Axxthor of
Capn Eri. Etc.
IMustretioms by
Ellsworth Young
Hu
SYNOPSIS
Keziah Coffin, in
ing to move from
ton, following the death of her
for whom she had keep} bt 15@.
be yper, widower, offers marriage,
ndignantly refusea. COC apt E! !kanah
els, leader of the Regular ghurch,
eziah a place as housekeeper for
new minister, and she decides to
in Trumet. Keziah takes charge
John Ellery, the mew minister, and
him advice sa to his conduct
members of che parish. Ellery
sensation by attending a ‘'‘Come-outer’
meeting. Ellery's pre RO e is bitterly re-
sented by Eben Hammond, leader of the
meeting Grace apologizes for her
guardian and Ellery escorts home In
the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond, Eben
son, becomes a hero by brin
packet into port safely throug
storm Ellery fir 1s Kez! ah
ter to some $ i
sponse to a demar Bi
startied when inf ad of
Nat. Nat calls Keziah,
ops that they
youth. Dan
for attending 'C
lery is caught by
by Nat. They be
meets Grace while
and learns that she walks tl
Bunday. The rman takes
Sundays with the aniel Annabel,
captain's daughter. 3 . erself
make an n She
tices with vexation his d
every Sunday at a
watches him through
again importunes Keziah
He says he has had a quarr
father, who wants him marry
Ellery asks Grace to him
confesses that she loves hi but
she fears to displeasa her
kanah Daniels tells Eben ut the meet
ings between Ellery and Eben
declares he will make Grace choose bhe-
tween him and the prea Grace finds
him in a faint, ecitement
of Elkanah's visit
Eben exacts a pro
Grace that they
breaks the
received a ne
to marry Nat
to see her
of
turned
Mrs.
Arran
supp woeed widow,
I'réamet
brother,
and is
Dan-
of Re
ers 3
dinner
the
to
impression
Grace
She
Says
El-
+
to
r
rdian.
news to
ite fron
her
elps 1
coverad
lery, left
wandering
Grace She
shanty and send
takes him
3s for hel
CHAPTER XV!.—(Continued.)
Early the next morning, just
was breaking, a buggy, the
which drew {it galloping,
bumped down the lightt
Parker, his brows togeth
lips set with anxiety, was
had been roused from
tel at Hyannis by a boy
gram. “Come quick,” fit
Ellery sick.” The sender
Ellis, the light keeper
early as it was, he foun
waiting and gazing at the shanty
lightkeeper was there and
three other men. were
earnestly.
“How is he, Noah?
doctor, inmping to t
“1 don't know,
ain't heard sence last
telegraphed you.”
“The devil!” Dr. Parzer sw
patiently. “Who Is with him
You haven't left him alone, have
“No-0,” Noah hesitated
“Noo, he ain't alone. She's
“She? Who? Keziah Coffin?”
“I don't cal'late Keziah's
yet. We was waitin’
said much to anybody.
~the-—-the one that found him
see, he was out of his head and
derin’ up the lane "most to the
road and she'd been callin’ on Keziah
and when she come away {rom the
parsonage she heard him hollerin’ and
goin’ on and"
“Who did?”
horse
and
Dr.
hig
nis
He
ked
sleep |
with tele
“Mr
was Noah
the
read
ropes,
i group
. The
two or
talking
ANAT
E
* demanded the
he ground
eplied Ellts. “I
1 ight
doc,” r
when |
wre im-
5
then?
you?"
more
there.”
once
heard it
fore we
there
You
wan
main
for you
But she's
his
Grace Van Horne,
sompanions—"why, doc,
angd got me to telegraph you.'
rest,
of the shanty.
it.
“How is he? demanded the doctor.
“I think he seems a little easier; at
any rate, he's not delirious. He's In
there. Oh, I'm so thankful you've
come.”
“Is that the doctor?”
weakly from the next room.
“Yes,” replied Parker,
his coat and hat.
lery.”
