| 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.”
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“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
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“Have you found anything yet?” she
asked.
“Nothing that I can show you,” said |
Elnora. “I am not sure but I have
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“You wonderful girl!” cried Ammon. | wa: heard it was safest asleep. If
“What a woman you will be!” | you ever get a bonafide attack, it will
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it will be because 1 have had such won: | mene 1t is June. Philip and I are in
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“Not every girl is driven to the forest ' j.,.9 what one thing epitomizes the
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Here are the remains of Freckles’ | «wpphe birth hese moths,”
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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
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