——— ————.———" ——— Axathor of Cy Capn Eri, Etc. TMNMustreations by Ellsworth Youn SYNOPSIS, Pepper indignantly ols, 1¢ CHAPTER Viil.— (Continued. Va'n't it fi he whispered. your ne’ tant ira es! about 1ighty! Ellery, ever tell ¢ on No, of co “No, I know on me tr iT you irse not.” you won’ tell entertain ingly confid hard work how f course you dreadfully disap you don't.” I enjoyed much. Good fter. noon." He hurried watched him thing She down Annabel go. Then she did an odd passed through the , entered the front hall, by the door and then up attic. From led t¢ the path uit ting room up her father's room, er flight to steep set of steps on the roof. In spyglass Annabel inches, took rack, adjusted it, the open glass at her went the stairs, tiptoed o of anoth the here 0 the cupola nal that cupola was a opened ndow glass laid window a the spy w few its sill the a from on the and knelt, eye The floor of cupola was very dusty and she was wearing her newest and best gown but she did not seem to mind. Through the glass she saw slope of Cannon Hill, with the beacon at the top and Captain Mayo's house near it. The main road save for one figure, caller, He was mounting long strides. She watched him pass over it shifted the 4 it of the hill ain the crest and out of sight. Then glass so that it toward the spot beyond the curve of the hill, where the top of a thick group of silver-leafs hid the parsonage. Above the tree tops glistened the white steeple of the Regular church. If the minister went straight home she could see him. But under those silver leafs was the beginning of the short cut across the flelds where Didama had seen Mr. Ellery walking on the previous Sunday. Slowly she moved the big end of the spyglass back along the arc ft had traveled. She found a speck and watched it. It was a man, striding tcross the meadow land, a half mile beyond the parsonage, and hurrying n (‘he direction of the beach. Bhe jump "n finally on the high dune, ld and pines imb a another the grove he bluff by in John he he had him cl fl He of the Ellery, t had fence, cross in of t m shore. he min gone The was ) ister Evidently, not had taken the short ad he walked d g way and then turned in and work his way home, nor it Insts IWIN town a lon cross the back and, r father's had deliberately he de had avoid than that, trouble to ad 1} CHAPTER IX, In Which Keziah's Troubles Multiply. todd ¥ eq nal appearai grown past i warm Zeb described Mr Om the hall, nro the letter still hand. “Who is “Mr. Ellery, “No,” was Are it?" she asked is that you?” the answer. “It's me you busy, Keziah? a minute.” The housekeeper the letter “I'l be swered, "I'm « He was in she entered. sharply. into her walst. down, omin’."” sitting room was wearing his Sun and his soft hat was She held out heartily peak she caught right Nat,” she the He of blue table. shook it 11d 8 on the center hand and he Before he col rflimpse of his “Wh the matter?” “Well, Keziah, | Dad and 1 had a fallin’ i WAS nD joor after di real left at is asked. “What trouble enou out, We real quarrel ave been off nner a One him marryin’ know takir r a rosewood mother.of. And She Cried Tears of Utter Lonel ness and Despair, from her father, who home from sea when a present brought {t she was a girl From the case she took a packet of letters and a daguerreotype. The lat- ter was the portrait of a young man, in high-collared coat, stock and fancy walsteoat, Mrs. Coffin looked at the daguerreotype, sighed, shuddered, and laid it aside. Then she opened the packet of letters. «- Selecting one from the top of the pile, che read it slowly. And, as she read, she sighed again. She did not hear the back door of the parsonage open and close softly. Nor did she hear the cautious foot. steps in the rooms below. What aroused her from reading was ler own name, spoken at the foot of the ftalrs, | “Keziah! Keziah, are you thera?” She started, sprang up, and ran out ‘He's on “1 wants aomethin’ like tors Dean ain't. 1 where h the hi he I know and me's good each er.’ What are know where o goes Sunday afternoons he Mr. Ellery and ii We understand why i Koes, 100 friends “Look here, | you talkin’ | “I just sald 1 Ory { don't That Qo “Tell? Do you { thin’ Mr. Ellery Don't you dare No, no, no, no know | leaves Elkanal and who he goes to meet. 1 Lordy! 1 hadn't ought to | sald that! 1 Keziah Coffin, don't you ever tell 1 told I've said more'n I meant to. If it comes out there'd be the biggest row in the church there ever was. And I'd be re sponsible! 1 would!" I'd have to go on the witness stand and then Laviny would find out how 1 Oh, oh, oh! what shall I do?” “What fs {t?” she persisted. “What would bring on the row in the church? Who does Mr. Ellery meet? Out with ft! What do you mean?” “1 mean that the minister meets that Van Horne girl every Sunday aft. ernoon after he leaves Elkanah's There, now! It's out, and I don't give a darn if they hang me for it." Keziah turned white. She seized Mr. Pepper by the lapel of his Sunday coat and shook him. “Grace Van Horne!” she cried. “Mr. Ellery meets Grace Van Horne on Sunday afternoons? Where?" “Down in them pines back of Pet. | er's pastur’ on the aldge of the ot? yan Pepper! about? I knew goes every Sunday afternoon. He know anybody knows, but I do ‘s all there is to it. I shan't tell where Mr EN mean there's some wouldn't want I will see Laviny!” "Tain’t nothin’ much you. i i bank over the peaen. there every Sunday for weeks-—longer, for what watched I ain't lyin’! bet you anything they're walkin’ up and down and talkin’. What want to for? You come this minute show ‘em He's mew hos the last six I know I've It's sO. In | there mow, lie with me and I'll *'Bish Pepper,” sl shaking her “you go straight hon Don’t you breathe of what even slowly and in his face, stay a ‘ve finger » and word there livin’ geen a to Laviny tO marr) ute Now Bwear!" “How begged n you 11 say {TO BE « Homesickness Spoils Photographs Aunt Maria and so did her in that the ably dis i hotograpt dava tO» 18 For to take Aunt the h d thought, big city, er was unpardor three successive Mar day th relatives io courteo ce a's pho graph On fourt he tol why “In justice not want to detur is too homesick Most town people want to he photographed if ti are longing her,” her i he said, “I do now to take eg out-of ey cuse or another until the homesick. “If you want your aunt's pictures to out well, just hunt up some one from her home town who happens to be vigiting here at present and bring him here ghe will meet him unex pectedly. The meeting will put sparkle and animation Into her face, and nel ther she nor 1 will be disappointed with the photographs.” 80 Guided by Wireless. The latest and most wonderful use to which wireless apparatus has been put Is set forth in a paragraph from Berlin, Oermany. According to the newspaper report experiments have been going on for some time with a rudderiess, crewless motor boat Lake Wansee which have proved re markably successful. The Inventor of this erewless boat is a teacher named Christian Wirth, trying out his invention the boat was towed out two miles in the lake and by means of his wireless apparatus all the boat's movements were di rected. The boat threaded Ita way unerringly through numerous erafl without the slightest accldemd | { i i ee a_i ———————— TT so eet Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. a Dun Co.'s We BAYS HR GQ view ng Ww the large! Penns Western 17 Sout firsts, 17 firsts, Duck Eggs 31. 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