| est biue, the truest violet 1 ever saw | growing wild. They are colored exact-| cian was Philip Ammon. He looked thing far away in the swam, and nev-! * ly Uke the eyes of the girl | am going stronger than yesterday. EE a rastion to marry.” Elnora handed him several others to add to those he held. “She fuck have wonderful eyes,” she , Pa., February 7, 1913, a beautiful,” he sald. altogether lovely.” “It is customary for a man to think the girl he Is going to marry lovely. I A GIRL OF THE wy 1d,” said Ammon. “No one ever fails to. She is tall as you, very slender, but perfectly rounded; you know about her eyes; her hair is black “In fact, she is and wavy, while her complexion is clear and flushed with red.” Elnora knelt among the flowers as she looked at him. “Why, she must be the most beauti- ful girl in the whole world,” she cried. { Ammon laughed. | “No, indeed,” he said. “She is not a particle better looking In her way than {you are in yours. She is a type of Com- dark beauty, but you are just as per- fect. She is unusual in her combina- tion of black hair and violet eyes, al- » though every one thinks them black at a little distance. You are quite as un- ' usual with your fair face, black brows oben Elnora was bom her Herne me Ad brown hair. Indeed. I know many mother’s life. Elnora determines to raise people who would prefer your bright money by gathering forest specimens. head to her dark one. It's all a ques The Sintons buy clothes for her. * tion of taste—and being engaged to the Elnora, getting her books cheaply, finds girl,” he udded. @ market with the Bird Woman for but~ ~~ «pgjth has a birthday soon. If these terfiies, Indian relics, ete. ‘| last will you let me have a box of them By GENE STRATTON-PORTER “1 will help gather and pack them pew for you, so they will carry nicely. Ts slothing. | she interested in nature?” Elnora is delighted with her outfit. Her, “What interests Edith Carr? Let me mother says she must pay for it. Wes- think. Kirst, | believe she takes pride ux and: Margaret Sinton Gigcvm tae gute in being just a little handsomer and Pete a ! better dressed than any girl of her set. Corson, a Limberiost frequenter, «ye js interested in having a beautiful rs Tot Io visit tiie Lisihariont home, fine appointments about her, in being petted, praised and the acknowl- edged leader of society. She likes to find new things which amuse her and to always and in all circumstances have her own way about everything.” his brother and sister. Margaret finds Billy mischievous, but ber heart softens, and he is adopted. Pete helps Elnora to collect She buys a Mark Twain ing at him. “But what does she do? mother. book for her Flow does she spend her time?” ! It was just sunrise, but the musi- | “I hope I am not too early.” he said.’ | “1 am consumed with anxiety to learn | if we have made a catch.” | “We will have to wander aiong the | are frequently in Chicago society.” roads and around the edge of the Lim- “No other blue eves nre quite 80. beriost today,” sald Elnora. “Mother is making strawberry preserves, and she can't come until she finishes. Sup- pose we go down to the swamp, and I'll show you what is left of the flower room that Terrence O'More, the big lumberman of Great Rapids, made when he was a hom~less boy here. He was called Freckles. Of course, you have heard the story?” i “Yes, and I've met the O'Mores, who i They went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, fol- lowed the path to the old trail and then turned south along it. Elnora in- | dicated to Ammon the trail with rem- | | “It was ten years ago,” she said. “I | was just a little schoolgirl, but I wan- | dered widely even then, and no one | sad, some days it was so determined a nants of sagging barbed wire. cared. 1 saw him often. He had been in a city institution all his life, when | he took the job of keeping timber thieves out of this swamp, before muny trees had been cut. It was a strong man's work and he was a frail boy. but he grew hardier as he lived out of doors, and he won. “Some days his face was dreadfully little child could see the force in fit, and once it was radiant. That day, the Swamp Angel was with him. I can't tell you what she was like. I never | realize what a great city audience gaw any one who resembled her. He . stopped near here to show her a bird's | you can see something of how it was.” | “Good gracious! cried Elnora, star-' | should do is to begin early to practice nest. Then they went on to a sort of | flower room he had made, and he sang for her. By the time he left I had got bold enough to come out on the trail. | and 1 met the big Scotchman Freckles | lived with. He saw me catching moths | and butterflies, so he took me to the flower room and gave me everything there. 