SYNOPSIS. a ymte de SBabron, captain of French cavalry, takes to his quarters to ralse by hand a motherless Irish terrier pup, and names it Pitchoune, He dinea with the! Marquise d'ksclignac and meets Miss | Julla Redmond, American heiress, who sings for him an English ballad that | lingers in his memory. Trying to save Pitchoune's life, he declines a second in~ vitation to dinner because of a “very slek friend.” No more invitations coma from | the Chateau d'Esclignac. Pitchoune, though lame from his accident, thrives and ls devoted to his master. SBabron and Pitchoune meet the Marquise and Miss Redmond and after the story of Pitchoune is told Sabron is forgiven and invited to dinner again. Sabron is ordered to Al- glera, Lie LX CHAPTER VIi—Continued. Pitchoune, whose eyes had followed’ the cat out of sight, sprang upon his | master and seemed quite ready for the new departure. “l shall at least have you,” Sabron said. "It will be your first campaign. We shall have some famous runs and I shall introduce you to a camel and make you acquainted with several donkeys, not to speak of the historic Arab steeds. You will see. my friend, that there are other animals besides yourself in creation.” “ A telegram for mon capitaine.” Brunet came in with the blue envelope which Sabron tore open. You will take with you neither Mu aor dogs. Res It was an order from the minister of war, just such a one as was sent to some half-dozen other young officers, all of whom, no doubt, felt more or less discomfited Sabron twisted the telegram, put {t in the fireplace and lighted his ciga- rette with it, watching Pitchoune who, finding himself a comfortaple corner in the armchair, had settled down for a nap “S80,” nodded the young man aloud, “1 shall not even have Pitchoune.” He smoked, musing. In the rigid dis cipline of his soldier's life he was used to obedience. His softened eyes, how ever, and his nervous fingers as they pulled at his mustache, showed that the command had touched him. “What simil | do with you, old fel low?” Although Sabron's voice was low, the dog, whose head was down upon bis paws, turned his bright brown eyes on his master with so much con- | fidence and affection that it completed | the work. Sabron walked across the | floor, smoking, the spurs on his heels clanking, the light shining on his bri} liant boots and on his uniform. He was a splendid-looking man with race | and breeding, and he combined with | his masculine force the gentleness of | a woman i “They want me to be lonely,” he | thought “All that the chiefs consider | is the soldier-—not the man—even the | companionship of my dog is denied | me. What do they think | am going | to do out there in the long eastern | evenings?” He reflected. “What does | the world expect an uncompanioned | wanderer to do?" There are many things and the less thought about them. the petter. “A letter for Monsieur le Capitaine Brunet returned with a note which he | presented stiffly, and Pitchoune, who | chose in his little brain to imagine | Brunet an intruder, sprang from the | chair like lightning, rushed at the servant, seized the leg of his vinta) "” ing, Brunet regarding him with adora tion. Sabron had not thought aloud the last words of the telegram. which he had used to light his cigarette. . Nor will it be necessary 1o fake a personal servant. The Indigenes are capable ordonnances. As he took the letter from Brunet's salver he sald curtly: “} am ordered to Algiers and I shall not take horses nor Pitchoune.” The dog, at mention of his name, set Brunet's leg free and stood quiet his head lifted “Nor you either, mon brave Bru net.” Sabron put his hand on his servant's shoulder, the first familiarity he had ever shown a man who served him with devotion, and who would have given his life to save his mas ter's. “Those,” sald the officer curtly, “are the orders from headyuarters, and the least sald about them the better” The ruddy cheek of the servant turned pale. He mechanically touched his forehead. “Bien, mon Capitaine,” he mur. mured, with a little catch in his voice He stood at attention, then wheeled and without being dismissed, stalked out of the room. Pitchoune did not follow. He re matned immovable like a little dog cut from bronze; he understood--who shall say-—how much of the conversa tion? Sabron threw away his ciga rette, then read his letter by the man. tieplece, leaning his arm upon it. He read slowly. He had broken the seal slowly. It was the first letter he had ever seen in this handwriting It was written in French and ran thus: Monsleur—My aunf{ wishes me to ask pou If you wil! come to us for a little nesicale tomorrow afternoon. We hop: you will be free, and | hope, she added, that you will bring Pltchouns. Not! that I think he will care for the muale, but afterward perhaps he will run with us as we wnlk to the gate. My aunt wishes