Bemorua ac
Bellefonte, Pa., February 20, 1914.
The Ne’er-Do-Well.
[Continued from page 6, Col. 4.]
of her breath. At any rate, he lost his
head and knew nothing save that she
was a woman and he a man, As for
her, she offered no resistance, made no
sign beyond a startled sigh as their
lips came together.
But, impulsive as his action bad
been, it was no more sudden than his
recoil. He released her and stepped
back, crying:
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wished to avoid an interview with Mrs, '
Cortlandt. i
ed away at his look.
“It is only our swimming pool.
thoughts. For the present, at least, he . She dropped her eyes shyly and turn-
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| At midday he paused in an open | There have been no fairies here since
| glade against a hillside to eat his | J was a very little girl. But once upon |
Back of him the rising ground |
a time there were many—oh. a great
| Was heavily timbered; beneath him a | many!” It was impossible to describe
| confusion of thickets and groves and | the odd, sweet sound her tongue gave
| cleared fields led out of a green plain ' to, the English words.
| as clean as any golf links, upon which | gjgject, hardly an accent, just a deli-
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were scattered dwellings. i
Evidently this was the Savannas of |
which he had heard so much, and these |
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It was not a
cious. hesitating mannerism born of
unfamiliarity.
“Did you ever see them?”
“N-no! 1 arrived always a little too
late. But there are such things.”
She pointed to a path. saying:
“This way will bring you to the road,
gir, if you wish.”
“But—1 don’t wish—not yet.” He
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CLOTHING.
TELEPHONES.
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“Since the telephones in we
don't seem so far apart.”
Ideal life is one-third sleep, one-third work and one-
third recreation.
Your
Next
Winter's
i sought wildly for an excuse to stay
| and exclaimed: “Oh. the orchid. I
| must get it for you.”
i That will be very nice of you, sir.
|For two years 1 have awaited its
{ blooming. If you had not arrived 1
i would have got it anyhow.”
“Girls shouldn't climb trees,” he said
severely. “It tears their dresses.”
“Oh. one cannot tear a dress like
this.” She glanced down at her skirt.
Allowing his eyes to leave her face for
a moment. Kirk saw that she was
' clad, oddly enough, in a suit of denim
i which was buttoned snugly clear to
: her neck.
| He broke his gun and removed the
' shells; then. leaving it beside the bath-
| house, went to the tree where he had
| first seen her. With one hand resting
. upon the trunk, he turned to say:
“Promise you won't disappear while
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“Oh, my God! I—I didn’t mean that.
Forgive me. Please.” She said noth-
ing, and he stammered desperately
again: “You’ll hate me now. of course,
but I don’t know what ails me. I for- |
got myself—you—everything. It was
unpardonable, and I ought to be shot.”
He started off down the blind street,
his whole body cold with apprehension
and self disgust.
“Do you intend to leave me here in
the middle of this”—
“No. no! Of course not. I'm rattled,
that’s all. I've just got a cowardly
desire to flee and butt my head against
the nearest wall. That's what I ought
to do. I don’t know what possessed
me. I don’t know what you'll think of
me.”
“We won't speak of it now. Try
to compose yourself and find our lodg-
ing place.”
“Why, yes, of course. I'll see that
you're fixed up comfortably, and then
I'll get out.”
“Oh, you mustn't leave me!” she
cried in a panic. “I couldn’t stay in
that awful place alone.” She drew a
little nearer to him, as if demanding
his protection. A wave of tenderness
swept over him. She was just a girl
after all, he reflected.
“I—I won’t leave you. T’ll stay near
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| Get more of the first, if you can; make the second
| as easy as possible; enjoy the third to the utmost.
An occasional chat with the folks at home or with
friends or relatives in round-about towns, puts
cheer into the week and makes for happiness all
around.
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AL 18
Ask the operator to tell you how really low is the
cost.
When You Telephone, Smile !
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ta) vite p
$ Pepi
I'm up there or change into a squirrel
jora bird or anything like that.”
| “Yes, yes.” :
{ Then instead of beginning his climb
the young man lounged idly against
the tree.
The Bell Telephone Co. of Pa.
W. 8S. MALLALIEU, Local Mgr.
Bellefonte, Pa.
Overcoat
[Continued next week.]
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A simple leak has sunk some of the
| stoutest ships that ever sailed. When a
! ship springs a leak, it is no good to crowd
! on more sail and hope to escape. The
“You must look where you go,” she ad-
monished.
The World.
you,” he stammered.
“I won’t believe that you could have
taken me for the kind of woman
who”—
“No, no!” he cried in an anguish of
self reproach. “I was a fool”’—
“No,” she said, “I don’t—I couldn't
bear to think that. Perhaps I was
partly to blame. But I didn’t think.
I ought to have known that no man
can really be trusted. But I thought
our friendship was so beautiful, and
now you’ve spoiled it.”
“Don’t say that!” exclaimed Kirk.
“Say you'll forgive me some time.”
But instead of answering him direct-
ly she proceeded in the same strain,
probing his wounded self respect to the
quick, making his offense seem blacker
every moment.
Although he assured her over and
over that he had simply followed the
irresponsible, unaccountable impulse of
a moment—that he had regarded her
only as the best of friends and re-
spected her more than he could say—
she showed him no mercy. The melan-
choly, regretful tone she adopted was
ten times worse than anger, and by
the time they reached the inn where
| gle of the weak against the strong.
they had dined he was sunk in the
depths of self abasement.