1 don't dare come alone often, and so I can't keep it up as he did, but | Elnora led the way and Ammon fol- lowed. The outlines of the room were | | not distinct, because many of the trees | “Spend her time!" repeated Ammon. JDlly, a bright but untrained Hite SHAR «well. she would call that a joke. Her er and sister, gets Einora's luncheon. days are never long enough. There Is Wesley. troubled by Corson's warning, in- endless shopping to find the pretty vestigates. things, regular visits to the dressmak- Sinton finds some one has been spying ers, calls, parties. theaters, entertain- en Elnora. The girl feeds Billy again. ments, She is always rushed. I never She is “taken up” by the high school _.. ¢, coo half as much of her as I girls. like.” Elnora, having musical talent, is told would lice by Margaret of her father's violin in pecret keeping. Margaret gets the violin for the girl. “In what is she interested that is use- ful to the world?" Her high school course completed, El. “Me!” cried Ammon promptly. mora needs money for graduation ex- “I can understand that.” laughed EIl- penses. She needs two yellow Emperor pora, “What I can’t understand Is moths to complete a collection. Grad- , .. an be in"— She stopped uation exercises begin. you can op short in confusion, but she saw that he 3m. Coutocs will not help Xinora t0 4, gnished the sentence as she had a3 a u gown. The gui #4 intended. “I beg your pardon,” she ed by the Bird Woman, but Mra. Com- stock later gives hand embroidered gar- cried. “I didn't mean to say that. But "Give Gomwtock ignorantly destroys the 1 cannot understand these people I oth. 5 Seeded by JSlaom. She learns or hear about who live only for their own was unfaithful and regrets amusement. Perhaps it is very great. Sniiindnem 19 Elnora She will try 10 py) never have a chance to know. To Mes. Comptovk. aud Eivora, bunt me it seems the only pleasure in this mens, ined’ i ’ worid worth having is the joy we get ee a. ro Roig ¥ a young. WML cut of living for those we love and [Continued from last week.] those we can help. 1 hope you are not angry with me." CHAPTER XIX. x . Ammon sat silently looking far away, Wherein Philip Almas Slesun Lim- ith deep thought in his eyes. “You are angry,” faltered Elnora. MMON looked at the girl In pris ook came back to her as she wonder. In face and form she ynai¢ pefore him among the flowers was as lovely as any one of her and he gazed at her steadily. age and type he had ever seen. «wy » said Her school work far surpassed that of at 1 sowd De! 2 yl most girls of her age he knew. She yngarsta 11 1 differed in other ways. This vast store pleasure a rig JY Jot perso) of learning she had gathered from gin gpd this is her playtime. When field und forest was a wealth of at- ghe j5 a woman in her own home, then traction no other girl possessed. Her gn, will be different. will she not?” frank, matter of fact manner was a0 mnorg pever resembled her mother inheritance from her mother, but there g, cjogely as when she answered that was something moe. Once, as they auestion. talked he thought “sympathy” was the «1 would have to be well acquainted “But 1 mean work,” persisted Elnora, word to describe it and again “com- ob vor to know. but 1 should nope | prehension.” She scemed to possess & oo mo make a real home for a tired Wherein: ‘the: Limborlont. Sings: For large sense of brotherhood for all hu- business man is a very different kind man and animate creatures. She might oo Con om that required to be pl as well have been a boy, so lacking was dent eren she in any touch of feminine coquetry leader Of tou Sie ir 8 Sands 41 ont Sward him. He studied her wonder- means to change, or she would not have y- promised to make a home for you. 1 As they went along the path they gygpect our dope is cool now. reached a large slime covered pool sur- try for some a let's go rounded by decaying stumps and logs thickly covered with water hyacinths and blue flags. Ammon stopped. “Is that the place?" he asked. Elnora assented. “You should hear my sister Polly!" said Ammon. “This was her last year in college. Lunches and sororities , were all 1 heard her mention, until Tom Levering came on deck; now he “The doctor tod you?” “Yes, It was tragic. Is that pool real. “ls Edith Carr a college girl?” ly bottomless?" " “80 far as we ever have been able PL, %, Sie i he SorY lection itt te discover. | As they went back along the path to- “And you were boi here?” gether Elnora talked of many things, He had not intended to voice that put Ammon answered absently. Evi- thought. dently he was thinking of something “Yes,” she suid looking into his eyes. else. But the moth bait recalled him, “Just in time to prevent my mother’ and he was readr for work as they from saving the life of my father. She made their way i. to the woods. He came near never forgiving me. A wanted to try the Limberlost, but