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CHAPTER il.—Continued, } Y.4 } ne would 1 CHAPTER 111, Orders to Captain Thorne On the sles vas of coat the federats uniform was ving hone service; his worn, ting, xi hard thin ness showed signs of ill ¢ had re In every particular he was a to Max and from recent which h scarcely covered. marked well “Miss Varney,” he said. bowing low We were expecting you," answered Edith, giving hand Here's Captain Th Mrs. Varney shook h graciously contrast enant her Thorns orne while her daughter turned once more to the other man, with the acknowledgment of the order, she handed to him. ‘1 wasn't long writing it, was I, Lieutenant Maxwell?" she asked. very work, Miss Varney,” returned young man, putting the in his belt and smiling as he did so. ‘When you wart a clerkship over at the gOV ernment offices, you must surely let me know.” “You would better not commit your self,” said Edith Jestingly; “I might take you at your word.” “Nothing would please me more," was the prompt answer “All you that note to me, of course.” “Lots of other girls are doing 1t.” continued Edith half seriously. “They have to live. Aren't there many where you are?” “Well, we don't have so many as they do over at the treasury. 1 be lieve there are more ladies over there than men. And now I must go." “A moment,” said Mrs. Varney, com. ing forward with Thorne. “Do you gentlemen know each other?” Captain Thorne shook his head and stepped forward, looking intently at the other, “let me have the pleasure of ma. king you acquainted, then. Captain Thorne-~Lieutenant Maxwell.” Thorne slowly inclined his Maxwell also bowed. head. had the sald the be ready I have been {dl I look.” cap have to for you know tlready QE Er Lyi sald Mrs. Var t has been a great pleas Wige so" call upon us you we shall greatly miss your visi Thank what you; I shall they have been te me” “Lieutenant Maxwell i mamma,” sald Edith ‘Bo soon! Please exc captain I Borry have hurry away, lieutenant: we shall hope for the pleasure you again, if your duties permit.” “1 shall certainly avail your invitation, If you will | He saluted Captain evening, sir.” never forgot in going Uge me a mo ment, am vary to of myself allow me.” Thorne “Good | teous salute of his junior “ldeutenant Maxwell ant Maxwell into the hall “Now remember, you are to | himself out. “Trust me not to forget that, Mrs i Varney said the Heutenant, as he dis { appeared on the porch { Captain Thorne and Edith were left | alone The girl stepped over to a {small table on which stood a vase of | roses, and, with somewhat nervous | hands, she busied herself arranging them. The young officer watched her in silence for a little while, the mo- | ments tense with emotion i “Shall I see Mrs. Varney again?” he | began at last heard her go upstairs to Howard.” "How ia he?” “Desperately 111.» COOK WHO WORKS BY GUESS ' Found in These Decadent Days. “I'd give a dollar,” said the man who coddles his stomach, “to find ‘a cook who doesn't measure She would gladden my soul. The cook who does things by guess is a rare bird nowadays. She has genius, else the could not dispense with the cast fron rules that regulate modern cook: a ——— A. ih si ery, and genjuses are seldom Indigen. ous to the fathouse kitchen “But there used to be plenty of them. Why, 1 remember the time when half the kitchens in the land gloried In a guesswork cook. It did a fellow's eyes and his entire internal organization good to watoh her. She would take a pinch of this, a handful of that, and a dash of some. thing else, and mix them all togeth. er, and the result would be the most delectable tidbit that a fellow ever put in his mouth, “1 am sorry.” “Yes,” said the girl “I have a very little and " “Oh—not long?" asked Edith. “No, I am sorry to say” “Well, do you know him archly, “1 | more time than { have. It would be that way, wouldn't as she played with hand “Yes, way," time to stay believe will really odd if it it? the flower You you came in that stepped but {t won't sald Thorne, closer to her “You d« t know,” Thorne the flower | took her hand in his | quiet a moment, hand come out as he } yh sie drew from They stood thers and she “Well, 5 ou in i her away it makes | diff rence how s00n are going you can sit down the want mean 10." th wor while, go short that is