HERE
A A
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Axuthor of
Capn Eri, Etc.
IMustreations by
Ellsworth Youn
SYNOPSIS
—Continued,
rambling
Then
1 hh y ap
Mr. Pepper, crawling 1 his
I was
front
CHAPTER
There
Mor 3
around
peared
was a sound of sc
soot floated
the corner
hands and
yr
waked with b
t
collar and shirt sleeves were
and smeared with ack; and
spot
ted from
his
flamed like the last
a fire-scarred ruin
blackened cheeks
embers in
Keziah
fryvin to
help
gtovepipe,” he ex-
“1 was
take down her
plained. “You see,
man "
“Yes, 1 see,
down. Now
and wash your face
earth! Look at them clothes!”
“1 do hope didn't yourself,
Abishali,” said the sympathetic Keziah
Then, as remembrance of had
led to the upset came to her, she add
ed “Though I w ay ‘twas your
own fault and n«
Lawvinia whirled
“Dear me!
We've got plenty
w 2 wr
W ldOwers with
Just
-
Well, I
you go out to the
Heavens and
sink
you hurt
Everybody
And they 1 al
a thing—oh, no! Folks don’t
that ~-that Well,”
the direction of the
anywheres nigh
coat and
le.
traction to us.
yes!
She
Came
important
an
to
at the
face was
ture of para-
Miss Van
Horne, that young iv gave vent to
a 1 gk ’
her friend d ribed
y2ed azement.
what afterwards
bolted out
as a ut of
eful
the
seclusion of
door
CHAPTER IL
In Which Keziah Unearths a Prowler
The fog gossips of
Trumet that day Mrs. Didama Rog
who lived all alone, ex for
18 society
was crnel to the
spa "
ers, ent
of three cats, a canary,
and a white pc '
the little honss
kanan's
Odile
named “Hunch,
next to Captain El
stablishment, never Ventirels
from the chag and dis
ippointment caused by that provoking
recovered
mist.
The fog prevents Rogers’ not
Ing the entrance of Mr. Pepper at the
front Also hi
sisterly arrest. It shut
the majestic approach of
Daniels and
face dimpled with smiles
laughter at Is.
For a young lady, supposed to be a de
vout Come Outer, to hurry along the
main road, a handkerchief at her
mouth and
fun, was a circumstance calculated to
furnish material for enjoyable scandal
And Didama missed It,
Other happenings she missed, also
Not knowing of Captain Daniels’ call
apon Keziah, she was deprived of the
pleasure of wonder at
Coflin gate 8 exit, under
Captain El
(irace’s flight, her
and breaking
kanah
into frequent
interva
pany with Mrs. Coffin, go down the
road in the opposite direction from
that taken by Grace.
and parting at the gate, two
later. It vas thwee o'closk in the after.
noon before a visitor ame again to
the Coffin front gate, entered the yard
and rapped at the side door,
Keziah opered the door,
“Halloa she exclaimed. ‘Back,
begun to
for good.”
entered
said, “1 don’t
thought 1 was scared.
think it
Kyan
Grace lau as she
she
and then
them ex-
you alone
tay {rst
Elka and
pressing their wishes
pointedly I
m to BO
a little dell
Horne! there's
town wi
I ain't
for the
h of earnin’
Hvin' right here 'm goin’
house
both of
{0 gee
BO~—01 hought It
you give
ithout your
present,
my
The girl tur
“Ohi
ment
Keziah
‘That was
her hand
itter astonish
nodded Yes,” she affirmed
hat Elkanah’'s proposal
Ha, ha! Deary me!
Sud roposal
t know
= in I was
But he
amounted to
Vhen he
{ what
prepared for
wh
ho the parish com
ed to keep house
ind couldn't be
must be hired right
xpected by
And the cap's
and see
day
come
id, and we ge
the
down to parson
efore dinner and looked
There's an awful lot
d dustin” to be done
for a body to live In."
ded her hand
Keziah,” she sald, *
why and 1
ich other
Boe
take © re
Ain't It"
Coffin's Comment.
“Cheerful’'s a Tomb,
Mrs,
yiders had
ion robes The
omin’ for them,
en 2p
fire for the
better pu
end of i
igh it
Millerites when they hat
doin's a few years ago
can stay here and wait, If ‘twon't be
too lonesome. We'll have supper when
oven thot
their
She threw a shawl over her shoul
ders, draped a white knitted “cloud”
over her head, and took from a nail
attached by a strong cord to
a block of wood eight inches long
"Elkanah left the key with me.” she
“No danger of losin’ it. is
thers, Might as well lose a lumber
yard’
They left the house and caméd out
wet mist. Then, turning to
in the direction which Tru
met, with unconscious {rony,
“downtown,” they climbed
slope where the main road mounts the
the right,
a
passed
finest |
of the |
into |
cor-
be- |
ridge of Cannon «afl,
Captain Mayo's big house—the
in Trumet, with the exception
Daniels mansion--and descended
the hollow beyond. Here, at
ner where the “Lighthouse Lane”
gins its winding way over the rolling |
knolls and dunes to the light and
fish shanties on the “ocean slide,” st
the plain, straight-up-and-down
ing house of the Regular
rectly opposite was the little
age, also very straight up and
Both were painted white with
blinds. This statement
to those who remember
ture at this period; practically
building from Sandwich
town was white and green.