me Al. In this way she says that we shall have an opportunity of wishing you bon voyage, and I say 1 hope Pltchoune will be a comfort to you. The letter ended in the usual forma! French fashion. Sabron, turning the letter and rereading it, found that {it ing on in his lonely heart. He stood long, musing. Pitchoune laid himself down on the rug, his bright little head between his paws. his affectionate eyes on his mas ter. The fireiight shone on them both, the musing young officer and the al most human-hearted little beast. So Brunet found them when he came in with the lamp shortly, and as he set it down on the table and its light shone on him, Sabron, glancing at the ordonnance, saw that his eyes were red, and liked him none the less for it CHAPTER VIL A Soldier's Deg. “It is just as 1 thought,” he told “1 took you into my life you little rascal, against my will, and now, although It's not your fault, you are making me regret it. 1 shall end Pitchoune, by being a cynic and mis ogynist, and learn to make Idols of my caroer and my troops alone. After all, they may be tiresome, but they don’t hurt as you do, and some other things as well.” Pitchoune, being Invited to the musicale at the Chateau d'Esclignac, went along with his master, running be hind the captains horse. It was a heavenly January day, soft and mild, full of sunlight and delicious odors. and over the towers of King Rene's castle the sky banners were made of celestial blue. The officer found the house full of people. He thought it hard that he might not have had one more intimate picture to add to his collection. When he entered the room a young man was playing a violoncello. There was a group at the plano, and among the peo ple the only ones he clearly saw were the hostess. Madame d'Esclignac in a gorgeous velvet frock, then Miss Redmond, who stood by the window, listening to the music. come in and amiled to him, and from that moment his eyes hardly left her. What the music war that afternoon the Count de Sabron could not have He Stood Long Musing. told very intelligently. Much of it was sweet, all of it was touching, but when Miss Redmond stood to sing and chose the little song of which he had made a lullaby and sang it divinely, Sab ron his hands clasped behind his back and his head a little bent, still looking at her, thought that his heart would break. It was horrible to gv away and not tell her. It was cowardly to feel so much and not be able to speak it And he felt that he might be equal to some wild deed, such as crossing the room violently, putting his hand over her slender one and saying: “I am a soldier; | have nothing but a soldier's life. 1 am going to Africa tomorrow. Come with me; | want you come!” All of which, slightly impossible and quite out of the question, nevertheless charmed and soothed him. The words of her English song. almost barbaric to him because incomprehensible, fell on his ears [Its melody was already part of him “Monsieur de Sabron,” said Madame d’Esclignac, “you are going away to morrow?" “Yes, Madame.” “1 expect you will be engaged In some awful native skirmishes Per haps you will even be able to send back a tiger skin.” “There are no tigers in that part of Africa, Madame” The young soldier's dark eyes rest i wd almost hoatllely on the gorgeous marquise in her red gown. He felt that she was glad to have him go. He wanted to say: “l shall come back, however; I shill come back and when I return” but he knew that guch a boast, or even such a hope was fruitiess His colonel had told him only the day before that Miss Redmond was one of the richest American heiresses, and there was a question of a duke or a prince and heaven only knew what in the way of titles. As the marquise moved away her progress was some- thing like the rolling of an elegant velvet chair, and were still disturbed Miss Redmond crossed the room to him. Before Sab- ron quite knew how they had been able to escape the others or leave the room, he was standing with her in the winter garden where the sunlight came in through trellises and the perfume of the warmed plants was heavy and sweet, Before them flowed old Tarascon and the King Rene's towers. battlements of Monsieur de Saoron?’ Miss Redmond smiled, and how was Sabron to real ize that she could not very well have to do so? “Yes,” he sald. “1 adore my regi. ment. [I love my work. 1 have al ways wanted to see colonial service.” “Have you? 1t is delightful to find one's ambitions and desires satisfled,” sald Miss Redmond. “I have always longed to ses the desert. It must be beautiful. Of course you are going to take Pitchoune?” “Ah!” exclaimed BSabron, “that just what | am not going to do.” “What!” she cried. You are never going leave that darling dog be hind you? “I must, unfortunately. My superior officers do not allow me to take horses or dogs, or even my servant.” “Heavens!” she exclaimed. “What brutes they are! Why, Pitchoune will die of a broken heart." Then she said: "Yeu are leaving him with your man servant? Sabron shook his head is to him" “Ah! she breathed for a home? 1s he? might I take choune?” care of Pit his hand, and she ald her own in It “You are too good.” he murmured “Thagk you Pitchoune you." He kissed her hand. That was all From within the salon came the noise of volces, and the bow of the certo. They stood each other vated It although the Marquise d'Esclignac was rolling ‘toward them across the polished floor of the music room. As though Sabron realized that he might never see this lovely young woman again, probably never would see her, and wanted before he left to have something made clear, he asked quickly: looking at lish song you sang?” She flurhed and laughed slightly Well, it is not very easy to put it in prose.” she hesitated sound so differently In poetry: but it means” French, bravely, “why, music she said in That's about all tle sadness in it, as though" and her checks glowed, “as if there was a sort of separation. It means - “Ah!” breathed the officer deeply. “1 understand. Thank you." And just then Madame d'Esclignae rolled up between them and with an unmistakable satisfaction presented to her niece the gentleman she had se cured, (TO BE CONTINI Your Own Home, William L Price in “The douse of the Democrat,” gave us a description of hia ideal dwelling in words so ge nial and simple, and full of sich ple turesque feeling that they seem a ft. ting preface to an article on the plan- ning of a home “The rooms.” he sald. “shall be ample and low. wide windowed. deep-seated spac us, ¢~ol by reason of shadows in summer warmed by the ruddy glow ul fire tides in winter; open to wistful sum mer airs. tight closed against the win try blasts. a house, % home. a shrine’ One cannot but wish that every homebuilder and architect world learn these words by heart and hola them as a constant reminder—for in that one propaetic sentence seems to be condensed the very 4pirit of home The atmosphere 5f com‘nrt and reset. fulness cannot be attained however without much wise and thoughtful nirnning Ma roots are in the rae tical, the seemingly commonplace which rightly treated results in inst ing homelike charm —TLe Crafteman — TED.) Chinece Currency, Currency in China has tad all sorts of surprises for the layman, but the nrogent situation 18 simply extraor dinary There Ix now found to be an actual plethora of dollars and smal) coins and since Inst August the Chi ness have bees me'ting them and eon verting them Into sveee The reason why dollors are being melted is that large issues of the provincial minte have found no ure In the market, and a all Chines accounts are In taels the present orice of the dollar 1s not very ernducive to ita existence ane circulation | NEW SHADE OF BLUE POPULAR BPRING COLOR MARKABLY PRETTY. I8 RE- Probably Scen at its Best in the Taf fetas—Illustration Shows One of the Most Effective of the Recent Gowns. The newest and smartest shade of blue is designated “bleu soldat” or sol and really is remarkably It rather borders on a vio- let tone, but Is not so dark and prob ably resembles the blues of gentians as nearly as any other known shade. This 18 a modish spring color and 1s particularly good in taffetas, of which the {llustrated dress is fashioned, China silk waist lining, sleeveless, of course, and just gcrving as a founda to which the skirt and little yoke may be attached. shirred yoke Is merely added the round decolletage of the lining and shows inside the wide V of The top of the skirt is evenly gath- The lower part of the first a trifie nar the second, and both slightly frilled under a finishing cord. The lower edge of these bands is cut little square tabs to correspond with the lower edge of the blouse. In front the short unconfined edge The long sleeves show three encircling bands of self material Over elther hip and below the cen is introduced, taking the form of long narrow points that are extremely attractive as a trimming. Patent Leather Trimmings. Patent leather trimmings are vers effective and decidedly new. Most of the dresses thus ornamented are in short. One in blue serge has on each side of the skirt four narrow bias ruffles edged with patent leather ~~ SNS NINT SPAAPNT ANA NT NS ANN ALL HAVE MILITARY EFFECT Cut and Trimming of New Blouses Are Alike in This Respect in the Season's Styles. The military effect of trigness and trimness is carried out not only on the cut of the new blovees but aleo in thelr trimmings Pdges are bound with narrow braid. buttons are used in close ranks snd bows and all sorts of silk loops and ornoments simulate military frogs. A stunning blouse of coffencolored golden.rod satin—the | Roses of serge and patent leather form an effective trimming for the bodice. Another frock, with a full skirt