“For God's sake,
away. Don’t let her stay. Make her
go! [I've got ths smallpox and if she
stays she will dle. Don't you under
stand? she must go.”
called Ellery
“Is 17"
ly. “Hush, dear.”
Dr. Parker stopped short and looked
at her. However, he waited no longer,
but hurried in to his new patient.
CHAPTER XVi1.
In Which Keziah Decides to Fight,
The news was flying from house to
house along the main road. Dreak-
fasts were interrupted as some neligh-
bor ruched In to tell the story which
another neighbor had brought to him
ar hear Mr. Ellery was very sick and
it was feared he .had the smallpox.
Grace Van Horne was with him,
taken him back to the shanty,
sisted upon staying there
doctor came.
At the Danlels's house
until
the
into the dining
toast and the
servant
room to
serve the story at one
SWOOP.
spoon jingled to the floor.
face turned a dull red Her eyes
“Pa!” she cried, “I
do something now I'll never—"
Her father shook his head warning-
ly. “Debby he sald the maid,
“you walt.”
Det departed
kite hen
nak
fanan
to
needn't
After
Captain
reluctantly
door had closed,
“My dear, we
this matter
is very sick.
Horne girl, we haven't
whole vet. Bhe may
or it may
bby
sald:
t 1sty
be too }
Mr.
the
in Remem-
Ellery
Van
the
be there at
an accident-—
“Accldent! Pa,
Accident! Accider
1appen. yOu let
if~- Oh, to think of it!
calling i hero and
thing! Hero! he
she might—"
“Hush! hush, child!
“1 shan't hush. Pa,
to let him disgrace himself
“No, no. Probably there ain't any
idea of his marrying her. If there is—"
“If there ia of the
church and out
her— ©
him
haves
ead!”
}
heard truth
all,
you make boil
118 like
her
me
that
stay there, Or
And
and
there
oO
we
avery.
stayed
Are you going
you put him
of town.
! And we've
at dinner
I shall die! 1
out
And as for
been hav-
and-—and 1
wish 1 was
oh
ere
Oh,
Then followed hysterics
greedily listened to by Debby,
ear was at the crack of
tain Elkanah soothed ided and
tried to pacify t ended by his prom-
fain $
Sing 0
and agony,
Be
the door. Cap
wh
inve 1CCessary
take steps ‘fmmejit
Per
her brother,
Lavinia
He
¥'8 most
had grown
devoted 1
to hear of the
was Keziah Coffin.
old her and Keziah start.
before the tale of
ht's happenings
the vi Sh d not wait
waited to
but
beach
Grace's part in
reached
for a
throw a shaw
began to cover ti
She had walked
the distance
overtook her and
his cl
chaise
They
shock
Convey
11d
jiGers,
ing the dri
forbidding
ropes
and
was hitched to one of
ou Mrs. Coffin,’
tor give
nobody get
wants but
dur
sald little
i anx!
ana
ion. At the
ve, the
conver-
the same
Parker's
the posts.
sald
us his
by i
all the
ety
sat was
group, larger now, Dr
horse
can't
y dO
gue to,
same
Ke ziah
tion to
his arm
her way
paid not the slight atten-
Mr. Black. She stooped beneath
under the rope and was on
to the st wre they real.
intention. The living room
est
. & us ’
ianty bef
ized her
f —
—-
I don't
I'm glad 1 came. I'm glad 1 was the
one to find him and help him. No
matter what happens—to me—I'm
glad. I never was so glad before. 1
love him, Aunt Keziah. 1 can say it
to you, for you know {t—you must
I love him and he needed
He was calling my
when I found him. He might
have died there, alone in the wet and
cold, and 1 saved him.
that means to me.”
The door opened softly and Dr. Par-
ker came out.
“He's asleep,” he sald. “And he's
better, much better. And I'll tell you
if you won't make too
about it—he hasn't got the
smallpox. He is pretty close to brain
that this time, with care.
whole, Keziah, I'm glad
This young lady,”
On the
you came.
with a movement of
Grace,
She really saved his life,
mistaken. Now, 1 thi
part.
not
if I'm
nk she
I'll pretty nearly guarantee
him up and out of this
in a fortnight.”
