©... Bellefonte, Pa, January 3, 1918. A Girl of the Limberlost. . [Continued from page 6, Col. 4.] | “I want to see me!” he demanded. | “How long until supper, Margaret?” | asked Sinton. i “You are going to keep him for sup- | per?” she asked. “Sure!” said Sinton. I brought him for. It's likely he never had a good square meal of decent food in his life. He's starved to the | bone.” ! Margaret arose deliberately, removed | the white cloth from the supper table | and substituted an old red one she | used to wrap the bread. She put away the pretty dishes they commonly used and set the table with old plates for pies and kitchen utensils. But she fried the chicken and was generous with milk and honey. snowy bread, gravy, potatoes and fruit. Sinton repainted the scratched wheel, He mended the fence, with Billy hol@- | ing the nails and handing the pickets. Then he filled the oid hole, digged a new one and set the hitching post. Billy hopped oa cue foot at his task ! of holding the post steady as the earth | was packed round it. There was not the shadow of trouble on his little freckled face. Sinton threw in stones | and pounded the carth solid around the post. The sound of a gulping sob attracted him to Bilir. The tears were rolling down his cheeks. “If I'd a knowed you'd have to get down in a hole and work so hard I wouldn't 'a’ hit the horses,” he said. “Never you mind, Billy,” said Sinton. | “You will know next time, so you can think over it and muke up your mind whether you really want to be- | fore you strike.” Sinton went to the burn to put away the tools. He thought Billy at his | heels, but the boy iagged on the way. | A big. snowy turkey gobbler resented the small intruder in his especial pre- | serves, and with spread tail and drag- ging wings came at him threateningly. | If that turkey gobbler had known the sort of things with which Billy was accustomed to holding his own he | never would have issued that chal- | jenge. Billy accepted instantly. He danced around with stiff arms at his | sides and imitated the gobbler. Then | came his opportunity and he jumped on the big turkey's back. Wesley | heard Margaret's scream In time to | see the flying leap and admire its dex- terity. The turkey tucked its tail and | scampered. Billy slid from its back | and as he fell he clutched wildly, | caught ‘he folded tail and instinctively hung on for life. The turkey gave one scream and relaxed its muscles. Then fled in disfigured defeat to the hay- stack. Billy scrambled to his feet * holding the tail, and his eyes were bulging. “Why. the biasted old thing came : off!” he said to Sinton, holding out { the tail in amazed wonder. Sinton, caught suddenly, forgot everything and roared. Seeing which, Billy thought a turkey tail of no ac- count and flung that one high above him, shouting with childish laughter as the feathers scattered and fell. Margaret, watching, burst into tears. Wesley had gone mad. For the first time in her married life she wanted to tell her mother. When Wesley had waited until he was so hungry he could wait no longer he invaded the kitchen to find a cooked supper baking on the back of the stove, while Mar- garet with red eyes nursed a pair of demoralized white kittens. “Is supper ready?” he asked. “It has been for an hour,” answered Margaret. “Why didn't you call us?" That “us” had too much comrade- ship in it. It irritated Margaret. “I supposed it would take you even longer than that to fix things decent again. As for my turkey and my poor little kittens they don't matter.” “I am mighty sorry about them, Mar- garet, you know that. Billy is very bright. and he will soon learn" — “Soon learn!” cried Margaret. “Wes- ley Sinton, you don’t mean to say that you think of keeping that creature here for some time? “No; I think of keeping nn decent, well behaved little boy.” Margaret set the supper on the table. Seeing the old red cloth, Wesley stared in amazement. Then he understood. Billy capered around in delight. “Ain't that pretty?” he exulted. “I wish Jimmy and Belle could see. We, why, we ist eat out of our hands or off a old drygoods hox, and when we fix up a lot we have newspaper. We ain't ever had a nice red e¢!sth like this.” Wesley looked straight at Margaret, so intently that she turned away. ber face flushing. He stacked the diction- ary and the geography of the world on a chair and lifted Billy beside him. He heaped a plate generously, cut the food, put a fork into Billy's littie fist and made him eat slowly and properly. Billy did his best. Occasionally greed overcame him, and he used his left hand to pop a bite into h!s mouth with his fingers. These lapses Wesley pa- tiently overlooked and went on with his general instructions. Tuckily Billy did not spill anything on his clothing or the cloth. After supper Wesley took him to the barn until he finished the night work. Then he went and sat by Margaret on the front porch. Billy ap- | propriated the hammock and swung by | pulling a rope tied around a tree. The very energy with which he went at the work of swinging himself appealed to Wesley. “Mercy, but he's an active little body!” he sald. “There jsu't a lazy | bone in him. See how he works to pay | for his fun.” i i “That's what | ! pleasure out of it T could *” | of mischief. | chap. and | love him.” ' going into the house as she spoke. , Finally he lay down and closed "1 “There goes his foot through it!" | Out of the night a soft, warm young cried Margaret. “Wesley, he shall not rain my hammock.” “Of course Le shan't!” said Wesley. “Wait, Billy; let me show you.’ Thereupon he explained to Billy that brown head over his little bullet eyed | ladies wearing beautiful white dresses | sat in hammocks, so little boys must not put their dusty feet in them. They | { must just sit in them and let their feet hang down. Billy immediately sat and | allowed his feet to swing. | “Margaret,” said Sinton after a long | silence on the porch, “isn’t it true that | | it Billy had been a half starved sore | cat, dog or animal of any sort that you | would have pitied and helped care for | it and been glad to see me get wall “Yes,” sald Margaret coldly. | “But because I brought a child with an immortal soul there is no welcome.” | “That isn’t a child. It's an animal.” | “You just said you would have wel | | vomed un animal.” “Not a wild one. | meunt n tame beast.” “Billy is not a beast,” sald Wesley ! hotly. “He is a vers dear little boy. Margaret, you've always done the | church going and Bitle reading for this | | family. How do you reconcile that ‘suf- | fer little children to come unto me’ with the way you are treating Billy?” Margaret arose. “1 haven't treated | that child. § have only let him alone. 1 ean barely hold myself. He needs the vide tanned about off him.” “If you'd cared to look at his body you'd know that you couldn't find a place to strike without cutting into a raw spot,” said Sinton. “Besides, Billy bas not done a thing for which a child | should be punished. He is only full of | life, no training and with a boy’s love | He is just a bully little “0%. good heavens!" cried Margaret, | w— i | ! CHAPTER XI. Wherein Mrs. Comstock and Mrs. Sin- ton Clash Over Billy. LINTON sat still. At last Billy, ' tired of the swing, came to him | and leaned his slight body | against the big knee. | “»Am | going to sleep’here?’ he asked “Sure you are,” said Sinton. “Where can he sleep?” he asked garet. “I'm sure | don't kmow,” she an- swered. “Oh. | can sleep ist any place,” said Billy, “on the floor or anywhere. Home I sleep on pa's coat on a store box, and Jimmy and Belle they sleep on the store box too. | sleep between them 80's | don't roll off and crack my head. Ain't you got a store box and a old coat?” Sinton arose and opened a folding lounge. Then he brought an armload | of clean horse blankets from a closet. ““I'hese don't look like the nice white | bed a little boy should have, Billy,” he | said. “but we'll make them do. This | will beat a store box all hollow.” Billy took a long leap for the lounge. When be found it bounced he proceed- ed to bounce until he was tired. By that time the blankets had to be re- | folded. Wesley bad Billy take one end | and help, while both of them seemed | to enjoy the job. Then Billy lay down and curled up in his clothes like a little dog. But sleep would not come. Fi-| nally be sat up. He stared around rest- | lessly. Then he arose, went to Sinton and leaned against his knee. Sinton | picked up the boy and folded his arms around him. Billy sighed in rapturous content. | “That bed feels so lost like,” he said. “Jimmy always jabbed me on one side | and Belle on the other, and so | knew | | was there.” at Billy slid from Sinton’s arms walked toward Margaret until wl reached the middle of the room. Then | he stopped and at last sat on the Fimid his eyes. “This feels more like my bed; | it only Jimmy and Belle was here to crowd up a little so it wasn't so alone ike.” “Won't 1 do, Billy?" asked Sinton iy a husky voice. Billy moved restlessiy. “Seems like ~geems like—toward night as if a body | got kind o' lonesome for a woman per- | son—Ilike her.” | Billy indicated Margaret. “You | Gon't like boys. do you?" he ques- toned. { “1 like good boys.” said Margaret. | Billy was at her knee instantly. | “Well, say, I'm a good boy.” he an- | nounced joyously. “I do not think boys who hurt help ' less kittens and pull out turkeys’ tails sre good boys.” | “Yes, but I didn't hurt the kittens,” | explained Billy. “They got mad 'bout fst a little fun and scratched each other. 1 didn't s'pose they'd act like that. And I didn't pull the turkey's tail. I ist held on to the first thing I grabbed and the turkey pulled. Hon- est, it was the turkey pulled.” He turned to Sinton. “You tell her. Didn't the turkey pull? 1 didn’t know sa tail was loose, did 17" i “1 don't think you did, Billy.” sald Sinton. | Billy stared into Margaret's cold face. “Sometimes at night Belle sits on the floor and | lay my head in her | lap. I could pull up a chair and lay | my head in your lap—like this, I | mean.” Billy pulled up a chair, elimb- | ed on it and laid his head on Marga- | ret's lap. Then he shut his eyes again. Margaret could have looked little more repulsed if be had been a | snake. | Billy was soon up. “My, but your lap is hard,” he sald. | “And you are a good deal Mister y He slid from the and rame back to the middle of room. “Oh, but 1 wisht my pa ead!” be cried The flood broke and Bil'y ucreamed In desperation. | HE i after this. You will have milk, eggs, | Bgure flashed through the door and with a swoop caught him in her arms. She dropped into a chair, nestled him closely and drooped her fragrant red one and rocked softly as she | grooned over him: “Billy, boy, where have you been? Oh, I have been to seek a wife. She's the joy of my life. But, then, she's a young thing, and she can't leave her mammy!"” Bill7 gripped her with a death grip. Elnora wiped his eves, kissed his face, | swayed and sang. “Do you love me tight as that?" he | questioned blissfully. “Yes, bushels and bushels,” said El | nora. “Better than any little boy in the whole 'vorld.” Billy looked at Margaret. “She don’t!” Be sald. “She don't want me here 't ll” Elnora smothered his face against | her breast and rocked. “You love me, don't you?" he sald. “1 will if you will go to sleep.” “Every single day you will give me your dinner for the bologna, won't you?" sald Billy. ; “Yes, 1 will,” replied Elnora. “But you will have as good lunch as I do chicken, all kinds of good things, little pies and cakes, maybe.” Billy shook his head. “I am going back home soon as it is light,” he said. “She don't want me. She thinks I'm a bad boy. She's going to whip me— if he lets her. She said so. I heard her. Oh, | wish he hadn't dled! I Monev to s 10ats -_ ele JOHN F. GRAY & SON, (Successor to Grant Hoover) Fire, Life want to go home.” Billy shrieked again. 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