In reply to his knock an old woman
came to the door and sleepily admit- |
ted them. Edith said good night and, !
| its setting.
quietly entering. closed the door be-
hind her.
Kirk experienced a sudden desire to
escape. To remain where he was sim-
ply prolonged his humiliation. But evi-
dently he could not desert Edith. He |
sat down upon the doorstep and gave
himself up to bitter thoughts.
She was such a wonderful woman,
he told himself; she had been such a
true friend to him that he had been
worse than criminal to lose her respect.
And Cortlandt had been so decent to
him! It was significant that this gave
him the most discomfort of all. He
had betrayed a man’s friendship, and
the thought was unbearable. No pun-
ishment could be too severe for that!
When the first faint flush of dawn
stole over the hill crest behind him he
rose to wander toward the water front.
As the harbor assumed definite form
he beheld a launch stealing toward the
village and ten minutes later greeted
Stephen Cortlandt as that gentleman
stepped out of the tender.
“Where's Edith?” eagerly demanded
her husband.
“She’s asleep.
het”’—
“Not at the sanitarium?”
“No. no. One of these houses. Lord.
I’m glad to see you! We'd begun to
feel like real castaways. I've been up
all night.”
“What happened?” It was plain that
Mr. Cortlandt was deeply agitated.
“Our boatmen evidently got drunk
and pulled out. I tried to get a sail-
boat. but there weren’t any, and it was
too rough to try crossing with a skiff.”
It took them but a moment to reach
the house. and soon the three were
back at the water front.
“What a miserable night!” Mrs. Cort-
landt complained. stifling a yawn. *I1
thought you'd never come, Stephen!”
“] didn’t get back to the Tivoli
until midnight. and then I had trouble
in finding a boat to bring me over.”
“] suppese they were alarmed at the
hatel ?”
“1 said nothing about it.” he re-
turned, quietly. at which his wife's
face flushed. Seizing the first oc-
casion. he exclaimed, in a low voice:
“God! How unforfunate—at this time.
Were you mad?”
She looked at him and her eyes burn-
ed, but she said nothing.
CHAPTER XI.
I found a place for
shotgun and went hunting.
He wanted to get away some-
where and collect his
foreign looking bungalows were the |
country homes of the rich Panaman-
ians. |
The wood was crowded with plant
life utterly strange to him. Vines and
creepers abounded. ' from the tiny
honeysuckle that reared itself with
feeble filaments, to the giant liana
creeping through the forest like a py-
thon. throttling full grown trees in its
embrace. On every side was the never
ceasing battle for light and the strug-
Tiring of the scene at last, Kirk
stumbled out into a cleared space,
where he paused with an exclamation
of surprise.
A brook had been dammed and
widened into a deep. limpid pool to
which the clean, white sand of its bot-
tom lent a golden hue. At the lower
end it overflowed in a waterfall, the
purling music of which filled the glade.
To step suddenly out of an uncut
wilderness into such a scence was
bewildering and made the American
gasp with delight. The place had an
air of strictest privacy. A spring
board mirrored in the depths below
invited one to plunge, a pair of iron
gymnasium rings were swung by
chains to a massive limb, a flight of
stone steps led up the bank and into a
hut artistically thatched and walled
with palm leaves to harmonize with
After staring about him for a long
time he took a lingering, farewell look
and turned to retrace his steps, where-
upon some one laughed at him soft-
ly. He paused abruptly. then turned
around. Then with the sweetest for-
eign accent imaginable he heard some
one say:
“You had better cross upon the wa-
terfall, sir. There is no bridge above.”
After an instant, during which he
strained his eyes to find the owner of
the voice, she laughed again.
“Here 1 am in the tree across the
pond.”
“Oh!” Looking over the fork of a
tree trunk, perhaps twice the height of
his head above the ground. Anthony
beheld a ravishing face and two very
bright eyes. Without removing his
gaze he leaned his gun carefully
against a bush—firearms have an abom-
inable effect upon hamadryads—and
said, “How did you get up there?”
“I climbed up.” :
“Why didn’t you hide under the wa-
terfall?”
“I did not hide. senor.
to reach my orchid.”
A little hand appeared beside the
face, and a finger pointed to one of the
big air plants above her. Kirk beheld
a marvelous white. dove shaped flow-
er nodding upon a slender stalk.
“Do you wish to cross the stream?”
she asked.
“If you please.”
“Wait.” The face disappeared. There
was a sound from pehind the twisted
tree trunk: a twig fell, then a piece of
bark, and the next instant the girl her-
self stepped into view.
“I was afraid you'd gone for good.”
acknowledged the young man gravely.
He took up his gun and stepped cut
upon the crest of the dam.
“You must look where you go.” she.
ndmonished. “or you will fall—splash!™
Bhe laughed delightedly at the thought.
“Will you promise not to whisk your-
gelf away if I look down?” he asked.
“Yes.”
But even with this assurance he
found it difficult to remove his eyes
from her even for the brief instant
necessary fer a safe passage, and
when at last he stood beside her he
felt an irresistible desire to seize her
gently so that she could not escape.
“Well?” she said at length. and he
found he had been standing stock still
staring at her for several seconds.
“Excuse me! I really took you for
a wood nymph. I'm not sure yet. You
see, the place is so well suited. It—
I am trying
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