Here was joyful tidings, the
elng 80 unexpected. Keziah
‘aned against the boards and drew a
sald ing, but,
moment, she into the
to have
Grace noth
ft went
aller a
a good
Parker, watching
wanted to talk
h Coffin, and right away.
re's something
I don't know about, :
you do Young wor
her kind and
thing, too,”
her
come-
mented
went, “l
as she
z . then,
that
Ziless
when
), something
nd I rather
men-—<eyven
that's as good
any young man they pick up cas-
“All right, doo
1
i 0
considered
* she sald,
“all
e thing.”
went on to
i's love
‘arker
t" he
Keziah
when she reached a
right; I'll the
tell you
tell all she kne
story.
listened
ghttully, “I see
change mind so
sald thou
inde her her
Captain Zebedee, having shipped
with the Insurgents, worksé for them
from sunrise to sunset and after, Zeb
was something of a politician and
knew whom to “get at” He sought
his fellows on the parish
and labored with them.
and the
at
Mrs, Mayo
cause sewing circle
lively,
fur flew
whichever
agree with side
It was by no means
struggle Captain Elkanah, spurred
on by the furious Annabel, marshaled
having disgraced the Regular Boclety,
should no longer occupy its pulpit.
hinted concerning a good-sized
bution toward a parish house,
It El
the contribution
made, not other
was a point worth
lery was discharged,
probably
And this
be
wise
toid you,
had all but agreed to marry him
She cares for him, that's sure. Then,
at once throws him
yurse her
she
all
aii
over
and
shock he
swayed
talk,
farther fror
most of
chap, is dead, 20 her promis
is canceled. EI! will get
he isn't troubled If she leaves
he'll go to pleces agai:
leave And she can't stay
ation. 1
t's come
they talk the
they'll get- ‘em,
ery
80 she mu
without
let's give the
right out
that
ex-
with
ment en
announcer they're
she's a ‘ome-Outer
there's the church.”
"Well, 1 know {t
50 popular as he is
1't by any means
me-Outer
steady-going
Zeke B and
finding with
saett
rest have
11
gilder
to
her a
you
herolsm and
her he would
Kegiah
good many
one of
that.”
was delighted;
her own heart But
hezitated
trust me
the fact
have died
Come on!
tackled a
making Isn't
to tackle
Kez!
WOre
jobs, but match
‘em. Here goes
here was
as til
still
Do “yon
one thing,
arry
tor,” sald, i've
that's Gracie herself
him knowing
the loss of his minis
she
she forgot
ashe In Dow,
mean ¥ and
more than
lon't believe it
“That's your ps
got to si
fy
i
Any would at
art, Keziah, You've
iow her she marry him
dle;
must
goa?”
Keziah's itation
Her face iit up
“I say good!” she cried. "And
give you a plece of
for the first leg,
you see Cap'n
hes was at an end
now
I want to
your cou
might say:
rse as you
Zebedee
“Humph!
aan
Cap'n Zeb ls
to see”
and eyes and ears open. Mrs, Mayo
was with him when the doctor called,
“Well!” exclaimed the captain,
ofl
en
“She Must Marry Him, Or He'll Die.”
at the sound
some came from room
adjoining. That some one was Grace
Dr. Parker appeared, holding up a
but
one
wan
empty,
the
“Hush!” he cried.
Don't
here. Go outside, if you must talk—
and 1 suppose you must.”
Gface ied the way. Fortunately, the
door was on the side not visible from
the spot where Captain Zeb and the
rest were standing. Keziah, bewil
dered and amazed at the girl's pres
ence, followed dumbly.
“Now, auntie,” whispered Grace,
turning to her, “you want to know
how he is, of course. Well, 1 think he
The doctor thinks so, too.
But why did you come here?”
“Why did 1 come? Why, because
my place was here. 1 belonged here
For the love of mercy’'s sakes what
are you doin’ here? With him? And
the emallpox!”
Vell, by the flukes of Jonah's whale!
