyously, gripping the cup with shak- | lost in the clothes that woman gave books and unpinned her hat, hanging | that to be worthy of quills that are M. Bucas, the French artist whose i "e » 418s . soon found that with her books, her |ing fingers. her! it beside the others. While her back | made by the Creator.” paintings when bought by M. Quittner lunch box and the box of arrow points || “Hush!” cried Elnora. “That's dread- Elnora turned on them. “I beg your 1 oH | was turned into the room came the | How those girls did laugh! Ome of | \ 14 gigned by him, won their new she had a heavy load. She was al- ful pardon,” she said unsteadily; “1 couldn’t | girl of her encounter on the first day. | them walked by Elnora to the audi- A En ! FR i lias y : owner honors at the salons where the most to the bridge crossing the culvert || “What's dreadful?” help hearing that! No one gave me walked to the rack and, with an ex-| torjum, sat with her during exercises | , ional painter failed even to get when she heard the distressed screams || “To say such awful words.” these clothes. 1 paid for them my- | clamation of approval, took down El | and tried to talk whenever she dared them accepted, has succeeded in re- nora’s hat. to keep Elnora from secing the curious | .ainine 29 of the pictures 3 2 » pictures. “Just the thing I have been want-| gnd admiring looks bent upon her. ® 8 i | of a child. Across an orchard of the || “Hub, pa says worser 'an that every | self.” suburbs came a small boy, after him a | breath he draws.” Some one muttered, “Pardon me,” CLOTHING. CLOTHING. 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