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SYNOPSIS,
Pepper
indignantly
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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
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