El- little farther alou is my violet bed. I pora was firm about keeping on home want you to see ..” | ground She led him into a swampy half ligh is the leading sul ject.” : 1 i : i z Hi § : 2 g 3 i g : ! “Thay are superb!” he said. “1 never saw such length of stem or such rank leaves, while the flowers are the deep- were gone, but Elnora showed how it had been as nearly as she could. | “The swamp is almost ruined now,” she said. “The maples. walnuts and cherries are all gone. The talking trees are the only things left worth while.” “The ‘talking trees!" I don't under stand.” commented Ammon. } “No wonder!" laughed Einora, “They are my discovery. You know all trees whisper and talk during the summer, but there are two that have so much to say they kéep on the whole winter when the others are silent. The beech- es and oaks so love to talk they cling’ to their dead, dry leaves. In the win- ter the winds are stiffest and blow most. so these trees whisper, chatter,’ sob. laugh and at times roar until the sound is deafening. When the air is cold and clear. the world very white and the harp music swelling, then the | talking trees tell the strengthening, up- lifting things.” | see if your mother is coming?’ he parted and ber eyes fastened on some- | of feeling for her notes and repeating something audible only to her. Am- mon was too near to get the best effect. He arose and stepped back several yards, leaning against a large tree, looking and listening with all his soul. As lie changed positions he saw that Mrs. Comstock had followed them and was standing on the trail, where she could not have helped hearing every- thing Elnora had said. So to Ammon before her and the mother watching on the trail Elnora played tbe song of the Limberlost. To the man it was a revelation. He stood so stunned he forgot Mrs. Comstock. He tried to svould say to that music from such a player with a like background, and he could not imagine. He was wondering what he dared say, how much he might express, when the last note fell and the girl laid the violin in the case. closed the door. locked it and hid the key in the rotting wood at the end of a log. Then she came to him. Ammon stood looking at her curiously. : “I wonder,” he said. “what people would say to that?” “1 did it in public once,” said Elnora. “I think they liked it fairly well. I had a note yesterday offering me the feadership of the high school orchestra in Onabasha. 1 wonid gladly play for nothing just to be able to express my- self.” “Give up the college idea.” said Am- mon. “Your mind does not need that sort of development. It is far past it.” “Do you really mean that you would give up all idea of going to college, if you were me?” “If you eould oniy realize it, my gry, | you are in college, and have been al || ways. You are in the school of ex- perience, and it has taught you to think, and given you a heart. knows 1 envy the man who wins it! I wouldn't even advise you to read too many books on your lines, You get your stuff first band, and you know that you are right. What you self expression. Don't wait too long to tell us about the woods as you know them.” Not until then did he remember that Mrs, Comstock was somewhere very near. “Should we go out to the trail and asked. “Here she is now.” said Elnora. | “Gracious, It's a mercy 1 got that violin put away in time! 1 didn't ex pect her so soon,” whispered the girl, as she turned and went toward her LYON & COMPANY. SPRING OPENING i aOR... Dress Fabrics We are showing Early Spring Styles in Silk, Wool and Wash Fabrics. In Silks we have Crepe Meteors, Charmeuse, Messa- lines, Brocades, Peau-de Soie, uisettes, Chiffons, and new Wash Silk. In Woolens, we are showing Serges, Whip Cords, Nov- elty Mixtures, Broad Cloths, and Poplins. 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If “What a woman you will be!” | you ever get a bonafide attack, it will “If 1 am a woman at all worth while: pao time to attend it. Let's hunt speci- it will be because 1 have had such won: | mene 1t is June. Philip and I are in derful opportunities,” said Elnora. | cp. grades. What is the miracle of “Not every girl is driven to the forest ' j.,.9 what one thing epitomizes the to learn what God has to say there. | wp 1a month?” Here are the remains of Freckles’ | «wpphe birth hese moths,” room. The time the Angel came here | said Elnora If thiee ue nin . he sang to her and 1 listened. 1 never : Ammon clapped his uands. The heard music like that. No wonder she , tears started to Mrs, Comstock's eyes. loved him. Everyone who knew him She took Elnora in her arms and kiss did, and they do yet. Try that log, it forehead makes a fairly good seat. This oid | ** " [Connued on pase. Col. 11 store box was his treasure house, just as it's now mine. 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