Beworw atc Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1913. ee —————————————— LIMBERLOST By GENE STRATTON-PORTER Copyright, 1900, by Doubleday. Page & Co. f {i in a swamp, | mother’s life. Elnora determines to raise i i Indian relics, ete. . : sd 8 8 ir 8 iff i Ih I | | a the Limberlost far into the swamp at any | Einora, having musical talent, is told by Margaret of her father's violin in secret keeping. Margaret gets the violin for the girl. Her high school course completed, El- nora needs money for graduation exe penses. She needs two yellow Emperor moths to complete a cellection. Grad- uation exercises begin. Mrs. Comstock will not help Elnora to get a graduation gown. The girl is dress- ed by the Bird Woman, but Mrs. Com- stock later gives hand embroidered gar- ante ta has Mrs. Comstock ignorantly destroys the moth needed by Elnora. Sha learns her husband was unfaithful and regrets her unkindness to Elnora. She will try to capture a moth for Elnora. Mrs. Comstock and Elnora, hunting specimens, are joined by a young man who offers his help. The young man is Phillp Ammon of Chicago, seeking health Ho is engaged to Edith Carr, a soclety girl, and has a sister, Polly, engaged to Tom Levering. He intends to sand viclets to Edith on her birthday. Elnora is appilnied teach- er of natural history. Philip, interested In Elnora, forgets the violets, but Elnora sends them to him at his temporary home in Onabaeha. The young man, called home, asks El- nora to kiss him goodby. She refuses, al- though she loves him. Plnora stil! nceds the Emperors. [Continued from last week.) “This is the place,” said the boy, and went his way, whistling. Elnora was three blocks from the high school building on the same street. She was before a quaint old house, fresh with paint and covered with vines Inside she could see bare polished floors, walls freshly papered in low toned barmonious colors, straw rugs and madras curtains. [It seemed to be a restful, homelike place to which she had come, nnd a second later down an open stairway came a tall, dark eyed woman with cheeks faintly pink and a vrown of fluffy snow white hair. Elnora stepped inside the door “Mother!” she cried. “You my mother: I don’t believe it! You are perfectly beautiful. and this house is a little paradise, but how will we ever pay for it? We can't afford it!" “Humph! Have you forgotten I tele graphed you ['d found some money | didn't know about? All I've done is paid for and plenty more to settle for ail 1 propose to do.” Mrs. Comstock glanced around with supreme satisfaction. “I may get homesick as a pup before spring,” she said. “but if | do 1 can go back. If I don't I'll sell some timber and put a few oll wells where they don't show much. [| can have land | enough cleared for a few fields and put a tenant on our farm, and we will buy this and settle here. It's for sale.” Mrs. Comstock invited Elnora's friends to visit her and proved herself a bright and interesting hostess. She digested a subject before she spoke when she advanced a view her’ 1 Iy expressed Refore three months peo ple waited to hear what she had to say | Elnora never mentioned Philip Am ' mon, neither did Mrs. Comstock. Barly | in December came a note and a big box | fre him. It contained several books on ature subjects which would be 5 great belp in school work and a num- | ber of conveniences Elnora could not afford. Soon after Elnora wrote Am mon: Dear Friend—I am writing to thank yor the books and the box of conveniences | me for my work. I can use every- £2 , ameled lavender orchid rimmed with ! diamonds, which flashed and sparkled. , velvet fitted her form perfectly, while i I've known Philip all my life. He loves ELNORA COMSTOCK. Ammon was disappointed over that note and instead of keeping it he tore it into bits and dropped them into the wastebasket. Iv and the change of life it afforded. bus signs of spring did wonderful CHAPTER XXH. Wherein Philip Ammon Is Scorned by Edith Carr, and Hart Henderson Ap- pears on the Scene. DITH CARR stood in a vine in- E closed side veranda of the Lake | Shore clubhouse waiting while Philip Ammon gave some im- portant orders. In a few days she would sail for Paris to select a won- derful trousseau she bad planned for her marriage in October. Tonight Phil- ip was giving a club dance in her hon- | or. As she stood waiting she smiled softly. She was robed in a French cre- ation suggested and designed by Philip. He bad said to her, “I know a compe- tent judge who says the distinctive feature of June is her exquisite big night moths. | want you to be the very essence of June that night, as you will be the embodiment of