Talk about surprises. Old lady, what
go ahead, Zebedee Go
If Mr. Ellery wanted to mar
Jezebel's sister, and | knew he
“1 say
ahead!
help him get her
Horne is a good girl, Go ahead’
“Say, doc, there'll be a lively row,
and 1 kind o' like it,” said Captain
There was, and It was lively enough
to sult even Captain Zeb. Dr. Parker,
on his calls that day, was assalled
multitude of questions con-
cerning Grace's presence at the
shanty. He answered them cheer:
fully, dilating upon the girl's bravery,
her good sense, and the fact that she
had saved Mr. Ellery's life. Then he
confided, as a strict secret, the fact
that the two were engaged, Before
his hearers had recovered from the
shock of this explosion, he was justi
fying the engagement, Why shouldn't
they marry if they wanted to? It
was a free country. The girl wasn't
a ComeOuter any longer, and, be
sides—and this carried welght in a
good many households-—-what a black
eye the marriage would be for that
no-account crowd at the chapel.
Danlels also wrote to his influential
friends of the National Regular So-
jut Captain Zebedee had fore
him there and both letters
laid on table to await fur
developn As for the Come-
5, they wild with rage and
f read out of their
the
ents
Outer ware
formally
Meantime Keziah, installed as head
at the shanty, having
The minister was getting
better, slowly but surely getting bet
The danger of
3 end, but he
not be
Was her
oubles
I
must exc
said
He had expresse
with his housekeepe
thing to tell
weakly.
an d———"
“Cat's gril
don't star
I've got my
} &
you, Aunt
sald “Some
4
ing
love with
Thelr engageins
ablished
dared any
dared say
It's a wicked
, Aunt
Well, | suppose llkel)
as anybody,
You?
“Yup; me
him; at any
‘re here
you two
= Bhe
we
were
It's not true
Who is responsible
deary.”
You, Aunt Kezial
You are
rate,
you with
ain't engsa
argued
last,
to think had
brough rward
She had
at
she
anole
her word her
break
A dying man? She
$
given
How
pro
that i
fool
she
reyes 1A
Funda
would ike
the
io
w hie demanded
ing patience, “Not
he's gone, And don’t you
Eben understand
where they are?
wouldn't
now De
ace agreed
present
was until
at least Keziah
the preliminary
confident of win-
and
others, sl
y herself. Yet ench time
was brought to the shan
ded to look at it, and the =
made her shake with
Coffin had threatened to come
It he came, she had made
to do
bh committee
Elkanah had
of moving
expelled from the
There was to be no
asking for a resignation;
discharged, thrown out
county papers were full of the
but they merely reported
the news and did not take sides. The
fight was too even for that
One afternoon a faw days before
the date set for the meeting Elkanah
his henchmen
of the Daniels
They
were blue and downcast. Annabel
was in the sitting room, shedding
tears of humiliation and jealous rage
on the haircloth sofa
10 BE CONTINI
where she
skirmish
ning the victory, in tue ect
f happiness
2 } Appy
pros
for he was al
the
#he
anger fear
was {0
meet
i his
hn Ellery
Regular chur
compromise, no
he must be
in disgrace
Announce
tha at
ch
bble,
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When Fish Go to Bed.
Did you know that fish go to bed In
the winter? Prof. Dyche, state fish
and game warden for Kansas, says
“Sure thing, fish have beds. | have
geen them piled up four and five fish
deep for a space at least 3 by 10 feet.
Usually they find a place below a log
or some kind of an obstruction in a
stream where there ig an eddy. They
can maintain their positions there
without much effort. 1 don't know
whether they aleep or not, but fish will
spend most of a winter in that way.
“When the water gets
cold the fish become sluggish. They
all their alertness.
caught by hand.
fish will come to the hole for alr.
an easy matter to slip your hand un
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Cypregas water tanks defy decay for
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to be drawn immediate
future hand,
nearby do
all depend.
of the country con
stimulating influence be-
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ditions. Against te
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On
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the
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oon
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there is a
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anticipating
Northwest
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future req
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heat is In
rains
af
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the general
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Weat
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