They entered the yard, through the
fn the white fence, and went
around the house, past the drip
evergreens and the bare, wet lilac
the door, the lock of
here
outlying
the
the
meet
society. Di
parson:
down
Cape architec-
every
side
the front
no one thought of
that That
once during
door, of
meddling with
door had been opened but
gtor's thirty
f his
the late pa
tenantry On the occasion «
ral the mour
Mrs. Coffin
keyhole of the
Well
already
ttor
ut some thing
gh about others
ain't
had
She lec way into the
NAge
the windows
had been opened wh
Daniels made their
1 gray light made the
and forsaken in appea:
than a could
¥ have
nee deeper gloom
done. The black walnut
osed te
Par
ous pictures on
Was
“and a stlll more
hington,”
vant to do anything
dark. I'm goin
broom."
n to get
the hurried ou turning in a
ment or t 1 and a most
disgusted
“Hon
boo Y
mao
frayed utensil,
which was worn to a
enough sight
nigh dust enough
this take off
I'M ever get
Well, there's
for a shove
the top
a shovel,
lay
S'pone this house fit
for Mr. Ellery to lve In
before
omes? | wonder if he's a particular
man?
Grace, was struggling with a re
fractory window, paused for breath
“I'm sure I don’t know)”
ed. “I've never him
Nor 1 either Was 80
who
he re
sae n
Sol bad
to meetin’, They say his sermon was
all about those who ge
the gea in ships. That's
parish committee, 1 they're all
old salts. | wonder if he's as fine-look.
in’ as they say?"
Miss Van Horne her head
She was resting, prior to making an-
the window
down to
what got the
BEUCES |
tonsed
other assault on
| “I don't care.
celted little snippet
{ the sight of him.
! Auntie, you musn't
| you I was A selfish plg. But don’t you
i i
sk mo to like this precious minister
of yours, because I shan't do it. He
has no business to come and separate
me from the best friend I've got. I'd
tell him so if he was here What
was that?
Both women looked at each other
with startled faces. They listened in.
tently.
“Why, wan't that funny!” whis-
pered Keziah. *“I thought I heard"
“You did hear. Bo did I. What do
you suppose-4
“Seaashh! It sounded from the
front room somewhere, And yet there
an't be anybody in there, because
My soul! there tis agaln. I'm goin’
to find out.”
She grasped the stubby broom by
and 1 shall
There!
mind me. 1 told
hate
there!
moved determined’y to
wed her
the handle and
ward the front
by the arm
Don’t you do it,
frantically
hall Grace
auntie!” she is-
“Don’t you - hy
he
sver or what
in this
and piain in a
Just like as ne it's un cat
en Elkanah here this fore
Don't be scared, Grace, Come
right along
The
enthusiasm
dark, narrow
house,
hurry got
was
not with
gh the
but
toed throu
came along,
They tig
hall and
Eiri
peered into the
This apartment was dim and
and gloomy, as all proper parlors
but there no sign of
£411
sii
was
back down
gsion of
slancing
ANRe eXpre
broom
1 e rr }
upon the
‘ve
That
lamp,
remember
somethin’
kK from the
'
“Whoey
commanded
ind yme out thi ninut Ido
door
this
you
*Ar I'n
The
then a vol
a man's
“Mad
out
fust be
“Come
"ey
From Dimness ©
tered Study
the Voice
the
Qs * " “
Stepper
opened
huddled close Ui gether
the broom Ike
ready for whatsoever
From the ht
study stepped the owner
A stranger, a man
his hair rampled, his tie disarranged,
buttong of his waistcoat filling
buttonholes Degpite this
the hasty tollet in gemi
darkness, he wag not unprepossessing
Incidentally, he was blushing furiously
“I didn't speak,” he sald, "because
took me by surprise and 1 wasn't
explained—er-—presentable. Be
I was afrald of frightening you.
you | hurried as fast as 1
quietly, and when you began to
his expression changed and
there was a twitch at the corner of
his mouth-"1 tried to hurry still fast
er, hoping you might not hear me and
I could make my appearance-—or
escape—sooner. As for entering the
house—well, 1 considered it, in a way
my house; at least, I knew 1 should |
live in it for a timé, and—
“Live In It?” repeated Keziah “Live |
in 1t? Why! mercy on us! you don't
mean to say you're"
She stopped to look at Grace.
Keziah holding
tle-ax,
dimness of the
of the voles young
the WIong
of description.
“My name ig Ellery," sald the
stranger, “1 am ths minister~the new
ininister of the Regular gocloty.”
Then even Keziab blushed,
To BE CONTINUED)
THE WAR ZONE
Boston Girl's Story of Outrages
By Turks.
MANY CHRISTIANS KILLED
Writes That the
Kurds and Tartar
and Inc
iid vote
retract eg
reirad
to the
LOCKS GUARD IN AND ESCAPES
Clerk Was Taken To Explain Certain
Accounts
Pittsburgh Pa §
clerk in 4 foe
Collector M. M. Garlan was taken
from the counts l former
office to explain Agent W
$ the Treasury Depart
ment. certain accounts in his books
While Chance and clerks in the office
were looking the books Hall
walked of the room, turned the
key in the door and escaped
former Customs
Special
8. Chance, of
over
out
TWO KILLED IN ICEBOAT CRASH.
Weather Forecaster Oberholzer At
Erie, Pa, One Of Victims.
Erie, Pa. George R
aged 45, United States weather fore
caster here, and Glenis H. Meehan,
Birmingham and her famil
in which the ywere seated crashed
harbor. Another occupant of the boat,
George Final, aged 22,
fractured and will probably die.
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