love. Be a moth. The most beautiful of them is either the pale green Luna or the yellow Im- perialis. Be my moon lady or my gold Empress.” Now she stood, tall, lithe, of grace in- born, her dark waving hair high piled and crossed by gold bands studded with amethysts and at one side an en- The soft yellow robe of lightest weight from each shoulder fell a great velvet wing lined with lavender and flecked with embroidery of that color in imi- tation of the moth. Philip had said that her gloves, fan and slippers must be lavender because the feet of the moth were that color. These accesso- ries had been mude to order and em- broidered with gold. In her heart she thought of herself as “Imperialis Re- galis,” as the Yellow Empress. But in all the fragmentary thought crossing her brain the one that never came was that of Philip Ammon as the emperor, | Philip the king of her heart, and at least ber equal in all things. “Ah, my luck!” cried a voice behind her. ! Edith Carr turned and smiled exquis- | itely. { “1 thought you were on the ocean.” she said. “1 only reached the dock,” replied the | man, “when | had a letter that recall- ed me by the first limited. Edith, you are the most superb woman in every respect that | have ever seen. One glimpse is worth the whole journey.” He half closed bis eyes and smilingly | stared straight at her. He was taller than she, a lean man, with close crop- ped light hair, steel gray eyes, a | square chin and “man of the world” written all over him. “1 thought you | Edith Carr flushed. realized when you went away that you were to stop that, Hart Henderson,” she cried. “1 did, but this letter of which I tell you called me back to start it all over again. One of your most Intimate chums wrote it. It contained the haz. ard that possibly I had given up toe soon. It said that in a fit of petulance you had broken your engagement with Ammon twice this winter, and he had come back because he knew you did not really mean it. | have come back to haunt you until the ceremony Is over Then | go, not before. | was insane!” The girl laughed merrily. “Not half 80 insane as you are now, Hart!" she cried gayly. “You know that Philip Ammon has been devoted to me ail | my life. Well, now I'll tell you some- thing else. because this looks serious for you. 1 love him with all my heart. Not while he lives shall he know it, and I will laugh at him if you tell him, but the fact remains. | intend to mar- ry him, but no doubt I shall tease him constantly. It's good for a man to be uncertain. [If you could see Ammon's face at the ‘uarterly return of his ring you would understand the fun of it. My little fits of temper don’t count with Phil. He's been raised on them.” “Just the same I'll wait and see it an accomplished fact,” said Hender- son. “And, Edith, because I love you with the sort of love it is worth a wo- man's while to inspire | want your happiness before my own. Go careful from now on. Don’t strain that patch- ed engagement of yours any further. you, yes! He is long suffering for you, yes! But men know he has a limit When the limit is reached he will stand fast. and all the powers can't move him. You don't seem to think it, but you can go too far.” “Is that all?” laughed Edith Carr sar- “No. there Is one thing more,” sald Henderson. hn and so long as | breathe. | am your slave. If you need me it is not neces sary to speak; only give est sign. wide front entrance to the pavilion there swept In slow, wavering flight » great yellow moth and fluttered toward the center cluster of glaring electric lights. “Why, isn't that?" - she began ex- citedly. “It's a yellow Emperor! This is must bave it! He ran toward the light “Hats! Handkerchiefs! Fans! Anything!” be panted. “Every one hold up some- thing and stop that!™ “He wants it for Edith!" ran in a murmur around the hall. The girl's face flushed, while she bit her lip in vexation, Instantly every one began holding up something to keep the moth from fiying back into the night. One fan held straight before it served, and the moth gently settled on it, “Hold steady!" cried Ammon. “Don’t move for your life!” He rushed to- ward the moth, made a quick sweep and held it up between his fingers. “Ail right!" he called. ‘Thanks, ev-, ery one! Excuse me a minute.” He ran to the oflice. “An ounce of gasoline, quick!" he ordered. "A cigar box, a cork and the glue bottle.” He poured some glue into the bot- tom of the box, set the cork In it firm- ly. dashed the gasoline over the moth repeatedly, pinned it to the cork, pour- eG the remainder of the liquid over it, closed the box and fastened it. 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