me,” sald Thorne laid his hat back on came Edith Perhaps 1 wouldn't ad telling Or COIN POSS dis 1 Die the ta closer to me what | i : 3 He Made No Effort at Departure. i { “I don't mind at all, and it is this. | You see, 1 have been to see-—I am al | most afraid to tell you." Don't tell me,” sald the sudden eeriousness, laying aside all | his pleasantry, “because it can't’ be { true. | have my orders, and 1 am leay. i ing tonight.” | “Whers—to | front?” | “We can't always tell where orders will take us,” he said evasively, again sitting down beside her on the lounge. He could scarcely tear himself away from her, from the delicious yet pain Petersburg-—to the “Lord, Lord, but eating was a pleasure in those days. It isn't so now, In these whirligig times every. { thing has a machine-made taste. | That's because the cooks measure so much Instead of trusting to In: spiration, as the heaven-born cook is bound to do, the kitchen queens of today measure even the salt they put in the porridge. No wonder such cookery lacks individuality, and is all | on the same dead level of medioerity. alls those bis. ful emotion aroused by her presence He ought to have gone long since, yet he was with her, as he supposed, for the last time Surely he might in dulge himself a little He loved 80 desperately, so hopelessly “But listen,” sald the girl: 1% there other from a higher vou to duty here?” It would not make You of were orders, ordor Pai authorit api ify wets 1a would girl ir rence any don’t mean in * eried you spite them! the den alarm Thorne d his je “But if it node look. her bosom fire Ww { Proegse for a mom geil togethe “1 must y have seen I had were YOu or Epoken to you and I hely it's stopped and hin there was to come to this house here, and hos iid for my He AWAY you it* Oh ! couldn't whole i¥ vou in this t her. hands from irned away & above him mother-.] to her” You are blindly and t a God Your he would not do 3 would like tt a5 No. not the playing her last card need Richmond told himself You are be given a special commission on war department telegraph service YOu - “No, no, I won't take it it, Miss Varney.” “Can't you do that much for cried Listen, they you in me president #0 to th © and 1 can’t take » me she put out her hands to him It is for you that I will do nothing i i | “But you can't refuse: it is the pres ident’s desire, it is his order, you have to obey. Walt a moment. 1 left it upstairs. 1 will feteh it for you and you will see ™ She turned toward the door “No,” said Thorne, “don’t get it 1 won't look at it" “But you must see what it is. It puts you at the head of evervthing You have entire control When you see it 1 know you will accept it. Please wait.” “No, Miss Varney, 1 can’t--" “Oh, yes, you can” cried Edith, who would hear no denial as she ran swift. ly toward the door. (TO BE CONTINUED) ! ke,” sald the man's wile. by guess. I am afraid she didn’t but enough baking powder in the bis. cuits” ——— One-Sided Conversation. wife for about two hours. Egbert — Talking to my wife for two hours? What did you say? , ‘How do you do? and she said ail the rest” : A HRI ——— Watch Over the Delaware FISHERMAN TELLS STORY Big Fish Carnage in Resemt Appeared as 1811 JiC8 drow ne Bear's Berry Tooth a Lure York Until t an end Howard he berry season comes to Anderson, Stewartstown has little hope of thiree tame weakness for bears. He knows his pets this fruit As for the d. it is not at all exercised Anderson bears harm as kittens Last vear this same made a similar and for five weeks hid away in the woods and swamps about the Anderson farm. feasting to its heart's content off blackberries and huckleberries. When the berries were over the bear came again neighborho for the Are as leas bear escape, home Foreman Dies to Save Fifteen. Sunbury To save the lives of ff teen men, Frank Allen. a bridge fore man, took hold of a live electric wire carrying 2,000 volts, and died instant ly. The cgrrying power to a crane parted, and Allen that to his men being shocked to, must grab it. This he did BAW Lancaster —Wenley Smith, arrested | In Atlantic City for holding up and | robbing Mrs. Addison Benedict, wii] | be able to prove his inneceiice. The | Benedict positively identi. | of a gun compelled her to hand over her money. 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