cut in large scallops at the bottom, Is faced in red patent leather, ‘There is also a half collar of patent leather, NEW IDEA IN DECORATION People Have Learned the Value of Black and White as Means of Se- curing Color Effect. Black and white world of interior decorations storm And the combination isn't only a fad; It promises to last, now that we have discovered how much character to articles and rooms can be given by this color effect. Even the bedroom has not been spared-—or it has been honored, whichever way vou look at it-——with the attention of black and white, the by have taken and furniture and woodwork, sometimes black curtains, and there have charming lingerie dressing-table, the set sometimes to half a dozen boudoir pillows part of the lingerie reludes d, pillows or shams, the gets for the bed, bolster slip and If a bolster roll is brlster throw un eprea used, then only bolster slips and shams black-and-white lingerie embroidered in The room set may be design that you would use for all-white embroidery set The terial used is rather heavy Bny ma Hinen mercerized carefully few, If any, when another If you cotton worked on the wrong side, connecting threads being used passing from ong to do not wish to at the window, ith black figures are if shades are used with the they should be either white A be used use lawn tains w stitutes curtains, black or anrnel may white or all black. while rugs, or vice fective. The bo of white en They 31d over black pillows, as in pink or blue pillows White pillows muetl be used for the purpose or the pillow alips will lock soiled. A black- and-white room would prove pleasing {0 a man instead of Black carpet with is also ef iid black versa, ndoir pill ibroidered not, however ows shot be in be § the ghot case of oq ronne e. D. 9. PonYE EY ich ARTORY UY APLLT smLLAver TE Bh "Re Der of Down Hove RR uw. RAGRIMOE WALLY ER ATTORFEY AV44W sELLEFONTA BR Po BW Buh twee Mi poutussonnl ustiem prevupcs vmmadon § ————ws LE a LD Gums ws I Powss Gna BOWER & LEEBY ATTORNEYS A TLAW Eso Soom BELLEFOETE be Mostseors ts Ouvia Bowes ¢ Cave Oonsnitetion ts Bugiab sad German 8 B. SPANGLER ATTORERT AT Law SELLE} OFTRAS Practices tn all the cenrm Consni ase Building es —— ERENT Pais ATIORFEV- AT Law RL BPrONTR Be. Ofios B W. corne Diamend twe soem pt Centre Hall, Pa. DAVID HK. KELLER, Cashiers the Right Touch to the Tal tored Costume. — ing quite so by a white frill of some sort sticking out under the chin this way black satin or ake this the exact size grosgrain be very wide so that it can be These are tacked down In place flat pear! buttons is placed. These run up and down; a similar row being placed at the side opposite. The row of buttons should come directly under each ear Now comes the piece de resistance ~f the entire stock. These are square tabs of white faille which unfold, petal like, beneath the chin. One square comes directly under the chin, one on either side of the face, another di rectly behind each ear and a last one in the back of the collar These quare pieces are wired to stand out like a Pierrot ruff and are a very chic and pretty finish to the somber stock " - LATEST THING IN FOOTWEAR Military Boots Simi'ar to Those Worn by Russian Cossacks Are a New York Fad. Military boots, made to imitate the boots worn by Russian Cossacks, are now being introduced in New York city, says an exchauge, and furnish he latest surprise in feminine foot werr—has a buttonedaup collar in | choker style and lnk cuffs fastened with white pearl buttons “frozen” of white gilk cord with loops caught over immense ball buttons cov- ered with the coffee satin. appear to fasten the blouse fronts. but under. neath are hidden snap fasteners, a safer and saner closing than the wide ly separated frogs. A blouse of dutch blue georgette crepe is trimmed with black edge binding braid and small eap'e brass buttons in true military style. One of the most striking new im ported blouses, freeh from Paris, is a charming model of sheerest white voile embroidered with big yellow. centered daisies, and a smart black tie. Pintucking end hemetitching and small motifs of hand embroidery add their quota of prettiness to the new spring bloures, which are so soft in material and so delectable in color. Simple Lines in Frocks. pore material and Single lines will be the important points of the new frocks. These B:ots Are Made of Suede to Match the Costume, With Vamps. Heels and Trimmings of Patent Leather, wear. These boots are made of suede, with vamps, heels, and trimmings of patent leather, and are to be worn with a tallored suit of a military type They come in all colors to match the costume, but are invariably trimmed in patent leather, Flowered Lawn Dresses, Flowered lawns will be made up into afternoon dresses for summer days. ¥ @ Discounts Notes . 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